Resumen de The Interpretation of Japanese Word Order Patterns by Adult English-speaking Learners of Japanese as a Second Language

Akihiro Ito

• This paper reports on the results of an experiment on the interpretation of Japanese word order patterns by adult English-speaking learners of Japanese as a second language. The results of a comprehension experiment conducted with twenty adult learners point toward a preference for isomorphic sentence patterns over non-isomorphic sentence patterns, providing additional support for the isomorphic mapping hypothesis (IMH) (O’Grady et al. 2005) in second language acquisition (SLA).