Research keywords (39):
ethnic variation
, Multiethnolect
, ethnolect
, Multicultural Tokyo Japanese
, Multicultural Japanese
, Colonial Japanese
, Sakhalin Japanese
, Diaspora Japanese
, Diaspora
, Diaspora Korean
, language variation
, Heritage language
, Nikkei
, migrant language
, Latin America
, adolescent speech
, Sakhalin
, language change
, Linguistics
, Postcolonial English
, World Englishes
, Brazilian Portuguese
, Korean Sakhaliner
, Japanese Korean
, language obsolescence
, Micronesian English
, Palauan English
, Palauan Japanese
, loanword
, koine
, language contact
, dialect contact
, Nikkei Brazilian
, Palau
, Variationist Sociolinguistics
, Sociolinguistics
, English linguistics
, Japanese linguistics
, language variation and change
- 2025 - 2027 Linguistic futures: Language shift and revitalization in rethinking sociolinguistic theory
- 2022 - 2027 Universality and locality in Micronesian Englishes: Comparative analyses across British and American (ex-)colonies.
- 2023 - 2027 The Sociolinguistics of Nikkei-Latinos on the move between Japan and Latin America.
- 2024 - 2026 Heritage language and identity in the age of boundaries and mobility.
- 2022 - 2026 The General principles of linguistic changes in Anglophone communities in Japan
- 2020 - 2024 The sociolinguistics of language and dialect contact in Japanese Korean and Sakhalin Korean.
- 2021 - 2023 A sociolinguistic study of heritage languages and ethnic identities of migrants
- 2017 - 2021 Universality and locality in Micronesian Englishes: Comparative analyses across Micronesian Englishes and real-time studies of Palauan English over 20 years
- 2016 - 2019 Real-time studies of multilingual Palau: Language change over 20 years
- 2015 - 2018 English in paradise? Emergent varieties in Micronesia.
- 2018 - Narratives of Motherhood: Why not take your kids to your fieldwork?
- 2017 - Social embedding of language change in adolescent Palauan English
- 2013 - 2016 Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in contact varieties of languages: A cross-linguistic perspective
- 2013 - 2016 A comparative sociolinguistic perspective on contact languages in the Pacific.
- 2010 - 2014 The sociolinguistics of the rise and fall of postcolonial languages: The case of Micronesia
- 2009 - 2010 Japanese dialects in contact and new dialect formation in Palau
- 2009 - 2010 Support for presentation of paper at 8th International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
- 2006 - 2009 Apparent-time and real-time analyses of language attrition: Palauan Japanese as an endangered variety
- 2006 - Support for presentation of paper at 16th International Sociology Association World Congress of Sociology, International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa.
- 2005 - 2006 Language obsolescence in Micronesia: The case of Japanese in Palau.
- 2003 - 2005 A variationist approach to dialect contact and language obsolescence: The case of Palauan Japanese in a former Japanese territory of Micronesia.
- 2002 - 2003 Japanese language and dialect contact outside Japan
- 2002 - The legacies of former colonial languages in the postcolonial multilingual island of Palau.
- 2000 - 2001 Palauan Japanese: Language death in the Western Pacific.
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The University of Tokyo Language Variation and Change @ Komaba (UTLVC@Komaba)
, Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change (DiPVaC)
, International Association for World Englishes (IAWE)
, The Society for Japanese Linguistics
, Dialectological Circle of Japan
, Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies
, Geolinguistic Society of Japan
, The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences