Education:
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Areas:
Child Language Acquisition
[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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
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.
[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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
“Abstract CP/IP configuration in child Japanese,” in Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 36, pp. 525-535, Cascadilla Press, 2012.
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.
“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.
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.
“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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
“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.
“Developmental observation on the auxiliary do and the optional infinitive hypothesis,” in Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 23, Cascadilla Press, 1999.
“Psycholinguistic investigation of the acquisition of negation in Japanese,” in Japanese/Korean Linguistics 8, CSLI Publications, 1998.
“The comparative morpho-syntax of root infinitives in child languages,” in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, vol. 15, CSLI, 1997.
“Negation in the acquisition of Japanese and its implications for universals,” in Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society, vol. 25, number 2, 1995.
Sano, Tetsuya and Nina Hyams “Agreement, finiteness, and the development of null arguments,” in Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society, vol. 24, 1994.
“The acquisition of referentially dependent items and their development,” in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, vol. 11, 1993.
[Invited]
“On the position of the Theme argument of an unaccusative verb in child Japanese: a preliminary report,” NINJAL-UHM Linguistics Workshop on Syntax-Semantics Interface, Language Acquisition, and Naturalistic Data Analysis,
University of Hawaii, Manoa, October 2019.
“On the acquisition of the non-subject status of nominative objects in Japanese,” The Japanese Society for Language Sciences 20th Annual International Conference (JSLS2018), Bunkyo Gakuin University, August 2018.
“The acquisition of the Nominative Object in Japanese and the UPR,” The 32nd Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Gakushuin University, November 2014.
“On the acquisition of well-formedness in the poverty of stimulus,” East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium, Ohio State University, October 2012.
“The acquisition of asymmetry between scrambling and topicalization in Japanese,” Global COE International Symposium: Future Trends in the Biology of Language, Keio University, March 2011.
“Some Notes on Cross-linguistic Variation and Children’s Acquisition of Japanese,” GLOW-in-Asia7, Workshop on Theoretical Understanding of Language Acquisition, EFL University, Hyderabad, India, February 2009.
“Issues on Unaccusatives and Passives in the Acquisition of Japanese,” Invited Lecture, The 1st Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Keio University, March 2000.
[Others]
“On the generality of the agent-first strategy,” poster presentation, The 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, November 2019.
Sano, Tetsuya, Hiroyuki Shimada and Yoshiki Fujiwara “On a developmental delay in the L1 acquisition of the Japanese nominative object,” The 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston
University, November 2018.
“On the Acquisition of Variation in Count Noun Modification using Numerals: Comparing Japanese and English,” The First International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-1), Chinese University
of Hong Kong, March 2017.
Sano, Tetsuya, Hiroyuki Shimada and Yoshiki Fujiwara “The acquisition of the non-subject status of a nominative object in Japanese and its implications,” East Asian Language Acquisition Workshop, Soochow University,
March 2015.
Sano, Tetsuya, Hiroyuki Shimada and Yoshiki Fujiwara “The lack of nominative-orientation for a Japanese anaphor zibun in L1 acquisition and its implications,” The 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development, Boston University, November 2013.
“Another argument for the sentential scope analysis of a focus marker in child languages,” Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 5, University of Kansas, October 2012.
“Abstract CP/IP configuration in child Japanese,” The 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, November 2011.
Sano, Tetsuya, Hiroyuki Shimada and Takaomi Kato “On the Acquisition of Negation-sensitivity: Early Acquisition of a Negative Concord Item in Japanese,” GLOW32 Acquisition Workshop, Nantes, France, April 2009.
“Early Acquisition of Copy&Movement in a Japanese OSV Sentence,” poster presentation, The 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, November 2006.
Yamakoshi, Kyoko and Tetsuya Sano “Children's Interpretations of Some/every Interaction in Mono-clausal and Bi-clausal Structures in Japanese,” Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 2, McGill University, August 2006.
Nakajima, Motoki and Tetsuya Sano “Early Acquisition of Nominative-Genitive Conversion in Japanese,” The 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, November 2003.
“Scope Relations of QP’s and Scrambling in the Acquisition of Japanese,” Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2003, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 2003.
Okabe, Reiko and Tetsuya Sano “The Acquisition of Implicit Arguments in Japanese and Related Matters,” The 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, November 2001.
Sano, Tetsuya, Mika Endo and Kyoko Yamakoshi “Developmental Issues in the Acquisition of Japanese Unaccusatives and Passives,” The 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University,
November 2000.
“Developmental Observation on the Auxiliary Do and the Optional Infinitive Hypothesis,” The 23rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, November 1998.
“Psycholinguistic Investigation of the Acquisition of Negation in Japanese,” Japanese/Korean Linguistics 8, Cornell University, August 1997.
“Maturation of Inflectional Morphology,” The 21th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, November 1996.
“The Comparative Morpho-Syntax of Root Infinitives in Child Languages,” The 15th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, UC Irvine, March 1996.
“Negation in Child Japanese,” The 19th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, November 1994.
“Negation in the Acquisition of Japanese and Its Implications for Universals,” The 25th North East Linguistics Society, Workshop on Language Acquisition, University of Pennsylvania, October 1994.
Sano, Tetsuya and Nina Hyams “Agreement, Finiteness, and the Development of Null Arguments,” The 24th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 1993.
“Explaining the Developmental Delay with Strong Continuity: The Case of the 'Condition B Effect',” The 17th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, October 1992.
“The Acquisition of Referentially Dependent Items and Their Development,” The 11th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, UCLA, February 1992.
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