East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:

(812) 855-3124

Email:

tanakan@indiana.edu

Office:

GA 2043

Website:

https://nozomitanaka.com

Education

• Ph.D., University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2016

Research Interests

• Language acquisition
• Second language acquisition
• Heritage languages
• Language processing
• Japanese linguistics

Courses

• J 101/102 Elementary Japanese
• J 301/302 Third-Year Japanese
• J 525 Teaching Japanese as a Foreign/Second Language
• E 204 Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in East Asia
• E 270 Japanese Language and Society
• E 600 East Asian Language Acquisition

Awards

• JCHAT Award (Best Paper), the 16th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences, 2014

Publication Highlights

• Tanaka, N., O’Grady, W., Deen, K., & Bondoc, I. P. (2019). An asymmetry in the acquisition of relative clauses: Evidence from Tagalog. First Language, 39(6), 618–632. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723719859090
• Camp, A., & Tanaka, N. (2019). Integration of structural probabilities in speech production: Evidence from Japanese relative clauses. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. (pp. 3295–3298). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. http://intro2psycholing.net/ICPhS/
• Tanaka, N., & Schwartz, B. D. (2018). Investigating relative clause island effects in native and nonnative adult speakers of Japanese. In A. B. Bertolini & M. J. Kaplan (Eds.), BUCLD 42: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 2) (pp. 750–763). Somerville, Cascadilla Press. Available from https://www.cascadilla.com/bucld42toc.html
• Bondoc, I. P., O’Grady, W., Deen, K., & Tanaka, N. (2018). Agrammatism in Tagalog: Voice and relativisation. Aphasiology, 32(5), 598–617.
• Tanaka, N., & Shirai, Y. (2014). L1 acquisition of Japanese transitive verbs: How do children acquire grammar in the absence of clear evidence? In S. Nam, H. Ko, & J. Jun (Eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics (Vol. 21) (pp. 281-295). Stanford, CA: CSLI.

My research interests focus on first and second language acquisition, as well as language processing. Using experimental methods, I investigate how different structures are understood and produced by children, adults, and second language learners. I am also interested in the acquisition and maintenance of heritage languages. I have primarily worked on Japanese and Tagalog, but I also hope to work on other languages of Asia and the Pacific, including the Ryukyuan languages.