People
Director
Associate Director
Graduate Students
Minako Noda (Lab Associate)
Technical Advisor
Shinya Kataoka (Edmonton)
Longlu Qin (Toronto)
Former Students
Yuji Abe (NorQuest College; University of Alberta)
2009 Combining clauses by native and non-native speakers of Japanese
2018 The Unspecified Use of Demonstrative are in Japanese Everyday Talk
Yue Guan (Peking University, postdoc)
2019 Collaborations in Grammatical Structure and Multimodal Behaviors in Chinese Conversation
Yukiko Isaka (University of Alberta)
2010 Using plain forms but still being polite: speech style shifting as an interactional phenomenon in Japanese native and non-native talk.
Ross Krekoski (University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills)
2008 Utterances and Coherence: A Study of Japanese Conversation
Yukari Meldrum (professional translator)
2009 Contemporary translationese in Japanese popular literature
2017 V na (sa) soo da: A survey-based study of evidential 'variants' in Japanese
Tomoka Miyamoto
2014 From karuto or "cult" to the mainstream: The reconstruction of public Images by a Japanese religious group
Minako Noda (University of Alberta)
2020 How the Japanese "Contrastive" kedo is Structured and Used in Everyday Conversation
Chiho Ogawa (Cultural Connections Institute - The Learning Exchange)
2020 The Vitality of the Ikema Dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan
Longlu Qin (Stanford University, Ph.D. program)
2012 A conversational study of the particle ne in Mandarin Chinese
Peng Qiu (University of Calgary, MA program)
2014 A Preliminary Investigation of Yilan Creole in Taiwan: Discussing predicate position in Yilan Creole
Yumi Sasaki (University of Alberta)
2009 The mutlifunctionality of the Japanese connective dakara and diachrony
Jenna Smith (Canadian Western Bank)
2013 Style shifting in Japanese native/non-native conversation: an in-depth analysis of short/ long form usage
Honoka Takei (University of Alberta)
2016 An Investigation of Direct Object Coding System in Ikema dialect of Miyako
Kanza Tariq (University of Toronto, Ph.D. program)
2018 The ‘Fuzzy’ Boundary Between Two Types of Japanese Adjectives
Neill Walker (College of Business and Communication)
2010 Recipient response behaviour during Japanese storytelling: A combined quantitative/multimodal approach
Former Assistants
Catherine Ford
Yukie Mochizuki
Thomas Saunders