Asako Yamada-Yamamoto

Asako Yamada-Yamamoto is a Research Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Reading. Her research interests and publications focus on the acquisition of English by Japanese children and on the bilingual development of English and Japanese. Dr Yamada-Yamamoto is a mother of three bilingual children (Japanese and English), and has lived with her family in the USA and the UK for a total of fifteen years. Her publications include The Acquisition of English Syntax by a Japanese-speaking Child ...See more

Asako Yamada-Yamamoto is a Research Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Reading. Her research interests and publications focus on the acquisition of English by Japanese children and on the bilingual development of English and Japanese. Dr Yamada-Yamamoto is a mother of three bilingual children (Japanese and English), and has lived with her family in the USA and the UK for a total of fifteen years. Her publications include The Acquisition of English Syntax by a Japanese-speaking Child (1995) and Taiei-chuu no Kodomo no Gengo Hattatsu (1997) (Language Development by Japanese Children Resident in the UK). Brian Richards was a teacher of German and of English as a Foreign Language before joining the University of Reading where he is Research Convenor in the School of Education. Dr Richards is Associate Editor of the Journal of Child Language and his publications include Language Development and Individual Differences (1990), Input and Interaction in Language Acquisition (with Clare Gallaway) (1994) and Growing Points in Child Language (jointly with Katharine Perera and Glyn Collis) (1994). See less