Expertise

Current Projects: Lexical Encoding of PF-LF Synchronization, Internal Head Merge at LF, Experimental & Diachronic Investigations of Rendaku, Prosodic and Informational Characterization of Nuclear Prominence in Japanese

Primary area: Comparative Syntax, Interface (prosody, syntax and information structure), Japanese Linguistics, Pedagogical Grammar of Japanese, Experimental Syntax

Secondary area: Phonology (especially prosodic phonology), Sentence Processing


Research Areas:

  • Japanese linguistics; comparative syntax; interaction of morphology and syntax; syntax-semantics mapping; Interaction among prosody, syntax and semantics/pragmatics
Communities
Asian Studies, Cognitive Science, Linguistics
Degrees
PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst , Linguistics, 1986
MA, International Christian University, Japan, Linguistics, 1981
BA, International Christian University, Japan, English, 1978
BA, San Jose State University, Speech Communication, 1976
Keywords
linguistics or philology phonology semantics syntax