Shigeto Kawahara

18 Seminary Pl.
Department of Linguistics
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ, 08901-1108, USA

About Me

Please note: I am on leave in Spring 2012

Academic affiliations & positions

and RuCCs.

The director of the phonetics lab

A founding/board member of ICU Linguistics.

Contact Information

Matters related to undergraduate classes:
kawahara.teaching@gmail.com

Scheduling for experiments:
rutgers.phonetics@gmail.com

For everything else:
kawahara@rci.rutgers.edu

Sound symbolism

Influence of phonetics on phonology

Speech-perception and its relation to phonology

Online experiments for linguistic research

Accents and intonation

Sound symbolism

The role of similarity in phonological patterns

Phonetics and phonology of geminates

Perception of duration

Phonological judgment tasks

Accents and intonation in East Asian languages

The interaction of linguistic knowledge and speech perception (and the lack thereof) (w/ John Kingston)

An experimental and corpus-based approach to Japanese puns (w/ Kazuko Shinohara)

The accentual property of -zu in Japanese (w/ Matt Wolf and Sophia Kao)

The intonation of wh-questions in French. (w/ Viviane Deprez and Kristen Syrett (Aresty-supported))

Children's sensitivity to adults' speech styles (w/ Lara Greenberg and Kristen Syrett).

Development and maintenance of the ICU Linguistics website (w/ Melanie Pangilinan)