Mai Kumagami
- Center for Language Studies, Associate Professor
- Linguistics・Second Language Acquisition
- Development of second language grammar, Acquisition of movement structures
personal history
Master of Arts (Linguistics), 2006, Kyushu University; Graduate student, Ph.D. program (Linguistics), Kyushu University, 2006-2012; Graduate student, Ph.D. program in Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY, August 2008-; Adjunct Lecturer in Queens College (CUNY) and LaGardia Community College (CUNY)
works/thesis
1. 'Two Types of Strategies: The Acquisition of English Wh-Questions by Japanese Learners', the Kyushu University Papers in Linguistics 27，pp.37-60，December 2006.
2. 'Acquisition of Japanese wh-questions: The effects of processing strategies on L2 sentence judgment'，supplement to the online proceedings of 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, March 2008.