aaron albin
Associate Research Scientist - NLP at ETS
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Language Learning, Teaching, and Assessment (LLTA) Lab
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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Associate Research Scientist - NLP
Kobe University
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Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
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Tenure-track Lecturer
Penn State University - University Park
Center for Language Science
Pennsylvania
Postdoctoral Fellow
Indiana University Bloomington
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First-Year Japanese
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Associate Instructor
Indiana University Bloomington
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Introduction to the Study of Language
Bloomington
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Indiana University Bloomington
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Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
Bloomington
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Associate Instructor
Indiana University Bloomington
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First-Year Japanese
Bloomington
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Associate Instructor
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
August 2008: Entered MA program
January 2010: Status change to Ph.D. program
July 2015: Graduated with dual Ph.D.
Linguistics and Second Language Studies
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Indiana University Bloomington
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Bachelor of Arts - BA
English (Writing and Linguistics concentration with TESOL certificate) and Spanish
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University of Nebraska at Omaha
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Creighton Preparatory School
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Acoustical Society of America
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Linguistic Society of America
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日本第二言語習得学会
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日本語教育学会
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日本音声学会
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日本音響学会
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L1 influence on the prosodic realization of emotion in a second language: Analyses of an L2 Japanese speech corpus
Poster presentation at the 4th Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World (LCSAW4) Conference
An examination of downtrends in Japanese prosody: Comparing Tokyo dialect and Akita dialect
Poster presentation at the 33rd General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (Tokyo, Japan; 9/28/2019 ~ 9/29/2019). Proceedings p145-150.
Do learners with accurate word prosody also produce accurate sentence prosody? Lexical accent and downstep in L1 Italian learners of L2 Japanese
Poster presentation at New Sounds 2019: The 9th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech
How to predict discriminability of phonemic length contrasts: Categorization and perceptual similarity of Finnish length by Japanese and American English listeners
New Sounds 2019: The 9th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech
The present study leverages L2 learner data to contribute to the debate whether the perception and production of emotions is universal vs. language-specific. Japanese native speakers and Chinese learners of L2 Japanese were recorded producing single-word Japanese utterances with seven emotions. A different set of listeners representing the same two groups were then asked to identify the emotion produced in each token. Results suggest that identification accuracy was highest within groups (i.e., for learner+learner and for native+native). Furthermore, more confusions were observed in Japanese native speech, e.g., with 'angry' vs. 'disgusted' confused for Japanese native, but not Chinese learner, productions. Analyses of the electroglottography signal suggest these perception results stem from crosslinguistic differences in the productions themselves (e.g., Chinese learners using a tenser glottal configuration to distinguish 'angry' from 'disgusted'). Taken together, these results support the hypothesis that the encoding and recognition of emotions does indeed depend on L1 background.
Japanese emotional speech produced by Chinese learners and Japanese native speakers: Differences in perception and voice quality
Poster presentation at International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2019 (Melbourne, Australia; 8/5/2019 ~ 8/9/2019). Proceedings p2183-2187.
https://www.icphs2019.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ICPhS-2019-Poster-listing-23-July-2019.pdf
The Japanese version of the Language History Questionnaire (LHQ) 2.0: Linguistic issues and cultural adaptation
Poster presentation at MAPLL-TCP-TL  (Joint meeting of Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language, Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, and IEICE Technical Committee on Thought and Language) 2019
Development of an L2 Japanese speech corpus for the comparison of prosody across diverse L1 groups
Poster presentation at PaPE (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe) 2019
http://conference.unisalento.it/ocs/public/conferences/27/fmgr_upload/Abstracts/poster_2_Ueyama-etal.pdf
Downtrends in Japanese prosody: A comparison of Akita dialect speakers and Tokyo dialect speakers [日本語の韻律におけるダウントレンド ―秋田方言話者と東京方言話者を比較して―]
Poster presentation at the 2019 Spring Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan (Tokyo, Japan; 3/5/2019 ~ 3/7/2019). Proceedings p801-802.
http://www.asj.gr.jp/annualmeeting/pdf/2019spring_onkyo_web_01.pdf
This study examines whether sociolinguistic conditioning of the Canadian Shift previously observed in production data is also detectable in perception data. A 5-alternative forced choice identification task was administered to 92 American English listeners from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. To simulate voice sex differences, half of the stimuli had an F0 of 235Hz (female) and half of the stimuli had an F0 of 85 Hz (male). Results suggest the female voices were perceived as having their front lax vowels (BIT, BET, and BAT) as being further retracted in the vowel space, supporting previous findings in production data.
Perception of the Canadian Shift by American English listeners from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: Vowel identiﬁcation using synthetic male and female voices
Poster presentation at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/abstract/perception-canadian-shift-american-english-listeners-michigans-upper-peninsula-vowel
In central Lower Michigan, like other areas of the Inland North, younger speakers have been reported to exhibit a (1) reversal of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, (2) near-merger of low-back /ɑ/ and /ɔ/, and (3) allophonic split of /æ/ before nasals vs. stops. To confirm whether the same is true for western Lower Michigan (including Grand Rapids, Michigan's second largest city), a reading passage task was administered to a stratified sample of 45 speakers from the area. In younger speakers, all three of these characteristics were indeed observed, reinforcing their status as newly-developing features shared across the Inland North.
Decline of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift in western Lower Michigan: Apparent-time evidence of a change in progress
Oral presentation at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society (ADS)
https://www.americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/American-Dialect-Society-2019-Meeting-Schedule-and-Abstracts.5.pdf#page=14
A heuristic for empirically determining the monophthong-diphthong distinction
Poster presentation at the 23rd Annual Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference
https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.northwestern.edu/dist/9/2401/files/2018/08/Albin_Rankinen_MidPhon2018-1mxtx3o.pdf
The relationship between perception and production in emotional speech by Chinese learners of Japanese [中国語を母語とする日本語学習者による感情音声の知覚と生成の関係]
Poster presentation at the Thirty-Second General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan
http://conference.wdc-jp.com/psj/2018/contents/common/doc/P08.pdf
Program: http://www.psj.gr.jp/jpn/annual-convention/32nd_program.html

日本語教育では音声の自動評価が求められているこ とを背景に，本研究では音響特徴に基づいた日本語ア クセント型の自動判定法を提案した。分析対象は母語 話者および学習者による単語発話と朗読発話のデータ 2,100である。観測した基本周波数（fo）から全体のfo 形状を再構築した後，機械学習用に5種類の特徴量（隣 接母音区間のfo中央値および終端値の差分，発話冒頭 のfo，foレンジ，発話速度）を抽出した。Support Vector Classiﬁcationを用い，層化k分割交差検証でトレーニ ングセットから判定モデルを学習した後，テストセッ トで精度を検証した。その結果，単語発話では母語話 者で精度が100％，学習者で93％であった。一方，朗読 発話では母語話者76％，学習者84％で，特に2型の精 度が悪かった。これらはイントネーション成分の影響 や学習データの不足等が原因と考えられる。提案手法 は先行研究よりも判定精度が向上したものの，今後検 討すべき課題も明らかとなった。
Classification of Japanese accent types using machine learning: A comparison of native speakers’ and learners’ utterances from word list and read-aloud tasks [機械学習を用いた日本語アクセント型の分類－母語話者と学習者による単語発話と朗読発話の比較－]
Oral presentation at the 32nd General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan; 9/15/2018 ~ 9/16/2018). Proceedings p48-53.
http://conference.wdc-jp.com/psj/2018/contents/common/doc/A1.pdf
Acquisition of the prosody of Tokyo Standard Japanese by Japanese native speakers: The case of young speakers of Akita dialect [日本語母語話者による共通語の韻律習得 －秋田方言話者の若年層を対象として－]
Poster presentation at the 2018 Autumn Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan (Ōita City, Ōita, Japan; 9/12/2018 ~ 9/14/2018). Proceedings p817-818.
http://www.asj.gr.jp/annualmeeting/pdf/2018autumn_program.pdf
Development of sound archives for learning Japanese prosody [日本語韻律学習のための音声アーカイブ構築]
Oral presentation at the 2018 International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE)
https://www.eaje.eu/media/0/myfiles/icjle2018/icjle-2018-book-of-abstracts.pdf#page=455
Perception of Japanese emotional speech by Chinese learners [中国語を母語とする学習者による日本語感情音声の知覚]
Oral presentation at the 337th Regular Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan
http://www.psj.gr.jp/jpn/regular-meeting/337th.html
In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, there are several competing pronunciations for the word ‘sauna’: the Finnish variant ['sɑʊ.nə] as well as the Anglicized variants ['sɑ.nə] and ['sɔ.nə]. The present study investigates the geographic distribution of these variant pronunciations as well as the social identities and attitudes indexed by each variant by triangulating three sources of data: acoustic analysis of elicited productions, self-reported pronunciations from an online survey, and comments posted to Facebook groups. Results indicate that the Finnish variant is strongly preferred in the Finnish-dominant western UP. However, it appears that the primary division is north vs. south.
Geographic distribution of Finnish vs. Anglicized pronunciations of the word 'sauna' in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Oral presentation at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society (ADS)
https://www.americandialect.org/2018-slc
Relative leniency of experienced raters in rating accentedness: A re-examination in the Japanese context
Oral presentation at the 44th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS)
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Speech produced by Japanese EFL learners is sometimes described as 'choppy', but the phonetic source of this impression remains unclear. On the one hand, it may be due to the universal tendency for L2 learners (regardless of L1) to have longer and more numerous pauses. On the other hand, it may be due to transfer of a low boundary tone (L%) at minor ('accentual') phrases from L1 Japanese intonation. The present study sheds light on this data using corpus data from the English Speech Database Read by Japanese Students. As expected, learners showed more total pauses overall relative to a baseline set of American English native speakers (also included in the corpus). However, independent of this result, it was also found that learners placed low F0 targets before pauses (indicating use of L%) at a substantially higher rate than the native speakers, suggesting that crosslinguistic transfer also plays a role.
Choppiness of L2 English speech produced by L1 Japanese learners: Universal L2 pausing tendency or cross-linguistic intonation transfer?
Oral presentation at the 17th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA)
http://www.j-sla.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/J-SLA2017_program_English2.pdf
Boundary tone processing during online comprehension
Poster presentation at the 30th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
http://tedlab.mit.edu/cuny_abstracts/279_Final_Manuscript.pdf
A novel algorithm is proposed for representing F0 contours as strings of parameters in order to classify them in terms of a discrete set of phonological categories (e.g., Japanese accent types). First, a linear regression is fit to the F0 points inside all vowels or sonorants with sufficient voiced frames (above an arbitrary threshold, 20% by default). For other segments with unreliable F0 (e.g., obstruents or flaps), similar lines are created by interpolating from the resulting regression endpoints. A box-constrained optimization algorithm is then used to determine the best-fitting F0 value at each juncture between adjacent segments. The resulting 'skeleton' F0 contour for the word is then translated into a series of parameters – one per segment – representing the extent of F0 change inside that segment. When applied to a dataset of initial-accented, medial-accented, and unaccented Japanese nonwords, the three accent categories were well-separated in a multidimensional scaling.
F0 contour parameterization using Optimal Regression Chains
Oral presentation at the 31st General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (PSJ) (Tokyo, Japan; 9/30/2017 ~ 10/1/2017). Proceedings pp.79-84.
http://conference.wdc-jp.com/psj/2017/session.html
The realization of pitch accent before a boundary rise in Chinese learners of Japanese: Which patterns are rated highest by Japanese teachers?
Poster presentation at the 2017 Autumn Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan (Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan; 9/25/2017 ~ 9/27/2017). Proceedings pp.327-330
https://asj-ehime.jimdo.com/app/download/10070280619/2017_27th_program.pdf
Speeding up automatic and semiautomatic phonetic annotation with PraatR
Workshop at Tools for Big Data in Laboratory Phonology (BigPhon), satellite event of the 15th biennial Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon)
http://mlmlab.org/bigphon/program/
Rapid word learning in trilingual children: One spurt or three?
In D. Stringer, J. Garrett, B. Halloran, & S. Mossman (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (pp.14-30).Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Proceedings Project
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/gasla/13/paper3272.pdf
Ubiquitous variability in the phonological form of loanwords: Tracing early borrowings into Japanese over five centuries of contact
In T. Levin, R. Masuda, and M. Kenstowicz (Ed.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 23. Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) Publications
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259361876_Ubiquitous_variability_in_the_phonological_form_of_loanwords_Tracing_early_borrowings_into_Japanese_over_five_centuries_of_contact
The mapping between phonological categories and acoustic cues in the production of English obstruents
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(6), 3834-3845.
https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.4937750?journalCode=jas
Typologizing native language influence on intonation in a second language: Three transfer phenomena in Japanese EFL learners
Ph.D. dissertation. Indiana University - Bloomington
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Albin, A. (Principal investigator). 4/1/2018 ~ 3/31/2020. Using artificial intelligence to simulate the process of learning Japanese accent rules: Toward the integration of accent into the grammar curriculum. KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (Wakate Kenkyū B). Project/area number: 18K12427. Amount: ¥520,000.
Using artificial intelligence to simulate the process of learning Japanese accent rules: Toward the integration of accent into the grammar curriculum
https://nrid.nii.ac.jp/ja/nrid/1000060794526/
Hayashi, R. (Principal investigator). 4/1/2017 ~ 3/31/2021. Construction and analysis of an archive of speech from overseas Japanese learners and development of web-based tools for supporting the learning of prosody. Co-investigators (buntansha): Isomura, K., Abe, S., Matsuda, M., Kanamura, K., Albin, A., Minematsu, N., and Kim, E. KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Kiban Kenkyū B). Project/area number: 17H02352. Amount: ¥16,120,000.
Construction and analysis of an archive of speech from overseas Japanese learners and development of web-based tools for supporting the learning of prosody
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-17H02352/
Tanaka, J. (Principal investigator). 4/1/2016 ~ 3/31/2018.  Field survey regarding the acceptance of L2 use by L1 speakers. Co-investigators (buntansha): Mizuguchi, S., Nishida, T., & (from 4/1/2017) Albin, A. Kobe University Research Center for Promoting Intercultural Studies.
Field survey regarding the acceptance of L2 use by L1 speakers
http://web.cla.kobe-u.ac.jp/group/Promis/projects/2016projects/corner123/2016-1.html
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