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Ms., 2024a.

Akita, Kimi. 2024. Air quotes in American TV shows. Dataset, Aichi: Nagoya University. (updated Feb 19)

Ms., 2024b.

Akita, Kimi. 2024. Onomatope: Nihongo-wa sekai-saidai-no onomatope-gengo-ka [Ideophones: Is Japanese the largest ideophonic language?], Onsyootyoo: Onsei-ga motu imeezi-wa huhenteki-ka [Sound symbolism: Is the image of speech sound universal?], Onsyootyooso: Keitaiso-miman-no yooso-ni imi-wa mitome-rareru-ka [Phonesthemes: Do submorphemic elements have meaning?], Onomatope-to gengo-kakutoku: Goi-kakutoku-o samatageru-no-ka [Ideophones and language acquisition: Do they hinder lexical acquisition?]. Gengo-no siisei-to ruizoo-sei: Go-no keisiki-to imi-no kankei-wa guuzen-ka [Arbitrariness and iconicity of language: Is the relationship between the form and meaning of words accidental?]. Aichi: Nagoya University.

Ms., 2020a.

Akita, Kimi. 2020. Notes on the ideophonic protolanguage hypothesis. Aichi: Nagoya University. (12/22/2020)

Ms., 2020b.

Akita, Kimi. 2020. Quantifying the sound-symbolic system of Japanese ideophones. Aichi: Nagoya University. (dataset)

Ms., 2020c.

Akita, Kimi. 2020. System integration of Japanese ideophones. Aichi: Nagoya University.

Ms., 2018.

Akita, Kimi. 2018. Sounds of Japanese personal names from 1912 to 2017. Aichi: Nagoya University.

Ms., 2017a.

Akita, Kimi. 2017. The linguistic relativity of sound effect symbolism: The case of Japanese and American animated cartoons. Aichi: Nagoya University.

Ms., 2017b.

Akita, Kimi. 2017. NHK-aakaibusu-no onomatope: Mi-happyoo-deeta [Ideophones in the NHK corpora: Unpublished data]. Aichi: Nagoya University.

Ms., 2016. (w/ Jiyeon Park [1])

Park, Jiyeon and Kimi Akita. 2016. How special is the acquisition of iconic expressions?: A corpus-based study of mimetics in Japanese and Korean. AIchi: Nagoya University.

Ms, 2012.

Akita, Kimi. 2012. Frame phonosemantics: A frame-semantic approach to Japanese mimetics. Proceedings of the Czuczor-Fogarasi Conference. (Hungarian version published in 2013.)

Ms., 2010.

Akita, Kimi. 2010. A constructionist account of euphonic verbs in Japanese. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley.

Ms., 2005-2010a.

Akita, Kimi. 2005-2010. A bibliography of sound-symbolic phenomena in Japanese. Tokyo: The University of Tokyo.

Ms., 2005-2010b.

Akita, Kimi. 20205-2010. A bibliography of sound-symbolic phenomena in other languages. Tokyo: The University of Tokyo.

(To be) published

To appear, a.

Akita, Kimi. 2025. Onomatope-kenkyuu-no genzaiti [The past, present, and future of ideophone research]. KLS Selected Papers 7: 235-247. Kansai Linguistic Society.

To appear, b.

Akita, Kimi. 2025. Sinpoziumu: Onomatope-kenkyuu-no kanousei: Nihongogaku, gengogaku, gengo-sinrigaku-no taiwa [Symposium: The potential of onomatopoeia/ideophone research: Japanese linguistics, linguistics, and linguistic psychology]. KLS Selected Papers 7: 217-218. Kansai Linguistic Society.

To appear, c.

Akita, Kimi. To appear. Onomatope-no takankakusei-to “kyookankaku-teki-hiyu” [The multisensory semantics of ideophones and “synesthetic metaphor”]. Metafaa Kenkyuu [Metaphor Studies] 3: xxx-xxx. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

To appear, d.

Fischer, Olga, Kimi Akita, and Pamela Perniss (eds.). 2026. The Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

To appear, e.

Kazuhiro Matsuzawa (ed.), Masahiro Ijima, Shigehiro Kato, Masuhiro Nomura, and Kimi Akita. To appear. Tettei-tooron Sosyuuru Ippan-gengogaku-koogi: Sosyuuru-bunkengaku-to gendai-gengogaku-no taiwai [Thorough discussion on de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics: Dialogue between Saussurean philology and modern linguistics]. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

2025a.

Mutsumi Imai, Sotaro Kita, Kimi Akita, Noburo Saji, Masato Ohba, and Miki Namatame. Does sound symbolism need sound?: The role of articulatory movement in detecting iconicity between sound and meaning. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 157(1): 137-148.

2025b.

Akita, Kimi. 2025. Gotoo-ni zyuuonsetu-o motu wago-doosi: Kankei-keitairon-no kanten-kara [Heavy syllable initial verbs in Japanese: A Relational Morphology account]. In Miho Mano, Kiyoko Eguchi, Tetsuya Kogusuri, and Yile Yu (eds.), Rekisikon-kenkyuu-no hirogari-to hukamari [Breadth and depth of lexical approaches to grammar], 127-144. Osaka: Osaka University Press. (appendix)

2025c.

Akita, Kimi. 2025. Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions. Language and Cognition 17: e7, 1-15.

2025d. (April 2025-March 2026)

Akita, Kimi. 2025. Serial essays: Omosirosugite dareka-ni hanasitaku naru, kyoositu-kara hirogaru onomatope [So interesting that you can't stop telling it to someone: Ideophones spread from the classroom]. Kokugo Kyooiku [Japanese-language education]. Tokyo: Meiji Tosho.

2025e.

Akita, Kimi. 2025. Studying Japanese mimetics. In Jeffrey P. Williams (ed.), Capturing Expressivity: Contexts, Methods, and Techniques for Linguistic Research, 169-186. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2025f.

Akita, Kimi. 2025. Torikeratopusu-to sutegosaurusu [Triceratops and stegosaurus]. Gekkan Meidai Bungakubu 145. Aichi: School of Humanities, Nagoya University.

2024a.

Iida, Hinano and Kimi Akita. 2024. Iconicity emerges from language experience: Evidence from Japanese ideophones and their English equivalents. Cognitive Science 48(12): e70031.

2024b.

Akita, Kimi, Bonnie McLean, Jiyeon Park, and Arthur Lewis Thompson. 2024. Iconicity mediates semantic networks of sound symbolism. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155(4): 2687-2697.

2024c.

Akita, Kimi. 2024. Kyooin-no zityo-syookai: Imai Mutumi, Akita Kimi-tyo Gengo-no honsitu: Kotoba-wa doo umare, sinka sita-ka [Teachers' books: Mutsumi Imai and Kimi Akita's The Nature of Language: How Language was Born and Evolved]. Annual Report 2023, 42. Education and Research Promotion Office, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University.

2024d. (April 2024-March 2026)

Akita, Kimi. 2024. Serial essays: Onomatope-kaiboo-ziten [An anatomical dictionary of ideophones]. NHK Haiku. Tokyo: Japan Broadcasting Corporation. (web version)

2024e.

Akita, Kimi. 2024. Onomatope-no gengo-kagaku [Language science of ideophones]. Rabo-no sekai [The world of Labo] 305: 10. Tokyo: Labo International Exchange Foundation.

2024f.

Imai, Mutsumi and Kimi Akita. 2024. Sound symbolism. In Michael C. Frank and Asifa Majid (eds.), Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

2023a.

Imai, Mutsumi and Kimi Akita. 2023. Gengo-no honsitu: Kotoba-wa doo umare, sinka sita-ka [The nature of language: How language was born and evolved]. Tokyo: Chuokoron-Shinsha. (special website, Fujin Koron.jp, PRESIDENT Online, 6th Yaesu Book Award, Shinsho Paperback Award 2024, Best Asian Books of the Year 2024, traditional Chinese translation: Xiaoling Wang (trans.). 2024.『語言如何誕生和進化？』Weicheng Chuban.)

2023b.

Imai, Mutsumi and Kimi Akita. 2023. The iconicity ring hypothesis bridges the gap between symbol grounding and linguistic relativity. Topics in Cognitive Science 15: 676-682. DOI: 10.1111/tops.12671

2023c.

Akita, Kimi. 2023. Nihongo-ni okeru onomatope-doosi-no gosei-to taikeisei [The wordhood and systematicity of ideophonic verbs in Japanese]. In Li Shen (ed.), Ruikeiron-kara mita "go" no honsitu [The nature of "word" from a typological perspective]. 209-235. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

2023d.

Iida, Hinano and Kimi Akita. 2023. Perceptual strength norms for 510 Japanese words, including ideophones: A comparative study with English. In Micah Goldwater, Florencia K. Anggoro, Brett K. Hayes, and  Desmond C. Ong (eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023), 2201-2207. (OSF)

2023e.

Villegas, Julián, Kimi Akita, and Shigeto Kawahara. 2023. Psychoacoustic features explain subjective size and shape ratings of pseudo-words. Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association: Forum Acusticum 2023.

2022a.

Akita, Kimi Keiko Murasugi. 2022. Binomial adjective doublets in Japanese: A Relational Morphology account. Morphology 32: 281-297. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-022-09395-z

2022b.

Imai, Mutsumi, Kimi Akita, Sotaro Kita, Noburo Saji, Masato Ohba, and Miki Namatame. 2022. Deaf and hard-of-hearing people can detect sound symbolism: Implications for the articulatory origin of word meaning. In Andrea Ravignani et al. (eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution, 325-332. Nijmegen: Joint Conference on Language Evolution.

2022c.

Akita, Kimi and Mutsumi Imai. 2022. The iconicity ring model for sound symbolism. In Sara Lenninger, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg, and Elżbieta Tabakowska (eds.), Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, 27-45. (Iconicity in Language and Literature 18.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2022d.

Akita, Kimi and Keiko Murasugi. 2022. Innovative binomial adjectives in Japanese food descriptions and beyond. In Kiyoko Toratani (ed.), The Language of Food in Japanese: Cognitive Perspectives and Beyond, 111-132. (Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 25.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2022e.

Horie, Kaoru, Kimi Akita, Yusuke Kubota, David Y. Oshima, & Akira Utsugi (eds.). 2022. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 29. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

2022f.

Yo Matsumoto, Kimi Akita, Anna Bordilovskaya, Kiyoko Eguchi, Hiroaki Koga, Miho Mano, Ikuko Matsuse, Takahiro Morita, Naonori Nagaya, Kiyoko Takahashi, Ryosuke Takahashi, & Yuko Yoshinari. 2022. Linguistic representations of visual motion: A crosslinguistic experimental study. In Laure Sarda and Benjamin Fagard (eds.), Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description: Deixis, Asymmetries, Constructions, 43-67. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2022g.

Akita, Kimi. 2022. Onomatope-no imi-no fasettosei [Facets of the meanings of ideophones]. In Yo Matsumoto and Kyoko H. Ohara (eds.), Hureemu-imiron-no kooken: Doosi-to sono syuuhen [Frame semantics' contributions: Verbs and related expressions], 213-227. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.

2022h.

Akita, Kimi (facilitated by Naoyuki Uchimura). 2022. Onomatope-no ninti-kagaku [Cognitive science of ideophones]. (Ninti-kagaku-no susume [Invitation to cognitive science] 9.) Tokyo: Shinyosha. (won NINJAL Yutaka Miyaji Award)

2021a.

Murasugi, Keiko and Kimi Akita. 2021. Binomial adjectives in Japanese. Nanzan Linguistics 16: Research Results and Activities 2020, 67-80. Aichi: Nanzan University.

2021b.

Horie, Kaoru, Kimi Akita, and Hiroaki Kitano. 2021. Gengo-ruikeiron [Linguistic typology]. (Saisin eigogaku/gengogaku [Latest English and general linguistics] 12.) Tokyo: Kaitakusha. (Idoo-hyoogen-no ruikeiron-no kootiku/kaitai [The construction and decomposition of the typology of motion expressions] (183-209))

2021c.

Akita, Kimi. 2021. Nihongo-no onomatope-to gengo-ruikeiron [Japanese mimetics and linguistic typology]. In Haruo Kubozono, Hisashi Noda, Prashant Pardeshi, and Yo Matsumoto (eds.), Nihongo-kenkyuu-to gengo-riron-kara mita gengo-ruikeiron [Linguistic typology from the perspectives of Japanese linguistics and linguistic theories], 49-73. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. (English translation)

2021d.

Akita, Kimi. 2021. Nihongo-no zinmei-ni okeru hyooki-no zyootyoosei: Kankei-keitairon-no kanten-kara [Orthographical redundancy in Japanese personal names: A Relational Morphology account]. NINJAL Research Papers 21: 1-13. Tokyo: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.

2021e.

Akita, Kimi. 2021. Onomatope-no "husizen"-na onsyootyoo ["Unnatural" sound symbolism in ideophones]. In Waseda Bungaku Kai (ed.), Waseda Bungaku 2021-nen Haru-goo [Waseda literature, spring 2021 issue], 24-36. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo.

2021f.

Akita, Kimi and Bonnie McLean. 2021. Onsyootyoo-tikaku-no niti/ei-taisyoo: Imi-tizu-ni yoru kentoo [A contrastive study of Japanese and English speakers' sound-symbolic perception: A semantic-map approach]. In Kazuko Shinohara and Ryoko Uno (eds.), Zikken-ninti-gengogaku-no sinka [Progress in experimental cognitive linguistics], 165-189. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

2021g.

Akita, Kimi. 2021. Phonation types matter in sound symbolism. Cognitive Science 45(5): e12982. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12982

2021h.

Akita, Kimi. 2021. A typology of depiction marking: The prosody of Japanese ideophones and beyond. Studies in Language 45(4): 865-886. (dataset)

2020a.

Akita, Kimi and Yo Matsumoto. 2020. A fine-grained analysis of manner salience: Experimental evidence from Japanese and English. In Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi (eds.), Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions, 143-179. (Human Cognitive Processing 69.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2020b.

Thompson, Arthur Lewis, Kimi Akita, and Youngah Do. 2020. Iconicity ratings across the Japanese lexicon: A comparative study with English. Linguistics Vanguard 6(1): 20190088.

2020c.

Akita, Kimi. 2020. Japanese ideophones from a typological perspective. Kobe Papers in Linguistics 12: 1-11. Hyogo: Kobe University.

2020d.

Akita, Kimi. 2020. Mimetic 'go'-verbs in Japanese. In Matumoto Yoo-kyoozyu kanreki-kinen ronbunsyuu kankoo-iinkai [Publication Committee for the Festschrift for Professor Yo Matsumoto on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday] (ed.), Ninti-gengogaku-no habataki: Zissyoosei-no takai gengo-kenkyuu-o mezasite [Cognitive linguistics spreads its wings: Toward truly empirical linguistic research], 68-81. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. 

2020e.

Akita, Kimi. 2020. Modality-specificity of iconicity: The case of motion ideophones in Japanese. In Pamela Perniss, Olga Fischer, and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), Operationalizing Iconicity, 3-20. (Iconicity in Language and Literature 17.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2020f.

Tohno, Takayuki, Kohei Suzuki, Kimi Akita, and Yuzo Morishita (Publication Committee for the Festschrift for Professor Yo Matsumoto on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday) (eds.). 2020. Ninti-gengogaku-no habataki: Zissyoosei-no takai gengo-kenkyuu-o mezasite [Cognitive linguistics spreads its wings: Toward truly empirical linguistic research]. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.

2020g.

Akita, Kimi. 2020. Onomatope-no onsyootyoosei saihoo [Sound symbolism of ideophones revisited]. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 424-438.

2020h.

Ohori, Toshio and Kimi Akita. 2020. Ruizoosei [Iconicity]. In Yoshihiko Ikegami and Masaaki Yamanashi (eds.), Ninti-gengogaku II [Cognitive Linguistics II], 115-137. (Kooza: Gengo-kenkyuu-no kakusin-to keisyoo [A course on the innovation and succession of language studies] 5.) Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

2020i.

Akita Kimi, Jingyi Zhang, and Katsuo Tamaoka. 2020. Systematic side of sound symbolism: The case of suffixed ideophones in Japanese. KLS Selected Papers 2: 1-16. Kansai Linguistic Society. (dataset; developed version)

2019a.

Saji, Noburo, Kimi Akita, Katerina Kantartzis, Sotaro Kita, and Mutsumi Imai. Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in novel words elicited by locomotion videos in Japanese and English. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0218707.

2019b.

Oshima, David Y., Kimi Akita, and Shin-ichiro Sano. 2019. Gradability, scale structure, and the division of labor between nouns and adjective: The case of Japanese. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 4(1): 41. 1-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.737

2019c.

Akita, Kimi. 2019. Ideophones. In Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press.

2019d.

Akita, Kimi and Prashant Pardeshi (eds.). 2019. Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives. (Iconicity in Language and Literature 16.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2019e.

Akita, Kimi and Prashant Pardeshi. 2019. Ideophones, mimetics, and expressives: Theoretical and typological perspectives. In Kimi Akita and Prashant Pardeshi (eds.), Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives, 1-9. (Iconicity in Language and Literature 16.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2019f.

Akita, Kimi and Mark Dingemanse. 2019. Ideophones (mimetics, expressives). In Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2019g. (w/ Keiko Murasugi [2])

Akita, Kimi and Keiko Murasugi. 2019. Innovative bipartite adjectives in Japanese: A preliminary semantic description. Nanzan Linguistics 14: Research Results and Activities 2018: 1-7. Aichi: Nanzan University.

2019h.

Akita, Kimi. 2019. Kyooin koramu #102: Tikatikat-to hikatte kieru hanabi [Teacher's column #102: Fireworks that flicker and disappear]. Gekkan meidai bungakubu [Nagoya University School of Letters Monthly], No. 104, 1. Aichi: School of Letters, Nagoya University.

2019i.

Akita, Kimi. 2019. Mimetics, gaze, and facial expression in a multimodal corpus of Japanese. In Kimi Akita and Prashant Pardeshi (eds.), Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives, 229-247. (Iconicity in Language and Literature 16.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2019j.

Akita, Kimi. 2019. Onomatope [Ideophones]. In Haruo Kubozono (ed.), Yoku wakaru gengogaku [Linguistics for a better understanding], 192-201. Kyoto: Minerva Shobo. (Chapter 13: ideophones across languages, sound symbolism, morphological iconicity, quotative to-marking, evolutionary implications)

2019k.

Shinohara, Kazuko and Kimi Akita. 2019. Onsyootyoo/onomatope-to ninti-gengogaku [Sound symbolism, mimetics, and cognitive linguistics]. In Yukio Tsuji (ed.), Ninti-gengogaku daiziten [An encyclopedia of cognitive linguistics], 405-415. Tokyo: Asakura.

2019l.

Hideyuki Hoshi, Nahyun Kwon, Kimi Akita, and Jan Auracher. 2019. Semantic associations dominate over perceptual associations in vowel–size iconicity. i-Perception 10(4): 1-31.

2019m.

Akita, Kimi. 2019. Tyosyo-syookai: Yi-Tin Chen and Yo Matsumoto-tyo Nihongo-goi-teki-hukugoo-doosi-no imi-to taikei: Konsutorakusyon-keitairon-to hureemu-imiron [Blurb: The Semantics and Organization of Japanese Lexical Compound Verbs: Construction Morphology and Frame Semantics by Yi-Tin Chen and Yo Matsumoto], NINJAL Research Digest 5, 15. Tokyo: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.

2017a.

Akita, Kimi. 2017. The "dynamic" nature of stative mimetic verbs in Japanese. Journal of Cognitive Linguistics 2: 39-56.

2017b.

Matsumoto, Yo, Kimi Akita, and Kiyoko Takahashi. 2017. The functional nature of deictic verbs and the coding patterns of Deixis: An experimental study in English, Japanese, and Thai. In Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (ed.), Motion and Space across Languages: Theory and Applications, 95-122. (Human Cognitive Processing 59.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2017c.

Akita, Kimi. 2017. Gaikokugo-ni-mo onomatope-wa aru-no? [Do foreign languages also have mimetics?]. In Haruo Kubozono, (ed.), Onomatope-no nazo: Pikatyuu-kara mohumohu-made [Mysteries of mimetics: From Pikachu to mofumofu] (Iwanami Science Library 261), 65-85. Tokyo: Iwanami Publishers.

2017d.

Iwasaki, Noriko, Peter Sells, and Kimi Akita (eds.). 2017. The Grammar of Japanese Mimetics: Perspectives from Structure, Acquisition, and Translation. (Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics 1.) London: Routledge.

2017e.

Akita, Kimi. 2017. Grammatical and functional properties of mimetics in Japanese. In Noriko Iwasaki, Peter Sells, and Kimi Akita (eds.), The Grammar of Japanese Mimetics: Perspectives from Structure, Acquisition, and Translation, 20-34. (Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics 1.) London: Routledge.

2017f.

Dingemanse, Mark and Kimi Akita. 2017. An inverse relation between expressiveness and grammatical integration: On the morphosyntactic typology of ideophones, with special reference to Japanese. Journal of Linguistics 53(3): 501-532.

2017g.

Akita, Kimi. 2017. Kokusai-teki-ni katudoo-suru [Doing linguistics internationally]. (Workshop on how to present linguistic research to the world: Its significance and methods for young researchers.) In Papers from the 17th National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 604-609. Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association.

2017h.

Akita, Kimi. 2017. The linguistic integration of Japanese ideophones and its typological implications. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 62(2) (Structuring sensory imagery: Ideophones across languages and cultures): 314-334.

2017i.

Akita, Kimi. 2017. Onomatope-ga osiete-kureru gengo-no honsitu (Ti-no mirai-e: Wakate-kenkyuusya-no syookai) [What ideophones tell us about the essence of language (The future of wisdom: Introduction of young researchers)]. Nagoya University Topics, No. 295: 13. Aichi: Nagoya University.

2017j.

Akita, Kimi. 2017. The typology of manner expressions: A preliminary look. In Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (ed.), Motion and Space across Languages: Theory and Applications (Human Cognitive Processing 59), 39-60. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2016a.

Akita, Kimi and Takeshi Usuki. 2016. A constructional account of the "optional" quotative marking on Japanese mimetics. Journal of Linguistics 52(2): 245-275. (non-typeset version)

2016b.

Akita, Kimi. 2016. Gengo-taikei-no naka-no onomatope [Mimetics in linguistic systems]. In Taro Kageyama (ed.), Lexicon Forum, No. 7, 19-39. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

2016c.

Akita, Kimi and Natsuko Tsujimura. 2016. Mimetics. In Taro Kageyama and Hideki Kishimoto (eds.), The Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation, 133-160. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton.

2016d.

Akita, Kimi. 2016. A multimedia encyclopedia of Japanese mimetics: A frame-semantic approach to L2 sound-symbolic words. In Kaori Kabata and Kiyoko Toratani (eds.), Cognitive-Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language (Studies on Language Acquisition 46), 139-168. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton.

2015a.

Akita, Kimi. 2015. Giongo/gitaigo [Mimetic]. In Yoshio Saito, Yoshihisa Taguchi, and Yoshiki Nishimura (eds.), The Sanseido Dictionary of Linguistics, 40-41. Tokyo: Sanseido.

2015b.

Kiyama, Naoki and Kimi Akita. 2015. Gradability and mimetic verbs in Japanese: A frame-semantic account. In Proceedings of the Forty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 245-265. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2015c.

Hiraga, Masako K., William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara, and Kimi Akita (eds.). 2015. Iconicity: East Meets West. (Iconicity in Language and Literature 14.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2015d.

Akita, Kimi. 2015. Ideophones and reported discourse as depictive signs. Gengo-bunka kyoodoo-kenkyuu-purozyekuto 2014: Sizen-gengo-e-no riron-teki-apurooti [Joint project on language & culture 2014: Theoretical approaches to natural language], 1-10. Osaka: Osaka University.

2015e.

Hirata-Mogi, Sachiko , Satoshi Nakamura, Takanori Komatsu, and Kimi Akita. 2015. Kokkai-kaigiroku-koopasu-o motiita onomatope-siyoo-no tiiki-hikaku [Cross-regional comparison of mimetic word uses based on the Minutes of the Diet of Japan]. Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence 30(1) (SP2-H): 274-281.

2015f.

Akita, Kimi. 2015. (15 entries in Part 3 "Morphology and lexicon"). In Kozo Nakano, Yoshihiro Hattori, Takahiro Ono, and Tetsuo Nishihara (eds.), Saisin eigogaku/gengogaku yoogo ziten [Current terminology of English linguistics and linguistics]. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.

2015g.

Saji, Noburo, Kimi Akita, Katerina Kantartzis, Sotaro Kita, and Mutsumi Imai. 2015. Onsyootyoogo-ni hisomu gengo-huhensei-to kobetusei: Sansyutu-zikken-kara-no apurooti [Universality and language specificity in sound symbolism: An elicited production approach]. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 301-308.

2015h.

Akita, Kimi. 2015. Sound symbolism. In Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics, Installment 2015 (24 pages). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2015i.

Usuki, Takeshi and Kimi Akita. 2015. What's in a mimetic?: On the dynamicity of its iconic stem. In Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara, and Kimi Akita (eds.), Iconicity: East Meets West, 109-123. (Iconicity in Language and Literature 14.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2015j.

Akita, Kimi. 2015. Yootai-hyoogen-no ruikeiron-ni okeru yootai-no tenkeisei [The typicality of manner in the typology of manner expressions]. In Yuko Yumoto and Naoyuki Ono (eds.), Goi-imiron-no arata-na kanoosei-o sagutte [Searching for new possibilities of lexical semantics], 354-380. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.

2014a.

Akita, Kimi. 2014. Fictivity and frames in mimetic state expressions. Gengo-bunka kyoodoo-kenkyuu-purozyekuto 2013: Sizen-gengo-e-no riron-teki-apurooti [Joint project on language & culture 2013: Theoretical approaches to natural language], 1-10. Osaka: Osaka University.

2014b.

Hatakeyama, Yuji (ed.), Kosuke Tanaka, Kazumi Taniguchi, Kimi Akita, Kensuke Honda, Seiji Uchida, & Yukio Naruse. Kotoba-no sikumi-kara manabu wabun-eiyaku-no kotu [The knack of Japanese-to-English translation in terms of the mechanism of language]. Gengo/bunka-sensyo [Language and Culture Series] 46. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.

2014c.

Akita, Kimi, Satoshi Nakamura, Takanori Komatsu, and Sachiko Hirata-Mogi. 2014. A quantitative approach to mimetic diachrony. In Mikio Giriko, Naonori Nagaya, Akiko Takemura, and Timothy J. Vance (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 22, 181-195. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

2014d.

Akita, Kimi. 2014. Register-specific morphophonological constructions in Japanese. In Kayla Carpenter, Oana David, Florian Lionnet, Christine Sheil, Tammy Stark, and Vivian Wauters (eds.), Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 3-18. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2014e.

Akita, Kimi. 2014. Review: Construction Morphology, by Geert Booij, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010. English Linguistics 31(1): 275-283.

2013a.

Akita, Kimi. 2013. Constraints on the semantic extension of onomatopoeia. The Public Journal of Semiotics 5(1): 21-37.

2013b.

Saji, Noburo, Kimi Akita, Mutsumi Imai, Katerina Kantartzis, and Sotaro Kita. 2013. Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism for motion: An exploratory data mining approach. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013), 1253-1258.

2013c. (w/ Takeshi Usuki [1])

Usuki, Takeshi and Kimi Akita. 2013. Fiction in an encyclopedia: A Generative Lexicon approach to fictive mimetic resultatives in Japanese. In Fukuoka Linguistic Circle (ed.), Gengogaku-kara-no tyooboo 2013: Hukuoka-gengo-gakkai 40-syuunen-kinen-ronbunsyuu [A view from linguistics 2013: Papers on the 40th anniversary of Fukuoka Linguistic Circle], 308-321. Kyushu: Kyushu University Press.

2013d.

Hasegawa, Yoko, Russell Lee-Goldman, Albert Kong, and Kimi Akita. 2013. FrameNet as a resource for paraphrase research. In Mirjam Fried and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), Advances in Frame Semantics, 109-132. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2013e.

Akita, Kimi. 2013. Keret-hangjelentéstan: A japán utánzószavak keretjelentés alapú megközelíése [Frame phonosemantics: A frame-semantic approach to Japanese mimetics]. In Molnár Zsolt, Marácz László, and Molnárné Czeglédi Cecília (eds.), Fogalom, hang, gyök: És tanításuk, 100-114. Magyar Anyanyelvkutató és Tanításfejlesztô. (English version)

2013f.

Akita, Kimi. 2013. Kyooki-tokusei-kara miru onomatope-no hureemu-imiron [The frame semantics of mimetics in terms of their collocational characteristics]. In Kazuko Shinohara and Ryoko Uno (eds.), Onomatope-kenkyuu-no syatei: Tikazuku oto-to imi [Sound symbolism and mimetics: Rethinking the relationship between sound and meaning in language], 101-115. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

2013g.

Akita, Kimi. 2013. The lexical iconicity hierarchy and its grammatical correlates. In Lars Elleström, Olga Fischer, and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), Iconic Investigations, 331-349. (Iconicity in Language and Literature 12.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2013h.

Akita, Kimi, Mutsumi Imai, Noburo Saji, Katerina Kantartzis, and Sotaro Kita. 2013. Mimetic vowel harmony. In Bjarke Frellesvig and Peter Sells (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 20, 115-129. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

2013i.

Akita, Kimi. 2013. Onomatope/onsyootyoo-no kenkyuusi [A research history of mimetics and sound symbolism]. In Kazuko Shinohara and Ryoko Uno (eds.), Onomatope-kenkyuu-no syatei: Tikazuku oto-to imi [Sound symbolism and mimetics: Rethinking the relationship between sound and meaning in language], 333-364. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

2012a.

Akita, Kimi. 2012. Nabeshima Kojiro-tyo Nihongo-no metafaa [Review of Metaphors in Japanese by Kojiro Nabeshima]. Nihongo bunpoo [Journal of Japanese Grammar] 12(2): 213-220.

2012b.

Akita, Kimi, Satoshi Nakamura, Takanori Komatsu, and Sachiko Hirata. 2012. Onomatope-no intarakusyonsei-ni kansuru ryooteki-koosatu [A quantitative study of the interactional function of mimetics]. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2012, 2N1-OS-8c-5.

2012c.

Akita, Kimi. 2012. Phonosemantic evidence for the mimetic stratum in the Japanese lexicon. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1-12, Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

2012d.

Akita, Kimi. 2012. Toward a frame-semantic definition of sound-symbolic words: A collocational analysis of Japanese mimetics. Cognitive Linguistics 23(1): 67-90.

2011a.

Akita, Kimi. 2011. A constructionist analysis of emphatic mimetics in Japanese. KLS 31: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society, 240-251. Kansai Linguistic Society.

2011b.

Hasegawa, Yoko, Russell Lee-Goldman, Albert Kong, and Kimi Akita. 2011. FrameNet as a resource for paraphrase research. Constructions and Frames 3(1): Special Issue on "Advances in Frame Semantics": 104-127. (Republished in 2013.)

2011c.

Akita, Kimi. 2011. Gion/gitai-nado sono kazu 1500-go: Kansaizin-ga dobaat-to tukau "onomatope" [The number of Japanese mimetics amounts to 1500: "Onomatopoeia," which Kansai people use in bulk]. Yomiuri Family, 30 November 2011, 3. Osaka: Yomiuri Jyoho Kaihatsu Osaka.

2011d.

Ohori, Toshio, Kimi Akita, Hiroaki Koga, and Minoru Yamaizumi (trans.). 2011. Michael Tomasello (ed.), Ninti-kinoo gengogaku: Gengo-koozoo-e-no 10-no apurooti [The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Vol. 1]. Tokyo: Kenkyusha. (Chs. 1, 7, & 9)

2011e.

Akita, Kimi. 2011. Toward a phonosemantic definition of iconic words. In Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer, and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), Semblance and Signification, 3-18. (Iconicity in Language and Literature 10.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2010a.

Akita, Kimi. 2010. An embodied semantic analysis of mimetic psych-predicates in Japanese. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences 48(6): 1195-1220.

2010b.

Akita, Kimi, Yo Matsumoto, and Kyoko Hirose Ohara. 2010. Idoo-hyoogen-no ruikeiron-ni okeru tyokuziteki keiro-hyoogen-to yootai-goi-repaatorii [Deictic path expressions and manner lexicon in the typology of motion expressions]. In Taro Kageyama (ed.), Lexicon Forum, No. 5, 1-25. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

2010c.

Akita, Kimi. 2010. Interview with JSPS Fellow in the U.S. JSPS San Francisco Newsletter, Vol. 18, 7. San Francisco Office of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

2009a.

Akita, Kimi. 2009. The acquisition of the constraints on mimetic verbs in Japanese and Korean. In Yukinori Takubo, Tomohide Kinuhata, Szymon Grzelak, and Kayo Nagai (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 16, 163-177. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 

2009b.

Akita, Kimi. 2009. Gradient integration of sound symbolism in language: Toward a crosslinguistic generalization. In Shoichi Iwasaki, Hajime Hoji, Patricia M. Clancy, and Sung-Ock Sohn (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 17, 217-230. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

2009c.

Akita, Kimi. 2009. A Grammar of Sound-Symbolic Words in Japanese: Theoretical Approaches to Iconic and Lexical Properties of Mimetics. Ph.D. dissertation, Kobe University. [PDF; Errata]

2009d.

Akita, Kimi, Yo Matsumoto, and Kyoko Hirose Ohara. 2009. Idoo-zisyoo-wa niti-eigo-wasya-ni doo kikoe doo mieru-no-ka: Idoo-hyoogen-no ruikeiron-ni okeru onsyootyoogo-no iti-zuke [How motion sounds/looks in Japanese and English: Mimetics in the typology of motion expressions]. Kobe Papers in Linguistics 6: 1-19. Hyogo: Kobe University.

2009e.

Takeyasu, Hajime and Kimi Akita. 2009. Statistical information in phonological acquisition: Correlations between phoneme distribution and markedness. Phonological Studies 12: 51-58. Tokyo: Kaitakusha. 

2008a.

Akita, Kimi. 2008. The dative paradox: The case of Japanese psych-verbs. In Taro Kageyama (ed.), Lexicon Forum, No. 4, 91-112. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo. 

2008b.

Akita, Kimi. 2008. Onsyootyoogo-no "hantyuuka-mondai"-e-no hitotu-no kotae: Tamori & Schourup (1999)-e-no ripurai [Defining the mimetic category in the Japanese lexicon: A reply to Tamori and Schourup (1999)]. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 428-438. Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association.

2008c.

Akita, Kimi. 2008. Two cognitive subsystems of sound symbolism in Japanese. KLS 28: Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society, 23-33. Kansai Linguistic Society.

2007.

Akita, Kimi. 2007. One experience viewed in two ways: A viewpoint approach to the case marking patterns of Japanese psych-verbs. In Taro Kageyama (ed.), Lexicon Forum, No. 3, 283-297. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo. 

2006a.

Akita, Kimi. 2006. The “Embodied” Semantics of Japanese Psych Mimetics. M.A. thesis, Kobe University. (published version)

2006b.

Akita, Kimi. 2006. Embodied semantics of Japanese psychomimes. KLS 26: Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society, 45-55. Kansai Linguistic Society. (a developed version: 2010a)

2005.

Akita, Kimi. 2005. Tastes worth mentioning. Readers in council, The Japan Times, 18 September 2005.

2004.

Akita, Kimi. 2004. Some Semantic Properties of Unergative Psych Verbs: Activity of Worry and Stativity of Be Worried. B.A. thesis, Aichi Prefectural University. (published version)