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Yasuhiro Shirai
Researcher at Case Western Reserve University
Publications - 62
Citations - 2375
Yasuhiro Shirai is an academic researcher from Case Western Reserve University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lexical aspect & Second-language acquisition. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 58 publications receiving 2150 citations. Previous affiliations of Yasuhiro Shirai include University of Southern Denmark & University of Pittsburgh.
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The Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology: A Prototype Account.
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Discourse Motivations for Some Cognitive Acquisition Principles
TL;DR: The authors argue that a small set of cognitive operating principles and the notion of prototypicality account for the primacy of inherent semantic aspect in the relative quantitative distribution of tense-aspect markers in their speech.
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The Acquisition of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
Ping Li,Yasuhiro Shirai +1 more
TL;DR: This study reports three experiments on how children learning Mandarin Chinese comprehend and use aspect markers and suggests new ways of looking at the results in the light of recent probabilistic hypotheses that emphasize the role of input, prototypes and prototypes.
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Is the Acquisition Order of Grammatical Morphemes Impervious to L1 Knowledge? Evidence From the Acquisition of Plural ‐s, Articles, and Possessive ’s
Zoe Pei-sui Luk,Yasuhiro Shirai +1 more
TL;DR: This paper showed that learners can acquire a grammatical morpheme later or earlier than predicted by the natural order, depending on the presence or absence of the equivalent category in their L1.