Curriculum Vitae

Name: Mineharu Nakayama

Office Address: 204 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin Road,

Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures,

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210

Phone: (614) 292-5816, 9016

Fax: (614) 292-3225

E-mail Address: nakayama.1@osu.edu

Academic Employment

Acting Director, East Asian Studies Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 2003-2004.

Associate Director, East Asian Studies Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 2002-2003.

Director, Institute of Japanese Studies, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 2002-2005.

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 1999-present.

Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 1994-present.

Resident Director, OSU Japanese Study Abroad Program in Kobe, Kobe Shoin Women's University, Kobe, Japan. Spring 1994, Spring 1996, Spring 1998, Spring 2000, Spring 2002.

Japanese Oral Proficiency Interview Tester, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. 1991-94.

Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University. 1988-94.

Research Fellow, Foreign Language Center, The Ohio State University. 1990-present.

Member, Center for Cognitive Science, The Ohio State University. 1989-present.

Member, Institute for Japanese Studies, The Ohio State University. 1988-present.

Member, East Asian Studies Center, The Ohio State University. 1988-present.

Visiting Instructor, Japanese Language Program, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. 1985-88.

Lecturer, Critical Language Program, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. 1984-86.

Consultant and Interpreter

Ohio’s Collaborative Action Research Project. Official visit to Japan’s Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture, and elementary, junior and senior high schools. Institute for Japanese Studies, The Ohio State University. June 24-July 8, 2001.

The WBNS 10TV Nagano Olympic coverage team during the 18th Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan. February 2-22, 1998

Education

Certificate. Japanese Oral Proficiency Interview Tester. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. 1991.

Ph.D. in Linguistics. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. August 1988.

M.A. in Linguistics. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. May 1986.

Certificate. Summer Graduate English Program, Language Institute for Rotary Foundation Scholars, Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, Georgia. Summer 1983.

B.A. in English Language and Literature. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. March 1983.

Teaching English Certificate. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. March 1983.

Göthe Institut, Schwäbisch-Hall, Germany. Summer 1982.

Japanese Language Teacher Training Certificate. Tokyo International Language College. Tokyo, Japan. July 1982.

Certificate. Japanese Language Teacher Training Summer Seminar, Gogaku Kyooiku Kenkyuu-jo, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Summer 1978, Summer 1979.

Training

ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview Training. 1990.

ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview Familiarization Workshop. 1985.

Research Interest

Psycholinguistics (First and Second Language Acquisition, Lexical and Sentence Processing), Syntax, Learnability, Language Teaching

Professional Organizations and Service

Membership

Association for Asian Studies

Association of Teachers of Japanese

Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese)

Linguistic Society of America

National Council of Japanese Language Teachers

Ohio Association of Teacher of Japanese

Japanese Society of Language Sciences

Japan Second Language Association

Board member, Japanese Society of Language Sciences (2001-present)

Editorial committee member, Studies in Language Sciences (2001-present)

Seminar, Workshop and Conference Organizer

Happy Birthday Atom! Celebrating Tezuka's Astro Boy: Exhibit and Series of Events on Manga and Robots, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (with M. Donovan), March-May 2003.

International East Asian Psycholinguistics Workshop, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, August 1999.

The Ninth Japanese Korean Linguistics Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (with C. Quinn), July and August 1999.

DEALL Special Workshop on Japanese Orthography, in conjunction with the OSU Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Program 1996/7 "Human Communications: Biological Mechanisms and Cognitive Functions" by O. Fujimura, February 1997.

The Seventh Annual Meeting of Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (with M. Noda), February 1995.

Japanese Syntax Workshop, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (with S. Miyagawa), May 1990.

The Second Annual Meeting of Lower Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (with C. Quinn), January 1990.

Japanese Syntax Workshop, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (with S. Miyagawa), March 1989.

Workshop on Japanese Syntax, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut (with W. Tawa), May 1987.

Selected Publications

Books and Monographs

Sentence Processing in East Asian Languages. (editor). CSLI, Stanford, Distributed by University of Chicago Press. June 2002.

Issues in East Asian Language Acquisition. (editor). Kurosio Publishers, Tokyo. September 2001.

Japanese/Korean Linguistics 9. (co-editor with C. Quinn). CSLI, Stanford, Distributed by University of Chicago Press. March 2001.

Acquisition of Japanese Empty Categories . Tokyo, Japan: Kurosio Publishing. May 1996.

Let's Play Games in Japanese (with S. McGinnis and T. Yao). Lincolnwood, Il: National Textbook Company. October 1991.

Acquisition of Lexical and Structural Properties in Japanese. Ph. D. dissertation. The University of Connecticut. (available from the University Microfilms International, Michigan.) August 1988.

Proceedings of the Japanese Syntax Workshop. (with W. Tawa (eds.)) New London, CT: Japanese Language Program in Connecticut College. February 1988.

Journal Articles

“Remarks on Japanese benefactive V-te moraw constructions.” (with K. Sawasaki). Journal of Studies in Language. 17.2. 285-314. December 2001.

“Similarity interference and scrambling in Japanese,” (with R. Lewis). Injiguahak Jakop [Journal of Cognitive Science] 1. 39-53. Institute for Cognitive Science, Seoul National University. September 2001.

"Japanese responses hai, ee, and un: Yes, no, and beyond," (with J. Angles and A. Nagatomi). Language and Communication 20, 55-86. November 1999.

"Implicit arguments in Japanese potentials and resultatives." (with W. Tawa). Canadian Journal of Linguistics 40.4. 423-440. May 1996.

"Conditions on Japanese interrogative sentences." (with S. Takahashi). Journal of Japanese Linguistics and Education 2. 33-53. Institute for Japanese Studies, Nagoya Gakuin University. October 1995.

"Japanese verbal noun constructions." (with Y. Uchida). Linguistics 31.4. 623-666. October 1993.

"Purpose clauses in Japanese." (with K. Tajima). Lingua 91.1. 1-32. August 1993.

"Remarks on Japanese subjects." (with M. Koizumi). Lingua 85.4. 303-319. December 1991.

"Structure dependence in grammar formation." (with S. Crain). Language 63.3. 522-543. September 1987.

"Performance factors in subject-aux inversion by children." Journal of Child Language 14.1. 113-125. February 1987.

Book Chapters

“Syntactic similarity effects of embeddings in Japanese.” (with R. Lewis). In M. Nakayama (ed.), Sentence Processing in East Asian Languages. 85-110. Stanford: CSLI. June 2002.

"Null pronouns in English-speaking JFL learners' Japanese." (with K. Sawasaki). In M. Nakayama (ed.), Issues in East Asian Language Acquisition. 149-182. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers. September 2001.

"Sentence processing." In N. Tsujimura (ed.), The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics. 398-424. Boston: Blackwell. July 1999.

"Scrambling and probe recognition." In R. Mazuka and N. Nagai (eds.), Japanese Sentence Processing. 257-273. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate. February 1995.

"Parameters and their initial settings." In T. Matsuda, H. Masuda, and Y. Takano (eds.), Studies for Yoshiroo Kojima. 124-143. Tokyo, Japan: Kenkyuu-sha. October 1988.

"Japanese and American universities in contrast." (with T. Sagawa). Papers of the Waseda University Centennial Celebration. 35-65. Tokyo, Japan: Waseda University. February 1983.

Others

Courses Taught

Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Modern Japanese, Readings in Modern Japanese

Elements of Japanese Culture, Japanese Civilization and Culture, Japanese Readings and Culture, Japanese Culture and Society (EALL 697)

Japanese Project course (EALL 697)

Introduction to Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Syntax, Japanese Pragmatics, Japanese Language Acquisition

Interdepartmental Seminar (Cross-linguistics explorations in human sentence processing)

Topics and Problems in Japanese Linguistics (Psycholinguistics, Japanese language acquisition, Word order and short term memory in sentence processing, Japanese L2 acquisition, Japanese L2 sentence processing)

Research in Japanese: Thesis

Research in Japanese: Dissertation

Individual Studies

Curriculum Development

Elementary Modern Japanese, Japanese Individualized Instruction, Advanced Modern Japanese , Japanese project course, Japanese Culture courses, Japanese Language and Description, Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Syntax, Japanese Pragmatics, Japanese Language Acquisition, Languages in East Asia, Cross-linguistics Explorations in Human Sentence Processing, Japanese L2 Acquisition, Japanese L2 Sentence Processing