Katsura Aoyama, Ph.D.
Associate 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
BOOK
Aoyama, K. (2001). A psycholinguistic perspective on Finnish and Japanese prosody: Perception, production and child acquisition of consonantal quantity distinctions. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Aoyama, K. (2003). Perception of syllable-initial and syllable-final nasals in English by Korean and Japanese speakers. Second Language Research, 19, 251-265.
Aoyama, K., Flege, J. E., Guion, S. G., Akahane-Yamada, R., & Yamada, T. (2004). Perceived phonetic dissimilarity and L2 speech learning: The case of Japanese /r/ and English /l/ and /r/. Journal of Phonetics, 32(2), 233-250.
Aoyama, K., & Reid, L. A. (2006). Cross-linguistic tendencies and durational contrasts in geminate consonants: An examination of Guinaang Bontok geminates. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 36(2), 145-157.
Leiwo, M., Kulju, P., & Aoyama, K. (2006). The acquisition of Finnish vowel harmony. In A. Airola, A. Arppe, O. Heinämäki, M. Miestamo, K. Sinnemäki, U. Määttä, J. Niemi, K. K. Pitkänen & M. Suominen (Eds.), A man of measure: Festschrift in the honour of Fred Karlsson on his 60th birthday. Special supplement to SKY journal of linguistics, 19, 149-161.
Aoyama, K., Guion, S. G., Flege, J. E., Yamada T., & Akahane-Yamada, R. (2008). The first years in an L2-speaking environment: A comparison of Japanese children and adults learning American English. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 46, 61-90.
Aoyama, K., Peters, A. M., & Winchester, K. S. (in press). Phonological changes during the transition from one-word to productive word combination. Journal of Child Language.
Flores, L. & Aoyama, K. (in press). A comparison of psychometric performance on four modified Spanish-word-recognition tests. TEJAS: Texas Journal of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology.
Guerin, V., & Aoyama, K. (in submission). Illustrations of the IPA: Mavea. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.