I am an associate professor of Japanese linguistics and a Cooperating Graduate Faculty in the Department of Second Language Studies at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. I specialize in the acquisition of Japanese as a second/foreign language, Japanese pedagogical grammar and Japanese syntax and semantics. I am interested in a wide range of research topics related to my specializations: Japanese SLA, pedagogical grammar, and language analysis.
Educational Background
(1992) PhD in Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
(1983) MA in Linguistics, California State University, Fresno
(1980) BA in Linguistics, California State University, Fresno
Research Areas
Japanese SLA, pedagogical grammar, and language analysis
Selected Bibliography
Hamada, M. and Kanno, K. (In press). Ninchigengogakuteki kench-kara no teiru no kookatekina oshiekata-e no teigen.
[Exploration of an effective way of teaching the aspect maker -teiru to learners of Japanese.] Tokyo, Japan: Hitsuji
shobo.
Kanno, K. (2020). Subjectivity and referent honorific markers in Japanese. In S. Iwasaki, and (eds), the Japanese/Korean
Linguistics 26 (JK26), 299-308. Stanford, CA: CSLI
Kanno, K., Hasegawa, T., Ikeda, K., Ito, Y., and Long, M. (2008). ‘Prior language-learning experience and variation in the
linguistic profiles of advanced English-speaking learners of Japanese.’ In D. M. Brinton, O. Kagan and S. Bauckus
(Eds.), Heritage language education: A new field emerging. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 165-180.
Kanno, K. (2012). The development of relative clauses in L2 English: Testing Diessel (2007) hypothesis. Studies in
Language Sciences 11, 57-67
Kanno, K. (2007). Factors affecting the processing of Japanese relative clauses by L2 learners. Studies in Second
Language Acquisition, 29, 197-218.