Rika Ito
Associate Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies; Japanese language and llinguistics
St Olaf College
Northfield, MN 55057 USA
(507) 786- 3637
ito@stolaf.edu
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Rika earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Michigan State University, and her B.A. in English from Hokusei Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan. She is an active member of the Linguistic Program at St. Olaf. She enjoys her various roles - teaching Japanese (all levels), coordinating the Japanese Program, mentoring students, and doing research in sociolinguistics. She has been involved in student-faculty research for the last several years. Her work includes phonological change in American English (Northern Cities Vowel Shift) in rural Michigan, morpho-syntactic variation in British English, discourse analysis in Japanese, and variation in self-reference terms in Japanese children's speech. Her recent work examines Hmong-American English in the Twin Cities, MN. She is going to teach ARMS 250: Asian American Experiences in the spring of 2010.I
