Mits Ota
Professor
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: M.Ota@ed.ac.uk
- Web: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~mits/
Address
- Street
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Room 2.21, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
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.