2025
Nambu, S. Linguistic landscapes of Japan: Understanding multilingualism in immigrant communities. The biannual conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, University of New England, Australia.
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2024
Nambu, S. Immigrant languages in Japan: Exploring strategies by schools and governments. The 15th Linguistic Landscape Workshop, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Willoughby, L, S. Nambu, & B. Pezzotti. One cohort or two? Enjoyment, anxiety and study behaviours among intermediate language learners in tertiary language class. LCNAU, Australian National University.
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2023
Nambu, S. Ongoing linguistic changes in Japanese: A quantitative study using the Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation. The biannual conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia.
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2022
Naoe, T., S. Nambu, A. Suzuki, H. Koiso, & M. Makuuchi. Relationship between autistic tendency and the use of the final particle "yo" and "ne" in daily conversation among native speakers of Japanese: A study using Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation. Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences.
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2021
Nambu, S. Linguistic landscape and Japanese Brazilians as return migrants in Japan. The annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society.
Trowell, H. & S. Nambu. A comparison of three translations of Gone with the Wind: A study on the recognition of dialects and role language based on a questionnaire survey. Osaka University, Role language research meeting.
Iwabuchi, T., S. Nambu, K. Nakatani, & M. Makuuchi. Brain mechanisms for the processing of Japanese syntactic particles wa, ga, and no. International symposium on issues in Japanese psycholinguistics from comparative perspectives.
Yao, X. & S. Nambu. Multilingual official signs in the linguistic landscapes of Japanese Brazilian communities. British Association for Applied Linguistics 2021 Conference.
Trowell, H. & S. Nambu. Change in language ideology and dialectal features in three Japanese translations of Gone with the Wind. Monash University Japanese Studies Center Seminar.
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2020
Nambu, S. & K. Nakatani. Intervention effects on the processing of genitive subjects in Japanese. Online conference for Technical Committee on Thought and Language.
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2019
Oshima D. Y. & S. Nambu. 2019. Iwayuru "shudai no wa" o tomonau mokutekigo ni tsuite [On objects with so called "topic wa"]. The 44th meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society, Kansai University, Japan.
Nambu, S. 2019. Da-deletion in Japanese: Zero form as the conservative variant in an ongoing change, The biannual conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, Monash University, Australia.
Nambu, S. 2019. Gap between Post-VCE and Post-Introductory-Level Students in a Japanese Intermediate Class. In a panel session "The Trajectories of Japanese Language Learners: Exploring the Links between VCE, Higher Education, Employment Opportunities and Motivation", The biannual conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, Monash University, Australia.
Nambu, S. 2019. Linguistic Landscape and immigrants: A case study of Japanese-Brazilian communities in Japan. XIScape (The 11th Linguistic Landscape Workshop) 2019, Bangkok, Thailand.
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2018
Nambu, S., S. Sano, & D. Y. Oshima. 2018. The nominative-to-accusative shift in modern Japanese: A diachronic observation. The 26th meeting of Japanese/Korean Linguistics, UCLA, CA, U.S.A.
Asahara, M., S. Nambu, & S. Sano. 2018. Predicting Japanese Word Order in Double Object Constructions. Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning and Processing in the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Melbourne, Australia.
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2017
Yoshimoto, M., S. Nambu, & H. Ono. 2017. Evaluating individual reading time differences through a psychological measure. Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language and Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Tokyo, Japan.
Clothier, K., S. Nambu, H. Ono, & A. Omaki. 2017. Cross-situational learning of novel anaphors. 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK.
Ishihara, S., Y. Kitagawa, S. Nambu, and H. Ono. 2017. Non-focal prominence. Satellite Workshop in WAFL 13. International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.
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2016
Nambu, S. 2016. On the Process of Syntactic Change: A Case from Subject Markers in the Standard Variety of Japanese. Sociolinguistics Symposium 21. University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
Nambu, S., D. Y. Oshima, M. Nomura, & H. K. Hwang. 2016. The Nominative/Accusative Alternation in Japanese and Information Structure. FAJL 8. Mie University, Mie, Japan.
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2015
Nambu, S.2015. Taisho-ShowaZenki no Ga/No kootai ni kansuru koopasu o mochiita kenkyu [A Study on Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Taisho - early Showa era Using Corpus]. The 150th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Daito Bunka University, Tokyo, Japan.
Sano, S. & S. Nambu 2015. Koopasu o mochiita gendainohongo niokeru Ga/O kootai no jisshooteki kenkyu. [An Empirical Study on Nominative/Accusative Alternation in Modern Japanese Using Corpus]. The 150th meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. Daito Bunka University, Tokyo, Japan.
Nambu, S. & K. Nakatani 2015. Workshop "Ga/No kootai o meguru shomondai" [Issues on Ga/No Conversion]. The 40th meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society. Kobe University, Hyogo, JAPAN.
Lee, Y.-C., B. Wang, S. Chen, M. Adda-Decker, A. Amelot, S. Nambu, and M. Liberman. 2015. A crosslinguistic study of prosodic focus. 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015, Brisbane, Australia.
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2014
Nambu, S. & K. Nakatani. 2014. An experimental study on adjacency and nominative/genitive alternation in Japanese. FAJL 7. ICU, Tokyo, Japan.
Nambu, S., Y. Asahi, & M. Aizawa. 2014. Change of Allophones of /g/ in Japanese: A quantitative analysis based on large-scale surveys. NWAV Asia-Pacific 3. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
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2013
Nambu, S. & H.K. Hwang. 2013. Prosodic Focus and Nominative/Accusative Alternation in Japanese. The 23rd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. MIT, U.S.A.
Nambu, S. & K. Nakatani. 2013. Effects of Adjacency on Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Japanese. Kansai Circle of Psycholinguistics, Konan University, Kobe, Japan.
Nambu, S., Y. Asahi, & M. Aizawa. 2013. On the Change of the Allophones of /g/: Using data from a large-scale survey in Sapporo and Furano. NINJAL Salon at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan.
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2012
Nambu, S. 2012. A Choice of the Interpretations of the Case Particle -no in Japanese. NWAV Asia-Pacific 2. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan.
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2011
Nambu, S. 2011. Ongoing Change of a Syntactic Variation: Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Japanese. NWAV 40. Georgetown University, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
Lee, Y.-C. & S. Nambu. 2011. Semantic functions of always and only in Korean: Evidence from prosody. The 21st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. Seoul National Univerisity, Korea.
Nambu, S. 2011. A Choice in Syntactic Variation: Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Japanese. Structural Alternations: Speaker and Hearer Perspectives. University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Nambu, S. 2011. Japanese genitive subjects: A comparison with Uyghur. Glow in Asia for Young Scholars. Mie University, Japan.
Nambu, S. & Y. Yoda. 2011. A Cartographic Approach to Nominative/Genitive Conversion in Japanese. Glow in Asia for Young Scholars. Mie University, Japan.
Lee, Y.-C. & S. Nambu. 2011. Prosody and semantics of the focus particles always and only in Korean: Theoretical implications from a perception experiment. PLC 35. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. U.S.A.
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2010
Nambu, S. & Y.-C. Lee. 2010. Phonetic realization of focus particles always and only in Korean: Theoretical implications of association with focus. WECOL. California State University, Fresno, U.S.A.
Nambu, S. 2010. Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Japanese: Theoretical Implications of a Quantitative Study. NELS 41. University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Lee, Y.-C. & S. Nambu. 2010. Focus-sensitive Operator or Focus Inducer: Always and Only. Interspeech 2010. Makuhari, Japan.
Nambu, S. & Y.-C. Lee. 2010. Phonetic Realization of Second Occurrence Focus in Japanese. Interspeech 2010. Makuhari, Japan.
Nambu, S. 2010. A Quantitative Analysis of the Nominative/Genitive Alternation in Japanese. The 36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Japan.
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Invited Talks & Lectures
Nambu, S. 2024. (Socio)linguistics and Japanese. Meiji University, Japan.
Nambu, S. 2024. Immigrant languages on signs and bulletins in schoolscape in Japan. RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Nambu, S. 2019. Linguistic Landscape and Immigrants: A Case Study of Japanese-Brazilian Communities in Japan. University of Tokyo, Japan.
Nambu, S. 2019. Change in the Use of Zero Copula ("Da"-deletion) in Japanese. University of Tokyo, Japan.
Nambu, S. 2019. Nominative/Accusative Alternation in Japanese. Invited talk and tutorials at Tohoku University, Japan.
Nambu, S. 2019. Copula deletion in Japanese. Invited talk and tutorials at Nagoya University, Japan.
Nambu, S. 2015. Linguistic Data. (3 lectures; Corpus, Statistics, Linguistic Research). Invited lectures at Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan.
Nambu, S. 2015. Factors on case marker alternations in Japanese. Research Institute National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Saitama, Japan
Nambu, S. 2013. On the use of case particles in Japanese: Corpus-based and Experimental studies. Invited Talk at Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
Nambu, S. 2012. Sociolinguistics: Language variation and change. Lecture at Asahi Culture Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Nambu, S. 2012. How to use Rbrul. Invited lecture at International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.