Teaching
LNG 101 Introduction to Linguistics (Winter)
LNG 213 Phonetics (Autumn)
LNG 214 Phonology (Winter)
LNG 397 Field Methods (Spring)
GES 055 S2: Language documentation and linguistics (Spring)
QELE 509 Phonetics and Phonology (Graduate Course)
JICUF-Undergraduate Research Day (JICUF-URD)
I organize a twice-a-year event honoring excellent senior theses of all 31 majors, funded by Japan ICU Foundation.
Current Advisees (Lee Semi AY2026)
[Entire List of former advisees]
Doctoral program
Master's program
Yeonjun Jung (2025.4-)
Izumi Cook (2025.9-)
Haruka Yatabe (2026.4-)
Kazuha Shinohara (2026.4-)
Undergraduate
Maaru Higuchi (26) Shiho Funamoto (26) Yuko Hotta (26) Fuzuki Yoshie (26)
Rowan Schmit (27) Kentaro Taira (27) Sota Hosokawa (27) Yuta Nunoya (27) Saori Kawashima (27) Yuki Fujiwara (27)
Graduated Advisees
BA [Entire List]
Dai Miyazaki (2026.3)
Sotaro Arakaki (2026.3)
Emiko Miyauchi (2026.3)
Haruka Yatabe (2026.3)
Kazuha Shinohara (2026.3)
Philine Vogt (Frei Uni. Berlin, 2025.8-2026.2)
Haseru Ida (2025.3)
Ren Hasegawa (2025.3)
Yuzuka Maekawa (2024.7)
Advisees who graduated
PhD [Entire List]
Celeste Guillemot (2019.3) "On the Pronunciation of the Japanese Consonantal Length Contrast by Italian, French and English Native Speakers"
Michinori Suzuki (2026.3) "Positional Effects on the Acoustic Realization of Voicing Contrast in Japanese Dialects"
MA (main supervisor) [Entire List]
Ren Hasegawa (2026.3, 5 year program) "Iconicity of Tone: A Perception Study on Xitsonga Speakers"
Rina Furusawa (2025.3) "Japanese Voicing Contrast in Speech and Singing"
Takaki Yanagida (2025.3) "An Acoustic Analysis of Consonantal Effect on F0 in Siswati: An Interplay between Voice Onset Time and Fundamental Frequency "