People
Yasuhiro Shirai
Professor of Linguistics
(PhD, University of California at Los Angeles)
2806 Cathedral of Learning
E-mail: yshirai at pitt.edu
His research interests include L1 and L2 acquisition of tense-aspect morphology, and cognitive models of language acquisition. His articles have appeared in Developmental Science, First Language, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Pragmatics, Language, Language Learning, Studies in Language, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and TESOL Quarterly. He has (co-)authored and (co-edited eight books/special issues of journals. He was a Japan Foundation Fellow (2001-2002), is an associate editor of First Language, and serves on the editorial boards of Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
COURSES TAUGHT
Applications of Linguistics (Ling 1930, Spring 2007)
Second Language Acquisition (Ling 2146, Spring 2007)
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics (Ling 2144,
Fall 2006)
Current Issues in Second Language Learning: Rules, Associative Memory,
and Language Learning Aptitude (Ling 2147, Fall 2006).
Selected Publications
Shirai, Y. (Ed). (in press, 2007). The acquisition of relative clauses and the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy: A universal of SLA? Special Issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nakayama, M., Mazuka, R. & Shirai, Y. (Eds.) (2006). Handbook of East Asian psycholinguistics: Volume 2, Japanese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Shirai, Y. (2004). Gaikokugo gakusyuuni seikoo suru hito sinai hito: Daini gengo syuutokuron heno syootai [Who succeeds and who fails in foreign language learning: An invitation to second language acquisition studies]. Iwanami Library of Science, 100. Tokyo: Iwanami Publishers. Korean translation to appear in 2007 (from Hankookmunhwasa).
Li, P. & Y. Shirai (2000) The acquisition of lexical and grammatical aspect [Studies on Language Acquisition, 16]. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Shirai, Y. & Andersen, R. (1995). The acquisition of tense/aspect morphology: A prototype account. Language, 71, 743-62.