Katsura Aoyama, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
EDUCATION
- 1995 B.A. Japanese Philology- Kansai University- Osaka, Japan
- 1997 M.A. Linguistics- University of Hawaii- Manoa, HI
- 2000 Ph.D. Linguistics- University of Hawaii- Manoa, HI
RESEARCH
Child language acquisition and bilingualism, focusing on the phonological and prosodic (rhythmic) aspects of language. I am interested in how young children acquire the rhythm of their first language, and how adults learn sounds and the rhythm of a new language.
PUBLICATIONS
Aoyama, K. In Press. Quantity contrasts in Japanese and Finnish: Differences in adult production and acquisition. J Soc Ling Sci 2. Tokyo:Kuroshio.
Aoyama, K. 2001. A psycholinguistic perspective on Finnish and Japaneseprosody: Perception, production and child acquisition of consonantal quantity distinctions. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.
Aoyama, K. 2000. The acquisition of the Japanese prosody: Children’s production and perception of the nasal quantity contrast. In E.V. Clark (ed.), The Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Child Language Research Forum, CSLI, Stanford, CA.
Aoyama, Katsura. 2001. A psycholinguistic perspective on Finnish and Japanese prosody: Perception, production and child acquisition of consonantal quantity distinctions. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Aoyama, Katsura. Perception of syllable-initial and syllable-final nasals in English by Korean and Japanese speakers. (2003). Second Language Research 19(3), 251-265.
Aoyama, Katsura, James E. Flege, Susan G. Guion, Reiko Akahane-Yamada and Tsuneo Yamada. (2004). Perceived phonetic distance and L2 learning: THe case of Japanese /r/ and English /I/ and /r/. Journal of Phonetics 32(2), 233-250.