Kasumi Yamamoto

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Frank M. Gagliardi Professor of Japanese

413-597-2532
Hollander Hall Rm 255

Education

B.A. Aoyama Gakuin University (1980)
M.A. Columbia University, TESOL (1985)
M.A. Cornell University, Linguistics (1994)
Ph.D. Cornell University, Linguistics (2000)

Areas of Expertise

Language Pedagogy
Japanese Linguistics
First and second language acquisition Lexical acquisition
Cognitive development

Courses

JAPN 258 / PSYC 258 SEM

Language and Literacy Development (not offered 2023/24)

JAPN 407 / ASIA 207 TUT

An Exploration of Japanese Language and Culture (not offered 2023/24)

Scholarship/Creative Work

Japanese Linguistics for Japanese-Language Learners. Manuscript in progress.

Online Reading for the Advanced Japanese Language Learners: 自然災害と日本人. A joint project with the MIT Japanese program, http://web.mit.edu/tohoku/ . 2014.

Japanese Kanji Basics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtwD31VPI1c. 2012.

“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.

“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.

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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