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| 2005-present | University of Massachusetts at Amherst Ph.D. student in Linguistics |
| 2007 | LSA Summer Institute at Stanford |
| 2000-2004 | University of Texas at Austin BA in Linguistics and Japanese, Highest Honors Departmental honors in Linguistics Honors thesis: Binding Conditions on Numeral Quantifiers: Evidence for a Movement Analysis of Relative Clauses in Japanese Honors advisor: Anthony Woodbury |
| 2002-2003 | Sophia University, Tokyo Japan Exchange Student |
| 2007. | The pragmatic values of evidential sentences. [Christopher Davis,
Christopher Potts, and Margaret Speas]. To appear in Masayuki Gibson
and Tova Friedman, eds., Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 17. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. |
| 2006. | NELS 36: Proceedings of the thirty-sixth meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society, volumes 1 and 2, Amherst, MA: GLSA. [with A.R. Deal and Y. Zabbal] |
| 2007 | Evidential marking, interrogatives, and the maxim of quality. [Christopher Davis, Christopher Potts, and Peggy Speas]. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 17, UConn, May 11-13. |
| 2007. | The Japanese discourse particle yo: a lexical modifier of sentential strength. Paper presented at the Georgetown University Roundtable on Language and Linguistics, March. |
| 2007. | Informativity, utility, and the Japanese particle yo. Paper presented at the Second Year Mini-coonference, UMass, May. |
| 2006 | The Japanese particle yo as marker of illocutionary strength. Paper presented at the Southern New England Workshop on Semantics, Yale, September. |
| 2006. | Evidence against movement in Japanese relative relative clauses. Paper presented at the ECO5 syntax workshop, MIT, March. |
| 2007 | LSA Institute Fellowship (Stanford) |
| 2005 | Presidential Graduate Fellowship for PhD studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (declined) |
| 2003,2004 | University of Texas Distinguished Scholar |
| 2002-2003 | National Security Education Program Boren Scholar |
| 2002-2003 | Bridging Teachers of Japanese Scholarship |
| 2002 | Jacolyn Alexander Scholarship, University of Texas |
| 2002 | Texas Wranglers Scholarship, University of Texas |
| Fall 2006 | Teaching Assistant for LING 201, Introduction to Linguistics, primary instructor Kyle Johnson. |
| Spring 2007 | Teaching Assistant for LING 101, People and their Language, primary instructor Lisa Green. |
| Fall 2007 | Research Assistant to Christopher Potts, NSF Grant No. BCS-0642752 "Expressive Content and the Semantics of Contexts". |
| Summer 2007 | Research Assistant to Christopher Potts, NSF Grant No. BCS-0642752 "Expressive Content and the Semantics of Contexts". |
| Summer 2006 | Research Assistant to Margaret Speas and Tom Roeper, NSF Grant No. BCS-0527509 "Epistemology and Indexicality in Navajo, Tibetan and English". |
| English: | Native |
| Japanese: | Advanced |