Publications
- Hirose, Yuki and Yoshihisa Kitagawa. To appear. "Production-Perception Asymmetry in Wh-scope Marking," In Processing and Producing Head-final Structures, eds. by Yamashita, Hiroko, Jerry Packard and Yuki Hirose.
- Kitagawa, Yoshihisa. To appear. "Nihongo-no Shoten-ni-kansuru Shubun-gensho (Matrix Phenomena on Focus in Japanese)," in Hasegawa, Nobuko ed., Nihongo-kenkyu-to Gengo-riron — Meidai-o Koete (The Study of Japanese and the Linguistic Theory — Beyond Propositions), Kaitakusha.
- Tomioka, Satoshi. To appear. Contrastive Topics Operate on Speech Acts. In Fery, Caroline, and Malte Zimmermann (eds) Information Structure from Different Perspectives Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Tomioka, Satoshi. To appear. Why-questions, Presuppositions, and Intervention Effects. In Journal of East Asian Linguistics
- Kitagawa, Yoshihisa. 2009. "Exhaustive Focus in Japanese," Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages — Collection of the Papers Selected from the CIL 18, The Linguistic Society of Korea, pp. 454-474.
- Kitagawa, Yoshihisa and Kenji Yoshida. 2009 "Statistical Anatomy of Unacceptability," Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages — Collection of the Papers Selected from the CIL 18, The Linguistic Society of Korea, pp. 1954-1973.
- Kotani, Sachie. 2009 What Differentiates Two Japanese Exhaustive Focus Particles? University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 15: Iss. 1, Article 14.
Available at: http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol15/iss1/14
- Tomioka, Satoshi. 2009. A Scope Theory of Contrastive Topics. Manuscript. A longer version of the paper with the same title which appeared in Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages: Collection of the Papers Selected from the CIL 18 2282-2296.
Presentations, Data Collections, Research Meetings
- Oct.26-28, 2009
- Data collection for an experiment at Nagoya University (Experiment on intervention effects)
- Sep. 6, 2009 WAFL6, Nagoya Univ. Japan
- Satoshi Tomioka presented "Japanese Embedded Questions Are Nominal: Evidence from QVE"
- Sachie Kotani presented "Focus Particles and Suru-Support in Japanese"
- Sep. 3, 2009
- Satoshi Tomioka presented "Speech Act and Contrastive Topic" at CLS Workshop New Development of the Japanese Syntax: Propositions and Beyond. Kanda University of Foreign Study, Tokyo.
- June.2-3, 2009
- Kitagawa-Tamaoka-Tomioka: Research meetings at Nagoya University (Research on intervention effects)
- June, 2009
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa presented "On the Discrepancy between Unacceptability and Ungrammaticality" at Nagoya University. [poster (in Japanese)]
- June. 9, 2009
- Masahiro Yamada, Satoshi Tomioka and Sachie Kotani presented "The Ants and The Grasshopper:
A Scope Effect on the Prosodic Realization of Embedded Wh-Phrases" at University of Tokyo
- May.25-29, 2009
- Data collection for an experiment at the University of Tokyo (Phonetic Experiments on Nuclear Prominence)
- Apr. 13, 2009
- Satoshi Tomioka presented "Topics of Contrast" at
SURGE, Rutgers Univ.
- Apr.8, 2009
- Data collection for a pilot experiment at Indiana University (Phonetic Experiments on Nuclear Prominence)
- Mar. 29, 2009
- Jan.10, 2009
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa and Shinichiro Ishihara presented "Semantic Informativity and Prosodic Prominence" at
The 4th Workshop on the Interface between Prosody and Information Structure. Ogoto, Shiga, Japan
- Masahiro Yamada, Satoshi Tomioka, and Sachie Kotani presented "Embedded Wh-phrases Away From Post-Focal Reduction: (Pilot) Experiment Report" at
The 4th Workshop on the Interface between Prosody and Information Structure. Ogoto, Shiga, Japan
- Dec.16-22, 2008
- Data collection for an experiment at University of Tokyo
- Dec.6, 2008
- Nov.7-9, 2008
- Satoshi Tomioka, invited speaker at ICEAL2, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
- Oct.30, 2009
- Data collection for an experiment at Hiroshima University (Experiment on intervention effects)
- Sep.19-20, 2008
- Aug.9, 2008
- Data collection for an experiment at the University of Tokyo (Phonetic Experiments on Informational Boost)
- July 27, 2008
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa presented "Matrix Phenomena in Wh-questions" at Workshop on Syntactic Structure and Force — Beyond Thematic Structure and Proposition (Center for Language Sciences, Kanda University of International Studies.
- July 24, 2008
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa presented "Exhaustive Focus in Japanese" at CIL 18, Korea University.
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa and Kenji Yoshida presented "Statistical Anatomy of Unacceptability" at CIL 18, Korea University.
- July 19, 2008
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa presented "Unacceptability vs. Ungrammaticality — An Experimental Syntactic Approach" at Workshop on Syntactic Research and Acceptability Judgment, Reitaku University Linguistic Research Center and Japanese Association of Sciences.
- June.4, 2008 Linguistics Colloquium Series, Center for Language Science at Kanda University of International Studies, Japan
- June.2-9, 2008
- Data collection for an experiment at University of Tokyo
- May 18, 2008
- Yuki Hirose and Yoshihisa Kitagawa presented a poster "Asymmetry between Encoding and Decoding of Wh-scope in Japanese" at WCCFL 27.
- Mar.07, 2008 Linguistics Colloquium Series at University of British Columbia, Canada
- Satoshi Tomioka "Grammar of contrastive topics: Japanese and beyond"
- Feb.22-24, 2008 Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC) 32
- Satoshi Tomioka "Intervention effects in focus"
- Sachie Kotani "What Differentiates Two Japanese Exhaustive Focus Particles?"
- Dec.31, 2007 The 4th Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL)
- Satoshi Tomioka "Why questions with(out) intervention effects: A presuppositional analysis"