Yushi Sugimoto
About Me
I am a lecturer at the University of Osaka. My current intererst is computational neurolinguistics: Investigating human sentence processing in the brain by leveraging computational models.
Before joining the University of Osaka, I was a post-doctoral research fellow at University of Tokyo (Yohei Oseki’s lab). I had obtained my Ph.D in Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. During my Ph.D years, I lost my advisor (Sam Epstein). However, I got lucky to have Acrisio Pires and Marlyse Baptista as my advisors. Since my Ph.D period, I’ve been collaborating with my colleagues, Alan Ke and Andrew McInnerney.
Research Interests
- Computational Neurolinguistics: naturalistic methods; cognitive modeling; fMRI, MEG, EEG
- Syntax: generative grammar, Creole Grammar/Formation
News
- [April. 2025] I’m going to give a talk on recent developments in minimalism at KEIO linguistic Colloquium.
- [April. 2025] An abstract was accepted to CogSci2025 as a poster presentation.
- [Mar. 2025] Three papers were presented at NLP2025.
- [Feb. 2025] My research grant application [JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists] was accepted!
- [Feb. 2025] A paper was accepted for Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
- [Oct. 2024] An abstract was accepted to SNL2024 as a poster presentation.
Publications
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Natural Language and Linguistic TheoryPage Journal article
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Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Robert Autry et al., 61-70. Somerville; MA, Cascadilla Proceedings Project.Page Proceeding paper
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Neurobiology of Language, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 201-224. 2024.
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Cambridge University Press. 2023.Page Book
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Revista Linguí∫tica vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 62-81. 2023.Page Journal article
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Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1087-1093. 2022.Page Proceeding paper
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Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, vol.7 no.1, 2022.Page Proceeding paper
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Languages 7:2, 2022.Page Journal article
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Presentations
Recent Conference Presentations
Yushi Sugimoto, Ryo Yoshida, Hyeojeong Jeong, Akitake Kanno, Masatoshi Koizumi, and Yohei Oseki. 2025. BCCWJ-MEG: Development of Japanese Magnetocencephalography Data. The Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing Nagasaki, Japan, March 12, 2025. [poster] Yushi Sugimoto, Ryo Yoshida, Hyeojeong Jeong, Akitake Kanno, Masatoshi Koizumi, and Yohei Oseki. 2024.Investigating Syntactic Attention in the brain. Society for the Neurobiology of Language 16th Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, October 24-26, 2024. [poster] Yushi Sugimoto. 2024. Boxing and Remnant Movement. SMOG & ANU International Conference on Syntax and Semantics (ICSS2024), Andong National University, Southern Korea, August 20, 20024. [online] [Invited]
Recent Talks
Current Issues in Minimalism : GK, MC and beyond?, May 10-11th, 2025, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan Merge of Functional Heads: A Theory of Amalgamation, Internatioanl Research Network for the Human Language Faculty, JSPS Core-to-Core Program, December 7th, 2024, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Modeling Syntactic Composition in the brain with Small/Syntactic Language Models, talk at Hiromu Sakai's lab meeting, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Novermber 5th, 2024 Recombination of Functional Features: A Late-Insertion-Based Exoskeletal Approach to Creoles (with Marlyse Baptista), Penn Syntax Lab meeting, Pennsylvania, US, April 7th, 2023 [online] BCCWJ-MRI/MEG. AI Yotta International Symposium. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, March 10th, 2023 [online]
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