Yoichi Miyamoto

Biographic Data

ID6277600
NAMEYoichi Miyamoto
GIVEN NAMESYoichi
FAMILY NAMEMiyamoto
SIGNATUREMIYAMOTO Y
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Osaka
ORCID0000-0002-5554-0923
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • The syntax-phonology interface of Left Branch Extraction

    Open AccessMasaharu Maeda, Hiromune Oda et al.ARTICLEThe Linguistic Review2026

    Locality of dislocation has been one of the central issues in linguistics since Ross’s (1967. Constraints on variables in syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT dissertation) seminal paper. One of the locality conditions that Ross describes is the Left Branch Condition, which prohibits the left-branching element in a nominal domain from being extracted. However, Bošković (2005. Left branch extraction, structure of NP, and scrambling. In Joachim Sabel & Mamor…

  • Lexical vs. structural cue use in L2 prediction

    Open AccessChie Nakamura, Suzanne Flynn et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Language Sciences2026

    This study examines whether second language (L2) sentence processing is governed by the same underlying mechanisms as native language processing or whether it relies on qualitatively distinct mechanisms. Using the visual-world paradigm and permutation analyses, we compared native English speakers and Japanese second language (L2) learners of English in processing globally ambiguous filler-gap dependencies (e.g., Where did Lizzie tell someone that…

  • Incremental or delayed processing? L2 learners’ active gap-fillingin sentence comprehension

    Open AccessChie Nakamura, Suzanne Flynn et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Linguistic…2025

    The contrast between first language (L1) and second language (L2) sentence processing provides valuable insights into how linguistic knowledge and cognitive mechanisms shape real-time comprehension. While L1 speakers are known to engage in incremental parsing–integrating linguistic input as it becomes available–it remains debated whether adult L2 learners adopt similar strategies or rely on delayed, non-structural parsing as proposed by the Shall…

  • Proximity Loses

    Open AccessChie Nakamura, Suzanne Flynn et al.ARTICLELanguages2025

    This study investigated how Japanese speakers interpret structurally ambiguous wh-questions, testing whether filler–gap resolution is guided by syntactic resolution based on hierarchical structure or linear locality based on surface word order. We combined behavioral key-press responses with fine-grained eye-tracking data and applied cluster-based permutation analysis to capture the moment-by-moment time course of syntactic interpretation as sent…

  • Different short answers in Japanese

    Open AccessMasaharu Maeda, Shiori Ikawa et al.ARTICLEJournal of East Asian Linguistics2025

  • Restructuring and focus in Japanese

    Mina Sugimura, Yoichi MiyamotoARTICLEJournal of Japanese Linguistics2025References: 19

    This paper examines a particular purpose expression (PE), namely a clause with a phrase headed by the morpheme - ni , which we dub ni P. Previous literature has stated that restructuring is regulated by an intervening element between the ni P and the matrix predicate, but we provide apparent counterexamples. Considering dialectal data from western Japan, we propose that the nominative case (NOM) is licensed by the amalgam of the potential affix a…

  • Weak Heads at the Interface

    Open AccessHiromune Oda, Yuta Tatsumi et al.ARTICLEActa Mongolica2024

    This paper proposes that weak heads in Chomsky’s (2015) sense are not only syntactically weak (i.e., unable to provide a label on their own), but also morpho-phonologically weak. To illustrate how this works, this paper examines temporal adverbial clauses (TACs) in Japanese, showing that the presence/absence of what we call Geis-ambiguity in Japanese TACs correlates with the presence/absence of yori ‘than’ in the clauses. Based on Miyamoto’s (199…

  • Bare Wh-stripping in Japanese

    Open AccessMasaharu Maeda, Yoichi MiyamotoARTICLEJournal of East Asian Linguistics2024

  • On null arguments and phi-features in second language acquisition

    Yoichi Miyamoto, Kazumi YamadaARTICLEJournal of Japanese Linguistics2020

    Saito, Mamoru. 2007. Notes on East Asian argument ellipsis. Language Research 43. 203–227 argues that argument ellipsis (AE) is available only in languages that lack phi-feature agreement. Accordingly, Japanese, but not English, permits AE. Under Saito’s theoretical framework, this paper compares experimental data from L1 Japanese learners of L2 English (J-EFL) and L1 English learners of L2 Japanese (E-JFL). Given that sloppy and quantificational…

  • On the nominal-internal distributive interpretation in Japanese

    Open AccessYoichi MiyamotoARTICLEJournal of East Asian Linguistics2009

  • A Derivational Approach to Scope Interaction between Wh-phrases and Quantifiers

    Open AccessYoichi MiyamotoARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of…2008

    I examine scope interaction between a wh-phrase and a quantified phrase (QP). Sloan-type sentences in Japanese are also discussed, based on Motomura’s analysis on zibun ‘self’. I show that Sloan’s original proposal is empirically inadequate, and propose an analysis based on the Hornstein/Kayne-type analysis of bound pronouns. One consequence is that scope determination must be understood to occur derivationally, based on the asymmetrical relation…