Hi, I’m Yuka.
I’m a postdoctral fellow in the Department of Literary Studies, Philology and Linguistics at the University of Milan in Italy.

I’m a member of the AKiD (Acoustic and Kinematic Characteristics of Speech in Dementia) project team formed to investigate the phonetic profile of patients with dementia.

I completed my PhD in Language Sciences at the University of Pavia. My PhD research focused on how musical training influences L2 perceptual learning of Japanese Pitch accent.

My general research interests

SLA: prosody and individual differences

Problems and difficulties of translation

Speech perception and production

Language revitalization (of the Ladin language)

Recent Publications & Presentations

Does musical training influence perceptual learning of Japanese pitch accent? The case of native Italian speakers

The residence permit: The first language obstacle for foreigners

Calvino’s phraseology in Japanese:
the case of Mapputattsu no shishaku