Onae Parker

PhD Candidate, Linguistics, University of Iowa

I specialize in Heritage bilingualism, and intonation phonetics/phonology.

Manuscripts in Preparation

  • Focus in Heritage Japanese: Production and Perception of Prominence. Parker, O. (in prep). Doctoral Dissertation, University of Iowa.

  • Individual variability in native categorization and its effects on the perception and production of non-native sounds. Zeng, W., Parker, O., & Shea, C. (under review).

Selected Presentations

  • Creating Belonging in the Classroom. Wieder, E., & Parker, O. New Teaching Assistant Orientation (NTAO), 2025, University of Iowa Center for Teaching.

  • Bilingual production of narrow subject focus in Japanese: spelunking in prosody. Parker, O., & Shea, C. Speech Prosody 2024, June 2024, Leiden, The Netherlands. Poster.

  • The effects of native phonetic categorization on L2 sound acquisition. Zeng, W., Parker, O., & Shea, C. The 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, June 2024, Seoul, Korea. Poster

  • The effects of native phonetic categorization gradiency on L2 sound acquisition. Zeng, W., Parker, O., and Shea, C. The 2nd Korean Applied Linguistics Conference: Exploring New Waves in Korean Applied Linguistics, February 2023, The Penn State Institute for Korean Studies, Pennsylvania, US.

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa
-LING: 3020, Phonological Analysis, supervised by Dr. Jill Beckman, 2026, 2025, 2023
-LING: 1040, Language Rights, supervised by Dr. Dan Devitt, 2025, 2022, 2021
-LING: 3015, Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics, supervised by Dr. Jill Beckman, 2025, 2021, 2022
-LING: 3190, Psycholinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism, supervised by Dr. Ethan Kutlu, 2024
-ESL: 4100, ESL Academic Oral Skills, 2019, 2020
-ESL: 4200, ESL Academic Reading Skills, 2021

Mentorship

-Graduate Peer Mentor, P2P Program, University of Iowa
2026
-Lab Mentor, Phonetics Lab, University of Iowa, 2023-2024

Certificates and Professional Development

-Associate Level Certificate of Teaching as Research, Center of Instruction, Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), University of Iowa
-Neurodiversity in the Classroom, presented by Dr. Sarah Silverman, Rocklin Teaching and Learning Speaker Series, 2026
-Language Justice: Community Engagement, taught by Claire Frances, Dr. Christine Shea, Dr. Aron Aji, 2023.
-Practicum: College Teaching for TAs, taught by Megan Knight, 2023