caa a22 4500 386359539 CHVBK 20180307111911.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900010783 doi S0305000900010783 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900010783 Cross-linguistic studies of directionality in first language acquisition: the Japanese data - a response to O'Grady, Suzuki-Wei & Cho 1986 [Elektronische Daten] Elsewhere we have argued on the basis of cross linguistic studies of directionality effects on anaphora in child language, that there is no universal ‘forward directionality preference (FDP)'; rather such a preference is linked to languages with specific grammatical properties. Although such a preference has been attested in English acquisition, matched experimental designs in Japanese, Chinese and Sinhalese, for example, do not show this effect. In this paper we argue that current attempts to show that forward directionality effects can also be induced in Japanese acquisition do not succeed in supporting the FDP. Specifics of the design of stimulus sentences in these experiments vary previous cross-linguistic designs so as to favour forward directionality on independent grounds, and confound cross linguistic comparisons. They in fact support a universal structure dependence in children's hypotheses about directionality of anaphora'. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Lust Barbara Cornell University Mazuka Reiko Cornell University Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/3(1989-10), 665-684 0305-0009 16:3<665 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010783 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900010783 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lust Barbara Cornell University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mazuka Reiko Cornell University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/3(1989-10), 665-684 0305-0009 16:3<665 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge