Faculty Information

■ Specialization and related fields

Phonetics and Phonology, English Linguistics and English Phonetics, Linguistics

■ Academic background

1.	Nihon University Graduated
2.	Nihon University〔Master Course〕 Completed
3.	Nihon University〔Doctorial Course〕 Accomplished credits for doctoral program
4.	University College London, Graduate School〔Doctorial Course〕 Completed
5.	University College London Ph.D. in Phonetics

■ Business career

1.	2020/04～	Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English Professor
2.	2008/04～2020/03	Nihon University, College of Economics Professor
3.	2008/04～2020/03	Nihon University, Graduate School of Literature and Social Sciences, English Language and Literature Lecturer
4.	2005/09～2007/03	Lecturer
5.	2003/04～2020/03	Nihon University, College of Humanities and Sciences, Department of English Lecturer
6.	2002/04～2008/03	Nihon University, College of Economics Associate Professor
7.	2001/04～2002/03	Nihon University, College of Economics Lecturer
8.	1998/01～2001/03	University College London, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics Teaching Assistant
9.	1993/04～1997/03	Nihon University, College of Humanities and Sciences, Department of English Research Assistant
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■ Belonging society

1.	1987/04～	The English Linguistic Society of Japan
2.	1987/04～	The Phonetic Society of Japan
3.	1993/10～	The Phonological Society of Japan

■ Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense

1.	2015/04～2018/03	Articulatory Organisation and Phonological Structure: A Theoretical and Experimental Study (Key Word : )
2.	2012/04～2015/03	Articulatory Organisation and Language Use: A Theoretical and Experimental Study (Key Word : )
3.	2009/04～2012/03	A Theoretical and Experimental Study of Dynamic Characteristics of Articulatory Gestures and their Prosodic Controls (Key Word : )
4.	2005/04～2009/03	Articulatory Organisation and Prosody: The Parametric Phonetics of Allophonic Variations in English. (Key Word : )

■ Committee and society

1.	2018/06	Reviewer; The 17th Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney, Australia
2.	2009/08	Scientific Committee, Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference 2009, London, England

■ Book and thesis

1.	Article	An Articulatory Study of the Word-initial /str/ Cluster in British English. Sharnitzl, R. and J. Volin (Eds.) Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech. pp.997-1001 (Single) 2023/08
2.	Article	Coarticulation and Phonetic Variation: A Cased Study. 4,pp.41-53 (Single) 2023/03
3.	Article	Gestural Reduction, Phonetic Context, and Word Frequency: A Case Study of Word-Final Singleton /l/ in British English. 青山学院大学紀要 64,pp.1-12 (Single) 2023/03
4.	Article	Intergestural Coordination in English Syllable-Final /n/: Preliminary Considerations. Journal of College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University pp.57-75 (Single) 2022/03
5.	Other	Chapter 4 The Description and Classification of English Consonants. English Phonetics and Phonology pp.61-84 (Collaboration) 2022/03
6.	Article	Morphological Characteristics of the Human Vocal Tract and Their Relation to the Control of Articulatory Gestures. Thought currents in English literature pp.97-113 (Single) 2021/12
7.	Article	Gestural Reduction in Nasal Place Assimilation in English: An EPG and EMA Analysis. Journal of College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University pp.75-93 (Single) 2021/03
8.	Article	Exploring temporal characteristics of lingual gestures in American English /l/ Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia pp.2806-2810 (Single) 2019/08
9.	Article	An Articulatory Prosody of the Linking /r/ Gesture in British English. English Phonetics (The Journal of the English Phonetic Society of Japan) 22,pp.125-137 (Single) 2018/01
10.	Article	Exploring Regressive Place Assimilation in British English: A Case Study of Word-final /t, d/ H. Gotzsche (ed.) The Meaning of Language. pp.208-219 (Single) 2018/01
11.	Article	Gestural Reduction in Nasal Place Assimilation in British English: An EPG and EMA Study V.M. Aguir & E.E. Velaplana (eds.) Current Trends in Experimental Phonetics pp.64-68 (Single) 2017/11
12.	Article	Exploring Articulatory Characteristics of Linking /r/ in British English. Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. pp.105-108 (Single) 2016/12
13.	Article	Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: an articulatory-acoustic analysis. A.Leeman et al (eds.) Trends in Phonetics and Phonology: Studies from German-speaking Europe. pp.242-254 (Single) 2015/10
14.	Article	Phonetic Variation and Gestural Hiding: a Case Study. English Phonetics (The Journal of the English Phonetic Society of Japan) 18,pp.211-222 (Single) 2012/04
15.	Article	A Parametric Approach to L Vocalisation in English: some findings and hypotheses. English Phonetics (The Journal of the English Phonetic Society of Japan, Chubu Branch) 14 & 15,pp.99-108 (Single) 2011/10
16.	Article	Characterising Vocalisation of /l/ in English: an EPG, EMA, and Acoustic Study. Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. pp.105-118 (Single) 2010/12
17.	Article	The Articulation of L-vocalisation in English: Preliminary Considerations. Applied Phonetics and Related Studies. pp.277-291 (Single) 2009/11
18.	Article	Segmental Articulation from a Sentence Perspective: a case study of /t/ in English. English Phonetics (The Journal of the English Phonetic Society of Japan) pp.159-171 (Single) 2009/10
19.	Article	Exploring Vocalization of /l/ in English: an EPG and EMA study. Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, Brighton, U.K. pp.2311-2314 (Single) 2009/09
20.	Article	Articulatory Characteristics of Function Words in English: a case study. Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Speech Production. pp.213-216 (Single) 2008/12
21.	Article	Making Web-based Lectures on English Phonetics: an interim report. Proceedings of Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference. pp.1-4 (Single) 2007/08
22.	Article	The Spatiotemporal Effects of Speaking Rate on Gestural Coordination: an EPG study. Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. pp.301-306 (Single) 2006/12
23.	Article	Parametric Phonetics: an exercise in the dynamic characterisation of sound patterns. English Phonetics (The Journal of the English Phonetic Society of Japan) pp.233-250 (Single) 2006/10
24.	Article	Laryngeal-oral Coarticulation: a case study. Proceedings of the 131 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. pp.254-259 (Single) 2005/11
25.	Article	Segments and Articulatory Gestures: a parametric approach to the characterisation of sound patterns. Proceedings of the First International Congress of Phoneticians of English. pp.59-68 (Single) 2005/11
26.	Article	The Articulation of the Japanese Voiceless Affricates. English Phonetics in Education and Related Studies. pp.31-40 (Single) 2005/10
27.	Article	Articulatory Constraints and Coronal Stops: an EPG study. Proceedings of the 9th Eurospeech/Interspeech, Lisboa, Portugal. pp.1017-1020 (Single) 2005/09
28.	Article	Parametric Phonetics: an exercise in the dynamic explanation of sound patterns. Proceedings of Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference. pp.1-4 (Single) 2005/07
29.	Article	Coarticulatory Variability and Directionality in Voiceless Fricatives: an EPG study. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Jeju Island, Korea pp.368-371 (Single) 2004/10
30.	Article	Redundant Features and Coarticulation: a case study. Proceedings of the Alumni Reunion Conference. pp.68-72 (Single) 2004/09
31.	Article	Coarticulatory Variability in Alveolopalatal Fricative and Feature Specification. Phonological Studies. 7,pp.73-80 (Single) 2004/04
32.	Article	The Spatio-temporal Effects of Vowel Devoicing on Gestural Coordination: an EPG study. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain. pp.3025-3028 (Single) 2003/08
33.	Article	The Articulation of Vowel Devoicing: a preliminary analysis. Phonological Studies (The Journal of the Phonological Society of Japan) 6,pp.49-58 (Single) 2003/05
34.	Article	The Articulation of the Japanese /r/ and Some Implications for Phonological Acquisition. Phonological Studies (The Journal of the Phonological Society of Japan) 5,pp.55-62 (Single) 2002/03
35.	Article	Gestural Coordination and Timing in Japanese Palatalisation. Phonological Studies (The Journal of the Phonological Society of Japan) 3,pp.29-36 (Single) 2000/03
36.	Article	Two Kinds of Palatalisation in Japanese: an Electropalatographic Study. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, USA. pp.57-60 (Single) 1999/08
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■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2024/01/20	Coarticulatory Variability in British English /s/-retraction: an exploratory study (Tokyo Circle of Phonologists, January 2024)
2.	2023/08/07	An Articulatory Study of the Word-initial /str/ Cluster in British English (The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech, August 7-11, 2023)
3.	2019/08/06	Exploring temporal characteristics of lingual gestures in American English /l/. (The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia)
4.	2018/10/19	Universal Phonetics, or Searching for the Biological Grounding of Phonology. (The 6th Meeting of Linguistics Beyond and Within - International Linguistics Conference in Lublin.)
5.	2018/09/28	What can Individual Phonetic Variation Tell us about Phonology? (The 25th Conference of J. Jablonskis 'Variation across Languages and their Varieties.')
6.	2017/11/24	Gestural Reduction in Nasal Place Assimilation: an EPG and EMA study. (The 7th International Conference on Experimental Phonetics.)
7.	2016/12/08	Exploring Articulatory Characteristics of Linking /r/ in British English. (The 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology.)
8.	2015/10/08	Gestural Reduction and Regressive Place Assimilation: a case study of word-final /n/ in British English. (Phonetik & Phonologie 11)
9.	2015/08/20	Exploring Regressive Place Assimilation in British English: a Case Study. (The 26th Scandinavian Conference on Linguistics.)
10.	2014/12/05	The Parametric Phonetics of Palatalisation: a Case Study. (Palatalisation Conference)
11.	2014/10/23	Gestural Reduction as a Function of Phonological Contexts: a Study of Word-final t/d Deletion. (The 43rd New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference.)
12.	2013/03/21	Exploring Word-final Coronal Stop Deletion in British English: an articulatory-acoustic study. (Copenhagen Speech Event 2013)
13.	2012/12/04	Effects of Phonetic Context and Word Frequency on Gestural Redution. (The 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology.)
14.	2010/06/26	L-vocalisation in English: an articulatory-acoustic analysis. (The 13th Meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association.)
15.	2008/12/11	Articulatory Characteristics of Function Words in English: a case study. (The 8th International Seminar on Speech Production.)
16.	2008/09/23	Prosodic Position Effects and Function Words in English: a pilot study. (Interspeech 2008)
17.	2007/08/26	Making Web-based Lectures on English Phonetics: an interim report. (Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference)
18.	2006/12/07	The Spatiotemporal Effects of Speaking Rate on Gestural Coordination: an EPG study. (The 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology)
19.	2006/06/08	Intergestural Coordination and Speaking Rate: an EPG study of palatal consonants in Japanese (The 5th International Conference on Speech Motor Control.)
20.	2005/09/05	Articulatory Constraints and Coronal Stops: an EPG study. (The 9th International Conference on Speech Communication and Technology.)
21.	2005/07/27	Parametric Phonetics: an exercise in the dynamic explanation of sound patterns. (Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference)
22.	2004/10/06	Coarticulatory Variability and Directionality in the Japanese Voiceless Fricatives: an EPG study. (The 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing)
23.	2003/08/06	The Spatiotemporal Effects of Vowel Devoicing on Gestural Coordination: an EPG study. (The 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, 3-9 August, 2003)
24.	2003/09/06	Redundant Features and Coarticulation: a case study of CyV variability and depalatalisation. (The Alumni Reunion Conference, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London)
25.	2003/09/02	Coarticulation and Phonology: Some implications from an EPG study of vocalic and consonantal gestures. (日本音韻論学会 Phonology Forum 2003)
26.	1999/09/05	Timing Constraints and Coarticulation. (日本音韻論学会 Phonology Forum 1999)
27.	1999/08/02	Two Kinds of Palatalisation in Japanese: An Electropalatographic Study. (The 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences)
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