Short CV
Education
2009 Ph.D. in Linguistics. 2007 Withdrawn after completion of required course credits. 1999 M.A. in Linguistics. 1996 B.A. in English. Employment
April 2014 - Present April 2010 - March 2014 May 2007 - Present April 2008 - March 2010 April 2008 - Present May 2007 - March 2010 May 2007 - March 2008 May 2007 - March 2008 Publication
See below.
2015 2014 2012 2011 2010 2008 2005 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2000 1999 1998 Translation: Unpublished Papers, manuscripts and notes:
Doctoral program, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
Dissertation title: The Role of Lexical Contrast in the Perception of Intonational Prominence
Advisor: Elisabeth O. Selkirk
Doctoral program, Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics, Sophia University, Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan.
Master's program, Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics, Sophia University, Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan.
Thesis title: The Effect of Focus on Downstep in English and Japanese
Department of English, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan.
Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Otsuma Women's University, Ichigaya, Tokyo.
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Otsuma Women's University, Ichigaya, Tokyo.
Part-time lecturer, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Kanagawa.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Linguistic Institute for International Communication, Sophia University, Yotsuya, Tokyo.
Adjunct Researcher, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama.
Part-time lecturer, Chuo University, Hachioji, Tokyo.
Research Associate, Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama.
Part-time lecturer, Tama Rehabilitation Academy, Oume, Tokyo.
Research Interests:
I am basically interested in the sound aspects of speech. So far, I have been doing:
Focus and phonological phrasing: alignment of pitch accent and initial lowering; interface between phonology and syntax.
Relation between the perception of epenthetic stops and phonotactic knowledge; effects of prosody on phonotactic information.
Vowel and voice qualities of Infant-directed speech.
Papers:
The intonational asymmetry between argument and adjunct in Japanese. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 30: Papers in Prosody, GLSA, 185-218.
(With Shigeto Kawahara) The intonation of gapping and coordination in Japanese: Evidence for Intonational Phrase. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 30: Papers in Prosody, GLSA, 91-127.
Conference/Workshop Presentations:
(With Ken'ya Nishikawa, Yosuke Igarash, MafuyuKitahara, KuniyoshiTanaka, Reiko Mazuka) Vowel quality and voice quality of vowels in Infant-directed speech: Hyperarticulated but soft voices of IDS vowels. Presented at the 4th Workshop on Prosody and Informational Structure, Komorebi (Shiga), January 10-11, 2009.
(With Mafuyu Kitahara, Ken'ya Nishikawa, Yosuke Igarashi, Reiko Mazuka) Characteristics of pitch accents in infant-directed speech. Presented at the 4th Workshop on Prosody and Informational Structure, Komorebi (Shiga), January 10-11, 2009.
(With Ken'ya Nishikawa, Yosuke Igarashi, Mafuyu Kitahara, Reiko Mazuka) Vowel and voice quality in infant-directed speech: An analysis with RIKEN Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus (in Japanese). Presented at the 22nd Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, Meikai University (Chiba), September 14-15, 2008.
Phonology from the perspective of speech perception: Introduction. Presented at the workshop "Phonology from the perspective of speech perception," Sophia UnvirsityCJuly 19, 2008.
On the role of lexical accent in the perception of intonational prominence in Japanese. Presented at The 3rd Workshop on Prosody and Informational Structure, University of Tokyo, January 12-13, 2008.
(with Tomoko Yokoyama, Takayuki Arai, Mitsuko Shindo) The effects of aging and loudness recruitment on acoustic cue judgment: A case of Japanese geminates with temporal modification (in Japanese). The 33rd Meeting of Japanese Association of Communication Disorders, June 23-24.
A Perceptual Study of Japanese Intonation Using Praat (in Japanese). Conference Handbook 24: The 24th Conference of The English Linguistics Society of Japan, 170-175, (paper presented at the symposium "The Phonetic and Phonological Research with Phonetic Analysis Tools such as Praat: From Introduction to the State of the Art," The English Linguistic Society of Japan, November 4-5, 2006, Tokyo, Japan.) Powerpoint
Lexical accent status affects perceived prominence of intonational peaks in Japanese. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006, 89-92.
(With Elisabeth Selkirk, Shigeto Kawahara) Phonological and phonetic effects of minor phrase length on F0 in Japanese. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, 183-187. Poster
(With Elisabeth Selkirk, Shigeto Kawahara) Rhythmic boost and recursive minor phrase in Japanese. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, 345-348. Poster
(With Elisabeth Selkirk, Mariko Sugahara) Degree of initial lowering in Japanese as a reflex of prosodic structure Organization. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, 491-494.
The blocking of downstep by focus and articulatory overlap in English and Japanese. Proceedings of Sophia University Linguistic Society No. 14, 35-51 (in Japanese).
2004. The prosody of scrambling. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
2002. Exceptions in Japanese loanword truncation. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
2002. The identification of number and place of stop consonants in VC-CV sequences. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
2001. A phonetic and phonological analysis on the intonation of Tashlhit Berber. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
2001. The origins of diachronic metathesis: Possible connections to child language and speech error. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
2001. Loanword truncation in Japanese. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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