This is the fourth volume of Studies in Language Sciences. It mainly contains papers originally presented at the Fourth Annual JSLS Conference held at Japan Women’s University on July 6 and 7, 2002. The volume includes the plenary lecture by Andrew Radford, the special lecture by Yukio Tono, and six papers from the general session presentations. The present volume also includes four papers originally presented at the Fifth Annual JSLS Conference held at Kobe University on July 5 and 6, 2003. The decision was made to include in this volume some papers presented at the expanded Fifth JSLS Conference. Some of this work might not otherwise, for reasons of space due to page limitations, be able to be included in the next volume.

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I.PLENARY

Accusative Subjects and Defective Clauses in the Grammar of an English-Speaking Child with Specific Language Impairment
Andrew Radford

II.SPECIAL LECTURE

Corpus-Based SLA Research: State of the Art of Learner Corpus Studies
Yukio Tono

III.GENERAL SESSION PAPERS

< First Language Acquisition>

Use of the Connective ‘Datte’ and Development of Theory of Mind
Taeko Yamamoto, Tomoko Matsui, and Peter McCagg

Difficulty of Processing Japanese and Korean Center-Embedding Constructions
Mineharu Nakayama, Sun-Hee Lee, and Richard L. Lewis

Forms of Parental Directives in Triadic Family Interactions
Hiroko Kasuya and Kayoko Uemura

Conceptualizing Created Objects
Eric McCready

< Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism>

Keeping Japanese Alive: Narrative Discourse Skills in English-Japanese Bilingual Children
Masahiko Minami

Bilingual Mandarin-, Russian- and Spanish-English Speakers’ Receptive Grammatical Proficiency in Their Two Languages
Gisela Jia, Doris Aaronson, Michael Young, Suhong Chen, and Jack Wagner

The Comprehension Difficulty of Japanese Receptive Grammar:A Comparison of Japanese Children and Learners of Japanese as a Second Language
Yoshiko Nakagawa and Takamasa Koyama

Relative Clause Production by JSL Children
Tomomi Hasegawa

The Preliminary Study on Acquisition Order of Viewpoint-Related Voice in Japanese as a Foreign/Second Language
Mari Tanaka

Testing the Dual Coding Hypothesis in Remembering Kana
Sachiko Matsunaga