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UCLA, Department
of Linguistics
Box 951543 Los Angeles, CA E-mail: kuniko at humnet dot ucla dot edu |
Research Interests
· acoustic phonetics
· psycholinguistics
· speech production and perception
· phonetics / phonology interface
View my CV, Papers, Presentations
Education
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Ph.D. (Expected in 2008)
Thesis in progress: The specificity of allophonic variability and its implications for
accounts of speech perception.
Committee Chair: Patricia Keating
Committee
Members: Bruce Hayes, Sun-Ah, Jun, Jody Kreiman, Colin Wilson
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M.A. (2004)
Thesis Title: Segmental Differences in the
Visual Contribution to Speech Intelligibility. [pdf] (387k)
Committee Chair:
Patricia Keating
Committee
Members: Bruce Hayes, Colin Wilson
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B.A. (1999) Ohio State University (Linguistics with distinction and Chinese)
Summa Cum Laude
Thesis Title: A Cross-Language Study of classifying
stops in Japanese and Chinese: The difference and its significance for second
language acquisition.
Committee Chair: Michael Broe
Publications
2007 Implicit
Phonetic Imitation is constrained by Phonemic Contrast. Proceedings of the
16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences,
2007 The
Interaction between Spontaneous Imitation and LinguisticKnowledge. UCLA
Working Papers in Phonetics 105. pp. 125-137. [pdf] (445k)
2006 Specificity and
Generalizability of Spontaneous Phonetic Imitation. Proceedings of the 9th Internatinal
Conference on Spoken Language Processing,
2005 Investigation of SLI children's Semantic Knowledge through Intonation Patterns. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics no.13,
Papers in Psycholinguistics 2.pp. 76-86. [pdf]
(52k)
2005 Kiche
Intonation. UCLA Working Papers in
Phonetics 104. pp. 45-60. [pdf] (1.6M)
2005 Generalization
of phonetic imitation across place of articulation. Proceedings for ISCA Workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception,
2004 Segmental
Differences in the Visual Contribution to Speech Intelligibility. Proceedings for 8th
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing,
2004 Segmental
Differences in the Visual Contribution to Speech Intelligibility. UCLA Working Paper in Phonetics 103. pp. 106-147. [pdf] (386k)
Presentations
January 2008 Phonetic imitation of Japanese vowel
devoicing. Talk presented at the 2008 LSA Meeting in
August 2007 Implicit phonetic imitation is
constrained by phonemic contrast. Poster presented at the 16th International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences,
December 2006 Acoustic phonetic variability and auditory
word recognition by dyslexic and nondyslexic children (with Patricia
Keating, Frank Manis, and Jennifer Bruno). Poster presented at
the 152th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
September 2006 The
specificity and abstractness of spontaneous phonetic imitation.
Poster
presented at the 9th
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing.
June 2006 The specificity and abstractness of phonetic imitation.
Poster
presented at the 10th Conference on Laboratory Phonology,
January 2006 VOT imitation generalizes across
phonemes and natural classes. Talk
presented at
the 2006 LSA Meeting in
November 2005 The specificity and
abstractness of phonetic imitation. Talk presented at RIKEN BSI Forum,
October 2005 The interaction between specificity and
linguistic contrast. Poster presented at the 150th Meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America.
June 2005 Generalization
of phonetic imitation across place of articulation. Poster presented at the
ISCA Workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception.
May 2005 Generalization of the imitation
effect within a natural class. Poster presented at the 149th Meeting
of the Acoustical Society of America.
October 2004 Segmental Differences in the Visual Contribution to Speech
Intelligibility. Poster presented at the 8th International
Conference on Spoken Language Processing.
May 2004 Segmental
Differences in the Visual Contribution to Speech Intelligibility. Poster
presented at the 147th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
UCLA Department of Linguistics
Last updated: January 2008