Ryan Bennet in Japan

Ryan Bennett has returned from a two-week research trip to Japan. While in Tokyo, Ryan ran more than 40 subjects in a dissertation-related artificial grammar experiment. The experiments were conducted at International Christian University (where our department’s own Junko Ito is stationed as director of the UC’s EAP Japan program), and at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). Ryan also presented his experimental research at the September meeting of the Tokyo Circle of Phonologists, and gave another talk at ICU on pronoun postposing in Irish (joint work with Jim McCloskey and Emily Elfner of UMass Amherst).

Other highlights of the trip included a Seibu Lions baseball game, a surprisingly fierce typhoon, and many good meals with Japanese friends and colleagues.