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Akira

Omaki

Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington

Units: 

Linguistics

Degree(s): 

PhD in Linguistics, UMD

Advisor(s): 

Colin Phillips

Graduation Year: 

2010

Contact: 

omaki@jhu.edu

Role(s): 

Alumni

Website: 

UW Faculty Page

Lab Website

About: 

My primary research interests are in adult/child sentence processing and first language acquisition of morphosyntax. Sentence processing and language learning share the same property: The target abstract structural representations need to be identified despite the fact that a) input provides no direct evidence for the target syntactic representations, and b) there are many structural/grammatical hypotheses compatible with the input. Globally speaking, I'm interested in how these identification processes are constrained by linguistic knowledge as well as cognitive mechanisms like attention and memory.