Hironobu Hosoi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hironobu Hosoi plays a role.
2024 Chapter 6. L2 acquisition of English flexible count and flexible mass nouns by L1-Japanese and L1-Spanish speakers 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. 134–169 | Chapter
We examine the acquisition of the English count-mass distinction, in particular flexible nouns. Certain nouns are flexible in English as they can be either countable like a cake / cakes or mass such as cake. Our study is unique regarding the off-line and on-line tasks used and the L2 participant… read more
2023 Second language processing of English definite noun phrases by Spanish speakers and Japanese speakers Current State of Second Language Studies in Japan, Matthews, John and Shigenori Wakabayashi (eds.), pp. 319–347 | Article
The present study examines the acquisition of definite noun phrases (NPs) in L2 English. Both English and Spanish have a definite article, but Japanese lacks articles, though definite anaphoric and definite non-anaphoric are present to some degree through the optional use of sono (the/that). A… read more
2018 Acquisition of scalar implicatures: Evidence from adult Japanese L2 learners of English Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:2, pp. 163–192 | Article
Our study investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of scalar implicatures some and all. We set out to answer two research questions based on three theoretical accounts, the lexical, pragmatic and syntactic accounts. In an experiment we include English and Japanese native speakers, and… read more
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