Floor structure of English and Japanese conversation

Research is presented on the semantic structure of 15 emotion terms as measured by judged-similarity tasks for monolingual English-speaking and monolingual and bilingual Japanese subjects. A major question is the relative explanatory power of a…

This paper aims to investigate interactional rhythmicity among a group of four people. Two analytic models, defining the concepts of floor and time space, were developed to account for when, how and why verbal and non-verbal rhythmic coordination…

Turn-internal listener back-channel strategies observed in Japanese casual conversation are studied in contrast with those in American Eng. After examining videotaped data consisting of 3-minute segments of conversation performed by each of the 12…

Across the first year of life, infants show decreased sensitivity to phonetic differences not used in the native language Werker, J. F., & Tees, R. C. (1984). Cross-language speech perception: evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first…

Although several syntactic differences exist between Eng & Japanese, it is argued here that there are no parametric differences between the two langs that result in any fundamental differences in deep structure. The major parametric difference is…

The purpose of this paper is to identify common patterns in central authorities steering of universities and the institutional power in neo-liberal higher education regimes. The paper examines the regulatory mechanisms of England and Japan through…

Presents a pragmatic analysis of Japanese and English, based on the theory of territory of information. The theory of territory of information in Japanese concerns the relationship between forms of utterances and conditions under which they can be…

Histopathologic comparison of colorectal adenomas removed at St. Mark's Hospital, London, England, and those removed at the University of Tokyo, Japan was performed. There were 1242 lesions in the St. Mark's series and 310 in the University of Tokyo…

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This study investigated how English and Japanese speakers syllabify two-syllable English words and nonwords with single intervocalic consonants. In oral tasks, participants inserted a pause between two parts of English words and nonwords. In written…