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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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  • 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

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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

    DOI: 10.1007/s10936-014-9347-x

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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

  • 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 Major achievement

    2023Year

  • English Grammar Major achievement

    2023Year

  • Essence and Goals / Content Structure of English Course

    2023Year

Social Activities

  • 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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