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I am currently a second-year PhD student at Stanford University,
I am currently a second-year PhD student at Stanford University,
affiliated with the Department of Linguistics and the Stanford NLP Group.
affiliated with the Department of Linguistics and the Stanford NLP Group.
human brain used for my neuro exam (Left), Middlebury Linguistics Club board members (Right), and me on a Penn State website (the caption says "graduate students" but three of the four were not; bottom)
I graduated from Middlebury College with a major in neuroscience and a minor in linguistics. Prior to Stanford, I served as a lab manager at the Center for Language Science at Pennsylvania State University.
My research interests center on speech science, primarily acoustics and phonetics. I am particularly interested in emotional prosody—specifically, exploring the extent to which it is cross-linguistically universal versus language/culture-specific. To investigate this, I employ methods from both psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. I am also very interested in topics such as speech adaptation within social contexts, and the production effect (the focus of my BA thesis).
I aim to further our understanding of the mechanisms behind phonetic/prosodic processing while making those psycho/neurolinguistic research more accessible to the general public. I believe research in this field has broad applications—language learning, child care, education, acting, speech pathology, and human-AI speech interaction. I am constantly exploring how to leverage my expertise to create meaningful real-world impact.
Beyond my core research, I am interested in Taiwan Mandarin and Southern Min (i.e., Taiwanese), as well as the acquisition of pragmatic particles (e.g., sentence-final particles in Mandarin, Japanese, and some other Asian languages).
Please visit here for more details on my research.
~Past Photos~
~Past Photos~
My name sounds like "yuca", a kind of potato in Spanish.
My name sounds like "yuca", a kind of potato in Spanish.
photo：<a href='https://www.freepik.com/vectors/food'>Food vector created by freepik - www.freepik.com</a>
One of my favorite linguistics memes
One of my favorite linguistics memes
photo: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3525
~Youtube~
~Youtube~
Below are the videos of me talking with my former teacher about US school life & admissions.
Below are the videos of me talking with my former teacher about US school life & admissions.
All in Japanese...sorry!
All in Japanese...sorry!
高校時代にお世話になった塾長との海外大学について対談した様子が塾のYoutubeにアップロードされているので、受験やアメリカ大学・大学院生活に興味のある方はぜひ。徹夜で話してるのでぜひ後ろの時計に注目。直感的に思った時間から12時間引いてください。多分それが正解です。
高校時代にお世話になった塾長との海外大学について対談した様子が塾のYoutubeにアップロードされているので、受験やアメリカ大学・大学院生活に興味のある方はぜひ。徹夜で話してるのでぜひ後ろの時計に注目。直感的に思った時間から12時間引いてください。多分それが正解です。
前編：実態編－アメリカの大学について。
後編：実践編ーアメリカの大学・大学院への入学について
全まとめ動画 （左：前編、右：後編。各数時間あります。）
~Outreach~
~Outreach~
I joined the board of JASS (Japanese Academic Seminars at Stanford).
JASS is an academic seminar series for the Japanese-speaking community that launched in June 2022. In this seminar series, we invite researchers who are active at Stanford University and surrounding research institutions or corporations as speakers. We host seminars and networking events designed to easily share their research themes with participants from various backgrounds, regardless of whether they are in academia or industry.
JASS（Japanese Academic Seminars at Stanford）の運営メンバーに加わりました。
JASSは、2022年6月に発足した日本語話者コミュニティ向けのアカデミックセミナーシリーズです。スタンフォード大学および周辺の研究機関・企業で活躍する研究者をスピーカーとしてお招きし、アカデミア・産業界を問わず、様々なバックグラウンドを持つ参加者が研究テーマを気軽に共有できるセミナーおよびネットワーキングイベントを開催しています。
どなたでも参加可能です。ぜひこちらから詳細をご覧ください！
I was a member of this outreach activity: Kotoboo. This is the web media for caregivers and educators (or anyone interested in child language development), which provides science-based information on first language acquisition....with comics!!
The articles are written in multiple languages (for now, in English, Japanese, Spanish, French, and Arabic). The translations are done sorely by Kotoboo members, all of who are developmental psycholinguists from various countries. I was also contributing as a translator.
We presented this project at several conferences, including the 21st conference of the Japanese Society of Baby Science.
I am occasionally writing an article targeted for high school students who are applying to universities overseas. (written in Japanese only)
I am occasionally writing an article targeted for high school students who are applying to universities overseas. (written in Japanese only)
ベネッセコーポレーションの海外進学・留学ラボの記事を時々書かせていただいております。
ベネッセコーポレーションの海外進学・留学ラボの記事を時々書かせていただいております。
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