Rate My Professor Chie Nakamura

Chie Nakamura is an Associate Professor (tenure-track) in the Faculty of International Research and Education at Waseda University, affiliated with the School of International Liberal Studies and the Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Science and Technology at Keio University in 2013, following earlier degrees from the same institution, including an M.A. in 2010 and a B.A. in 2008. Her research investigates how language is represented and used in the mind, with a focus on psycholinguistics, sentence processing, second language acquisition, and the use of eye-tracking and other experimental methods to study anticipation, adaptation, prosody, and subcategorization information in first and second language comprehension.

Prior to her current role, Nakamura held positions including Associate Professor at Waseda University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering from 2019 to 2023, Visiting Scholar at UCLA from 2017 to 2019, and postdoctoral roles at MIT and the University of Tokyo supported by JSPS fellowships. She has received awards such as the Waseda University Teaching Award for AY 2024, the 9th WASEDA e-Teaching Award Good Practice Award in 2021, and the Waseda Research Acceleration Program for Early-Stage Principal Investigators in 2025. Her key publications include articles in Frontiers in Psychology (2021 and 2019) and Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (2021), addressing topics such as L2 learners’ use of verb subcategorization information and the integration of prosody in syntactic ambiguity resolution. She has also contributed chapters and papers on prediction in L2 processing and prosody in second language listening.

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