Yumiko Enyo
延与由美子
Here is
how to pronounce my name, and below is its spectrogram and pitchtrack
in my own voice (Praat).
I am currently a Ph.D. student in the Linguistics
Department at University of Hawaii.
My Email address: enyo@hawaii.edu
My research interest includes sociolinguistics, phonetics, and
sociophonetics of Japanese language.
Currently, I am conducting research on Japanese ideology of gender.
In Japanese, there are words of otoko kotoba 男言葉
'men's language' and onna
kotoba 女
言葉 'women's language.' I am interested in how native speakers
of
Japanese choose these gendered features in different context in performance.
The list of my selected projects and previous publication.
'Does it sound like a man or a
woman? --- A case study of gender performance and prosody in
Japanese sentence-final particles'
New Ways
of Analyze Variations34, New York Univeristy. Oct. 2005
Presentation outline can be seen in here.
'What triggers Japanese style shifts of honorifics?'
Proceedings of the 8th Annual
Conference for Graduate Students in the College of Languages,
Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawaii, Manoa.
The graduate assistantship at the Language Analysis and Experimentation Laboratories (LAE Labs) at the Linguistics Department
provides
me an opportunity to learn more about research tools. One
example
of my work is a brief instruction for Praat, which is found here.
And I enjoy teaching Japanese to non-native speakers, which was my
previous job before I came to Hawaii.
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