Mieko Nakamura Sperbeck

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Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York
Graduate Program in Linguistics
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Mailing Address

365 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
United States

Contact Information

msperbeck@gc.cuny.edu

Qualifications

M.Phil., Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, Linguistics, 2007.

Expertise and Research Interests

Phonetics / phonology interface
Acoustic phonetics
Speech perception and production by L2 learners

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Applied Linguistics, Phonology, Speech Or Communication Education.

Additional Terms:

Language Acquisition, Language Development, Phonetics, Second Language Acquisition, TESOL.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
Japanese: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)

Memberships

Acoustical Society of America
Linguistic Society of America

Funding Received

  • The City University of New York: CUNY Doctoral Student Research Grant, 2008 to 2009.

Publications

  • Ito, K., Law II, F., Sperbeck, M., Berkowitz, S., Gilichinskaya, Y., Monteleone, M., Strange, W. (2007) Speeded discrimination of American vowels by experienced Japanese late L2 learners, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121 (5), 3073
  • Law II, F., Gilichinskaya, Y., Ito, K., Hisagi, M., Berkowitz, S., Sperbeck, M., Monteleone, M., Strange, W. (2006) Temporal and spectral variability of vowels within and across languages with small vowel inventories: Russian, Japanese, and Spanish, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120 (5), 3296
  • Sperbeck, M., Strange, W., Ito, K. (2005) Training Japanese L2 learners to perceive difficult American vowel contrasts, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117 (4), 2400

Profile Details

Last Verified: 1/15/2009

COS Expertise ID #1290839
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