Language Acquisition (Syntax, Semantics), Sign Language Syntax. Currently I have been working on an experimental study of young children's acquisition of focus items in Japanese (mo, dake) and English (also, only).
2007 Case/ Focus Interaction in Young Children's Interpretation of dake (only) in Japanese, Gengo Kenkyu No.132, 15-28 Abstract
2006 The Acquisition of Japanese Focus Particles: dake (only) and mo (also). (co-authored with Nobuhiro Miyoshi, Koji Hoshi, Masanobu Ueda, Izumi Yabu and Miki Hirata) in David Bamman, Tatiana Magnitskaia and Colleen Zaller eds. A Supplement to the Proceedings of the 30th Boston University Conference on Language Development.
2004 Addressing the Syntax/ Semantics/ Pragmatics interface: The Acquisition of the Japanese Additive Particle mo. the Online Supplement to the Proceedings of the 28th Boston University Conference on Language Development.
1998 Verb Raising in American Sign Language, Lingua 102 Issue 2-3, 127-149.PDF File
1997 Binding Conditions in Young Children's Grammar: Interpretation of Pronouns inside Conjoined NPs, Language Acquisition 6:1, 37-48. PDF File
Ph.D. in Linguistics August 1998, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Dissertation: 'The Acquisition of Japanese Case-particles and the Theory of Case Checking'.
Copies available from MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
M.A. in Linguistics August 1995, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
M.Ed. in Secondary Education (English) March 1990, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
B.A. in English and American Studies March 1988,Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Kyoto, Japan.
Professor of English
April 2006-present, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
Associate Professor of English
April 2000-March 2006, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
Assistant Professor of Japanese (Japanese Section Chair)
August, 1998-December 1999 Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.
Lecturer in Linguistics (Graduate Course)
Spring 2007, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Graduate School of Humanities, Tokyo, Japan.
Fall 2006, Kanda University of International Studies, Graduate School of Language Sciences, Chiba, Japan.
March 2005, Master's Program in English Education, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Lecturer in Japanese Language and Culture
- 1996-1998, Asian Studies Program, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
- Summer 1996, Yale Center for International and Area Studies Summer Institute for Educators, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
- Summer 1995, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT.
- Summer 1994, Capitol Region Education Council, Winsor, CT.
- 1992-1995. Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
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