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Okumura, Yuko; Oshima-Takane, Yuriko; Kobayashi, Tessei; Ma, Michelle; Kayama, Yuhko – Language Learning and Development, 2023
In successful communication, it is critical to have the ability to identify what a speaker is referring to from previously mentioned information. This ability requires the identification of the topic initially introduced by lexical forms and its continuity in discourse expressed by anaphora such as null and pronominal forms in the subsequent…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Sentence Structure, Japanese, Language Acquisition
Miyagawa, Shigeru, Ed.; And Others – Papers in Linguistics, 1983
A volume combining two special issues of "Papers in Linguistics" contains 10 papers concerning Japanese language use and 12 concerning languages of the U.S.S.R. The papers on Japanese include: "Intrusion in Japanese Conversation,""Japanese Use of English Loans,""Some Discourse Principles and Lengthy Sentences in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Izzo, John – University of Aizu Center for Language 1994 Annual Review, 1995
A study examined patterns of English usage in 52 Japanese university freshmen's written compositions, particularly in the use of the subordinating conjunction "because." It was found that students often fragmented sentences when "because" was involved, or used a comma to separate a trailing dependent "because" clause…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Conjunctions, English (Second Language), Error Patterns