Downloadable papers and posters

• Nomura, J. (2008). Japanese non-verb-final constituent order as a way to ensure referent activation. Kotoba no Kagaku Kenkyu (Journal of the Japan Society for Speech Sciences), 9, 49–63. [Please e-mail me for a copy]
• Nomura, J. (2008). Early sensitivity to information structure in Japanese. In Chan, H., Jacob, H., and Kapia, E. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 32nd Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 2), 323–334, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [Please e-mail me for a copy]
• Nomura, J. (2007). Japanese Postposing as an indicator of emerging discourse pragmatics. In Caunt-Nulton, H. Kulatilake S. and Woo, I. A Supplement to the Proceedings of the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development. [Link to the BUCLD website]
• Nomura, J. (2006). Right-dislocation by Japanese-speaking children: A preliminary analysis. University of Hawai‘i Working Papers in Linguistics, 37(2). [Link to the Working Paper website]
• Nomura, J. (2005). Right-dislocation by Japanese-speaking children: Commonalities and differences. Tuesday Seminar (Departmental weekly colloquium), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. [Slides]
• Nomura, J. (2005). Right-dislocation by a Japanese-speaking child: Processing, grammar or both? Poster presentation at the 2nd International Workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences, University of Tokyo. [Abstract] [Poster]
• Nomura, J. (2004). Roles of slow-to-fast learning curves in assessing acquisition theories. Poster presentation at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition — North America 2004. [Poster]
• Nomura, J. and Kakehi, K. (2001). Development of sentence patterns in Japanese- and English-acquiring children: Analysis of longitudinal data from CHILDES. Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Cognitive Science, 411–415, Press of University of Science and Technology of China. [Paper]