Scientific Articles
Kubota, M. Problematizing the notion of “stabilization”: From description to prediction in returnee research [Commentary]. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
Kubota, M., Chondrogianni, V., Kurokawa, S., Wulff, S., & Rothman, J. (2025). Changes in referential production among Japanese-English bilingual returnee children: A five-year longitudinal study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
Puig-Mayenco, E., Kubota, M., Naganawa, Y., & Merlo, C. (2025). Grammatical restructuring in L3 development: A longitudinal study of Negative Concord in L3 Spanish by Japanese-English bilinguals. Second Language Research.
Sandstedt, J., Kubota, M., Anderssen, M., Darby, J. A., Helset, S., Tavakoli, E., Vangsnes, Ø. A., & Rothman, J. (2025). Bidialectal language representation and processing: Evidence from Norwegian ERPs. Journal of Memory and Language, 140, 104557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104557
Kubota, M., Goto, Y., Kurokawa, S., Matsuoka, Y., Otani, M., Rothman, J. (2024). Different variables hold varying significance from childhood to adolescence: Exploring individual differences in grammar development of Japanese heritage speakers. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
Kubota, M. & Rothman, J. (2024). Modelling individual differences in vocabulary development: A large scale study on Japanese heritage speakers. Child Development.
Hao, J., Kubota, M., Bayram, F., Gonzalez A. J., Gruter, T., Li, M., & Rothman, J. (2024). Schooling and home language usage matter in heritage bilingual processing: Sortal classifiers in Mandarin. Second Language Research.
Chung-Fat-Yim, A., Kubota, M., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., & Marian, V. (2023). Translational approaches to bilingualism and multilingualism research [Editorial]. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 9(4), 317-322. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000380.
Bayram, F., Kubota, M., & Pereira Soares, S. M. (2024). The next phase in heritage language studies: methodological considerations and advancements [Editorial]. Frontiers in Psychology, 15: 1392474. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1392474.
Soilemezidi, M., Kubota, M., Chrisikopoulou, M., Fyndanis, V. (2024). Independent effects of age, education, verbal working memory, motor speed of processing, locality and morphosyntactic category on verb-related morphosyntactic production: Evidence from healthy aging. Topics in Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12750.
Laméris, T.J., Kubota, M., Kupisch, T., Cabrelli, J., Snape, N., Rothman, J., (2024). Language change in Japanese-English bilingual returnee children over the course of five years: evidence from accent-rating. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583241230854
Kubota, M., Matsuoka, Y., & Rothman, J. (2024). The acquisition of the semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers: The methodological value of nonsense. Journal of Child Language. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000661
Kubota, M., Hadley, L., Schäffner, S., Könen, T., Meaney, J.-A., Auyeung, B., Morey, C., Moriguchi, Y., Karbach, J., & Chevalier, N. (2023). The effect of metacognitive executive function training on children's executive function, proactive control, and academic skills. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001626
Kubota, M., González Alonso, J., Jensen, N. I., Luque, A., Pereira Soares, S. M., Prystauka, Y., Vangsnes, Ø., Anderssen, M., Sandstedt, J., & Rothman, J. (2023). Bidialectal Exposure Modulates Neural Signatures to Conflicting Grammatical Properties: Norway as a Natural Laboratory. Language Learning. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12608
Luque, A., Rossi, E., Kubota, M., Nakamura, M., Rosales, C., López-Rojo, C., Rodina, Y., & Rothman, J. (2023). Morphological Transparency and Markedness Matter in Heritage Speaker Gender Processing: An EEG Study. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1114464.
Di Pisa, G., Kubota, M., Marinis, T., & Rothman, J. (2022). Effects of markedness in gender processing in Italian as a Heritage Language: a speed-accuracy tradeoff. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:965885. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.965885
Rothman, J., Bayram, F., DeLuca, V., Di Pisa, G., Duñabetia, J.A., Gharibi, K., Hao, J., Kolb, N., Kubota, M., Kupisch, T., Laméris, T., Luque, A., van Osch, B., Pereira Soares,S., Prystauka, Y., Taz, D., Tomic, A., Voits, T., & Wulff, S. (2022). Monolingual comparative normativity in (heritage language) empirical bilingualism research is out of “control”: Arguments and alternatives. Applied Psycholinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716422000315.
Kubota, M., Chondrogianni, V., Clark, A., & Rothman, J. (2022). Linguistic consequences of toing and froing: Factors that affect the maintenance and development in returnee bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 25(7), 2363-2381. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2021.1910621.
Pereira Soares, S. M., Kubota, M., Rossi, E., & Rothman, J. (2021). Determinants of bilingualism catalyse dynamic changes in resting state EEG oscillations. Brain and Language, 223, 105030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105030.
Bayram, F., Kubota, M., Luque, A., Pascual y Cabo, D., & Rothman, J. (2021). You can’t fix what is not broken: Contextualizing the imbalance of perceptions about heritage language bilingualism. Frontiers in Education. 6:628311.https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.628311.
Kubota, M., Heycock, C., Sorace, A., & Rothman, J. (2020). Cross-Linguistic Influence on L2 before and after extreme reduction in input: The case of Japanese returnee children. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:560874. https://doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.560874.
Kubota, M., Hadley, L., Schäffner, S., Könen, T., Meaney, J.-A., Auyeung, B., Morey, C., Karbach, J., & Chevalier, N. (2020). Proactive control during childhood: consistent use and relation with academic achievement. Cognition, 203, 104329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104329.
Kubota, M., Chevalier, N., & Sorace, A. (2020). Losing access to the second language and its effect on executive function development in childhood: the case of ‘returnees’, Journal of Neurolinguistics, 55, p.100906. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100906.
Kubota, M., Chevalier, N., & Sorace, A. (2019). How bilingual experience and executive control influence development in language control among bilingual children, Developmental Science, 23(1), p.e12865. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12865.
Kubota, M. (2017). Post study abroad investigation of kanji knowledge in Japanese as a second language learners. System, 69, 143-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2017.07.006.
Kubota, M. (2015). Kanji Error Analysis of Learners of Japanese as a Second Language. The British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language Journal, 16, 48-53.
Book chapters/Proceedings
Kubota, M., Hao, J., & Kanero, J. (In press). Understanding the complexities of classifier acquisition in monolinguals and bilinguals. In T. Kupisch and N. Schiller (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Classifier. Oxford University Press.
Rothman, J., Bayram, F., DeLuca, V., González Alonso, J., Kubota, M., & Puig-Mayenco, E. (2023). Defining bilingualism as a continuum: Some tools and consequences for the study of bilingual mind and brain effects. In G. Luk, J. Grundy, & J. Anderson (Eds.), Understanding Language and Cognition Through Bilingualism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Flores, C. & Kubota, M. L3 attrition in returnees. (2023). In J. Cabrelli, A. Chaouch-Orozco, J. G. Alonso., S. M. Pereira Soares, E. Puig-Mayenco, J. Rothman (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition and Processing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schaeffner, S., Chevalier, N., Kubota, M., & Karbach, J. (2021). Meta-cognitive training. In T. Strobach & J. Karbach (Eds.), Cognitive Training: An Overview of Features and Applications. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Kubota, M. (2019). Referential expression and cognitive control in Japanese-English bilingual children. Proceedings of the 14th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 2017). MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.