none 10.1075/palart.9.05kaw John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 143966042 4286271 1505612 202507030032000039 10.1075 2025-07-02T18:32:43Z 2023-01-06T03:41:44Z 0 2210-6480 10.1075/palart https://benjamins.com/ catalog/palart Satomi Kawaguchi Western Sydney University https://ror.org/03t52dk35 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1723-4148 Bruno Di Biase Western Sydney University https://ror.org/03t52dk35 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4325-9875 Yumiko Yamaguchi Tokai University https://ror.org/01p7qe739 This PALART volume makes an original addition to the Series as it opens a stimulating window on the Asia-Pacific region of the world by bringing together a great deal of empirical and theoretical new work in Second Language Acquisition within the Processability Theory (PT) framework. Readers will be pleasantly surprised to be able to access, within one publication, so much novel and overview information on SLA while maintaining its focus on PT, its theoretical developments including its 2005 (Pienemann et al.) and 2015 (Bettoni & Di Biase) extensions and how they relate to PT’s foundation work (Pienemann 1998), as well as its applications to language learning and teaching in Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, Malay and English in countries of the Asia-Pacific region including Australia. This volume demonstrates the vitality and the dynamic nature of PT and its potential as a tool for understanding SLA both theory and practice. 9 2 2 2023 1 6 2023 9789027212870 9789027254917 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/palart.9 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027254917 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027254917.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/palart.9/html Satomi Kawaguchi Western Sydney University https://ror.org/03t52dk35 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1723-4148 Junko Iwasaki Edith Cowan University https://ror.org/05jhnwe22 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4624-8816 Abstract This longitudinal study examines the development of Japanese content questions in an English L1-Japanese L2 child within the Processability Theory ( Pienemann, 1998 ). Our informant, John, started learning Japanese from 6;3 at a Japanese school in Australia. The data were collected between 7;0–8;9, where John produced 373 content questions. The developmental stages of content questions in Japanese L2 were hypothesised based on the Prominence Hypothesis. The analysis revealed that after the production of single-word questions, content questions appeared with a copula followed by lexical verbs, mostly in-situ, consistent with the Prominence Hypothesis. John produced errors concerning incorrect case particles being attached to the question words and NPs. These errors were not reported in monolingual and bilingual first language studies on content questions. 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