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Professor Mitsuhiko Ota is a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. His research focuses on phonological and lexical development across languages, emphasizing first and second language acquisition, the role of linguistic input in child language development, and individual differences in phonological processing. He leads the Edinburgh Laboratory for Language Development (ELfLanD) and has contributed to major projects like the Wee Science consortium.
Education: B.A. in Law from Sophia University, M.A. in Linguistics from Columbia University, Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University. Academic career includes ESRC-funded projects on phonotactic constraints and language transmission, and collaborative studies on autism-related speech perception differences.
Teaching includes undergraduate and postgraduate courses on first/second language acquisition, research methods in developmental linguistics, and guided research on language learning. Current supervision of PhD students focuses on phonological and lexical development.
Key contributions include: corpus development (Edinburgh and Ota Corpora), experimental studies on reduplication effects in word learning, and cross-linguistic analyses of speech perception in Japanese, Mandarin, and Swedish. His work has been supported by ESRC, British Academy, and Autism Speaks grants.
Lab affiliations: ELfLanD within the Wee Science network conducting developmental research. Active in academic publishing with over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters since 2000.
