Yamashita Yoshie
   Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Business Administration
   Position   Professor
Language English
Publication Date 2005
Type Academic Journal
Title A note on canonical word order
Contribution Type Co-authored (other than first author)
Journal Applied linguistics
Volume, Issue, Page 26,pp.453-458
Author and coauthor O'Grady,William, Yoshie Yamashita, & Sun-Young Lee
Details Whether the word order which is iconic to the sequence of the event described in a sentence is easier to be aquired or not was examined with Japanese and Korean second language learners of English. The results seem to indicate that the iconicity principle plays a crucial role in the process.