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Priya Ananth, Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, held at Atlanta, Georgia, April 3-6, 2008. She gave a poster presentation titled "Form-Meaning Association in toki 'when' clauses in Japanese -- A corpus analysis of native speakers' data." This study comprehensively examined the associations of the past (perfective) and non-past (imperfective) verbal morphology with the four verbal classes based on their semantic characteristics such as telicity and durativity, by native speakers of Japanese. This study has important pedagogical implications in the systematic teaching of verbal morphology in the tense-aspect system of Japanese as a foreign language.