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Satoshi Tomioka is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware, affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences. He holds a B.A. from International Christian University (Tokyo) and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His expertise spans semantics, pragmatics, syntax, and prosody, with a focus on Japanese and comparative East Asian linguistics.
- Education: B.A. in Liberal Arts (1987), International Christian University; Ph.D. in Linguistics (1997), University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Research interests include ellipsis, anaphora, wh-interrogatives, distributivity, and contrastiveness. He investigates how prosody interacts with syntax and semantics in Japanese, exploring topics like focus marking, intervention effects, and scalar implicatures. Recent work examines associative plurals and pragmatic disambiguation in embedded questions.
Publications analyze theoretical and empirical questions in linguistic interfaces, such as Bare quotatives as embedded speech acts (2024) and Focus without pitch boost (2022). His work bridges formal semantics and experimental approaches, addressing challenges in cross-linguistic typology and cognitive aspects of language processing.
