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
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication. No. 20H05007 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
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese government. Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication. No. 18H05081 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