[On-going projects]
Child language
processing and acquisition
1. Eye-tracking investigation of wh-argument processing in adults
and children
(w/ Stacey Conroy &
Matt Wagers)
2. Learning non-adjacent morphosyntactic dependencies in 15-month-olds,
using a head-turn preference procedure
3. Long-distance wh-processing in English and Japanese5-year-olds
(w/ Imogen Davidson White & Takuya
Goro)
Adult
sentence processing
4. C-command and bound variables in real-time comprehension.
(w/ Dave Kush,
Pedro Alcocer, Brian
Dillon)
5. Dependency formation trigger in filler-gap processing
(w/ Ellen
Lau)
Theoretical
syntax
6. Crossing undercover: On the amelioration of WCO under sluicing.
(w/ Masaya Yoshida)
7. Cross-linguistic variations (or lack thereof) in island constraints,
with a particular focus on Scandinavian languages
(w/ Dave Kush)
8.On the distribution of English resumptive pronouns and island repair
(w/ Chizuru Nakao)
9. Revisiting CED effects and subject islands in German and Japanese
(w/ Johannes Jurka, Chizuru
Nakao)
Second
language processing and acquisition
10. Nature of syntactic representations in L2 processing: a view
from long distance dependency formation and island constraints
(w/ Barbara Schulz)
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[Selected Papers
and Conference Presentations ]
Omaki, A., & Nakao, C. (2009). Conditions on resumption strategies and relativized locality violations. Manuscript submitted for publication.
[PDF File]
Omaki, A., & Schulz, B. (2009). Filler-gap Dependencies and Island Constraints
in Second Language Sentence Processing. Manuscript submitted for publication.
[PDF File]
Omaki, A., & Nakao, C. (2009). Does English resumption really fail to repair island violations? Manuscript submitted for publication.
[PDF File]
Kush, D., Omaki, A., & Hornstein, N. (2009). Reanalyzing relative
clause island effects. Paper presented at 32nd GLOW, Nantes, France.
[slides available in PDF File]
Omaki, A., Trock, A., Wagers, M., Lidz, J., & Phillips, C.
(2009). Active gap search in the visual world with lexical competitors.
Poster presented at the annual CUNY conference on sentence processing
2009, Davis. [Poster available in PDF
File]
Omaki, A. (2009). Verbal morphology: Return of the affix hopping
approach. In Proceedings of NELS 38 [PDF
File].
Omaki, A., Conroy, C., & Lidz, J. (2008). An experimental
investigation of referential/non-referential asymmetries in syntactic
reconstruction. Paper presented at Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical
Linguistics 3, Helsinki. [slides available in PDF
File]
Poeppel, D., & Omaki, A. (2008). Language acquisition and ERP
approaches: Prospects and challenges. In A. Friederici & G. Thierry
(Eds.), Early language development: Bridging brain and behavior.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [PDF
File] [link
to the book page]
Omaki, A., Dyer, C., Malhotra, S., Sprouse, J., Lidz, J., &
Phillips, C. (2007). The time-course of anaphoric processing and syntactic
reconstruction. Paper presented at CUNY 2007, San Diego. [slides available
in PDF File]
Omaki, A. (2007). Revisiting revived Syntactic Structures:
The extended hybrid approach to verbal morphology. In University
of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics 16. [PDF
File]
(See Omaki 2008 for a non-lexicalist approach to the same problems,
based on the revision of this paper)
Bullock, G., Omaki, A., Schulz, B., Schwartz, B. D., & Tremblay,
A. (2006). Where do L2ers attach interclausal adverbials? In A. Belletti,
E. Bennati, C. Chesi, E. Di Domenico, & I. Ferrari (Eds.), Language
acquisition and development: Proceedings of GALA 2005 (pp. 82-95). Cambridge,
Cambridge Scholars Press. [PDF
file]
Miyao, M., & Omaki, A. (2006). No ambiguity about it: Korean
learners of Japanese have a clear attachment preference. To appear in
Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development Supplement. [Paper;
Stimuli (in Japanese)
used in Experiment 2 (both in pdf)]
Omaki, A., & Ariji, K. (2005). Testing and attesting the use
of structural information in L2 sentence processing. In L. Dekydtspotter,
R. A. Sprouse & A. Liljestrand (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th
Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (pp.
205-218). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
[GASLA7 Proceedings
website]
Edited volume
Omaki, A., Ortega-Santos, I., Sprouse, J., & Wagers, M (Eds.).
(2007). University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics 16.
[link to
the UMDWPiL16 page]
MA thesis [at University of Hawaii. Advisor: Bonnie D Schwartz]
Omaki, A. (2005). Working memory and relative clause attachment
in first and second language processing. [PDF
file]
