Research theme for competitive and other funds (7):
2024 - 2028 Pseudo-Dynamic Preservation and Elucidation of Neural Processing of Endangered Languages Based on Natural Discourse Corpora with Physiological Indices
2023 - 2026 母語環境及び継承語環境におけるトンガ語幼児自然発話コーパス構築
2019 - 2024 Field-based Cognitive Neuroscientific Study of Word Order in Language and Order of Thinking from the OS Language Perspective
2019 - 2024 Construction of a Tongan language corpus and examination of the role of minority language corpora in comprehensive linguistic research
2015 - 2019 A field-based psycholinguistic study of the discourse processing mechanisms of OS languages
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Papers (36):
Katsuo Tamaoka, Shaoyun Yu, Jingyi Zhang, Yuko Otsuka, Hyunjung Lim, Masatoshi Koizumi, Rinus G. Verdonschot. Syntactic structures in motion: investigating word order variations in verb-final (Korean) and verb-initial (Tongan) languages. Frontiers in Psychology. 2024. 15
Yuko Otsuka. Tongan Child Language Corpus Project. Studies in Language Sciences. 2023. 21. 2. 23-30
Koichi Otaki, Manami Sato, Hajime Ono, Koji Sugisaki, Noriaki Yusa, Yuko Otsuka, Masatoshi Koizumi. Case and word order in children’s comprehension of wh-questions: A cross-linguistic study. Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives: Volume 1: Cross-Linguistic Studies. 2023. 147-174
Yuko Otsuka, Yoshiyuki Tanabe. Reflexivity and Binding in Biblical Hebrew. Sophia Linguistica. 2023. 72. 31-45
Ono, Hajime, Koichi Otaki, Manami Sato, ‘Ana Heti Veikune, Peseti Vea, Yuko Otsuka, Masatoshi Koizumi. Processing syntactic ergativity in Tongan relative clauses. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. 2021. 71-82
Reflexivity in languages without reflexive pronouns: A movement analysis of anaphoric binding in Tongan and Biblical Hebrew
(University of Hawaii Department of Linguistics Tuesday Seminar 2024)
Tongan text corpus
(Special Workshop, Tonga National University 2023)
Linguists’ contribution to pukepuke fonua: Tongan Language Corpus Projects.
(the 19th Bi-Annual Tonga Research Association Conference Pukepuke Fonua 2023 2023)
Developing a Tongan child language corpus: Challenges and prospects
(University of Hawaii at Manoa Linguistics Department Tuesday Seminar 2023)
Tongan child language corpus project
(The 23rd Annual International Conference of The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) 2022)