Masaya Yoshida

Masaya Yoshida is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University, specializing in the intersection of syntax and real-time sentence processing. His work emphasizes syntactic prediction mechanisms and the resolution of dependencies during language comprehension. He has held academic roles including ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2007–2008) and has been associated with institutions like the University of Tokyo, University of South Carolina, and University College London through invited talks and collaborations.

• Education: PhD in Linguistics from the University of Maryland (2006), M.A. in Linguistics from Sophia University (2001), B.A. in English Literature from Meiji Gakuin University (1998).

His research interests center on online sentence processing and syntax, particularly focusing on ellipsis phenomena (sluicing, gapping, NP-ellipsis), island constraints, incremental parsing, and the syntax of conditional clauses. Yoshida investigates how grammatical structures are built incrementally and the interplay between syntactic representations and cognitive processing mechanisms.

In grants, he secured $272,679 from NSF (BCS, Linguistics) for studying clausal ellipsis and processing (2013–2017) and co-PI'd two additional NSF grants: one for gapping research ($6,310, 2014–2015) and another for noun phrase ellipsis processing ($9,132, 2018–2020).

His invited talks and colloquia span universities globally, including UCLA, University of Chicago, and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, reflecting his expertise in syntax and psycholinguistics. While no lab affiliations are explicitly listed, his collaborative work suggests involvement in computational and experimental linguistics networks.