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HIRATA Yu

Department / Course Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	College of Letters Language and Communication Program

Academic background
1.	～1988/03	Mechanical Engineering │ Faculty of Engineering │ The University of Tokyo │ Graduated Bachelor of Engineering
2.	～1996/01	Master Course │ Japanese Studies Major │ School of Japanese Studies │ University of Sydney │ Completed Master of Arts
3.	～2001/08	Doctorial Course │ Japanese Linguistics │ Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures │ The Ohio State University │ Completed Doctor of Philosophy

Research activities
1.		Linguistic Society of Japan
2.		The Society of Japanese Linguistics
3.		The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
4.		Japan Language Testing Association

Subject of research
1.	Developing a foreign language pedagogy from the overall learning processes.
2.	Historical changes of genitive particles in Japanese and their dialectal variations.

Research summary
(1) Historical linguistics of Japanese language, grammar as seen from language change and variations (2) How to teach Japanese (1) Verification is made on different ways of use and the selection of competing word forms and expressions, common phenomena seen in various languages and dialects, and expressions that are similar but slightly different, to study the correlation between linguistic necessity and historical and social necessities (contingency) in the constitution of grammar. (2) Pursuit of further practical language teaching methods, Japanese language teaching methods shall be made by a more ubiquitous approach.

Present specialized field
Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics, Teaching Japanese as a foreign language (Keyword：language change; genitive; nominative; variation; grammaticalization Communicative Approach; Japanese language pedagogy; learning processes)

Papers
1.	2025/03/15	Brain Activation in a Beginner-Level Japanese Learner during Written Tests and Conversation: A Within-Person Comparison of fNIRS Data │ Ritsumeikan studies in language and culture │ 36 (3),pp.103-123
2.	2024/08	“Yoku Taberu Constructions” and “Yoku Taberu Effect”: Examination of Ga/O Alternation in Regular Transitive Verb Sentences │ Buckeye East Asian Linguistics 8 (BEAL 8) │ 8,pp.106-120
3.	2021/12	Brain Activation in a left-handed Japanese Learner during Written Tests and Conversation │ ,pp.64-65
4.	2021/02	A study of similarity and/or dissimilarity of brain activation of Japanese learners during written tests and conversation │ Impact │ Volume 2021 (Number 2),pp.70-72
5.	2020/09	Brain Activation during JLPT-type Written Tasks and Japanese Conversation : An Analysis of fNIRS Data from Upper Intermediate Level Japanese Learners of Chinese Native Speakers │ Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture │ 32 (2),pp.109-128
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2024/08/01	Brain Activation in Beginner-Level Japanese Learners during Written Tests and Conversations: A Within-Person Comparison of fNIRS Data
2.	2021/09/12	Brain Activation in a left-handed Japanese Learner during Written Tests and Conversation
3.	2018/08/04	Brain Activation of Three Beginner Level Japanese Learners During Written Tests and Conversation - An fNIRS Study Comparing Prefrontal Cortex and Language Area-
4.	2001/06	Development of semantic theme markers for desiderative predicates in Japanese
5.	2001/04	Clausal nouniness and genitive marking of subjects in Old Japanese
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