Mits Ota

Professor

Linguistics and English Language
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Email: M.Ota@ed.ac.uk
Web: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~mits/

Street: Room 2.21, Dugald Stewart Building
City: 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
Post code: EH8 9AD

Teaching & PhD supervision

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.