Tokiko Okuma
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tokiko Okuma is involved.
Articles
2026 Acquiring the scope of logical connectives and negation in Japanese as a second language New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference, Ionin, Tania and Silvina Montrul (eds.), pp. 101–128 | Chapter
This study investigated the interpretations of Japanese negated disjunctions and conjunctions by L1-English and L1-Mandarin learners of L2-Japanese. Negated disjunctions and conjunctions have different interpretations in English as opposed to Japanese and Mandarin. The results of a Truth Value… read more
2023 L1 effects in acquisition of the Japanese OPC by L1 English and L1 Spanish speakers Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects, Fotiadou, Georgia and Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (eds.), pp. 118–141 | Chapter
This paper provides evidence for the Full Transfer/Full Access Hypothesis (FT/FA; Schwartz & Sprouse, 1994, 1996) through an investigation of the interpretation of the Japanese pronoun kare ‘he’ by intermediate and advanced L1 English and L1 Spanish speakers of L2 Japanese. The intermediate… read more