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Kawahara, Shigeto (2009) Testing the P-map hypothesis I: Coda devoicing. A slide for the workshop on phonological similarity. MIT, Nov 15th, 2009. [This is a slide, not a paper yet]Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (to appear) 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.xxx-xxx. (Some minor revisions will be made.)
Kawahara, Shigeto and Matt Wolf (to appear) On the existence of root-initial-accenting suffixes: An elicitation study of Japanese [-zu]. Linguistics. (Some minor changes will be made.)
Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (resubmitted) Calculating vocalic similarity through puns. The Journal of Phonetic Society of Japan. An earlier version appears in D. Altshuler, A. Braver, S. Murray, and P. Staroverov (eds.) RuLing Papers 3.
Kawahara, Shigeto (to appear) The intonation of nominal parentheticals in Japanese. In T. Borowsky, S. Kawahara, T. Shinya and M. Sugahara (eds.) Prosody Matters. Equinox (I am finishing up this paper--a draft available upon request, and comments welcome!)
Kawahara, Shigeto (submitted) Experimental approaches in generative phonology. In. M. van Oostendorp, C. Ewen, E. Hume, and K.Rice (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell. (A draft available upon request--comments welcome)
2009
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"). (This is a pre-print version.)
Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (2009) The role of psychoacoustic similarity in Japanese puns: A corpus study. Journal of Linguistics. 45.1: 111-138. (The paper is in a free issue.)
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. [This paper is a substantially revised version of the second author's QP.]
2008
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.]
2007
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 [under significant revision, email me for a copy].
2006
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
2005
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.
2004
Kawahara, Shigeto (2004) Locality in echo epenthesis: Comparison with reduplication. Proceedings of the North East Linguistics Society 34: 295-309.Selkirk, Elisabeth, Takahito Shinya, and Shigeto Kawahara (2004) Rhythmic boost and recursive minor phrase in Japanese. In Proceedings of the second international conference on speech prosody. 183-186.
Shinya, Takahito, Elisabeth Selkirk 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.
2003
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) Sino-Japanese as the most unmarked startum in 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.
2002
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.
(Email me for a copy.)