Reports

April 2018-March 2019

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2019)
  Existing and non-existing accents: the case of intervocalic /t/ in English. Tohoku Gakuin University Review: Essays and Studies in English and Literature 103, 13–21.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Phillip Backley, Yoshiho Yasugi & Masatoshi Koizumi (2018),
  Challenging universal typology: Right-edge consonantal prominence in Kaqchikel. Journal of Linguistics 56, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226718000488

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2018)
  English sound system (Chapter 10). In Hitoshi Muranoi (ed.), Fundamentals of Elementary School English. Tokyo: Taishukan Shoten, 144–159.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (2018)
  The history of English (Chapter 12). In Hitoshi Muranoi (ed.), Fundamentals of Elementary School English. Tokyo: Taishukan Shoten, 176–188.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2018)
  The phonological shape of morphemes constructed by Merge. Phonological Externalization 3, Sapporo University, 1–8.

April 2017-March 2018

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (2018)
  |H| and |L| have unequal status. Phonological Studies 21, 41–48.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2017)
  The relative salience of consonant nasality and true obstruent voicing. In Geoff Lindsey & Andrew Nevins (eds.), Sonic Signatures: Studies dedicated to John Harris (Language Faculty and Beyond 14). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 146–162.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Phillip Backley & Hitomi Onuma (2017)
  Phonological categories of voice onset time and phonetic compromise in L2 acquisition. In Jiyoung Choi, Hamida Demirdache, Oana Lungu and Laurence Voeltzel (eds.), Language Acquisition at the Interfaces: Proceedings of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) 2015. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 216–231.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2017)
  The phonetic salience of phonological head-dependent structure in a modulated-carrier model of speech. In Bridget Samuels (ed.), Beyond Markedness in Formal Phonology (Linguistik Aktuell 241). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 121–152.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2017)
  Extending the application of Merge to elements in phonological representations. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 21, 59–70.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2017)
  Review: ‘Duanmu San, A Theory of Phonological Features (Oxford Linguistics). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 178.’, Journal of Linguistics 53.2. 449–454. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226716000372

April 2016-March 2017

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (2017)
  Representing moraicity in Precedence-free Phonology. Phonological Studies 20, 55–62.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (2016)
  The origins of Japanese h from an element-based perspective. Papers in Historical Phonology 1: 269–284. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/pihph.1.2016

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2016)
  Phonological recursive merge and Precedence-free Phonology. The State of the Art of Phonology: The Special 20th Anniversary Issue of the Phonological Society of Japan. Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 196–199.

• Onuma, Hitomi (2016)
  The phonological representations of English vowels in Precedence-free Phonology. The State of the Art of Phonology: The Special 20th Anniversary Issue of the Phonological Society of Japan. Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 162–165.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2016)
  A precedence-free approach to (de-)palatalisation in Japanese. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 1(1): 9. 1–21. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.26

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2016)
  Phonetics (Chapter 5). In Masatoshi Koizumi (ed.), Linguistics and Statistical Analysis for Beginners. Tokyo: Kyoritsu Shuppan, 74–82.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2016)
  Phonology (Chapter 6). In Masatoshi Koizumi (ed.), Linguistics and Statistical Analysis for Beginners. Tokyo: Kyoritsu Shuppan, 83–111.

April 2015-March 2016

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (2016)
  The role of elements in the development of Japanese h. Phonological Studies 19, 51–58.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2016)
  A precedence-free approach to palatalisation and de-palatalisation in Japanese. Phonological Externalization 1, Sapporo University, 23–44.

• Onuma, Hitomi (2016)
  Monophthongization and diphthongization in Precedence-free Phonology. Phonological Externalization 1, Sapporo University, 45–61.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2015)
  Recursion in the lexical structure of morphemes. In Marc van Oostendorp & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), Representing Structure in Phonology and Syntax. Berlin and Boston: Mouton de Gruyter, 211–238.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2015)
  Why the palatal glide is not a consonantal segment in Japanese: an analysis in a dependency-based model of phonological primes. In Eric Raimy & Charles Cairns (eds.), The Segment in Phonetics and Phonology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 180–198.

• Katsuo Tamaoka, Kyoko Hayakawa, Michael Patrick Mansbridge, Maria Eduardovna Bulaeva, Kexing Xiong, Masatoshi Koizumi & Kuniya Nasukawa (2015)
  The incrementality of Mayan Kaqchikel phonological encoding: right or leftwards? Open Journal of Modern Linguistics 5, 135–146. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojml.2015.52012.

April 2014-March 2015

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (2015)
  Heads and complements in phonology: a case of role reversal? Phonological Studies 18, 67–74.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (2015)
  Headship as melodic and prosodic prominence. In Amedeo De Dominicis (ed.), pS-prominenceS: Prominences in Linguistics: Proceedings of the International Conference, Department of Human Science and Tourism, University of Tuscia, Viterbo: Disucom Press, 59–75.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2014)
  Features and recursive structure. Nordlyd 41.1. Special issue on Features edited by Martin Krämer, Sandra-Iulia Ronai and Peter Svenonius, 1–19.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2014)
  Syllable (285-286)/ Syllable structure (286-288)/ Open syllable (302)/ Closed syllable (1806)/ Daniel Jones (1125)/ Kenneth Lee Pike (1624)/ Preliminaries to Speech Analysis: The Distinctive Features and Their Correlates, The MIT Press, 1952, (by Roman Jakocson, C. Gunnar M. Fant & Morris Halle) (284-285). In Takeyoshi Sato and Tomiyoshi Maeda (eds.), An Encyclopedia of Japanese Language and Linguistics. Tokyo: Asakura Publishing Co., Ltd.

• Tokizaki, Hisao & Kuniya Nasukawa (2014)
  Tone in Chinese: preserving tonal melody in strong positions. Studies in Chinese Linguistics 35.1, 33–49.

• Onuma, Hitomi, Kuniya Nasukawa & Phillip Backley (2014)
  Place-sensitive VOT values in L2 acquisition. 2014 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Phonology and Morphology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea, 90–93.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.) (2014), Identity Relations in Grammar. Boston and Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Henk van Riemsdijk (2014), Introduction. In Kuniya Nasukawa & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), Identity Relations in Grammar. Boston and Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1–9.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (2014)
  Contrastiveness: the basis of identity avoidance. In Kuniya Nasukawa & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), Identity Relations in Grammar. Boston and Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 13–37.

Presentations

April 2018-March 2019

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (6 March 2019). The place of phonology in the faculty of language. Kyushu University Linguistics Circle. Kyushu Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Backley Phillip (18 February 2019). Phonological heirarchical structure constructed by Merge and weakening processes. The third meeting. Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication, MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Onnason, Okinawa, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (13 February 2019). Lexicalising morpheme-internal phonological structure. The 8th Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables (PHEX8) (grant number 15H03213), Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (17 January 2019). Voicing (VOT) contrasts and L2 acquisition. Seminar, Room 702, Departament de Filologia Catalana, Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació, Universitat de València, València, España.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Phillip Backley & Ikuo Matsuo (4 October 2018). The internal structure of language sounds: an acoustic approach. Seminarier och gästföreläsningar, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, Sweden.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (14 September 2018). The Phonological Structure of Morphemes Constructed by Merge. The 7th Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables (PHEX7) (grant number 15H03213), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (29 August 2018). Phonological evidence for segmental structure: Insights from vowel reduction. Phonology Forum 2018. Higashiyama Campus, Nagoya University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Hitomi Onuma & Phillip Backley (7 August 2018), Hierarchical structure and vowel reduction. The second meeting. Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication, MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas. Lake Biwa Marriott Hotel, Moriyama, Siga, Japan.

• Backley, Phillip (15 June 2018). Elements in prosodic structure. Elements: State of the Art and Perspectives, The University of Nantes, France.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Nancy Kula (15 June 2018). “Epenthetic” consonants in nasal-consonant sequences: Consonant-vowel element interactions. Elements: State of the Art and Perspectives, The University of Nantes, France.

• Onuma, Hitomi (14 June 2018). A precedence-free approach to velar softening. Elements: State of the Art and Perspectives, The University of Nantes, France.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (25 May 2018). Element suppression: dependents are the first to go. The 26th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Onuma, Hitomi & Kuniya Nasukawa (25 May 2018). Velar softening without precedence relations. The 26th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (12 May 2018), Merge and phonological categories. The first meeting. Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication, MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas. University of Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (11 April 2018). Vowel weakening reveals hierarchical segment structure. Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 41. The Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, Hungary.

April 2017-March 2018

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (22 March 2018). VOT production by Japanese L2 learners of English: VOT characteristics and strategies for improvement. Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (7 March 2018). Recursive Merge and phonological features. Tokyo Conference on Evolinguistics. University of Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (17 February 2018). Linearity in phonology. The 6th Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables (PHEX6) (grant number 15H03213), Niigata University, Japan.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (13 January 2018) Segment-internal structure: evidence from vowel reduction. The 15th Old World Conference in Phonology. University College London, University of London, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (26 November 2017). Merging monovalent phonological features recursively. Workshop: Recursive Merge in Phonology, The 155th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

• Onuma, Hitomi (26 November 2017). A precedence-free approach to velar-softening in English. Workshop: Recursive Merge in Phonology, The 155th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

• Tokizaki, Hisao (26 November 2017). Recursive Merge and stress. Workshop: Recursive Merge in Phonology, The 155th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (18 November 2017). Recursive Merge and elements. Government Phonology Roundtable (GPRT) 2017. Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (16 November 2017). Acoustic prominence and phonological head-dependent structure. The Research Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest, Hungary.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (19 September 2017). Asymmetry between the laryngeal primes |H| and |L|. Beyond VOT – searching for realism in laryngeal phonology, The 47th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2017). Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (24 August 2017). |H| and |L| have unequal status. Phonology Forum 2017. Minami-Osawa Campus, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (18 August 2017). Voicing contrasts and pronunciation learning. Summer Course in English Phonetics (SCEP) 2017. University College London, University of London, UK.

• Tokizaki, Hisao (26 July 2017). Deriving word order universals from phonology. Workshop: Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables. 2017 Linguistic Institute: Language across Space and Time, University of Kentucky, USA.

• Onuma, Hitomi (26 July 2017). Velar softening and melodic complexity in English. Workshop: Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables. 2017 Linguistic Institute: Language across Space and Time, University of Kentucky, USA.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (26 July 2017). Phonetic externalisation of head-dependent structure in a modulated-carrier model of speech. Workshop: Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables. 2017 Linguistic Institute: Language across Space and Time, University of Kentucky, USA.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (5 July 2017). Representing domain boundary markers: how and where. The 15th Annual Conference of the French Phonology Network (Réseau Français de Phonologie), The Grenoble Alpes University, France.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (28 June 2017). Learning English and doing linguistics research can be fun! Shaping our Culture. Tohoku Gakuin University.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (26 May 2017). Domain boundary marking is parametric. The 25th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

April 2016-March 2017

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (21 February 2017). The dual role of phonology: generating variation and merging elements. The 4th Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables (PHEX4) (grant number 15H03213), Niigata University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (4 December 2016). Recursive merge in phonology. Workshop: Phonological externalization of morphosyntactic structure, The 153th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Fukuoka University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (17 November 2016). Representing moraicity: the structure of the mora nasal in Japanese. Seminars, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (15 November 2016). The structural and informational roles of heads and dependents in phonology. London Phonology Seminar. University College London, University of London, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (29 September 2016). Moraic segments in syllable-free phonology: the mora nasal in Japanese. International conference "Syllables and syllabification: theoretical approaches and pedagogical applications". University of Poitiers, France.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (13 September 2016). The phonetic realisation of asymmetric relations. The 3rd Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables (PHEX3) (grant number 15H03213), Sapporo University, Sapporo, Japan.

• Onuma, Hitomi (1 September 2016). Element suppression in recursive structure. Workshop: Recursion in Phonology. Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (1 September 2016). Recursion in element-based prosodic structure. Workshop: Recursion in Phonology. Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

• Onuma, Hitomi (1 September 2016). Suppression in element-based recursive structure. Workshop: Recursion in Phonology. Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (25 August 2016). Representing moraicity in Precedence-free Phonology. Phonology Forum 2016. Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (10 July 2016). Stress assignment rules in Paiwan. The Third Meeting of OS2. Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese government (grant number 15H02603), Okinawa International University, Ginowan City, Okinawa, Japan.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (27 May 2016). Melodic primes as prosodic constituents. The 24th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Onuma, Hitomi, Kuniya Nasukawa & Masatoshi Koizumi (27 May 2016). The inherent vowel prime in Fijian. The 24th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

April 2015-March 2016

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (23 February 2016). Aassimilation and dissimilation in Precedence-free Phonology. The 2nd Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables (PHEX2) (grant number 15H03213), Niigata University, Japan.

• Onuma, Hitomi (23 February 2016). Monophthongization and diphthongization in Precedence-free Phonology. The 2nd Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables (PHEX2) (grant number 15H03213), Niigata University, Japan.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (13 January 2016) Conditions on the variable interpretation of |U| in Japanese. The 13th Old World Conference in Phonology. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (3 December 2015). The origins of Japanese h from an element-based perspective. The Second Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, University of Edinburgh, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (13 November 2015). Syllables without constituents: towards melody-prosody integration. The Workshop “Around the syllable: phonetics, phonology and acquisition”, University of Poitiers, France.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (20 September 2015). Features and their physical exponents in signed and spoken languages. Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics Festa (SSLL4) 2015, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Phillip Backley & Hitomi Onuma (11 September 2015). Phonological categories of VOT and phonetic compromise in L2 acquisition. Workshop: Segments & Interactions in Phonological Acquisition, The 12th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 12), University of Nantes, France.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (26 August 2015). Palatal assimilation and dissimilation in Precedence-free Phonology. Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables (PHEX) (grant number 15H03213), Saporo University, Sapporo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (19 August 2015). The role of elements in the development of Japanese h. Phonology Forum 2015. Osaka University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (4 July 2015). The phonology of Truku, Seediq. The First Meeting of OS2. Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese government (grant number 15H02603), Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (30 May 2015). The potential for expressing contrasts is greater in structural complements than in structural heads. The 23nd Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

April 2014-March 2015

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (10 January 2015).The phonological structure of Kaqchikel. A field-based neuroscientific study of the processing of OS-type languages. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (21 December 2014).The phonological structure of Kaqchikel. A field-based neuroscientific study of the processing of OS-type languages. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (5 December 2014). Palatalisation and de-palatalisation in Japanese. Palatalization Conference. University of Tromsø/CASTL, Norway.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Hitomi Onuma & Masatoshi Koizumi (15 November 2014). Epenthetic vowels and the inherent vowel feature in Fijian. The 149th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (5 October 2014). The inherent vowel feature: the case of Fijian. MINPAKU Linguistics Festa 2014, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (25 September 2014). Syllabification issues in Japanese. The 9th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-9), The University of Nantes, France.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (21 August 2014). Heads and complements in phonology: a case of role reversal? Phonology Forum 2014. University of Tokyo, Japan.

• Onuma, Hitomi, Kuniya Nasukawa & Phillip Backley (3 July 2014) Place-of-articulation-sensitive VOT values in L2 acquisition. The 5th International Conference on Phonology and Morphology. Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (11 June 2014). Phonological variation and Universal Grammar: why some dialects exist while others do not. Open Lecture: Strategies for enriching people's lives, TGU Community College, Tagajo, Miyagi, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (29 May 2014). A unified approach to syllabic constituents and phonological primes: no nuclei but features. The 22nd Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Hitomi Onuma & Phillip Backley (27 May 2014). Critical limit of improvement in the L2 acquisition of English VOT. The 10th annual meeting of the Phonology of Contemporary English (PAC10), Montpellier University, France.