Makiko Hirakawa | John Benjamins

Hirakawa, Makiko 2024 Chapter 1. What the acquisition of Japanese vs. Chinese contributes to generative approaches to SLA: Null subjects and long-distance anaphors revisited Current Perspectives on Generative SLA - Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference, Velnić, Marta, Anne Dahl and Kjersti Faldet Listhaug (eds.), pp. 10–36 | Chapter

This paper draws on data from previous findings on L2 Japanese and L2 Chinese. In particular, it investigates the role of Strong Uniformity (Miyagawa, 2009, 2017) in explaining an asymmetry in the L2 acquisition of Japanese and Chinese. The studies focus on three linguistic structures: person… read more

Hirakawa, Makiko, Mari Umeda, Neal Snape and John Matthews 2023 An investigation of subject-orientation in the processing of Japanese reflexive zibun by native Japanese and Chinese-speaking learners Current State of Second Language Studies in Japan, Matthews, John and Shigenori Wakabayashi (eds.), pp. 348–377 | Article

The study investigates the L2 acquisition of the Japanese reflexive zibun (self) by Chinese-speaking learners. The aim of the study was to find out whether there are any differences in the interpretation and processing of zibun, a long-distance reflexive that takes as its antecedent only… read more

Snape, Neal, John Matthews, Makiko Hirakawa, Yahiro Hirakawa and Hironobu Hosoi 2014 Aspect in L2 English: A longitudinal study of four Japanese child returnees EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 14 (2014), Roberts, Leah, Ineke Vedder and Jan H. Hulstijn (eds.), pp. 79–110 | Article

Our study reports on data collected on three separate occasions over a period of 12 months from four Japanese child returnees who had lived in the U.S. between 8 and 12 years before returning to Japan. Their English proficiency was assessed by TOEIC and C-test scores, and they were each asked to… read more

Zvaigzne, Meghan, Yuriko Oshima-Takane, Fred Genesee and Makiko Hirakawa 2011 Chapter 16. A cross-linguistic study of verbal and gestural descriptions in French and Japanese monolingual and bilingual children Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture, Stam, Gale and Mika Ishino (eds.), pp. 219–230 | Chapter

This study investigated whether the presence of mimetics (sound-symbolic words) in language influences children’s verbal and gestural descriptions by comparing monolingual and bilingual speakers of Japanese and French. Mimetics are present in Japanese, but not French (Kita, 2008). 4 to 6-year-old… read more

Hirakawa, Makiko 2006 More evidence on the knowledge of unaccusativity in L2 Japanese Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz, Unsworth, Sharon, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten (eds.), pp. 161–186 | Article

Hirakawa, Makiko 2006 ‘Passive’ unaccusative errors in L2 English revisited Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In honor of Lydia White, Slabakova, Roumyana, Silvina Montrul and Philippe Prévost (eds.), pp. 17–39 | Article

Hirakawa, Makiko 1999 L2 Acquisition of Japanese Unaccusative Verbs by Speakers of English and Chinese The Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language, Kanno, Kazue (ed.), pp. 89–114 | Article

White, Lydia, Cynthia Brown, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, Dongdong Chen, Makiko Hirakawa and Silvina Montrul 1999 Psych verbs In Second Language Acquisition The Development of Second Language Grammars: A generative approach, Klein, Elaine C. and Gita Martohardjono (eds.), pp. 171–196 | Article

White, Lydia, Silvina Montrul, Makiko Hirakawa, Dongdong Chen, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito and Cynthia Brown 1998 Zero Morphology and the T/SM Restriction in the L2 Acquisition of Psych Verbs Morphology and its Interfaces in Second Language Knowledge, Beck, Maria-Luise (ed.), pp. 257–282 | Article