BA, University of Utah, 1968
Ph.D, Harvard University, 1977

Research Interests

• Japanese linguistics: second language acquisition, attrition, and pedagogy
• Japanese for special purposes (business, science and technology, etc.)
• Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) materials design and development

Recent Publications

• "Acquisition and Attrition of -wa and -ga in Japanese as a Second Language." In James Cohen, Kara T. McAlister, Kellie Rolstad, and Jeff MacSwan, eds., ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, pp. 2020-2036. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press (2005).
• "Fluency-Related Variables in the Loss of L2 Japanese Skills." In Satoru Koyama, Kanoko Otomo, and Miwako Nohara, eds., Gengo to Kyooiku: Nihongo o Taisyoo tosite [Language and Education: Focusing on Japanese], pp. 229-245. Tokyo: Kurosio Shuppan (2004).
• "L2 Japanese Syntactic Attrition." In Ritva Laury, Gerald McMenamin, Shigeko Okamoto, Vida Samiian, and Karumuri V. Subbarao, eds., Perspectives in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of P. J. Mistry, pp. 311-326. New Delhi: Indian Institute of Language Studies (2003).
• "Lexical Maintenance and Attrition in Japanese as a Second Language." In Lynne Hansen, ed., Second Language Attrition in Japanese Contexts, pp. 114-41. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1999).

Current projects

• Japanese language attrition project (longitudinal and cross-sectional study of JSL lexical, syntactic, and fluency-related attrition)
• Curriculum and CALL materials development in Japanese for business purposes.