Yuko Otsuka

オオツカユウコ | Yuko Otsuka

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor

Research field (1)： Linguistics

Research keywords (1)： Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax. Generative Grammar, Austronesian languages, Polynesian languages, Tongan

Research theme for competitive and other funds (6)：

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
2019 - 2022 トンガ語幼児発話コーパス構築と母語獲得研究への活用及び少数言語継承への影響の考察
2019 - 2020 OS言語からみた「言語の語順」と「思考の順序」に関するフィールド言語心理学的研究

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Papers (31)：

Yuko Otsuka. Apparent raising in Tongan and its implications for multiple case valuation. Polynesian syntax and its interfaces. 2021. 192-215
Koichi Otaki, Manami Sato, Hajime Ono, Koji Sugisaki, Noriaki Yusa, Soana Kaitapu, Ana Heti Veikune, Peseti Vea, Yuko Otsuka, Masatoshi Koizumi. The Ergative Subject Preference in the Acquisition of Wh-questions in Tongan. BUCLD 44: Proceedings of the 44th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. 2020. 465-478
Hajime Ono, Koichi Otaki, Manami Sato, Ana Heti Veikune, Peseti Vea, Yuko Otsuka, Masatoshi Koizumi. Relative clause processing in Tongan: an effect of syntactic ergativity on the object preference. Proceedings of the twenty-sixth meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. 2020. -. 192-208
Yuko Otsuka. Apparent raising in Tongan. Heading in the right direction: Linguistic treats for Lisa Travis, McGill Working Papers in Linguistics. 2018. 25. 1. 314-323
Honorific speech register. Introductory readings on Pacific Islands languages. 2017. 113-127

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Lectures and oral presentations (38)：

Tongan child language corpus project
(The 23rd Annual International Conference of The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) 2022)
Case and word order in children’s comprehension of wh-questions: A cross-linguistic study.
(International Symposium on Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives (IJPCP2021) 2021)
Derivation of VOS in Tongan: An experimental investigation
(Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2021 2021)
Processing syntactic ergativity in Tongan relative clauses.
(the 27th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 2020)
The ergative subject preference in the acquisition of wh-questions in Tongan
(the 44 Boston University Conference on Language Development 2019)

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Professional career (3)：

Work history (4)：

2019/09 - 現在 Sophia University Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of English Language and Studies Professor
2016/09 - 2019/08 Sophia University Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of English Language and Studies Associate professor
2008/08 - 2016/07 University of Hawaii Department of Linguistics Associate Professor
2000/08 - 2008/07 University of Hawaii Department of Linguistics Assistant Professor

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