Selected Grants

Kuniya Nasukawa

...exploring new approaches to familiar issues in phonology. Here you can access a sample of papers which take a restrictive view of phonological representations and processes.

2022-2026

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 22K00513 2022–2026

Constructing phonological representation and deriving phonetic externalisation: investigating a unified mechanism of phonology, morphology and syntax

Principal investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa
Co-investigator:
Phillip Backley

2020-2021

Evaluating the use of Merge and hierarchical structure in phonology

Principal investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2019-2023

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 19H00532 2019–2023

    Principal investigator: Mitsuru Makuuchi
    Co-investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2019-2023

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 19H05589 2019–2023

A field-based cognitive neuroscientific study of the sentence and discourse processing of OS-type languages

Principal investigator: Masatoshi Koizumi
Co-investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2018-2019

On the feasibility of using recursive structure derived by Merge in the phonological domain

Principal investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2015-2019

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 15H02603 2015–2019

A field-based psycholinguistic study of the discourse processing of OS-type languages

Principal investigator: Masatoshi Koizumi
Co-investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2015-2019

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 15H03213 2015–2019

Phonological externalization of morphosyntactic structure: universals and variables

Principal investigator: Hisao Tokizaki
Co-investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2014-2018

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 26284067 2014–2018

Phonological recursion and the place of phonology in the Minimalist Program

Principal investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2010-2014

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 22320090 2010–2014

Investigating Minimalist phonological representations and the system of phonological acquisition

Principal investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2010-2014

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 22222001 2010–2014

A field-based cognitive neuroscientific study of the processing of OS-type languages

Principal investigator: Masatoshi Koizumi
Co-investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa


2009-2011

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 21320078 2009–2011

The acquisition of English article use and tense by Japanese learners after the sensitive period

Principal investigator: Noriaki Yusa
Co-investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa


2007-2009

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 19520429 2007–2009

A study of minimalist phonological representations and universal principles

Principal investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2004-2009

  • Brain-Science and Education, Type II, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). 2004–2009
    Integrated studies on language acquisition, brain development and language education

Principal investigator: Hiroko Hagiwara
Research Collaborator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2006-2008

  • Faculty Research Grant for Improvement in Teaching and Learning Strategies 2006–2008
    A phonetically-based instruction for improving language comprehension and production

Principal investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2004-2006

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)(2), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 16520254 2004–2006

A minimalist view of components in generative grammar

Principal investigator: Jun Abe
Co-investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2004-2006

  • Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 16520254 2004–2006

Investigating new phonological representations based on the minimalist approach

Principal investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2002-2003

  • Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 14710345 2002–2003

A synthetic study of minimization in the phonological module

Principal investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa

2000-2001

  • GrGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)(2), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. No. 11410121 2000–2001

Minimalization of each module in generative grammar

Principal investigator: Jun Abe
Co-investigator: Kuniya Nasukawa