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I am an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC) at Indiana University Bloomington. I am also affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science Program, and Southeast Asian and ASEAN Studies Program at Indiana University Bloomington. I have a PhD in Linguistics and a graduate certificate in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, an MA in Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh, and a BA in Behavioral Sciences from Chiba University. My pronouns are she/her.
I am a linguist specializing in language acquisition, experimental linguistics, and corpus linguistics, with a regional focus on East Asia and Southeast Asia. In my research, I incorporate diverse perspectives coming from multiple languages (e.g., Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Tagalog, Yoron-Ryukyuan), speaker populations (e.g., monolinguals, bilinguals, children, adults, individuals with aphasia), and research designs (e.g., experimentation, corpus analysis, fieldwork) in order to explore the idea of universality—that is, is there anything common we all share in our languages, and what is it? I am also interested in using findings from acquisition research to facilitate language maintenance and conservation of endangered, heritage, and minority languages. You can learn more about my research here.
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Nozomi Tanaka 