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Yukiko Asano received a BA in Linguistics and French from University of Wisconsin – Madison, and PhD in Linguistics from Stony Brook University. Her PhD dissertation “Thematic Resultative Expressions in English and Japanese: A view from the Syntax of Event Aspect” examined a well-known cross-linguistics differences in a realization of inner aspect observed between English and Japanese, and provides a venue for understanding how parametric differences at syntactic level may cause different calculation at the syntax-semantics interface. After teaching at various institutions in the US, she joined CU Boulder in Fall 2021.
Recent Publication:
2019 Learnability of non-native sound contrast: A view from production errors in obstruent’s voicing-contrast. In Proceedings of the 25th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, May 11-12, 2019. [https://pjpf.princeton.edu/25th-princeton-japanese-pedagogy-forum]
Research Interests:
Theoretical linguistics, speech processing, reflections of cultural expectations in the use of a language, foreign language acquisition, acquisition of a writing system for adult foreign language learners.
Award related to the current field:
2016 Nominated for the 2016 Texas Foreign Language Teaching Excellence Award, Texas Language Center at University of Texas at Austin.