The Interpretation of Japanese Word Order Patterns by Adult English-speaking Learners of Japanese as a Second Language

• Akihiro Ito ^[1]
  1. [1] Aichi Gakuin University

     Aichi Gakuin University

     Naka-ku, Japón

     
• Localización: Applied linguistics, ISSN 0142-6001, Vol. 28, Nº 3, 2007, págs. 466-473
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper reports on the results of an experiment on the interpretation of Japanese word order patterns by adult English-speaking learners of Japanese as a second language. The results of a comprehension experiment conducted with twenty adult learners point toward a preference for isomorphic sentence patterns over non-isomorphic sentence patterns, providing additional support for the isomorphic mapping hypothesis (IMH) (O’Grady et al. 2005) in second language acquisition (SLA).