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Naho
Orita
Junior Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
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PhD (Linguistics), UMD
MA (English Linguistics), Kobe Shoin Women's University
Advisor(s):
Naomi Feldman, Jeff Lidz
Graduation Year:
2015
Contact:
naho@ecei.tohoku.ac.jp
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I am interested in how humans use discourse information in the language acquisition and language production. I use computational models to formalize these questions. I have investigated how language learners learn grammatical categories of pronouns using discourse information and how speakers represent/use discourse information when they choose referring expression. I have also conducted various behavioral experiments to investigate children's linguistic knowledge.
Collaborators:
Akira Omaki
Rachel Dudley
Jordan Boyd Graber
Valentine Hacquard