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Research Interests
Research Interests
Phonetics, Phonology
Phonetics, Phonology
Speech prosody
Phonological hierarchy
Syntax-phonology Interface
Downstep in Japanese
Text-to-Speech, Speech Synthesis
Text-to-Speech, Speech Synthesis
Applying linguistic theories to speech synthesis
Education
Education
2022-present
Ph.D. in Engineering, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Expected graduation: 03/2024.
2021 – 2022
Master of Engineering, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Thesis title: Applying Syntax–Prosody Mapping Hypothesis, Prosodic Well-Formedness Constraints, and Boundary-Driven Theory to Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Synthesis.
Committee members: Satoshi Nakamura (chair), Taro Watanabe, Yuichi Sakumura.
Accelerated Master’s Program Completion in 1.5 years
2018 – 2021
Ph.D. in Linguistics, the University of Tokyo
Thesis title: Boundary-Driven Theory and Boundary-Driven Account for Downstep in Japanese.
Committee members: Yuki Hirose (chair), Izabelle Grenon, Yohei Oseki, Haruo Kubozono, Albert Lee.
Expected to receive a Ph.D. in 2023
2016 – 2018
Master of Arts (Linguistics), the University of Tokyo
Thesis title: What factors cause ”stress shift”?
Committee members: Yuki Hirose (chair), Shinichi Tanaka, Izabelle Grenon.
Conducted linguistic experiments at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for one month
email
email
furukawa.kei.fi4[at]is.naaist.jp (please replace " [at] " with "@")
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