Yuriko Oshima-Takane

Professor Emerita


Stewart Biological Sciences Bldg.
Room N8/14, 398-4672
yuriko.oshima-takane at mcgill.ca
http://takane.brinkster.net/yuriko

Research Areas

Cognition-Language-Perception, Developmental, Quantitative-Modeling

Research Summary

Prof. Oshima-Takane investigates the underlying mechanisms as well as environmental factors that together determine the course of early language development.  Her recent research in this area includes cross-linguistic study on early word learning in children and effects of linguistic input and social interactions on the development of language and communication.  In addition to her empirical studies, she conducts computer modelling experiments and network analysis to understand semantic representations and the developmental mechanisms in children.

Selected References

Oshima-Takane, Y., Kobayashi, T., Ariyama, J., Katerelos, M., & Poulin-Dubois, D. (in press). Early verb learning in 20-month-old Japanese-speaking children.  Journal of Child Language.

Blais, M.J., Oshima-Takane, Y., Genesee, F., & Hirakawa, M. (2010). Crosslinguistic influence on argument realization in Japanese-French bilinguals. Proceedings of 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Guerriero, S. M., Oshima-Takane, Y., Kuriyama, Y. (2006). The development of referential choice in English and Japanese: A discourse-pragmatic perspective. Journal of Child Language, 33, 823-257.

Oshima-Takane, Y. (2006). Acquisition of nouns and verbs in Japanese. In M. Nakayama, R. Mazuka, Y. Shirai, & P. Li (Eds.), Handbook of East Asian psycholinguistics: Japanese.  Cambridge University Press.

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