Tsukuba Empirical Linguistics and Language Sciences (TELLS)

About the Workshop

This workshop has been established with the aim of fostering international collaboration in empirical linguistic research and supporting the development of early-career researchers and graduate students. The first session will primarily feature presentations by graduate students and early-career scholars.

Please see the details at the link below. If you are interested, we warmly invite you to join us either in person or via Zoom. The workshop will be held over two days, but participants are free to join and leave at any time. To attend, please register using the link above (Zoom details will be provided upon registration).

For this session, we are pleased to welcome Ms. Chika Okada, a PhD student at the University of Auckland, who will give a talk. In addition to research topics, she is happy to share her experiences and advice with those interested in studying abroad for a PhD.

Organizers:

Kakeru Yazawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

James Whang (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea; University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Yuichi Ono (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

With the Support of

Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences,  Center for Education of Global Communication (CEGLOC)

Date: September 11 (Thu) – 12 (Fri) 2025

Place: Humanities and Social Sciences Building(人文社会系棟), A722

Language: English

Admission: Free

Program　（As of Sep.1, 2025）

September 11 (Thu)

13:30 – 13:40 Opening Address

Yuichi Ono (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

13:40 – 14:10

“The Acquisition of the Count/Mass Distinction by Japanese Learners of English: An Eye-Tracking Study”

Runo Inagawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

14:20 – 14:50

“Acceptability and Adversity Interpretation of the Have-Passive in Japanese Learners of English.”

Shota Kato (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

[Break]

15:40 – 16:10

“Examining exempt reflexives at syntactic-discourse interface"

Kasumi Takahashi (University of Tsukuba)

16:20 – 16:50

“Exploring Japanese EFL Learners’ Perceptions and Use of Machine Translation in English Writing Tasks: Quantitative and Qualitative Insights.”

Haruno Koshida (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

18:00- 懇親会

September 12 (Fri)

10:00 – 10:30

“Investigating the Effects of Background Noise on Lexical Perception: The Role of Acoustic Feature Variation”

Rikutaka Kanayama (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

10:40 – 11:10

“Effects of L1 and Music Training on Perceived English Lexical Stress by Japanese Learners of English”

Momoko Narita (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

11:20 – 12:20 [Invited Talk]

"Japanese Argument Ellipsis and the Multilingual Mind"

Chika Okada (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)

[Lunch Break]

14:30 – 15:00

“The Acquisition of English Unaccusativity by Japanese EFL Learners ―Focusing on Resultative Constructions―”

Hiroto Takamure (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

15:10 – 15:40

“Do Japanese Learners of English Predict Clause Structure? Evidence from Verb Bias and that Ambiguity”

Reina Mogushi (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

15:50 – 16:20

“The Manner–Result Complementarity in the Acquisition of Verbal Complexity by Japanese Learners of English”

Yuka Fujii (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

16:20-16:30 Closing Address

Yuichi Ono (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Registration (Free of Charge)

https://forms.gle/eJWkLJNpHvDETdB28

Zoom link will be replied. In order to collect information from participants for our upcoming event, please kindly fill in the form. Thank you very much for your assistance.

We welcome undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty members, who are interested in research on first/second language acquisition!

Contact:

Yuichi Ono: ono.yuichi.ga@u.tsukuba.ac.jp

Kakeru Yazawa: yazawa.kakeru.gb@u.tsukuba.ac.jp 

Thank you very much for your participation!