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Miwa Isobe
 
Organization
Graduate Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research Faculty of Education Human Science (Language Education) Professor
Title
Professor

Research History

  • University of Yamanashi   Graduate Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research / Faculty of Education   Professor

    2021.8

  • Tokyo University of the Arts   Training Center for Foreign Languages and Diction   Associate Professor

    2016.4 - 2021.7

  • Tokyo University of the Arts   Training Center for Foreign Languages and Diction   Assistant Professor

    2013.4 - 2016.3

  • Tokyo University of the Arts   Training Center for Foreign Languages and Diction   Assistant Professor

    2007.4 - 2013.3

Education

  • Keio University   Graduate School of Human Relations   Doctoral Program in Education

    1999.4 - 2003.3

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    Country: Japan

  • Sophia University   Graduate School of Foreign Studies   Master's Program in Linguistics

    1995.4 - 1997.3

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    Country: Japan

Degree

  • Ph. D. in Education ( Keio University )

Research Areas

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / English linguistics

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics

Research Interests

  • Language acquisition

  • Generative Grammar

  • Psycholinguistics

Research Projects

  • 日本語の真偽疑問文に対する応答に関する獲得研究

    2023.4 - 2026.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(C)

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    Authorship:Principal investigator  Grant type:Competitive  Type of fund::Science research expense

  • 母語獲得過程における非顕在要素の理解―実証研究

    2019.4 - 2023.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(C)  基盤研究(C)

    磯部 美和

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  • The relationship between the development of language and theory of mind: a phonological and syntactic approach

    2017.4 - 2023.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Kobayashi, Yukino

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    Authorship:Coinvestigator(s)  Type of fund::Science research expense

  • Acquisition of Japanese verbal compounding: Theoretical and experimental studies

    2015.4 - 2018.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Isobe, Miwa

  • Recursion in Japanese: Syntactic Analysis and Acquisition of Relative Clauses and Locative Phrases

    2014.4 - 2017.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    NAKATO, Terue

Papers

  • Acquisition of Passives and Benefactives in Japanese: In Reference to Theory of Mind

    Reiko Okabe, Miwa Isobe, Shigeto Kawahara, Yukino Kobayashi, Yasuyo Minagawa, Saeka Miyahara, and Tomoko Monou

    Proceedings of the 48th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development   355 - 366   2024.10

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    Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (international conference proceedings)  

  • Adjunct-inclusive interpretations of verb-echo answers in child Japanese: A preliminary study

    Okabe, Reiko and Miwa Isobe

    Studies in the Humanities   112   75 - 88   2023.3

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    Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution)  

  • Comprehension of Japanese passives: An eye-tracking study with 2-3-year-olds, 6-year-olds and adults Reviewed

    Isobe, Miwa, Reiko Okabe, Yukino Kobayashi, Shigeto Kawahara, Tomoko Monou, Kazuhiro Abe, Rei Masuda, Saeka Miyahara, Yasuyo Minagawa

    Syntax Processing   108 - 126   2021.7

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    Authorship:Lead author   Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (international conference proceedings)  

  • Lexical Integrity and Acquisition of N-N Compounds in Japanese: A Preliminary Study

    Okabe R,Isobe M

    The Joy and Enjoyment of Linguistic Research: A Festschrift for Takane Ito   417 - 427   2021.3

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    Language:English  

  • Verb-Echo Answers in Child Japanese

    Isobe M,Okabe R

    The Joy and Enjoyment of Linguistic Research: A Festschrift for Takane Ito   396 - 406   2021.3

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    Language:English  

  • The acquisition of V-V compounds in Japanese Reviewed

    Isobe M,Okabe R

    Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research   143 - 157   2019.4

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  • Acquisition of the takete-maluma effect by Japanese speakers

    Kawahara S,Isobe M,Kobayashi Y,Monou T,Minagawa Y

    Reports of the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies   50   63 - 78   2019.3

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  • Acquisition of Sound Symbolic Values of Vowels and Voiced Obstruents by Japanese Children: Using a Pokemonastics Paradigm Reviewed

    KAWAHARA Shigeto,ISOBE Miwa,KOBAYASHI Yukino,MONOU Tomoko,OKABE Reiko

    Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan   22 ( 2 )   122 - 130   2018.8( ISSN:1342-8675 )

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    DOI: 10.24467/onseikenkyu.22.2_122

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  • Lexical V-V compounds in child Japanese Reviewed

    Isobe M,Okabe R,Kido Y

    Journal of Japanese Linguistics   34 ( 1 )   3 - 21   2018.5

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  • Acquisition of recursive possessives and locatives within DPs in Japanese

    Terunuma A,Isobe M,Nakajima M,Okabe R,Inada S,Inokuma S,Nakato T

    Proceedings of the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development   626 - 636   2017.5

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  • Japanese direct passive: Parental input and child comprehension Reviewed

    Isobe M,Okabe R

    Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2013   205 - 217   2015.7

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  • Acquisition and Use of Linguistic Knowledge: Scrambling in Child Japanese as a Test Case Reviewed

    Utako Minai,Miwa Isobe,Reiko Okabe

    JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH   44 ( 3 )   287 - 307   2015.6( ISSN:0090-6905 )

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    Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS  

    The current study investigates preschool-age children's comprehension of scrambled sentences in Japanese. While scrambling has been known to be challenging for children, biasing them to exhibit non-adult-like interpretations (e.g., Hayashibe in Descr Appl Linguist 8:1-18, 1975; Sano in Descr Appl Linguist 10:213-233, 1977; Suzuki in Jpn J Educ Psychol 25(3):56-61, 1977), children are able to interpret scrambled sentences in an adult-like way when the pragmatics is enriched in the experiments (Otsu in Acquisition studies in generative grammar, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp 253-264, 1994). These findings suggest that children's difficulty in comprehending scrambling may be due to processing difficulties (Suzuki in J Psycholinguist Res 42(2), 119-137, 2013), such as the Lexical-ordering Strategy bias (Bever in Cognition and language development, Wiley, New York, pp 279-352, 1970), rather than their lack of the linguistic knowledge of scrambling. The current study revealed that children are indeed able to utilize prosodic information to interpret scrambled sentences in an adult-like way. Our findings provide converging evidence in favor of the proposal that children's grammatical knowl

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  • Dative Subject Constructions in Child Japanese

    Isobe M,Okabe R

    Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics   6   85 - 96   2013.4

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  • Head-Internal Relative Clauses in Child Japanese

    Isobe M

    Proceedings of the 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development   358 - 369   2003.5

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    Authorship:Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author   Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (international conference proceedings)   Publisher:Cascadilla Press  

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Books and Other Publications

  • 言語研究の世界―生成文法からのアプローチ

    大津由紀雄・今西典子・池内正幸・水光雅則(監修)、杉崎鉱司・稲田俊一郎・磯部美和(編集)( Role: Joint Editor編集(共編)、第11章(共著)、終章(共著))

    研究社  2022.2   ISBN:978-4-327-40177-1

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    Language:Japanese   Book type:Scholarly book

Presentations

  • Development of linguistic competence: Comprehension and grammaticality judgment in child Japanese International conference

    Minai U, Isobe M, Okabe R

    XVIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language  2024.7 

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    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Venue:Prague   Country:Czech Republic  

  • Acquisition of passives and benefactives in Japanese: In reference to Theory of Mind International conference

    Okabe R, Isobe M, Kawahara S, Kobayashi Y, Minagawa Y, Miyahara S, Monou T

    47th Boston University Conference on Language Development  2023.11 

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    Event date: 2023.11

    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Venue:Boston   Country:United States  

  • 未就学児による拍ベースの数え方の習得について:実験的探究

    桃生朋子・磯部美和・岡部玲子・川原繁人・小林ゆきの

    音韻論フェスタ 2023  2023.3 

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    Event date: 2023.3

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

  • Adjunct-Inclusive Interpretations of Verb-Echo Answers in Child Japanese: A Preliminary Study International conference

    Isobe M. Okabe R.

    The 3rd International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics  2021.11 

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    Event date: 2021.11

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:National Tsing Hua University (online)  

  • Verb-Echo Answers in Child Japanese International conference

    Isobe M,Okabe R

    Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2019  2019.9 

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    Event date: 2019.9

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Milan  

  • Comprehension of Japanese passives: An eye-tracking study with 2-3-year-olds, 6-year-olds and adults International conference

    Isobe M,Okabe R,Kobayashi Y,Kawahara S,Monou T,Abe K,Masuda R,Miyahara S,Minagawa Y

    Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference  2019.6 

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    Event date: 2019.6

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Palma de Mallorca  

  • Acquisition of the takete-maluma effects by Japanese speaker: A cross-sectional study International conference

    Kobayashi Y,Isobe M,Kawahara S,Monou T,Okabe R,Abe K,Minagawa Y

    MAPLL × TCP × TL × TaLK (MT3) 2018  2018.7 

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    Event date: 2018.7

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Tokyo  

  • Acquisition of V-V and N-N Compounds in Japanese: From the View-point of the Compounding Parameter International conference

    Okabe R,Isobe M

    The 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference  2017.10 

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    Event date: 2017.10

    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Venue:Honolulu, HI  

  • Recursive relative clauses in child Japanese International conference

    Nakajima M,Isobe M,Okabe R,Terunuma A,Inokuma S,Inada S,Nakato T

    Workshop on the Acquisition of Recursion at the 4th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition  2016.11 

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    Event date: 2016.11

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Bucharest  

  • Acquisition of recursive possessives and locatives within DPs in Japanese International conference

    Terunuma A,Nakato T,Isobe M,Nakajima M,Okabe R:Inada S,Inokuma S

    The 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development  2016.11 

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    Event date: 2016.11

    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Venue:Boston, MA  

  • The acquisition of Japanese V-V compounds International conference

    Isobe M,Okabe R

    The 7th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America  2016.9 

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    Event date: 2016.9

    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Venue:Urbana-Champaign, IL  

  • 日本語の統語的複合動詞の獲得‐理解実験を通して

    岡部玲子,磯部美和

    日本言語学会第151回大会  2015.11 

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    Event date: 2015.11

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:名古屋  

  • Lexical V-V Compounds in Child Japanese International conference

    Isobe M,Okabe R,Kido Y

    The 9th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics  2014.9 

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    Event date: 2014.9

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Nantes  

  • Japanese Direct Passive: Parental Input and Child Comprehension International conference

    Isobe M,Okabe R

    Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2013  2013.9 

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    Event date: 2013.9

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Oldenburg  

  • Word Order in Child Japanese: An Experimental Study on Relative Clauses International conference

    Minai U,Isobe M,Okabe R

    Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 5  2012.10 

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    Event date: 2012.10

    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Venue:Lawrence, KS  

  • Dative Subject Constructions in Child Japanese International conference

    Isobe M,Okabe R

    Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6  2012.9 

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    Event date: 2012.9

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Berlin  

  • Acquisition and Deployment of the Knowledge of Scrambling in Child Japanese International conference

    Minai U,Isobe M,Okabe R

    Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2011  2011.9 

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    Event date: 2011.9

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Thessaloniki  

  • Children Speaking Japanese Can Interpret Adjunct Null Subjects While Identifying Correct Antecedents International conference

    Isobe M

    Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 4  2010.9 

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    Event date: 2010.9

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Toronto  

  • The Acquisition of Nominal Compounding in Japanese: A parametric approach International conference

    Isobe M

    Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 2  2006.8 

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    Event date: 2006.8

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Montreal  

  • Pied-Piping in Child French: An Experimental Study International conference

    Isobe M

    The 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development  2004.11 

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    Event date: 2004.11

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Boston  

  • Head-Internal Relative Clauses in Child Japanese International conference

    Isobe M

    The 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development  2002.11 

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    Event date: 2002.11

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Boston  

  • Quantification Without Qualification Without Plausible Dissent International conference

    Sugisaki K,Isobe M

    The Conference on the Semantics of Under-Represented Languages of the Americas  2001.4 

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    Event date: 2001.4

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Amherst  

  • Resultatives Result from the Compounding Parameter: On the Acquisitional Correlation between Resultatives and N-N Compounds in Japanese International conference

    Sugisaki K,Isobe M

    The 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics  2000.2 

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    Event date: 2000.2

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation(general)  

    Venue:Los Angeles  

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Teaching Experience (On-campus)

  • English A (Intermediate)

    2023Year

  • Relay Seminars for Introduction to Each Discipline of the Faculty

    2023Year

  • Linguistics

    2023Year

  • English Grammar

    2023Year

  • Essence and Goals / Content Structure of English Course

    2023Year

Social Activities

  • ことばのしくみ

    Role(s): Lecturer

    山梨県立甲府東高等学校  ミニ大学  2024.10

  • ことばへの気づきワークショップ~英語を通して気づく日本語~

    Role(s): Lecturer

    山梨大学・読売新聞  連続市民講座第16部第5回  2024.9

  • ことばのしくみ

    Role(s): Lecturer

    山梨県立白根高等学校  第2回文理セミナー  2024.9

  • 教師のためのことばセミナー第2講「ことばへの気づきの対象」

    Role(s): Lecturer

    東京言語研究所  2021.10

Professional Memberships

  • THE ENGLISH LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN

  • THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN

  • THE JAPAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE ENGLISH TEACHERS

Committee Memberships

  • The English Linguistic Society of Japan   Editorial Board  

    2021.7   

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  • The English Linguistic Society of Japan   Secretary  

    2017.5 - 2019.4   

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  • The English Linguistic Society of Japan   Secretary  

    2017.4 - 2019.3   

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