Williams College Japanese Language Program: Core Faculty

Williams Japanese Program - Teachers

Kasumi Yamamoto
Associate Professor of Japanese

Kasumi.Yamamoto@williams.edu
Office: North Academic Building, Rm 46
(413) 597-2532

Education:
BA in English and American Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University
MA in Teaching of English as a Second Language, Teachers College, Columbia University
MA in Linguistics, Cornell University
PhD in Linguistics, Cornell University

Previous Posts:
Lecturer in Japanese at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Instructor in the FALCON intensive Japanese Program at Cornell University
Visiting Lecturer in Japanese at Columbia Universty

Interests:
Language Pedagogy, Japanese Linguistics, first and second language acquisition, lexical acquisition, and cognitive development

Courses Taught:
First-year through fourth-year Japanese
JAPN 11 Introduction to Language Acquisition (Same as Linguistics 11)

Resent Publications:
“The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers.” In The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, M. Nakayama, R. Mazuka, Y. Shirai, and P. Li (eds.). Cambridge University Press. 2006.

The Acquisition of Numeral Classifiers: The Case of Japanese Children. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 2005. <http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-9783110183672-1&l=E>

“The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers - linkage between grammatical forms and conceptual categories.” Co-authored with F. Keil. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 9: 379-409. 2000.

“The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers - linkage between grammatical forms and conceptual categories.” Co-authored with F. Keil. The Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 1159-1164.1998.

“The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers.” Co-authored with Frank Keil. The Proceedings of the 20th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development 849-860. 1996.