Selected Presentations & Appearances
Delayed-fall of pitch accents in Japanese Infant-Directed and Adult-Directed Speech
· December 1, 2011
Lecture
International conference on phonetics and phonology (ICPP 2011), Kyoto, Japan
Acquiring versus Learning a Language (In Japanese)
· November 1, 2011
Lecture
International Symposium on Stress, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Looking into human brain and human mind by studying infants' language acquisition (In Japanese)
· November 1, 2011
Lecture
2011 RIKEN Science Lectures, Tokyo, Japan
International phonological analysis of infant-directed speech yields new insight into how mothers modify their prosody when speaking to infants
· September 1, 2011
Lecture
Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody 2, MacGill University, Montreal, Canada
Prediction of the correct structural analysis driven by contextually appropriate prosodic information
· September 1, 2011
Lecture
17th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Paris, France
Delayed-fall of pitch accents in Japanese Infant-Directed and Adult-Directed Speech
· December 1, 2011
Lecture
International conference on phonetics and phonology (ICPP 2011), Kyoto, Japan
Acquiring versus Learning a Language (In Japanese)
· November 1, 2011
Lecture
International Symposium on Stress, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Looking into human brain and human mind by studying infants' language acquisition (In Japanese)
· November 1, 2011
Lecture
2011 RIKEN Science Lectures, Tokyo, Japan
International phonological analysis of infant-directed speech yields new insight into how mothers modify their prosody when speaking to infants
· September 1, 2011
Lecture
Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody 2, MacGill University, Montreal, Canada
Prediction of the correct structural analysis driven by contextually appropriate prosodic information
· September 1, 2011
Lecture
17th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Paris, France
Acoustic analysis of lexical pitch accent in Japanese Infant-Directed Speech
· September 1, 2011
Lecture
Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody 2, MacGill University, Montreal, Canada
Predicting a dispreferred structural alternative as a result of syntactic priming in comprehension
· September 1, 2011
Lecture
17th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Paris, France
Interaction between context-driven salience and prosody during referential resolution
· September 1, 2011
Lecture
Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody 2, MacGill University, Montreal, Canada
Reading Eye Movements of Japanese children
· August 1, 2011
Lecture
16th European Conference on Eye Movements, University of Provence, Marseille, France
Subtle differences between the speech of young speakers of `Accentless'and Standard Japanese dialects: An analysis of pitch peak alignment
· August 1, 2011
Lecture
17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2011), Hong Kong, China
The Multi Timescale Phoneme Acquisition Model of the Self-Organizing Based on the Dynamic Features
· August 1, 2011
Lecture
12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2011), Florence, Italy
From one Place to the Next
· July 1, 2011
Lecture
12th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Montreal, Canada
Developmental changes in brain responses during speech processing (In Japanese)
· July 1, 2011
Lecture
Auditory Perception Division Meeting, Acoustical Society of Japan, Tokyo Japan
A developmental transition in infants' mismatch response to sound duration change
· June 1, 2011
Lecture
17th Annual Meeting of the Organization on Human Brain Mapping (HBM2011), Quebec, Canada
Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese
· May 1, 2011
Lecture
Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Njimegen, The Netherland
An anticipatory effect of syntactic priming in processing garden-path sentences
· March 1, 2011
Lecture
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford CA
Listeners can use prosodic cues to avoid being garden-pathed
· March 1, 2011
Lecture
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford CA
An electrophysiological study on two types of conflict during online sentence processing
· March 1, 2011
Lecture
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford CA
Fronteers in Language Acquisition Research: Cues that facilitates association between sound and meaning in early vocabulary development (In Japanese)
· March 1, 2011
Lecture
The 22nd annual meeting of Japan Society of Developmental Psychology, Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan
Gaining insight into Japanese prosody from studying infant-directed speech (In Japanese)
· March 1, 2011
Lecture
2011 Spring meeting of Acoustical Society of Japan, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese
· February 1, 2011
Lecture
Center for Infant Studies, Department of Psychology, Stanford University.University, Stanford, CA
Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese
· February 1, 2011
Lecture
Infant Studies Center, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Bancouver, Canada
Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese
· February 1, 2011
Lecture
Center for Infant Studies, Department of Psychology, Stanford University.University, Stanford, CA
Introduction to Infant Speech Perception Research (In Japanese)
- The 19th Phonetics Seminar of the Phonetic Society of Japan
· January 7, 2011
Invited Talk
Phonetic Society of Japan,
Saitama, Japan
Phonetic discrimination at word-initial, word-medial, and word-final positions with and without lexical pitch-accent in Japanese
· November 1, 2010
Lecture
The 35th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD35), Boston
Unsupervised Learning of vowels from continuous speech based on self-organized phoneme acquisition model
· September 1, 2010
Lecture
Interspeech 2010, Chiba,Japan
Learning the sound system of Japanese: What does it tell us about language acquisition?
· August 1, 2010
Lecture
The 20th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA2010), Sydney, Australia
Universal and language specific ways of Infant Directed Speech: Linguistic, psycholinguistic, and brain imaging study of Japanese infant directed speech
· August 1, 2010
Lecture
MARCS Auditory Laboratory Colloquim, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Linking syntactic priming to language development: a visual world eye-tracking study
· August 1, 2010
Lecture
August 2010 Meeting of the Technical Group of Thought and Language of the Institute of Electronics
Investigating language acquisition through the prosodic development of Japanese
· August 1, 2010
Lecture
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science seminar series, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
The involvement of inhibition function during garden-path recovery in sentence processing
· August 1, 2010
Lecture
August 2010 Meeting of the Technical Group of Thought and Language of the Institute of Electronics
The perception of non-native lexical pitch accent by speakers of 'accentless' Japanese dialects
· August 1, 2010
Lecture
the 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Chicago, USA
Elementary school children's brain responses to the emotional intent of speech
· July 1, 2010
Lecture
Meeting of Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Acoustical Society of Japan, Hiroshima, Japan
Infants' speech perception between 5- and 13-months of age
· July 1, 2010
Lecture
Meeting of Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Acoustical Society of Japan, Hiroshima, Japan
Striatum Processes Experience-dependent Interaction between Language and Emotion in "Motherese"
· June 1, 2010
Lecture
Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM2010), Barcelona, Spain
Looking into the mechanism of language acquisition through the window of "Motherese"
· June 1, 2010
Lecture
35th meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society of Japan, Kyoto, Japan
Syntactic priming as an index of children's syntactic knowledge: Evidence from visual world eye-tracking study
· March 1, 2010
Lecture
CUNY 2010: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York
Sentence processing under the control of executive control?: Contribution of inhibition function to garden-path recovery
· March 1, 2010
Lecture
CUNY conference on human sentence processing, New York
Input frequency of place of articulation in Japanese infant-directed speech: An exceptional case
· March 1, 2010
Lecture
nternational Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, USA
Learning the melody of a language: Investigation into language acquisition through the prosody of Japanese
· March 1, 2010
Lecture
Invited Special Session, General Conference of The Institute of Electronics, Information communication engineers (IEICE), Sendai, Japan
Development of word segmentation in infants of 5-11 month olds
· March 1, 2010
Lecture
21st meeting of Japan Society of Developmental Psychology, Kobe, Japan
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
Lecture
Yokohama, Japan
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
Lecture
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Language specific ways of infant-directed speech.
· January 5, 2009
Lecture
Emory University
Immediate and incremental processing of lexical accent in Japanese
· January 5, 2009
Lecture
Shiga, Japan
Characteristics of pitch accents in infant-directed speech
· January 5, 2009
Lecture
Shiga, Japan
A distributional analysis of moraic phonemes in Japanese infant-directed speech.
· January 5, 2009
Lecture
Shiga, Japan
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
Lecture
Shiga, Japan
Use of emphatic pitch prominence for contrast resolution: An eye-tracking study with 6-year old and adult Japanese listeners
· January 5, 2009
Lecture
University of Boston
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
Lecture
An incremental processing of lexical accent: An ERP study in Japanese
· January 5, 2009
Lecture
Electorophysiological evidence for incremental processing of lexical pitch accent in Japanese
· January 5, 2009
Lecture
Use of emphatic prosody in Japanese adults & 6-year olds. The 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
· January 5, 2009
Lecture
Electorophysiological evidence for incremental processing of lexical pitch accent in Japanese
· January 5, 2009
Lecture
Pitch range expansion in Japanese infant-directed speech
· January 5, 2009
Lecture
Universal and language specific ways of infant directed speech: linguistic psycholinguistic, and brain imaging study of Japanese infant directed speech
· January 5, 2008
Lecture
University of Michigan
Cues from infant-directed speech for word segmentation in Japanese
· January 5, 2008
Lecture
Event-related potentials evoked by Japanese pitch-accent mismatch.
· January 5, 2008
Lecture
Experience-, gender- and personality-dependent processing of infant-directed speech in adults: An fMRI study.
· January 5, 2008
Lecture
Optical imaging of infants' perception of speech and non-speech
· January 5, 2008
Lecture
Lexical and phrasal pitch contours in early lexical representations.
· January 5, 2008
Lecture
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
Lecture
Cortical responses to lexical pitch-accent in Japanese infants
· January 5, 2008
Lecture
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
Lecture
Effects of visual contrast in pre-nominal modifier phrase comprehension in Japanese: an eye tracking experiment with children and adults
· January 1, 2008
Lecture
Similar patterns with different children: The difference in the parsing pattern between Korean and Japanese children
· January 1, 2008
Lecture
Use of emphatic intonation for contrast resolution in Japanese: Adults vs. 6yr-olds
· January 1, 2008
Lecture
Development of Cognitive Flexibility and Semantic Computation
· January 1, 2008
Lecture
Service to the Profession
Organizing member : Study Group for Assistance for Developmental Disorder, IEICE
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January 5, 2009
Other
Tokyo, Japan
editirial board : Japanese Society for Language Studies
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2008
Event/Organization Administration