Shigeto Kawahara

18 Seminary Pl.
Department of Linguistics
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ, 08901-1108, USA
Some current lab members

The current lab members. Clockwise from top left:
Shigeto Kawahara,Kelly Garvey,
Shanna Lichtman, Lara Greenberg

Contact

  • Matters related to undergraduate classes: kawahara.teaching_at_gmail.com
  • Scheduling for experiments: rutgers.phonetics_at_gmail.com
  • For everything else: kawahara_at_rci.rutgers.edu

About me

Research Interests

  • Influence of phonetics on phonology
  • Speech-perception and its relation to phonology
  • Emergent linguistic patterns
  • A corpus/experiment-based approach to Japanese rap rhymes and imperfect puns
  • Online experiments for linguistic research
  • The quality of phonological data
  • Accents and intonation

Current projects

  • The role of similarity in phonological patterns
  • Wellformedness judgment tasks
  • Phonetics and phonology of geminates
  • The intonation of Japanese nominal parentheticals
  • The interaction of linguistic knowledge and speech perception (and the lack thereof) (w/ John Kingston)
  • An experimental and corpus-based approach to Japanese puns (w/ Kazuko Shinohara)
  • The accentual property of -zu in Japanese (w/ Matt Wolf and Sophia Kao)

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