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EDITOR-IN-CHIEFMasahiko Minami

San Francisco State University, USA

HONORARY EDITORSMasayoshi Shibatani

Rice University, USA

Taro Kageyama

National Institute for Japanese

Language & Linguistics, Japan

Yukinori Takubo

National Institute for Japanese

Language & Linguistics, Japan

Mineharu Nakayama

The Ohio State University, USA

EDITORIAL BOARDMakiko Hirakawa

Chuo University, Japan

Yuki Hirose

University of Tokyo, Japan

Kaoru Horie

Nagoya University, Japan

Masatoshi Koizumi

Tohoku University, Japan

Yoshiko Matsumoto

Stanford University, USA

Armin Mester

University of California,

Santa Cruz, USA

Toshiyuki Ogihara

University of Washington, USA

Shigeko Okamoto

University of California,

Santa Cruz, USA

Tsuyoshi Ono

University of Alberta, Canada

Koji Sugisaki

Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTKeiko Yukawa

Chabot College, USA

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Contents

Masahiko MinamiEditorial 1

Regular Articles

Masaaki Kamiya and Priya AnanthLearnability issues in L2 Japanese: Prosody and ambiguity resolution 3

J.-R. Hayashishita, Daiki Tanaka and Ayumi UeyamaA linguistically-informed way of introducing Japanese verbs to secondlanguage learners 29

Special Section

Tomoyuki Yoshida and Mineharu NakayamaSpecial Section Editors’ Notes 73

Hiroshi AoyagiOn the peculiar nature of double complement unaccusatives in Japanese 75

Satoshi TomiokaJapanese embedded questions are nominal: Evidence from quantificationalvariability effect 121

Book Reviews

Noriko IwasakiMutsuko Endo Hudson, Yoshiko Matsumoto, and Junko Mori (Eds.). Pragmaticsof Japanese: Perspectives on Grammar, Interaction and Culture 157

Chihiro Kinoshita ThomsonHisashi Noda and Kumiko Sakoda (Eds.). Learners’ Corpora and JapaneseLanguage Education Research 169

Journal of Japanese Linguistics 2020 | Volume 36 | Issue 1