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Sound symbolism and theoretical phonology by Kawahara, Shigeto

“…A received wisdom in modern linguistic theories is that the relationships between sounds and meanings are generally arbitrary. However, there is a growing body…”
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Japanese has syllables: a reply to Labrune by Kawahara, Shigeto

“…Labrune (2012b) proposes a syllable-less theory of Japanese, suggesting that Japanese has no syllables, with only moras below the foot. She argues that there…”
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Random forests, sound symbolism and Pokémon evolution by Kilpatrick, Alexander James, Ćwiek, Aleksandra, Kawahara, Shigeto

“…This study constructs machine learning algorithms that are trained to classify samples using sound symbolism, and then it reports on an experiment designed to…”
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Effects of Surprisal and Entropy on Vowel Duration in Japanese by Shaw, Jason A., Kawahara, Shigeto

“…Research on English and other languages has shown that syllables and words that contain more information tend to be produced with longer duration. This…”
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Exploring the nature of cumulativity in sound symbolism: Experimental studies of Pokémonastics with English speakers by Kawahara, Shigeto, Breiss, Canaan

“…There has been a dramatic rise of interest in sound symbolism, systematic associations between sounds and meanings. Despite this, one aspect that is still…”
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Phonology and orthography: The orthographic characterization of rendaku and Lyman’s Law by Kawahara, Shigeto

“…This paper argues that phonology and orthography go in tandem with each other to shape our phonological behavior. More concretely, phonological operations are…”
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The lingual articulation of devoiced /u/ in Tokyo Japanese by Shaw, Jason A., Kawahara, Shigeto

“…•First lingual articulatory study of devoiced /u/ in Tokyo Japanese.•Devoicing of /u/ shortens temporal interval between flanking consonants.•There is…”
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A Faithfulness Ranking Projected from a Perceptibility Scale: The Case of [+ Voice] in Japanese by Kawahara, Shigeto

“…Within the framework of optimality theory (Prince & Smolensky 2004), Steriade (2001a,b) proposes the P-map hypothesis, whose fundamental tenet is that the…”
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Geminate Devoicing in Japanese Loanwords: Theoretical and Experimental Investigations by Kawahara, Shigeto

“…This paper provides an overview of theoretical and experimental investigations into voiced geminates in Japanese. Active discussion was initiated by…”
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A cross-linguistic, sound symbolic relationship between labial consonants, voiced plosives, and Pokémon friendship by Kilpatrick, Alexander, Ćwiek, Aleksandra, Lewis, Eleanor, Kawahara, Shigeto

“…This paper presents a cross-linguistic study of sound symbolism, analysing a six-language corpus of all Pokémon names available as of January 2022. It tests…”
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Lyman’s Law can count only up to two by Kawahara, Shigeto, Kumagai, Gakuji

“…One long-standing question that is recurrently addressed in contemporary phonological studies is whether phonological systems can count beyond three. The…”
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Visual and Proprioceptive Perceptions Evoke Motion-Sound Symbolism: Different Acceleration Profiles Are Associated With Different Types of Consonants by Shinohara, Kazuko, Kawahara, Shigeto, Tanaka, Hideyuki

“…A growing body of literature has shown that one perceptual modality can be systematically associated with sensation in another. However, the cross-modal…”
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Rendaku is not blocked by two nasal consonants: A reply to Kim (2022) by Kawahara, Shigeto, Kumagai, Gakuji

“…Rendaku is a morphophonological process in Japanese, in which the first consonant of the second element of compounds becomes voiced (e.g. /ao-sora/ → [ao-zora]…”
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Lyman's Law is active in loanwords and nonce words: Evidence from naturalness judgment studies by Kawahara, Shigeto

“…► Lyman's Law is a general phonotactic restriction in Japanese which prohibits two voiced obstruents within the same morpheme. ► Lyman's Law was believed to…”
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Sound Symbolic Patterns in Pokémon Names by Kawahara, Shigeto, Noto, Atsushi, Kumagai, Gakuji

“…This paper presents a case study of sound symbolism, cases in which certain sounds tend to be associated with particular meanings. We used the corpus of all…”
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Takete and Maluma in Action: A Cross-Modal Relationship between Gestures and Sounds by Shinohara, Kazuko, Yamauchi, Naoto, Kawahara, Shigeto, Tanaka, Hideyuki

“…Despite Saussure's famous observation that sound-meaning relationships are in principle arbitrary, we now have a substantial body of evidence that sounds…”
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Novel vocalizations are understood across cultures by Ćwiek, Aleksandra, Fuchs, Susanne, Draxler, Christoph, Asu, Eva Liina, Dediu, Dan, Hiovain, Katri, Kawahara, Shigeto, Koutalidis, Sofia, Krifka, Manfred, Lippus, Pärtel, Lupyan, Gary, Oh, Grace E., Paul, Jing, Petrone, Caterina, Ridouane, Rachid, Reiter, Sabine, Schümchen, Nathalie, Szalontai, Ádám, Ünal-Logacev, Özlem, Zeller, Jochen, Winter, Bodo, Perlman, Marcus

“…Linguistic communication requires speakers to mutually agree on the meanings of words, but how does such a system first get off the ground? One solution is to…”
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English Speakers Can Infer Pokémon Types Based on Sound Symbolism by Kawahara, Shigeto, Godoy, Mahayana C., Kumagai, Gakuji

“…Sound symbolism, systematic associations between sounds and meanings, is receiving increasing attention in linguistics, psychology and related disciplines. One…”
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Variation, gender and perception: the social meaning of Japanese linguistic variables by Sherwood, Stacey, Shaw, Jason A., Kawahara, Shigeto, Mailhammer, Robert, Antoniou, Mark

“…The social categories that characterize a speaker frequently correlate with the use of specific linguistic variables. Research suggests that such correlations…”
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Limits on gestural reorganization following vowel deletion: The case of Tokyo Japanese by Shaw, Jason, Kawahara, Shigeto

“…The coordination of gestures in consonant clusters differs across languages and hence must be a learned aspect of linguistic knowledge. Precisely pinning down…”
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