Investigating Relative Clause Island Effects in Native and Nonnative Adult Speakers of Japanese

Nozomi Tanaka; Bonnie Schwartz

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Investigating Relative Clause Island Effects in Native and Nonnative Adult Speakers of Japanese

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Investigating Relative Clause Island Effects in Native and Nonnative Adult Speakers of Japanese

Nozomi Tanaka and Bonnie Schwartz

Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol.42, pp.750-763

01/01/2018

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Abstract

Tanaka and Schwartz present their study investigating whether L1-English L2ers of Japanese (come to) know that questions like (8a), repeating (6a), in which an object wh-phrase originates and remains inside of a subject RC, are acceptable in Japanese. This distribution of absence vs. presence of island effects in Japanese poses interesting questions for a theoretical understanding of wh-movement and islands. Richards (2008) offers a comprehensive review of different approaches to phenomena related to Japanese wh-questions, including island effects. The participants consisted of 20 L1-English L2ers of Japanese as well as 16 native speakers of Japanese as controls.

Adults

Japanese as a second language

Japanese language

Native speakers

Nonnative speakers

Relative clauses

Syntactic islands

Syntactic movement

Wh phrases

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Title: Subtitle: Investigating Relative Clause Island Effects in Native and Nonnative Adult Speakers of Japanese
Creators: Nozomi Tanaka
Bonnie Schwartz
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol.42, pp.750-763
ISSN: 1080-692X
Publisher: Cascadilla Press
Language: English
Date published: 01/01/2018
Academic Unit: Linguistics; Center for Social Science Innovation
Record Identifier: 9984702719602771

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