The Effects of Prior Language Knowledge in Japanese Acquisition as a Foreign Language: The Case of the Japanese Noun Modifier No

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e misuse of the Japanese noun modi er no has been observed over decades. Recent research investigating learners of Japanese as a foreign language with Chinese as their rst language (L1) presented evidence of negative language transfer. is study aims to replicate the ndings of a quantitative study conducted in Japan that investigated the misuse of no through assessing Chinese, Korean and English L1 learners of Japanese who reside in Sydney, Australia. ese learners were tested in both instantaneous production and production with no time restriction. Given that the Chinese language contains a corresponding noun modi er (de), the results showed a signi cant negative language transfer in the Chinese L1 group. is and other results will be discussed.

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