Academic conference presentation
2023/11
L2 Acquisition of Reciprocal Pronouns in Japanese Ellipsis by English and Spanish Speakers
(The Forty-five Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan)
2023/06
-To omou ('I think') utterances in L2 Japanese: testing the effect of user background on their interpretation
(18th International Pragmatics Conference)
2021/07
L2 acquisition of reciprocal reading in Japanese ellipsis
(13th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB13))
2021/06
Pragmatic strategies in study abroad, with a focus on 'I think'
(17th International Pragmatics Conference)
2021/06
The development of L2 English learners’ interlanguage: Toward the unlearning of null objects
(JSLS (Japanese Society of Language Sciences) 2021)
2021/03
A study of reciprocal pronoun ellipsis in L2 English
(日本第二言語習得学会・第20回年次大会（J-SLA 2020）)
2020/10
Epistemic stance markers: Tools for conversation navigation
(TESOL Arabia)
2019/09
Availability of the reciprocal reading in L2 Japanese
(The 14th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition)
2019/06
Development of L2 English mitigation before and after study abroad
(Akita JALT)
2019/06
Epistemic stance in L2 English discourse: the development of interactional competence in study abroad
(The 16th International Pragmatics Conference)
2019/05
Notes on reciprocals in Korean and Japanese ellipsis
(English Linguistics Society of Japan the 12th International Spring Forum)
2018/06
Development of Interactional Positioning in L2 Japanese
(Teaching and Learning L2 Pragmatics)
2017/09
L2 Acquisition of 'Agreement' in Speech Act Projections
(Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics 2017)
2016/09
The effect of instruction on null subjects: A case of L2 Japanese learners
(Pacific Second Language Research Forum 2016)
2014
Emergence of role language and the vernacular movement in Japanese translation
(East-Asian Translation Studies Conference, University of East Anglia)
2013
L2 Japanese null subjects at the interface of syntax and discourse
(The Japan Second Language Association: the 13th Annual Conference)
2013
Null subjects and topic-drop in L2 Japanese: some implications to the interface hypothesis
(Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics 2013)
2013
Translating mimetic into Japanese: a case study of Shokoshi in the Meiji era and the present time
(Grammar of Mimetics Workshop, SOAS, University of London)
2012
L2 acquisition of subject omission in Japanese: implications for pedagogical practice
(British Association for Teaching Japanese Annual Conference, University of Manchester)
2012
Multiple accusative constructions: the case of V+tate in Japanese
(The 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference)
2012
Raising out of V+tate phrases
(Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany)
2011
A new perspective on subject omission in Japanese: some implications for L2 pedagogical practice
(Colloquium: Half a century on: what relevance does generative SLA have for language teaching? American Association for Applied Linguistics 2011 Conference)
2011
Review of previous research on modality acquisition in Japanese at SOAS
(Acquisition of Modality Workshop, SOAS, University of London)
2011
Shifting styles to express empathy and emotion in Japanese: L1 and L2 style shifts
(American Association for Applied Linguistics 2011 Conference)
2010
(To) omou in L1 and L2 Spoken Japanese: Some implications for the teaching of Japanese as a foreign language
(British Association for Teaching Japanese Annual Conference. University of Reading)
2010
A study of the L2 use of modal expressions in Japanese
(The 18th Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference)
2010
The development of modality markers during study abroad in Japan
(British Association of Japanese Studies Conference. SOAS, University of London)
2009
On short “echo” wh-questions
(The 4th Brussels Conference on Generative Linguistics: Ellipsis, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brusselss, Brussels)
2007
Syntax of Quantifiers in Japanese
(The 7th Conference of the Nordic Association of Japanese and Korean Studies, University of Copenhagen.)
2007
Systematic Aspects of L2 Performance of Japanese: Acquisition of demonstratives and sentence-final particles
(The 2007 Japanese Language Symposium, Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe/ British Association of Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language)
2000
Clefting, Relativization, and Rightward Movement
(Peripheral Positions Conference)
1999
Chain Binding in Nominal Constructions
(Move and Interpret Alpha Workshop)
1999
Reconstruction and Linearity in Cleft Constructions
(West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 18)
1998
Connectivity, Disconnectivity and Topicaliztion in (Pseudo)clefts
(1998 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association)
1998
Licensing Conditions on ‘VP’ Ellipsis in Japanese
(Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America)
1998
Resumptive A’-Dependencies in Cleft Constructions
(Student Conference in Linguistics 10)
1997
A Focus Account of ‘VP’ Ellipsis in Japanese
(North Eastern Linguistic Society 28)
1997
A Note on Sluicing in WH-in-situ Languages
(Student Conference in Linguistics 9)
1997
Sentential Ellipsis as a Cleft Construction in Japanese
(South Eastern Association of Teachers of Japanese 12)
1997
Sluicing in WH-in-situ Languages
(Chicago Linguistic Society 33)
1996
A Goal Phrase and Unaccusativity
(Eastern States Conference on Linguistics)