FACULTY
Research and Industry-Academia Collaboration
研究?産学連携
WILSON Ian
Professor, Center for Language Research Director of the Center, Deputy Director of Office for Planning and Promotion
- Affiliation
- Center for Language Research
- Title
- Professor, Center for Language Research Director of the Center, Deputy Director of Office for Planning and Promotion
- wilson@u-aizu.ac.jp
- Web site
- /~wilson/
Education
- Courses - Undergraduate
- Pronunciation: Comparing English & Japanese Sound Systems, Pronunciation: Acoustic Analysis Using Software, Introductory English 1, Intermediate English 3
- Courses - Graduate
- Speech Articulation & Acoustics
Research
- Specialization
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Linguistics
Phonetics, Ultrasound tongue imaging for speech research, Second-language pronunciation
- Educational Background, Biography
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- 1988 B.Math (Mathematics), Univ. of Waterloo (Canada)
- 1998 M.A. in TEFL/TESL, Univ. of Birmingham (U.K.)
- 2006 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Univ. of British Columbia (Canada)
- 2006 Asst. Professor, Univ. of Aizu
- 2007 Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Aizu
- 2012 Full Professor, Univ. of Aizu
- Current Research Theme
- Articulatory Settings
- Key Topic
- How the rest position of the articulators (lips, tongue, jaw, etc.) differs for different languages
- Affiliated Academic Society
- Acoustical Society of America (ASA),Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ),Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL),International Speech Communication Association (ISCA),International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL),International Phonetic Association (IPA),Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT),Phonetic Society of Japan (PSJ),Linguistic Society of America (LSA),Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA),Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Others
- Hobbies
- Genealogy, skiing, chess
- School days' Dream
- To be a wide receiver for an NFL football team; to be an opera singer; to be a professional chess player
- Current Dream
- To be a good father, a good husband, and a good professor
- Messages for Students
- Open your minds! Experience as much as possible! Do not be afraid to fail!
- Publications other than one's areas of specialization
- University of Aizu Relay Essay #32 Christmas Memories (in Japanese)
Main research
- Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics
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Our research focus is on speech production and second-language acquisition of pronunciation. Experimental phonetics - both articulatory and acoustic phonetics - underlies most of our work and we specialize in using ultrasound as a tool to view and measure the tongue during speech. More specific research interests currently include Articulatory Settings (as seen through inter-speech rest posture) in monolinguals and bilinguals, as well as phonetic and phonological issues involved in learning to pronounce a second language. We are also interested in the Aizu dialect of Japanese, and we have recorded and analyzed many audio samples of this dialect.
Dissertation and Published Works
See my website for details
Google Scholar Citations
ResearchGate
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Web of Science"
Yumenavi 3-minute talk on pronunciation and technology"