Honoka Takei

She graduated from the University of Alberta with a B.A. in Linguistics, and pursed an M.A. in Japanese Linguistics/Pedagogy. Her focus was on documenting Miyako, a language spoken in the southern Okinawa islands in Japan. Previously She had documented child-related songs sung in this area. She worked on her thesis where she looked at Japanese language spoken by young generations of this area using natural spoken discourse.