Education
M.A. Columbia University, TESOL (1985)
M.A. Cornell University, Linguistics (1994)
Ph.D. Cornell University, Linguistics (2000)
Areas of Expertise
Language Pedagogy
Japanese Linguistics
First and second language acquisition Lexical acquisition
Cognitive development
Courses
JAPN 101(F)
Elementary JapanesePSYC 258 / COGS 258 / JAPN 258(S)
Language and Literacy DevelopmentJAPN 405
Thematic Reading and Writing in Japanese IJAPN 407 T / ASST 207(F)
An Exploration of Japanese Language and CultureScholarship/Creative Work
“The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers.” In The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, M. Nakayama, R. Mazuka, Y. Shirai, and P. Li (eds.). Cambridge University Press. 2006.
The Acquisition of Numeral Classifiers: The Case of Japanese Children. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 2005.
“The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers – linkage between grammatical forms and conceptual categories.” Co-authored with F. Keil. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 9: 379-409. 2000.
“The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers – linkage between grammatical forms and conceptual categories.” Co-authored with F. Keil. The Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 1159-1164.1998.
“The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers.” Co-authored with Frank Keil. The Proceedings of the 20th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development 849-860. 1996.
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Lecturer in Japanese at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Instructor in the FALCON intensive Japanese Program at Cornell University
Visiting Lecturer in Japanese at Columbia Universty
