Research Interests
Phonetics, German Language Education Research
Academic Degrees
- Ph. D. University of Hamburg, 2007
Short Bio
Miki Ikoma is a Professor of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University. She was awarded a Doctorate in Linguistics from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 2007.
She was appointed Lecturer and later Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, before assuming her current position in 2009.
Her research focuses on paralinguistic information and phonetics in spoken language, with particular emphasis on learner phonetic acquisition. A central area of her work is the relationship between German modal particles and phonetics. In recent years, she has led the international collaborative research project “Prosody and Pragmatics” (ProsPrag) in cooperation with scholars at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Münster.
In May 2025, she assumed the role of President of the Japanese Association for German Studies.
Her principal publication is Prosodische Eigenschaften der deutschen Modalpartikeln (2007, Verlag Dr. Kovac).
