Researcher Profile and Settings

Researcher

• Name

  YAMADA Toshiyuki

Profile and Settings

• Name

  YAMADA, Toshiyuki

Alternate Names

• Toshiyuki YAMADA

Website

• URI

  http://researchmap.jp/toshiyuki-yamada, (researchmap)

Foreign language

• Use in presentation

  English

• Use in publication

  English

Affiliation

• Gunma University, Department of English Education, Cooperative Faculty of Education (with Utsunomiya Univ.), Full-time Lecturer, Dr.

Education

• Apr. 2003, Mar. 2009, Gunma University, School of Education, Department of English
• Aug. 2007, May 2008, San Diego State University, College of Arts and Letters, Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
• Apr. 2009, Mar. 2011, Gunma University, Graduate School of Education, Master of English Education
• Apr. 2011, May 2018, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Doctoral Program in Language and Information Sciences

Degree

• B.Ed, Gunma University, 24 Mar. 2009
• M.Ed, Gunma University, 23 Mar. 2011
• Ph.D, The University of Tokyo, 26 Apr. 2018

Association Memberships

• Kantokoshinetsu Association of Teachers of English, 2020
• THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
• THE LINGUSTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
• JAPANESE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY
• THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
• THE ENGLISH LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
• THE ENGLISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF JAPAN
• THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR LANGUAGE SCIENCES
• THE JAPAN SECOND LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
• THE JAPAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE ENGLISH TEACHERS
• LANGUAGE EDUCATION

Research Experience

• Sep. 2022, 9999
• Oct. 2017, 9999, Ikuei Junior College
• Sep. 2017, 9999, Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Apr. 2016, 9999, Takasaki City University of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Part-time Lecturer
• Apr. 2014, Mar. 2015, Toyo Gakuen University, Part-time Lecturer
• Oct. 2014, Mar. 2015, The University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Sciences, Part-time Lecturer
• Apr. 2015, 9999, Gunma University, Faculty of Education, Lecturer

Research Activities

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences, Cognitive sciences, Psycholinguistics (Sentence Parsing)
• Humanities & social sciences, Primary/secondary education and curricula, Language Education (English Education)
• Humanities & social sciences, Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics (Syntax, Semantics)

Research Interests

• Linguistics
• Comparative Syntax
• Psycholinguistics
• Sentence Parsing
• Language Education
• Biolinguistics
• Generative Grammar
• Eye-tracking
• English Education
• Theoretical Linguistics

Published Papers

• Second language learning without teaching: Evidence from Japanese EFL learners’ free English writing, YAMADA Toshiyuki, 2023, Cognitive Science, 30, 2, 137, 142, Scientific journal
• 言語学習者の文法的誤りから迫る言語の基盤, 山田　敏幸, 2024, 31, 1, 46, 57, Scientific journal
• Unforced Revision in Processing Relative Clause Association Ambiguity in Japanese: Evidence Against Revision as Last Resort, Toshiyuki Yamada; Manabu Arai; Yuki Hirose, Jun. 2017, JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH, 46, 3, 661, 714, Scientific journal

  DOI
• Knowledge cycle among theoretical linguistics, psycho-linguistics, and foreign-language learning: Its practical implications, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Mar. 2017, Journal of Teaching Methodology, Gunma University, 16, 25, 34, Scientific journal
• Knowledge cycle among theoretical linguistics, psycho-linguistics, and foreign-language learning: Its theoretical implications, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Feb. 2017, Annual Reports of the Faculty of Education, Gunma University, Cultural Science Series, 66, 143, 159, Research institution
• Theoretical linguistics, psycho-linguistics, and foreign-language learning: A model of their knowledge cycle, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Jul. 2016, IEICE Technical Report, 116, 159, 19, 24, International conference proceedings
• Three factors in explaining ungrammatical sentences in English: What else?, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Mar. 2016, Journal of Teaching Methodology, Gunma University, 15, 9, 18, Symposium
• Linguistic theory evaluation and comparison based on a universal database of ungrammatical sentences: The framework, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Feb. 2016, Annual Reports of the Faculty of Education, Gunma University, Cultural Science Series, 65, 103, 122, Research institution
• Towards constructing a universal database for linguistic analysis, 山田 敏幸, Aug. 2015, 115, 176, 23, 26, International conference proceedings
• Corpus frequency of relative clause association in Japanese, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Douglas ROLAND; Manabu ARAI; Yuki HIROSE, 2014, IEICE Technical Report, 114, 176, 127, 132, International conference proceedings
• Second language acquisition and sentence processing: Relative clause attachment in L1 Japanese and L2 English, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Keiko UEHARA, 2010, Journal of Teaching Methodology, Gunma University, 9, 43, 52, Research institution
• Singular/plural asymmetry in Japanese EFL learners’ on-line sensitivity to English number dis/agreement, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, 2012, Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 194, 203, Research society
• Japanese EFL learners’ on-line sensitivity to subject-verb number dis/agreement in English, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, 2012, IEICE Technical Report, 112, 145, 85, 90, International conference proceedings
• On the multiple subject construction in Japanese: A cartographic approach, Toshiyuki YAMADA, 2013, Linguistic Research: Working Papers in English Linguistics, 29, 93, 114, Research institution
• Optional reanalysis in relative clause association ambiguity in Japanese, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, 2013, IEICE Technical Report, 113, 174, 93, 98, International conference proceedings
• Japanese EFL learners’ native-like parsing of PP attachment ambiguity, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, 2014, JELS, 31, 392, 398, International conference proceedings
• Japanese EFL learners’ asymmetrical sensitivity to English number dis/agreement, Toshiyuki YAMADA, 2014, Language and Information Sciences, 12, 55, 71, Research institution
• Applicability of insights from theoretical linguistics (generative syntax) and psycholinguistics (sentence processing) to English education: Two preliminary case studies, Toshiyuki YAMADA, 2014, Komaba Journal of English Education, 5, 29, 66, Research institution
• Eliminating the EPP toward a principled explanation: Labeling in the ECM construction, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Feb. 2015, JELS, 32, 367, 373, International conference proceedings
• English Real-Time Speech Recognition Captions: Easy-to-Read Line Breaks for Learners of English as a Foreign Language Who are Deaf and/or Hard of Hearing, NAKANO Satoko;YAMADA Toshiyuki;UEHARA Keiko;KANAZAWA Takayuki;HOOGENBOOM Raymond B.;UEDA Kazutaka;IFUKUBE Tohru, 2014, The Japanese Journal of Special Education, 52, 4, 275, 285
• Unforced Revision in Processing Relative Clause Association Ambiguity in Japanese: Evidence Against Revision as Last Resort., Yamada Toshiyuki;Arai Manabu;Hirose Yuki, Journal of psycholinguistic research, 46, 3

  DOI
• A philosophy of theory and practice in English education: Where we are now, and where we are going, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Mar. 2021, Journal of Teaching Methodology, Gunma University, 20, 1, 12, Scientific journal
• Grammatical illusions in L2 learners: A new use of data for error analysis, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Feb. 2021, Annual Reports of the Faculty of Education, Gunma University, Cultural Science Series, 70, 129, 143, Research institution
• The innateness of human language: Viewing from grammatical errors of second language learners, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Feb. 2020, Annual Reports of the Faculty of Education, Gunma University, Cultural Science Series, 69, 129, 137, Research institution
• Frequently observed grammatical errors of Japanese EFL learners: Their theoretical implications, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Feb. 2019, Annual Reports of the Faculty of Education, Gunma University, Cultural Science Series, 68, 129, 140, Research institution
• A preliminary study on why second language learners accept ungrammatical sentences: Its theoretical implications, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Feb. 2018, Annual Reports of the Faculty of Education, Gunma University, Cultural Science Series, 67, 165, 176, Research institution
• Knowledge cycle among theoretical linguistics, psycho-linguistics, and foreign-language learning: Its theoretical implications, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Feb. 2017, Annual Reports of the Faculty of Education, Gunma University, Cultural Science Series, 66, 143, 159, Research institution
• Three factors in explaining ungrammatical sentences in English: What else?, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Mar. 2016, Journal of Teaching Methodology, Gunma University, 15, 9, 18, Scientific journal
• Linguistic theory evaluation and comparison based on a universal database of ungrammatical sentences: The framework, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Feb. 2016, Annual Reports of the Faculty of Education, Gunma University, Cultural Science Series, 65, 103, 122, Research institution
• Eliminating the EPP toward a principled explanation: Labeling in the ECM construction, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Feb. 2015, JELS, 32, 367, 373, International conference proceedings
• Applicability of insights from theoretical linguistics (generative syntax) and psycholinguistics (sentence processing) to English education: Two preliminary case studies, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Mar. 2014, Komaba Journal of English Education, 5, 29, 66, Research institution
• On the multiple subject construction in Japanese: A cartographic approach, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Dec. 2013, Linguistic Research: Working Papers in English Linguistics, 29, 93, 114, Research institution
• Unforced revision in processing relative clause association ambiguity in Japanese: Evidence against Revision as Last Resort, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Manabu ARAI; Yuki HIROSE, May 2017, Journal of Psycholinguistic Researc, 46, 3, 661, 714, Scientific journal
• Japanese EFL learners’ native-like parsing of PP attachment ambiguity, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, Feb. 2014, JELS, 31, 392, 398, International conference proceedings
• Singular/plural asymmetry in Japanese EFL learners’ on-line sensitivity to English number dis/agreement, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, Dec. 2012, Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 194, 203, Research society
• Second language acquisition and sentence processing: Relative clause attachment in L1 Japanese and L2 English, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Keiko UEHARA, Mar. 2010, Journal of Teaching Methodology, Gunma University, 9, 43, 52, Scientific journal
• 群馬大学での授業実践から日本の外国語（英語）教育を考える：2020年度の成果, 山田敏幸, 金田仁秀, 田中一嘉, 三原智子, レイモンド・B・フーゲンブーム, Mar. 2021, 20, 69, 78, Scientific journal
• 群馬大学での授業実践から日本の外国語（英語）教育を考える：2019年度の成果, 山田敏幸, 金田仁秀, 柴田知薫子, 田中一嘉, 三原智子, レイモンド・B・フーゲンブーム, Mar. 2020, 19, 9, 18, Scientific journal
• 教育学部GFL育成プログラムの現状と今後の課題：2018年度のアンケート分析を踏まえて, 山田敏幸, 鈴木 豪, Mar. 2020, 37, 185, 194, Research institution
• 群馬大学での授業実践から日本の外国語（英語）教育を考える：2018年度の成果, 山田敏幸, 金田仁秀, 田中一嘉, 三原智子, Mar. 2019, 18, 1, 7, Scientific journal
• 群馬大学での授業実践から日本の外国語（英語）教育を考える：2017年度の成果, 山田敏幸, 上原景子, 金田仁秀, 柴田知薫子, 田中一嘉, 三原智子, 宮本 文, レイモンド・B・フーゲンブーム, Mar. 2018, 17, 41, 50, Scientific journal
• 英語教育における流暢さと即興力の育成：中学生の話すことにおける意識の一考察, 上原景子, 山田敏幸, レイモンド・B・フーゲンブーム, 遠藤直哉, 岩崎秀平, 宮崎洋人、柳川祥恵、林 尚子, Feb. 2018, 67, 177, 196, Research institution
• 大学教養英語での多聴について：授業外学習のためのツール, 三原智子, 山田敏幸, Feb. 2018, 67, 115, 128, Research institution
• 文化・社会コース英語領域「教職実践研究B」の教育実践報告－2015年度と2016年度の教育実践を中心に－, 渡部孝子, 三原智子, 柴田知薫子, 山田敏幸, 田中一嘉, 金田仁秀, 宮本 文, Mar. 2017, 16, 25, 34, Scientific journal
• 聴覚障害者が読みやすい英語音声認識字幕呈示の改行条件に関する研究, 中野聡子, 山田敏幸, 上原景子, 金澤貴之, レイモンド・B・フーゲンブーム, 上田一貴, 伊福部 達, Dec. 2014, 52, 4, 275, 285, Scientific journal
• 聴覚障害者の英語音声認識字幕の読みに対する文の区切りと読みやすさに関する実験的検討, 中野聡子, 山田敏幸, 上原景子, 金澤貴之, レイモンド・B・フーゲンブーム, 上田一貴, 伊福部 達, Jul. 2011, 40, 1, 135, 143, Scientific journal
• 日本人聴覚障害者による視覚提示英単語の語彙情報アクセス：誤変換を含む英語音声認識字幕の改善に向けた実験的検討, 中野聡子, 山田敏幸, 上原景子, 金澤貴之, レイモンド・B・フーゲンブーム, 上田一貴, 伊福部 達, Feb. 2011, 60, 135, 143, Research institution
• Unforced Revision in Processing Relative Clause Association Ambiguity in Japanese: Evidence Against Revision as Last Resort, Yamada, Toshiyuki;Arai, Manabu;Hirose, Yuki, 2017, JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH, 46, 3, 661, 714

  DOI

MISC

• English Real-Time Speech Recognition Captions: Easy-to-Read Line Breaks for Learners of English as a Foreign Language Who are Deaf and/or Hard of Hearing, NAKANO Satoko; YAMADA Toshiyuki; UEHARA Keiko; KANAZAWA Takayuki; HOOGENBOOM Raymond B; UEDA Kazutaka; IFUKUBE Tohru, 2014, The Japanese Journal of Special Education, 52, 4, 275, 285

Books etc

• 日本人英語学習者の文法的誤り１, Feb. 2019
• 日本語の関係節処理における主要部接続曖昧性, Mar. 2021

Presentations

• What grammatical errors of second language learners tell us about the innateness of human language, YAMADA Toshiyuki, The 22nd International Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA2022), 23 Oct. 2022, 22 Oct. 2022, 23 Oct. 2022, English, International conference
• “Daffodils”から見えるもの：（大学）英語教育における文学テクストのraison d'être, 鈴木哲平; 河内紀彦; 山田敏幸; 中川映里; アルヴィ宮本なほ子, 日本英文学会関東支部第7回大会（2013年度夏季大会）, 22 Jun. 2013, Japanese, Domestic conference
• Asymmetry in Japanese EFL learners’ on-line sensitivity to English number agreement, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, The 12th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association, 02 Jun. 2012, English, Tokyo, Domestic conference
• A cartographic analysis of the mutiple subject construction in Japanese, Toshiyuki YAMADA, 日本言語学会第145回大会, 24 Nov. 2012, Japanese, Fukuoka, Domestic conference
• Japanese EFL learners’ on-line parsing preference in English, Toshiyuki YAMADA, The 14th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences, 01 Jul. 2012, English, Nagoya, International conference
• The influence of implicit causality on resolution of the Japanese RC attachment ambiguity, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, The 15th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences, 29 Jun. 2013, English, Nagasaki, International conference
• Japanese EFL learners’ native-like parsing of PP attachment ambiguity, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) 6th International Spring Forum 2013, 27 Apr. 2013, English, Tokyo, International conference
• Reconsideration of Revision as Last Resort: Optional revision in relative clause association ambiguity in Japanese, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, 日本言語学会第147回大会, 23 Nov. 2013, Japanese, Hyogo, Domestic conference
• Unforced revision in the processing of relative clause association ambiguity in Japanese, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Manabu ARAI; Yuki HIROSE, The 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 12 Mar. 2014, English, Columbus, U.S.A., International conference
• Word order restrictions on particles -ga and -wa in Japanese: A cartographic approach, Toshiyuki YAMADA, Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics (FAJL) 7, 28 Jun. 2014, English, Tokyo, International conference
• Eliminating the EPP toward a principled explanation: Labeling in the ECM construction, Toshiyuki YAMADA, The English Linguistic Society of Japan (ELSJ) 7th International Spring Forum 2014, 20 Apr. 2014, English, Kyoto, International conference
• Error analysis in SLA: L1 transfer or what?, Toshiyuki YAMADA, The 20th International Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA2020), Mar. 2021, English, On-line, International conference
• Innateness of human language observed in second language acquisition, Toshiyuki YAMADA, An International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL), Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP), and the technical group of thought and language of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (TL) 2019, Jul. 2019, English, Kobe, International conference
• (Most) frequently observed grammatical errors of Japanese EFL learners even after the six years of English learning, Toshiyuki YAMADA, An International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL), Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP), the technical group of thought and language of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (TL), and Theoretical Linguistics at Keio (TaLK) 2018 , Jul. 2018, English, Tokyo, International conference
• Why do L2 learners accept ungrammatical sentences? A preliminary study, Toshiyuki YAMADA, An International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) and Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP) 2017, Jul. 2017, English, Tokyo, International conference
• Theoretical linguistics, psycho-linguistics, and foreign-language learning: A model of their knowledge cycle, Toshiyuki YAMADA, An International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) 2016, Jul. 2016, English, Tokyo, International conference
• Towards constructing a universal database for linguistic analysis, Toshiyuki YAMADA, An International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) 2015, Aug. 2015, English, Tokyo, International conference
• Corpus frequency of relative clause association in Japanese, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Douglas ROLAND; Manabu ARAI; Yuki HIROSE, An International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) 2014, Jul. 2014, English, Tokyo, International conference
• Unforced revision in the processing of relative clause association ambiguity in Japanese, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Manabu ARAI; Yuki HIROSE, The 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Mar. 2014, English, Cambridge, USA, International conference
• Optional reanalysis in relative clause association ambiguity in Japanese, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, An International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) 2013, Jul. 2013, English, Osaka, International conference
• The influence of implicit causality on resolution of the Japanese RC attachment ambiguity, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, The 15th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences, Jun. 2013, English, Nagasaki, International conference
• Japanese EFL learners’ on-line sensitivity to subject-verb number dis/agreement in English, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, An International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) 2012, Jul. 2012, English, Yamagata, International conference
• Japanese EFL learners’ on-line parsing preference in English, Toshiyuki YAMADA; Yuki HIROSE, The 14th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences, Jul. 2012, English, Nagoya, International conference

Awards

• LSJ Presentation Award, Toshiyuki YAMADA, A cartographic analysis of the multiple subject construction in Japanese, The Linguistic Society of Japan, Jun. 2013

Research Projects

• 2019, 2023, Principal investigator
• Toshiyuki YAMADA, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), Aug. 2015, Mar. 2017, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
• Relative Clause Attachment Ambiguity in Japanese and English Sentence Processing, Toshiyuki YAMADA, The University of Tokyo, Jul. 2011, Dec. 2011, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
• Jul. 2012, Dec. 2012, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
• Jul. 2013, Dec. 2013, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
• Oct. 2013, Mar. 2014, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding

Social Contribution

Media Coverage

• 群馬テレビ「ビジネスジャーナル」出演, 28 Jan. 2023