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Kawahara, Shigeto (in progress) The phonetics of obstruent geminates, sokuon. For The handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology. Comments very welcome.

Kawahara, Shigeto, Pangilinan Melanie, and Kelly Garvey (2011) Spectral continuity and the perception of duration: Implications for phonological patterns of sonorant geminates. Ms. Rutgers University. (Submitted. Comments welcome.)

Shigeto Kawahara (submitted) Testing Japanese loanword devoicing: Addressing task effects. Ms. Rutgers University. (Submitted. Comments welcome.)

Garvey, Kelly and Shigeto Kawahara (2011) Nasal place assimilation and the perceptibility of place contrasts. PLC Slides (revised), WCCFL poster (revised). Please contact me for the paper version.

Kawahara, Shigeto (in press) Lyman's Law is active in loanwords and nonce words: Evidence from naturalness judgment studies. Lingua .

Coetzee, Andries and Shigeto Kawahara (in press, 2013) Frequency biases in phonological variation. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Shinohara, Kazuko and Shigeto Kawahara (to appear) A cross-linguistic study of sound symbolism: The images of size. The proceedings of BLS 36. Berkeley Linguistic Society: Berkeley.

Deprez, Viviane, Kristen Syrett, and Shigeto Kawahara (to appear) Interfacing information and prosody: French wh-in-situ questions. In I. France, S. Lusini and A. Saab. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2010. John Benjamins: Amsterdam.

Kawahara, Shigeto and Sophia Kao (2012) The productivity of a root-initial accenting suffix, [-zu]: Judgment studies. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 30(3).

Shigeto Kawahara and Kazuko Shinohara (2012) A tripartite trans-modal relationship among sounds, shapes and emotions: A case of abrupt modulation. Proceedings of CogSci 2012.

Deprez, Viviane, Kristen Syrett, and Shigeto Kawahara (2012) The interaction of syntax, prosody, and discourse in licensing French wh-in-situ questions. Lingua.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2012) 外来語有声促音の無声化‐理論的貢献‐. 音韻研究 15: 93-104.

Shinohara, Kazuko and Shigeto Kawahara (2012) 音象徴の言語普遍性ー大きさのイメージを基に. 篠原和子・宇野良子 (編) 近づく音と意味ーオノマトペ研究の射程。ひつじ書房：東京。

Brent Berlin (2012) 動物名称にみられる共感覚的音象徴. 訳,　篠原和子・川原繁人. 篠原和子・宇野良子 (編) 近づく音と意味ーオノマトペ研究の射程。ひつじ書房：東京。

Hara, Yurie and Shigeto Kawahara (2012) The prosody of public evidence in Japanese: A rating study. Proceedings of the 29th meeting of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. pp.353-361. Sommerville: Cascadilla Press.

Borowsky, Toni, Shigeto Kawahara, Takahito Shinya, and Mariko Sugahara (eds.) (2012) Prosody Matters: Essays in honor of Elisabeth Selkirk. Equinox Publishing. London. The flier.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2012) The intonation of nominal parentheticals in Japanese. In T. Borowsky, S. Kawahara, T. Shinya and M. Sugahara (eds.) Prosody Matters. Equinox: London. pp. 304-340.

Gallagher, Gillian, Peter Graff, Shigeto Kawahara, and Michael Kenstowicz (eds.) (2012) Phonological Similarity: Perceptual and Articulatory Bases and Links to Grammatical Mechanisms. A special volume of Lingua 122(2).

Kingston, John, Shigeto Kawahara, Daniel Mash and Della Chambless (2011) Auditory contrast versus compensation for coarticulation: Data from Japanese and English listeners. Language and Speech. 54(4): 496-522.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2011) Japanese loanword devoicing revisited: A rating study. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 29(3): 705-723.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2011) Aspects of Japanese loanword devoicing. Journal of East Asian Lingusitics 20(2): 169–194.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2011) Experimental approaches in theoretical phonology. In M. van Oostendorp, C. Ewen, E. Hume, and K.Rice (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 2283-2303.

Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (2011) Phonetic and psycholinguistic prominences in pun formation: Experimental evidence for positional faithfulness. In M. den Dikken and W. McClure (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 18. Stanford: CSLI. pp.177-188.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2011) Modes of phonological judgment. Ms., Rutgers University.

Hara, Yurie, Shigeto Kawahara, and Yuli Feng (2011) Emphatic stress as epistemic conflict: A case study of Mandarin Chinese . Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 8: 13-26.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2010) Papers on Japanese imperfect puns. A collection of papers on imperfect puns

Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (2010) Calculating vocalic similarity through puns. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 13(3): 101-110. (pre-print version)

Kawahara, Shigeto and Matt Wolf (2010) On the existence of root-initial-accenting suffixes: An elicitation study of Japanese [-zu]. Linguistics 48(4): 837-864. Eratta

Shinohara, Kazuko and Shigeto Kawahara (2010) Syllable intrusion in Japanese puns, dajare. Proceeding of the 10th meeting of Japan Cognitive Linguistics Association. pp. 313-322.

Kawahara, Shigeto and Kelly Garvey (2010) Testing the p-map hypothesis: Coda devoicing. Ms. Rutgers University.

Kingston, John, Shigeto Kawahara, Della Chambless, Daniel Mash and Eve Brenner-Alsop (2009) Contextual effects on the perception of duration. Journal of Phonetics. 37.3: 297-320.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2009) Faithfulness, correspondence, perceptual similarity: Hypotheses and experiments. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan. 13.2: 52-61. (A special volume "Development and elaboration of OT in various domains").

Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (2009) The role of psychoacoustic similarity in Japanese puns: A corpus study. Journal of Linguistics. 45.1: 111-138.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2009) Probing knowledge of similarity through puns. In Takahito Shinya (ed.) Proceedings of Sophia University Linguistic Society 23. Tokyo: Sophia University Linguistics Society. pp.110-137. errata

Kawahara, Shigeto and Yurie Hara (2009) Hiatus resolution in Hiroshima Japanese. In M. Abdurrahman, A. Schardl, and M. Walkow (eds.) Proceedings of NELS 38. pp. 475-486. Amherst: GLSA.

Kawahara, Shigeto and Takahito Shinya (2008) The intonation of gapping and coordination in Japanese: Evidence for Intonational Phrase and Utterance. Phonetica 65.1-2: 62-105.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2008) Phonetic naturalness and unnaturalness in Japanese loanword phonology. Journal of East Asian Linguistics (JEAL) 17.4: 317-330.

Hara Yurie and Shigeto Kawahara (2008) Deaccenting, MAXIMIZE PRESUPPOSITION, and evidential scale . In Proceedings of the fourth international conference on speech prosody. (under revision/extension, contact me for a copy.)

Kawahara, Shigeto (2008) On the proper treatment of non-crisp-edges. In M. Endo, S. Jun, P. Sells, P.M. Clancy, S. Iwasaki, and S-O. Sohn (eds.) Japanese/Korean Linguistics 13. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp. 55-67. [xxx this paper is old, originally presented in 2003.]

Kawahara, Shigeto, Kazuko Shinohara and Yumi Uchimoto (2008) A positional effect in sound symbolism: An experimental study. Proceedings of the 8th meeting of Japan Cognitive Linguistics Association. [xxx this paper is based on the BA thesis of the third author.]

Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (2008) A cross-linguistic study of sound symbolism: the case of voicing. A poster presented at Language, Communication, and Cognition. Brighton University.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2007) Half rhymes in Japanese rap lyrics and knowledge of similarity. Journal of East Asian Linguistics (JEAL) 16.2: 113-144. Eratta.

Gelbart, Ben and Shigeto Kawahara (2007) Lexical cues to foreignness in Japanese. In Proceedings of Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 4: 49-60. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. Cambridge: MITWPL.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2007) Copying and spreading in phonological theory: Evidence from echo epenthesis. In University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 32: Papers in Optimality III. 111-143. Amherst: GLSA.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2007) Sonorancy and geminacy . In University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 32: Papaers in Optimality III. 145-186. Amherst: GLSA [This paper has been superseded by Kawahara, Pangilinan, and Garvey (2011) above.].

Kawahara, Shigeto (2006) A faithfulness ranking projected from a perceptibility scale: The case of [+voice] in Japanese. Language 82.3: 536-574.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2006) Mimetic gemination in Japanese: A challenge for Evolutionary Phonology. Theoretical Linguistics 32.3: 411-424.

Kawahara, Shigeto, Hajime Ono, and Kiyoshi Sudo (2006) Consonant co-occurrence restrictions in Yamato Japanese. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 14: 27-38. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Further info

Potts, Christopher, and Shigeto Kawahara (2005) Japanese honorifics as emotive definite descriptions. Proceedings of SALT 14: 253-270.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2005) Voicing and geminacy in Japanese: An acoustic and perceptual study. In K. Flack and S. Kawahara (eds.) University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 31: Papers in Experimental Phonetics and Phonology. pp. 87-120.

Kawahara, Shigeto and Kathryn Flack (eds.) (2005) University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 31: Papers in Experimental Phonetics and Phonology. ISBN: 1-4196-0681-6. TOC

Kawahara, Shigeto (ed.) (2005) University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 30: Papers on Prosody. ISBN: 1-4196-0680-8.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2004) Locality in echo epenthesis: Comparison with reduplication. Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society 34: 295-309.

Shinya, Takahito, Elisabeth Selkirk and Shigeto Kawahara (2004) Rhythmic boost and recursive minor phrase in Japanese. In Proceedings of the second international conference on speech prosody. 183-186.

Selkirk, Elisabeth, Takahito Shinya, and Shigeto Kawahara (2004) Phonological and phonetic effects of minor phrase length on f0 in Japanese. In Proceedings of the second international conference on speech prosody. 345-348.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2003) On a certain kind of hiatus resolution in Japanese. Onin Kenkyuu [Phonological Studies] 6: 11-20 (edited by Phonological Soceity of Japan. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.)

Kawahara, Shigeto, Kohei Nishimura, and Hajime Ono (2003) Unveiling the unmarkedness of Sino-Japanese. In Japanese/Korean Linguistics 12: 140-151. Stanford: CSLI.

Kawahara, Shigeto, Makoto Kadowaki and Kazuko Yatsushiro (2003) A gap in the interpretation of embedded tense in Japanese. In Snippets 7: 11-12.

Kadowaki, Makoto and Shigeto Kawahara (eds.) (2003) Proceedings of NELS 33. ISBN: 1-4196-2201-3.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2002) Faithfulness among variants. In On-in-kenkyuu [Phonological Studies] 5: 47-54. (edited by Phonological Soceity of Japan. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.)

Kawahara, Shigeto (2002) Aspects of Japanese hip-hop rhymes: What they reveal about the structure of Japanese. In Proceedings of Language Study Workshop

Kaneko, Ikuyo and Shigeto Kawahara (2002) Positional faithfulness theory and the emergence of the unmarked: The case of Kagoshima Japanese. In Akira Nakayama (ed.) ICU English Studies 11: 18-36.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2001) Similarity among Variants: Output-Variant Correspondence. BA Thesis: International Christian University.