Dr. Masaya Yoshida

Associate Professor

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Biography

Masaya Yoshida is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University. His research focuses on syntactic representations, static knowledge of language, and real-time sentence processing. His extensive training includes a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Maryland and a range of postdoctoral and grant-funded research projects that integrate theoretical and typological syntax with experimental psycholinguistics. Yoshida's work reveals how representations of sentence structures can be built by real-time mechanisms during online sentence processing. His publication record includes numerous journal articles in leading linguistics journals and contributions to books and conference proceedings. Yoshida has also participated in numerous colloquia and invited presentations internationally. His dynamic research interests include online sentence processing, syntactic prediction, cross-linguistic studies, and ellipsis phenomena.

Research Interests

Experience

Associate Professor

2014-01-01 — Present

Northwestern University • Evanston, IL

Teaching and conducting research in linguistics.

Requirements for Northwestern University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
U.S. Bachelor's degree or equivalent
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Specialization Notes

Standard PhD requirements for TGS departments including Chemistry, Physics, and Sociology.