Papers - Kawahara, Shigeto

The lingual gesture of devoiced /u/ in Tokyo Japanese.

Shaw, Jason and KAWAHARA Shigeto

Journal of Phonetics  2018.04

Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work, Accepted

Articulation strategies for English liquids used by Japanese speakers

Moore, Jeff, Jason Shaw, KAWAHARA Shigeto, Takayuki Arai

Acoustical Science and Technology (Acoustical Science and Technology)  39 ( 2 ) 75 - 83 2018.03

Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work, Accepted,  ISSN  13463969

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© 2018 The Acoustical Society of Japan. This study examines the tongue shapes used by Japanese speakers to produce the English liquids/r/ and /l/. Four native Japanese speakers of varying levels of English acquisition and one North American English speaker were recorded both acoustically and with Electromagnetic Articulography. Seven distinct articulation strategies were identified. Results indicate that the least advanced speaker uses a single articulation strategy for both sounds. Intermediate speakers used a wide range of articulations, while the most advanced non-native speaker relied on a single strategy for each sound.

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Consequences of high vowel deletion for syllabification in Japanese

SHAW Jason and KAWAHARA Shigeto

Proceedings of AMP  2018.03

Research paper (international conference proceedings), Joint Work

音象徴で言語学を教える: 具体的成果の紹介を通して

川原 繁人・桃生朋子

Southern Review  2018.01

Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work

Phonology and orthography: The orthographic basis of rendaku and Lyman’s Law.

KAWAHARA Shigeto

Glossa  2018.01

Research paper (scientific journal), Accepted

The lingual articulation of devoiced /u/ in Tokyo Japanese

Shaw J., Kawahara S.

Journal of Phonetics (Journal of Phonetics)  66   100 - 119 2018.01

ISSN  00954470

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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd In Tokyo Japanese, /u/ is typically devoiced between two voiceless consonants. Whether the lingual vowel gesture is influenced by devoicing or present at all in devoiced vowels remains an open debate, largely because relevant articulatory data has not been available. We report ElectroMagnetic Articulography (EMA) data that addresses this question. We analyzed both the trajectory of the tongue dorsum across VC 1 uC 2 V sequences as well as the timing of C 1 and C 2 . These analyses provide converging evidence that /u/ in devoicing contexts is optionally targetless—the lingual gesture is either categorically present or absent but seldom reduced. When present, the magnitude of the lingual gesture in devoiced /u/ is comparable to voiced vowel counterparts. Although all speakers produced words with and without a vowel height target for /u/, the frequency of targetlessness varied across speakers and items. The timing between C 1 and C 2 , the consonants flanking /u/ was also effected by devoicing but to varying degrees across items. The items with the greatest effect of devoicing on this inter-consonantal interval were also the items with the highest frequency of vowel height targetlessness for devoiced /u/.

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Truncation in message-oriented phonology: A case study using Korean vocative truncation

Kawahara S., Lee S.

Linguistics Vanguard (Linguistics Vanguard)  4 ( s2 )  2018

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© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. This paper analyzes the vocative truncation pattern in Korean from the viewpoint of Message-Oriented Phonology (MOP), which capitalizes on the idea that sound patterns are governed by a principle that makes message transfer effective. In the traditional naming pattern, Korean first names consist of a generation marker and a unique portion, and the order between these two elements alternates between generations. To derive vocative forms, the generation marker is truncated, and the suffixal [(j)a] is attached to the unique portion. We argue that MOP naturally predicts this type of truncation. As the generation marker is shared by all the members of the same generation, the generation marker is highly predictable and hence does not reduce uncertainty about the intended message. To achieve effective communication, predictable portions are deleted. Our analysis implies that MOP is relevant not only to phonetic implementation patterns, but also to morphophonological patterns. It also provides support for MOP based on data from a non-Indo-European language. Finally, we aim to integrate insights of MOP with a more formal proposal like Optimality Theory, by relating the predictability of a contrast to the ranking of the faithfulness constraint that it protects, following the spirit of the P-map hypothesis.

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Predictability and phonology: Past, present and future

Shaw J., Kawahara S.

Linguistics Vanguard (Linguistics Vanguard)  4 ( s2 )  2018

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© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. Many papers in this special issue grew out of the talks given at the Symposium "The role of predictability in shaping human language sound patterns," held at Western Sydney University (Dec. 10-11, 2016). Some papers were submitted in response to an open call; others were invited contributions. This introduction aims to contextualize the papers in the special issue within a broader theoretical context, focusing on what it means for phonological theory to incorporate gradient predictability, what questions arise as a consequence, and how the papers in this issue address these questions.

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Expressing Evolution in Pokemon Names: Experimental Explorations

KAWAHARA Shigeto and Gakuji Kumagai

Journal of Japanese Linguistics  2017.12

Research paper (scientific journal), Accepted

Obituary: Osamu Fujimura

Erickson, Donna and KAWAHARA Shigeto

Phonetica (Karger)   2017.12

Research paper (scientific journal)

Some aspects of Japanese consonant articulation: A preliminary EPG study

KAWAHARA Shigeto and Michinao F. Matsui

ICU Working Papers in Linguistics II  2017.12

Research paper (international conference proceedings)

声楽的発声における母音知覚—基本周波数および声楽経験の影響—

遠藤希望・川原 繁人・皆川康代

音声研究  2017.12

Research paper (scientific journal), Accepted

Acoustic manifestation of Russian word-final devoicing in utterance-medial position.

Matsui, Mayuki, Yosuke Igarashi, and KAWAHARA Shigeto

Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan  2017.12

Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work, Accepted

音象徴の言語学教育での有効利用に向けて:『ウルトラマンの怪 獣名』と音象徴

川原 繁人 and 桃生朋子

音声研究  2017.12

Research paper (scientific journal), Accepted

日本語ラップの韻分析再考二〇一七――言語分析を通して韻を考える――

川原 繁人

日本語学  2017.10

Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work

ドラゴンクエストの呪文における音象徴: 音声学の広がりを目指して.

川原 繁人

音声研 究 21 ( 2 )  2017.08

Research paper (scientific journal), Accepted

Durational compensation within a CV mora in spontaneous Japanese: Evidence from the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese

KAWAHARA Shigeto

JASA-EL  2017.07

Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Accepted

Spectral continuity, amplitude changes, and perception of length contrasts.

Kawahara, Shigeto and Melanie Pangilinan

Aspects of Geminate Consonants (Oxford University Press)     13 - 33 2017.05

Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work, Accepted

Interaction of jaw displacement and F0 peak in syllables produced with contrastive emphasis

Erickson, Donna, Kiyoshi Honda and KAWAHARA Shigeto

Erickson, Donna, Kiyoshi Honda and Shigeto Kawahara 38   137 - 146 2017.04

Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work, Accepted

On the input information of the C/D model for vowel devoicing in Japanese

Matsui, Michinao (translation by Shigeto Kawahara

Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 21 2017.04

Research paper (scientific journal)