Wang Weiyu (Weiyu Wang)

Enrolled in the Doctoral Program since September 2024

Research Interests: Neural Correlation of Predictive Context Build-up and Integrative Processing

China

E-mail: wwy_academic(at)outlook.com

Completed Master’s Program at Hunan University

Jiayi Chen

June 2025, Completed Master’s Program

Interests: Sentence Processing Mechanisms in Native Chinese Speakers: The Placement of Temporal Nouns and Temporal Adverbs

China

E-mail：chinkai_chen(at)163.com

Doctoral Student at the School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Beijing Language and Culture University, starting September 2025

Xiaoke Xia

June 2026, Master's Program Completed

Interests: Corpus Study on Mechanisms of Japanese Language Acquisition by Native Chinese Speakers

China

E-mail：replumbum(at)gmail.com

Jing Huiyue (Huiyue Jing)

Enrolled in the Master’s Program since September 2023

Interests: Sentence Processing of Existential and Event Sentences in Japanese: The Base Word Order Hypothesis vs. the VP-internal Subject Hypothesis

China

E-mail: 18728662181(at)163.com

Yujia Yao

Enrolled in the Master’s Program since September 2024

Interests: Emotional Sproop effect in Japanese Sentece processing by Native Chinese Speakers Learning Japanese

China

E-mail：yujiayao211(at)gmail.com

Shangyu Li

Enrolled in the Master’s Program since September 2025

Interests: Phonetic identification and phonetic misuse of Chinese learners of Japanese

China

E-mail：lishangyu(at)shu.edu.cn

Wang Weiyu (Weiyu Wang)

Master’s Program Completed in June 2024

Interests: Sentence Processing Mechanisms of Native Chinese Speakers Learning Japanese

China

E-mail: wwy_academic(at)outlook.com

Affiliation: Graduate School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai University (Doctoral Program)

Yige Li

Master’s Program Completed in June 2024

Interests: External Factors Affecting the Polite Negative Verb Forms “-masen” and “-nai desu”

China

E-mail: liyige1998(at)gmail.com; u803951h(at)ecs.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliation: Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University (Doctoral Program)

Yuanyuan Ji

Verbs and predicate structure co-occurring with soften and strengthen adverbs

China

E-mail：kienen1995(at)yahoo.co.jp

Affiliation: Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages, Guangzhou University

Shaoyun Yu

Effects of case marker drops on the processing of Japanese, Chinese and Korean sentences

China

E-mail：yushaoyun1(at)yahoo.co.jp

Affiliation: Lecturer, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hoang Thi Lan Phuong

Semantic inferences to Japanese kanji from phonological similarities with Vietnamese

Vietnam

E-mail：lanphuong.arrowkat(at)gmail.com

Affiliation: Researcher, Nagoya University

Hayashi, Tetsuya

Investigation on the causal relation between working memory and simultaneous translation from Japanese and Chinese

Japan

E-mail：tetty(at)k9.dion.ne.jp

Affiliation: Teaching Japaense in the Aichi Area

Lu Li

Background factors influencing the understanding of indirect speech

China

E-mail：131523700006(at)163.com

Lecturer, School of Japanese Culture and Economics, Xi’an International Studies University, China

Natsue Ito

Coursework completed without Ph.D. degree

Acqusition of wh-questions by native Japaense children

Japan

E-mail：talk2natsue(at)gmail.com

Yajing Feng

Semantic extensions for Japanese onomatopoeia and their acquisitions by native Chinese students learning Japanese

China

E-mail：lightyin(at)yeah.net

Lecturer, College of Foreign Languages, Hangzhou Normal University, China

Emi Namba

Canonical positions for manner and resultative adverbs in Japanese sentences

Japan

E-mail：eemm826(at)gmail.com

Lecturer, Faculty of International and Interdisciplinary Studies,Yamaguchi University

Michael Patrick Mansbridge

Ph.D. recipient of March 2018

Ambiguity in the Processing of Japanese, Korean and Mandarin Chinese Relative Clauses

The United States of America

E-mail: michaelp.mansbridge (at) gmail.com Skype: themikem22

The United States of America

Kexin Xiong

Cognitive processing of orthographically and semantically similar two-kanji compound words by native Chinese speakers learning Japanese

China

E-mail:xiongkexinkuma (at) gmail.com

Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Department of English and American Literature, Seikei University

Xin Mu

Ph.D. recipient of March 2017

Understanding of syntactic structure occurring with kara, de and ni

China

E-mail：hypnos0902(at)gmail.com

Lecturer, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China

Bulaeva Maria Eduardovna

Coursework completed without Ph.D. degree

Interlanguage/interculture comparisons of politeness expressions and perception between Japanese and Russians

Russia

E-mail: mashabyaka (at) gmail.com

Yulei Huang

Ph.D. recipient of March 2016

Hierarchy of influential factors on selections and judgements for speech act

China

E-mail: huangyulei1226 (at) gmail.com

Lecturer, Wuhan University of Engineering

Jingyi Zhang

Ph.D. recipient of March 2016

Understanding of peripheral vocabulary by native Chinese students learning Japanese

China

E-mail: jingyizhang(at)cc.miyazaki-u.ac.jp

Researcher, Nagoya Universality

Linyang Xu

Ph.D. recipient of March 2015

Acqusition of Japanese compound verbs

China

E-mail：eva19831217 (at) yahoo.co.jp

Associate Professor, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, China

Rinus Verdonschot

He belonged to the Canon Fundation Fellowship and the JSPS PD Fellowship at Tamaoka's Lab for three years total.

language production, lexical access, bulingual processing, Neurolinguistics focused on language production and bilingualism

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands

E-mail: rinusverdonschot (at) gmail.com

Xiangjuan Chu

Ph.D. recipient of March 2014

Acquisition of Japanese predicates

China

E-mail: chuxiangjuan (at) aliyun.com

Associate Professor, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, China

Sunju Park

Ph.D. recipient of March 2014

A comparative database study on the verbalization and adjectivization of Japanese and Korean two-kanji compound words

Korea

E-mail: tenchyyo76 (at) yahoo.co.jp

Lecturer, Dong-A University, Korea

Kyoko Hayakawa

Ph.D. recipient of March 2013

L1 and L2 cognitive processing mechanism of Japanese kanji compound words

Japan

E-mail: asiaicot (at) yahoo.co.jp

Associate Professor, Hitotsubasshi University, Japan

Kaori Iida

Ph.D. recipient of March 2013

Universality and specificity of sound-symbolic words

Japan

E-mail: anjyu_i (at) hotmail.com

Teaching Japanese in Europe

Kanduboda A. B. Prabath

Ph.D. recipient of September 2012

psycholinguistic, sentence processing, canonical order, scrambling, Sinhalese language

Sri Lanka

E-mail: kanda8017 (at) gmail.com
kanda (at) fc.ritsumei.ac.jp

Associate Professor, Global Gatewary Program Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Yuko Yamato

Ph.D. recipient of March 2011

language processing, L2 lexical acesss, word processing in a written text

Japan

E-mail: y.yamato (at) cjlc.osaka-u.ac.jp; yamatoyuko (at) gmail.com

Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Japan

Nobuhiro Saito

Ph.D. recipient of March 2011

L2 Japanese education, L2 Korean education, sentence inferential mechanism

Japan

E-mail: nsaito88 (at) hotmail.com

Professor, Soka University, Japan

Goss Seth

Visiting doctorial student from the Ohio State University (JSPS fellow, from October 2012 to September 2013)

L1 and L2 phonological processing, acquisition of Japanese pitch accents

The United States of America

E-mail: goss.33 (at) buckeyemail.osu.edu

Associate Professor, Emory University, the United States of America

Sachiko Kiyama

Post-doctorial researcher (from April 2011 to September, 2012)

politeness theory, experimental pragmatics, ERP, fMRI

Japan

E-mail: ZUA04776 (at) nifty.com

Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Japan

Qiannan Zhao

M.A. recipient of March 2019

Semantic similarities from the perspective of conceptual categories of 'object'-nouns occurring with Japanese-and-Chinese cognate verbs

China

E-mail：tyou_seinan0319(at)yahoo.co.jp

Sumitomo Riko (Sumitomo Science Technology), Japan

Jeeseon Kim

M.A. recipient of March 2018

Processing strategies for Japanese two-kanji compound words using phonological similarities between Japanese and Korean

Korean

E-mail：skyish24(at)gmail.com

Living in Korea

Miyako Saito

M.A. recipient of March 2018

Acquisition of past tense in early childhood

Japan

E-mail：m.teru2bouzu(at)gmail.com

English Linguistics, Gradute School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan

Shin Aikawa

M.A. recipient of March 2018

Conditions for acceptance of emotion adjectives

Japan

E-mail：shin.akw(at)gmail.com

Teaching Japanese in Japan

Sherry Lianzhen Zhuang

M.A. recipient of September 2013 (Global 30)

The sensitivity of native Japanese speakers to English tense inconsistency in ‘when’ clauses as measured by eye-tracking technique

China

E-mail: shanghai2008zhenzhen (at) yahoo.co.jp

Affiliation: Accenture Japan Ltd.

Jinghong Zhou

M.A. recipient of March 2012

perception of pitch accents, L2 acquisition

China

E-mail: syuukeikou (at) live.jp

Affiliation: AEON MALL Co.,Ltd.

Xiaojing Xing

M.A. recipient of March 2012

lexical connection of L1, L2 and L3, lexical access, loanwords

China

E-mail: kawaiijingmy (at) yahoo.co.jp

Affiliation: Chinese media 'Global Times'

Machiko Tomida

M.A. recipient of March 2011

case particle '-ni', L2 acquisition, Japanese educastion

Japan

E-mail: chassomanie15 (at) yahoo.co.jp

Affiliation: Japanese Red Cross Gifu Blood Center

Hiroko Shiose

M.A. recipient of March 2010

Cross-cultural exchanges and communication

Japan

E-mail: shiose (at) par.odn.ne.jp

Affiliation: Nagoya Universsity Graduate School of International Deveropment

Li Zhou

Completed the doctoral program at Osaka University in March 2025

Research Interest: Acquisition of 'te-kuru' in Japanese as a Second Language – In the Case of Chinese Native Speakers Learning Japanese –

China

E-mail：zhouli080925(at)outlook.com

Lecturer, Jilin International Studies University

Yang Yanping

Affiliation: Faculty of Foreign Languages, Zhongnan University of Forestry and Technology (Dean)

Research Interest: How the Grammatical Ability of Chinese Learners of Japanese Affects the Characteristics of Their Writing

China, Changsha City, Hunan Province

E-mail：314651338 (at) qq.com

Lian Lu

March 2020, Completed Doctoral Program at the School of Japanese Culture and Economy, Shanghai International Studies University

Research Interest: Acquisition of Collocational Expressions of Polysemous verbs

China, Henan Province

E-mail：lianlu319 (at) 163.com

Lecturer, Zhejiang Science and Technology University