Recent Publications (2024–Present)
Journal Articles
Journal Articles
- Tanaka, N. (In press). Subliminal island effects in Japanese complex NPs with argument wh-in-situ. Linguistic Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling.a.542
- Tanaka, N., Lau, E., & Lee, A. L. F. (2024). On the universality of the subject preference in the acquisition of relative clauses across languages. First Language, 44(3), 219–243. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237241226734
Book Chapters
Book Chapters
- Diao, W., Räsänen, E., & Tanaka, N. (2025). Less-commonly taught world language programs. In A. V. Brown, C. Crane, B. C. Dupuy, & E. Ene (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language Program Development and Administration (pp. 449–461). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003361213-42
Conference Proceedings
Conference Proceedings
- Tanaka, J., Tanaka, N., Agbayani, B., & Fukuda, S. (2025). Multiple scrambling in Japanese: An experimental investigation. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 31, 349–358. https://doi.org/10.5070/J7.49022
Selected Earlier Publications
Journal Articles
Journal Articles
Full list is available on the Lab Director's Website.
- Tanaka, N., & Cherici, A. (2023). Subject advantage in L1-English learners’ production of Chinese relative clauses. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 52, 405–424. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-022-09865-9
- Tanaka, N., Bondoc, I. P., & Deen, K. (2022). Examining main clause similarity and frequency effects in the production of Tagalog relative clauses. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 15(2), 70–86. https://hdl.handle.net/10524/52506
- Fukuda, S., Tanaka, N., Ono, H., & Sprouse, J. (2022). An experimental reassessment of complex NP islands with NP-scrambling in Japanese. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5737
- Lau, E., & Tanaka, N. (2021). The subject advantage in relative clauses: A review. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 6(1), 34. http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1343
- Tanaka, N., O’Grady, W., Deen, K., & Bondoc, I. P. (2019). An asymmetry in the acquisition of relative clauses: Evidence from Tagalog. First Language, 39(6), 618–632. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723719859090
- Bondoc, I. P., O’Grady, W., Deen, K., & Tanaka, N. (2018). Agrammatism in Tagalog: Voice and relativisation. Aphasiology, 32(5), 598–617. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2017.1366417