EDUCATION

Ph.D. candidate, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, November 2006–present.

Ph.D. student, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, August 2002–present.

Ph.D. student, Nagoya University, Japan, April 2001–March 2004 (Allowed to conduct research at the University of Hawai‘i starting in August 2002).

M.A. student, Nagoya University, Japan (Master of Arts and Sciences), April 2000–March 2001 (Accelerated completion).

M.A. student, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan (M.A.), April 1995–March 1998.

Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan (B.A.), April 1991–March 1995.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Web Production Editor for the online journal Language Documentation & Conservation, Fall 2006-present.
Created and managed the website (http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/). Created the subscriber and hit statistics databases.

Web Production Editor for the online journal Reading in a Foreign Language, Fall 2006–present.
Managed and updated the journal journal website (http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/). Converted submitted DOC files into the HTML (by hand-coding) and PDF formats. Dealt with web page hit statistics and the subscriber database using FileMaker Pro.

Computer Room Graduate Assistant, Spring 2005–Spring 2006.
Managed the department website and maintained the hardware and software in the department computer room.

Student Coordinator, Inaugural Conference of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition — North America, Spring 2004–Fall 2004.
Engaged in administrative work especially related to the Student Travel Fellowships, logistics, conference website, and the proceedings.

Graduate Assistant, Language Analysis and Experimentation Labs, Fall 2003.
Maintained the lab equipment. Assisted lab users with the lab hardware and software. Developed instruction manuals for lab software.

Research Assistant to Kamil Ud Deen, Fall 2002–Spring 2003.
Assisted the establishment of the Language Acquisition Laboratory, which is designed for conducting preferential looking and listening experiments on children. Developed manuals for the lab software and hardware such as video camcorders and video-editing programs. Hand-coded transcripts of English-speaking children’s utterances for morphological information.

EDITED VOLUME

Deen, K. U., Nomura, J., Schutz, B. and Schwartz, B. D. (eds.). (2005). MIT/UCONN Working Papers in Linguistics: The Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition — North America . December 17–20, 2004 Honolulu, HI.

GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

Graduate Student Organization Grant, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Spring 2007.

Minae and Miki Kajiyama Scholarship, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Fall 2006–Spring 2007.

2006 Arts & Sciences Advisory Council Awards, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Graduate Division Pacific Asian Scholarship (Tuition waiver), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Fall 2002–Spring 2006.

Scholarship for Young Researchers’ Presentations at Overseas Conferences, Japanese Cognitive Science Society, August 2001.

Class 1 Scholarship, Japan Scholarship Foundation, April 2000–March 2004.

PUBLICATIONS

Ishikawa, K. & Nomura, J. (In press). Word stress placement by native speakers and Japanese learners of English. Proceedings of Interspeech 2008.

Nomura, J. (2008). Japanese non-verb-final constituent order as a way to ensure referent activation. Kotoba no Kagaku Kenkyu (Journal of the Japan Society for Speech Sciences), 9, 49–63.

Nomura, J. (2008). Early sensitivity to information structure in Japanese. In Chan, H., Jacob, H., and Kapia, E. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 32nd Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 2), 323–334, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Nomura, J. (2007). Grammaticalization of information structure: The case of child Japanese postposing. Shingaku-gihoo (IECE Technical Report), Vol. 137, No. 138 (TL2007-27), 97–102.

Nomura, J. (2007). Japanese postposing as an indicator of emerging discourse pragmatics. In Caunt-Nulton, H. Kulatilake, S. and Woo, I. (Eds.). A Supplement to the Proceedings of the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Nomura, J. (2006). Right-dislocation by Japanese-speaking children: A preliminary analysis. University of Hawai‘i Working Papers in Linguistics, 37(2), 1–21.

Nomura, J. and Kakehi, K. (2001). Development of sentence patterns in Japanese- and English-acquiring children: Analysis of longitudinal data from CHILDES. Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Cognitive Science, 411–415, Press of University of Science and Technology of China.

Nomura, J. (1998). Summary and commentary on Scliar-Cabral, L. and Secco, G. Kotoba-no Kagaku Kenkyuu (Journal of Language Processing), 2, 72–74.

Nomura, J. (1998). Gaikokugo-kyooiku-no keyword: Accent, stress, prominence (Keywords for foreign language education: Accent, stress, and prominence). Kotoba-no Kagaku Kenkyuu (Journal of Language Processing), 2, 86–87.

PRESENTATIONS

Ishikawa, K. & Nomura, J. (2008). Word stress placement by native speakers and Japanese learners of English. Poster presentation at Interspeech 2008, September 22-26, 2008, Brisbane, Australia.

Nomura, J. (2007). Early sensitivity to information structure in Japanese. Paper presentation at the 32nd Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University.

Nomura, J. (2007). Grammaticalization of information structure: The case of child Japanese postposing. Paper presentation at the Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.

Nomura, J. (2006). Japanese postposing as an indicator of emerging discourse pragmatics. Poster presentation at the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University.

Nomura, J. (2006). Right-dislocation by Japanese-speaking children: A preliminary analysis. International Joint Forum on 1st and 2nd Language Sciences, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Nomura, J. (2005). Right-dislocation by Japanese-speaking children: Commonalities and differences. Tuesday Seminar (Departmental weekly colloquium), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Nomura, J. (2005). Right-dislocation by a Japanese-speaking child: Processing, grammar or both? Poster presentation at the 2nd International Workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Nomura, J. (2004). Roles of slow-to-fast learning curves in assessing acquisition theories. Poster presentation at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition — North America 2004, University of Hawai‘i.

Nomura, J. and Kakehi, K. (2001). Development of sentence patterns in Japanese- and English-acquiring children: Analysis of longitudinal data from CHILDES. Oral presentation at the Third International Conference of Cognitive Science, Beijing, China.

Nomura, J. (1998). Perception of English Word Stress: Implications for Word Recognition and Speech Perception. Oral presentation at the Regular Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, Kobe, Japan.

DEGREE PAPERS

Nomura, J. (2001). Nihongo-eigo-kakutoku-ji-niokeru dooshi-no shuushokugo-waku-no hattatsu: CHILDES-no bunseki-o chuushin-ni (Development of sentence patterns in Japanese- and English-acquiring children: Analysis of longitudinal CHILDES data). Master's Thesis, Nagoya University, Japan.

Nomura, J. (1998). Perception of English Word Stress: Implications for Word Recognition and Speech Perception. Master's Thesis, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching assistant to Terry Klafehn, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Spring 2008.
Taught the basics of Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) in three class sessions of JPN730 (First Language Acquisition of Japanese). Developed teaching materials. The handouts are available in both English and Japanese on the CHILDES website at http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/intro/ (Nomura exercises in English and Japanese).

Teaching assistant to Kamil Ud Deen, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Spring 2007.
Taught six class sessions of LING470 (Children’s Speech). Developed teaching materials.

Teaching assistant to Kamil Ud Deen, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Fall 2006.
Taught the basics of Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) at a workshop for LING670 (Developmental Linguistics) students.

Japanese tutor, Center for Japanese studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Septermber 2005–May 2006.
Helped Japanese-learning graduate students read academic materials, write papers, and prepare for conference presentations in Japanese.

Teaching assistant to Kazuhiko Kakehi, Nagoya University, April 2002-July 2002.
Taught some of the class sessions in Computer Literacy. Developed teaching materials.

Part-time English teacher, Nagoya Preparatory School, Japan, April 2000–June 2002.
Taught English reading, composition, and grammar at various levels (three to four courses per semester). Developed teaching materials.

Part-time English teacher, Kobe Gakkan Preparatory School, Japan, April 1998–March 2000.
Taught English reading, composition, and grammar at various levels (five to six courses per semester). Developed teaching materials for these courses and for special summer sessions. Occasionally did some administrative work.

Part-time English teacher, Kobe Medical Nursing School, Japan, April 1998–September 1998.
Taught conversational English for nursing purposes.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Academic Committee, Linguistic Society of Hawai‘i, Fall 2003–Spring 2005.

Representative, Friends in Linguistics and ESL Reading Room, Fall 2003–Spring 2004.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

First language acquisition, development of discourse-pragmatics, acquisition of grammatical constructions, Japanese syntax.

LANGUAGES

Japanese — Native

English — Advanced reading, writing, and conversational ability

Spanish — Basic reading ability

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