Aaron Albin

Aaron Albin
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, Second Language Acquisition Lab

Education:

Ph.D., Indiana University - Bloomington, 2015
- Linguistics; Second Language Studies
BA, University of Nebraska Omaha, 2008
- English (Writing and Linguistics); Spanish

Biography:

Interests:

  • second language acquisition of intonation
  • intonational phonology of Japanese and English
  • socio-historical approaches to loanword phonology
  • quantitative modeling of acoustic data
  • development of phonetics software using R

Publications:

Albin, A. (2015). Typologizing native language influence on intonation in a second language: Three transfer phenomena in Japanese EFL learners. Ph.D. dissertation. Indiana University โ€“ Bloomington.

Silbert, N., K. de Jong, K. Regier, and A. Albin. (2015). The mapping between phonological categories and acoustic cues in the production of English obstruentsJournal of the Acoustical Society of America138(6), 3834โ€“3845.

Albin, A. (in press). Ubiquitous variability in the phonological form of loanwords: Tracing early borrowings into Japanese over five centuries of contact. In T. Levin, R. Masuda, and M. Kenstowicz (Ed.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 23. Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) Publications.

Albin, A., and L. Gershkoff. (forthcoming). Rapid word learning in trilingual children: One spurt or three? In Proceedings of the 13th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2015). Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Interests:

  • second language acquisition of intonation
  • intonational phonology of Japanese and English
  • socio-historical approaches to loanword phonology
  • quantitative modeling of acoustic data
  • development of phonetics software using R

Publications:

Albin, A. (2015). Typologizing native language influence on intonation in a second language: Three transfer phenomena in Japanese EFL learners. Ph.D. dissertation. Indiana University โ€“ Bloomington.

Silbert, N., K. de Jong, K. Regier, and A. Albin. (2015). The mapping between phonological categories and acoustic cues in the production of English obstruentsJournal of the Acoustical Society of America138(6), 3834โ€“3845.

Albin, A. (in press). Ubiquitous variability in the phonological form of loanwords: Tracing early borrowings into Japanese over five centuries of contact. In T. Levin, R. Masuda, and M. Kenstowicz (Ed.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 23. Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) Publications.

Albin, A., and L. Gershkoff. (forthcoming). Rapid word learning in trilingual children: One spurt or three? In Proceedings of the 13th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2015). Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Aaron  Albin