Sample published research

Aoyama, K., Flege, J. E., Akahane-Yamada, R., & Yamada, T. (accepted). An acoustic analysis of English liquids by adults and children: Native speakers and native Japanese speakers of American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Aoyama, K., & Davis, B. L. (2016). Nonadjacent consonant sequence patterns in English target words during the first-word period. Journal of Child Language, 43, 1-23.

Aoyama, K., Flege, J. E., Akahane-Yamada, R., & Yamada, T. (2018). Acoustic analysis of English /r/ and /l/ produced by native Japanese adults and children. Proceedings of the Meetings in Acoustics, 30, 060008.

Current projects

Consonant sequences in target words in German-speaking children

Lab members: Rebekka Cassidy, Kat Aoyama

Phonetic forms of children’s first words in Mandarin Chinese

Lab members: Yu Chan Shih, Kat Aoyama

Acoustic analysis of fricative consonants produced by Japanese speakers

Kat Aoyama, James Flege, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Tsuneo Yamada

Dr. Aoyama

Dr. Aoyama presenting at the Acoustical Society of America in Boston, MA in 2017

Rebekka Cassidy presenting her research at Honors Day in April 2018

Sample Presentations

Acoustical analysis of English voiceless fricatives (/f/ // /s/) by native Japanese adults and children (with James E. Flege, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, and Tsuneo Yamada). Presented at the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 15, 2019. Louisville, KY.

On writing processes. Faculty of Color Workshop. Texas Women’s University. May 13, 2019. Denton, TX. 

Research in bilingualism and second language acquisition and its implications for accent modification (with Joy Sibley). Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention, Presented on March 2, 2019. Fort Worth, TX.

Consonant variegations in first words: Infants' actual productions of consonant-vowel-consonant word forms. Poster presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention, November 9, 2017. Los Angeles, CA.

Dr. Aoyama was interviewed by Vox for the creation of this video

Please contact kat.aoyama@unt.edu for further information.

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