Tohoku Gakuin University

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

Fong, Sandiway & Masayuki Oishi 2025 On the nature of FormSet

Keywords: syntax | I-language | strong minimalist thesis | Merge | FormSet

Linguistic Variation | Online First Publication, 21 pp. | article | open access

Kidachi, Kohei & Adrian Leis 2025 Growth mindset praise in elementary school English education

Keywords: growth mindset | praise | feedback | foreign language learning motivation | young learners

Language Teaching for Young Learners 8:1 pp. 122–147 | article

Sakaguchi, Kei 2022 A frame-semantic approach to Japanese taste terms

Keywords: taste terms | adjectives | frame semantics | metaphor | pejoration

In: The Language of Food in Japanese: Cognitive perspectives and beyond, Toratani, Kiyoko (ed.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 25] pp. 231–260

Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa 2020 Conditions on the variable interpretation of |U| in Japanese

Keywords: phonology | elements | Japanese | segmental structure | head-dependency | phonetic interpretation | consonant lenition | historical change

Linguistic Variation 20:1 p. 84 | article

Nasukawa, Kuniya 2019 The Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis in the grammar and its treatment of clitics

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:6 pp. 872–877 | article commentary

Backley, Phillip 2017 English /au/: An acoustic explanation for a phonological pattern

Keywords: sound change | Old English | unnatural rules | dark (labial/velar) consonants | Element Theory | acoustic similarity | phonotactic constraints | loanwords

In: Sonic signatures, Lindsey, Geoff & Andrew Nevins (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 14] pp. 1–16

Nasukawa, Kuniya 2017 The relative salience of consonant nasality and true obstruent voicing

Keywords: relative salience | nasality | obstruent voicing | modulated carrier signal | acoustic energy

In: Sonic signatures, Lindsey, Geoff & Andrew Nevins (eds.) [Language Faculty and Beyond: Internal and External Variation in Linguistics, 14] pp. 145–162

Backley, Philip 2012 Variation in element theory

Linguistic Variation 12:1 p. 57 | article

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