Research Interests

· Phonetics/Phonology interface: How phonology, particularly prosodic information such as phonemic pitch-accent and phonemic vowel length, is developed by processing phonetic signals by L1/L2 speakers.

· Phonology of intonation

· Speech perception

Courses I have taught/been teaching

· Introduction to Language/Introduction to Language for Educators

· Language, Culture, and Society

· Linguistics and Reading

· Intermediate Japanese

· Intermediate ESL Reading/Writing

· English Writing Improvement

Work in Progress

· An acoustic investigation of Pohnpeian vowel allophony

· Acquisition of Japanese vowel mora by L2 learners

Conference Presentations

· August, 2006. Teaching Japanese Long Vowels. The 10th International Conference on Japanese Language Education. Columbia University, NY. August, 2006. PPT

· Phonetic implementations of Pohnpeian long vowels” The 12th Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. UCLA, CA. May, 2005. Paper

· The phonetics-phonology interface in long vowels. The 2005 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). Oakland, CA. January, 2005. Abstract

· Function of pitch-accent in Japanese long vowels. The 4th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese. California State University, San Francisco, CA. April, 2004.

· The interaction of duration and pitch in Japanese long vowels. The 30th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS). Berkeley, CA. February, 2004.

· Duration and pitch cues for vowel length in Japanese. The 12th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Graduate Center of the City University of NY. November, 2002.

Poster Presentations

· Acquisition of Japanese Pitch-accent by Non-native Speakers (Poster). 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and the Acoustical society of Japan. Honolulu, HI. November, 2006.

· Phonetic interference in L2 phonology: A case of long vowels. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA). University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. December, 2004.

· Sustaining phonemic distinctions: A study of phonetic cues in Japanese long vowels. The 9th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. IL. June, 2004.

· Durational cues and pitch cues in Japanese Mora. Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan.March, 2004.

· Duration and F0 cues for vowel length in Japanese. 143rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Pittsburgh, PA. June, 2002.

Grants/Fellowships

· Graduate Scholarship, Center for Japanese Studies at University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, 2003-2004

· Graduate Assistantship, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, 2000-2003 & Fall 2004

· The Department of Linguistics Endowment Fund, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, for a series of experiments for my dissertation, Fall 2002

· University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Graduate Student Organization travel fund, for the trip to the 5th International Conference of Oceanic Linguistics, at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Fall 2001

· Title VII graduate fellowship for ESL/Bilingual personnel training, 1998 & 2000 [ fellows ]

· California State University Grant, for graduate studies, 1996 & 1997

· Associate, Forensic Linguistics Institute, Fresno, CA. 1997 & 1998

Assisted investigations of the authorship of legal documents Supervisor: Gerald McMenamin

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