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Personal profile
Research Interests
Phonological and lexical acquisition; phonetics and phonology in atypical populations; prosodic structure.
Research Groups
- Developmental Linguistics Research Group
- Phonetics and Phonology Research Group
- Edinburgh Laboratory for Language Development (ELfLanD)
Visiting and Research Positions
- 2019- Professor, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2007-2019 Reader, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 1999-2007 Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2006-2013 Visiting scholar, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Websites
Teaching
- Undergraduate courses taught: Linguistics I (Brain and language, first language acquisition and second language acquisition), Linguistics 2 (Phonology), Intermediate Phonology, Advanced Phonology, Optimality Theory, Honours Foundation: Language and Cognition.
- Postgraduate courses taught: First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Phonology, Advanced Topics in First Language Acquisition, Advanced Topics in Second Language Acquisition, Developmental Phonology, Maturational Constraints on Language Acquisition.
Administrative Roles
- 2022-present: Research Ethics Convenor, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.
- 2015-2021: Director of Postgraduate Studies, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.
- Founder of the Edinburgh Laboratory for Language Development (ELfLanD) & lead academic of the "babylab" facility.
- 2002-2016: Programme director, MSc in Developmental Linguistics.
- 2014: Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.
- 2014-2015: PPLS Representative to the Recruitment and Admissions Strategy Committee (RASC), College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
- 2009-2012: Director of Quality Assurance & Enhancement, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.
- 1999-present: Honours and MSc course organizer, Advanced Phonology, Optimality Theory, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Phonology, Advanced Topics in First Language Acquisition, Advanced Topics in Second Language Acquisition, Developmental Phonology, Maturational Constraints on Language Acquisition.
- 2000-01 and 2003-04: Course director, Linguistics 2, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Phonological Theory and the Acquisition of Prosodic Structure: Evidence from Child Japanese, Georgetown University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1999
Master of Arts, Pragmatic transfer in second language speech acts, Columbia University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1993
Bachelor of Laws, A World-System Theoretic Analysis of the Political Changes in Indonesia 1965, Sophia University
Award Date: 1 Jan 1988
College Research Themes
- Childhood & Youth
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Does child-directed speech facilitate language development in all domains? A study space analysis of the existing evidence
Kempe, V., Ota, M. & Schaeffler, S., Jun 2024, In: Developmental Review. 72, 22 p., 101121.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab study
Soderstrom, M., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Munoz, L. E., Bochynska, A., Werker, J. F., Skarabela, B., Seidl, A., Searle, A., Ryjova, Y., Rennels, J. L., Potter, C., Paulus, M., Ota, M., Noble, C., Nave, K., Mayor, J., Machon, L., Lew-Williams, C., Ko, E-S., Kim, H., & 24 others, 27 Apr 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Child Language.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Learnability advantage of segmental repetitions in word learning
Basnak, J. & Ota, M., 5 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Language and Speech.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Child phonological responses to variegation in adult words: A cross-linguistic study
Vihman, M., Ota, M., Keren-Portnoy, T., Lou, S. & Choo, R. Q., Nov 2023, In: Journal of Child Language. 50, 6, p. 1459-1486 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A challenge to whole-word phonology? A study of Japanese and Mandarin
Vihman, M., Ota, M., Keren-Portnoy, T., Choo, R. Q. & Lou, S., Oct 2023, In: Language Learning and Development. 19, 4, p. 480-500 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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A role for computational modelling of children’s earliest phonological development
Mitsuhiko Ota (Speaker)
6 Jan 2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Unravelling lexical and postlexical contrasts in pitch/word accent systems
Mitsuhiko Ota (Invited speaker)
13 Apr 2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Children’s word production in Japanese and Mandarin: Crosslinguistic implications for early phonological development
Mitsuhiko Ota (Invited speaker)
12 Apr 2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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The role of register-specific words in early lexical development
Mitsuhiko Ota (Invited speaker)
11 Apr 2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Phonological typology and learning biases for word forms
Johanna Basnak (Speaker) & Mitsuhiko Ota (Speaker)
6 Nov 2022Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Language learning, communication and the emergence of phonotactic constraints
Economic and Social Research Council
1/03/24 → 31/10/26
Project: Research
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PPLS Small Project Grant: The effects of Zipfian distributions on infant word segmentation
1/01/22 → 31/07/22
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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PPLS Small Project Grant - : The effects of rhyming on early word learning
1/01/20 → 31/07/20
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
Datasets
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Edinburgh infant language corpus
Ota, M. (Creator), Skarabela, B. (Creator), Davies-Jenkins, N. (Creator) & Fazekas, J. (Creator), University of Edinburgh, 3 Mar 2016
DOI: 10.7488/08968ca5-97ed-474b-9904-79c942f8b7f1
Dataset
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Electronic Corpus of spontaneous speech of Japanese-speaking children (age 1-2 years)
Ota, M. (Creator), Carnegie Mellon University , 2009
http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/phon/
Dataset
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Falls Church corpus
Ota, M. (Creator), Carnegie Mellon University , 29 Apr 2016
http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/browser/index.php?url=Biling/FallsChurch/
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Press/Media
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Brief interview on BBC Radio 5 Live
2/08/18
1 Media contribution
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Mitsuhiko Ota discusses the role of baby-talk words in language development
31/12/13
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Baby talk ‘helps infants learn faster’, says Mitsuhiko Ota
30/05/16
20 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research