Yukiko Asano
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Japanese
- ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CIVILIZATIONS
Tuesday 3:30-4:30pm @ HUMN 213, and by appointment via Zoom
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Profile
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.
In 2016, she was nominated for the Texas Foreign Language Teaching Excellence Award at the Texas Language Center of the University of Texas at Austin. 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.