Shigeto Kawahara
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Shigeto Kawahara | |
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| Born | March 9, 1980 Assistant Professor |
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| Fields | Phonetics, psychophonology, phonology |
| Institutions | Keio University |
| Doctoral advisor | John Kingston |
Shigeto Kawahara (川原 繁人, Kawahara Shigeto, born March 9, 1980) is a Japanese
phonologist. He is currently an associate professor in the linguistics institute at Keio University. Before he moved to Keio, he worked for the University of Georgia and Rutgers University
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He was awarded his BA (liberal arts) from International Christian University in 2002 and Ph.D. (Linguistics) from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007 under the supervision of John Kingston.[1]
Research
Kawahara primarily investigates phonetic bases of emergent phonological patterns.
Major publications
- Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (2010) Calculating vocalic similarity through puns. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 13.
- Kawahara, Shigeto and Matthew Wolf (2010) On the existence of root-initial accenting suffix: An elicitation study of Japanese [-zu]. Linguistics 44.
- Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (2009) The role of psychoacoustic similarity in Japanese puns: A corpus study. Journal of Linguistics. 45: 111-138.
- Kawahara, Shigeto (2009) Faithfulness, correspondence and perceptual similarity. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 13: 51-60.
- Kawahara, Shigeto and Takahito Shinya (2008) The intonation of gapping and coordination in Japanese: Evidence for Intonational Phrase and Utterance. Phonetica 65: 62-105.
- Kawahara, Shigeto (2008) Phonetic naturalness and unnaturalness in Japanese loanword phonology. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 17: 317-330.
- Kawahara, Shigeto (2007) Half rhymes in Japanese rap song lyrics and knowledge of similarity. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16: 113-144.
- Kawahara, Shigeto (2006) A faithfulness ranking projected from a perceptibility scale: the case of Japanese [+voice]. Language 82: 536-574
References
- ^ a b Kawahara's website
- ^ Kawahara, Shigeto (2007) Half rhymes in Japanese rap song lyrics and knowledge of similarity. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16: 113-144
- ^ Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (2009) The role of psychoacoustic similarity in Japanese puns: A corpus study. Journal of Linguistics. 45: 111-138.
