CV

Employment  

April, 2024 - Present

Assistant Professor,

School of International Liberal Arts &

Graduate School of Urban Social and Cultural Studies,

Yokohama City University

April, 2019 - Mar, 2024

Full-time Lecturer,

School of International Liberal Arts,

Yokohama City University

Sep, 2018 - Mar, 2019

Par-time Lecturer, 

Faculty of Letters and Education, 

Ochanomizu University

Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2019

Par-time Lecturer, 

Faculty of Literature, 

Jissen Women's University 

Apr, 2017 - Aug, 2017

Par-time Lecturer, 

Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts

Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2015

Special Research Fellow DC2 (ID:25-1356), 

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Education  

April 2011 - Mar 2018

Doctoral Program, 

Graduate School of Humanities 

and Social Sciences, 

The University of Tokyo 

Apr 2015 - Dec 2015

Visiting Student, Department 

of Linguistics, New York University 

Sep 2014 - Mar 2015

Visiting Researcher, Department 

of Linguistics, Rutgers University 

April 2009 - Mar 2011

Master's Program, Graduate 

School of Humanities and 

Social Sciences, 

The University of Tokyo 

April 2005 - Mar 2009

Faculty of Letters, 

The University of Tokyo 

Publications  

[20] Arii, Tomoe (2025) "Review of Goodluck (2020) on Child Language Acquisition" English Linguistics 41, 175-188. 

[19] Furusawa Rina & Seunghun J. Lee & Honoka Endoh & Tomoyuki Yoshida & Tomoe Arii (2025) "The effects of age on the Japanese verb fluency task," Educational Studies 67, 1-14.

[18] Arii, Tomoe & Seunghun J. Lee (2024)  “The impact of word order on comparative interpretaion in Japanese-speaking children,” Educational Studies 66, 33-48. (pdf) 

[17] Arii, Tomoe & Seunghun J. Lee (2024) “The Impact of Information Structure on Ditransitive Alternation in Japanese,” The bulletin of Yokohama City University, Humanities 75(1), 115-131. (pdf)

[16] Arii, Tomoe (2023) “A Note on the Semantics of Differential Comparatives: Insight from Child Japanese,” The bulletin of Yokohama City University. Humanities 74, 97-125. (pdf)

[15] Arii, Tomoe (2023) “Children’s interpretation of adpositional comparatives in Japanese–Another piece of evidence supporting the linguistic explanation of children’s difficulty with comparative subtraction–,” The bulletin of Yokohama City University, Humanities 74(1), 187-217. (pdf)

[14] Arii, Tomoe & Seunghun J. Lee & Tomoyuki Yoshida & Jee Eun Sung (2022) “Effects of age, word order, and sentence types on Japanese sentence comprehension: a replication study of Sung et al. (2017) and Sung (2015) on Korean,” Educational Studies 64, 37-49. (pdf)

[13] Arii, Tomoe (2018) “The acquisition of English and Japanese measure phrase comparatives,” PhD dissertation, The University of Tokyo (pdf)

[12] Arii, Tomoe & Kristen Syrett & Takuya Goro (2017) “Investigating the form-meaning mapping in the acquisition of English and Japanese

 measure phrase comparatives,” Natural Language Semantics 25(1), 53-90. (pdf)

[11] Arii, Tomoe & Kristen Syrett & Takuya Goro (2016) “Setting the standard in the acquisition of Japanese and English comparatives,” Proceedings of the 50th Chicago Linguistic Society, 17-31. 

[10] Arii, Tomoe (2014) “Japanese-Speaking Children's Absolute Interpretation of Differential Comparatives and Differential Verbal Expressions.” Papers from the Conference and from the International Spring Forum of the English Linguistic Society of Japan 31, 277-283. 

[9] Arii, Tomoe (2013) “A linguistic approach to children's absolute interpretation of differential comparatives,” Linguistic Research: Working Papers in English Linguistics 29, 1-29. (pdf)

[8] Arii, Tomoe (2013) “A note on Japanese children's absolute interpretation of differential verbal expressions,” Linguistic Research: Working Papers in English Linguistics 29, 115-122. (pdf)

[7] Arii, Tomoe (2013). “Japanese-speaking children's interpretation of measure phrases,” In Stavarakaki, Stavroula, Polyxeni Konstantinopoulou & Mariana Lalioti (Eds.), Advances in Language Acquisition (pp. 23-31). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

[6] Arii, Tomoe (2012) “Children's difficulty in interpreting Japanese differential comparatives,” Linguistic Research: Working Papers in English Linguistics 28, 1-23. (pdf)

[5] Arii, Tomoe (2012) “Children's absolute interpretation of Japanese numeral classifier phrase comparatives,” Online Proceedings of GLOW in Asia IX. (pdf)

[4] Arii, Tomoe (2012) “Japanese-speaking children's interpretation of measure phrase comparatives,” Proceedings of 13th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, 27-39. (pdf)

[3] Arii, Tomoe (2011) “An analysis of Japanese-speaking children's interpretation of adjectives with measure phrases,” Linguistic Research: Working Papers in English Linguistics 27, 1-20. (pdf)

[2] Arii, Tomoe (2011) “A note on Japanese-speaking children's interpretation of superlatives,” Linguistic Research: Working Papers in English Linguistics 27, 103-113. (pdf)

[1] Arii, Tomoe (2011) “Japanese-speaking children’s interpretation of measure phrases accompanying an adjective,” Master thesis, The University of Tokyo.

Talks/Presentations  

Rina Furusawa & Honoka Endoh & Seunghun J. Lee & Arii Tomoe, & Tomoyuki Yoshida. “Comprehension and production of Japanese sentences: effects of canonicity, word order and voice,” Japan-Korea Bilateral Workshop, March 16th, 2024.

Honoka Endoh & Rina Furusawa & Seunghun J. Lee & Tomoyuki Yoshida & Arii Tomoe. “Animal Fluency Task Japanese speakers of different generations,” Japan-Korea Bilateral Workshop, March 16th, 2024.

Rina Furusawa & Honoka Endoh & Seunghun J. Lee & Tomoyuki Yoshida & Arii Tomoe. “Patterns in the verb fluency task by Japanese speakers,” Japan-Korea Bilateral Workshop, March 16th, 2024.

Arii, Tomoe & Senghun J. Lee. “Effects of information structure on ditransitive alternation in Japanese,” invited talk presented in KOR-JPN Crosslinguistic Workshop, Soul, September 9th, 2023. 

Arii, Tomoe & Senghun J. Lee. “The impact of word order on comparative interpretation in child Japanese,” invited talk presented in KOR-JPN Crosslinguistic Workshop, Soul, September 9th, 2023. 

Seunghun J. Lee & Tomoe Arii & Tomoyuki Yoshida & Jee Eun Sung. “Crosslinguistic approaches to word order alternations in sentence processing: Japanese-Korean comparisons,” invited talk at Ewha Womans University, October 24th, 2021. 

有井巴, 吉田智行 & Seunghun J. Lee. 「SOV 言語における統語処理研究:日本語、韓国語、ボド語の比較」ポスター発表, 海外学術調査フォーラム海外学術調査フェスタ, 東京外国語大学, 2019年7月6日.  

Arii, Tomoe. “The absolute zero as the standard of comparison in child English and Japanese,” invited talk presented in Northwestern University, Chicago, August, 2014.  

Arii, Tomoe. “How do children expunge their non-adult interpretation of differential comparatives from their grammar?” talk presented in Annual Meeting of the University of Tokyo English Linguistics Association, Tokyo, July, 2014. 

Arii, Tomoe & Kristen Syrett & Takuya Goro. “Setting the standard in the acquisition of Japanese and English comparatives,” talk presented in The 50th Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, April, 2014.  

Arii, Tomoe. “Setting the standard in the acquisition of differential comparatives,” invited talk presented in Semantic Research Group, Tokyo, February, 2014. 

Arii, Tomoe “Japanese-speaking children's absolute interpretation of differential comparatives and differential verbal expressions,” talk presented in The English Linguistic Society of Japan 6th International Spring Forum, Tokyo, August, 2013.  

Arii, Tomoe “Children's absolute interpretation of Japanese numeral classifier phrase comparatives,” talk presented in GLOW in Asia IX, Mie, September, 2012. 

Arii, Tomoe “Japanese-speaking Children’s interpretation of measure phrase comparatives,” talk presented in 13th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP2012), Tokyo, March, 2012.  

Arii, Tomoe “Japanese-speaking children's interpretation of measure phrases,” talk presented in Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, Thessaloniki, September, 2011.  

Arii, Tomoe “Japanese-speaking children's interpretation of comparatives and non-comparative constructions,” talk presented in Annual Meeting of the University of Tokyo English Linguistics Association, Tokyo, August, 2011.  

有井巴「日本語児による度量句の解釈」, 口頭発表, 日本言語学会142回大会, 日本大学, 2011年6月.