Waseda University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Waseda University*

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Second Language Cognitive Task Complexity: A research synthesis

AuthorShoko Sasayama, Aleksandra Malicka & John M. Norris

Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice, 18] 2025. | monograph

The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon: Evidence from Japanese verb morphology

Brent de Chene

Subjects Japanese linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 368] 2025. | monograph

Wang, Yijen, Wenzheng Huang & Glenn Stockwell 2026 Mobile applications for language learning

In: Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, Kessler, Matt (ed.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 15] pp. 147–171

Takekuro, Makiko 2025 Making distinctions between “us” and “them” in a meta-frame of interaction

Keywords: distinction(s) | identity | (interactional) frame | periphery

In: Identity Perspectives from Peripheries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko & Jan-Ola Östman (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 352] pp. 145–166

Rastelli, Stefano, Giada Antonicelli, Beatrice Iaria, Pietro Mingardi & Francesca Pagliara 2025 Adult second language acquisition under negligible exposure and no instruction: A self-paced reading study on adjuncts obligatory control

Keywords: non-finite adjunct | obligatory control | gerund | L2 Italian | self-paced reading | target-probe matching

Journal of Second Language Studies | Online First Publication, 39 pp. | article | open access

Jose, Paul John C., John Errol Velasco, Leslie Anne L. Liwanag & Lois Mauri Anne L. Liwanag 2025 Barthes meets vlogging: A semiotic analysis of a top Filipino influencer’s videos

Keywords: Roland Barthes | semiology | Filipino vlogger | Cong TV | YouTube

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 35:1 pp. 29–57 | article

Muller, Theron & John Lindsay Adamson 2025 Uncovering motivations behind authors’ questionable research practices: A collaborative autoethnographic investigation of editors’ experiences of academic publishing

Keywords: anglocentric norms | centering | collaborative autoethnography | indexing | metrification

Journal of Second Language Studies 8:2 pp. 375–408 | article

de Chene, Brent 2025 The boundary between grammar and lexicon: Evidence from Japanese verb morphology

In: The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon: Evidence from Japanese verb morphology, de Chene, Brent[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 368]

Poppe, Clemens & Turan Hancı 2025 The prosodic structure of Turkish accent patterns

Keywords: Turkish | accent | (un)accentability | prosodic structure | metrical grids | phonology-morphology interface

Nota Bene 2:2 pp. 357–372 | article

Vitta, Joseph P., Aaron Hahn, Derek Canning, Daniel R. Isbell, Ali H. Al-Hoorie & Christopher Nicklin 2025 Conceptualization and frequency of sampling (mal)practices in L2 inferential quantitative research: Towards a potential QRP?

Keywords: L2 research synthesis | methodological synthesis | sampling rigor | L2 methods reform | sampling and L2 QRPs

Journal of Second Language Studies 8:2 pp. 281–312 | article | open access

Miyamoto, Yoichi, Koichi Otaki, Chie Nakamura & Noriaki Yusa 2024 On the nature of operators in the grammar of L1 Chinese learners of L2 Japanese

Keywords: Chinese | features | Japanese | movement | wh-indeterminates | wh-phrases

In: Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity, Babatsouli, Elena (ed.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 67] pp. 529–555

Miura, Atsushi 2024 Sensitivity to silently structured interveners: Sluicing interpretation in L2 learners

Keywords: intervention effect | sluicing | subject extraction | object extraction | syntactic manipulations

In: 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 & Kjersti Faldet Listhaug (eds.) [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 70] pp. 220–237

Sasaki, Miyuki, Yuki Higuchi, Makiko Nakamuro, Carsten Roever & Tomoko Yashima 2024 Introducing regression discontinuity design to applied linguistics: The case of Japanese government study-abroad scholarships

Keywords: Regression discontinuity design | study-abroad scholarships | between-group design | within-group design | high school students

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 9:2 pp. 217–244 | article

Yoshida, Kai & Kazuki Sekine 2024 Do speakers’ gestures affect listeners’ understanding of temporal relationships between events?

Keywords: co-speech gestures | temporal relationship | time metaphor | multimodal integration

Gesture 22:3 pp. 262–287 | article

Kondo, Mariko & Rubén Pérez-Ramón 2024 Perception of Japanese accented English segments in words

Keywords: foreign accent | Japanese accented English | perception | segments | intelligibility | bilingual synthesis

Journal of Second Language Studies 6:2 pp. 210–237 | article

Anthony, Laurence 2022 Review of Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis edited by J. Egbert & P. Baker (2019)

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:3 pp. 380–385 | book review

In’nami, Yo, Rie Koizumi, Eun Hee Jeon & Yuya Arai 2022 L2 listening and its correlates: A meta-analysis

In: Understanding L2 Proficiency: Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations, Jeon, Eun Hee & Yo In'nami (eds.) [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 13] pp. 235–283 | open access

Sasayama, Shoko & John M. Norris 2023 Designing speaking tasks for different assessment goals: The complex relationship between cognitive task complexity, language performance, and task accomplishment

Keywords: assessment task design | CALF measures | cognitive task complexity | discrimination | task accomplishment

TASK 2:2 pp. 184–217 | article

Roever, Carsten, Yuki Higuchi, Miyuki Sasaki, Tomoko Yashima & Makiko Nakamuro 2022 Validating a test of L2 routine formulae to detect pragmatics learning in stay abroad

Keywords: stay abroad | study abroad | L2 pragmatics | routine formulae | conventional expressions | argument-based validation

Applied Pragmatics 5:1 pp. 41–63 | article

de Chene, Brent 2020  r-Epenthesis and the bigrade alternation: The role of phonological distance in the regularization of Japanese verbal inflection

Keywords: leveling | extension | reanalysis | regularization | Japanese | verbal inflection | bigrade alternation | r-Epenthesis

Diachronica 37:2 pp. 178–214 | article

Takekuro, Makiko 2020 Bonded but un-bonded: An ethnographic account of discordance in social relations

Keywords: bonding | un-bonding | discordance | social relations | ethnography

In: Bonding through context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse, Ide, Risako & Kaori Hata (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 314] p. 85

Muroi, Yoshiyuki 2020 Adjectives and mode of expression: Psych-adjectives in attributive and predicative usage and implications for the thetic/categorical discussion

Keywords: argument structure | attribution | broad focus | copulative predication | individual-level | narrow focus | predication | predication force | psych-adjective | stage-level

In: Thetics and Categoricals, Abraham, Werner, Elisabeth Leiss & Yasuhiro Fujinawa (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 262] pp. 179–198

Oga-Baldwin, W. L. Quint & Yoshiyuki Nakata 2020 How teachers promote young language learners’ engagement: Lesson form and lesson quality

Keywords: engagement | foreign language | mixed-methods | motivation | classroom practice

Language Teaching for Young Learners 2:1 pp. 101–130 | article

Larsson, Tove, Shawn Loewen, Rhonda Oliver, Miyuki Sasaki, Nicole Tracy-Ventura & Luke Plonsky 2020 Towards achieving work-life balance in academia: Comments and personal essays from six applied linguists

In: Professional Development in Applied Linguistics: A Guide to Success for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty, Plonsky, Luke (ed.)  pp. 49–64

Furukawa, Toshiaki 2020 Scott Saft, Exploring multilingual hawaiʻi: Language use and language ideologies in a diverse society

Pragmatics and Society 11:3 pp. 485–488 | book review

Caple, Helen, Laurence Anthony & Monika Bednarek 2019  Kaleidographic : A data visualization tool

Keywords: data visualization | Kaleidographic | multimodality | software | text analysis tools

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24:2 pp. 245–261 | article

Detey, Sylvain & Isabelle Racine 2019 Learning to read liaison in French as a Foreign Language: A longitudinal study of beginner Japanese learners in Japan

Keywords: liaison | reading | French as Foreign Language | Japanese learners | longitudinal study

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 10:1 p. 96 | article

Furukawa, Toshiaki 2019 Place and membership categorization in a Hawaiian language radio show

Keywords: place | membership categorization analysis (MCA) | Hawaiian | media | radio show

Pragmatics and Society 10:3 pp. 375–398 | article

Appel, Randy, Pavel Trofimovich, Kazuya Saito, Talia Isaacs & Stuart Webb 2019 Lexical aspects of comprehensibility and nativeness from the perspective of native-speaking English raters

Keywords: second language speech | vocabulary | comprehensibility | nativeness

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 170:1 pp. 24–52 | article

Feldman, Ofer & Ken Kinoshita 2017 Do important questions demand respectful replies?: Analyzing televised political interviews in Japan

Keywords: Political interviews | Television | Media discourse | Theory of Equivocation | Political issues | Japan

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 27:1 pp. 121–157 | article

Feldman, Ofer & Ken Kinoshita 2017 Expanding factors in threat to face: Assessing the toughness/equivocation connection in Japanese televised political interviews

Keywords: political interviews | television | threats to face | Theory of Equivocation | media discourse | Japan

Language and Dialogue 7:3 pp. 336–359 | article

Feldman, Ofer, Ken Kinoshita & Peter Bull 2017 Failures in Leadership: How and Why Wishy-Washy Politicians Equivocate on Japanese Political Interviews

Keywords: Political interviews | Television | Media discourse | Theory of Equivocation | Political issues | Japan

Journal of Language and Politics 16:2 pp. 285–312 | article

Detey, Sylvain & Isabelle Racine 2017 Towards a perceptually assessed corpus of non-native French: The InterPhonology of Contemporary French (IPFC) project illustrated with a longitudinal study of Japanese learners’ /b-v/ productions

Keywords: L1 Japanese | L2 French | spoken learner corpus | InterPhonology of Contemporary French | longitudinal study

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 3:2 pp. 223–249 | article

Tsukada, Kimiko, Mariko Kondo & Kazuko Sunaoka 2016 The perception of Mandarin lexical tones by native Japanese adult listeners with and without Mandarin learning experience

Keywords: perception | lexical tones | Japanese | Mandarin

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 2:2 pp. 225–252 | article

Anthony, Laurence & Paul Baker 2015 ProtAnt: A tool for analysing the prototypicality of texts

Keywords: prototypicality | keywords | ProtAnt | qualitative research | critical discourse analysis

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20:3 pp. 273–292 | article | open access

Bugaeva, Anna 2011 A diachronic study of the impersonal passive in Ainu

In: Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. & Anna Siewierska (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 124] pp. 517–546

Yoshida, Keiko 2008 13. Bare nouns and telicity in Japanese

In: Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect, Rothstein, Susan (ed.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 110] pp. 421–439

Pexman, Penny M., Stephen J. Lupker & Yasushi Hino 2007 Cross-modal repetition priming with homophones provides clues about representation in the word recognition system

Keywords: lexical decision | homophones | blend state | word recognition | semantic | phonology | orthography | repetition priming | cross-modal priming

The Mental Lexicon 2:2 pp. 183–214 | article

Miyazaki, S. 2001 Theoretical Framework for Communicative Adjustment in Language Acquisition

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 11:1 pp. 39–60 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.