Selected Publications

Forthcoming

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (in prep.)
  Representing prosodic prominence. Tohoku Gakuin University.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (in prep.)
  Phonetic manifestation of phonological structure in Precedence-free Phonology. Tohoku Gakuin University.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (in prep.)
  Linearity and asymmetry in phonology. Tohoku Gakuin University.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (in prep.)
  Phonological structure and phonetic externalisation. Tohoku Gakuin University.

• Takeru Honma & Kuniya Nasukawa (in prep.)
  Advances in Phonological Theory and English Phonology, Tokyo: Kaitakusha.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Hitomi Onuma (in prep.)
  The phonetic realisation of the empty onset. 

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (in prep.)
  Laryngeal properties and asymmetrical structures in English phonology.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Hitomi Onuma (in prep.)
  Re-evaluating the vowel system of Truku: A phonological perspective on schwa.

• Breit, Florian & Kuniya Nasukawa (submitted)
  Nasality and voicing.  In Kuniya Nasukawa, Bridget Samuels, Geoffrey Schwartz & Miklós Törkenczy (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Second Edition., XXX–XXX. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (submitted)
  Syllabic consonants.  In Kuniya Nasukawa, Bridget Samuels, Geoffrey Schwartz & Miklós Törkenczy (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Second Edition., XXX–XXX. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (submitted)
  A precedence-free approach to phonology. In Kuniya Nasukawa, Bridget Samuels, Geoffrey Schwartz & Miklós Törkenczy (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Second Edition., XXX–XXX. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (accepted)
  The phonetic linearisation of asymmetric structures in phonology: a comparative study of traditional syllable structures and PfP phonological structures. In Eirini Apostolopoulou & Martin Krämer (eds.), Linearisation in Phonology, XX–XX. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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2022

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Shin-ichi Tanaka (2022)
  Challenging a widely-accepted account of vowel metathesis in Nagoya Japanese with no reference to precedence. In Andrea Ravignani, Rie Asano, Daria Valente, Francesco Ferretti, Stefan Hartmann, Misato Hayashi, Yannick Jadoul, Mauricio Martins, Yoshei Oseki, Evelina Daniela Rodrigues, Olga Vasileva, Slawomir Wacewicz (eds.), Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), 550–552.  ISSN: 2666-917X  doi:10.17617/2.3398549

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2022)
  Phonological properties in spoken and sign languages and sign language functional impairment. In Ishihara, Yamato & Ritsuko Kikusawa (eds.), Loss of 'phonological' properties in sign languages: speakers and society from the perspective of sign language functional impairment. Tokyo: Hituzi, 55–64.  ISBN: 978-4-8234-1156-4

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Nancy C. Kula (2022)
  A PfP approach to vowel height harmony and ATR harmony. Phonological Externalization 7, Sapporo University, 81–95.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (2022)
  Changing English: Modern RP Pronunciation. Tohoku Gakuin University Review: Essays and Studies in English and Literature 105, 23–32.

2021

• Kiyama, Sachiko, Ge Song & Kuniya Nasukawa (2021)
  Autistic traits correlate with the duration of an utterance-final particle as a social marker in Japanese. In Antonis Botinis (ed.), Proceedings of 12th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, International Society of Experimental Linguistics, 139–142.  DOI: 10.36505/ExLing-2021/12

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Nancy C. Kula (2021)
  Reanalysing ‘epenthetic’ consonants in nasal-consonant sequences: a lexical specification approach. In Sabrina Bendjaballah, Ali Tifrit & Laurence Voeltzel (eds.), Perspectives on Element Theory. Boston and Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 185–205. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110691948

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2021)
  No reference to precedence in English affixation. Phonological Externalization 6, Sapporo University, 25–37.

2020

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2020)
  Linearisation and stress assignment in Precedence-free Phonology: The case of English. Radical: A Journal of Phonology 1, 239–291.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2020)
  Lexicalising phonological structure in morphemes. Acta Linguistica Academica 67(1), 29–38. DOI: 10.1556/2062.2020.00003

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2020)
  Representing tones in Precedence-free Phonology. Phonological Externalization 5, Sapporo University, 13–24.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (2020) (Published online: 21 January 2020)
  Conditions on the variable interpretation of |U| in Japanese. In Péter Szigetvári (ed.),　Variation in Phonology: Special issue of Linguistic Variation 20(1), 84–101. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.16012.bac

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (2020)
  Recursion in melodic-prosodic structure. In Kuniya Nasukawa (ed.), Morpheme-internal Recursion in Phonology. Boston and Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 11–35. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512582-002

• Onuma, Hitomi & Kuniya Nasukawa (2020)
  Velar softening without precedence relations. In Kuniya Nasukawa (ed.), Morpheme-internal Recursion in Phonology. Boston and Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 201–229.  https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512582-008

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (ed.) (2020)
  Morpheme-internal Recursion in Phonology. Boston and Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN: 978-1-5015-1258-2  https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501512582.

2017

• 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. https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.14.c9

• 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 & 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.  ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-0336-6  ISBN-10: 1-5275-0336-4

• 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. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.241.06nas

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2017)
  Extending the application of Merge to elements in phonological representations. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 21, 59–70. doi: https://doi.org/10.24467/onseikenkyu.21.1_59

• 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

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

2016

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (2016)
  The origins of Japanese h from an element-based perspective. Papers in Historical Phonology 1: 269-284. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/pihph.1.2016.1703

• 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.

• 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.

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

2015

• 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.

• Tamaoka, Katsuo, 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.

• 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.

2014

• 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7557/12.3244

• 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 & 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.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2014)
  Features and recursive structure in phonology. In John Kingston, Claire Moore-Cantwell, Joe Pater & Robert Staubs (eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 Meeting on Phonology. the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

2013

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Yoshiho Yasugi & Masatoshi Koizumi (2013)
  Syllable structure and the head parameter in Kaqchikel. In Michael Kenstowicz (ed.), Studies in Kaqchikel Grammar, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 81–95.

• Kula, Nancy C., Bert Botma & Kuniya Nasukawa (eds.) (2013)
  The Bloomsbury Companion to Phonology. London: Bloomsbury.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (2013)
  The role of L in the pitch accent system of Tokyo Japanese. Phonological Studies 16, 37–44.

2011

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2011)
  Representing phonology without precedence relations. English Linguistics 28, 278–300. DOI: https://doi.org/10.9793/elsj.28.2_278

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (2011)
  The internal structure of 'r' in Japanese. Phonological Studies 14, 27–34.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2011).
  First language acquisition: phonology. In Fujiko Sano, Hideo Oka, Noriaki Yusa & Asako Kaneko (eds.), Second Language Acquisition, A Series of Studies on English Education 5. Tokyo: Taishukan Shoten, 37–47.

• Tokizaki, Hisao, Kayono Shiobara & Kuniya Nasukawa (2011)
  Workshop report: Linear information, structure and performance systems. JELS 28, 196–197.

• Botma, Bert, Nancy C. Kula & Kuniya Nasukawa (2011).
  Features. In Kula, Nancy C., Bert Botma & Kuniya Nasukawa (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Phonology. London: Continuum, 33–63.

• Kula, Nancy C., Bert Botma & Kuniya Nasukawa (eds.) (2011).
  The Continuum Companion to Phonology. London: Continuum.

2010

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2010)
  Prosodic affiliation of NC sequences in Lungu (Cilungu). In Karsten Legère & Christina Thornell (eds.), Bantu Languages: Analysis, Description and Theory. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 191-207.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2010)
  Place-dependent VOT in L2 acquisition. SLRF 2008: Selected proceedings of the 2008 Second Language Research Forum: exploring SLA Perspectives, positions, and practices. Somerville: Cascadilla Press, 197–210.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2010)
  No consonant-final stems in Japanese verb morphology. Lingua 120, 2336–2352.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (2010)
  Consonant-vowel unity in Element Theory. Phonological Studies 13, 21–28.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2010)
  Eliminating precedence relations from phonology. Universal Grammar and Individual Languages, The 2010 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2010). Hankookmunhwasa.

• Yusa, Noriaki, Kuniya Nasukawa, Masatoshi Koizumi, Jungho Kim, Naoki Kimura & Kensuke Emura (2010)
  Unexpected Effects of the Second Language on the First Language, In Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Magdalena Wrembel & Małgorzata Kul (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech New Sounds 2010 (ISBN: 978-83-928167-9-92), 580-584.

2005

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2005)
  A Unified Approach to Nasality and Voicing. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2005)
  The representation of laryngeal-source contrasts in Japanese. In Jeroen van de Weijer, Tetsuo Nishihara & Kensuke Nanjo (eds.), Voicing in Japanese. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 79–99.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2005)
  Melodic complexity in infant language development. In Maria Tzakosta, Claartje Levelt & Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.), Developmental Paths in Phonological Acquisition. Special issue of Leiden Papers in Linguistics 2.1, ULCL, Leiden University, 53–70.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (2005)
  Dependency relations in Element Theory: markedness and complexity. In Nancy Chongo Kula & Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.), Proceedings of the Government Phonology Workshop. Special issue of Leiden Papers in Linguistics 2.4, ULCL, Leiden University, 77–93.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (2005)
  Consonantal representations in Element Theory: markedness and complexity. A Minimalist View of Components in Generative Grammar, Vol. 1, Tohoku Gakuin University, 117–136. Grant No. 16520254.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2005)
  The lexical representation of Japanese verb stems and dovetailing in verb inflexion. In Tsuyoshi Oishi, Tetsuo Nishihara & Yoji Toyoshima (eds.), Gendai Keitairon no Choryu (Current Trends in Morphology), Tokyo: Kuroshio, 239–258.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2005)
  Licensing/Government Phonology. In Tetsuo Nishihara & Kuniya Nasukawa (eds.), On-in-riron handobukku (The Handbook of Phonological Theory), Tokyo: Eihosha, 199–213.

• Nishihara, Tetsuo & Kuniya Nasukawa (eds.) (2005)
  On-in-riron handobukku (The Handbook of Phonological Theory). Tokyo: Eihosha.

2004

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2004)
  Word-final consonants: arguments against a coda analysis. Proceedings of the 58th conference, Tohoku English Literary Society, 47–53.

• Isobe, Miwa, Natsuko Katsura, Masatoshi Koizumi, Kuniya Nasukawa, Yumi Sakai, Koji Sugisaki & Noriaki Yusa (2004)
  The syntax of ditransitives in Japanese: a preliminary report from acquisition. The Proceedings of the Fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo Publishing Company, 163–182.

• Oishi, Masayuki & Kuniya Nasukawa (2004)
  Introduction to English Linguistics. Llun Press.

1998

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (1998)
  An integrated approach to nasality and voicing. In Eugeniusz Cyran (ed.), Structure and interpretation ― studies in phonology. 205–225. Lublin: Folium.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (1998)
  Prosodic integrity and melodic representation in nasals. Interdisciplinary Information Sciences Vol. 4 No. 1, Tohoku University, 1–8.