Selected Presentations

 Forthcoming

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2024). The auditory and visual channels in the faculty of language. Restrictive Phonology Research Group.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2024). TBA. Restrictive Phonology Research Group.

 2024

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2024). ...

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (24 February 2024). A PfP approach to the Domain-Final Empty Nucleus Parameter. The 15th Workshop on Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Theory, Typology and History (PHEX15), Tokyo Woman's Christian University + Online, Japan.

 2023

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (23 November 2023). Hierarchical Organization and Precedence in Phonology.  Workshop on Sequencing in Phonology (SIP), University of Tromsø, Norway.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (7 October 2023). Phonological categories and suprasegmental structure. The 14th Workshop on the Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure (PHEX14), Sapporo University, Sapporo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (22 August 2023). The formal status of ‘syllable’ and ‘mora’. Special session: Revisiting Japanese syllable and mora. Phonology Forum 2023. Shinjuku Campus, Mejiro University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (23 June 2023). Representing tones without precedence relations. Government Phonology Roundtable (GPRT) 2023. Department of Comparative and General Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (11 June 2023). Phonological structure and phonetic externalisation. The 48th Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society, Online. 

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Shin-ichi Tanaka (26 May 2023). Vowel metathesis without precedence relations. The 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting,  University of Manchester, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (20 May 2023). Phonetic realisation of morpheme-internal properties. Symposium: Some issues on determining word order, The 95th Meeting of The English Literary Society of Japan, Kannai Campus, Kanto Gakuin University, Japan.

• Onuma, Hitomi & Kuniya Nasukawa (7 March 2023). Representing syllabic consonants. The 18th Phonology Festa, Online.   

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (12 February 2023). Stress assignment and linear order in English affixation. The 13th Workshop on the Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure (PHEX13), Online (hosted in Sapporo, Japan).  

 2022

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Shin-ichi Tanaka (6 September 2022). Challenging a widely-accepted account of vowel metathesis in Nagoya Japanese with no reference to precedence. Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), Online.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Ge Song & Sachiko Kiyama (11 August 2022). The duration of an utterance-final particle and autism spectrum. Symposium: Linguistic functions and ASD, Tohoku University.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (26 May 2022). Representing nasal vowels in Precedence-free Phonology. The 29th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Online.

• [CANCELLED] Liu, Xiaoxi, Faith Chiu, Nancy Kula & Kuniya Nasukawa (25–27 May 2022). On the role of tone in explaining final nasal patterns in Beijing Mandarin: Evidence from production and perception. The 29th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Online.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Nancy Kula (13 February 2022) A PfP Approach to Vowel Height Harmony and ATR Harmony. The 12th Workshop on the Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure (PHEX12), Online (hosted in Sapporo, Japan). 

 2021

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (05 December 2021) Asymmetric properties and phonetic realisation. The 1st Public Lecture on the Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure (PHEX), Online (hosted in Sapporo, Japan).

• Kiyama, Sachiko, Ge Song & Kuniya Nasukawa (13 October 2021). Autistic traits correlate with the duration of an utterance-final particle as a social marker in Japanese. The 12th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (Exling 2021), Athens, Greece.

• Lupsa, Cornelia D., Noriaki Yusa, Jungho Kim, Kuniya Nasukawa, Masatoshi Koizumi & Hiroko Hagiwara (12 September 2021). Effects of annual quantity of second language input on pronunciation in EFL environments. International Symposium on Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives (IJPCP 2021), Online.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Nancy Kula (10 July 2021). Vowel Height harmony and ATR harmony in Precedence-free Phonology. The nineth meeting. Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication, MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas. Online (hosted by University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Japan).

• Kim, Yuni, Bert Botma, Florian Breit, Faith Chiu, Natalia Hernández, Nancy Kula & Kuniya Nasukawa (28 May 2021). Nasal shielding and the non-phonological status of voicing in Amuzgo. The 28th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Online.

• Kula, Nancy & Kuniya Nasukawa (27 May 2021). An integrated approach to Vowel Height harmony and ATR harmony. The 28th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Online.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (24 February 2021). Externalisation of phonological hierarchical structure and derivational structure. The seventh meeting. Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication, MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas. Online (hosted by University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Japan).

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (13 February 2021). Stress assignment in Precedence-free Phonology. The 11th Workshop on the Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure (PHEX11), Online (hosted in Sapporo, Japan).

2020

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Shin-ichi Tanaka, Phillip Backley & Hitomi Onuma (06 June 2020). A unified approach to structure building in syntax and phonology. The fourth meeting. Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication, MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas. University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Phillip Backley & Hitomi Onuma (06 June 2020). Tonal representations in hierarchical phonological structure. The fourth meeting. Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication, MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas. University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (15 February 2020). Nasality and laryngeal representations in Precedence-free Phonology. The 10th Workshop on the Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables (PHEX10) (grant number 15H03213), University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Tokyo, Japan

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (08 January 2020). Analysing the asymmetry between nasality and voicing: A precedence-free approach. Workshop of Nasality and Laryngeal Representations in Phonology. University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

2019

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (14 December 2019). Asymmetric properties in phonology. Workshop: Relational properties in phonology, Tohoku Gakuin University.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (22 November 2019). Recursive structure constructed by phonological primes. Recursivity in Phonology Below and Above the Word (RecPhon2019), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, España.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (17 November 2019). Phonological properties in developmental disorders. Workshop: Analysing language disorders using cartography, The 159th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Nagoya Gakuin University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (9 November 2019). Structural uniformity in phonology and phonetic variation by externalisation. Workshop: Reconsidering language variety from an externalization point of view, The 37th Meeting of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (4 November 2019). Structural uniformity in phonology and phonetic variation. The Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (16 September 2019). Universal phonological structure and parametric realisation. The 9th Workshop on the Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables (PHEX9) (grant number 15H03213), Sapporo L Plaza, Sapporo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (14 July 2019). Phonological variation under externalisation. The Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (30 June 2019). Sentence-final particles in Japanese: a phonological analysis. The first meeting (grant number 19H00532), Tohoku University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (14 June 2019). Phonetic linearisation of morpheme-internal phonological structure. Government Phonology Roundtable (GPRT) 2019. University of Vienna, Austria.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (24 May 2019). Nasality and voicing in a modulated-carrier model of speech. The 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (20-21 April 2019). Phonological heirarchical structure and externalisation. Keio Linguistics Colloquium. The Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

• 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 the 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.

2018

• 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 the 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 the 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.

2017

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

2016

• 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 the Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables (PHEX3) (grant number 15H03213), Sapporo University, Sapporo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (1 September 2016). Recursion in element-based prosodic 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.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (23 February 2016). Assimilation and dissimilation in Precedence-free Phonology. The 2nd Workshop on the 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.

2015

• 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 the Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables (PHEX) (grant number 15H03213), Sapporo 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.

• 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.

2014

• 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. Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics Festa (SSLL3) 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.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (11 February 2014).　Why the palatal glide is not a consonant in Japanese. Sapporo University Linguistic Circle, Sapporo University, Sapporo, Japan.

2013

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (12 December 2013). Headship as melodic and prosodic prominence. pS-prominenceS: Prominence in Linguistics, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (5 December 2013). Place of articulation and changes in VOT values in L2 acquisition. The 17th English in South East Asia (ESEA 2013) Conference. Research Management & Innovation Complex, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (1 December 2013). The relation between linguistic competence and the auditory/visual channels. Anthropological Studies of Materiality. MINPAKU (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) Seminar Linguistics in Daily Life Language Disorders and Linguistics. Nippon Foundation Hall, The Nippon Zaidan Building, Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (9 November 2013). Features and recursive structure in phonology. Phonology 2013, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (31 October 2013). Features and recursive structure. Features in Phonology, Morphology, Syntax and Semantics: What are They? University of Tromsø/CASTL, Norway.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (22 August 2013). Representing prosodic prominence. Phonology Forum 2013. Sapporo Gakuin University, Sapporo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (20 August 2013). Recursion in melodic structure. Workshop: New Perspectives in Element Theory, Sapporo Gakuin University, Sapporo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (29 July 2013). Syllable structure in English, Japanese and Kaqchikel II. The 31st Lecture for the Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language Certificate Program, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (23 June 2013). Frication in Kaqchikel. The Seventh Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese government (grant number 22222001), Kinki University, Higashiosaka, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (30 May 2013). Syllable structure in English, Japanese and Kaqchikel I. The 26th Lecture for the Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language Certificate Program, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (24 May 2013). L as the only laryngeal source property in Tokyo Japanese. The 21th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (16 March 2013). Representations, computations and interfaces. Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP). University of Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (18 January 2013). The multiple role of features in representations. CUNY Conference on the feature in phonology and phonetics, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (17 January 2013). Prosodic markers under parametric control. The 10th Old World Conference in Phonology. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. 

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (17 January 2013). Pitch accent in Tokyo Japanese: an L-based analysis. The 10th Old World Conference in Phonology. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. 

2012

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (9 December 2012). Syllable structure in Kaqchikel. Workshop: Human Language Design from an OS languages perspective, Hiroshima University, Higashi Hiroshima, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Yoshiho Yasugi & Masatoshi Koizumi (24 November 2012). Prosodic boundary markers and phonological structure in Kaqchikel. The 145th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (13 November 2012). Aspiration and syllable structures. The Phonological Society of Bantu Languages. Osaka University, Minoo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (22 September 2012). Phonological rules and representations in relation to morphology and the lexicon. Morphology and Lexicon Forum (MLF) 2012. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Yoshiho Yasugi & Masatoshi Koizumi (6 September 2012). Aspiration and prosodic structure in Kaqchikel. LAGB Meeting 2012. University of Salford, Manchester, UK.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa  (20 August 2012). The role of L in the pitch accent system of Tokyo Japanese. Phonology Forum 2012. Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (16 June 2012). Tonal features in Japanese. Workshop: Accent-bearing Units and Tonal Features, The 144th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (25 May 2012). The segment in monostratal phonology. The 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting: Twentieth anniversary meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (23 May 2012). Segmental complexity through recursion. The mfm Fringe Meeting on Segmental Architecture, University of Manchester, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (15 March 2012). Recursion in phonology. Sapporo University Linguistic Circle, Sapporo University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (13 March 2012). Recursion in intra-morphemic phonology. Workshop: Language and the Brain. The 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang IX), Kyoto, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (21 January 2012). The phonology of English past tense. Workshop: Some Issues on Acquisition of English Tense by Japanese L2 Learners of English, Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (11 January 2012). The segment in monostratal phonology. CUNY Conference on the segment, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA.

2011

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Yoshiho Yasugi, Lolmay Pedro García Matzar, Juan Esteban Ajsivinac Sián & Masatoshi Koizumi (17 December 2011). The phonetics and phonology of Kaqchikel. Workshop: Language Comprehension, Production and Acquisition in Kaqchikel, Nanairo no Kaze, Oita, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (8 December 2011). The foot: an integrated approach for phonological phenomena. Sapporo University Linguistic Circle, Sapporo University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (9 September 2011). The phonological representation of NC sequences in Lungu. LAGB Meeting 2011. University of Manchester, UK.

• Onuma, Hitomi & Kuniya Nasukawa (8 September 2011). No resyllabification in morphological formation: the case of the English lateral. LAGB Meeting 2011. University of Manchester, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (24 August 2011). Prosody controls melody. Phonology Forum 2011. Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (1 July 2011). Eliminating precedence relations from phonological representations. Annesso Cartesiano di Villa Salmi Inaugural Workshop: The Representation of Structure in Grammar. Arezzo, Italy. 

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Yoshiho Yasugi (28 May 2011). The foot structure of Kaqchikel. The Third Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese government (grant number 22222001), National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. 

• Tokizaki, Hisao & Kuniya Nasukawa (7 May 2011). Tone in Chinese: preserving tonal melody in strong positions. Phonology in the 21st Century: In Honour of Glyne Piggott. McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (1 May 2011). Contrastiveness: the basis of identity avoidance. Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 34. University of Vienna, Austria. 

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (20 January 2011). The correlation between ‘r’ and front vowels. The eighth Old World Conference in Phonology. The University of Hassan II, Casablanca, Marrakech, Morocco. 

2010

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Noriaki Yusa & Masatoshi Koizumi (9 December 2010). VOT improvement and place of articulation in L2 acquisition. The 14th English in South East Asia (ESEA 2010) Conference. University of Macau, China.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (13 November 2010). The redundancy of linear information in phonology. Workshop: Linear Information, Structure and Performance Systems, The 28th Meeting of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (30 October 2010). The phonology of English articles. Workshop: Some Issues on Acquisition of English Articles by Japanese L2 Learners of English, Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (23 August 2010). The internal structure of ‘r’ in Jaspanese. Phonology Forum 2010. Shizuoka University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (23 June 2010). Eliminating precedence relations from phonology. The 2010 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2010), Korea University, Seoul, Korea.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (20 May 2010). Eliminating precedence relations from phonology. The 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Yusa, Noriaki, Kuniya Nasukawa, Masatoshi Koizumi, Naoki Kimura & Kensuke Emura (3 May 2010). Unexpected effects of the second language on the first. The 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, NEW SOUNDS 2010, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (14 January 2010). Word-final patterns in Japanese. CUNY Phonology Forum Conference 2010: The Word in Phonology, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA.

2009

• Lupsa, Cornelia, Sanae Yamaguchi, Kensuke Emura, Naoki Kimura, Jungho Kim, Kuniya Nasukawa, Masatoshi Koizumi, Hiroko Hagiwara & Noriaki Yusa (17 October 2009). Counting Wugs in L2 English: Comprehension and Production of the Plural Morpheme in Early Immersion English Language Education. First International Conference on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (FLLT2009), Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.

• Yamaguchi, Sanae, Cornelia Lupsa, Kensuke Emura, Naoki Kimura, Jungho Kim, Kuniya Nasukawa, Masatoshi Koizumi, Hiroko Hagiwara and Noriaki Yusa (16 October 2009). Effects of L2 input quantity on L2 pronunciation. First International Conference on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (FLLT2009), Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (7 September 2009). A disparity between lexical and non-lexical representations in Japanese. LAGB Meeting 2009: The Fiftieth Anniversary Golden Jubilee Meeting. University of Edinburgh, UK.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (25 August 2009). Consonant-vowel unity in Element Theory. Phonology Forum 2009. Kobe University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (18 June 2009). Phonological primes as speech signal patterns. Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI) 2009, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

• Yusa, Noriaki, Kuniya Nasukawa, Masatoshi Koizumi, Naoki Kimura & Kensuke Emura (14 March 2009). Changes in VOT values in classroom-based L2 instruction. Georgetown University Round Table (GURT) 2009, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (15 January 2009). The foot: a unified entity for both metrical and segmental phenomena. CUNY Phonology Forum Conference 2009: The Foot, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA.

2008

• Yusa, Noriaki, Masatoshi Koizumi, Kuniya Nasukawa, Kensuke Emura, Naoki Kimura & Hiroko Hagiwara (12 December 2008). Effects of L2 English Input on Japanese VOT Production in Children. Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood (BAEC) 2008, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (17 October 2008). Place-Dependent VOT in L2 Acquisition. Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2008, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (11 September 2008). The phonological representation of syllabic nasals. Linguistic Association of Great Britain (LAGB) Meeting 2008, Essex University, Colchester, UK.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (27 August 2008). Representing labials and velars: a single ‘dark’ element. Phonology Forum 2008, Kanazawa, Japan.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (23 May 2008). Features as speech signal patterns. The 16th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (18 January 2008). The syllabification of syllabic nasals. CUNY Phonology Forum Conference 2008: The Syllable, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, New York, USA.

2007

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (4 October 2007). Pre-NC vowels and proper government in Cilungu. International Conference, Bantu Languages: Analysis, Description and Theory, University of Goteborg, Sweden.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (27 August 2007). Affrication as a performance device. Phonology Forum 2007, Sapporo Gakuin University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (2 July 2007). English affricates as discordant stops. The Second International Conference on Linguistics of Contemporary English (ICLCE), University of Toulouse, France.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (24 May 2007). Contour segments as discordant stops. The 15th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (25 January 2007). Relational properties in phonology: precedence and dependency. CUNY Phonology Forum Conference 2007: Conference on Precedence Relations, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, New York, USA.

2006

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (19 November 2006). Nasal demorification and proper licensing in Cilungu. The 133th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Sapporo Gakuin University, Japan.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (6 September 2006). Headship as melodic strength. Workshop: Strength Relations in Phonology, Restrictive Phonology Research Group, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (12 May 2006). Prosody-melody interaction determines directionality of assimilation. The Fourth North American Phonology Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

2005

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (20 November 2005). The phonology of voicing categories: a comparative study. Workshop: Voicing Categories, The 131th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Hiroshima University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (25 June 2005). The phonological representation of nasality. Conference on Manner Alternations in Phonology, the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany.

• Backly, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (24 June 2005). Laryngeal-source categories in English: a typological view. The First International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Edinburgh, UK.

2004

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (3 December 2004). Consonantal representations in Element Theory: markedness and complexity. Looking for Generalisations – A Workshop on the Representation of Consonants, Leiden University, LUCL (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics), the Netherlands.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (18 September 2004). The acquisition of laryngeal-source contrasts by Japanese infants, Developmental Path in Phonological Acquisition, Leiden University, LUCL (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics), the Netherlands.

• Isobe, Miwa, Natsuko Katsura, Masatoshi Koizumi, Kuniya Nasukawa, Yumi Sakai, Koji Sugisaki and Noriaki Yusa (12 March 2004). The syntax of ditransitives in Japanese: a view from acquisition. The Fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.

2003

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (27 September 2003). Word-final consonants: arguments against a coda analysis. Symposium: the Correspondence between Hierarchical Structure and Linear Order. The 58th Conference of the Tohoku English Literary Society. Hirosaki University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (8 September 2003). Direction of assimilation as a reflection of prosody-melody interaction. The UCL Alumni Reunion Conference, University College London, University of London, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (15 February 2003). Supra- and intra-segmental interaction in true voicing assimilation. SACL (Sendai Area Circle of Linguistics), Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

2002

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (3 November 2002). Prosody-melody interaction. Symposium: Phonological Domains, The 125th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (29 June 2002). The phonological structure of the English velar nasal. The Fifth Meeting of EPSJ Tohoku. Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

2001

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Masayuki Oishi (19 May 2001). Inaccessibility of the domain-initial nucleus in high-pitch agreement. The Third Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

2000

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Yuichi Endo (18 November 2000). A comparative study of English phonetic symbols. The 4th Meeting of EPSJ Tohoku, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

1999

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (4 October 1999). Advanced Japanese phonetics. The Japanese Teacher Training Course, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (10 April 1999). The melodic structure of prenasalised plosives. The Autumn Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Manchester, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (21 March 1999). Voicing phenomena in English plural formation ― lexical representations and phonological constraints. The Meeting of the Association of General Linguistics 98-99, Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.

1998

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (21 November 1998). Source contrasts and English verb inflexion. The Second Meeting of EPSJ Tohoku, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (11 September 1998). Prenasalisation as a case of lenition. The Autumn Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Luton, UK.

1997

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (5 Sptember 1997). Licensing chain and potential strength — opacity and transparency in nasal harmony. The Autumn Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Hertfordshire, UK. 

1996

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (27 October 1996). The structure of mora nasal. The 113th Meeting of Linguistics Society of Japan, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (8 September 1996). Mora nasal and syllable structure in Japanese. The Autumn Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK.

1995

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Toyomi Takahashi (16 December 1995). Categories in grammar. The 52nd Meeting of IRICE, Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (19 September 1995). Melodic structure and no constraint-ranking in Japanese verbal inflexion. The Autumn Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Essex, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (11 April 1995). Voice and nasality in Gokana. The Spring Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Newcastle, UK.

1994

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (6 November 1994). Licensing Inheritance in Gokana. The 109th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Meio University, Nago, Japan.

1993

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (4 December 1993). Syllable structure. The Annual Meeting of JASET Tohoku branch, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (18 November 1993). Current trends in phonology. The annual meeting of Institute for Research in English Language and Literature, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.