Rika Ito
Assistant Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies; Japanese language and sociolinguistics
St Olaf College
Northfield, MN 55057 USA
(507) 646- 3637
ito@stolaf.edu
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Ito has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Michigan State University, with a focus on sociolinguistics. She graduated with a BA in English from Hokusei Gakuen University (Sapporo, Japan). She has taught Japanese at various levels from high school to the college levels. Before coming to St. Olaf, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at University of York (England) doing sociolinguistic research on British English. She has worked on phonological change in American English (Northern Cities Vowel Shift), morpho-syntactic variation in British English, discourse analysis in Japanese, and variation in self-reference terms in Japanese children's speech. She recently initiated fieldwork in the Twin Cities to examine Hmong-Americans' speech.
