Distributive Quantifier Scope in English-Japanese and Korean-Japanese Interlanguage

Focus Realization in Japanese English and Korean English Intonation

On the Distributive and Non-Distributive Interpretation in Japanese

Through an analysis of two different types of floating numeral quantifier (FNQ) constructions in Japanese, the present paper investigates the distributive and non-distributive interpretation in Japanese. Discussion of the interpretative issues related to ambiguity and intonation has indicated that FNQs are potentially ambiguous, offering both distributive and non-distributive readings.

A System for Japanese/English/Korean Multilingual Patent Retrieval

In response to growing needs for cross-lingual patent retrieval, we propose PRIME (Patent Retrieval In Multilingual Environment system), in which users can retrieve and browse patents in foreign languages only by their native language. PRIME translates a query in the user language into the target language, retrieves patents relevant to the query, and translates retrieved patents into the user l...

English loanwords in Japanese

As a result of the economic, political and cultural influence of Britain and the US, and the emergence of English as an international language, many world languages have absorbed loanwords from English, especially during the twentieth century. Japanese contains thousands of such borrowings, many of which are well-established and in universal use. A domestic phonetic script is available to both ...

Okinawa in Japanese and English

c © Scott A. Hale 2014. This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in CHI 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2579413. Abstract This research analyzes edits by foreign-language users in Wikipedia articles about Okinawa, Japan, in the Japanese and English editions of the encyclopedia. Okinawa...