Teaching
Graduate Programs
We offer the following courses in the graduate program.
Course list:
- Formal Methods in Language Sciences*
- Theoretical Linguistics I, II
- Phonology*
- Syntax*
- Semantics
- Generative Linguistics I, II
- Contrastive linguistics
- Comparative syntax
- Cognitive Neuroscience I, II
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Language*
- Neurolinguistics
- Language Information Processing I, II (MatLab)
- Language Acquisition
- Language Disorders
- Second Language Acquisition
- Seminars in Neuroimaging I, II
- Biolinguistics
- Seminars on Research Methods
- Topics in Linguistics I, II
- Dissertation Seminar
NB: *compulsory courses
Candidates entering in M.A. program will take a minimum of 30 credits. Candidates entering in Ph.D. program will take a minimum of 20 credits, including dissertation seminar. In addition, candidates will prepare a paper for Ph. D. evaluation, which presents original research, suitable for presentation at a conference and/or for publication. (See Ph.D. Evaluation Guidelines). Upon successful completion of Evaluation, the thesis proposal must be approved by the student's committee. The thesis must be supervised by a TMU professor.
Funding
We strongly recommend that applicants look for funding from outside sources. In the past, students have been very successful in obtaining funding from sources such as JSPS, JASSO, etc. The department has a number of positions for Teaching Assistants and Research Assistants. Students who receive research stipends will become part of a research team associated with (a) professor/s within the department.
Undergraduate Programs
We offer the following courses in undergraduate program.
- Introduction to Linguistics*
- Introduction to Phonology*
- Readings in Language Sciences*
- BA Thesis*
- Phonology
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Grammatical Theories
- Japanese Syntax in Diachronic Perspective
- Comparative Romance Syntax
- Sociolinguistics
- Language and Culture
- Psycholinguistics*
- Linguistic Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Practice of Neuroimaging
- Language Acquisition
- Developmental Science
- Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences
- Statistics for Language Sciences
- Special Lecture on Language Sciences I
- Special Lecture on Language Sciences II
- NB: *compulsory courses
Bachelor’s Thesis
- Comparison of directionality in Japanese and Korean locative particle
- ERP Studies of Discrimination of /l/ and /r/ by Japanese Learners of English
- An Auditory ERP Study of Japanese Learners of English Using a Picture N400 Paradigm
- Neural Correlates of Visual Categorization: Form, Color, and Object
- Automatic Access to Semantic Information of Visual Objects: An Event-Related Potential Study
Using the Attentional Blink Paradigm. - The Spatiotemporal Distribution of Neural Responses Related to Integration between Japanese Nouns and Numeral Classifiers: A Behavioral and ERP Study