Senior Lecturer, Linguistics and Language Development
Reiko Kataoka earned her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2011. Her specialization is phonetics, laboratory phonology, and psycholinguistics. Her main research interest is to investigate how listeners perceive speech, or how listeners map continuous and variable acoustic signals to stable mental representations of linguistic units. She has been teaching at SJSU since 2012, including a graduate class in phonology and undergraduate classes in phonetics and evolution of sound communication.
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About Reiko Kataoka
Reiko Kataoka earned her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2011. Her specialization is phonetics, laboratory phonology, and psycholinguistics. Her main research interest is to investigate how listeners perceive speech, or how listeners map continuous and variable acoustic signals to stable mental representations of linguistic units. She has been teaching at SJSU since 2012, including a graduate class in phonology and undergraduate classes in phonetics and evolution of sound communication.
| 2012 - Present | Senior Lecturer, San Jose State University ‐ Linguistics and Language Development | |
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| 2010 - 2012 | Research Associate, Stanford University ‐ Linguistics | |
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Disciplines
Grants
| 2022 - 2022 | Artistic Excellence Programming Grant |
| College of Humanities & the Arts, SJSU | |
| $4,680 | |
| 2021 - 2021 | Sustainable Futures Curricular Communities Initiative Award |
| College of Humanities & the Arts | |
| $200 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2022 - Present | Associate Vice Chair, Academic Senate of the San José State University | 2022 - Present | Chair, Committee of Committees of the ASSJSU | 2021 - Present | Senator, Academic Senate of the San José State University (ASSJSU) | 2020 - Present | Member, Association for Laboratory Phonology | 2011 - Present | Member, The Phonetic Society of Japan | 2007 - Present | Member, Acoustical Society of America | 2004 - Present | Member, Linguistic Society of America | 2022 | Reviewer, International Journal of American Linguistics | 2021 - 2022 | Chair, Lecturers’ Council at the SJSU chapter of CFA (Lecturers’ Council) | 2021 - 2022 | Member, Organization and Government Committee, ASSJSU | 2021 | Reviewer, Languages, an international open access journal from MDPI (Languages) | 2007 - 2011 | Member, Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas |
Courses
- Linguistics 101. Introduction to Linguistics
- Linguistics 111. Introduction to Phonetics
- Linguistics 113. Introduction to Phonology
- Linguistics 201. Phonology: Theory and Applications
- Linguistics 20. The Nature of Language
- Linguistics 21: Language and Thinking
- Linguistics 22: Language across the Lifespan
- Linguistics 24: Language Variation in Space, Time, & Culture
- Linguistics 122—English as a World Language
- Linguistics 123—Sound and Communication
- Linguistics 129—Culture, Language, and Ethnicity in the U.S.
| 2011 | Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California - Berkeley | |
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| 2005 | M.A., Linguistics, University of California - Berkeley | |
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| 2003 | B.A., Linguistics, University of California - Berkeley | |
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