Chapter titles
1. Learning to become a native listener of Japanese (Reiko Mazuka)
2. The nature of the count/mass distinction in Japanese (Mutsumi Imai & Junko Kanero)
3. Grammatical deficits in Japanese children with Specific Language Impairment (Shinji Fukuda, Suzy E. Fukuda, & Tomohiko Ito)
4. Root infinitive analogues in Child Japanese (Keiko Murasugi)
5. Acquisition of scope (Takuya Goro)
6. Narrative development in L1 Japanese (Masahiko Minami)
7. L2 acquisition of Japanese (Yasuhiro Shirai)
8. The modularity of grammar in L2 acquisition (Mineharu Nakayama & Noriko Yoshimura)
9. Tense and aspect in Japanese as a second language (Alison Gabriele & Mamori Sugita Hughes)
10. Language acquisition and brain development: Cortical processing of a foreign language (Hiroko Hagiwara)
11. Resolution of branching ambiguity in speech (Yuki Hirose)
12. The role of learning in theories of English and Japanese sentence processing (Franklin Chang)
13. Experimental syntax: word order in sentence processing (Masatoshi Koizumi)
14. Relative clause processing in Japanese: psycholinguistic investigation into typological differences (Baris Kahraman & Hiromu Sakai)
15. Processing of syntactic and semantic information in the human brain: evidence from ERP studies in Japanese. (Tsutomu Sakamoto)
16. Issues in L2 Japanese sentence processing: similarities/differences with L1 and individual differences in working memory (Koichi Sawasaki & Akiko Kashiwagi-Wood)
17. Sentence production models to consider for L2 Japanese sentence production research (Noriko Iwasaki)
18. Processing of the Japanese language by native Chinese speakers (Katsuo Tamaoka)
Mineharu Nakayama, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.