Publications

Papers published/presented in Japanese are written in Japanese followed by the English translation

2024

• フィールドデータとコーパスに基づく日琉諸語の研究. 日本言語学会第168回大会予稿集: 15-21 (proceedings)

• Language Atlas of Japanese and Ryukyuan (LAJaR): A Linguistic Typology Database for Endangered Japonic Languages, In Hahn et al. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP: 55-57. (website) [with Kato Kanji and So Miyagawa]

2023

• 日本語方言談話資料のTEIによる構造化の試み, じんもんこん2023, 2023/12/9.

• 日琉諸語における主題標識の類型と格標識, 日本語文法学会, 2023/12/2.

• 少数言語の資源, 人文学のためのデジタル研究基盤及びDHの人材育成に関する事例報告, 国際シンポジウム デジタル・ヒューマニティーズと研究基盤, 2023/11/18.

• Natsuko Nakagawa and So Miyagawa, A multi-media dictionary of endangered languages with TEI Lex-0: A case study of Hatoma, Yaeyama Ryukyuan, Joint MEC TEI conference 2023.

• 琉球諸語の辞書の編纂方法『日本語学』30-37. 明治書院.

• 方言研究資料のためのデータベース構築『方言の研究』 9: 173-193. [with  宮川創, 小川潤]

• Metadata of linguistics field research in RDF, International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation 2023. [with Jun Ogawa, Ikki Ohmukai, and Akihiro Kameda]

• The network of lexical resources in Japanese, Tools of the Trade Conference, Harvard University, 2023. [with Toshinobu Ogiso]

• Digital dictionaries in Ryukyuans, Tools of the Trade Conference, Harvard University, 2023. 

2022

• 『南琉球宮古語池間方言辞典』, 国立国語研究所 言語変異研究領域. (with Hiroyuki Nakama, Yukinori Takubo, Shoichi Iwasaki, and Yosuke Igarashi).

• Nambu (Aomori, Eastern Japanese), In M. Shimoji (Ed.) An Introduction to the Japonic Languages: Grammatical Sketches of Japanese Dialects and Ryukyuan Languages, 188–226, Brill.

• 日本語における対比のハは焦点ではなく主題である, 日本言語学会第164回大会, 65-71. 2022/6/18 (with Yuka Hayashi)

• 鳩間方言 音声例文データベース (The audio database of Hatoma Example Sentences(Southern Ryukyuan)) doi (with Shinichi Kajiku and Kanji Kato)

• 琉球諸語の言語調査データのアーカイビング, 第7回デジタルアーカイブ学会研究大会サテライトセッション琉球文化のテキストアーカイビング. (2022/11/23)

• Nominal marking and word order in varieties of the Japonic family, ALT14, 2022. [with Masataka Ogawa]

2021

• 青森県南部野辺地方言の音韻, 『国立国語研究所論集』20, 41-55. (paper)

• 鳩間方言 音声語彙データベース (txt, audio, website) (with Shinichi Kajiku)

• うちなーぐち活用辞典 テキストデータベース (txt) (with Shinsho Miyara)

• 青森県八戸方言調査報告書, 東京: 国立国語研究所 言語変異研究領域. (book) (Ed. by N. Nakagawa & N. Kibe)

• 消滅危機言語の辞書データベースの構築と公開：「鳩間方言 音声語彙データベース」、「うちなーぐち 活用辞典テキストデータベース」の事例報告, 人文学とコンピュータ研究会 Vol.2021-CH-126,No.7,1-6, 2021/5/21 (with Shinichi Kajiku and Shinsho Miyara) [Construction and publication of databases of endangered languages: Cases of The Audio Database of Hatoma Lexicon and Text Database of the Practical Use of Okinawan]

• Contrastive topic =gyaa in Ikema-Nishihara Miyakoan of Southern Ryukyus, Japanese/Korean Linguistics 29: 403-412, 2021/10/9-11. (with Yuka Hayashi)

• An experimental method for eliciting (zero) case-marking in spoken Japonic dialects, JK pre-workshop Data-oriented approaches to meaning in Korean and Japanese, 2021/10/8.

2020

• • 南琉球八重山語白保方言の語彙リスト：名詞を中心に, 『琉球の方言』44, pp.283-306. [with Kenan Celik] (paper)

  • むつ市方言の格と情報構造, 『青森県むつ方言調査報告書』, 51-58. (paper)

  • 鳩間方言辞典, 国立国語研究所. (Written by Shinichi Kajiku, Ed. by Natsuko Nakagawa) (book)

  • Information structure in spoken Japanese: Particles, word order, and intonation. Berlin: Language Science Press. (book)

2019

• • ニホンゴ: 「外」から見た日本語. webjapanese.com [with Tomoyuki Terasaki, Web Japanese, Kouta Aramaki] (amazon.co.jp, amazon.com)

  • 【大会発表賞受賞】琉球八重山白保方言のアクセント体系は三型であって，二型ではない, 日本語学会2019年度春季大会, 2019/5/18. [The Shiraho Dialect of Yaeyama Ryukyuan Has a Three-, not Two-, Pattern Accent System] [with Kenan Celik]

  • Two types of falling word-tone in Shiraho, Yaeyama, Southern Ryukyuan, ICPhS2019 at Melbourne, 2019/8/7. [with Kenan Celik]. (paper)

  • Absolute spatial frames of reference in bilingual speakers of endangered Ryukyuan languages: An assessment via a novel gesture elicitation paradigm, CogSci2019, Montreal, Canada, 2019/7/27. [with Rafael E. Núñez and Kenan Celik]

  • Information structure of relative clause in Japanese and Mandarin, NINJAL-UHM workshop at UHM, 2019/10/13.

  • Archiving system of endangered languages in Japan: A preliminary report, International Conference on Language Technology for All (LT4ALL), Paris, 2019/12/5-6. [with Masahiro Yamada, Kenan Celik, Nobuko Kibe, and Yukinori Takubo] (paper)

  • 木部暢子 (編) 2019. 『明解方言学辞典』, 三省堂. (項目執筆)

2018

• • 『現代日本語書き言葉均衡コーパス』への情報構造アノテーションとその分析. 国立国語研究所論集 16: 19-33. [Construction and Analysis of Information-Structure Annotation of the "Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese"] [with Takuya Miyauchi, Masayuki Asahara, and Sachi Kato] (paper) 

  • Experimental study of inter-language and inter-generational intelligibility: Methodology and case studies of Ryukyuan Languages, The 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, LA, 2018/11/30. [with Masahiro Yamada, Yukinori Takubo, Shoichi Iwasaki, Kenan Celik, Soichiro Harada, Nobuko Kibe, Tyler Lau, Yuto Niinaga, Tomoyo Otsuki, Manami Sato, Rihito Shirata, Gijs van der Lubbe, and Akiko Yokoyama]

  • 竹富島『星砂の話』の絵本制作と一般読者向け文法概要の執筆, 国立国語研究所論集 14: 145-167. [Making the picture book A Tale of Star Sand in Taketomi and writing a grammar sketch for a general audience] [with Masahiro Yamada] (paper)

2017

• • Two topic-related devices in Japanese: Topic particle and word order, Workshop of Beyond Information Structure (The 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea), 09/10/2017.

  • 琉球八重山語白保方言の概観, 白保講座, 白保公民館, 2017/08/22.

  • Information-Structure Annotation of the "Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese", Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, 166-175, 2017/08/16. [with Takuya Miyauchi, Masayuki Asahara, and Sachi Kato]

  • 言語復興の港：コミュニティ参加型の地域言語学習コンテンツ制作・利用プロジェクト, 第104回日本方言研究会, 関西大学, 2017/5/12. [Port Language Revitalization: A project of making language-learning contents with communities] [with Masahiro Yamada, Kayoko Shimoji, Fumi Yamamoto, Akiko Tokunaga-Yokoyama, Yurie Asakawa]

  • 石垣島白保のことば, 「くらべてみよう しまくとぅば」制作委員会『くらべてみよう しまくとぅば』, 沖縄時事出版. [Shiraho Dialect in Ishigaki] (e-book)

  • 『現代日本語書き言葉均衡コーパス』への情報構造アノテーションの分析, 言語資源活用ワークショップ2016, 403-414, 03/08/2017. [Analysis of Annotation of Information Structure on "The Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese"] [with Takuya Miyauchi, Masayuki Asahara, and Sachi Kato] (proceeding)

  • 『現代日本語書き言葉均衡コーパス』への情報構造アノテーションの構築, 言語処理学会第23回年次大会 (NLP2017),  03/15/2017. [Annotation of Information Structure on "The Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese"] [with Takuya Miyauchi, Masayuki Asahara, and Sachi Kato] (proceedings)

2016

• • Topic marker in Shiraho dialect, Yaeyama Ryukyuan. The 24th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Tokyo, 2016/10/15.

  • 八重山語白保方言の文法概説, 狩俣繁久 (Ed.), 『琉球諸語 記述文法II』, 1-60, 03/2016, [A grammar sketch of Shiraho Dialect, Yaeyama Ryukyuan] [with Tyler Lau and Yukinori Takubo] (paper)

  • KY corpus, In Minami, Masahiko (Ed.), Handbook of Japanese Applied Linguistics, 283-312, Boston/Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [with Jae-Ho Lee] (book info)

  • Information structure in spoken Japanese: particles, word order, and intonation, Doctoral dissertation submitted to Kyoto University. (thesis)

  • フィールドに行って何ができるのか？ The 65th SLUD Conference: 36-41, Nozawa, 02/29/2016. [What can we do in the fieldwork?] [with Yasuharu Den] (paper)

2015

• • The Wala Language of Malaita, Solomon Islands, Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia (SLIM) series, Canberra, ACT: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. [with Jesse Lovegren and Alice Mitchell] (book)

  • 宮良方言 (沖縄県石垣市宮良), 小川晋史 (Ed.)『琉球のことばの書き方』, 237-251, 東京: くろしお出版. [Writing system of Miyaran (Yaeyama Ryukyuan)] [with Christopher Davis] (book info)

  • 日本語話し言葉における情報構造と語順. コーパス日本語学ワークショップ, 東京: 17-26. 03/10/2015. [Information structure and word order in spoken Japanese] (proceeding)

  • 琉球八重山語白保方言の音韻. 狩俣繁久 (Ed.)『琉球諸語 記述文法I』, 1-21, 03/2015. [Phonology of Shiraho Dialect, Yaeyama Ryukyuan] [with Tyler Lau and Yukinori Takubo] (paper)

2013

• • 琉球八重山語白保方言の文法概要. 消滅危機方言の調査・保存のための総合研究 共同研究プロジェクト 研究発表会, 東京, 12/23/2013. [Grammar sketch of Shiraho dialect (Ryukyu, Yaeyaman)] [with Tyler Lau and Yukinori Takubo]

  • 音声学. In 劉笑明・劉驫 (Eds.)『音声学: 理論と応用』, 16-44, 天津: 南開大学出版社. 11/2013. [Phonetics.]

  • 白保方言の母音無声化とフット構造の関連についての予備的考察. 琉球諸語記述研究会, Kyushu University, 08/25/2013. [Devoiced vowels and foot structure in Shiraho dialect.]

  • Discourse basis of ergativity in Kansai Japanese. Workshop of Differential Subject Marking and Ergative Phenomena (The 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea), 09/20/2013.

  • A unit of information structure corresponds to a unit of intonation in Japanese. The 13th International Pragmatics Conference, 09/12/2013.

  • Anti-zero pronominalization: when Japanese speakers overtly express omissible topic phrases. The 6th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (Diss 2013): 25-28. 08/22/2013. [with Yasuharu Den] (proceeding)

  • The distribution of zero particles and markedness in Japanese dialects. The 146th conference of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Ibaraki University, Ibaraki: 108-113. 06/15/2013.

  • 日本語話し言葉コーパスを用いた情報構造のタグ付けとその分析方法の提案. The 19th NLP Conference: 862-865, Nagoya University, 2013/03/15. [Annotation of information structure and its analysis with spontaneous Japanese corpus.] (proceeding (draft))

  • Discourse basis of ergativity and accusativity in spoken Japanese dialects. Master thesis submitted to Department of Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo. (paper)

2012

• • Frequency effects of case-markers on focushood: evidence from dialectal difference in Japanese, The 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, NINJAL, Tokyo. 10/13/2012. [with Yo Sato]

  • Two information structural dimensions of zero particles in spoken Japanese, International Workshop on Corpus Linguistics (J/K pre-conference workshop), NINJAL, Tokyo. 10/11/2012. [with Yo Sato]

  • 対話における情報構造と韻律・統語構造の関係の分析, The 65th SLUD Conference: 43-48, Kyoto University, Kyoto. 7/30/2012. [with Yasuharu Den] [The correlation between Information structure and intonational/syntactic structures in Japanese conversation] (proceeding (draft))

  • Annotation of anaphoric relations and topic continuity in Japanese conversation, in The eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC): 179-186, Lütfi Kırdar, Istanbul, Turkey. 5/23/2012. [with Yasuharu Den] (proceeding)

2011

• • Frequency effects on information structure difference: evidence from dialectal difference in Japanese, presented in LAGB, University of Manchester, UK. 09/08/2012. [with Yo Sato]

  • 発話の「短い単位」を構成する動機付け: 情報構造の観点から, The 62th SLUD Conference: 11-16, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kyusyu. 07/22/2011. [Information structural motivations for short utterance-units] (proceeding (draft))

2010

• • 発話の「短い単位」と情報構造の関係の予備的分析, The 59th SLUD Conference: 19-24, Yasuragi Iozima, Nagasaki. 07/22/2010. [with Daisuke Yokomori] [A case study of the relationships between short utterance-units and information structure] (proceeding)

  • The short intonation unit as a vehicle of important topics, Papers in Linguistic Science 16: 111-131 [with Daisuke Yokomori and Yoshihiko Asao]  (paper)

2009

• • トピック・マーカーを利用した談話構造の表示の試み, The 15th NLP Conference: 502-505, Tottori University. 03/04/2009. [with Daisuke Yokomori and Yoshihiko Asao] [A case study for the representation of discourse structure using topic markers in Japanese]

  • Marking continuous topics in Japanese, The 3rd Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. 05/02/2009. [with Daisuke Yokomori and Yoshihiko Asao (slides)

2008

• • 右方転移構文の情報構造とイントネーション, 6th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese, San Francisco State University. 03/02/2008. [with Yoshihiko Asao and Naonori Nagaya] [Information structure and intonation of right-dislocation sentences in Japanese] (proceeding (draft))

  • Light-before-heavy principle in a head-final language: the case of Japanese right-dislocation, Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America, Hilton Chicago, Chicago, USA. 1/4/2008. [with Naonori Nagaya]

  • Information structure and intonation of right-dislocation sentences in Japanese, Kyoto University Linguistic Research 27: 1-22. [with Yoshihiko Asao and Naonori Nagaya] (paper)

  • Difference between literal and metaphorical usage of verb forms in Japanese, Conference on Language, Communication, and Cognition, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK. 08/04/2008. [with Jae-Ho Lee and Yoshihiko Asao]

  • The relationships between phonological size and the role of intonation units in Japanese discourse, 2nd UK Post Graduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics, University of Brighton, Brighton, Brighton. 08/08/2008. [with Daisuke Yokomori and Yoshihiko Asao]

  • Form and function of independent kedo-clauses in Japanese: with special reference to intonation and conversational sequence, Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition, University of Brighton, Brighton, Brighton. 08/06/2008. [with Daisuke Yokomori]

  • ケドの「文末用法」における2つのパターン: 特にイントネーションと会話連鎖に注目して, 21st Conference of JASS, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Tokyo. 03/22/2008. [with Daisuke Yokomori] [Two types of "sentence final" kedo with special attention to intonation and conversational sequence]

2007

• • メンタル・スペース理論における措定文と記述的同定文, Proceedings of the Conference of the Pragmatic Society of Japan 3: 383-386, Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka. 12/08/2007. [Descriptive sentence and descriptionally-identifying sentences in Mental Space Theory]

  • 日本語における右方転移構文と分裂文の機能, The 135th conference of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Shinshu University, Nagano: 

  • 368-373. 11/25/2007. [with Yoshihiko Asao and Naonori Nagaya] [Functions of right-dislocation sentences in Japanese]

2006

• • Reference and metaphor in copular sentences: description of metaphor in terms of Extended Mental Space Theory, Proceedings of the Conference of the Pragmatic Society of Japan 2: 251-254, Momoyama Gakuin University, Osaka. 12/09/2006.