KONDO, Mariko
- Posted
- 2020年2月21日(金)
- Title：Professor
- Degree：Ph.D. in Linguistics (Phonetics) (University of Edinburgh)
- Directed Research：Speech Communication and Language Acquisition
- Research Field：Phonetics, Phonology, Language Acquisition, Speech Science
Biography
After graduating, I worked as an English language teacher at high school for a few years. But then I switched my academic discipline and did an M.A. in Phonetics at University College London, followed by a Ph.D. in Linguistics (Phonetics) at the University of Edinburgh. After that, I taught at the Universities of Stirling, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland before returning to Japan to teach at Waseda University.
I am interested in both theoretical and practical aspects of language and language acquisition. My main research interests lie in phonetics and phonology, particularly speech production and perception with a strong focus on acoustic studies, as well as second(+) language phonological acquisition of various languages. Students in my lab have conducted research on a variety of languages, including Chinese, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Māori, Polish, Russian, Sinhalese, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Recently, I have been participating in various research projects both as a project leader and a collaborator. These projects include building speech corpora of Asian language speakers’ English, evaluating the foreign accentedness of English and Japanese, assessing the comprehensibility of different varieties of English (including Asian and African varieties), investigating how a foreign accent affects people’s impression of the speaker, and examining communication comprehension between non-native speakers. In addition, I have also helped to develop computer-assisted pronunciation training systems for English and Japanese.
I have published many journal articles, book chapters and conference papers, and have edited and written the phonology section of a linguistic dictionary.
I have also given many conference presentations.
I am the director of Waseda University Institute of Language and Speech Science. The institute has a phonetics laboratory equipped with two soundproof rooms and other experimental facilities, and it has also hosted several conferences, both domestic and international. Currently, I am also working as an associate editor of the international phonetic journal “Phonetica”, and as a member of 100th Anniversary Commemoration Committee of the Phonetic Society of Japan.
Major Works / Publications Awards
https://w-rdb.waseda.jp/html/100000565_en.html
Directed Research
This seminar will focus on theories and application of speech communication science and language acquisition. There is a strong focus on experimental studies of phonetics and phonology, but it also covers other linguistic areas such as psycholinguistics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, application of linguistic and acquisition theories for education.
Student research areas include, but are not limited to, phonetics, phonology, interface between phonetics phonology and pragmatics-phonology, and language acquisition of various combinations of first and second (+) languages; examples of languages studied by current and past students include Chinese, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Māori, Polish, Russian, Sinhalese, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
We will seek interdisciplinary approaches to build up research potentials. In the seminar, students will read and discuss relevant journal articles. In addition, students will learn the practical and analytical skills they need to conduct their research as well as techniques to analyse the data they collect.