| Position | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Graduate School | Korean Linguistics and Social Studies |
| Department | Korean Studies |
Career
| DEC 2002: | The University of Tokyo, Ph.D., Linguistics. |
| DEC 2002-MAR 2010: | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Assistant Professor |
| APR 2010- MAR 2023: | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Associate Professor |
| APR 2023: | Appointed to the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Research Area
Names of major research fields: Linguistics
Keywords or research subjects, etc.: Phonology, Phonetics, Historical linguistics, Korean
Details:
I am interested in phonology and phonetics with a focus on East Asian languages, especially Korean. The major topics I have been working on are: (1) tone and accent, (2) analogy and variation, (3) historical development from Middle Korean to Contemporary Korean, (4) dialectal study (in particular on Yanbian Korean, Kyengsang Korean, Hamkyeng Korean), (5) loanword phonology (including Sino-Korean phonology), (6) reconstruction of Proto-Korean phonological system, (7) phonotactics and co-occurrence restrictions, (8) acoustic analyses of Korean dialects and sociophonetic study. My research goal is to understand how the phonological/phonetic characteristics in the past have led to the contemporary phonotactic patterns and variations, as well as to clarify the state of the language in the past inversely by investigating the details of various linguistic phenomena based on the available synchronic data.
