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Mineharu Nakayama

Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1987Rising activity
EFL/ESL Teaching and LearningSecond Language Acquisition and LearningSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic VariationNeurobiology of Language and BilingualismNatural Language Processing Techniques

Publications

55

Citations

754

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

40

Publishing since 1987

Research summary
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Mineharu Nakayama studies how people learn second languages such as English, Japanese, Mandarin, and Korean, focusing on tricky grammatical structures like reflexive pronouns, anaphora (words that refer back to earlier words), and sentence processing during real-time comprehension. This work sits within psycholinguistics, the study of how language is understood, produced, and acquired in the mind, and often compares learners from different native-language backgrounds to see how their first language shapes second-language learning. The research is aimed at understanding universal versus language-specific patterns in second language acquisition.

Second language acquisitionSyntax and sentence structurePsycholinguistics and sentence processingJapanese, Mandarin, and Korean linguisticsComparative cross-linguistic learner studies

Publication output has been modest but fairly steady over the last decade, with a dip around 2021-2023 followed by a renewed increase in 2024-2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.8/year recently
2017: 4 publications4172018: 2 publications182019: 2 publications192020: 2 publications20212022: 1 publication22232024: 4 publications4242025: 2 publications252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Japanese Linguistics×6
  • Language acquisition & language disorders×3
  • Second language Research×1
  • The Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University)×1
  • Kyushu University Institutional Repository (QIR) (Kyushu University)×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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