Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
  • M.A., Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1986
  • B.A. Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1984

Employment

  • Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, 2011-Present
  • Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, UC Berkeley, 1999-2011
  • Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages, UC Berkeley, 1993-1999
  • Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992-1993

Courses Taught

  • Japanese 39B Language and Thought
  • Japanese 160 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Grammar
  • Japanese 161 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Usage
  • Japanese 162 History of the Japanese Language
  • Japanese 163 Translation: Theory and Practice
  • Japanese H195 Honors Course
  • Japanese 199 Independent Study
  • Japanese 269 Seminar in Japanese Linguistics
  • Japanese 298 Japanese Linguistics Seminar (Co-taught with Charles Fillmore)
  • Japanese 298 Directed Study for Graduate Students
  • Japanese 299 Thesis Preparation and Related Research
  • Japanese 602 Individual Study for Doctoral Students
  • Asian Studies H195 Honors Course
  • Asian Studies 201 Proseminar (Team-taught)
  • Linguistics H195 Honors Course
  • Linguistics 298 Japanese Linguistics Seminar (Co-taught with Charles Fillmore)
    (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • Japan 101 Elementary Japanese I
  • Japan 102 Elementary Japanese II
  • Japan 360 Teaching Japanese as a Second Language
  • EALC 199 Undergraduate Open Seminar

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Invited Talks

  • Topics in Japanese-to-English translation. Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators (SWET). UC Berkeley. November 27, 2011.
  • Translation in a language curriculum. Faculty Luncheon Seminar, Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley. October 28, 2011.
  • Ko-so-a demonstratives in soliloquy. Kyoto University. June 15, 2011.
  • Translation and Japanese-language education. Osaka University. June 13, 2011.
  • Shikoo wa tsuneni taiwakei de nasareruno ka (Is thought always dialogic?). Keio University Mita Campus. June 9, 2011.
  • Shikoo wa tsuneni taiwakei de nasareruno ka (Is thought always dialogic?). Keio University Hiyoshi Campus. June 8, 2011.
  • Shikoo wa tsuneni taiwakei de nasareruno ka (Is thought always dialogic?). University of Tsukuba. June 7, 2011.
  • Translation and Japanese-language education. University of Tsukuba. September 16, 2010.
  • Demonstratives in soliloquial Japanese. University of Tsukuba. September 14, 2010.
  • Nihongo kara mita nihonjin: Nihonjin wa shuudan-shugi-teki ka (The Japanese seen from its language: Are they collectivistic?). Nobirukai, San Francisco. October 31, 2009.
  • What kind of a language is Japanese? Workshop for participants in the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, Consulate General of Japan, San Francisco. July 23, 2007.
  • Ko-so-a revisited. Workshop on Recent Developments in Japanese Linguistics. UCLA, May 26-27, 2007.
  • Japanese language education in the USA. Osaka University of Foreign Studies. March 9, 2005.
  • The Berkeley Japanese Language Program. University of California Japanese Language Teachers Meeting sponsored by the UC Language Consortium, UC Davis. September 18-19, 2004.
  • Is Japanese a pitch-accent language? University of Tsukuba. June 1999.
  • The theories of –RU and –TA forms revisited. University of Tsukuba. June 1999.
  • The semantics-pragmatics dilemma: Evidence from TE-linkage in Japanese. Keio University. June 1998.
  • The semantics-pragmatics dilemma: Evidence from TE-linkage in Japanese. University of Tsukuba. June 1998.
  • Linguistic systems and social models: A case study from Japanese. University of Tsukuba. June 1998.
  • The Japanese Language and Japanese Culture. Senshu University. June 1998.
  • The semantics-pragmatics dilemma: Evidence from TE-linkage in Japanese. International Christian University. May 1998.
  • Time and tense: How are they related? Osaka University. November 1997.
  • The semantics-pragmatics dilemma: Evidence from TE-linkage in Japanese. Osaka University. November 1997.
  • The semantics-pragmatics dilemma: Evidence from TE-linkage in Japanese. Kobe University. November 1997.
  • The Computer and the Internet Workshop, UC Berkeley Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures. October 1997.
  • Grammar and Cognition: “Wa” and “ga” in Japanese. UC Berkeley Japanese Language Summer Session. August 1997.
  • Origins of the Japanese Language. UC Berkeley Japanese Language Summer Session. July 1996.
  • Origins of the Japanese Language. UC Berkeley Japanese Language Summer Session. June 1995.
  • The articulatory and acoustic phonetics for Japanese-language teachers. Foreign Language Association of Northern California Spring Workshops. San Francisco State University. April 1995.
  • Perception and production of speech sounds in Japanese. Northern California Japanese Teachers’ Association. April 1994.
  • Toward a description of TE-linkage in Japanese. Fall Lecture Series, Department of East Asian Languages, University of California, Berkeley. October 1992.
  • On the semantics and pragmatics of TE-linkage in Japanese. Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. December 1991.
  • On the semantics and pragmatics of TE-linkage in Japanese. Department of East Asian Languages & Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison. December 1991.
  • Utility of evidence from sound change in speech recognition. Speech Technology Laboratory, Santa Barbara, California. February 1987.
  • Expectations and Realities of Being a Foreign Student in the US. A Program for Fulbright-funded educational administrators from Japan. International House, UC Berkeley. May 1986.

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Reviewer

Journals

  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Constructions and Frames
  • Folia Linguistica
  • Intercultural Pragmatics
  • Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Journal of Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education
  • Journal of Japanese Linguistics
  • Journal of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences
  • Journal of Pragmatics
  • Language
  • Nihongo to nihongokyoiku (Japanese and Japanese Education)
  • Studies in Language
  • Studies in Language Sciences
  • Women’s Studies International Forum
  • Word

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Book Manuscripts

  • Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University
  • Routledge
  • Singapore University Press

Other

  • Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language
  • International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
  • Japanese/Korean Conference
  • Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute Curriculum Committee
  • National Science Foundation

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Community Service

  • Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program Regional Screening Panel, 2006, 2004
  • Fulbright National Screening Committee, 2007, 2006, 2002
  • Interviewer, The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program, Consulate General of Japan, San Francisco, 2012, 2011, 2010, 1995, 1994
  • Judge, Japanese Speech Contest, Japanese Association of Northern California & Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006
  • Judge, Japanese Speech Contest for Secondary School Students, the South Western Secondary Teachers of Japanese, Stanford University, 1996
  • Judge, Essay Contest sponsored by Nichi-Bei Times, San Francisco, 1999

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Translation

Soliloquy

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Nihonjin

EJ3

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EJ2

EJ1

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ICPhS

Clause Linkage

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Construction Grammar

Emotive Communication

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Pragmatics

Grammatical Constructions

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