Profiles

Professor KOIZUMI Masatoshi
Affiliations :
- Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Letters
- Division of Department of Integrated Human Sciences
- Psychology and Linguistics Course
- Department of Linguistics


- Research, History
- Books, papers, etc.
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- Courses
- Modern Linguistics (General Lecture); Linguistics (Advanced Seminar); Interlinguistics (Seminar); Linguistics Analysis (Advanced Seminar); Sign Language Basics
- Personal History
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Graduated from the College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University
Completed the Master’s program in East Asian languages and literatures at the Graduate School, Ohio State University
1995 Received a Ph.D. in linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Career:
1995 Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Tohoku Gakuin University
2000 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Tohoku University
Current position
- Degree
- Ph.D.
- Field
- Linguistic Cognitive Neuroscience
- Research Subject
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1) Field-based cognitive psycholinguistic study of the discourse-processing mechanisms of OS-type languages;
2) Study on pragmatic inferences
- Keywords
- Word order; syntactic structure; processing load; event cognition; Mayan languages; Kaqchikel Mayan language; Austronesian languages; Truku language; Tongan language; fMRI; NIRS; EEG; event-related potential (ERP); magnetoencephalography (MEG); eye tracking
- Affiliation
- The Linguistic Society of Japan; Japanese Cognitive Science Society; Linguistic Society of America,Organization for Human Brain Mapping ,American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Database of Researchers Information
- http://db.tohoku.ac.jp/whois/detail/c20f69c4fa34a7748d206cd4730370a9.html
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- Books
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Phrase Structure in Minimalist Syntax、ひつじ書房、1999
『文の構造』(共著)、研究社、2001
『ここから始める言語学プラス統計分析』、共立出版、2016(editor)
- Academic Papers
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"Greater left inferior frontal activation for SVO than VOS during sentence comprehension in Kaqchikel," in Frontiers in Psychology 7: 1541, 2016(with Jungho Kim)
"Interaction between syntactic structure and information structure in the processing of a head-final language," in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016 (with Imamura Satoshi)
"The processing cost of scrambling and topicalization in Japanese," in Frontiers in Psychology 7: 531, 2016(with Satoshi Imamura and Sato Yohei)
"Is the subject-before-object preference universal? An ERP study in Kaqchikel Maya," in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 30: 1209-1229, 2015(with Yasunaga Daichi, Yano Masataka and Yasugi Yoshiho)
"On the (non)universality of the preference for subject-object word order in sentence comprehension: Asentence-processing study in Kaqchikel Maya," in Language 90: 722-736, 2014(with Yasugi Yoshiho, Tamaoka Katsuo, Kiyama Sachiko, Jungho Kim, Juan Esteban Ajsivinac Sian, and Lolmay Pedro Oscar García Mátzar.)
- Awards
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2013 Best Presentation Award, The Linguistic Society of Japan
2012 Tohoku University Award for Contribution to General Education