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Applied Linguistics 2007 28(3):466-473; doi:10.1093/applin/amm025
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© Oxford University Press 2007

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

Akihiro Ito

Aichi Gakuin University


  Abstract

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).

Received for publication 1 May 2007.
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