Kyoko Masuda Assistant Professor School of Modern Languages kyoko.masuda@modlangs.gatech.edu Ph.D., University of Arizona, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Joined faculty in 2004 Research areas/interests Cognitive Linguistics, Discourse, Second Language Acquisition Current and recent projects   Cognitive Linguistics: Applying cognitive linguistics to Japanese grammar teaching. Discourse: Interactional particles and style shifts. Second Language Acquisition: Acquisition of Japanese singleton-geminate contrast. Recent publications   Articles "Learners’ use of Japanese interactional particles in student-teacher conversations." Japanese Language and Literature 43, 2. forthcoming "Morphophonological variability and form-function regularity: a usage-based approach to the Japanese modal adverb, yahari/yappari/yappa." (With Rumiko Shinzato) Language Sciences forthcoming 24 pages. “Influence of L1 on the acquisition of Japanese mora timing by native speakers of English and Korean.” Nihongo Kyooiku 141, 3-13, 2009. "Development of the ability to lexically encode novel L2 phonemic contrasts." (With Rachel Hayes-Harb) Second Language Research 26.1, 5-33, 2008. "The discourse function of the so-called Japanese dative subject construction." Southwest Journal of Linguistics 26.2, 39-66, 2007. "Applied cognitive linguistics: the state of the arts and new directions." English Linguistics, 23, 2, 535-554, 2006. Referred conference proceedings "A usage-based account of the Japanese adverb yahari and yappa(ri) in spoken discourse." Japanese/Korean Linguistics 17, forthcoming, 14 pages. "Iwayuru yokaku shugo jyutsugo no ninchigengogaku teki koosatsu: yoohoo kiban apuroochi kara no bunseki." Proceedings of the Eight Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 127-136, 2008. "Japanese postpositions ‘ni’ and ‘de’: cognitive linguistic approach." Chicago Linguistic Society 39, 14-25, 2007. "On German and Japanese dative construction." (With Carlee Arnett) The Proceedings of Fifth Annual Meeting of the High Desert Conference in Linguistics, 43-54, 2004. Referred chapters in books "Lexical development of Korean learners of Japanese: a case study of Japanese consonant quantity." (with Rachel Hays-Harb) Applying Theory and Research to Learning Japanese as a Foreign Language Ed. M. Minami. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 40-56. "Eigobogowasha ni yoru sokuon shuutoku no sutorategii: shinrigengogakuteki jikken to onkyoo bunseki o tooshite." (with Rachel Hayes-Harb) New Directions in Applied Linguistics 4 Ed. M. Minami. Tokyo: Kurosio, 2005. 259-270. "Nihongo gakushuusha no bashokaku ni to de no goyoo: taimenhatsuwa choosa, eigo intabyuu, joshianaumetesuto kara wakatta koto." New Directions in Applied Linguistics 3, Eds. M.Minami and M. Asano. Tokyo: Kurosio, 2004. 127-142. Web sites https://www.prism.gatech.edu/~km210/ Professional associations Linguistics Society of America http://www.lsadc.org/ International Cognitive Linguistics Association http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/ Association of Teachers of Japanese http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/