Rate My Professor Kiwako Ito

Ito's seminal studies have shown that toddlers with autism respond rapidly to prosodic emphasis and joint attention cues like head turns and pointing, disproving stereotypes of insensitivity. A new collaborative initiative establishes baselines for grammar processing (e.g., plural marking via 's') in typically developing children, extending to those with hearing disabilities, autism, and memory issues to map developmental trajectories and interactions between perception, memory, and syntax. Recognized by The Australian as the Language and Linguistics field leader for highest citations in top journals (2020), her influential publications include 'Anticipatory effects of intonation: Eye movements during instructed visual search' (Ito & Speer, 2008, Journal of Memory and Language); 'Prosody in first language acquisition—Acquiring intonation as a tool to organize information in conversation' (Speer & Ito, 2009, Language and Linguistics Compass); 'The effects of processing instruction and traditional instruction on L2 online processing of the causative construction in French: An eye-tracking study' (Wong & Ito, 2018, Studies in Second Language Acquisition); 'Do explicit instruction and high variability phonetic training improve nonnative speakers’ Mandarin tone productions?' (Wiener, Chan & Ito, 2020, The Modern Language Journal); and chapters such as 'PI and the French causative and passive constructions' (Wong, Ito & Glimois, 2021). Ito teaches courses on phonetics, second language acquisition, bilingualism, language and cognition, and human evaluation of machine translation, supervising PhD theses on L2 acquisition and immersion.