Publications
to appear ----
Nambu, S. to appear. Variations in Japanese subject and object case markers: A quantitative approach using the Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversations. In Yoshiki Ogawa (ed.), Theories of Morphological Case and Topic/Focus: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change in Japanese, English and Bantu. Palgrave.
Sano, S., S. Nambu, & K. Heffernan. to appear. Corpus linguistic approaches to contemporary Japanese data. In Kazuko Matsumoto, Heiko Narrog, John Maher, and Mie Hiramoto (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Japanese Language. Oxford University Press.
Nambu, Satoshi. to appear. ‘English signage shaping Tokyo’s mosaic cityscape: The roles of English in the linguistic landscape. English Today (pre-final draft)
2024 ----
Willoughby, Louisa, Satoshi Nambu, and Barbara Pezzotti. 2024. One Cohort or Two? Enjoyment, Anxiety and Study Behaviours among Intermediate Language Learners. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Online first. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.23063.wil (pre-final draft)
Nambu, Satoshi, and Mitsuko Ono. 2024. Linguistic landscape of Shin-Ōkubo, Tokyo: A comparative study of Koreatown and Islamic Street. International Journal of Multilingualism. online first. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2024.2344181 Open access download the article
Iwabuchi, T., S. Nambu, K. Nakatani, & M. Makuuchi. 2024. Brain mechanisms for the processing of Japanese subject-marking particles wa, ga, and no. In Masataka Koizumi (ed.), Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives. (Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics Series), p.163-182. De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778939-009 (Link to the pdf)
2023 ----
Trowell, Haydn, and Satoshi Nambu. 2023. ‘Pseudo-Dialect’ or ‘Role Language’? Speech Varieties in Three Japanese Translations of Gone with the Wind. Journal of Japanese Linguistics 39 (2), 237-260. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2023-2014 (pre-final draft)
Nambu, Satoshi, and Kentaro Nakatani. 2023. An experimental study of the adjacency constraint on the genitive subject in Japanese. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9509 Open access - download the article
Nambu, Satoshi. 2023. A quantitative study on zero copula in Japanese. Language Sciences 96. Link to the article in the journal doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101534 (pre-final draft)
2022 ----
Nambu, Satoshi, David Y. Oshima, and Shin-ichiro Sano. 2022. The nominative-to-accusative shift in Japanese: Diachronic and synchronic considerations. Journal of Japanese Linguistics 38(2), 161-191. https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2057 (pre-final draft)
Nambu, S. 2022. Kopyura no shutsugen hishutugen ni okeru gengo henka ni tsuite. [Linguistic Change in the use/non-use of copula in Japanese]. In Koopasu kara wakaru gengo henka/hen'i to gengo riron 3 [A corpus-based approach to linguistic change/variation and theory 3], edited by Yoshiki Ogawa and Toshihide Nakayama, p.387-400. Kaitakusha.
2021 ----
Nambu, Satoshi. 2021. Linguistic Landscape of immigrants in Japan: A case study of Japanese Brazilian communities. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2021.2006200 (pre-final draft)
2020 ----
Nambu, S., S. Sano, and D. Y. Oshima. 2020. The nominative-to-accusative shift in modern Japanese: A diachronic observation. In Proceedings of the 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference [online/electronic version only]. Stanford: CSLI. (link to their website)
Nambu, S. 2020. Zero Copula in Japanese: Learners’ Use and Attitude. In ICU Working papers in linguistics Vol10: Festschrift for Prof. Junko Hibiya in the occasion of her retirement from ICU, edited by Céleste Guillemot, Shinichiro Sano and Seunghun J. Lee, p.65-72. (link)
2019 ----
Nambu, Satoshi. 2019. Japanese subject markers in linguistic change: A quantitative analysis of data spanning 90 years and its theoretical implications, Linguistics 57(5), 1217-1238. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2019-0018 (erratum1, erratum2) (pre-final draft)
Lee, Yong-cheol, Satoshi Nambu, and Sunghye Cho. 2019. Dataset of focus prosody in Japanese phone numbers. Data in Brief 25; 104139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104139
Nambu, S. & S. Sano. 2019. Ga/o kootai no teiryooteki bunseki [A quantitative study on Ga/o alternation]. In Koopasu kara wakaru gengo henka/hen'i to gengo riron 2 [A corpus-based approach to linguistic change/variation and theory 2], edited by Yoshiki Ogawa, p.289-304. Kaitakusha.
2018 ----
Nambu, Satoshi, Hyun Kyung Hwang, David Y. Oshima, and Masashi Nomura. 2018. The nominative/accusative alternation in Japanese and information structure, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 27(2), 141-171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-018-9169-1 (pre-final draft)
Lee, Yong-cheol, Satoshi Nambu, and Sunghye Cho. 2018. Focus prosody of telephone numbers in Tokyo Japanese, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143(5), EL340-346. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5037360
Asahara, M., S. Nambu, and S. Sano. 2018. Predicting Japanese Word Order in Double Object Constructions. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning and Processing, p.36-40. Association for Computational Linguistics. (link)
Ishihara, S., Y. Kitagawa, S. Nambu, and H. Ono. 2018. Non-focal prominence. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL13), edited by Céleste Guillemot, Tomoyuki Yoshida, and Seunghun Lee. Cambridge, MA : MITWPL. p. 243–254. (MIT Working Papers in Linguistics; Vol. 88) (semi-final draft: pdf)
2017 ----
Yoshimoto, M., S. Nambu, & H. Ono. 2017. Evaluating individual reading time differences through a psychological measure. In Proceedings of Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language and Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Tokyo, Japan. (semi-final draft: pdf)
Clothier, K., S. Nambu, H. Ono, & A. Omaki. 2017. Cross-situational learning of novel anaphors. CogSci 2017 Proceedings, p.228-233. (pdf)
Nambu, S. 2017. BOOK REVIEW: "Kim Jihyun, Nikkan taishou kenkyu niyoru wa to ga to mujoshi, Hitsuji Shobo 2016" [Jihyun Kim A Contrastive Study of ʻWaʼ, ʻGaʼ and No particles in Japanese and Korean. Hituzi Syobo. 2016], The Japanese Journal of Language in Society, Vol. 20 No.1, 187-189.
2016 ----
Nambu, S. 2016. Juuzokusetsu no shugo hyooji "ga" to "no" no heni [Variants ga and no for embedded subject markers ga and no]. In SP-ban enzetsu rekoodo ga hiraku nihongo kenkyu [Exploring 78rpm record archives for Japanese language research], edited by Masao Aizawa and Hiroyuki Kanazawa, p.155-172. Kasama Shoin.
Nambu, S. & H. K. Hwang. 2016. Prosodic Focus and Nominative/Accusative Alternation in Japanese. In Proceedings of the 23rd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference [online/electronic version only], edited by Michael Kenstowicz, Theodore Levin, and Ryo Masuda. Stanford: CSLI. [available from their website: https://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/ja-ko-contents/JK23/24Nambu-Hwang.pdf]
Nambu, S. 2016. (submitted in 2010). A quantitative analysis of the nominative/genitive alternation in Japanese. In Proceedings of BLS 36, edited by Nicholas Rolle, Jeremy Steffman, and John Sylak-Glassman, p.292-306. Berkeley Linguistic Society. (semi-final draft: pdf)
2015 ----
Lee, Y.-C. & S. Nambu. 2015. Semantic functions of always and only in Korean: Evidence from prosody. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 21, edited by Seungho Nam, Heejeong Ko, and Jongho Jun, p.155-168. Stanford: CSLI. (semi-final draft: pdf)
Lee, Y.-C., B. Wang, S. Chen, M. Adda-Decker, A. Amelot, S. Nambu, & M. Liberman. 2015. A crosslinguistic study of prosodic focus. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), 4754-4758. (pdf)
2014 ----
Nambu, Satoshi., Yoshiyuki. Asahi, & Masao Aizawa. 2014. Gagyoo bion-no suitai katee-to sono yooin-ni-tsuite --Sapporo-to Furano-no gengochoosa deeta-o riyooshite -- [On the Change of the Allophones of /g/: Using data from sociolinguistic surveys in Sapporo and Furano]. NINJAL Research Papers 7. NINJAL, Tokyo, Japan. (written in Japanese, pdf)
Nambu, S. & K. Nakatani. 2014. An experimental study on adjacency and nominative/genitive alternation in Japanese. In Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 7, edited by Shigeto Kawahara and Mika Igarashi, p.131-142. MITWPL. (semi-final draft: pdf)
2013 ----
Nambu, S. 2013. Nominative/genitive alternation in Japanese: Theoretical implications of a quantitative study. In NELS 41: Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, edited by Yelena Fainleib, Nicholas LaCara, and Yangsook Park, 41-54. Amherst, MA.: GLSA. (semi-final draft: pdf)
Nambu, S. 2013. A choice of the interpretations of the case particle -no in Japanese. In Working Papers from NWAV Asia-Pacific 2, Tokyo, Japan 2012. (pdf)
2012 ----
Nambu, S. 2012. Japanese genitive subjects: A comparison with Uyghur. In Proceedings of Glow in Asia for Young Scholars, edited by Koichi Otaki, Hajime Takeyasu, and Shin-ichi Tanigawa, p.217-231. Mie University, Japan. (pdf)
Yoda, Y. & S. Nambu. 2012. A cartographic approach to nominative/genitive conversion in Japanese. In Proceedings of Glow in Asia for Young Scholars, edited by Koichi Otaki, Hajime Takeyasu, and Shin-ichi Tanigawa, p.336-350. Mie University, Japan. (pdf)
Lee, Y.-C. & S. Nambu. 2012. Prosody and semantics of the focus particles always and only in Korean: Theoretical implications from a perception experiment. In Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 18.1: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, edited by Josef Fruehwald, p.151-159. (pdf)
2011 ----
Nambu, S & Y.-C. Lee. 2011. Phonetic realization of focus particles always and only in Korean: Theoretical implications of association with focus. In Proceedings of the thirty-ninth Western Conference On Linguistics: WECOL 2010, edited by Dina Bailey and Victoria Teliga, p.169-180. California State University, Fresno. (semi-final draft: pdf)
2010 ----
Lee, Y.-C. & S. Nambu. 2010. Focus-sensitive operator or focus Inducer: Always and Only. Interspeech 2010, p.130-133. Makuhari, Japan. (pdf)
Nambu, S. & Y.-C. Lee. 2010. Phonetic realization of second occurrence focus in Japanese. Interspeech 2010, p.1744-1747. Makuhari, Japan. (pdf)
2008 ----
Matsuda, K., Y. Usui, S. Nambu, & H. Okada. 2008. Kokkaikaigiroko wa dorehodo hatugen ni tyujitu ka [How much is the Minutes of Japanese Diet faithful to speech?]. Kokkaikaigiroku o tukatta nihongo kenkyu [Research on Japanese using the Minutes of Japanese Diet], edited by Kenjiro Matsuda. Chapter 2, p.33-62 Hitsuji Shobo
Nambu, S. 2008. Ga/No kootai ni okeru kojinnaihenka no kenkyu [Research on the change of Ga/No conversion in Individuals]. Kokkaikaigiroku o tukatta nihongo kenkyu [Research on Japanese using the Minutes of Japanese Diet], edited by Kenjiro Matsuda. Chapter 6, p.135-157. Hitsuji Shobo.
2007 ----
Nambu, Satoshi. 2007. Reconsideration of ga/no conversion based on a quantitative analysis. Gengo Kenkyu 131; 115-149. doi: https://doi.org/10.11435/gengo.131.0_115 (written in Japanese, pdf)
Nambu, S. & K. Matsuda. 2007. Change and variation in ga/no conversion in Tokyo Japanese. Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected Papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, edited by J. C. Salmons & S. Dubenion-Smith, p.119-131. (semi-final draft: pdf)