Academic qualifications:

PhD in Linguistics (Macquarie University)

Subjects taught:

JPN110 (Introductory Japanese) - Course Convenor
JPN331 (Japanese Language III(1)- Course Convenor
JPN381 (Advanced Japanese Language) - Course Convenor

Research interests:

Experimental/acoustic phonetics
Cross-language speech production/perception
Japanese phonetics

Publications:

Tsukada, K. (2008). Native Cantonese listeners' perception of word-final stops in English and Thai. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing , 11 (1), 31-38.

Tsukada, K. (2007). Cross-language perception of word-final stops by multilingual listeners: Preliminary results on the effect of listeners' first language (L1) backgrounds. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing , 10 (1), 1-13.

Tsukada, K. and Ishihara, S. (2007). The effect of first language (L1) in cross-language speech perception: Comparison of word-final stop discrimination by English, Japanese and Thai listeners. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan , 11 (1), 82-92.

Flege, J., Birdsong, D., Bialystok , E., Mack, M., Sung, H. and Tsukada, K. (2006). Degree of foreign accent in English sentences produced by Korean children and adults. Journal of Phonetics , 34 (2), 153-175.

Tsukada, K. (2006). Cross-language perception of word-final stops in Thai and English. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , 9 (3), 309-318.

Tsukada, K., Birdsong, D., Bialystok , E., Mack, M., Sung, H. and Flege, J. (2005). A developmental study of English vowel production and perception by native Korean adults and children. Journal of Phonetics , 33 (3), 263-290.

Tsukada, K., Birdsong, D., Mack, M., Sung, H., Bialystok , E. and Flege, J. (2004). Release bursts in English word-final voiceless stops produced by native English and Korean adults and children. Phonetica , 61 (2/3), 67-83.