M. MICHAEL AKIYAMA

BRIEF VITA

UNIVERSITY ADDRESS: Department of Behavioral Sciences
Room 1121 University Mall
The University of Michigan - Dearborn
Dearborn, Michigan 48128-1491
Phone: (313) 593-5608
Fax: (313) 593-5552
E-mail address: makiyama@umich.edu

EDUCATION: University of Tokyo in Japan
B.E. in Educational Psychology, 1968

University of Tokyo in Japan
M.E. in Educational Psychology, 1970

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, 1977

POSITIONS HELD: Associate Professor / Professor
Department of Behavioral Sciences
The University of Michigan-Dearborn
1986 - present

Research Fellow / Visiting Associate Professor
Developmental Psychology
The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
1984 - 1986

Assistant / Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
The University of Oklahoma
1978 - 1986

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS: Fulbright and Hays Travel Grant, l972 - 1977
National Research Service Award, Department of Health and Human
Services, 1984 - 1986.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Akiyama, M. M. (1992). Cross-linguistic contrasts of verification and
answering among children. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 21, 67
85.

Akiyama, M. (1992). Chapter 6 Language development and cognition. In
T. Fujinaga (Ed.) Contemporary Developmental Psychology (pp. 95-106,
In Japanese). Tokyo: Yuhikaku.

Akiyama, M. M. & Wilcox, A. S. (1993). Naming as a function of
linguistic form class and object categories. Journal of Child Language, 20,
419-435.

Akiyama, M.M., & Williams, N. (1996). A spatial component in the use
of count nouns among English speakers and Japanese speakers of English
as a second language. Language Learning, 46, 217-231.

King, C.A., Akiyama, M.M., & Elling, K.A. (1996). Self-perceived
competencies and depression among middle school students in Japan and
the United States. Journal of Early Adolescence, 16, 192-210.

BOOK REVIEW: Akiyama, M. M. (1992). A book review on Gavrilov, L. A. & Gavrilova,
N. S. The Biology of Life Span: A Quantitative Approach. Human
Biology, 630-632.

Akiyama, M. M. (1992). A book notice on Eagan, D. Romantic
Understanding. Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography, 66, 76.

MANUSCRIPT IN PROGRESS: Akiyama, M.M. & Akiyama, H.. Psychology of Aging (tentative title).
The University of Tokyo Press.