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Kawahara primarily investigates phonetic bases of emergent phonological patterns. In addition to issues on the phonetics-phonology interface, he also works on the experimental investigations of phonological judgments, syntax-phonology interface as well as the phonology-morphology interface. He has also studied verbal art patterns including Japanese raprhymes and puns.
Major publications
Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (2010) Calculating vocalic similarity through puns. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 13.
Kawahara, Shigeto and Matthew Wolf (2010) On the existence of root-initial accenting suffix: An elicitation study of Japanese . Linguistics 44.
Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (2009) The role of psychoacoustic similarity in Japanese puns: A corpus study. Journal of Linguistics. 45: 111-138.
Kawahara, Shigeto (2009) Faithfulness, correspondence and perceptual similarity. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 13: 51-60.
Kawahara, Shigeto and Takahito Shinya (2008) The intonation of gapping and coordination in Japanese: Evidence for Intonational Phrase and Utterance. Phonetica 65: 62-105.
Kawahara, Shigeto (2008) Phonetic naturalness and unnaturalness in Japanese loanword phonology. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 17: 317-330.
Kawahara, Shigeto (2007) Half rhymes in Japanese rap song lyrics and knowledge of similarity. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16: 113-144.
Kawahara, Shigeto (2006) A faithfulness ranking projected from a perceptibility scale: the case of Japanese . Language 82: 536-574
Kawahara, Shigeto (2007) Half rhymes in Japanese rap song lyrics and knowledge of similarity. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16: 113-144
Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (2009) The role of psychoacoustic similarity in Japanese puns: A corpus study. Journal of Linguistics. 45: 111-138.