Mieko Ueno
植野美枝子
Linguistics Department, 0108
La Jolla, CA
92093-0108
Email:
ueno@ling.ucsd.edu
Profile
I am a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in the Linguistics Department at UCSD. I received an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from UCSD in December 2003. My dissertation, titled Event-related Brain Potentials in the Processing of Japanese Wh-Questions, was supervised by Prof. Robert Kluender. I was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the Psychology Department of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from January 2004 to January 2006, where I mainly worked with Prof. Susan Garnsey. I was recently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department of the University of Oregon from March 2007 to June 2008. I am originally from Tokyo, Japan.
Research
My primary research interests are in syntax and
cross-linguistic comparisons of language processing, particularly between
English and Japanese. My research
goal is to discover the similarities and differences in processing these two
languages, given their syntactic differences. My ultimate research goal, however, is
to look at cognitive neuroscience from a linguistic point of view and
contribute to the study of language processing by narrowing the gap in
knowledge between linguists, who are concerned with grammar, and
neuroscientists, who are concerned with brain responses. To that end, I intend to explore how the
grammar and the parser are implemented in the brain.
Teaching
The courses I have
taught include Language & Cognition, Introduction to Linguistic
Analysis, Seminar Neurolinguistics,
Empirical Methods in Linguistics, and
First/Second/Third Year Japanese.
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updated: 7-22-08