2−15−45　Mita, Minato-ku
Tokyo, JAPAN 108-8345, JAPAN

phone:+81-3-5427-1595

About Me

Shigeto in 2019

Current academic affiliations & positions

  • The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University, Professor.

  • Associate editor, Phonology (Cambridge Univ. Press).
  • Section editor, Language and Linguistic Compass (Wiley).

  • Editorial board member, Phonetica.
  • Editorial board member, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
  • Editorial board member, Phonological Data and Analysis.

  • A founding and current board member of ICU Linguistics.
  • The project leader for the Phonetic Society of Japan, the young scholar network for the Science Council of Japan.

    Erdös paths:
    4 (Kawahara<=Kingston<= Nichols<=Warnow<=Erdös)
    5 (Kawahara<=Potts<=Pullum<=Kornai<=Tuza<=Erdös)

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    Research Interests

  • Sound symbolism (and how it may relate to theoretical phonology)
  • Probabilistic phonology, MaxEnt and other quantitative models
  • Application of Bayesian statistics for linguistic analyses
  • Open science initiative and replication practices in linguistics
  • Phonetics and phonology of voicing and geminates
  • The interplay between phonetics and phonology
  • The quality of phonological data and phonological judgment experiments
  • Online experiments for linguistic research
  • Speech-perception and its relation to phonology
  • Accent and intonation

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    Current (and Recent) Projects

  • Pokémonastics!
  • ポケモン研究の発展外観図
  • IPA card

  • Studying lingual articulation of devoiced vowels with EMA (with Jason Shaw)
  • Learning broadly about Bayesian analyses, open science initiative, and several issues related to replication, and what these mean for linguistic research
  • Using information theory for phonological and phonetic analyses (with Jason Shaw and Beth Hume)
  • Articulation of geminates in Japanese (w/ Michinao Matsui and Jason Shaw)
  • Applying Finite Element Method to analyze airflow in 3-D vocal tract (with Mutsuto Kawahara and RCCM)
  • Sound symbolism (w/ Kazuko Shinohara and others)
  • Phonological judgment experiments
  • Studying duration patterns
  • The phonetics and phonology of geminate devoicing in Japanese
  • Thinking about rendaku and Lyman's Law from various perspectives
  • Articulatory correlates of metrical phrasing in English and Japanese (w/ Donna Erisckson)
  • Using EMA to explore the phonetics of Japanese (w/ Donna Erisckson and Atsuo Suemitsu)
  • Accent and intonation in East Asian languages (partly w/ Yurie Hara)
  • An experimental and corpus-based approach to Japanese puns (w/ Kazuko Shinohara)
  • The interaction of linguistic knowledge and speech perception (and the lack thereof) (w/ John Kingston)
  • The phonetics of understudied languages (w/ Seunghun Lee and Sang-im Lee-Kim)
  • Phonetics and phonology of Korean (w/ Seunghun Lee and Mira Oh).
  • Other projects that students are interested in (as long as I can help with them).

  • Assisting the MyVoice Project
  • Development and maintenance of the ICU Linguistics website (w/ Seunghun Lee)

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    Quick links

    Keio X ICU LINC (online linguistic colloquium series 2020)

    Pokémonastics!

    『絵本　うたうからだのふしぎ』（読者サポートページ）
    『言語学的ラップの世界』（読者サポートページ）
    『なぜ、おかしの名前はパピプペポが多いのか？』（読者サポートページ
    『音声学者、娘とことばの不思議に飛び込む』読者サポートページ
    『フリースタイル言語学』読者サポートページ
    『言語学者、外の世界へ羽ばたく』補足事項
    『ビジュアル音声学』補足事項・教材
    『「あ」は「い」より大きい！？：音象徴で学ぶ音声学入門』補足事項・教材
    『音とことばの不思議な世界』補足事項・教材

    IPAカード遊び方解説

    マイボイス
    マイボイスミーティング＠慶應
    Predictability symposium
    JK 2016
    Syllables and prosody
    GemCon 2015
    ICPP (TaLK) 2015
    The C/D model forum
    Remembering Osamu Fujimura
    the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies

    ICU Linguistics
    Psychological Research online
    UMass phonetics lab
    日本語のページ

     


     

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