Curriculum Vitae MIEKO UENO Last updated: 10-16-06 EDUCATION December 2003 August 1997 May 1990 Department of Linguistics, 0108 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0108 Email: ueno@ling.ucsd.edu Cell phone: (217) 721-8227 Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Thesis title: Event-related Brain Potentials in the Processing of Japanese Wh-Questions Thesis chair: Prof. Robert Kluender M.A. in Linguistics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor B.A. in Political Science with Class Honors University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ACADEMIC POSITIONS March 2007- June 2008 January 2006- March 2007 January 2004- January 2006 Fall 2004 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon (offered and accepted) Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, UCSD NIH Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Mentor: Prof. Susan Garnsey Visiting Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, UIUC AWARDS January 2004- January 2006 Fall 2003 Fall 2002-Spring 2003 Summer 2002 July 2000-June 2002 January 2001, 2003 June 1998 Spring 1998-Fall 2003 Fall 1997-Spring 1998 July 1996 NIH Postdoctoral Training Grant in Cognitive Psychophysiology Department of Psychology, UIUC Graduate Enrichment Funds, Office of Graduate Studies and Research, UCSD Block Grant Fees Scholarship, Department of Linguistics, UCSD Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Linguistics, UCSD NIH Predoctoral Training Grant in Language, Communication and the Brain, Center for Research in Language, UCSD Dean s Social Science Research Travel Fund, UCSD Joseph Naiman Graduate Fellowship in Japanese Studies, Japanese Studies Program, UCSD Research and Travel Grant (multiple awards), Department of Linguistics, UCSD Block Grant Fees Scholarship, Department of Linguistics, UCSD Rackham/International Institute Travel Grant, University of Michigan
Mieko Ueno 2 RESEARCH INTERESTS Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Syntax, Cross-linguistic language processing of Japanese and English RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Event-related brain potentials, Self-paced reading times, Plausibility/acceptability judgments Corpus analysis, Speech perception, Acoustic analysis, Linguistic field work July 1998- present January 2004- January 2006 May 2003- July 2003 Language and Brain Lab, Director: Prof. Robert Kluender, UCSD Language and Brain Lab, Director: Prof. Susan Garnsey, UIUC Phonetics Lab, Director: Prof. Amalia Arvaniti, UCSD September 1996 Phonetics Lab, Director: Prof. Patrice Beddor, University of Michigan -August 1997 PUBLICATIONS Ueno, M. & Garnsey, S.M. (submitted). An ERP study of the processing of subject and object relative clauses in Japanese. Ueno, M. & Polinsky, M. (submitted). Maximizing processing in an SOV language Ueno, M. & Kluender, R. (submitted). On the processing of Japanese wh-questions: An ERP study. Ueno, M. & Garnsey, S.M. (in press). Gap-filling vs. filling gaps: Event-related brain indices of subject and object relative clauses in Japanese. In N. H. McGloin and J. Mori (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (pp. 288-301). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. Ueno, M. (2004). On at-causatives of transitive verbs in Chaha. In A. Simpson (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society Special Session on Afroasiatic Languages (pp. 109-121). Berkeley, CA: BLS. Ueno, M. & Kluender, R. (2003b). On the processing of Japanese wh-questions: Relating grammar and brain. In G. Garding and M. Tsujimura (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Second West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 491-504). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Ueno, M. & Kluender, R. (2003a). Event-related brain indices of Japanese scrambling. Brain and Language, 86, 243-271. Ueno, M., Beddor, P.S., & Akahane-Yamada, R. (1998). Is allophonic variation in Japanese /D/ a factor in Japanese listeners' difficulty in perceiving English /l-r/? Proceedings of the 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting Acoustical Society of America (pp. 3000-3001).
Mieko Ueno 3 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Ueno, M. & Garnsey, S.M. (2006). Event-related brain potentials in the processing of Japanese subject vs. object relative clauses. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2006 annual meeting, April 8-11, San Francisco, CA. (Abstract published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement, 128). Ueno, M. & Garnsey, S.M. (2006). ERP study on the processing of subject vs. object clauses in Japanese. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 5-8, Albuquerque, NM. Ueno, M. & Polinsky, M. (2006). Japanese as an intransitive language. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 5-8, Albuquerque, NM. Ueno, M. & Garnsey, S.M. (2005). Gap-filling vs. filling gaps: Event-related brain indices of subject and object relative clauses in Japanese. Paper personated at the 15 th Japanese / Korean Linguistics Conference, October 7-9, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Ueno, M. & Garnsey, S.M. (2005). On the processing of subject vs. object relative clauses in Japanese: An ERP study. Paper presented at the 18 th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, March 31-April 2, Tucson, AZ. Ueno, M. & Kluender, R. (2003). How are Japanese wh-questions processed?: An ERP study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2003 annual meeting, March 30-April 1, New York, NY. (Abstract published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement, 211). Ueno, M. & Kluender, R. (2003). Neural processing of Japanese wh-questions. Paper presented at the 16th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, March 27-29, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Ueno, M. & Kluender, R. (2003). Processing wh-in-situ: An ERP investigation. Paper presented at the 22nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, March 21-23, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA. Ueno, M. & Kluender, R. (2003). Are wh-movement and wh-in-situ processed alike?: An ERP investigation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 2-5, Atlanta, GA. Ueno, M. & Polinsky, M. (2002). Maximizing processing in an SOV language: A corpus study of Japanese and English. Poster session presented at the 15 th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, March 21-23, CUNY Graduate School & University Center, New York, NY. Ueno, M. & Kluender, R. (2001). Event-related brain indices of Japanese scrambling and wh-in-situ. Paper presented at the Neurological Basis of Language conference, July 9-11, University of Groningen, Groningen, Holland. Ueno, M. & Kluender, R. (2001). The processing of Japanese questions: An event-related brain potential study. Poster session presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2001 annual meeting, March 25-27, New York, NY. (Abstract published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Supplement, 163). Ueno, M. (2001). On at-causatives of transitive verbs in Chaha. Paper presented at the Berkeley Linguistics Society 27 Special session on Afroasiatic languages of the annual conference on African linguistics 32, March 22-25, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Mieko Ueno 4 Ueno, M., & Kluender, R. (2001). The interaction of scrambling and wh-questions in Japanese: An ERP study. Poster session presented at the 14th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, March 15-17, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Ueno, M., & Kluender, R. (2001). ERP study on the processing of filler-gap dependencies in Japanese scrambling. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 4-7, Washington, D.C. Ueno, M., Beddor, P.S., & Akahane-Yamada, R. (1998). Is allophonic variation in Japanese /D/ a factor in Japanese listeners' difficulty in perceiving English /l-r/? Poster session presented at the 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting Acoustical Society of America, June 20-26, Seattle, WA. (Abstract published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 103, 3092). Ueno, M. (1996). Where is the subject generated? Paper presented at the 1996 Girona international summer school in linguistics workshop, July 20, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain. INVITED TALKS Ueno, M. (2006). Electrophysiology of language in the processing of syntactic dependencies in Japanese. Lectures presented at the Center for Brain Science of Language Acquisition and Language Learning Seminar 2006, August 8-11, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan. Ueno, M. (2006). ERP study on the processing of subject vs. object relative clauses in Japanese. Talk presented at the Center for Mind and Brain, June 21, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA. Ueno, M. (2004). On the processing of Japanese wh-questions: Relating grammar and brain. Talk presented at the Departments of Linguistics and Psychology, May 6, New York University, New York, NY. Ueno, M. (2004). On the processing of Japanese wh-questions: Relating grammar and brain. Talk presented at the EA Lecture Series, the Institute for Japanese Studies and the East Asian Studies Center, February 20, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Ueno, M. (2004). On the processing of Japanese wh-questions: Relating grammar and brain. Talk presented at the Center for Mind and Brain and the Department of Linguistics, February 9, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA. Ueno, M. & Kluender, R. (2003). Neural processing of Japanese wh-questions. Talk presented at language processing brownbag, August 22, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL. Ueno, M., & Kluender, R. (2003). The processing of Japanese wh-questions: An event-related brain potential study. Talk presented at the 4th Japanese language processing workshop as part of the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, July 26, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI. Ueno, M. (2003). Event-related brain potentials in the processing of Japanese wh-questions. Talk presented at the brain development imaging laboratory, May 9, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. Ueno, M. (2002). ERP inquiries into the processing of Japanese wh-sentences. Discussion session presented at the 3rd Japanese language processing workshop as part of the 15th annual CUNY conference on human sentence processing, March 24, CUNY Graduate School & University Center, New York, NY.
Mieko Ueno 5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall 2006 Spring 2006 Winter 2006 Fall 2004 Fall 2003 Fall 2002- Winter 2003, Spring 1999- Spring 2000 Fall 1997- Winter 1999 Summer 1996 Lecturer for Second Year Japanese, Japanese Studies Program, UCSD [Responsible for lecturing and grading for approximately 20 undergraduate students. WebCT (a web based educational program) used for course resources and students records] Non-student tutor for First Year Japanese, Japanese Studies Program, UCSD [Responsible for leading tutorial sections and grading for approximately 20 undergraduate students] Lecturer for Language as a Cognitive System, Dept. of Linguistics, UCSD [Responsible for developing syllabus, lecturing, creating examinations and assignments, and supervising two teaching assistants for approximately 110 undergraduate students. WebCT used for course resources and students records] Visiting Lecturer for Introduction to Psycholinguistics, Dept. of Linguistics, UIUC [Responsible for developing syllabus, lecturing, and creating and grading examinations and assignments for 17 graduate and 13 undergraduate students. Illinois Compass (a web based educational program) used for course resources and students records] Teaching Assistant for Introduction to the Study of Language, Dept. of Linguistics, UCSD [Responsible for leading discussion sections and grading for 86 undergraduate students, writing homework and exam questions using WebCT, and providing administrative support in lecture] Teaching Assistant for Third Year Japanese, Japanese Studies Program, UCSD [Responsible for leading tutorial sections, developing teaching materials, and grading for approximately 20 undergraduate students each quarter] Teaching Assistant for First Year and Second Year Japanese, Japanese Studies Program, UCSD [Responsible for leading tutorial sections and grading for approximately 20 undergraduate students each quarter] Instructor for Introduction to Language, Program in Linguistics, Univ. of Michigan [Independent instructorship, responsible for developing syllabus, lecturing, writing and grading examinations for 13 undergraduate students] Fall 1995- Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Language, Program in Linguistics, Univ. of Michigan Winter 1997 [Responsible for leading discussion sections and grading for approximately 70 undergraduate students each semester, writing quizzes and examinations, and providing administrative support in lecture] MENTORING Summer 2005 Fall 2004 Spring 2004- Summer 2004 Michelle Wang (UIUC undergraduate psychology major); Work study student learning data acquisition and lab management Tim Sipe (UIUC undergraduate finance major); Work study student learning data acquisition and analysis Yoko Ieuji (UIUC undergraduate psychology major); Kyung Sil Lee (UIUC undergraduate psychology major); Psychology 290 students learning stimulus generation and ERP recording
Mieko Ueno 6 Fall 2003 Winter 2003 Fall 2002 Spring 2002 Winter 2002 Fall 2001 Kanako Kozasa (UCSD undergraduate political science major); Linguistics 199 student learning editorial work for a dissertation Lisa Gustafson (UCSD undergraduate linguistics major); Linguistics 199 student learning data analysis and academic writing Carmel Jequinto (UCSD undergraduate linguistics major); Linguistics 199 student learning data analysis and academic writing Mai Hiragane (UCSD undergraduate linguistics major) and Yoko Hahn (UCSD undergraduate linguistics major); Linguistics 199 students learning stimulus generation, subject recruitment, data acquisition, and data analysis Orika Kunimoto (UCSD undergraduate psychology major); Linguistics 199 student learning stimulus generation, subject recruitment, and data acquisition Orika Kunimoto (UCSD undergraduate psychology major), Junko Suzuki (UCSD undergraduate psychology major), and Hitomi Koyama (UCSD undergraduate political science major); Linguistics 199 students learning stimulus generation, data coding, and subject recruitment PROFESSIONAL SERVICE October 2006 Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience June 2006 Abstract Reviewer, 16 th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference May 2006 Ad Hoc Reviewer, Ninchi Kagaku (Japanese Cognitive Science) March 2006 Ad Hoc Reviewer, Cognitive Science Society 2006 Conference January 2006 Ad Hoc Reviewer, Language and Cognitive Processes December 2005 Ad Hoc Reviewer, American Journal of Psychology May 2005 Abstract Reviewer, 15 th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference July 2004 Abstract Reviewer, 14 th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference March 2004 Ad Hoc Reviewer, Cognitive Science Society 2004 Conference August 2003 Ad Hoc Reviewer, Ninchi Kagaku (Japanese Cognitive Science) July 2003 Session Chair, Incremental processing and long-distance dependencies, 4th Japanese language processing workshop as part of the Linguistic Society of America 2003 Summer Institute, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2004-2005 Language Processing Brownbag Talk Coordinator, Beckman Institute, UIUC 2000-2001 Student Member, Financial Support Committee, Department of Linguistics, UCSD 1999-2000 Student Member, Research/Travel Grant Committee, Department of Linguistics, UCSD 1996-1997 Student Member, Syntax Faculty Search Committee, Program in Linguistics, University of Michigan 1995-1996 Student Member, Colloquium Committee, Program in Linguistics, University of Michigan PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Linguistic Society of America Cognitive Neuroscience Society LANGUAGE SKILLS Japanese: Native English: Fluent RESIDENT STATUS Japanese national with U.S. permanent residency