Papers
The following is a selected list of my papers. Please read my CV for a full list of publications.
Published Papers (selected)
Takayuki Kimura & Shigenori Wakabayashi (accepted with minor revisions). UG-as-Guide in Selection and Reassembly of an Uninterpretable Feature in L2 Acquisition of Wh-questions: Evidence from Islands and Scope.
Takayuki Kimura (2023). Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition. [written in Japanese] In Fukuta, J., Tamura, Y. & M. Yano (eds.) Kurosio Publishers.
Takayuki Kimura (2023). Feature Selection, Feature Reassembly, and the Role of Universal Grammar: The Acquisition of Wh-questions by Japanese and Chinese Learners of English. (dissertation notice). Language Acquisition 30 (1): 101–103.
Takayuki Kimura (2022). Explaining the Difficulty with the L2 Acquisition of Scope Interpretation by Speakers of a Scope-Rigid Language. In Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, Interfaces and Beyond (pp. 41–66). John Benjamins: Amsterdam.
Takayuki Kimura (2022). Movement and Islands in Right Node Raising. Linguistic Inquiry 53 (3): 608–616.
Takayuki Kimura (2022). Reassembly of Uninterpretable Features in L2 Acquisition: Evidence from Wh-questions. Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 46: 378–389.
Shigenori Wakabayashi, Takayuki Kimura, John Matthews, Takayuki Akimoto, Tomohiro Hokari, Tae Yamazaki, and Koichi Otaki (2021). Asymmetry between Person and Number Features in L2 Subject-Verb Agreement. Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 45: 735–745.
Takayuki Kimura (2020). Argument Ellipsis in Left Node Raising in Japanese. Snippets 38: 10–12.
Takayuki Kimura & Shigenori Wakabayashi (2019). Articles and Telicity: The Grammar of Early and Intermediate L2 Learners of English. Second Language 18 (Special Issue): 89-103. (invited article)
Takayuki Kimura (2019). A Phase-Based Analysis of L2 Reflexive Binding. Explorations in English Linguistics 33: 25–51.
Tomohiro Hokari & Takayuki Kimura (2019). Role of Learner’s L1 in the Acquisition of English Passives: An Experiment with Japanese and Korean Speakers. Journal of Cultural Sciences 92: 27-60.
Takayuki Kimura (2019). Quantifier Raising in Japanese-English Interlanguage.
Note: Accepted by Selected Proceedings of Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2017 but not published due to an unexpected editorial problem.
Shigenori Wakabayashi, Tomohiro Hokari, Takayuki Akimoto & Takayuki Kimura (2018). Discussion Article: Multiple Causes for the Variabilities in L2 Use of 3 rd Person Singular -s in the Light of Distributed Morphology. Second Language 17: 51-84.
Takayuki Kimura (2018). Right Node Raising and Across-the-Board Heavy NP Shift. Studies in English Literature (Regional Branches Combined Issue Vol. XI): 71-79.
Shigenori Wakabayashi & Takayuki Kimura (2018). L1 Influence and Lexical Learning in Gradual Development of the Interpretation of Telicity. In Shirahata, T., & Suda, K. (eds.) Second Language Research Monograph Series 2. (pp. 163-201). Kuroshio Publishers.
Takayuki Kimura (2014). Passives in Early Interlanguage Grammar: A Preliminary Survey. English Studies 32: 177-202.
Papers In Preparation, Under Review, or In Revision
Takayuki Kimura (under review, R2).
Takayuki Kimura (under review, in revision).
Takayuki Kimura & Shigenori Wakabayashi (in prep.)
Takayuki Kimura & Takaaki Hirokawa (in preparation).
Dissertations
Takayuki Kimura (2022). Feature Selection, Feature Reassembly, and the Role of Universal Grammar: The Acquisition of Wh-questions by Japanese and Chinese Learners of English, PhD Thesis.
Takayuki Kimura (2018). An Analysis of Right Node Raising in English, MA Thesis. (Published as Kimura (2018))
Takayuki Kimura (2016). Merge-Expletive in DP, MA Thesis.
Takayuki Kimura (2013). The Development of Noun Phrase Structure in L2 Acquisition, BA Thesis. (Published as Wakabayashi & Kimura (2018))
