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YAMAKAWA Kimiko

YAMAKAWA Kimiko
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Associate professor
Research field  (13): Perceptual information processing ,  Linguistics ,  Japanese language education ,  Japanese linguistics ,  Linguistics ,  Japanese linguistics ,  Human interfaces and interactions ,  Database science ,  Foreign language education ,  Human interfaces and interactions ,  Database science ,  Foreign language education ,  Educational technology
Research keywords  (24): 拡声音声 ,  Yasashii Nihongo ,  speech perception ,  speech production ,  Perception boundary ,  Production boundary ,  e-learning ,  Japanese education for foreigner ,  Visualization ,  Speech corpus ,  Phonetics ,  Devoicing vowel ,  Affricate ,  範疇境界 ,  無声化母音 ,  言語習得 ,  eラーニング ,  日本語教育 ,  音声学 ,  破擦音 ,  音声教育 ,  データ検索 ,  音声コーパス ,  可視化
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (19):
  • 2023 - 2027 Exploring the effectiveness and universality of acoustic features of phonemes using logarithmic duration
  • 2022 - 2026 情報伝達の多側面に着目した実効性の高い非常時メッセージの原理解明と開発
  • 2020 - 2024 ポップアウト・ボイスの生成・知覚基盤の解明に基づく高性能拡声音技術の開発
  • 2020 - 2023 音声学と心理言語学を基盤とする聞き取りやすい「やさしい日本語」の研究
  • 2017 - 2020 Prediction model for naturalness of spoken Japanese
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Papers (57):
  • Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano. Japanese and Korean speakers’ perceptual boundary and discrimination sensitivity of Japanese fricative /s/ and affricate /ts. Acoustical Science and Technology. 2023. accepted
  • Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano, Mariko Kondo. Vietnamese speakers' mispronunciation of Japanese singleton and geminate stops. Acoustical Science and Technology. 2022. 43. 5. 241-250
  • Katuhiro Maki, Ken-Ichi Sakakibara, Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano. Audible sound under compressed snow simulating avalanche debris. Acoustical Science and Technology. 2022. 43. 3. 188-196
  • Shigeaki Amano, Kimiko Yamakawa, Mariko Kondo. Classification of fricative /s/ and affricate /ts/ at various speaking rates. Acoustical Science and Technology. 2022. 43. 3. 197-200
  • Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano. Japanese and Korean speakers’ production of Japanese fricative /s/ and affricate /ts. Phonetics and Speech Sciences. 2022. 14. 1. 13-19
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MISC (113):
  • 山川仁子, 天野成昭. Phoneme characteristics of “Easy Japanese” in loudspeaker broadcast. 日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM). 2022. 2022
  • 山川仁子, 天野成昭. Logarithmic expression of time-related feature of plosives. 日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM). 2022. 2022
  • 天野成昭, 河原英紀, 牧勝弘, 北村達也, 山川仁子, 能田由希子. Pop-out voice for reliability improvement of speech communication. 日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM). 2022. 2022
  • 天野成昭, 山川仁子, 河原英紀. Effects of native language on detection of pop-out voice. 日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM). 2022. 2022
  • Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano, Mariko Kondo. Effects of vowel devoicing on the closure duration of Japanese singleton and geminate stops. Journal of Acoustical Society of America. 2021. 150. 4. 1pSC13
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Books (3):
  • Handbook "Knowledge base"
    IEICE 2012
  • Computer Processing of Asian Spoken Languages
    Consideration Books,USA 2010
  • 『第7次教育課程運営支援을 위한日本語教育課程-特技・適性職務研修-』
    全羅南道教育研修院 2002
Lectures and oral presentations  (105):
  • Effects of vowel devoicing on the closure duration of Japanese singleton and geminate stops
    (Journal of Acoustical Society of America 2021)
  • Durational Features of Affricates and Fricatives in Korean
    (Transaction on Technical Committee of Human Speech communication 2021)
  • Acoustic features of a voice popping out from babble noise
    (Abstracts of the XXXII International Congress of Psychology 2021)
  • Improvement of word intelligibility in loudspeaker announcements for non-native speakers
    (Abstracts of the XXXII International Congress of Psychology 2021)
  • Evaluation experiment of pop-out voices in babble noise
    (日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM) 2021)
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Professional career (1):
  • Ph. D (Kumamoto University)
Work history (4):
  • 2015/04 - 現在 Shokei University Department of Culture and Language Associate Professor
  • 2010/04 - 2015/03 Aichi Shukutoku Univ. Assistant Professor
  • 2007/04 - 2010/03 National Institute of Informatics, Speech media group Postdoctral fellow
  • 2001/03 - 2003/02 Jeollanam-do Provincial Office of Education Lecturer of Japanese
Committee career (9):
  • 2023/04 - 現在 日本音響学会 九州支部 庶務幹事
  • 2022/11 - 現在 日本音響学会 学会活動賞選定委員
  • 2010/04 - 現在 日本音響学会 論文誌査読委員
  • 2016/09 - 2021/09 日本音響学会 音声コミュニケーション調査委員会委員
  • 2017/04 - 2019/03 日本音響学会 九州支部会計幹事
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Awards (2):
  • 2019 - 日本音響学会 学会活動貢献賞
  • 2005/02 - Kyushu Chapter of the Acoustical Society of Japan Student Award Acoustic analysis of the affricate "tsu" in Japanese by Korean learners of Japanese
Association Membership(s) (7):
International Speech Communication Association ,  The Acoustical Society of Japan ,  日本音響学会 ,  Phonetic Society of Japan ,  日本音声学会 ,  The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language ,  日本語教育学会
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