Masaya Yoshida

Associate Professor

Department of Linguistics

Northwestern University
m-yoshida_at_northwestern.edu

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About me

The focus of my research is on aspects of syntactic representations both in static knowledge of language and in real time sentence processing. The studies I have carried out so far attempted to integrate work in theoretical and typological syntax and experimental psycholinguistics in order to reveal representations of sentence structures built in real time and mechanisms working behind online sentence processing.

  • Research Interests
  • Online Sentence Processing : Syntactic prediction in online sentence processing, Processing of Islands, Processing of Ellipsis.
  • Syntax: Cross-Linguistic Studies on Island Constraints, Ellipsis Phenomena (the syntax of sluicing and gapping), P-stranding Parameter, The syntax of conditional clauses.

Academic Background

  • University of Edinburgh, Ediburgh, UK. ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellow. 2007-2008
  • University of Maryland, College Park, MD. PhD. in Linguistics. 2006
  • Sophia University, Tokyo, M.A. in Linguistics: 2001.
  • Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo. B.A. in English Literature: 1998.

Academic Support/Research Grant

  • Masaya Yoshida (Principal Investigator) Clausal Ellipsis, Its Structure and Online Processing. National Science Foundation, Division: BCS, Linguistics, Total amount awarded: $272,679. Grant period: 09/01/2013-02/28/2017
  • Masaya Yoshida (Principal Investigator) Michael Frazier (Co-PI). National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Doctoral dissertation research: Morphosyntactic Mismatch in Gapping. $6,310. Grant period: 04/15/14-09/30/15.
  • 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. $9,132. Grant period: 03/01/18-02/29/20.

Papers and Publications

PhD.Thesis, Major and Minors Papers

  • Masaya Yoshida (2006) Constraints and Mechanisms in Long-Distance Dependency Formation. PhD. Dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park.
  • Masaya Yoshida (2004) Relative Clause Prediction in Japanese. First Generals Examination Paper.(Major area of sepecialization)
  • Masaya Yoshida (2004) The Specificity Condition: PF-condition or LF-condition? Second Generals Examination Paper (Minor area of specialization)

Jounal Articles

     
  1. Nayoun Kim, Katy Carlson, Mike Dickey, and Masaya Yoshida. (in press) Processing Gapping: Parallelism and Grammatical Constraints. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 
  2. Nayoun Kim, Laurel Brehm, Patrick Sturt & Masaya Yoshida (2019) How long can you hold the filler: Maintenance and Retrieval. Accepted for publication in Language Cognition and Neuroscience (DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2019.1626456).
  3. Jiayi Lu, Cynthia Thompson & Masaya Yoshida (2019) Chinese Wh-in-situ and Islands: A Formal Judgment Study. Accepted for publication in Linguistic Inquiry.
  4. Masaya Yoshida, David Potter & Tim Hunter (2018) Condition C Reconstruction, Clausal Ellipsis and Island Repair. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-018-9433-0)
  5. Lauren Ackerman, Michael Frazier & Masaya Yoshida (2018) Resumptive Pronouns can Ameliorate Illicit Island Extractions. Linguistic Inquiry 49 (4) 847-859.
  6. Nayoun Kim, Laurel Brehm & Masaya Yoshida (2018) The Online Processing of Noun Phrase Ellipsis and Mechanisms of Antecedent Retrieval. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 34 (2) 190-213.
  7. David Potter, Michael Frazier & Masaya Yoshida (2017) A Two-Source Hypothesis for Gapping. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 35(4), 1123–1160.
  8. Tim Hunter & Masaya Yoshida (2016) A Restriction on 'Vehicle Change' and Its Interaction with Movement. Linguistic Inquiry 47 (3), 561-571.
  9. Michael Frazier, Lauren Ackerman, Peter Baumann, David Potter & Masaya Yoshida (2015) Wh-Filler-Gap Dependency Formation Guides Reflexive Antecedent Search, Frontiers in Psychology 6. 1504.1-19
  10. Masaya Yoshida, Tim Hunter & Michael Frazier (2015), Parasitic Gaps Licensed by Elided Syntactic Structure, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33 (4), 1439-1471.
  11. Jiyeon Lee, Masaya Yoshida, Cynthia K. Thompson (2015), 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.
  12. Masaya Yoshida, Chizuru Nakao & Ivan Ortega-Santos (2015), The Syntax of Why Stripping, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33(1), 323-370.
  13. Masaya Yoshida, Nina Kazanina, Leticia Pablos & Patrick Sturt, (2014) On the origin of islands. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 29 (7), 761-770.
  14. Honglei Wang, Masaya Yoshida & Cynthia Thompson (2014) Parallel functional category deficits in clauses and nominal phrases: The case of English agrammatism, Journal of Neurolinguistics 27. 75–102
  15. Iván Ortega-Santos, Masaya Yoshida & Chizuru Nakao (2014) On ellipsiss structures involvinga wh-remnant and a non-wh-remnant simultaneously. Lingua 138. 55-85.
  16. Isaac Rottman & Masaya Yoshida, (2013) Sluicing, Idioms and Island Repair. Linguistic Inquiry. 44. 4. 651–668.
  17. Timothy Slattery, Patrick Sturt, Kiel Christianson, Masaya Yoshida and Fernanda Ferreira, (2013) Lingering misinterpretations of garden path sentences arise from competing syntactic representations, Journal of Memory and Language 69, 104–120.
  18. Michael Frazier, Masaya Yoshida, (2012) Remarks on Gapping in ASL, Snippets 26
  19. Masaya Yoshida, Michael Walsh Dickey & Patrick Sturt, in press, (2012), Predictive Processing of Syntactic Structure: Sluicing and Ellipsis in Real-Time Sentence Processing. Language and Cognitive Processes.
  20. Masaya Yoshida, Honglei Wang & David Potter, (2012), Remarks on "Gapping" in DP. Linguistic Inquiry, Vol 43, No. 3. (the latest draft)
  21. Honglei Wang, Masaya Yoshida& David Potter, (2012), Cross-conjunct binding in nominal gapping. Snippets 24.
  22. Masaya Yoshida, 2010, “Antecedent Contained” Sluicing. Linguistic Inquiry 41, Vol. 2, No.2. 348-356.
  23. Aoshima Sachiko, Masaya Yoshida, Colin Phillips, 2009 Incremental Processing of Coreference and
    Binding in Japanese    , Syntax 12:2, 93-134.
  24. Kazanina, Nina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Masaya Yoshida & Colin Phillips. The Effect of Syntactic Constraints on the Processing of Backwards Anaphora. Journal of Memory and Language, Vol. 56, 384–409.
  25. Ono, Hajime, Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima & Colin Phillips, Processing Exclamatives; Different from Interrogatives? in Ninchi Kagaku [Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society], Vol. 13, No 3 (Sep. 2006)
  26. Almeida, Diogo& Masaya Yoshida, A Problem for the Preposition Stranding Generalization. Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 38, No.2, (Spring 2007).

Book Chapters

  1. Masaya Yoshida, Chizuru Nakao, Iván Ortega-Santos. forthcoming. Ellipsis. In Andrew Carnie, Yosuke Sato and Dan Siddiqi (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Syntax. London, UK. Routledge.
  2. Masaya Yoshida, Jiyeon Lee & Michael Walsh Dickey. in press. 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.
  3. Masaya Yoshida & Ángel J. Gallego,. 2012 Phases and Ellipsis. To appear in Artemis Alexiadou, Tibor Kiss & Gereon Müller (eds.) in Local Modeling of Non-Local Dependencies in Syntax. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
  4. Akira Omaki and Masaya Yoshida. 2012, Movement. In Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. Mark Aronoff (ed.). Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  5. Masaya Yoshida. 2008. 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

Colloquium Talks & Invited Presentation

  1. Online Dependency Formation. Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of California Los Angels. Los Angels, CA. November 2019. 
  2. Some Strucural Matters: "Structure Dependent" Aspects of Online Sentence Processing.. Invited Talk at International Brain and Syntax Think Tank. Northwestern University. Evanston IL. October 2019. 
  3. Syntactic Prediction in Online Sentence Processing. Invited talk at Language Evolution, Acquisition and Processing workshop. University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. May 2019.
  4. Condition C reconstruction, clausal ellipsis and island repair. Invited talk at Sluicing and ellipsis at 50. University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. April 2019.
  5. Syntax and Sentence processing. Invited Lecture at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. June 2018
  6. Topics in sentence processing. Invited Lecture at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. June 2018
  7.  Constraints and Mechanisms of Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. The University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS. USA. October 2017.
  8. Constraints and Mechanisms of Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Invited Talk. University of Tokyo. Komaba, Tokyo. Japan. June 2017
  9. 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
  10. Linguistics and Cognitive Science. Invited Lecture at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. June 2017
  11. Constraints and Mechanisms of Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of Maryland. College Park, MD. USA. May 2017
  12. Online Processing of Elided Structures: Gapping, NP-Ellipsis and Sluicing. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. USA. May 2016
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. The Online Long-Distance Dependency Formation and Local Ambiguity Resolution. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of Texas Arlington. Arlington,TX. February 2015.
  16. The Online Processing of Elided Structures. Invited talk at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Leiden, Netherlands. September 2014
  17. The Online Processing of Clausal Ellipsis Constructions. Invited talk at Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK. September 2014.
  18. Sluicing and Incremental Parsing. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of Minnesota, MN, USA. April 2014.
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. Realtime Processing of Forward & Backward Sluicing and Island Constraints. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Feburary 2011.
  22. On the Incremental Processing of Ellipsis. Talk given at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. USA. December, 2010.
  23. Sluicing and Syntactic Prediction in Online Parsing. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. USA. November, 2010.
  24. The Processing of Conditional Clauses in Japanese and Active Filler Effects. Talk given at Keio Linguistics Colloquium. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. September 2010.
  25. Lectures on Sentence Processing. The invited lecture for Summer Special Seminar. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. September 2010.
  26. On the Syntactic Prediction in Online Sentence Processing. Invited talk at Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language. Tokyo, Japan. August 2010
  27. Antecedent Contained Sluicing, Talk at 2nd International Workshop on Chains in Minimalism: Special Topic: Movement and Ellipsis. at Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan. August 2009.
  28. The Processing of Sluicing. Talk at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. August 2009.
  29. The Processing of Sluicing and the Predictive Mechanism in Online Sentence Processing. Talk at Meijigakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. August 2009.
  30. On the Processing of Sluicing. Talk at Psycholinguistics Brown Bag, at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, IL, USA. February 2009.
  31. Mechanisms and Constraints in Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series at Kings College London, London, UK. December 2007
  32. Gapping in NP. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series at University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. April 2007.
  33. Problems of Representations in Sentence Processing. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series at University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. April 2007.
  34. Mechanisms and Constraints in Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series at North Western University, Evanston, IL. November 2006
  35. Constraints and Mechanisms in Long-Distance Dependency Formation. Talk at the Linguistics Colloquium Series at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, May 2006

Conference Presentations, Posters and Proceedings

    1. Michael Frazier, Peter Baumann, Lauren Ackerman, David Potter and Masaya Yoshida, Does wh-filler-gap dependency formation resolve local ambiguity? Paper presented at the 28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2015). University of Southern California. Los Angels, CA. March 2015.
    2. Peter Baumann, Nina Kazanina and Masaya Yoshida. Online processing respects a pragmatic constraint or Hurford's constraint. Poster presented at the 28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2015). University of Southern California. Los Angels, CA. March 2015.
    3. Peter Baumann and Masaya Yoshida. A psycholinguist asking who binds himself: Interference effects in the processing of reflexive. Poster presented at the 28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2015). University of Southern California. Los Angels, CA. March 2015.
    4. Lauren Ackerman, Masaya Yoshida and Nina Kazanin. Does the cataphoric dependency formation help the parser resolve local ambiguity? Poster presented at the 28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2015). University of Southern California. Los Angels, CA. March 2015.
    5. R. Alexander Schumacher and Masaya Yoshida. Verb subcategorization and syntactic prediction. Poster presented at the 28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2015). University of Southern California. Los Angels, CA. March 2015.
    6. Michael Frazier and Masaya Yoshida. Morphological and syntactic cues in the processing of gapping. Poster presented at the 28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2015). University of Southern California. Los Angels, CA. March 2015.
    7. Kathleen Hall and Masaya Yoshida. Parallelism in pronoun- antecedent dependency resolution. Poster presented at the 28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2015). University of Southern California. Los Angels, CA. March 2015.
    8. Peter Baumann, Kathleen Hall, Nayoun Kim, R. Alexander Schumacher and Masaya Yoshida. The processing of adjunct wh- questions.Poster presented at the 28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2015). University of Southern California. Los Angels, CA. March 2015.
    9. 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.
    10. 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.
    11. Lauren Ackerman, Nina Kazanina & Masaya Yoshida, Local Coherence Does Not Override Previously Made Structural Commitments. Paper presented at The 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh, UK. September 2014.
    12. Michael Frazier, Peter Baumann, Lauren Ackerman, David Potter, &Masaya Yoshida, WH-dependency resolution interrupts reflexive antecedent search on-line. Poster presented at The 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh, UK. September 2014.
    13. Michael Frazier and Masaya Yoshida, Agreement inhibits detection of spray/load mismatches in gapping. Poster presented at The 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh, UK. September 2014.
    14. Peter Baumann & Masaya Yoshida, Memory retrieval favors referential antecedents: Interference effects in the processing of reflexives. Poster presented at The 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh, UK. September 2014.
    15. Lauren Ackerman & Masaya Yoshida, Adding a third WH-phrase sometimes increases the acceptability of multiple-WH-questions,Poster presented at The 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh, UK. September 2014.
    16. Michael Frazier, Peter Baumann, Lauren Ackerman, David Potter & Masaya Yoshida, Local coherence effects and crossing reflexive- and wh-dependencies. Poster presented at the 27th CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 2014.
    17. Lauren Ackerman, Michael Frazier & Masaya Yoshida, Resumptive pronouns salvage island violations in forced-choice tasks. Poster presented at the 27th CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 2014.
    18. 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.
    19. Peter Baumann & Masaya Yoshida, Locality and Binding: Local Coherences Influence Binding of Reflexives in Reading, Paper presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2013 (AMLaP 2013), Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France. September, 2013
    20. Masaya Yoshida, Tim Hunter, & Michael Frazier, Parasitic Gaps Lincensed by Elided Syntactic Structure. Paper presented at the 36th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 36). Lund University, Lund, Sweden. April 2013.
    21. David Potter, Michael Frazier and Masaya Yoshida, A Dual-Source Analysis of Gapping. Poster presented at the 36th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 36). Lund University, Lund, Sweden. April 2013
    22. Masaya Yoshida, Katy Carlson & Michael Walsh Dickey, Incremental parsing, gapping, and connectives , Paper presented at The 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. March 2013
    23. Michael Frazier & Masaya Yoshida, Argument-structure driven parsing in Tagalog, Poster presented at The 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. March 2013.
    24. Morgan Purrier, Masaya Yoshida, Lauren Ackerman, Rebekah Ward, Online filler-gap dependency formation and that-trace effect, Poster presented at The 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. March 2013.
    25. Chizuru Nakao, Masaya Yoshida, & Ivan Ortega-Santos, On the Syntax of Why-Stripping. Paper presented at 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 30). University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA. April, 2012
    26. Michael Frazier, David Potter & Masaya Yoshida. Pseudo-NP Coordination. Paper presented at 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 30). University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA. April, 2012
    27. Masaya Yoshida, Lauren Ackerman, Morgan Purrier & Rebekah Ward, The processing of backward sluicing, Poster presented at the 43rd North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS 43), City University of New York, NY. November 2012
    28. Masaya Yoshida, Lauren Ackerman, Rebekah Ward, & Morgan Purrie, The processing of backward sluicing, Paper presented at The 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, City University of New York, NY. March 2012
    29. Lauren Ackerman & Masaya Yoshida, Structurally informative prosodic cues in center-embedded and right-branching sentences, Poster presented at The 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, City University of New York, NY. March 2012
    30. Masaya Yoshida, On Some Syntactic Mismatch in the Resolution of Clausal Ellipses, Paper to be presented at The 42nd North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS 42), University of Tronto, November 2011.
    31. Masaya Yoshida, Nina Kazanina, Leticia Pablos & Patrick Sturt, Island Constraints and Online Dependency Formation Processes, Paper presented at The 41st North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS 41), University of Pennsylvania, October 2010.
    32. 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
    33. 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.
    34. 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.
    35. 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.
    36. 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.
    37. 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.
    38. Masaya Yoshida, Michael Walsh-Dickey & Patrick Sturt, Sluicing and Syntactic Prediction. The paper presentet at AMLaP 2008.
    39. Masaya Yoshida & Patrick Sturt, The speed of relative clause attachment. Poster presentet at AMLaP 2008
    40. Masaya Yoshida, On the syntax of conditional topics in Japanese. The paper presented at 5th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 5), SOAS, University of London, London, UK. May 2008
    41. Masaya Yoshida & Ángel J. Gallego, Phases and Ellipsis. The paper presented at 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL27), UCLA, Los Angels, CA, USA. May 2008.
    42. 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.
    43. 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.
    44. 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.
    45. Masaya Yoshida & Ángel J. Gallego, Phases and Ellipsis. The paper to be presented at "Local Modelling of Non-Local Dependencies in Syntax", Workshop, 30th meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS). Universität Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany. March 2008.
    46. Chizuru Nakao & Masaya Yoshida (2006)“Not-so-propositional” Islands and Their Implications on Swiping. In the Proceedings of Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL).
    47. Chizuru Nakao, Hajime Ono, & Masaya Yoshida (2006) When a Complement PP Goes Missing: A Study on the Licensing of Swiping. The Proceedings of The 25th. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25).
    48. Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima, Hajime Ono & Colin Phillips (2006) 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.
    49. Hajime Ono, Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima & Colin Phillips (2006) 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.
    50. Masaya Yoshida (2005) Sometimes Smaller is Better: Sluicing, Gapping and Semantic Identity. Paper presented at NELS 36 at Univerity of Massachusetts, Amherst.
    51. Sachiko Aoshima, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida (2005) The Source of the Bias for Longer Filler-Gap Dependencies in Japanese. Paper presented at The 18th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. At University of Arizona, Tucson.
    52. Masaya Yoshida (2005) The rightward movement analysis of gapping in NP and its structural implications. Paper presented at The 24th West Coast Coference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 24). At Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
    53. Chizuru Nakao & Masaya Yoshida (2005) Japanese Sluicing as a specificational pseudo-cleft. Paper presented at Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. At Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
    54. Nina Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida (2005) Constraints on Coreference in the Online Processing of Backwards Anaphora. Poster presented at The 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
    55. Chun-Chien Hsu, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida (2005) Cues for Head-Final Relative Clauses in Chinese. Poster presented at The 18th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
    56. Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima& Colin Phillips (2004) Relative Clause Prediction in Japanese. Paper presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University of Maryland, College Park.
    57. Nina Kazanina, Ellen Lau, Moti Lieberman, Colin Phillips & Masaya Yoshida (2004) Use Of Grammatical Constraints In The Processing of Backwards Anaphora. Paper presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University of Maryland, College Park.
    58. Sachiko Aoshima, Masaya Yoshida & Colin Phillips (2004) The Real-time Application of Structural Constraints on Binding in Japanese. Poster presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University of Maryland, College Park.
    59. Hajime Ono, Masaya Yoshida, Sachiko Aoshima & Colin Phillips (2004) Japanese Exclamatives and the Strength of Locality Conditions in Sentence Generation. Poster presented at The 17th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference at University of Maryland, College Park.
    60. Masaya Yoshida (2003) The Specificity Condition: PF-condition or LF-condition? Paper Presented at WCCFL XXII 2003 at University of California, San Diego.
    61. Masaya Yoshida (2002) When negative statements are easier: processing of polarity items in Japanese. Poster presentet at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. at City University of New York, New York, March 2002.
    62. Masaya Yoshida, and Tetsuya Sano (2001) Psycolinguistic Studies on Japanese Head Internal Relative Clauses. in M. Cristina Cuervo, Daniel Harbour, Ken Hiraiwa, and Shinichiro Ishihara (eds). Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 3 (FAJL3), MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #41.

Other Presentations

  1. Masaya Yoshida, In Search of Gapped Structures. Paper presented at The First UMD– UFRJ Meeting on Syntax and Neuroscience of Language, Federal University of Rio de. Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 2006.
  2. Diogo Almeida & Masaya Yoshida, Sluicing in Brazilian Portuguese and Preposition Stranding Generalization. Paper presented at The First UMD–UFRJ Meeting on Syntax and Neuroscience of Language, Federal University of Rio de. Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 2006.
  3. Masaya Yoshida, The Rightward Movement Analysis of Gapping in NP and Its Structural Implications. Paper presented at 3rd. ECO-5 Student Conference, at Harvard University, Boston, MA. 2005
  4. Chizuru Nakao & Masaya Yoshida, Japanese Sluicing as a Specificational Pseudo-Cleft. Paper presented at 3rd. ECO-5 Student Conference, at Harvard University, Boston, MA. 2005