Kimi AKITA, Ph.D.

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• Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi 464-8601, Japan (Room 614, Integrated Research Bldg for Humanities and Social Sciences)

What's new

• NHK (August 2025)

• The Nature of Language on Audible (August 2025)

• YumeNavi lecture video for high school students (August 2025)

• IcoLL2026: ILL15 + IcoSem4 (February 2026)

• The Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language (January 2026)

• Serial essays in NHK Haiku,  2nd round (April 2025)

• New serial essays in Kokugo Kyoiku (Japanese Language Education) (March 2025)

Contents

• Research interests (01/11/23: topics for future research)

• CV (06/27/25)

• Collaborations (04/04/25)

• Teaching (05/05/25)

• Publications (08/22/25)

• Presentations (08/04/25)

• Interviews (07/11/25)

• Bibliographies on sound-symbolic phenomena (10/16/19: slightly updated)

• Encyclopedia of Japanese mimetics (09/15/13: updated)

• Links (04/02/25)

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