Handbook of Japanese Applied Linguistics

Chapter titles

Chapter 1. Cognitive Bases and Caregivers' Speech in Early Language Development (Tamiko Ogura, Tezukayama University)
Chapter 2. Literacy Acquisition in Japanese Children (Etsuko Haryu, University of Tokyo)
Chapter 3. Age Factors in Language Acquisition (Yuko Goto Butler, University of Pennsylvania)
Chapter 4. Cross-lingual Transfer from L1 to L2 Among School-age Children (Kazuko Nakajima, University of Toronto)
Chapter 5. Errors and Learning Strategies by Learners of Japanese as an L2 (Kumiko Sakoda, Hiroshima University/NINJAL)
Chapter 6. Adult JFL Learners' Acquisition of Speech Style Shift (Haruko Minegishi Cook, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Chapter 7. Japanese Language Proficiency Assessment (Noriko Kobayashi, Tsukuba University)
Chapter 8. The Role of Instruction in Acquiring Japanese as a Second Language (Kaoru Koyanagi, Sophia University)
Chapter 9. The Influence of Topic Choice on Narrative Proficiency by Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language (Masahiko Minami, San Francisco State University)
Chapter 10. CHILDES for Japanese: Corpora, Programs, and Perspectives (Susanne Miyata, Aichi Shukutoku University)
Chapter 11. KY Corpus (Jae-Ho Lee, Tsukuba University)
Chapter 12. Corpus-based Second Language Acquisition Research (Hiromi Ozeki, Reitaku University)
Chapter 13. Assessment of Language Development in Children with Hearing Impairment and Language Disorders (Kiyoshi Otomo, Tokyo Gakugei University)
Chapter 14. Speech and Language Acquisition in Japanese Children with Down Syndrome (Toru Watamaki, Nagasaki University)
Chapter 15. Revisiting Autistic Language: Is "literalness" a Truth or Myth? Manabu Oi (Osaka University/Kanazawa University)
Chapter 16. Towards a Robust, Genre-based Translation Model and its Application (Judy Noguchi, Mukogawa Women's University; Atsuko Misaki, Kwansei Gakuin University; Shoji Miyanaga, Ritsumeikan University; Masako Terui, Kinki University)
Chapter 17. Japanese Sign Language: An Introduction (Daisuke Hara, Toyota Technological Institute)
Chapter 18. Japanese Sign Language Phonology and Morphology (Daisuke Hara, Toyota Technological Institute)
Chapter 19. Japanese Sign Language Syntax (Noriko Imazato, Kobe City College of Technology)
Chapter 20. Sign Language Development and Language Input (Takashi Torigoe, Hyogo University of Teacher Education)