Research interests
Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Semantics, Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Semantics, Experimental Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics (English-Japanese), Cognitive Grammar, Cognitive Science of Language, Neurobiology of Language, Cultural Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Formal Semantics, Language Acquisition, Conversation Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, Analytic Philosophy, Phenomenology.
Professional experience
2023/9– Associate professor (Kousi), Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Chukyo University.
2022/4–2023/8 Assistant professor, Dividion of Language and Culture, Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University.
2021/4–2022/3 Assistant professor, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University.
2018/4–2021/3 Specially appoineted associate professor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Mie University.
2013/4–2016/3 Fellow, Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1).
Education
2013–2018 Graduate School of Human and Environmental studies, Kyoto University
Ph.D (2020)
Dissertation: Constructing Evaluations: The Meaning-Making Process of Adjectives. (abstract)
(supervised by Kazumi Taniguchi)
2016–2017 Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
visiting student
(sponsored by Chris Kennedy)
2011–2013 Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
MA (Human and Environmental Studies)
(supervised by Masa-aki Yamanashi)
Non-degee study
2025 Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies of Language, Theoretical Linguistics Courses.
2025 The 36th Training Course on Experimental Techniques in Physiological Sciences, NIPS.
2018 Tokyo Institute for Advanced Studies of Language, Theoretical Linguistics Courses.
2015 The Linguistic Summer Institute 2015, Chicago.
2015 Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 7, Joao Pessoa.
(Presentation title: On the effect of previous experience in title-framing)
Grant and fellowship
2025-2028 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (project number: 25K04103)
"Integration of Visual Salience and Linguistic Focus: Testing the Stage Model in Cognitive Grammar"
2022–2025 Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (project number: 22K13115)
"A Combined EEG and Eye-Tracking Study on Semantic/Pragmatic Processing of Demonstratives"
2019–2022 Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (project number:19K13159)
"The Cognitive Process of Adjective Production and its Cultural Differences: An Eye-Tracking Study"
2016–2017 The Kyoto University Foundation, Long-term Fellowship for Research Abroad.
"A Psycholinguistic Study on the Intuitive Evaluation Mechanism: The Meaning-Making Process of Adjectives"
2013–2016 Grant-in-Aid for JSPS fellow (project number: 13J00431).
"A Cognitive,Typological Research into Universality and Diversity of Adjectives"
Computer skills
R, LaTeX, Python, MATLAB