Masaya Yoshida Curriculum Vitae: 2019-04-26

Business Address The Department of Linguistics Weinberg College of Arts and Science Northwestern University 2016 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL. 60208-4090. USA. e-mail: m-yoshida@northwestern.edu Alt. e-mail: y.masaya@gmail.com Work Phone: 847-491-8052 Cell Phone: 224-240-2849 Fax: 847-491-3770 Web: http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~myo507/ Google Scholar Page: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=BXs5TrAAAAAJ Major Professional Interests Syntax: Syntax of ellipsis, locality Constraints

Sentence Processing: Syntactic prediction, predictive structure building, online ellipsis resolution, the processing of filler-gap dependencies anaphora constructions.

Education 2001-2006 Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, Department of Linguistics. 1998-2000 M.A., Sophia University, Department of Linguistics. 1994-1998 B.A., Meiji Gakuin University, Department of English Literature. Postdoctoral Recognitions Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Post-Doctoral Fellowship The University of Edinburgh, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Science,

under the guidance of Dr. Patrick Sturt: 2007-2008 Employment 2014- Associate Professor, Northwestern University 2008-2014 Assistant Professor, Northwestern University. 2007-2008 ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, The University of Edinburgh. 2007 (Jan.-Jun.) Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University. Short Term Positions (Summer School, Mini Courses, etc.) 2010 (Summer) Invited Lecturer for the Summer Seminar, Keio University Research Support 1. 2009-

2010 発話冒頭に出現する助詞に関する研究：話し言葉特有の現象の解明を目指して [On Bare Particles at the Beginning of Utterances: Toward an Explanation of the Use of Bare Particles in Naturalistic Speech]. Funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Co-Investigator. With Setsuko Arita (Osaka Shoin) and Hidetoshi Shirai (Chukyo University).

2. 09/01/13-08/31/16

Masaya Yoshida (Principal Investigator), Clausal Ellipsis, Its Structure and Online Processing (BSE: 1323245). National Science Foundation, Division: BCS, Linguistics, Total amount awarded: $272,679.

(http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1323245&HistoricalAwards=false) 3 04/15/14-

09/30/15 Masaya Yoshida (Principal Investigator), Michael Frazier (Co-PI). National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Doctoral dissertation research: Morphosyntactic Mismatch in Gapping. Total amount awarded: $6,310.00.

4. 03/01/18- 02/29/20

Masaya Yoshida (Principal Investigator), Nayoun Kim (Co-PI). National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Doctoral dissertation research: The Online Processing of Noun Phrase Ellipsis. Total amount awarded: $9,132.00

Awards and Academic Recognition 1. Weinberg College Award For Excellence In Mentoring Undergraduate Research 2017.

"The award recognizes a faculty member who exhibited particular skills in and dedication to mentoring undergraduate students engaged in research."

Publications1 Refereed Journal Articles 1. Accepted Nayoun Kim, Laurel Brehm, Patrick Sturt, & Masaya Yoshida, How

long can you hold the filler: Maintenance and Retrieval. The manuscript accepted for publication in Language Cognition and Neuroscience.

2. Accepted Jiayi Lu, Cindy Thompson & Masaya Yoshida, Chinese Wh-in-situ and Islands: A Formal Judgment Study. The manuscript accepted for publication in Linguistic Inquiry.

3. 2019 Nayoun Kim, Laurel Brehm & Masaya Yoshida, The online processing of noun phrase ellipsis and mechanisms of antecedent retrieval, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34:2, 190-213, DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2018.1513542

4. 2018 Masaya Yoshida, David Potter & Tim Hunter, Condition C Reconstruction, Clausal Ellipsis and Island Repair. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-018-9433-0

5. 2018 Lauren Ackerman, Michael Frazier & Masaya Yoshida. Resumptive Pronouns can Ameliorate Illicit Island Extractions. Linguistic Inquiry. 49 (4) 847-859

6. 2017 David Potter, Michael Frazier & Masaya Yoshida A Two-Source Hypothesis for Gapping. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 35(4), 1123–1160.

7. 2016 Tim Hunter & Masaya Yoshida, A restriction on 'vehicle change' and its interaction with movement. Linguistic Inquiry. 47 (3), 561-571.

8. 2015 Michael Frazier, Lauren Ackerman, Peter Baumann, David Potter & Masaya Yoshida, Wh-filler-gap dependency formation guides reflexive antecedent search. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences. 6. 1504. 1-19

9. 2015 Masaya Yoshida, Tim Hunter & Michael Frazier, Parasitic Gaps Licensed by Elided Syntactic Structures. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Volume 33 (4), 1439-1471

10. 2015 Jiyeon Lee, Masaya Yoshida, Cynthia K. Thompson, Grammatical Planning Units During Real-Time Sentence Production in Speakers With Agrammatic Aphasia and Healthy Speakers. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 58(4), 1182-1194.

11. 2015 Masaya Yoshida, Nakao Chizuru, & Iván Ortega-Santos, The Syntax of Why-Stripping. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 33(1), 323-370

1 Underlined names indicate graduate student co-authors. Double underlined names indicate undergraduate student co-authors.

12. 2014 Honglei Wang, Masaya Yoshida & Cynthia Thompson, Parallel Functional Category Deficits in Clauses and Nominal Phrases: The case of English Agrammatism. Journal of Neurolinguistics.

13. 2014 Ivan Ortega-Santos, Masaya Yoshida & Chizuru Nakao, On ellipsis structures involving a wh-remnant and a non-wh-remnant simultaneously. Lingua 138, 55-85

14. 2014 Masaya Yoshida, Nina Kazanina, Leticia Pablos & Patrick Sturt, On the Origin of Island. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 29 (7), 761-770

15. 2013 Isaac Rottman & Masaya Yoshida, Sluicing, Idioms and Island Repair. Linguistic Inquiry 44:4.

16. 2013 Timothy Slattery, Patrick Sturt, Kiel Chirstianson, Masaya Yoshida & Fernanda Ferreira, Lingering misinterpretations of garden path sentences arise from competing syntactic representations, Journal of Memory and Language 69. 104-120.

17. 2013 Masaya Yoshida, Michael Walsh Dickey & Patrick Sturt, Predictive Processing of Syntactic Structure: Sluicing and Ellipsis in Real-Time Sentence Processing. Language and Cognitive Processes. Vol. 28, 3. 272-302.

18. 2012 Michael Frazier, Masaya Yoshida, Remarks on Gapping in ASL, Snippets 26

19. 2012 Masaya Yoshida, Honglei Wang, & David Potter. Remarks on “Gapping” in DP. Linguistic Inquiry. Vol. 43, No. 3. 475-494.

20. 2012 Honglei Wang, David Potter, Masaya Yoshida, Cross-conjunct binding in nominal gapping. Snippets 24.

21. 2010 Masaya Yoshida “Antecedent Contained” Sluicing. Linguistic Inquiry 42, Vol. 2. 348-356.

22. 2009 Sachiko Aoshima, Masaya Yoshida & Colin Phillips, Incremental Processing of Coreference and Binding in Japanese. Syntax, Vol. 12, 93-134.

23. 2007 Diogo Almeida & Masaya Yoshida, A Problem for the Preposition Stranding Generalization. Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 38, No 2. 349-362

24. 2007 Nina Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida, The Effect of Syntactic Constraints on the Processing of Backwards Anaphora. Journal of Memory and Language, Vol. 56, 384–409.

25. 2006 Hajime Ono, Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima & Colin Phillips, 2006, Processing Exclamatives; Different from Interrogatives? in Ninchi Kagaku [Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society], Vol. 13, No 3

Proceedings 1. 2016 Nayoun Kim, Kathleen Hall & Masaya Yoshida. Grammatical Illusions

in Locative constructions. In The proceedings of the 47th North East Linguistic Society (NELS 46).

2. 2014 Masaya Yoshida, Lauren Ackerman, Morgan Purrier & Rebekah Ward. The Processing of Backward Sluicing and Island Constraint. In The proceedings of 43rd North East Linguistic Society (NELS 43).

3. 2013 Chizuru Nakao, Ivan Ortega-Santos, Masaya Yoshida. On the structure

of Japanese ‘Why’-Stripping. In The Proceedings of GLOW in Asia IX.

4. 2011 Chizuru Nakao, Masaya Yoshida and Ivan Ortega-Santos. On the Syntax of Why-Stripping. In the proceedings of The 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 30).

5. 2011 Michael Frazier, David Potter and Masaya Yoshida, Pseudo-NP-Coordination. In the proceedings of The 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 30).

6. 2010 Masaya Yoshida, On Some Syntactic Mismatches in Clausal Ellipsis. To be in the proceedings of The 42nd North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS 42).

7. 2009 Masaya Yoshida, Nina Kazanina, Leticia Pablos & Patrick Sturt. To be in LaCara, N., L. Fainleib and Y. Park (eds) the proceedings of The 41st North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS 41).

8. 2006 Chizuru Nakao & Masaya Yoshida, “Not-so-propositional” Islands and Their Implications on Swiping. In the Proceedings of Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL).

9. 2006 Chizuru Nakao, Hajime Ono, & Masaya Yoshida, When a Complement PP Goes Missing: A Study on the Licensing of Swiping. Paper to appear in the Proceedings of The 25th. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25).

10. 2006 Masaya Yoshida, Sometimes, Smaller is Better: Sluicing Gapping and Semantic Identity. In the Proceedings of The 36th. North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS 36).

11. 2005 Masaya Yoshida, The Rightward Movement Analysis of Gapping in NP and its Structural Implications. In the Proceedings of The 24th. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 24).

12. 2005 Chizuru Nakao & Masaya Yoshida, Japanese Sluicing as a Specificational Pseudo-Cleft. In the Proceedings of The 6th. Tokyo Conference of Psycholinguistics (TCP).

13. 2005 Masaya Yoshida, Sometimes Smaller is Better: Sluicing, Gapping and Semantic Identity. in the proceedings of The 36th North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS 36).

14. 2004 Masaya Yoshida, The Specificity Condition: PF-Condition or LF-Condition? In the Proceedings of The 22nd. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 22). G. Garding and M. Tsujimura

(eds.), pp. 547-560. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 15. 2001 Masaya Yoshida & Tetsuya Sano, Psycholinguistic Studies on Japanese

Head Internal Relative Clauses. In M. Cristina Cuervo, Daniel Harbour, Ken Hiraiwa, and Shinichiro Ishihara (eds.) MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #41,The Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 3 (FAJL 3). 2002.

Refereed Book Chapters 1. 2013 Masaya Yoshida, Jiyeon Lee & Michael Walsh Dickey. The island

(in)sensitivity of sluicing and sprouting. To appear in Jon Sprouse and Norbert Hornstein (eds.) Experimental Syntax and Island Effects. Cambridge University Press.

2. 2012 Masaya Yoshida & Ángel J. Gallego, Phases and Ellipsis. To appear in Artemis Alexiadou, Tibor Kiss & Gereon Müller (eds.) in Local Modeling of Non-Local Dependencies in Syntax. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Book Chapters 1. 2012 Akira Omaki and Masaya Yoshida. Movement. In Oxford

Bibliographies in Linguistics. Mark Aronoff (ed.). Oxford, Oxford University Press.

2. 2012 Masaya Yoshida, Chizuru Nakao, Iván Ortega-Santos. Ellipsis. In Andrew Carnie, Yosuke Sato and Dan Siddiqi (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Syntax. London, UK. Routledge.

3. 2008 Masaya Yoshida. When negative statements are easier. In Tetsuya Sano, Mika Endo, Miwa Isobe, Koichi Otaki, Koji Sugisaki and Takeru Suzuki (eds.) An Enterprise in Cognitive Science of Language: A Festschrift for Yukio Otsu. Tokyo, Hitsuji Publishers. 585-598

Professional Talks Invited Presentations (Colloquium Talks, Invited Lectures, Invited Talks) 1. 2019 Syntactic Prediction in Online Sentence Processing. Invited talk at

Language Evolution, Acquisition and Processing workshop. University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. May 2019.

2. 2019 Condition C reconstruction, clausal ellipsis and island repair. Invited talk at Sluicing and ellipsis at 50. University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. April 2019.

3. 2018 Syntax and Sentence processing. Invited Lecture at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. June 2018

4. 2018 Topics in sentence processing. Invited Lecture at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. June 2018

5. 2017 Constraints and Mechanisms of Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. The University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS. USA. October 2017.

6. 2017 Constraints and Mechanisms of Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Invited Talk. University of Tokyo. Komaba, Tokyo. Japan. June 2017

7. 2017 What Can Sentence Processing Tell Us About Syntax? Invited talk at Generative Syntax Questions, Crossroads, and Challenges. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. June 2017

8. 2017 Linguistics and Cognitive Science. Invited Lecture at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. June 2017

9. 2017 Constraints and Mechanisms of Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of Maryland. College Park, MD. USA. May 2017

10. 2016 Online Processing of Elided Structures: Gapping, NP-Ellipsis and Sluicing. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. USA. May 2016

11. 2015 Incremental Processing of Relative Clauses in Japanese and Korean. Invited talk at Workshop on Relative Clauses: Relatives in East Asian & Beyond. Cornell University, Ithaca. NY. November 2015

12. 2015 Motivations and Restrictions on the Longer Dependency Formation in Japanese. Invited talk at the 3rd East Asian Psycholinguistics Conference. University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. August 2015.

13. 2015 The Online Long-Distance Dependency Formation and Local Ambiguity Resolution. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA. April 2015

14. 2014 The Online Processing of Elided Structures. Invited talk at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Leiden, Netherlands.

September 2014

15. 2014 The Online Processing of Clausal Ellipsis Constructions. Invited talk at Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK. September 2014.

16. 2014 Sluicing and Incremental Parsing. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of Minnesota, MN, USA. April 2014.

17. 2013 On the incremental processing of forward and backward sluicing. Invited talk at Cognition and Language workshop. At Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA., USA. December 2013

18. 2012 An Active Ellipsis Resolution and the Nature of Island Effects. Invited talk at Workshop on [the Syntax of Sharing & the Semantics of Sharing]. At Unerversité De Nantes. Nantes, France. November 2012.

19. 2012 How does the parser recover the content of ellipsis? Talk at the University of Illinois at Chicago Talks in Linguistics (UIC TiL). University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. September 2012.

20. 2012 The realtime processing of backward sluicing and island constraints. Talk at Meijigakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. June 2012

21. 2012 Active dependency formation in online ellipsis resolution and island constraints. Talk at International Workshop on (Japanese) Syntax and Sentence Processing. Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan. June 2012.

22. 2012 The processing of sluicing and islands. Invited talk. Mie University, Tsu, Japan. June 2012

23. 2012 The Realtime Processing of Forward & Backward Sluicing and Island Constraints. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA. February 2012.

24. 2010 Clausal Ellipsis and Incremental Structure Building. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. USA. December, 2010.

25. 2010 Sluicing and Syntactic Prediction in Online Parsing. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. USA. November, 2010.

26. 2010 The Processing of Conditional Clauses in Japanese and Active Filler Effects. Talk given at Keio Linguistics Colloquium. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. September 2010.

27. 2010 Lectures on Sentence Processing. The invited lecture for Summer Special Seminar. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. September 2010.

28. 2010 On the Syntactic Prediction in Online Sentence Processing. Invited talk at Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language. Tokyo, Japan. August 2010

29. 2009 Antecedent Contained Sluicing, Invited talk at 2nd International Workshop on Chains in Minimalism: Special Topic: Movement

and Ellipsis. Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan. August 2009.

30. 2009 The Processing of Sluicing. Talk at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. August 2009.

31. 2009 The Processing of Sluicing and the Predictive Mechanism in Online Sentence Processing. Talk at Meijigakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. August 2009.

32. 2009 On the Processing of Sluicing. Invited Talk at Psycholinguistics Brown Bag, at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, IL, USA. February 2009.

33. 2008 Why Ellipsis But Not Otherwise? Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium series at Meijigakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. January 2008.

34. 2007 Mechanisms and Constraints on Real-Time Dependency Formation. Invited talk at the Kings College London, London, UK. December 2007.

35. 2007 Gapping in NP. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series at University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. April 2007.

36. 2007 Problems of Representations in Sentence Processing. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series at University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. April 2007.

37. 2006 Mechanisms and Constraints in Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series at North Western University, Evanston, IL. November 2006

38. 2006 Constraints and Mechanisms in Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Invited Talk at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, May 2006

39. 2006 In Search of Gapped Structures. Invited talk at The First UMD–UFRJ Meeting on Syntax and Neuroscience of Language, Federal University of Rio de. Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 2006.

40. 2006 Diogo Almeida and Masaya Yoshida, Sluicing in Brazilian Portuguese and Preposition Stranding Generalization. Invited talk at The First UMD–UFRJ Meeting on Syntax and Neuroscience of Language, Federal University of Rio de. Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 2006.

41. 2006 The Predictive Mechanism in Japanese Sentence Processing. Invited talk at The First UMD–UFRJ Meeting on Syntax and Neuroscience of Language, Federal University of Rio de. Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 2006.

42. 2005 Why is Japanese Not Difficult to Process (and Sometimes it is)? Invited Talk at Seminar on Psycholinguistics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, November 2005.

43. 2005 Island Constraints and Japanese Sentence Processing. Invited talk at 20th Sophia Linguistics Society, Workshop on Psycholinguistics, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, August 2005.

44. 2005 Island Constraints and Japanese Sentence Processing. Invited Talk at the Seminar in Linguistics, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, July 2005.

45. 2003 Sentence Processing and Island Constraints. Invited talk at The 21st. National Conference of The English Linguistic Society of Japan, University of Shizuoka, November 2003.

Refereed Conference Presentations (not in proceedings) Oral Presentations 1. 2019 Shota Momma, Masaya Yoshida and Victor Ferreira. Structure before

content: long-distance dependency in sentence production. CUNY Conference On Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado, Boulder. Boulder, Co. March 2019

2. 2019 Nayoun Kim, Laurel Brehm, Patrick Sturt & Masaya Yoshida, Processing of different kind of fillers: Reactivated Fillers vs. Active Fillers. The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2019). New York City. NY. USA. January 2019

3. 2018 Ethan Myers & Masaya Yoshida. What can if-stripping tell us about ellipsis? The The 49th North East Linguistic Society (NELS 49). Ithaca, Cornell University, NY. October 2018

4. 2016 Nayoun Kim, Laurel Brehm & Masaya Yoshida, Agreement Attraction in NP ellipsis. The 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2016). Washington DC. USA. January 2016.

5. 2015 Michael Frazier, Peter Baumann, Lauren Ackerman, David Potter & Masaya Yoshida, Does wh-filler-gap dependency formation resolve local ambiguity? The 28th CUNY Conference of Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 28). Los Angels, CA. March 2015.

6. 2015 Lauren Ackerman, Nina Kazanina & Masaya Yoshida, Cataphoric dependency search overrides, but local coherence lingers. The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA2015) Portland, OR. USA. January 2015.

7. 2015 Lauren Ackerman, Michael Frazier, & Masaya Yoshida. Resumptive pronouns ameliorate island violations in forced-choice tasks. The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA2015) Portland, OR. USA. January 2015.

8. 2014 Lauren Ackerman, Nina Kazanina & Masaya Yoshida, Local Coherence Does Not Override Previously Made Structural Commitments. The 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Edinburgh, UK. September 2014.

9. 2014 Tim Hunter & Masaya Yoshida, Condition C Reconstruction, Late Adjunction and LF-Form-Chain Analysis of Sluicing. The 32nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of Southern California, Los Angels, CA. March 2013.

10. 2013 Peter Baumann & Masaya Yoshida, Locality and Binding: Local Coherences Influence Binding of Reflexives in Reading. Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing. Marseille. France. September 2013.

11. 2013 Masaya Yoshida, Tim Hunter & Michael Frazier, Parasitic Gaps Licensed by Elided Syntactic Structure. The 36th Generative Linguistics in Old World (GLOW 36) Colloquium. Lund, Sweden. April 2013.

12. 2013 Masaya Yoshida, Katy Carlson & Michael Walsh Dickey, Incremental parsing, Gapping, and Connectives. The 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, SC. March 2013

13. 2012 Masaya Yoshida, Lauren Ackerman, Morgan Purrier and Rebekah Ward, The Processing of Backward Sluicing. The 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York City, NY. March 2012

14. 2012 Masaya Yoshida, Chizuru Nakao and Iván Ortega-Santos, On ellipsis structures involving a wh-remnant and a non-wh-remnant simultaneously. The Thirty Fifth Generative Linguistics in Old World (GLOW 35) Colloquium. Potsdam, Germany March 2012

15. 2011 Honglei Wang, Masaya Yoshida & Janet Pierrehumbert, The prosodic structure in Mandarin: Evidence from the movement of the reduplicated adjective. Paper presented at the 85th annual meeting of Linguistic Society of America. Pittsburgh. January 2011.

16. 2010 Honglei Wang, Masaya Yoshida & Janet Pierrehumbert, Movement within the nominal phrase in Mandarin: reduplicated adjectives, Paper presented at the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22) , Harvard University, May 2010

17. 2009 Masaya Yoshida, Ivan Ortega-Santos & Chizuru Nakao. Why Ellipsis after Focus Movement? Paper presented at 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Arizona, AR. USA. March 2009.

18. 2008 Masaya Yoshida, Michael Walsh Dickey & Patrick Sturt, Sluicing and Syntactic Prediction, Paper presented at Architecture and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2008. Cambridge, UK. September 2008.

19. 2005 Masaya Yoshida, Sometimes, Smaller is Better: Gapping, Sluicing and Semantic Identity. Paper presented at 36th. North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS 36). At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. October 2005.

20. 2005 Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida, The Source of the Bias for Longer Filler-Gap Dependencies in Japanese. Paper presented at The 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. March 2005.

21. 2004 Nina Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida, Use of Grammatical Constraints in the Processing of Backwards Anaphora. Paper presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD. March 2004.

22. 2004 Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima & Colin Phillips, Relative Clause Prediction in Japanese. Paper presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD. March 2004.

Poster Presentation 1. 2019 Kathleen Hall & Masaya Yoshida. Online processing and interpretation

of verb phrase ellipsis. Poster presented at CUNY Conference On Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado, Boulder. Boulder, Co. March 2019.

2. 2019 Alex Krauska & Masaya Yoshida. Covert Structure and Zero Morphology in Sentence Processing. Poster presented at CUNY Conference On Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado, Boulder. Boulder, Co. March 2019,

3. 2019 Wesley Orth, Masaya Yoshida & Shayne Sloggett. NPI Illusions are a problem of quantification. Poster presented at CUNY Conference On Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado, Boulder. Boulder, Co. March 2019.

4. 2019 Nayoun Kim, Alexis Wellwood & Masaya Yoshida. Object Who is processed differently from Subject Who, Why and How. Poster presented at CUNY Conference On Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado, Boulder. Boulder, Co. March 2019.

5. 2019 June Choe, Shayne Sloggett, Masaya Yoshida & Annette D'Onofrio. Personae in syntactic processing: Socially-specified agents bias expectations of verb transitivity. Poster presented at CUNY Conference On Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado, Boulder. Boulder, Co. March 2019.

6. 2019 Kathleen Hall & Masaya Yoshida. Online processing of an elided r-expression. Poster presented at CUNY Conference On Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado, Boulder. Boulder, Co. March 2019.

7. 2019 Nayoun Kim, Laurel Brehm, Patrick Sturt & Masaya Yoshida. Different Types and Qualities of Fillers: Maintenance and Retrieval. Poster presented at CUNY Conference On Human Sentence Processing. University of Colorado, Boulder. Boulder, Co. March 2019.

8. 2019 Annette D'Onofrio, June Choe & Masaya Yoshida. Personae in syntactic processing: Socially-specified agents bias expectations of verb transitivity. Poster presented at The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York City, NY. January 2019.

9. 2019 Hyosik Kim & Masaya Yoshida. Head Movement is Not Needed for Pseudo-Noun Incorporation in Korean. Poster presented at The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York City, NY. January 2019.

10. 2019 Jiayi Lu, Cynthia K. Thompson & Masaya Yoshida. Examining Argument-Adjunct Asymmetry of Island Effect in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York City, NY. January 2019.

11. 2019 Alexandra Krauska & Masaya Yoshida. Zero Morphology and Covert Structure in Sentence Processing. Poster presented at The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York City, NY. January 2019.

12. 2018 Nayoun Kim, Laurel Brehm, Patrick Sturt & Masaya Yoshida. How long can you hold the wh-filler? Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, University of California Davis. March 2018.

13. 2018 Nayoun Kim, Laurel Brehm & Masaya Yoshida. Antecedent retrieval in ellipsis and pronominals. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, University of California Davis. March 2018.

14. 2017 Nayoun Kim, Laurel Brehm & Masaya Yoshida. Retrieving the structural and lexical content of wh-fillers: an attraction effect. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. March 2017.

15. 2017 Nayoun Kim, Alexis Wellwood & Masaya Yoshida. Online Processing of wh-adjuncts. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. March 2017.

16. 2017 Nayoun Kim, Kathleen Hall & Masaya Yoshida. Illusory Effects in Locative Constructions. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. March 2017.

17. 2016 Lauren Ackerman & Masaya Yoshida. Three wh-words are better than two (when violating the Superiority Condition). Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Gainesville, Florida. University of Florida. March 2016.

18. 2016 Kathleen Hall & Masaya Yoshida. Complexity effects in sluicing and sprouting. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Gainesville, Florida. University of Florida. March 2016.

19. 2016 Nayoun Kim, Laurel Brehm & Masaya Yoshida. Agreement Attraction in NP ellipsis. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Gainesville, Florida. University of Florida. March 2016.

20. 2016 Tomohiro Fujii, Hajime Ono & Masaya Yoshida. A constraint on the online empty pronoun resolution in Japanese. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Gainesville, Florida. University of Florida. March 2016.

21. 2015 Peter Baumann, Kathleen Hall, Nayoun Kim, R. Alexander Schumacher & Masaya Yoshida. The Processing of Adjunct Wh-Questions. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, California. University of Southern California. March 2015.

22. 2015 Katleen Hall & Masaya Yoshida. Parallelism in pronoun-antecedent dependency resolution. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, California. University of Southern California. March 2015.

23. 2015 Michael Frazier & Masaya Yoshida. Morphological and Syntactic Cues in the Processing of Gapping. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, California. University of Southern California. March 2015.

24. 2015 R. Alexander Schumacher, & Masaya Yoshida. Verb Subcategorization and Syntactic Prediction. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, California. University of Southern California. March 2015.

25. 2015 Lauren Ackerman, Masaya Yoshida & Nina Kazanina. Does the cataphoric dependency formation help the parser resolve local ambiguity? Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, California. University of Southern California. March 2015.

26. 2015 Peter Baumann & Masaya Yoshida. A psycholinguist asking who binds himself: Interference effects in the processing of reflexives. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angels, California. University of Southern California. March 2015.

27. 2015 Peter Baumann, Nina Kazanina & Masaya Yoshida. Online Processing Respects a Pragmatic Constraint or Hurford's Constraint. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angels, California. University of Southern California. March 2015.

28. 2014 Michael Frazier, Peter Baumann, Lauren Ackerman, David Potter and Masaya Yoshida. Local coherence effects and crossing reflexive- and wh-dependencies. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio State University. March 2014.

29. 2014 Lauren Ackerman, Michael Frazier and Masaya Yoshida. Resumptive pronouns salvage island violations in forced-choice tasks. Poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio State University. March 2014.

30. 2013 Michael Frazier, Peter Baumann, Lauren Ackerman, David Potter & Masaya Yoshida. Intervention by gaps in online sentence processing. Poster presented at Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing. Marseille. France. September 2013.

31. 2013 Michael Frazier & Masaya Yoshida. Structural vs. morphosyntactic economy in the processing of gapping. Poster presented at Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing. Marseille. France. September 2013.

32. 2013 David Potter, Michael Frazier & Masaya Yoshida, A Dual-Source Analysis of Gapping. Poster presented at The 36th Generative

Linguistics in Old World (GLOW 36). Lund, Sweden. April 2013.

33. 2013 Michael Frazier & Masaya Yoshida, Argument-structure driven parsing in Tagalog. The 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, SC. March 2013

34. 2013 Morgan Purrier, Rebekah Ward, Lauren Ackerman & Masaya Yoshida, Online Filler-gap dependency formation and that-trace effect. The 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, SC. March 2013

35. 2010 Masaya Yoshida, Jiyeon Lee, Isaac Rottman and Michael Dickey. Islands under the predicted structure. Poster presented at 23rd Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. New York University. New York, NY. March 2010.

36. 2010 Nina Kazanina, Leticia Pablos, Patrick Sturt and Masaya Yoshida, All long-distance dependencies are created equal but ... Poster presented at 23rd Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. New York University. New York, NY. March 2010.

37. 2009 Masaya Yoshida & Patrick Sturt, Predicting Or, Poster presented at 22nd Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. The University of California at Davis. Davis, CA. March 2009.

38. 2009 Masaya Yoshida & Michael Walsh Dickey, Anticipating Islands, Poster presented at 22nd Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. The University of California at Davis. Davis, CA. March 2009.

39. 2008 Masaya Yoshida & Ivan Ortega-Santos. Why Ellipsis but not Otherwise? Paper presented at Symposium Sur La Linguistique Hispanique 2008, Université Laval. Canada. October, 2008.

40. 2008 Masaya Yoshida, On the Syntax of Conditional Topics. Paper presented at the Fifth Workshop on Formal Altaic Linguistics (WAFL5). At School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. London, United Kingdom. May 2008.

41. 2008 Masaya Yoshida & Ángel J. Gallego, Phases and Ellipsis. Paper presented at The Twenty Seventh West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 27). At University of California Los Angels, Los Angels, CA. May 2008

42. 2008 Patrick Sturt & Masaya Yoshida, The Speed of Relative Clause Attachment. Poster presented at Architecture and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2008. Cambridge, UK. September 2008.

43. 2008 Masaya Yoshida & Michael Walsh Dickey, Active Dependency Formation for Adjunct Wh-phrases, Poster presented at The 21st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. March 2008.

44. 2008 Masaya Yoshida & Michael Walsh Dickey, Prediction in Parsing: Either Syntactic or Semantic. Poster presented at The 21st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. March 2008.

45. 2008 Rachel Baker, Celina Troutman, Melissa Baese, Masaya Yoshida & Michael Dickey, 'Either' Prediction 'or' Local Attachment: Competing effects during on-line comprehension. Poster presented at The 21st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. March 2008.

46. 2008 Masaya Yoshida & Ángel J. Gallego, Phases and Ellipsis. Paper presented at Local Modeling of Non-Local Dependencies in Syntax, the workshop in 30th meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS). Universität Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany. February, 2008.

47. 2007 Masaya Yoshida, Cyclicity and Parallelism. Paper accepted as an alternate at the 26th. West Coast Conference of Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 26). At University of California, Berkley, Berkley, CA. April 2007.

48. 2007 Masaya Yoshida & Ángel J. Gallego, Phases and Ellipsis. Paper presented at Sociedad Espanola de Linguistica, Universidad de Navarra, Navarra. December, 2007.

49. 2006 Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima, Hajime Ono & Colin Phillips, Conditionals and Long-Distance Dependency Formation in Japanese. Poster presented at The 19th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. City University of New York, NY. March 2006.

50. 2006 Hajime Ono, Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima & Colin Phillips, Real-Time Processing of Japanese Exclamatives and the Strength of Locality Conditions. Poster to be presented at The 19th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. City University of New York, NY. March 2006.

51. 2005 Nina Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida, Constraints on Coreference in the Online Processing of Backwards Anaphora. Poster presented at The 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. March 2005.

52. 2005 Chun-Chien Hsu, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida, Cues for Head-Final Relative Clauses in Chinese. Poster presented at The 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. March 2005.

53. 2004 Hajime Ono, Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima & Colin Phillips, Japanese Exclamatives and the Strength of Locality Conditions in Sentence Generation. Poster presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD. March 2004.

54. 2004 Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida, The Real-Time Application of Structural Constraints on Binding in Japanese. Poster presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park,

MD. March 2004.

55. 2002 Masaya Yoshida, When Negative Statements are Easier: Processing of Polarity Items in Japanese. Poster presented at The 15th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, City University of New York, New York, NY. March 2002.

Peer review and related activity Journal refereeing: Biolinguistics, Cognition, Cognitive Science , Gengo Kenkyu , Journal of

East Asian Linguistics, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Memory and Language, Language and Cognitive Processes, Language and Speech, Lingua, Linguistic Analysis, Linguistic Inquiry, The Linguistic Review, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory , Perceptual and Motor Skills, Syntax

Grant proposal refereeing: National Science Foundation (NSF) Linguistic Program research

grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) standard research grant.

Book proposal refereeing: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press Conference Refereeing: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP),

Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY Conference), Bilbao/Deusto Student Conferences in Linguistics (BIDE), Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS), GLOW in Asia, Northeastern Linguistic Society (NELS), West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), Western Conference of Linguistics (WECOL), Japan Society of Language Science, Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Workshop of Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL).

Professional affiliation and service Organizer: The 20th Sophia Linguistics Society, Workshop on Psycholinguistics (2005) Organizing Committee: The Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP) (2000, 2001),

The 17th Annual CUNY Conference of Human Sentence Processing (2003) Membership: Linguistics Society of America (LSA), Generative Linguistics in Old World

(GLOW)

Teaching and Advising Teaching Areas Syntactic, and Experimental Sentence Processing The establishment of new courses Topics in Linguistics: Sentence Processing (Ling 300) Developing a course on Sentence Processing in the Searle Fellows program for 2010-2011 Experimental Syntax (Ling 316) Courses Taught at Northwestern University Ling 260 Formal Analysis of Words and Sentences Spring 2019, Winter 2018, Fall

2017, Fall 2016, Spring, 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2008,

Ling 300 Topics in Linguistics: Sentence Processing Fall 2010 Ling 316 Experimental Syntax Fall 2012, Fall 2014 Ling 341 Typology Fall 2018, Fall 2009, Fall 2013 Ling 342 Structure of Various Languages (Japanese) Winter 2015, Winter 2017 Ling 360 Fundamentals of Syntax Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall

2014, Fall 2013, Fall, 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008

Ling 362 Syntactic Theory and Sentence Processing Spring 2007 Ling 460-1 Syntactic Analysis 1 Spring 2019, Winter 2016, Winter

2013, Winter 2012, Winter 2011, Winter 2010, Winter 2007

Ling 460-2 Syntactic Analysis 2 Winter 2011 Ling 462 Syntactic Theory and Sentence Processing Spring 2007 Independent Study Ling 499 (Graduate) Baumann Peter Fall 2012, Winter 2013, Spring 2013 Hsu Chien-Ju Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Spring 2013 Hall Kathleen Spring, 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Winter 2015 Kim Hyosik Fall 2017 Kim Nayoun Spring, 2014, Winter 2016, Winter 2015 Kudin Anelia Winter 2017 Lee Kyounghee Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010 Lukic Sladjana Winter 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013 Myers Ethan Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Winter 2016 Potter David Fall 2012 Schumacher Robert Winter 2013

Song Wei Spring 2016 Spicer Scott Winter 2016 Wang Honglei Fall 2008, Spring 2009 Ward Rebekah Spring 2013 Ling 399 (Undergraduate) Ayala Sudha Spring 2010 Andronic Adrian Winter 2014, Spring 2014 Bloch Benjamin Fall 2015 Cunningham Andrea Spring 2016, Winter 2016 Dabrowski Anna Spring 2009 Dunn Elizabeth Spring 2015, Winter 2015 Elowe Rebecca Spring 2015 Hsu Rebecca Winter 2011 Kudin Anelia Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Winter 2016 Lu Jiayi Fall 2017 Malene-Del Carlo Roxana, Winter 2010 Mann Wesley Winter 2015 Mansour Yaseen Winter 2014, Spring 2014 Mejia Cecily Winter 2016 Meyer Amanda Winter 2015 Nelson Corey Spring 2013 Obal Alexander Spring 2009 Paskvan Danika Winter 2013, Spring 2013 Purrier Morgan Fall 2011, Winter 2011 Raffensperger Rebecca Spring 2010 Rottman Isaac Spring 2009, Winter 2010, Spring 2010, Winter 2011 Ward Rebekah Fall 2011, Winter 2011 Weber Daniel Winter 2011 Advising Graduate Chair of Dissertation Committee Honglei Wang (2012) Michael Frazier (2015) Lauren Ackerman (2015) David Potter (2017) Peter Baumann (exp. 2017)

Nayoun Kim (exp. 2019) Kathleen Hall (exp. 2019)

Member of Dissertation Committee Jiyeon Lee (2011: CSD) Jordana Heller (2014) Robert Schumacher (exp. 2018) Chien-Ju Hsu (exp. 2018) Sladjana Lukic (2016) Chair of Qualifying Paper Committee Honglei Wang (2009) Michael Frazier (2011, 2012) Lauren Ackerman (2012)

David Potter (2012, 2013) Kyounghee Lee (2012) Member of Qualifying Paper Committee Chien-Ju Hsu (exp. 2013) Sponsor of Northwestern Cognitive Science Program Advanced Graduate Fellowship

Chien-Ju Hsu (2012-2013: CSD) Co-Sponsored with Cindy Thompson

Undergraduate Chair of BA/MA Committee Corey Nelson (2014) Rebekah Ward (2013) Other teaching and advising activities Searle Center for Teaching Excellence Fellows Program, 2011-2012 University Service Director of Graduate Studies (2016-) Director of Undergraduate Studies (2009-2016) Director of Undergraduate Studies (2014-2018) Departmental Service The chair of Department Website Renewal Committee (2011-2013) The computer manager of the Department of Linguistics (2009-) The department website manager (2009-) Linguistics Colloquium Organizer (2009-) Member of Morphology, Semantics and Syntax search committee (2012-2013) Member of Linguistics search committee (2013-2014) Lab director, Northwestern University Syntax, Semantics and Sentence Processing Lab (2008-)