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Curriculum Vitae
Reiko MazukaClick here for a printer-ready version, or
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Duke Box 90085, Durham, NC 27708-0085
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- Education
Ph.D. | Cornell University | 1990 |
M.S. | University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) | 1984 |
MA | Nagoya University | 1983 |
- Areas of Research
Language Acquisition
- Areas of Interest
- infant speech perception
phonological development prosody of Japanese role of executive function on language acquisition individual differences in infants' abiliy to learn language
- Professional Experience / Employment History
- RIKEN Brain Science Institute
- Laboratory Head, Laboratory for Language Development, 2004 - present
- Recent Grant Support
- Learning to Pay Attention to Language Related Visual Cues, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2009/12-2023/03.
- Conferences Organized
- editirial board : Japanese Society for Language Studies, editirial board : Japanese Society for Language Studies. 2008, 2008 - present
- editorial board, Syntax, 2007 - present
- Professional Service
- DGS
- Director of the Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology:Social & Health Sciences, 2001 - 2004
- Other Dept Service
- Member, Third Year Review Committee for Makeba Wilbourn, January 2011
- Professional Activities
- Organizing member : Study Group for Assistance for Developmental Disorder, IEICE, Organizing member : Study Group for Assistance for Developmental Disorder, IEICE. January 5, 2009, January 2009
- Editorial Activities
- editorial board, Language Learning and Development, 2004 - present
- editorial board, Korean Journal of Cognitive Science, 2002 - present
- editorial board, Japanese Journal of Cognitive Science, 2002 - 2005
- Selected Recent Invited Talks
- Acquiring versus Learning a Language (In Japanese), International Symposium on Stress, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2011
- Looking into human brain and human mind by studying infants' language acquisition (In Japanese), 2011 RIKEN Science Lectures, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2011
- Developmental changes in brain responses during speech processing (In Japanese), Auditory Perception Division Meeting, Acoustical Society of Japan, Tokyo Japan, July, 2011
- Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese, Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Njimegen, The Netherland, May, 2011
- Fronteers in Language Acquisition Research: Cues that facilitates association between sound and meaning in early vocabulary development (In Japanese), The 22nd annual meeting of Japan Society of Developmental Psychology, Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan, March, 2011
- Gaining insight into Japanese prosody from studying infant-directed speech (In Japanese), 2011 Spring meeting of Acoustical Society of Japan, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, March, 2011
- Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese, Center for Infant Studies, Department of Psychology, Stanford University.University, Stanford, CA, February, 2011
- Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese, Infant Studies Center, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Bancouver, Canada, February, 2011
- Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese, Center for Infant Studies, Department of Psychology, Stanford University.University, Stanford, CA, February, 2011
- Introduction to Infant Speech Perception Research (In Japanese), Saitama, Japan, 7 January 2011
- Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science seminar series, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, August, 2010
- Learning the sound system of Japanese: What does it tell us about language acquisition?, The 20th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA2010), Sydney, Australia, August, 2010
- Universal and language specific ways of Infant Directed Speech: Linguistic, psycholinguistic, and brain imaging study of Japanese infant directed speech, MARCS Auditory Laboratory Colloquim, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia, August, 2010
- Looking into the mechanism of language acquisition through the window of "Motherese", 35th meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society of Japan, Kyoto, Japan, June, 2010
- Learning the melody of a language: Investigation into language acquisition through the prosody of Japanese, Invited Special Session, General Conference of The Institute of Electronics, Information communication engineers (IEICE), Sendai, Japan, March, 2010
- Language specific ways of infant-directed speech., Emory University, 2009
- Sound, meaning, and characters in reading: The relationship between characters and sounds in reading Japanese (In Japanese; Gengo wa oto to imi, yomi wa oto to imi to moji: Nihongo no yomi ni okeru moji to oto no kankei), Yokohama, Japan, 2009
- The science of language acquisition: The front-line of infant language acquisition research combining psychological, linguistic, brain science and engineering methodologies (In Japanese; Akachan no gengo kakutoku wo kagaku suru―gengo gaku,shinri gaku,nou, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 2009
- Universal and language specific ways of infant directed speech: linguistic psycholinguistic, and brain imaging study of Japanese infant directed speech, University of Michigan, 2008
- Exaggerated Prosody in Infant-directed Speech?: Intonational Phonological Analysis of Japanese Infant-Directed Speech, University of North Carolina, November, 2007
- For whom does Motherese exist?, Saitama, Japan, June, 2007
- "Hahaoya tokuyuu no hanashikata (Motherese) wa otona no Nihongo to doochigau ka -- RIKEN Niongoboshikaiwa koopasu"(In Japanese: How do mothers speak differently to infants? -- RIKEN Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus --)., Onsei Symposium: Co-sponsored by Acoustic Society of Japan, The Institute of Elecgtronics, Information and Communication Engeneers, Information Processing Society of Japan, December, 2006
- Can Japanese speakers really not tell ebzo" from "ebuzo"? ", Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, October, 2006
- Publications (listed separately)
Last modified: 2023/09/01
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