Publications

Recent Publications (2024–Present)

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

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

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

A complete list of publications 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

Fukuda, S., Ono, H., Tanaka, N., & Sprouse, J. (2023). Re-examining island effects with NP-scrambling in Japanese: The effect of individual variation. In S. Williamson, A. A. Babayode-Lawal, L. Bosman, N. Chan, S. Cho, I. Fong, & K. Holubowsky (Eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics (Vol. 30, pp. 3–27). CSLI.
Tanaka, N., & Ohba, A. (2023). The comprehension and production of Japanese relative clauses by children. In P. Gappmayr & J. Kellogg (Eds.), BUCLD 47: Proceedings of the 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 2) (pp. 739–752). Cascadilla Press.
Bondoc, I. P., O’Grady, W., Deen, K., Tanaka, N., Chua, E. C., de Leon, A. C., & Siscar, J. A. (2018). More relativization asymmetries: Children find locative and benefactive relative clauses difficult. In A. B. Bertolini & M. J. Kaplan (Eds.), BUCLD 42: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol.1) (pp. 72–85). Cascadilla Press.
Tanaka, N., & Schwartz, B. D. (2018). Investigating relative clause island effects in native and nonnative adult speakers of Japanese. In A. B. Bertolini & M. J. Kaplan (Eds.), BUCLD 42: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 2)(pp. 750–763).