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  1. The Performance on Relative Clauses in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder: A Meta-Analysis

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, September 2026, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Lily zeng, Yasuhiro Shirai

  2. Verb learning and the acquisition of aspect

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, October 2019, John Benjamins

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  3. Arabic learners’ acquisition of English past tense morphology

    Article • International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, August 2018, John Benjamins

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  4. 9. How to effectively teach the polysemous Japanese particle de in the classroom: Assessing the Projection Model in semantics

    Article • February 2018, De Gruyter

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  5. The development of aspectual marking in Cantonese-English bilingual children

    Article • IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  6. L2 acquisition of Mandarin zai and -le

    Article • Chinese as a Second Language Research, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  7. The Role of Linguistic Explanation in the Acquisition of Japanese Imperfective -teiru

    Article • January 2016, Nature

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  8. Acquisition of the Korean Imperfective Aspect Markers -ko iss- and -a iss- by Japanese Learners: A Multiple-Factor Account

    Article • Language Learning, August 2015, Wiley

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  9. Frequency effects in grammatical development: a cross-linguistic, functional approach to form–function mapping

    Article • Journal of Child Language, February 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  10. L1–L2 asymmetry in animacy effects in the processing of Japanese relative clause

    Article • Journal of Japanese Linguistics, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  11. The acquisition of relative clauses in spontaneous child speech in Mandarin Chinese – ERRATUM

    Article • Journal of Child Language, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  12. The acquisition of relative clauses in spontaneous child speech in Mandarin Chinese

    Article • Journal of Child Language, March 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jidong Chen, Yasuhiro Shirai

  13. The semantic basis of grammatical development: Its implications for modularity, innateness, and the theory of grammar

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  14. Language Acquisition and Language Assessment

    Article • November 2013, Wiley

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  15. Developmental Sentence Scoring for Japanese

    Article • First Language, March 2013, SAGE Publications

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  16. Second Language Acquisition Research and Japanese Language Teaching: A Functionalist Approach

    Article • Japanese Studies, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  17. 9. L2 acquisition of tense-aspect morphology

    Article • January 2012, John Benjamins

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  18. The Aspect Hypothesis, defective tense, and obligatory contexts: Comments on Haznedar, 2007

    Article • Second language Research, April 2011, SAGE Publications

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  19. Semantic bias and morphological regularity in the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology: what is the relation?

    Article • Linguistics, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  20. The development of aspectual marking in child Mandarin Chinese

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, December 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  21. Aspectual asymmetries in the mental representation of events: Role of lexical and grammatical aspect

    Article • Memory & Cognition, July 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Foong Ha YAP, Yasuhiro Shirai

  22. Semantic bias in the acquisition of relative clauses in Japanese

    Article • Journal of Child Language, June 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  23. Can L2 learners productively use Japanese tense-aspect markers? A usage-based approach

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  24. INTRODUCTION

    Article • Studies in Second Language Acquisition, April 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  25. DOES THE NOUN PHRASE ACCESSIBILITY HIERARCHY PREDICT THE DIFFICULTY ORDER IN THE ACQUISITION OF JAPANESE RELATIVE CLAUSES?

    Article • Studies in Second Language Acquisition, April 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  26. THE ACQUISITION OF PROGRESSIVE AND RESULTATIVE MEANINGS OF THE IMPERFECTIVE ASPECT MARKER BY L2 LEARNERS OF JAPANESE: Transfer, Universals, or Multiple Factors?

    Article • Studies in Second Language Acquisition, January 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  27. The Aspect Hypothesis, the comparative fallacy and the validity of obligatory context analysis: a reply to Lardiere, 2003

    Article • Second language Research, January 2007, SAGE Publications

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  28. Does past tense marking indicate the acquisition of the concept of temporal displacement in children's cognitive development?

    Article • First Language, February 2006, SAGE Publications

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  29. The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics

    Article • January 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Mineharu Nakayama, Yasuhiro Shirai

  30. Language and thought: methodological issues in cross-linguistic research on ontological categories

    Article • Developmental Science, February 2003, Wiley

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  31. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PAST TENSE MORPHOLOGY IN L2 SPANISH. M. Rafael Salaberry. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2000. Pp. x + 210. $76.00 cloth.

    Article • Studies in Second Language Acquisition, January 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  32. The L2 Acquisition of Tense–Aspect Morphology

    Article • October 2002, John Benjamins

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  33. Lexicalisation of aspectual structures in English and Japanese

    Article • January 2002, De Gruyter

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  34. 1. L2 acquisition of tense-aspect morphology

    Article • January 2002, John Benjamins

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  35. 15. The prototype hypothesis of tense-aspect acquisition in second language

    Article • January 2002, John Benjamins

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  36. The semantics of the Japanese imperfective -teiru: An integrative approach

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, February 2000, Elsevier

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  37. The Acquisition of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect

    Article • January 2000, De Gruyter

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  38. The emergence of tense-aspect morphology in Japanese: universal predisposition?

    Article • First Language, October 1998, SAGE Publications

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  39. Introduction: the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology

    Article • First Language, October 1998, SAGE Publications

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  40. The Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Marking in Japanese as a Second Language

    Article • Language Learning, June 1998, Wiley

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  41. Where the Progressive and the Resultative Meet

    Article • Studies in Language, January 1998, John Benjamins

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  42. NOTES AND DISCUSSION

    Article • Journal of Child Language, June 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  43. Linguistic Theory & Research: Implications for Second Language Teaching

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  44. The Primacy of Aspect in First and Second Language Acquisition

    Article • January 1996, Elsevier

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  45. The Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology: A Prototype Account

    Article • Language, December 1995, JSTOR

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  46. On the overgeneralization of progressive marking on stative verbs: bioprogram or input?

    Article • First Language, October 1994, SAGE Publications

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  47. Discourse Motivations for Some Cognitive Acquisition Principles

    Article • Studies in Second Language Acquisition, June 1994, Cambridge University Press

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  48. On the overgeneralization of progressive marking on stative verbs: bioprogram or input?

    Article • First Language, February 1994, SAGE Publications

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  49. Conditions on Transfer: A Connectionist Approach Yasuhiro Shirai

    Article • Issues in Applied Linguistics, June 1992, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  50. The Need for an Integrated Theory: Connecting Modules

    Article • TESOL Quarterly, January 1990, JSTOR

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  51. Introduction

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Mineharu Nakayama, Yasuhiro Shirai

  52. The acquisition of tense and aspect

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  53. 7. L2 acquisition of Japanese

    Article • De Gruyter

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  54. The acquisition of tense and aspect

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  55. Chapter 8. Defining and coding data: Lexical aspect in L2 studies

    Article • De Gruyter

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  56. 2. The acquisition of linguistic categories in second language acquisition: A functionalist approach

    Article • De Gruyter

    Yasuhiro Shirai

  57. 12. The effect of a ‘conceptualizable’ agent on the use of transitive and intransitive constructions in L2 Japanese

    Article • De Gruyter

    Yasuhiro Shirai