Publications

Publication details [#58756]

Nishikawa, Tomomi. 2014. Nonnativeness in Near-native Child L2 Starters of Japanese: Age and the Acquisition of Relative Clauses. Applied Linguistics 35 (4) : 504–529.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | L2-acquisition | language proficiency | native vs. non-native interaction | relative clause

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

Impressionistic judgments of general capacity confirm the benefits of earlier Japanese as a second language (L2) starters, whereas the relative clause (RC) production tasks in experimental settings disclose that nativelike ability is not warranted even in early child L2 learning after sustained target language (TL) exposure.