Publications (Selected) 

[Book]

Roots in Language Acquisition: A Comparative Study of Japanese and European Languages, Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo, 2002 (slightly edited version of Doctoral Dissertation submitted to UCLA in September 1995).

[Book Chapters]

Sano, Tetsuya, Hiroyuki Shimada and Yoshiki Fujiwara “The acquisition of the non-subject status of nominative objects in Japanese,” in Studies in Chinese and Japanese Language Acquisition: in Honor of Stephen Crain, Language Acquisition & Language Disorders 60, pp. 127-144, Mineharu Nakayama, Yi-ching Su and Aijun Huang (eds.), John Benjamins, 2017.
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“Another Argument for the Sentential Scope Analysis of a Focus Marker in Child Languages,” in In Untiring Pursuit of Better Alternatives, pp. 357-367, Hiroki Egashira, Hisatsugu Kitahara, Kazuo Nakazawa, Tadao Nomura, Masayuki Oishi, Akira Saizen and Motoko Suzuki (eds.), Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 2015.
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“Remarks on theoretical accounts of Japanese children’s passive acquisition,” in Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in Honor of Nina M. Hyams, Language Acquisition & Language Disorders 54, pp. 35-64, Misha Becker, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman(eds.), John Benjamins, 2013.
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“On the origin of children’s errors: the case of Japanese negation and direct passive,” in Mineharu. Nakayama, Reiko Mazuka and Yasuhiro Shirai (eds.), Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, Volume 2, Japanese, pp. 89-97, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Fujino, Hanako and Tetsuya Sano “Aspects of the null object phenomenon in child Spanish,” in Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux and Juana M. Liceras (eds.), The Acquisition of Spanish Morphosyntax:The L1/L2 Connection. pp. 65-86, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 2002.
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[Articles]

“On the generality of the agent-first strategy,” in Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 44, pp. 503-507, Cascadilla Press, 2020.
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Sano, Tetsuya, Hiroyuki Shimada and Yoshiki Fujiwara “On a developmental delay in the L1 acquisition of the Japanese nominative object,” in Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 43, pp. 573-584, Cascadilla Press, 2019.
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“The acquisition of parametric variation in count noun modification using numerals: comparing Japanese and English,” in Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 42, pp. 687-693, Cascadilla Press, 2018.
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Sugiura, Wataru, Tetsuya Sano and Hiroyuki Shimada “Are there root infinitive analogues in child Japanese?” in Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 6, pp. 131-139, Cascadilla Press, 2016.
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Sano, Tetsuya, Hiroyuki Shimada and Yoshiki Fujiwara “The lack of nominative-orientation for a Japanese anaphor zibun in L1 acquisition and its implications,” in Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 38, pp.393-402, Cascadilla Press, 2014.
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“Abstract CP/IP configuration in child Japanese,” in Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 36, pp. 525-535, Cascadilla Press, 2012.
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Sano, Tetsuya, Hiroyuki Shimada and Takaomi Kato “Negative concord vs. negative polarity and the acquisition of Japanese,” in Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 3, pp. 232-240, Cascadilla Press, 2009.
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“Early acquisition of copy&movement in a Japanese OSV sentence,” in On-line Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 31, Boston University, 2007.
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Yamakoshi, Kyoko and Tetsuya Sano “Children's interpretations of some/every interaction in mono-clausal and bi-clausal structures in Japanese,” in Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 2, pp. 471-482, Cascadilla Press, 2007.
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“The Acquisition of Japanese Topicalization and the Role of Discourse Context,” in On-line Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 29, Boston University, 2005.
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Nakajima, Motoki and Tetsuya Sano “Early acquisition of nominative-genitive conversion in Japanese,” in Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 28, pp. 390-401, Cascadilla Press, 2004.
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“Scope relations of QP’s and scrambling in the acquisition of Japanese,” in Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2003, pp. 421-431, LOT, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2004.
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Okabe, Reiko and Tetsuya Sano “The acquisition of implicit arguments in Japanese and related matters,” in Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 26, pp. 485-499, Cascadilla Press, 2002.
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Sano, Tetsuya, Mika Endo and Kyoko Yamakoshi “Developmental issues in the acquisition of Japanese unaccusatives and passives,” in Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 25, pp. 668-683, Cascadilla Press, 2001.
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“Issues on unaccusatives and passives in the acquisition of Japanese,” in Proceedings of The 1st Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, pp. 1-21, Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo, 2000.
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“Developmental observation on the auxiliary do and the optional infinitive hypothesis,” in Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 23, Cascadilla Press, 1999.
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“Psycholinguistic investigation of the acquisition of negation in Japanese,” in Japanese/Korean Linguistics 8, CSLI Publications, 1998.
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“The comparative morpho-syntax of root infinitives in child languages,” in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, vol. 15, CSLI, 1997.
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“Negation in the acquisition of Japanese and its implications for universals,” in Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society, vol. 25, number 2, 1995.
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Sano, Tetsuya and Nina Hyams “Agreement, finiteness, and the development of null arguments,” in Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society, vol. 24, 1994.
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“The acquisition of referentially dependent items and their development,” in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, vol. 11, 1993.
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