Japan's built-in lexicon of English-based loanwords
By: Frank E. Daulton.
Series: Second language acquisition -- 26
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Clevedon, England; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781847690302; 9781847690319
Subjects: Japanese language -- Foreign words and phrases -- English; English language -- Study and teaching -- Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: Japan's importation of English; title: The assimilation of English into Japanese; title: A historical and linguistic overview; title: Today's generation of gairaigo; title: Gairaigo and language acquisition; title: Resolving the paradox of cognates; title: The effect of loanwords in Japanese on the learning of English; title: The built-in lexicons; title: Common loanword cognates for high-frequency and academic English; title: Quantifying the overlap and quality of Japanese/English cognates; title: Exploiting Japanese loanword cognates; title: Barriers to accessing cognates; title: Extending word knowledge within word families.