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Tokyo, JAPAN 108-8345, JAPAN

phone:+81-3-5427-1595
執筆・取材・メディア出演などの依頼はこちら：kawaharashigeto.info@gmail.com（マネージャー田中）

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).

  • 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.
  • Erdös Number:
    4 (Shigeto Kawahara <= John Kingston <= Johanna Nichols <= Tandy Warnow <= Paul Erdös)
  • Bacon Number:
    3 (Kawahara <= Mone Kamishiraishi <= Alan Menken <= Kevin Bacon)

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    Research Interests

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

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    Current (and Recent) Projects

  • Pokémonastics
  • Studying lingual articulation of devoiced vowels and geminates with EMA (with Francesco Burroni, Jason Shaw and Lia Saki Bucar Shigemori)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Other projects that students are interested in (as long as I can help with them).

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