Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Linguistics
Job title
Professor
Degree
教養学士(International Christian University), 教育学修士(International Christian University), Ph.D. in Linguistics(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Research funding number
60208931
J-Global ID
200901046814317810
Profile
Post-doctoral Fellow: Center for Cognitive Science, MIT (1986-1987) Invited Fellow: ATR International (Summer 1999) Japan Foundation Fellow: University of Tokyo (October 2000-July 2001)My research is primarily concerned with the nature and functioning of the faculty of language, a biologically endowed human cognitive capacity. I am particluarly interested in constructing an explanatory theory of invariant principles of the human language faculty, as they interact with the system of parameters. The nature of these parameters (their emergence and interconnections) is also my central concern.(Subject of research) General linguistic theory, theory of parameters, comparative syntax, mathematical model of language acquisition
Research Interests
generative grammar
,philosophy of linguistics
,the neuroscience of language
,universal grammar
,comparative syntax
,parameters
Research Areas
Life sciences / Basic brain sciences /
Humanities & social sciences / Japanese linguistics /
Humanities & social sciences / English linguistics /
Keita Umejima Isso Nakamura Naoki Fukui Mihoko Zushi Hiroki Narita Kuniyoshi L. Sakai
Frontiers in Psychology 14 1-17 Jul 2023 [Refereed]
Surface linear (left-to-right) arrangements of human languages are actually an amalgam of the core language system and systems that are not inherently related to language. It has been widely recognized that an unbounded array of hierarchically str...
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