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 AY2025)
PhD
Michinori Suzuki
MA
Ren Hasegawa (5 year program, 2025.4- )
Yeonjun Jung (2025.4 -)
Izumi Cook (2025.9-)
BA
Philine Vogt (Frei Uni. Berlin, 2025.8-)
Graduated Advisees
BA
Haseru Ida, Ren Hasegawa (2025.3)
Yuzuka Maekawa (2024.6)
Advisees who graduated
PhD
Celeste Guillemot (2019.3) "On the Pronunciation of the Japanese Consonantal Length Contrast by Italian, French and English Native Speakers"
MA (main supervisor)
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 "
Paris Flemming (2023.3) "Conveying Casualness through Contraction in English"
Yuri Teno (2020.6) "Prosody of pro‐drop Sentences by English Learners of Japanese"
Michinori Suzuki (2020.3, 5 year program) "Production and Perception Studies of Voicing Contrast of Plosives in Tokyo Dialect"
Machi Niiya (2019.3, 5 year program) "Vowel length perception by English learners of Japanese"
MA (committee member)
Shiroma, Rena (2025.7) "The Influence of Intercultural Friendships on Bias Toward Non-Native English Speakers"
Rachel Liu (2023.6) "Confounding Factors in the Acquisition of Singaporean English by a Child with Noonan Syndrome"
Eagle, Marcus Robert (2021.6) "Signifying Violence: Post Bubble Signs in the Works of Murakami Ryū"
Kobayashi, Shion (2021.3) "Introduction of Target Structures in the Graded Direct Method and Its Effects on Learning and Awareness of EFL Learners"
Kanai, Risa (2021.3) "Vocabulary Learning through Writing: Investigating the Effects of Composition Writing and Three Different Sentence Writing Tasks on Vocabulary Learning"
Kase, Misuzu (2021.3) "Request Strategies of Japanese EFL Learners: The Relationship between L2 Proficiency and Pragmatic Transfer"