Research theme for competitive and other funds (2)：
2022 - 2025 Phonetic characteristics of geminates in Japanese: Articulatory gestures and their timing
2020 - 2022 Acquisition of non-native articulatory gestures: an articulatory study of liquids
Papers (14)：
Maho Morimoto, Takayuki Nagamine. Spatio-temporal properties of Japanese coronal consonants: An ultrasound study of /d/ and /r. Proceedings of the 13th International Seminar of Speech Production. 2024. 141-144
Erena Aiba, Maho Morimoto, Ai Mizoguchi, Weiyu Li, Takayuki Arai. The Effect of Pitch-Accent Patterns on Japanese Vowel Articulation: A Preliminary Ultrasound Analysis. Proceedings of The 2024 Spring Meeting, Acoustical Society of Japan. 2024. 1301-1304
Misato Shimizu, Takayuki Arai, Ai Mizoguchi, Maho Morimoto, Weiyu Li, Noriko Yamane. A Preliminary Study on Tongue Control During High-Speed Speech: Observations Using Ultrasound. Proceedings of The 2024 Spring Meeting, Acoustical Society of Japan. 2024. 1291-1292
Maho Morimoto, Li Weiyu, Ai Mizoguchi, Takayuki Arai. Japanese Fricative Geminates Produced by Speakers of Standard Chinese: A Preliminary Study on the Temporal Characteristics. Proceedings of The 2023 Autumn meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan. 2023. 923-926
Maho Morimoto, Ai Mizoguchi, Li Weiyu, Takayuki Arai. Articulatory Timing of the Japanese Singleton and Geminate /t/ Produced by Speakers of Standard Chinese. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 2023. 2691-2695
Maho Morimoto, Junko Yamashita, Miki Arakaki. ‘Sokuon’ in the Vocabulary of Introductory Japanese Textbooks: A Preliminary Examination of Pitch-Accent Patterns and Word-Internal Positions. Japanese Language Education Methods. 2024. 30. 2. 26-27
Books (1)：
New Development in the Study of Prosody
2022 ISBN:9784758923637
Lectures and oral presentations (37)：
Japanese Transcription of Italian Geminate Liquids: A diachronic analysis of the Japanese translations of “Cuore" and "Le avventure di Pinocchio"
(The 38th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 2024)
Lingual Articulation of Japanese /r/
(The 38th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 2024)
Making a Brief Stop at Nagoya: Examining Dialectal Differences of the Vowel Space in Japanese
(Phonology Forum 2024 2024)
The Effect of Pitch-Accent on the Articulation of Coda Nasals in Japanese
(The 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology: LabPhon 19 2024)
Tongue position in Japanese intervocalic voiced and voiceless stops
(Ultrafest XI 2024)
2015 - 2020 University of California Santa Cruz Humanities Division Linguistics Department
2013 - 2015 University of California Santa Cruz Humanities Division Linguistics Department
2009 - 2013 International Christian University College of Liberal Arts Division of Arts and Sciences
Professional career (1)：
Ph.D. in Linguistics (University of California Santa Cruz)
Work history (6)：
2024/04 - 現在 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Collaborative Researcher
2024/04 - 現在 Sophia University Faculty of Science and Technology Collaborative Researcher
2024/04 - 現在 Chuo University Faculty of Commerce Assistant Professor
2022/04 - 2024/03 Sophia University Faculty of Science and Technology JSPS Research Fellow
2020/04 - 2022/03 Sophia University Faculty of Science and Technology Collaborative Researcher
2020/04 - 2022/03 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Theory & Typology Division Project PD Fellow
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Committee career (3)：
2023/04 - 現在 The Phonological Society of Japan Executive board member
2022/04 - 現在 Phonetic Society of Japan (Committee for the promotion of phonetics)
2022/04 - 現在 Phonetic Society of Japan PR Committee
Awards (1)：
2022/02 - National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics 国立国語研究所 第二十四回 所長賞 (New Development in the Study of Prosody)
Association Membership(s) (7)：
Japanese Language Education Methods
, The Phonological Society of Japan
, The Linguistic Society of Japan
, Acoustical Society of Japan
, Phonetic Society of Japan
, Association for Laboratory Phonology
, Acoustical Society of America
