Doctor Hiromi Muranaka

Doctor Hiromi Muranaka

LECTURER,
Languages, Interpreting and Translation (SoHCA)

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD Macquarie University
  • MPhil(Ling) University of Sydney
  • MA Monash University
  • GDipAppJapaneseLing Monash University
  • BEd Tokyo Gakugei University

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Languages, Interpreting and Translation (SoHCA)

Contact

Email:H.Muranaka@uws.edu.au
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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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Publications

Journal Articles

  • Muranaka-Vuletich, H. (2004), 'Japanese Loanword Usage Amongst Second Language Students in Australia', Journal CAJLE (Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education), 17.
  • 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, .
  • Muranaka-Vuletich, H. (2002), 'Language Mixing of the Bilingual Child: How Significant Is Parental Input', Japanese Studies, 13.
  • Muranaka-Vuletich, H. (2001), 'The effects of input on a Japanese-English Bilingual's Aacquisition of Japanese Particles', Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Mmulticulturalism, 18.

Conference Papers

  • Muranaka, H. and Vuletich, H. (2012), 'The Effects of Age on Bilingual Acquisition of the Japanese Referential System', JSLS 2012: The 14th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Langauge Sciences, Nagoya University.
  • Muranaka-Vuletich, H. (2012), 'The effects of age on bilingual acquisition of the Japanese referential system', Japanese Society for Language Sciences. International Conference, Nagoya University.

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