activity
Publications
- Yoon, Junghyoe and Yoshihisa Kitagawa. To appear. "Case Drop from Fragment Answers in Korean," Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, 18.1.
- Yamada, Masahiro, Satoshi Tomioka and Sachie Kotani. To appear "Global and local prosodic realizations of embedded wh-phrases." In MIT Working Papers in
Linguistics: Proceedings of FAJL 5.
- Kitagawa, Yoshihisa, Katsuo Tamaoka and Satoshi Tomioka. In press. "Prosodic Matters in Intervention Effects in Japanese: An Experimental Study," Lingua.
- Kitagawa, Yoshihisa and Yuki Hirose. 2012. "Appeals to Prosody in Wh-interrogatives: Speakers' versus Listeners' Strategies," Lingua 122.6, 608-641.
- Adams, Perng Wang, and Satoshi Tomioka. 2012. "Chinese Sluicing: An Instance of Pseudo-Sluising." in Merhcant, Jason, and Andew Simpson (eds.) Sluicing in a Crosslinguistic Perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Kim, Ock-Hwan and Yoshihisa Kitagawa. 2011. "Selective Reproduction in NP-Ellipsis," In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19, 125-140, CSLI Publications.
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa. 2010. "Decomposing Overt Syntax," Japanese/Korean Linguistics 19, 60-81, CSLI Publications.
- Hirose, Yuki and Yoshihisa Kitagawa. 2010. "Production-Perception Asymmetry in Wh-scope Marking," In Yamashita, Hiroko, Jerry Packard and Yuki Hirose (eds.), Processing and Producing Head-final Structures, 93-110, New York: Springer.
- Kitagawa, Yoshihisa. 2010. "Nihongo-no Shoten-ni-kansuru Shubun-gensho (Matrix Phenomena on Focus in Japanese)," in Hasegawa, Nobuko ed., Nihongo-no Shintenkai-to Nihongo-kenkyu
- Meidai-o Koete (The New Developments in the Syntactic Theories and the Study of Japanese -- Beyond Propositions), 269-300, Kaitakusha, Tokyo.
- Tomioka, Satoshi. 2010. “Hatsuwa-koui to Taishou-shuddai (Speech acts and Contrastive Topics)," n Hasegawa, Nobuko ed., Nihongo-no Shintenkai-to Nihongo-kenkyu
- Meidai-o Koete (The New Developments in the Syntactic Theories and the Study of Japanese -- Beyond Propositions), 269-300, Kaitakusha, Tokyo.
- Tomioka, Satoshi. 2010 "A scope theory of contrastive topic," Iberia: International Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 2: 113-130.
- Tomioka, Satoshi. 2010 "Contrastive Topics Operate on Speech Acts." In Fery, Caroline, and Malte Zimmermann (eds) Information Structure: Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 115-138.
- Tomioka, Satoshi. 2009. Why-questions, Presuppositions, and Intervention Effects. In Journal of East Asian Linguistics 18: 253-271.
- Kitagawa, Yoshihisa. 2009. "Exhaustive Focus in Japanese," Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages â 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 â 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
- Tomimoka, Satoshi. 2008. “Information Structure as information-based partition,” Acta Linguistica Hungarica 55: 309-317.
Presentations, Data Collections, Research Meetings
- May 10, 2012
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa presented "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Split," at University of Chicago.
- Mar. 31, 2012
- Satoshi Tomioka presented "Focus Matters in New-Hamblin Semantics" at Workshop on Association with Focus: GLOW 35, Potsdam University.
- Feb. 19, 2012
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa and Junghyoe Yoon presented "Case Reincarnated," at The 7th International Workshop on
Theoretical East Asian Linguistics, Hiroshima University, Japan.
- Dec. 12-14, 2011
- Satoshi Tomioka presented "How to be Silent in Chinese," "Focus Matters in New-Hamblin Semantics", and "Topics of Contrast and Gricean Reasoning,"
at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
- Oct. 21, 2011
- Satoshi Tomioka made a keynote presetation "Topics of Contrast and Gricean Reasoning,"
at The 21st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Seoul National University.
- Oct. 20, 2011
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa and Junghyoe Yoon presented a poster "Case Adjacency without Case,"
at The 21st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Seoul National University.
- Jun. 6-8, 2011
- Data collection for an experiment at the University of Tokyo (Phonetic Experiments on Nuclear Prominence)
- Mar. 20, 2011
- Junghyoe Yoon and Yoshihisa Kitagawa presented "Case Asymmetries in Korean," at
The 35th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
- Spt. 14, 2010
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa presented "On Cyclic Prominence," Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and
Information Structure 4, University of Delaware.
- July 2, 2010
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa presented "Overt Syntax Revisited," and Satoshi Tomioka presented “OnTopic Marking in Embedded Contexts and the Recursivity of
information structure,” at Revisiting the Generative
Grammatical Studies of Japanese in 1970s, Center for Language Sciences at Kanda
University of International Studies.
- June 19, 2010
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa and Miguel Rodríguez-Mondonedo presented "When Syntax Must
Become Overt," Syntaxfest 2, Indiana University.
- May 9, 2010
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa presented "Information and Prosody of Local Prominence," at Formal
Approach to Japanese Linguistics 5, UC Santa Cruz.
- Mar. 20, 2010
- Satoshi Tomioka presented "The Prohibition against the Wa-marking in Relative Clauses: Where does it Come from?" at PLC33, University of Pennsylvania.
- Dec. 4, 2009
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa presented "Grammar of Prosody and Information," at the linguistics colloquium series of Indiana University Linguistic Club, Indiana University.
- Nov. 14, 2009
- Ock-Hwan Kim and Yoshihisa Kitagawa presented "Economy on Ellipsis Interpretation," at The 19th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, University of Hawaii.
- Nov. 12, 2009
- Yoshihisa Kitagawa made a keynote presentation "Computation of Prosody and Information Packaging in I-languages," at The 19th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, University of Hawaii.
- 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)
- May 19, 2009
- Kenji Yoshida presented a poster "Parameterization of F0 characteristics of register("Shiki") in mid-western Japanese dialects" at 157th Meeting of ASA.
- 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 â 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 â 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"