The following is a selected list of my presentations. Please see my CV for a full list.
International Conferences
Takayuki Kimura (2024). Strong' weak-island effects in interlanguage: Arguments from D-linking. Boston University Conference on Language Development 49 (BUCLD 49) at Boston University, U.S.
Takaaki Hirokawa & Takayuki Kimura (2024). More evidence on the UG-constrained knowledge of argument structure in L2 grammar. Boston University Conference on Language Development 49 (BUCLD 49) at Boston University, U.S.
Itsuki Minemi, Takayuki Kimura, Takaaki Hirokawa, Yu Tamura, Junya Fukuta (2024). Immunity to agreement attraction and limitation of cognitive resources in non-native language comprehension. Boston University Conference on Language Development 49 (BUCLD 49) at Boston University, U.S.
Takayuki Kimura, Runa Kohama, Hikari Otsuka, Ryusho Osawa, Urara Shimoyama & Jeong Seyoung (2024). A Closer Look at the Acquisition of the Present Progressive by Japanese-speaking Learners of English. European Second Language Association 33 (EuroSLA) at Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France.
Junya Fukuta, Takayuki Kimura, John Matthews, John Williams, Boping Yuan, Yuyan Xue & Shigenori Wakabayashi (2024). Implicit learning with(out) UG: An extraction constraint, case marking, and displacement. European Second Language Association 33 (EuroSLA) at Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France.
Junya Fukuta, Takayuki Kimura, John Matthews, John Williams, Boping Yuan, Yuyan Xue & Shigenori Wakabayashi (2023). Do innate principles of grammar guide learners in acquiring asymmetrical extraction from adjuncts and arguments in semi-artificial languages? The Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium 2023.
w/Shigenori Wakabayashi, Tae Yamazaki, Tomohiro Hokari, Takayuki Akimoto, John Matthews, Koichi Otaki. (2023). The Functional Category T in Japanese Learners' Morpho-Syntactic Knowledge of L2 English [colloquium]. (Individual Presentation: Differences and Similarities between Chinese and Japanese Learners of English:(In)Sensitivity to Non-target-like Use of 3ps -s ) Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF) at Thammasat University, Thailand.
Takayuki Kimura & Shigenori Wakabayashi (2022). Selection and Reassembly of an Uninterpretable Feature in L2 Acquisition of Wh-questions. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition 16 (GASLA) at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
Shigenori Wakabayashi , Takayuki Kimura & 5 more (2022). Asymmetries between 1st Person and 2nd/3rd Person: Learner (In)Sensitivity to Non-target-like Use of 3ps -s. European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) at University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Takayuki Kimura (2021). Selection and Reassembly of Uninterpretable Features in L2 Acquisition: Evidence from Wh-questions. Boston University Conference on Language Development 46 (BUCLD) at Boston University, U.S. (online)
[Recipient of Paula Menyuk Award!]: This year's award was given to the highest-rated abstracts first-authored by students.
Takayuki Kimura & Shigenori Wakabayashi (2021). Defective Probes in Interlanguage Syntax: Arguments from the Acquisition of Wh-questions. The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA). (online)
Tae Yamazaki, Tomohiro Hokari, Takayuki Akimoto, John Matthews, Shigenori Wakabayashi, Koichi Otaki, and Takayuki Kimura (2021). Japanese learners’ processing of English past tense marking: A self-paced reading study. The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA). (online)
Takayuki Kimura (2021). Full L1 Transfer at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface?: Evidence from Scalar Implicature. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB) at Warsaw University. (online)
Takayuki Kimura & Takaaki Hirokawa. (2021). A Closer Look at Invisible VPs in L2 Grammar. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition−North America 9 (GALANA) at University of Iceland, Iceland. (online)
Shigenori Wakabayashi, Takayuki Kimura, John Matthews, Takayuki Akimoto, Tomohiro Hokari, Tae Yamazaki and Koichi Otaki. (2021). L2 learners’ Sensitivity to the Overuse and Underuse of English 3rd person singular -s. The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA). (online)
Shigenori Wakabayashi, Takayuki Kimura, John Matthews, Takayuki Akimoto, Tomohiro Hokari, Tae Yamazaki and Koichi Otaki. (2020). Asymmetry between person and number features in L2 subject‒verb agreement. Boston University Conference on Language Development 45 (BUCLD) at Boston University, U.S. (online)
Takayuki Kimura & Takaaki Hirokawa. (2019). Exploring the Syntactic Structure of Silence in Japanese-English Interlanguage. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 14 (GALA) at University of Milano, Italy.
Shigenori Wakabayashi, Naomi Sugahara, Tomohoiro Hokari, Takayuki Akimoto & Takayuki Kimura. (2019). L2 Input-oriented, Incremental development in SLA: Evidence from the use of psych verbs, periphrastic causative construction, and the lack of T/SM restriction. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 14 (GALA) at University of Milano, Italy.
Takayuki Kimura & Shigenori Wakabayashi (2019). Every Is Not All: Difficulty in Scope Interpretation. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB) at University of Alberta, Canada.
Takayuki Kimura (2019). Explaining the Difficulty with the L2 Acquisition of Scope Interpretation by Speakers of a Scope-Rigid Language. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition 15 (GASLA) at University of Nevada, U.S.
Takayuki Kimura (2018). 'Control-ed' Raising in Interlanguage Syntax?: Evidence from Semantic Plurality and Reconstruction. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition−North America 8 (GALANA) at Indiana University, U.S.
Takayuki Kimura (2018). Reflexive Binding in Japanese-English Interlanguage. Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA) at Gakushuin University, Japan.
Takayuki Kimura (2017). The Acquisition of QR by Speakers of a QR-less Language. Second Language Research Forum 36 (SLRF) at The Ohio State University, U.S.
Takayuki Kimura & Shigenori Wakabayashi (2017). The Acquisition of Telicity by Japanese-learners of English. The First International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-1) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Takayuki Kimura (2016). English Passives in Interlanguage of Native Speakers of Japanese. Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF) at Chuo University, Japan.
Takayuki Kimura (2014). Learnability Problems in the L2 Acquisition of English Passives. Second Language Research Forum 33 (SLRF) at University of South Carolina University, U.S.
Takayuki Kimura & Takayuki Akimoto (2013). The Acquisition of Functional Categories by Japanese Learners of English. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Invited Talks
Takayuki Kimura (2024). Introduction to Linguistic-based SLA Theories. The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA) Summer Seminar.
Takayuki Kimura (2024). Problems and Prospects in L2 Syntax Research within the Generative Framework. The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA) – Special Symposium: What is SLA research and how do we conduct it?
Takayuki Kimura (2024). Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition. Okayama Linguistics Forum 22.
Takayuki Kimura (2024). On the Role of Universal Grammar in L2 Acquisition. L3 Workshop: Multilingual Language Acquisition, Processing and Use
Junya Fukuta, Takayuki Kimura, John Matthews, John Williams, Boping Yuan, Yuyan Xue & Shigenori Wakabayashi (2024). Universality and cross-linguistic influences on the acquisition of unconscious linguistic knowledge Research based on Experiments with Artificial Languages (REAL).
Takayuki Kimura (2022). Feature Reconfiguration in Second Language Acquisition: Arguments from the Acquisition of Wh-questions. Kansai Circle of Psycholinguistics (KCP)
Takayuki Kimura (2022). Reassembling Uninterpretable Features in Second Language Acquisition: Arguments from the Acquisition of Wh-questions. Encouraging Workshop on Formal Linguistics (EFWL)
Takayuki Kimura (2020). 'Invisibles' in Grammar. The 3rd meeting of Circle of Psycholinguistics.. Online.
Takayuki Kimura (2019). Theories in Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition. The 1st meeting of Circle of Psycholinguistics. Nagoya University, Japan.
Shigenori Wakabayashi & Takayuki Kimura (2018). Articles, Telicity, and Lexical Transfer. The Japan Second Language Association Autumn Seminar. Doshisha University, Japan.