ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory & Practice

Name:

Dr. Noriko Hoshino

Position:

Research Officer

Email:

Location:

Room 415, Brigantia building

Phone:

 + 44 (0)1248 388 674

Biography

I got a Master’s degree in psychology and a Ph.D. in psychology with a minor in applied linguistics from the Pennsylvania State University. After I did a post-doc in the Department of Psychology at Tufts University, I joined the ESRC Center for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice as a research officer.

Research interests

Bilingualism, language production, lexical access, reading in different writing systems, second language acquisition, sentence processing.

My research uses bilingualism as a tool to examine the cognitive and linguistic factors that constrain language processing and learning. I am interested in addressing the questions of whether bilinguals whose languages are more similar and those whose languages are more distinctive sublexically, lexically, and syntactically have similar constraints on processing in the native and second languages and whether these constraints are modulated by individual differences in language proficiency, working memory capacity, and inhibitory control. I use even-related potentials as well as traditional behavioral measures to understand the cognitive underpinnings of language processing and learning.


Selected Publications

Hoshino, N., Dussias, P. E., & Kroll, J. F. (in press). Processing subject-verb agreement in a second language depends on proficiency. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.


Bobb, S. C., Hoshino, N., & Kroll, J. F. (2008). The roles of language cues in constraining cross-language activity. In L. Roberts (Ed.), EUROSLA Yearbook8 (pp. 6-31). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.


Hoshino, N., & Kroll, J. F. (2008). Cognate effects in picture naming: Does cross-language activation survive a change of script? Cognition, 106, 501-511.


Linck, J. A., Hoshino, N., & Kroll, J. F. (2008). Cross-language lexical processes and inhibitory control. The Mental Lexicon, 3, 349-374.

Other information

Awards

National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant (with Judith F. Kroll). BCS-0518814: A psycholinguistic study of native language constraints on speaking words in a second language (2005-2006)

Fellowship, John Merck Fund Summer Institute on the Biology of Developmental Disabilities at Princeton University (2006)