Mits Ota

Professor

Undergraduate teaching

I am usually involved in teaching Linguitics & English Language 2D, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, and Guided Research in Linguistics: Learning sounds and words.

Postgraduate teaching

I am usually involved in teaching First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, Research Methods for Developmental Linguistics, and Guided Research in Linguistics: Learning sounds and words.

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Areas of interest for supervision

I am able to supervise PhD projects related to:

  • phonological and lexical development/learning (including prosodic aspects) in children and adults.
  • the role of linguistic input in children's language development.
  • processing of second-language phonological and lexical information by adult speakers.
  • cognitive individual differences in phonological and lexical processing.
  • the relationship between language learning and general phonological and lexical properties of languages.

Please note that I am not able to supervise projects focusing on second-language teaching, classroom second-language learning, or language education. These topics are outside my areas of expertise.

Current PhD students supervised

  • Johanna Basnak
  • Lara Kelly

Research summary

First and second language acquisition; phonology.

For more details, please visit my webpage.

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