Japan's Built-in Lexicon of English-based Loanwords

CONTENT Acknowledgements PrefacePART 1: Japan's Importation of English 1. The Assimilation of English into Japanese -- A Historical and Linguistic Overview 2. Today's Generation of GairaigoPART 2: Gairaigo and Language Acquisition 3. Resolving the paradox of cognates 4. The Effect of Loanwords in Japanese on the Learning of EnglishPART 3: The Built-in Lexicons 5. Common loanword cognates for high-frequency and academic English 6. Quantifying the Overlap and Quality of Japanese/English Cognates PART 4: Exploiting Japanese Loanword Cognates 7. Barriers to Accessing Cognates 8. Extending Word Knowledge Within Word Families Epilogue - New Horizons References