FACULTY
Research and Industry-Academia Collaboration
研究?産学連携
PERKINS Jeremy
Senior Associate Professor
- Affiliation
- Center for Language Research
- Title
- Senior Associate Professor
- jperkins@u-aizu.ac.jp
Education
- Courses - Undergraduate
- Courses - Graduate
Research
- Specialization
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Linguistics
Linguistics (Phonetics & Phonology)
- Educational Background, Biography
- M.A. in Linguistics, 2005 at University of British Columbia; PhD in Linguistics, 2013 at Rutgers University
- Current Research Theme
- Phonetics and Phonology of Tone and Phonation in Asian Languages
- Key Topic
- Affiliated Academic Society
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.