Reiko Mazuka
Research Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Language acquisition and psycholinguistics. In
particular, she is interested in the development and
consequences of acquiring very different types of
languages. The research has taken a cross-linguistic
approach between English and Japanese, and her
current research involves the following three areas: (1)
study of sentence comprehension strategies by adult
and child speakers of Japanese and English; (2) cross-
linguistic study of infants' speech perception; and (3)
influence of acquiring language specific categories on
cognition.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Research Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013
Contact Information
- 323 Soc-Psych, Durham, NC 27708
- Duke Box 90085, Durham, NC 27708-0085
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mazuka@duke.edu
(919) 660-5702
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C.V.
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Duke Language Development Lab
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Cornell University 1990
- M.S., University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) 1984
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2013
- Associate Professor of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences, Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1997 - 2006
- Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, University Institutes and Centers 2001 - 2006
- Associate Professor of Psychology: Experimental, Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 - 2001
- Associate Professor of Psychology: Experimental, Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1997 - 1999
- Assistant Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1990 - 1997
- Assistant Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1992 - 1997
- Assistant Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1991 - 1993
- Instructor, University, Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1989 - 1990
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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- Research
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Selected Grants
- Learning to Pay Attention to Language Related Visual Cues awarded by RIKEN Brain Science Institute 2009 - 2023
- Doctoral Dissertation Research: Young Children's use of Prosody in Disambiguating Sentences: The Case of Korean Children awarded by National Science Foundation 2002 - 2003
- Sentence Processing in Japanese and English awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1994 - 2001
- Sentence Processing In Japanese and English awarded by National Institutes of Health 1994 - 1999
- Sentence Processing in Japanese and English awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1994 - 1999
- Study of Sentence Processing in Japanese and English awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 1994 - 1999
- A Psycholinguistic Study of the Processing Japanese Sentences by Native Speakers awarded by National Science Foundation 1993 - 1997
- A Cross-Linguistic Study of Language Comprehension Strategies: A Comparison Between Japanese and English awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1992 - 1993
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External Relationships
- RIKEN Center for Brain Science
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Academic Articles
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Singh, L., Rajendra, S. J., & Mazuka, R. (2022). Diversity and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing. Child Development Perspectives, 16(4), 191–199. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12468Full Text
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Iwamoto, K., Kikuchi, H., & Mazuka, R. (2022). Speech rate development in Japanese-speaking children and proficiency in mora-timed rhythm. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 220, 105411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105411Full Text
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Peter, V., van Ommen, S., Kalashnikova, M., Mazuka, R., Nazzi, T., & Burnham, D. (2022). Language specificity in cortical tracking of speech rhythm at the mora, syllable, and foot levels. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 13477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17401-xFull Text
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Ludusan, B., Cristia, A., Mazuka, R., & Dupoux, E. (2022). How much does prosody help word segmentation? A simulation study on infant-directed speech. Cognition, 219, 104961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104961Full Text
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Yamane, N., Sato, Y., Shimura, Y., & Mazuka, R. (2021). Developmental differences in the hemodynamic response to changes in lyrics and melodies by 4- and 12-month-old infants. Cognition, 213, 104711. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104711Full Text
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Ludusan, B., Mazuka, R., & Dupoux, E. (2021). Does Infant-Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation. Cognitive Science, 45(5), e12946. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12946Full Text
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Takahasi, M., Okanoya, K., & Mazuka, R. (2021). How vocal temporal parameters develop: A comparative study between humans and songbirds, two distantly related vocal learners. Journal of Language Evolution, 6(1), 26–36. https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzaa008Full Text
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Hitczenko, K., Mazuka, R., Elsner, M., & Feldman, N. H. (2020). When context is and isn't helpful: A corpus study of naturalistic speech. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27(4), 640–676. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01687-6Full Text
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Tsuji, S., Jincho, N., Mazuka, R., & Cristia, A. (2020). Communicative cues in the absence of a human interaction partner enhance 12-month-old infants' word learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 191, 104740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104740Full Text
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Jincho, N., Oishi, H., & Mazuka, R. (2019). Developmental Changes in the Utilization of Referential Visual Context during Sentence Comprehension: Eye Movement and Pupil Dilation Evidence from Children and Adults. Language Learning and Development, 15(4), 350–365. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2019.1645668Full Text
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Guevara-Rukoz, A., Cristia, A., Ludusan, B., Thiollière, R., Martin, A., Mazuka, R., & Dupoux, E. (2018). Are Words Easier to Learn From Infant- Than Adult-Directed Speech? A Quantitative Corpus-Based Investigation. Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12616Full Text
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Shin, M., Choi, Y., & Mazuka, R. (2018). Development of fricative sound perception in Korean infants: The role of language experience and infants' initial sensitivity. Plos One, 13(6), e0199045. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199045Full Text
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Akimoto, Y., Takahashi, H., Gunji, A., Kaneko, Y., Asano, M., Matsuo, J., … Kamio, Y. (2017). Alpha band event-related desynchronization underlying social situational context processing during irony comprehension: A magnetoencephalography source localization study. Brain and Language, 175, 42–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2017.09.002Full Text
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Hirose, Y., & Mazuka, R. (2017). Exploiting Pitch Accent Information in Compound Processing: A Comparison between Adults and 6- to 7-Year-Old Children. Language Learning and Development, 13(4), 375–394. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2017.1292141Full Text
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Miyazawa, K., Shinya, T., Martin, A., Kikuchi, H., & Mazuka, R. (2017). Vowels in infant-directed speech: More breathy and more variable, but not clearer. Cognition, 166, 84–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.05.003Full Text
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Hayashi, A., & Mazuka, R. (2017). Emergence of Japanese infants' prosodic preferences in infant-directed vocabulary. Developmental Psychology, 53(1), 28–37. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000259Full Text
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Ota, M., Yamane, N., & Mazuka, R. (2017). The Effects of Lexical Pitch Accent on Infant Word Recognition in Japanese. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 2354. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02354Full Text
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Sugiura, L., Toyota, T., Matsuba-Kurita, H., Iwayama, Y., Mazuka, R., Yoshikawa, T., & Hagiwara, H. (2017). Age-Dependent Effects of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT) Gene Val158Met Polymorphism on Language Function in Developing Children. Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 27(1), 104–116. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw371Full Text
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Martin, A., Igarashi, Y., Jincho, N., & Mazuka, R. (2016). Utterances in infant-directed speech are shorter, not slower. Cognition, 156, 52–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.07.015Full Text
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Ludusan, B., Cristia, A., Martin, A., Mazuka, R., & Dupoux, E. (2016). Learnability of prosodic boundaries: Is infant-directed speech easier? The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(2), 1239. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4960576Full Text
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Tsuji, S., Fikkert, P., Yamane, N., & Mazuka, R. (2016). Language-general biases and language-specific experience contribute to phonological detail in toddlers' word representations. Developmental Psychology, 52(3), 379–390. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000093Full Text
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Jincho, N., Oishi, H., & Mazuka, R. (2016). Referential ambiguity resolution in sentence comprehension: A developmental study measuring eye movements and pupil dilation. Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, 64(4), 531–543. https://doi.org/10.5926/jjep.64.531Full Text
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Hawthorne, K., Mazuka, R., & Gerken, L. (2015). The acoustic salience of prosody trumps infants' acquired knowledge of language-specific prosodic patterns. Journal of Memory and Language, 82, 105–117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2015.03.005Full Text
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Arai, M., Nakamura, C., & Mazuka, R. (2015). Predicting the unbeaten path through syntactic priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41(2), 482–500. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038389Full Text
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Hirose, Y., & Mazuka, R. (2015). Predictive processing of novel compounds: evidence from Japanese. Cognition, 136, 350–358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.033Full Text
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Martin, A., Schatz, T., Versteegh, M., Miyazawa, K., Mazuka, R., Dupoux, E., & Cristia, A. (2015). Mothers speak less clearly to infants than to adults: a comprehensive test of the hyperarticulation hypothesis. Psychological Science, 26(3), 341–347. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614562453Full Text
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Tsuji, S., Mazuka, R., Cristia, A., & Fikkert, P. (2015). Even at 4 months, a labial is a good enough coronal, but not vice versa. Cognition, 134, 252–256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.10.009Full Text
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Matsuda, Y.-T., Ueno, K., Cheng, K., Konishi, Y., Mazuka, R., & Okanoya, K. (2014). Auditory observation of infant-directed speech by mothers: experience-dependent interaction between language and emotion in the basal ganglia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/Mhum.2014.00907Full Text Link to Item
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Tsuji, S., Nishikawa, K., & Mazuka, R. (2014). Segmental distributions and consonant-vowel association patterns in Japanese infant- and adult-directed speech. Journal of Child Language, 41(6), 1276–1304. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000913000469Full Text
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Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Hayashi, A., Tsuji, S., Mazuka, R., & Nazzi, T. (2014). The role of the input on the development of the LC bias: a crosslinguistic comparison. Cognition, 132(3), 301–311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.04.004Full Text
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Martin, A., Utsugi, A., & Mazuka, R. (2014). The multidimensional nature of hyperspeech: evidence from Japanese vowel devoicing. Cognition, 132(2), 216–228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.04.003Full Text
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Mazuka, R., Hasegawa, M., & Tsuji, S. (2014). Development of non-native vowel discrimination: Improvement without exposure. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(2), 192–209. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21193Full Text
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Arai, M., & Mazuka, R. (2014). The development of Japanese passive syntax as indexed by structural priming in comprehension. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006), 67(1), 60–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2013.790454Full Text
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Jincho, N., Feng, G., & Mazuka, R. (2014). Development of text reading in Japanese: an eye movement study. Reading and Writing, 1–29.
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Jincho, N., Feng, G., & Mazuka, R. (2014). Development of text reading in Japanese: An eye movement study. Reading and Writing, 27(8), 1437–1465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-014-9500-9Full Text
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Matsuda, Y.-T., Ueno, K., Cheng, K., Konishi, Y., Mazuka, R., & Okanoya, K. (2014). Auditory observation of infant-directed speech by mothers: experience-dependent interaction between language and emotion in the basal ganglia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 907. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00907Full Text
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Zervakis, J., & Mazuka, R. (2013). Effect of repeated evaluation and repeated exposure on acceptability ratings of sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 42(6), 505–525. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-012-9233-3Full Text
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Sato, Y., Utsugi, A., Yamane, N., Koizumi, M., & Mazuka, R. (2013). Dialectal differences in hemispheric specialization for Japanese lexical pitch accent. Brain and Language, 127(3), 475–483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2013.09.008Full Text
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Igarashi, Y., Nishikawa, K., Tanaka, K., & Mazuka, R. (2013). Phonological theory informs the analysis of intonational exaggeration in Japanese infant-directed speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(2), 1283–1294. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4812755Full Text
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Tajima, K., Tanaka, K., Martin, A., & Mazuka, R. (2013). Is the mora rhythm of Japanese more strongly observed in infant-directed speech than in adult-directed speech? J Acoust Soc Am, 133(5), 3341. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4805643Full Text Link to Item
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Gervain, J., Sebastián-Gallés, N., Díaz, B., Laka, I., Mazuka, R., Yamane, N., … Mehler, J. (2013). Word frequency cues word order in adults: cross-linguistic evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 689. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00689Full Text
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Tajima, K., Tanaka, K., Martin, A., & Mazuka, R. (2013). Is the vowel length contrast in japanese exaggerated in infant-directed speech? Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech, 3211–3215.
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Tajima, K., Tanaka, K., Martin, A., & Mazuka, R. (2013). Is the mora rhythm of Japanese more strongly observed in infant-directed speech than in adult-directed speech? Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4800508Full Text
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Bion, R. A. H., Miyazawa, K., Kikuchi, H., & Mazuka, R. (2013). Learning phonemic vowel length from naturalistic recordings of Japanese infant-directed speech. Plos One, 8(2), e51594. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051594Full Text
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Tsuji, S., Gomez, N. G., Medina, V., Nazzi, T., & Mazuka, R. (2012). The labial-coronal effect revisited: Japanese adults say pata, but hear tapa. Cognition, 125(3), 413–428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.017Full Text
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Minai, U., Jincho, N., Yamane, N., & Mazuka, R. (2012). What hinders child semantic computation: children's universal quantification and the development of cognitive control. Journal of Child Language, 39(5), 919–956. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000911000316Full Text
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Nakamura, C., Arai, M., & Mazuka, R. (2012). Immediate use of prosody and context in predicting a syntactic structure. Cognition, 125(2), 317–323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.016Full Text
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Ito, K., Jincho, N., Minai, U., Yamane, N., & Mazuka, R. (2012). Intonation facilitates contrast resolution: Evidence from Japanese adults and 6-year olds. Journal of Memory and Language, 66(1), 265–284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2011.09.002Full Text
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Mazuka, R. (2012). “Nyuji no onsei hattatsu” (In Japanese). (Development of infant speech perception). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan, 68(5), 241–247.
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Nakamura, C., Arai, M., & Mazuka, R. (2012). Immediate use of prosody and context in predicting a syntactic structure. Cognition, 125(3), 413–428.
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Sato, Y., Kato, M., & Mazuka, R. (2012). Development of single/geminate obstruent discrimination by Japanese infants: early integration of durational and nondurational cues. Developmental Psychology, 48(1), 18–34. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025528Full Text
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Kouki, M., Hideaki, M., Hideaki, K., & Reiko, M. (2011). The multi timescale phoneme acquisition model of the self-organizing based on the dynamic features. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech, 749–752.
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Mazuka, R., Cao, Y., Dupoux, E., & Christophe, A. (2011). The development of a phonological illusion: a cross-linguistic study with Japanese and French infants. Developmental Science, 14(4), 693–699. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01015.xFull Text
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Minagawa-Kawai, Y., van der Lely, H., Ramus, F., Sato, Y., Mazuka, R., & Dupoux, E. (2011). Optical brain imaging reveals general auditory and language-specific processing in early infant development. Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 21(2), 254–261. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhq082Full Text
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Matsuda, Y.-T., Ueno, K., Waggoner, R. A., Erickson, D., Shimura, Y., Tanaka, K., … Mazuka, R. (2011). Processing of infant-directed speech by adults. Neuroimage, 54(1), 611–621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.072Full Text
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Sato, Y., Mori, K., Koizumi, T., Minagawa-Kawai, Y., Tanaka, A., Ozawa, E., … Mazuka, R. (2011). Functional lateralization of speech processing in adults and children who stutter. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 70. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00070Full Text
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Mazuka, R. (2010). Learning the sound system of Japanese: What does it tell us about language acquisition? 20th International Congress on Acoustics 2010, Ica 2010 Incorporating Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society, 5, 4186–4193.
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Utsugi, A., Koizumi, M., & Mazuka, R. (2010). A robust method to detect dialectal differences in the perception of lexical pitch accent. 20th International Congress on Acoustics 2010, Ica 2010 Incorporating Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society, 5, 3689–3696.
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Sato, Y., Sogabe, Y., & Mazuka, R. (2010). Development of hemispheric specialization for lexical pitch-accent in Japanese infants. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(11), 2503–2513. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21377Full Text Open Access Copy
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Yoshida, K. A., Iversen, J. R., Patel, A. D., Mazuka, R., Nito, H., Gervain, J., & Werker, J. F. (2010). The development of perceptual grouping biases in infancy: a Japanese-English cross-linguistic study. Cognition, 115(2), 356–361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2010.01.005Full Text
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Miyazawa, K., Kikuchi, H., & Mazuka, R. (2010). Unsupervised learning of vowels from continuous speech based on self-organized phoneme acquisition model. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2010, 2914–2917.
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Sato, Y., Sogabe, Y., & Mazuka, R. (2010). Discrimination of phonemic vowel length by Japanese infants. Developmental Psychology, 46(1), 106–119. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016718Full Text
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Horie, R., & Mazuka, R. (2010). Learning variation of deterministic chaos in auditory signals. Neuroscience Research, 68, e407–e407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neures.2010.07.1804Full Text
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Mazuka, R. (2009). Acquisition of linguistic-rhythm and prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis (In Japanese; Gengorizumu no kakutoku to inritsu ni yoru bootosutorappingukasetsu". Japanese Journal of Phonology, 13(3), 19–32.
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Mazuka, R., Jincho, N., & Oishi, H. (2009). Development of executive control and language processing. Linguistics and Language Compass, 3(1), 59–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00102.xFull Text
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Gervain, J., Nespor, M., Mazuka, R., Horie, R., & Mehler, J. (2008). Bootstrapping word order in prelexical infants: a Japanese-Italian cross-linguistic study. Cognitive Psychology, 57(1), 56–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2007.12.001Full Text
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Jincho, N., Namiki, H., & Mazuka, R. (2008). Effects of verbal working memory and cumulative linguistic knowledge on reading comprehension. Japanese Psychological Research, 50(1), 12–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5884.2007.00358.xFull Text
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Jincho, N., Namiki, H., & Mazuka, R. (2008). Effects of verbal working memory and cumulative linguistic knowledge on reading comprehension. Japanese Psychological Research, 51(1), 12–23.
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Mazuka, R. (2008). Infant speech perception and language acquisition (In Japanese;Nyuuji no onsei chikaku to gengo kakutoku). Life Science (In Japanese; Seitai No Kagaku), 59(5), 448–449.
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Sato, Y., Sogabe, Y., & Mazuka, R. (2007). Brain responses in the processing of lexical pitch-accent by Japanese speakers. Neuroreport, 18(18), 2001–2004. https://doi.org/10.1097/wnr.0b013e3282f262deFull Text
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Sato, Y., Mazuka, R., & Sogabe, Y. (2007). A near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) study of lexical pitch accent processing in Japanese speakers. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 27(SUPPL. 1).
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Imai, M., & Mazuka, R. (2007). Language-relative construal of individuation constrained by universal ontology: revisiting language universals and linguistic relativity. Cognitive Science, 31(3), 385–413. https://doi.org/10.1080/15326900701326436Full Text
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Imai, M., & Mazuka, R. (2007). Revisiting language universals and linguistic relativity: language-relative construal of individuation constrained by universal ontology. Cognitive Science, 31, 385–414.
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Mazuka, R. (2007). The rhythm-based prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis of early language acquisition: Does it work for learning for all languages? Journal of the Liguistic Society of Japan, 9(132), 1–13.
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Matsuda, Y., Ueno, K., Waggoner, R. A., Erickson, D., Shimura, Y., Tanaka, K., … Mazuka, R. (2007). Processing of infant-directed speech in parents: An fMRI study. Neuroscience Research, 58, S45–S45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neures.2007.06.265Full Text
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Mazuka, R. (2006). "Gengo-nai no kobetsu reberu tokusei to gengo kakutoku no mekanizumu" (In Japanese: The role of language specific characteristics for the mechanisms for language acquisition). Baby Science, 5, 37–38.
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Mazuka, R. (2006). "Nyuuji no onsee-chikaku-gakushuu ni okeru kobetsu gengo no eikyou -- Hayashi ronbun e no komento--" (In Japanese: Influence of individual languages for infants' speech perception development. -- response to Hayashi paper --). Japanese Psychological Review, 49(1), 75–77.
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Choi, Y., & Mazuka, R. (2003). Young children's use of prosody in sentence parsing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 32(2), 197–217. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1022400424874Full Text
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Mazuka, R., & Friedman, R. S. (2000). Linguistic relativity in Japanese and English: Is language the primary determinant in object classification. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 9(4), 353–377. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008356620617Full Text
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YOSHIOKA, K., HAYASHI, A., DEGUCHI, T., & MAZUKA, R. (1998). Four to ten month-old infants' sensitivity to the rhythmic pattern of Japanese baby-words. 日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集, 1998(1), 377–378.
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Mazuka, R., Itoh, K., & Kondo, T. (1997). Processing down the garden path in Japanese: processing of sentences with lexical homonyms. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 26(2), 207–228. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1025013716381Full Text
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Misono, Y., Mazuka, R., Kondo, T., & Kiritani, S. (1997). Effects and limitations of prosodic and semantic biases on syntactic disambiguation. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 26(2), 229–245. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1025065700451Full Text
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Mazuka, R., Itoh, K., & Kondo, T. (1997). Processing down the Japanese garden-path sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 26(2), 207–228.
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Misono, Y., Mazuka, R., Kondo, T., & Kiritani, S. (1997). Effects and limitations of prosodic and semantic biases on syntactic ambiguity resolution of Japanese sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 26(2), 229–245.
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Yokoyama, H., Niwa, S., Itoh, K., & Mazuka, R. (1996). Fractal property of eye movements in schizophrenia. Biological Cybernetics, 75(2), 137–140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s004220050281Full Text
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Kondo, T., & Mazuka, R. (1996). Prosodic planning while reading aloud: on-line examination of Japanese sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 25(2), 357–381. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01708578Full Text
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Lust, B., Eisele, J., & Mazuka, R. (1992). The Binding Theory Module: Evidence from First Language Acquisition for Principle C. Language, 68(2), 333–333. https://doi.org/10.2307/416944Full Text
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Mazuka, R. (1991). Processing of empty categories in Japanese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 20(3), 215–232. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067216Full Text
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Lust, B., & Mazuka, R. (1989). Cross-linguistic studies of directionality in first language acquisition: the Japanese data--a response to O'Grady, Suzuki-Wei & Cho 1986. Journal of Child Language, 16(3), 665–684. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900010783Full Text
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Book Sections
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Gervain, J., Christophe, A., & Mazuka, R. (2021). Prosodic Bootstrapping. In The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody (pp. 553–573). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832232.013.36Full Text
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Mazuka, R. (2015). Learning to become a native listener of Japanese. In Handbook of Japanese Psycholinguistics (pp. 19–47).
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Mazuka, R., Kondo, T., & Hayashi, A. (2008). Japanese mothers' use of specialized vocabulary in infant-directed speech: Infant-directed vocabulary in Japanese. In The Origins of Language: Unraveling Evolutionary Forces (pp. 39–58). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-79102-7_4Full Text
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Conference Papers
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Matsui, S., Iwamoto, K., & Mazuka, R. (2022). Development of allophonic realization until adolescence: A production study of the affricate-fricative variation of /z/ among Japanese children. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech (Vol. 2022-September, pp. 739–743). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2022-346Full Text
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Ludusan, B., Jorschick, A., & Mazuka, R. (2019). Nasal consonant discrimination in infant- And adult-directed speech. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech (Vol. 2019-September, pp. 3584–3588). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2019-1737Full Text
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Hitczenko, K., Mazuka, R., Elsner, M., & Feldman, N. H. (2018). How to use context to disambiguate overlapping categories: The test case of Japanese vowel length. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Cogsci 2018 (pp. 499–504).
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Mazuka, R., Bernard, M., Cristia, A., Dupoux, E., & Ludusan, B. (2017). The role of prosody and speech register in word segmentation: A computational modelling perspective. In Acl 2017 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers) (Vol. 2, pp. 178–183). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P17-2028Full Text
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Nakamura, R., Miyazawa, K., Ishihara, H., Nishikawa, K., Kikuchi, H., Asada, M., & Mazuka, R. (2015). Constructing the corpus of infant-directed speech and infant-like robot-directed speech. In Hai 2015 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human Agent Interaction (pp. 167–169). https://doi.org/10.1145/2814940.2814965Full Text
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Mazuka, R., Igarashi, Y., Martin, A., & Utsugi, A. (2015). Infant-directed speech as a window into the dynamic nature of phonology. In Laboratory Phonology (Vol. 6, pp. 281–303). https://doi.org/10.1515/lp-2015-0009Full Text
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Saikachi, Y., Kitahara, M., Nishikawa, K., Kanato, A., & Mazuka, R. (2012). The F0 fall delay of lexical pitch accent in Japanese Infant-directed speech. In 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, Interspeech 2012 (Vol. 3, pp. 2485–2488).
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Jincho, N., & Mazuka, R. (2011). Individual differences in sentence processing: Effects of verbal working memory and cumulative linguistic knowledge (Vol. 38, pp. 49–65). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9213-7_3Full Text
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Utsugi, A., Koizumi, M., & Mazuka, R. (2010). The perception of non-native lexical pitch accent by speakers of 'accentless' Japanese dialects. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody.
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Presentations & Appearances
- Delayed-fall of pitch accents in Japanese Infant-Directed and Adult-Directed Speech. December 1, 2011 2011
- Acquiring versus Learning a Language (In Japanese). November 1, 2011 2011
- Looking into human brain and human mind by studying infants' language acquisition (In Japanese). November 1, 2011 2011
- Acoustic analysis of lexical pitch accent in Japanese Infant-Directed Speech. September 1, 2011 2011
- Interaction between context-driven salience and prosody during referential resolution. September 1, 2011 2011
- International phonological analysis of infant-directed speech yields new insight into how mothers modify their prosody when speaking to infants. September 1, 2011 2011
- Predicting a dispreferred structural alternative as a result of syntactic priming in comprehension. September 1, 2011 2011
- Prediction of the correct structural analysis driven by contextually appropriate prosodic information. September 1, 2011 2011
- Reading Eye Movements of Japanese children. August 1, 2011 2011
- Subtle differences between the speech of young speakers of `Accentless'and Standard Japanese dialects: An analysis of pitch peak alignment. August 1, 2011 2011
- The Multi Timescale Phoneme Acquisition Model of the Self-Organizing Based on the Dynamic Features. August 1, 2011 2011
- Developmental changes in brain responses during speech processing (In Japanese). July 1, 2011 2011
- From one Place to the Next. July 1, 2011 2011
- A developmental transition in infants' mismatch response to sound duration change. June 1, 2011 2011
- Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese. May 1, 2011 2011
- An anticipatory effect of syntactic priming in processing garden-path sentences. March 1, 2011 2011
- An electrophysiological study on two types of conflict during online sentence processing. March 1, 2011 2011
- Fronteers in Language Acquisition Research: Cues that facilitates association between sound and meaning in early vocabulary development (In Japanese). March 1, 2011 2011
- Gaining insight into Japanese prosody from studying infant-directed speech (In Japanese). March 1, 2011 2011
- Listeners can use prosodic cues to avoid being garden-pathed. March 1, 2011 2011
- Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese. February 1, 2011 2011
- Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese. February 1, 2011 2011
- Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese. February 1, 2011 2011
- Introduction to Infant Speech Perception Research (In Japanese). The 19th Phonetics Seminar of the Phonetic Society of Japan. Phonetic Society of Japan. January 7, 2011 2011
- Phonetic discrimination at word-initial, word-medial, and word-final positions with and without lexical pitch-accent in Japanese. November 1, 2010 2010
- Unsupervised Learning of vowels from continuous speech based on self-organized phoneme acquisition model. September 1, 2010 2010
- Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese. August 1, 2010 2010
- Learning the sound system of Japanese: What does it tell us about language acquisition?. August 1, 2010 2010
- Linking syntactic priming to language development: a visual world eye-tracking study. August 1, 2010 2010
- The involvement of inhibition function during garden-path recovery in sentence processing. August 1, 2010 2010
- The perception of non-native lexical pitch accent by speakers of 'accentless' Japanese dialects. August 1, 2010 2010
- Universal and language specific ways of Infant Directed Speech: Linguistic, psycholinguistic, and brain imaging study of Japanese infant directed speech. August 1, 2010 2010
- Elementary school children's brain responses to the emotional intent of speech. July 1, 2010 2010
- Infants' speech perception between 5- and 13-months of age. July 1, 2010 2010
- Looking into the mechanism of language acquisition through the window of "Motherese". June 1, 2010 2010
- Striatum Processes Experience-dependent Interaction between Language and Emotion in "Motherese". June 1, 2010 2010
- Development of word segmentation in infants of 5-11 month olds. March 1, 2010 2010
- Input frequency of place of articulation in Japanese infant-directed speech: An exceptional case. March 1, 2010 2010
- Learning the melody of a language: Investigation into language acquisition through the prosody of Japanese. March 1, 2010 2010
- Sentence processing under the control of executive control?: Contribution of inhibition function to garden-path recovery. March 1, 2010 2010
- Syntactic priming as an index of children's syntactic knowledge: Evidence from visual world eye-tracking study. March 1, 2010 2010
- A distributional analysis of moraic phonemes in Japanese infant-directed speech.. January 5, 2009 2009
- An incremental processing of lexical accent: An ERP study in Japanese. January 5, 2009 2009
- Characteristics of pitch accents in infant-directed speech. January 5, 2009 2009
- Electorophysiological evidence for incremental processing of lexical pitch accent in Japanese. January 5, 2009 2009
- Electorophysiological evidence for incremental processing of lexical pitch accent in Japanese. January 5, 2009 2009
- Immediate and incremental processing of lexical accent in Japanese. January 5, 2009 2009
- Language specific ways of infant-directed speech.. January 5, 2009 2009
- Pitch range expansion in Japanese infant-directed speech. January 5, 2009 2009
- Sound, meaning, and characters in reading: The relationship between characters and sounds in reading Japanese (In Japanese; Gengo wa oto to imi, yomi wa oto to imi to moji: Nihongo no yomi ni okeru moji to oto no kankei). January 5, 2009 2009
- The dynamic structure of vowels in infant-directed speech : RIKEN Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus (In Japanese; Tai nyuji hatuswa no boin no jikan kouzou). January 5, 2009 2009
- The science of language acquisition: The front-line of infant language acquisition research combining psychological, linguistic, brain science and engineering methodologies (In Japanese; Akachan no gengo kakutoku wo kagaku suru―gengo gaku,shinri gaku,nou. January 5, 2009 2009
- Use of emphatic pitch prominence for contrast resolution: An eye-tracking study with 6-year old and adult Japanese listeners. January 5, 2009 2009
- Use of emphatic prosody in Japanese adults & 6-year olds. The 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. January 5, 2009 2009
- Vowel quality and voice quality of vowels in Infant-directed speech: Hyperaticulated but soft voices of IDS vowels. The 4th workshop on prosody and information structure. January 5, 2009 2009
- Children's joint attention and perception of facial expression: A study with eye tracking (In Japanese; Youji ni okeru kyoudo chui to hyojo no sansyo:Shisen tuiseki system niyoru kento). January 5, 2008 2008
- Cortical responses to lexical pitch-accent in Japanese infants. January 5, 2008 2008
- Cues from infant-directed speech for word segmentation in Japanese. January 5, 2008 2008
- Event-related potentials evoked by Japanese pitch-accent mismatch.. January 5, 2008 2008
- Experience-, gender- and personality-dependent processing of infant-directed speech in adults: An fMRI study.. January 5, 2008 2008
- Lexical and phrasal pitch contours in early lexical representations.. January 5, 2008 2008
- Mother, I don't really like the high-pitched, slow speech of Motherese: Cross-linguistic differences in infants' reliance on Different acoustic cues in infant directed speech. January 5, 2008 2008
- Optical imaging of infants' perception of speech and non-speech. January 5, 2008 2008
- Universal and language specific ways of infant directed speech: linguistic psycholinguistic, and brain imaging study of Japanese infant directed speech. January 5, 2008 2008
- Development of Cognitive Flexibility and Semantic Computation. January 1, 2008 2008
- Effects of visual contrast in pre-nominal modifier phrase comprehension in Japanese: an eye tracking experiment with children and adults. January 1, 2008 2008
- Similar patterns with different children: The difference in the parsing pattern between Korean and Japanese children. January 1, 2008 2008
- Use of emphatic intonation for contrast resolution in Japanese: Adults vs. 6yr-olds. January 1, 2008 2008
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