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About Me
About Me
Aloha! Please feel free to refer to me as Liv.
I am a PhD student at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. I completed my undergraduate degree in Linguistics and Japanese and a certificate in Asian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh in 2016.
During my undergraduate career, I was a teaching assistant for the honors class Computational Methods of the Humanities. After graduating, I interned at the Institute for Linguistic Evidence, worked on a project analyzing the phonetics of Salasaca Quichua, and returned to Japan for further study. I then joined the Masters program at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in 2018 before transferring into the PhD program in 2020. I was the co-director of LDTC in Spring 2019, Vice President of the Linguistic Society of Mānoa 2020-2021, Head LAE Labs GA Spring 2023, was a member of the Student Steering Committee for ICLDC 8, and I currently teach Linguistics 102 'Introduction to Linguistics'.
My Research
My Research
My primary research interest is the intersection between sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics at the phonetic level. I am also interested in typology, Japanese linguistics, prosody, and interjections. My current research involves typological studies on cross-linguistic interjection phoneme inventories, phonetic and sociolinguistic analyses of Hawaiian Pidgin, the uses and perception of the word 'like' in English, and psycholinguistic experiments analyzing the influence word duration has on production and perception.
During my undergraduate career, I applied templatic morphology to Japanese onomatopoeias and mimetics, lived in Tokyo for my junior year, and analyzed Quentin Tarantino scripts using XML and network analysis. For my Japanese Major final project, I interpreted international relations between America and Japan through the lens of the Godzilla film franchise.
My skills include E-Prime, Labvanced, Photoshop, Flash, Microsoft Office Tools, R, XML, HTML, CSS, Regex, Praat, ELAN, Audacity, FLEx, and video editing.
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