Dr Hiromi Muranaka

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Biography

Hiromi Muranaka has been working for UWS since 1995 and this is her fourth university. Her research ranges over bilingualism, Japanese linguistics, child language acquisition and narrative acquisition. Her most recent work is on the comparison of Japanese narrative acquisition of monolingual and bilingual children by focusing on the syntactic aspects of children’s oral narratives. She has written a number of works in the area of bilingual child language acquisition and Japanese linguistics, especially loanword usage in Japanese.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

bilingualism, linguistics and the Japanese language

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Publications

Refereed Journals:

Muranaka-Vuletich, H (2004), Japanese Loanword Usage Amongst Second Language Students in Australia, Journal CAJLE (Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education), Vol.6, 137-153.

Muranaka-Vuletich, H (2003), The Use of Japanese Particles by a Bilingual Child: Is it Influenced by English? E-Journal of Asian Linguistics & Language Teaching, Issue 4.

Muranaka-Vuletich, H (2002), The Bilingual Child’s Language Mixing: How Significant is Parental Input?, Japanese Studies, Volume 22, Number 2, September, 169-181.

Muranaka-Vuletich, H (2001), The Effects of Parental Input on a Japanese-English Bilingual Child’s Acquisition of Japanese Particles, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism, Volume 7, 38-55.

Muranaka-Vuletich, H. (2000), Code Choice amongst the Japanese Residents of Fiji, Journal of the Pacific Society April No.86-87 (Vol.23, No.1-2), 17-30.

Refereed Conference Proceedings:

Muranaka, H. (2000), The Communication Strategies of a Bilingual Child. In A. Skoutarides & A. Tokita (Eds.), Papers of the 10th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, Japanese Studies: Communities, Cultures, Critiques, Volume Six: Studies in Language and Linguistics. Monash Asia Institute.

Muranaka, H. (1999), The Use of Demonstratives by a Bilingual Child. Published Conference Proceedings, 12th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, (AILA ‘99 Tokyo) at Waseda University, Tokyo.

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