I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences (SHaPS), University College London. I was awarded a PhD from Lancaster University in 2024.

My research seeks to better understand the speech production system spanning cognition, articulation and acoustics. I am particularly interested in how a speaker resolves conflicting speech production demands by looking closely at articulation – the final stage of human action in the speech production process. My PhD research investigated L1 Japanese speakers’ production of L2 English liquid consonants /l r/ by combining ultrasound tongue imaging and dynamic data analysis methods. My current postdoc project investigates how a speaker resolves conflicts between perceptually-driven and goal-driven motor plans by utilising the stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) paradigm and electromagnetic articulography (EMA) to track the ‘trace’ of such conflicts in speech action.

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Research interests


  Experimental Phonetics, Speech Sciences

  Ultrasound Tongue Imaging

  Electromagnetic Articulography

  Second Language Speech Acquisition

analytics   Quantitative Data Analysis (Statistical Modelling, Dynamic Data Analysis)


Current projects


cosine--v1   Dynamics in L2 speech: L1 Japanese speakers’ production of English liquids

cosine--v1   Speech production processes in resolving articulatory variation

                 PIs: Professor Patti Adank (UCL), Dr Chris Carignan (UCL) and Professor Adamantios Gafos (Universität Potsdam).

hiragana-ra   DNR: Articulatory characterisation of Japanese liquids

                 Co-researcher: Dr Maho Morimoto (Chuo University)


Education


  2020 - 2024   PhD in Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK.

                Supervisors: Professor Claire Nance and Dr Sam Kirkham

                See also: Lancaster University Phonetics Lab

                Funded by Japan Student Services Organisation (JASSO) and The Murata Science Foundation.

  2015 - 2016   Master of Arts in Linguistics (with Merit), University College London, UK.

                Dissertation supervisor: Dr Bronwen Evans (Now Professor in Sociophonetics at UCL)

  2010 - 2015   Bachelor of Arts in Education Studies, Aichi University of Education, Japan.

                Thesis supervisor: Dr Yasuhiro Fujiwara (Now Professor at Meijo University, Japan)


Skills


  Japanese (Native), English (Fluent, CEFR: C1), German (Beginner, CEFR: A2)

  R / R Studio, Praat, Gorilla, Microsoft Office, LaTeX, Moodle

  Ultrasound tongue imaging (Articulate Assistant Advanced), Electromagnetic Ariculography (NDI Vox-EMA)

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