Faculty

Akira Yamamoto (Ph.D., Indiana) specializes in Native American languages and language maintenance among Native American groups. He works with Native Americans in Arizona and Oklahoma.

View Dr. Yamamoto's shortened vita (MS Word format)

Download a recent paper (MS Word format) from a book nominated for the LSA Public Service Award:

Marcellino Berardo, Tracy Hirata-Edds, Mary S. Linn, Lizette Peter, Gloria Sly, Tracy Williams, Kimiko Y. Yamamoto, and Akira Y. Yamamoto. Can A Threatened Language Be Saved? Richerson, E.M. and Barry Hilton, eds. 2006. The Five-Minute Linguist: Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages. Equinox Publishing.