Research interests

Dissertation research: Postposing by Japanese-speaking children. Although Japanese is a verb-final language (e.g. Basu kita! — literally ‘Bus came!’), NPs, PPs, adverbs, etc. often occur post-verbally in colloquial speech (postposing; e.g. Kita, basu! — literally ‘Came, bus!’). The occurrence of postposing is discourse-pragmatically constrained. I explored Japanese-speaking children’s discourse-pragmatic competence at age two by analyzing their use of postposing.