Presentations

2025

• Minemi, I. (poster in Japanese) The influence of word order on “grammatical illusions”: Illusory licensing of wh-phrases in Japanese. The 23rd Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology. Kyoto University. 31st May.

2024

• Minemi, I., Kimura, T., Hirokawa, T., Tamura, Y. & Fukuta, J. (poster) Immunity to agreement attraction and limitation of cognitive resources in non-native language comprehension. The 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language and Development (BUCLD49). Boston University. 8th November. [poster]

• Minemi, I., Kimura, T., Hirokawa, T., Tamura, Y. & Fukuta, J. (talk) Immunity to agreement attraction in native and non-native language comprehension. MAPLL-TCP-TL 2024. Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan. 11th August. [slide]

• Minemi, I. (talk in Japanese) An investigation of the cognitive mechanism underlying grammatical illusions by five types of sentence acceptability judgments with different time restrictions. The 168th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. International Christian University. 29th June. [slides in Japanese] [proceeding paper in Japanese]

2023

• Minemi, I. (talk in Japanese) Illusory licensing of wh-phrases by -kadooka: A speeded acceptability judgment study. The 166th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Senshu University. 17th June. [slides in Japanese] [proceeding paper in Japanese]

2021

• Huang, C., Minemi, I., Chen, K. & Hirose, Y. (talk) Tonal contrast as the secondary cue to perceive the Japanese vowel length. The 21st Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA 2021). Zoom. 24th October.

2020

• Minemi, I. & Hirose, Y. (poster) The crucial trigger for illusory licensing of wh-phrases in Japanese is prediction error, but not retrieval cues themselves. The 26th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP 2020). Zoom. 5th September. [poster] [page for poster presentation]

• Minemi, I., Hirose, Y. & Ito, T. (talk in Japanese) Grammatical illusions and memory processes in Japanese wh-interrogatives: An eye-tracking reading study. The 160th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. YouTube. 20th June. [slides in Japanese] [proceeding paper in Japanese]

• Minemi, I. (talk in Japanese) Grammatical illusions in Japanese wh-interrogative sentences: An eye-tracking reading study. The Fifth Tsutomu Sakamoto Memorial Circle of Neuroscience. Zoom. 22nd February. [slides in Japanese]

• Minemi, I. (poster) Grammatical illusions in Japanese wh-licensing: An eye-tracking reading study. NTU-UT Linguistics Festa 2020. National Taiwan University, Taipei. 8th February.

2019

• Minemi, I. & Hirose, Y. (talk) Island constraints in L2 English sentence comprehension by Japanese speakers. MAPLL-TCP-TL 2019 (Joint conference of Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language, Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, and the Technical Committee of Thought and Language). Konan University, Kobe, Japan. 27th July. [slides] [proceeding paper manuscript]

• Minemi, I. & Hirose, Y. (poster) Ungrammaticality triggers illusory licensing of wh-phrases in Japanese. MAPLL-TCP-TL 2019 (Joint conference of Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language, Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, and the Technical Committee of Thought and Language). Konan University, Kobe, Japan. 27th July. [poster] [proceeding paper manuscript]

• Fujii, A., & Minemi, I. (talk in Japanese) Filler-gap dependency processing by Japanese learners of English, whose L1 is not an obligatory wh-movement language. The 19th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA 2019). Chuo University Tama Campus, Tokyo. 2nd June.

• Minemi, I. (poster) Illusory licensing of wh-phrases in Japanese: A preliminary study using acceptability judgment task. The 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY2019). The Hilton Embassy Suites Boulder, CO. 29th March. [poster]

• Minemi, I. (poster) Hierarchical structure and grammaticality illusion in Japanese WH-dependencies. Tokyo Lectures in Evolinguistics 2019. The University of Tokyo Komaba. 11th March.

• Minemi, I., Hirose, Y. & Ito, T. (talk in Japanese) Processing of wh-phrases in Japanese: Illusory licensing. The Forth Tsutomu Sakamoto Memorial Circle of Neuroscience. Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan. 16th February.

• Huang, C., Tsumura, S., Minemi, I., Grüter, T. & Hirose, Y. (talk) Homographic transfer of classifiers by Mandarin speaking learners of Japanese. The Forth Tsutomu Sakamoto Memorial Circle of Neuroscience. Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan. 16th February.

• Minemi, I. (poster) Illusory licensing of wh-phrases in Japanese. NTU-UT Linguistics Festa 2019. The University of Tokyo Komaba. 12th January.

2018

• Kishiyama, T., Hirose, Y., Minemi, I. & Tada, H. (talk in Japanese) Process for minimizing distance between NPI and negation at reanalysis: Evidence from self-paced reading experiment. The 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Kyoto University. 17th November.

• Minemi, I. & Hirose, Y. (talk) The degree of learners’ exposure to the target language affects pre-verbal prediction in L2. The 17th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages (ICPEAL 17). National Taiwan University, Taipei. 20th October. [slides]

• Minemi, I. (poster) Syntactic constraint and memory access in the processing of Japanese scrambling wh-questions: Interim report. The Forth Chuo-UHM-UTokyo Student Conference on Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition. University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa. 14th September. 

• Kishiyama, T., Minemi, I., Tada, H., Iwasaki, G. & Hirose, Y. (poster) Process for minimizing distance between NPI and negation reanalysis. The Forth Chuo-UHM-UTokyo Student Conference on Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition. University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa. 14th September.

• Fujii, A. & Minemi, I. (poster) Gap-filling parsing by Japanese learners of English. The Forth Chuo-UHM-UTokyo Student Conference on Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition. University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa. 14th September.

• Minemi, I. (talk in Japanese) Syntactic constraints in L2 English sentence comprehension. The 2nd meeting of Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication. Lake Biwa Marriott Hotel, Shiga, Japan. 8th August.

• Minemi, I. & Hirose, Y. (talk) Early thematic-role assignment drives a pre-verbal prediction in the processing of filler-gap dependencies by Japanese learners of English. The 18th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Acquisition (J-SLA 2018). Gakushuin University, Tokyo. 17th June. [slides]

2017

• Minemi, I. & Furukawa, K. (poster) L2 learners apply island constraints while processing English filler-gap dependencies despite the L1-L2 typological difference. The Third Chuo-UHM-UTokyo Student Conference on Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition. University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa. 15th September.

• Kishiyama, T. & Minemi, I. (poster) Do locative NPs have a canonical order? The Third Chuo-UHM-UTokyo Student Conference on Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Second Language Acquisition. University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa, Hawaiʻi. 15th September.

• Minemi, I., Tsumura, S., Roland, D., Arai, M. & Hirose, Y. (talk) Second language learners’ (non-)predictive processing: Evidence from eye-tracking reading experiment. The Japanese Society for Language Sciences 19th Annual International Conference (JSLS2017). Kyoto Women’s University. 2nd July. [slides] [proceeding paper manuscript]

• Tsumura, S., Minemi, I., Roland, D., Arai, M. & Hirose, Y. (poster) L2 garden-path eye movement patterns: Proficiency and native language. The 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY2017). MIT. 1st April.

• Minemi, I., Tsumura, S., Roland, D., Arai, M. & Hirose, Y. (poster) L2 structural prediction depends on the nature of learners’ exposure to the target language. The 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY2017). MIT. 30th March. [poster]

• Minemi, I. & Yano, M. (poster) Incremental and predictive processing of English relative clauses in second language. The First International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-1). Chinese University of Hong Kong. 12th March. [poster]

• Tsumura, S. & Minemi, I. (poster) Can second language learners use syntactic and semantic information for ambiguity resolution? The First International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-1). Chinese University of Hong Kong. 12th March.

2016

• Minemi, I., Tsumura, S. & Yano, M. (talk in Japanese) Processing of English filler-gap dependencies by Japanese learners of English: Evidence from self-paced reading experiment. The 152nd Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Keio University, Tokyo. 25th June. [slides in Japanese]

• Tsumura, S., Minemi, I. & Yano, M. (talk in Japanese) Processing of garden path sentences by Japanese learners of English: Evidence from self-paced reading experiment. The 152nd Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Keio University, Tokyo. 25th June.

• Minemi, I. (talk in Japanese) Processing of filler-gap dependencies by Japanese Learners of English. The First Tsutomu Sakamoto Memorial Circle of Neuroscience. Okinawa National Hospital, Okinawa, Japan. 20th February.

2025

• Minemi, I. Investigation of the cognitive mechanism underlying grammatical illusions in Japanese wh-sentences: Position of clause boundaries, clause order, and discourse connectivity of wh-phrases. The 82nd Kansai Circle of Psycholinguistics Workshop. Konan University Okamoto Campus, Japan. 12th September. [slides in Japanese]

2019

• Minemi, I. Cue-based memory retrieval in sentence comprehension. The First Circle of Psycholinguistics. Nagoya University Higashiyama, Japan. 3rd September.

2021

• Minemi, I. Introductory and practical workshop on (G)LMM [(Generalized) Linear Mixed-effects Model]. Online via Zoom. 7th & 8th September. (co-hosted by JSLS and Department of Language and Information Sciences, the University of Tokyo)

2019

• Minemi, I. Practical tutorial on (generalized) linear mixed-effects model. The University of Tokyo Komaba. 5th & 12th July.

2018

• Tsumura, S., Minemi, I. & Ogawa, M. From ANOVA to GLMM: Toward more elaborated statistical analyses. NTU-UT Linguistics Festa 2018. The University of Tokyo Komaba. 31th March.