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CONTACT Dr. Miyamoto
Contact Information
e-mail: miyamoto@intcul.tohoku.ac.jp
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Tadao Miyamoto has a BA in Sociology from St. Andrew's (Momoyama Gakuin) University in Osaka.
All his degrees in Linguistics are from the University of Victoria: a second BA, MA in Acoustic Phonetics,
and PhD in Syntax (the dissertation is available from John Benjamins).
He has collaborated with Joseph Kess on a Japanese Psycholinguistics project (see Recent Works).
Dr. Miyamoto is now a Professor in the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies at Tohoku University in Japan. He is also a member of the COE project on Language, Brain, and Cognition
Areas of Specialization:
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Syntax
Psycholinguistics
Acoustic Phonetics
Japanese Linguistics
South(East) Asian Langauges
Courses Conducted (1997-2004):
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LING 499: Honours Thesis
LING 382: Experimental Phonetics
LING 380: Acoustic Phonetics
LING 378: Contrastive Linguisitcs (Egyptian vs. Mayan)
LING/PSYCH370A: Psycholinguistics
LING 364: The Sanskrit Language
LING 364: South-East Asian Languages
LING 364: The Pali Language (and Pali Buddhist Literature)
LING 290: Writing Systems of the World
LING/JAPA 260: Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
LING 250: Introduction to Phonetics
LING 110: Language and Thought
LING 100A: Introduction to Linguistics
Recent Works - click to view/hide
Selected Works
Books
Yoshida, T., J. F. Kess and T. Miyamoto. (2001). Second Language Learners' Acquisition of Katakana Borrowings in Japanese: Help or Hindrance? Aspects of Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Language Education. Festschrift for Takashi Yoshida, Professor Emeritus, Fukushima Univeristy, 49-70. Fukushima: Fukushima Univeristy. Miyamoto, T. (1999).
The Light Verb Construction in Japanese: the Role of the Verbal Noun. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers. xiv + 232 Pp.
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (1999). The Japanese Mental Lexicon: Psycholinguistic Studies of Kana and Kanji Processing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers. x + 268 Pp.
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (1994). Japanese Psycholinguistics: A Classified and Annotated Research Bibliography. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers. xii + 355 Pp.
Book Chapters:
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (To appear). The Issue of Phonological Activation in Chinese and Japanese Word Recognition. In Ron Smythe (ed.) Festschrift for Bruce L. Derwing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers.
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (1999). The Origins of Modern Japanese Psycholinguistics within the Japanese Psychological Tradition. In S. Embleton, J. E. Joseph and H.-J. Niederehe (eds.) The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences, 283-294. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishers.
Miyamoto, T. and J. F. Kess. (1997). Japanese Psycholinguistics: Its Historical Development, Contemporary Focus, and Future Challenges. In H. Millward and J. Morrison (eds.) Japan at Century's End: Changes, Challenges, and Choices, 203-214. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing Ltd.
Miyamoto, T. and J. F. Kess. (1995). Sentence Processing Limitations in Japanese Aphasics. In K. Sornig, D. W. Halwachs, C. Penzinger and G. Ambrosch (eds.) Linguistics with a Human Face: Festschrift fur Norman Dension zum 70, 245-253. Geburtstag, Tubingen: Gunther Narr (=Grazer Linguistische Monographien 10).
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (1994). Left- vs. Right-Branching Processing in English and Japanese. In S. Nakai, T. Abe and M. Tatsuki (eds.) Kotoba no Jukai [A Silva of Languages: Papers Dedicated to Professor Teruhiro Ishiguro on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday], 3-30. Tokyo: Eihodo Publishing.
Journal Articles:
Brett, A., T. Miyamoto and J. F. Kess. (2001). A Nested Combinatorial-States Model of Sentence Processing in Left-Branching Languages. Informatica: International Journal of Computing and Informatics. 24.107-122
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (1999). Japanese Sentence Processing Strategies: Reconsidering Universality and Specificity. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Monograph Series 13.147-188.
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (1997). Psycholinguistic Aspects of Hanji Processing in Chinese. Mon-Khmer Studies 27.349-359.
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (1996). Psycholinguistic Evidence for Laterality Preferences and Information Processing in Japanese. Language Research. 32.351-371.
Miyamoto, T. and J. F. Kess. (1995). Processing Empty Categories in English and Japanese. International Journal of Psycholinguistics. 11.39-55.
Reviews:
Miyamoto, T. (1993). Book notice for Burusphat, S. (1991). The Structure of Thai Narrative. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics of Texas at Arlington. Language. 69.617-618.
Miyamoto, T. (1992). Book notice for Hudak, T. J. (1990). The Indigenization of Pali Meters in Thai Poetry. Athens, OH: Center for International Studies. Language. 68.229.
Proceedings:
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (To appear). Kanji Knowledge as Read-only vs. Write-Only: The Effect of the Computer Age? Proceedings of the Thirteenth Japan Studies Association of Canada, October, 5-7, 2000. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Miyamoto, T., J. F. Kess and T. Inoue. (2000). Cross-linguistic Mental Representations of Katakana Loanwords in Japanese. Proceedings of LAUD Symposium 2000, March, 27-30, 2000. University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.
Miyamoto, T. and J. F. Kess. (1999). A Discourse Analysis of Japanese Newspaper Advertisements. Document Design. Linking Writers' Goals to Readers' Needs: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Document Design, 121-127. December, 17-18, 1998. University of Tilberg, Tilberg, the Netherlands.
Miyamoto, T. and J. F. Kess. (1999). Japanese Psycholinguistic Research in the Mental Lexicon. Proceedings of XVIth International Congress of Linguists, July, 1997, Paris.
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (1998). Psycholinguistic Dimensions of the Mental Dictionary in Chinese vs. Japanese. Proceedings of the Ninth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Volume II, 162-174. Los Angeles: University of Southern California, GSIL Publications in Linguistics.
Miyamoto, T. and J. F. Kess. (1996). The Japanese Brain: Information Processing in the Right vs. Left Hemispheres. Proceedings of the Eighth Japan Studies Association of Canada, xx-xx.
Miyamoto, T. and J. F. Kess. (1996). Kana vs. Kanji Processing in the Left and Right Hemispheres. In C. Willis (ed.) Proceedings of the 1995 Northwest Linguistics Conference, published as Working Papers of the Linguistic Circle of the University of Victoria. 13.95-104.
Kess, J. F., T. Miyamoto and C. Uda. (1995). Psycholinguistic Studies in Japan: A Historical Survey. In M.-S. Chen, C. Comtois and L. N. Shyu (eds.) Selected Articles from the Annual Conferences of the Canadian Asian Studies Association 1991-1992, 295-320. Montreal: Universite de Montreal.
Miyamoto, T. (1994). Event and Control Structures of the Japanese Light Verb Construction. Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 93), 278-290.
Miyamoto, T. and J. F. Kess. (1993). On Processing Empty Categories in English and Japanese. Proceedings of the First Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, 194-202.
Kess, J. F., T. Miyamoto and C. Uda. (1993). The Historical Development of Japanese Psycholinguistics. Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Linguists, 353-356. Quebec City: Les Presses de L'Universite Laval.
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (1993). Psycholinguistic Studies of Language Processing in Japan. Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Language and Linguistics, Vol. III, 1263-1278. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University.
Miyamoto, T. (1992). Truncation of Sanskrit and Pali Loanwords in Thai. Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Language and Linguistics, Vol. II, 869-882. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University.
Miyamoto, T. (1991). Accentual Phrasing in Japanese. Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 90), 198-210.
Others:
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (1998). Complex vs. Compound Kanji in Japanese Word Processing. Abstracts of First International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, September, 4-5, 1998. University of Alberta. Alberta, Canada.
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. 1997. Accessing the Japanese Mental Dictionary through the Japanese Writing Systems. CAPI Occasional Paper #24. Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria.
Miyamoto, T. and J. F. Kess. (1997). Psycholinguistic Dimensions of the Mental Dictionary in Chinese vs. Japanese. Working Papers of the Linguistic Circle of the University of Victoria 14.61-71.
Miyamoto, T. and J. F. Kess. (1997). Cognitive Dimensions of Lexical Access in Japanese: Address Routes for Kana vs. Kanji. Abstracts of the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 139. July, Amsterdam.
Miyamoto, T. and J. F. Kess. (1997). A Discourse Analysis of Japanese Newspaper Advertisements. In T. Craig (ed.) CAPI Conference on Japanese Popular Culture, April 10-12, 1997: Abstract of the Papers Presented, 28. Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Victoria.
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (1996). Nihon Shinrigengogaku Purojekuto [On the Japanese Psycholinguistics Project]. Kokusai Shakai ni Okeru Nihongo ni Tsuite no Sogoteki Kenkyuu: Dai Sankai Kenkyuu Hokokukai Yokoshu [The Third Annual Report on the Comprehensive Research on the Role of the Japanese Language in the International Community], 45-46. Tokyo: Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyusho [Japanese Language Research Institute].
Kess, J. F. and T. Miyamoto. (1995). Nihon Shinrigengogaku Bunken Mokurokusho Sakusei Purojekuto [On the Project on the "Japanese Psycholinguistics: A Classified and Annotated Research Bibliography"]. Kokusai Shakai ni Okeru Nihongo ni Tsuite no Sogoteki Kenkyuu: Dai Nikai Kenkyuu Hokokukai Yokoshu [The Second Annual Report on the Comprehensive Research on the Role of the Japanese Language in the International Community], 19. Tokyo: Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyusho [Japanese Language Research Institute].
Miyamoto, T. and J. F. Kess. (1994). Sentence Processing Limitations in Japanese Aphasics. Working Papers of the Linguistic Circle of the University of Victoria. 12.1-12.
Miyamoto, T., J. F. Kess and C. Uda. (1993). Universality vs. Specificity in Sentence Processing Strategies. Abstracts of the 4th International Pragmatics Conference, Kobe, Japan, July, 25-30, 1993.
Miyamoto, T. and J. F. Kess. (1992). On Processing Empty Categories in English and Japanese. Working Papers of the Linguistic Circle of the University of Victoria. 11.101-111.
Kess, J. F., T. Miyamoto and C. Uda. (1992). The Historical Development of Japanese Psycholinguistics. Working Papers of the Linguistic Circle of the University of Victoria 11.1-19.
Miyamoto, T. (1991). Truncation of Sanskrit and Pali Loanwords in Thai. Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. May, 27-29, 1990.
Miyamoto, T. (1990). A Psycholinguistic Implication of Accentual Phrasing in Japanese. Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle of the University of Victoria 9.1-12.