CV
2024.2.
Sinsyo Paperback Award 2024 (for Gengo no Honsitu: Kotoba-wa Doo Umare, Sinka-sita-ka [The Nature of Language: How Language Was Born and Evolved] (w/ Mutsumi Imai, Chuokoron, 2023)), Chuokoron-Shinsha.
2023.11.
The 6th Yaesu Book Award (for Gengo no Honsitu: Kotoba-wa Doo Umare, Sinka-sita-ka [The Nature of Language: How Language Was Born and Evolved] (w/ Mutsumi Imai, Chuokoron, 2023)), Yaesu Book First.
2023.6.
NINJAL Yutaka Miyaji Award for Japanese Studies (for Onomatope no Ninti-kagaku [Cognitive Science of Ideophones] (Shinyosha, 2022)), National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.
2017.4-present.
Associate professor at the Department of English Linguistics and the Linguistics and Cultural Studies Program (Global 30 International Program), (Graduate) School of Humanities, and the Department of English, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan.
2016.8-2021.3.
Visiting associate professor at the Theory & Typology Division, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL).
2015.4-2018.4.
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (#15K16741, "An empirical pragmatic study of ideophones based on audiovisual corpora").
2015.4-2017.3.
Associate professor at the Applied Linguistics division, Department of Japanese Language and Culture and Comparative Studies of Language and Culture Program (Global 30 International Program), Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, and the Department of English, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan.
2013.8.2.
Osaka University President's Research Encouragement Award.
2012.4-2015.3.
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (#24720179, "An audiovisual-experimental study of the frame-semantic properties of mimetics").
2011.10-2015.3.
Full-time lecturer at the Language and Cognitive Science division and the English Department, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
2009.7-2010.12.
Visiting Scholar and Postdoc Affairs Program, University of California, Berkeley, California, US.
2009-2011.9.
Research Fellowship (PD) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (#21-2238, "A crosslinguistic and developmental study of the syntax and semantics of sound-symbolic words: On the roles of lexical iconicity").
2007-2009.
Research Fellowship (DC2) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (#19-536, "A theoretical study of the syntax and semantics of sound-symbolic words in Japanese").
2006-2009.
PhD, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan.
2004-2006.
MA, Graduate School of Letters, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan.
2000-2004.
BA, Department of English, Aichi Prefectural University, Aichi, Japan.
1997-2000.
Setonishi High School, Aichi, Japan.
1982.
Born in Owariasahi city, Aichi, Japan.
Membership in academic societies
2015.9-2018.2.
The Pragmatic Society of Japan.
2011.10-2015.3.
Osaka University Society of Language and Culture.
2011.6-2018.4.
The English Linguistic Society of Japan.
2011.4-2016.12.
The Japanese Society for Language Sciences.
2010.6-2015.12.
The Phonological Society of Japan.
2009.8-2016.12.
The Linguistic Society of America.
2006.5-2008.5/2019.4-2022.3.
Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association (editorial board member, since September 2019).
2005.6-present.
Kansai Linguistic Society (steering committee member, from September 2014 to March 2023; annual meeting organizing committee member, from September 2014 to March 2021).
2004.4-2022.3.
The Linguistic Society of Japan.
Peer review experience
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Canadian Journal of Linguistics (2x)
Cognitive Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Folia Linguistica
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Review Editor Board, since October 2022)
Gengo Kenkyu
Gesture
Glossa (2x)
The Japanese Journal of Psychology
Iconicity in Language and Literature
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
JSAA Conference Proceedings
Language & Linguistics Compass
Language and Speech
Language Sciences
Lingua
Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences
Linguistic Typology
Linguistics Vanguard
The Oxford Handbook of Expressivity
Phonetica
Proceedings of CogSci
The Public Journal of Semiotics
Studies in Language Sciences (2x)
Zinkoo-tinoo-gakkai ronbun-si [Journal of Artificial Intelligence]
Events organized
2023.10.7-8. (w/ Kiyoko Toratani)
Workshop on Ideophones in Motion Descriptions, Zoom/York University, Canada and Nagoya University, Japan.
2022.6.24-25. (w/ Kiyoko Toratani)
Workshop on Typology of Ideophones, Zoom/York University, Canada and Nagoya University, Japan.
2020.10.9-11. (w/ Kaoru Horie, Yusuke Kubota, Haruo Kubozono, David Y. Oshima, & Akira Utsugi)
29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Zoom/Nagoya University/NINJAL, Aichi, Japan. (as a member of the local organizing committee)
2017.9.9-. (w/ Keiko Murasugi)
2016.12.17-18. (w/ Taro Kageyama, Haruo Kubozono, Prashant Pardeshi, & Timothy J. Vance)
NINJAL International Symposium 2016: Mimetics in Japanese and Other Languages of the World, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan. (publication)
2015.12.5-6. (w/ Kaoru Horie, Ayako Shiba, & Hiroaki Kitano)
18th Annual Conference of the Pragmatic Society of Japan, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan. (as a member of the local organizing committee)
2014.6.14-15. (w/ Ken'ichi Mihara, Naoko Hayase, Masao Ochi, & Yukishige Tamura)
29th Annual Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society, Osaka University, Toyonaka Campus, Osaka, Japan. (as a member of the local organizing committee)
2013.12.14-15. (w/ Mutsumi Imai, Noburo Saji, Masato Ohba, & Michiko Asano)
Sound Symbolism Workshop 2013, Keio University, Mita Campus, Tokyo, Japan.
2013.5.3-5. (w/ Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, & Kazuko Shinohara)
9th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan. (as a member of the local organizing committee)
2012.11.25.
LSJ145 Workshop "Mimetics & Linguistic Theories," Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
2012.8.6-7. (w/ Mutsumi Imai, Noburo Saji, Masato Ohba, Michiko Asano, & Hiroyuki Okada)
Sound Symbolism Workshop 2012, Keio University, Mita Campus, Tokyo, Japan.
2011.2.18-19. (w/ Mutsumi Imai & Noburo Saji)
Keio/Tamagawa Mimetics & Sound Symbolism Workshop, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan.
2010.9.19. (w/ Sachiko Hirata)
Workshop "Onomatope-to onsyootyoo [Ideophones and sound symbolism]", 27th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Kobe University.
2010.8.18. (w/ Sachiko Hirata)
Symposium “Universality and Language-Specificity of Sound Symbolism: The Interplay of Multimodality, Embodiment, and Iconicity,” The 7th International Conference on Cognitive Science, National Convention Center, Beijing, China.