Shigeto Kawahara

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

email:kawahara_at_icl.keio.ac.jp
phone:+81-3-5427-1595

About Me

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)

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

Current (and Recent) Projects

Pokémonastics!

ポケモン研究の発展外観図

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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)

About Me

Research Interests

Current (and Recent) Projects

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