Research keywords (1):
Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, speech perception, speech production
Research theme for competitive and other funds (3):
2018 - 2023 Effects of lexical knowledge on perception of English vowels by native speakers of Japanese
2016 - 2019 Impact of similarity measurement on perception of native and non-native speech perception
2014 - 2016 Investigation into the effect of the Automatic Speech Processing on categorical perception
Papers (14):
Tomaru & Arai. Effects of offset transitional movements on perceptual duration of preceding formant steady state. Proceedings of the Technical Committee on Speech Communication, the Acoustical Society of Japan. 2021. 1. 2. 9-13
Tomaru. Discrimination of mono-syllables in sentence context: the case of Japanese listeners’ perception of /ba/-/da/ continuum. The 23rd International Congress on Acoustics. 2019. 6823-6827
Tomaru & Arai. Evaluation of articulatory similarity using formant and fundamental frequencies during perceptual assimilation of English schwa by native speakers of Japanese. Acoustical Science and Technology. 2019. 40. 4. 233-240
Tomaru & Arai. Role of labeling mediation in speech perception: evidence from a voiced stop continuum perceived in different surrounding sound contexts. Acoustical Science and Technology. 2016. 37. 6. 303-314
Tomaru. Effects of orthography on loanword adaptation of English diphthong /??/ to Japanese. JELS 33. 2015. 290-295
Kanako Tomaru, Jeffrey Stewart, Phillip Rowles. “ChatGPT as an Educational Tool” (AlAfnan et al.) and an analysis of the use: How can it work for English education?. 東京理科大学教養教育研究院紀要. 2024. 2. 163-168
Kanako Tomaru. Perceptual Assimilation of English High and Mid Vowels by Japanese Listeners: The Role of L1 Lexical Knowledge. 日本音響学会第150回(2023年秋季)研究発表会講演論文集. 2023
Tomaru、Nakamura & Arai. Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by native speakers of Japanese under the condition of onset lengthening. Proceedings of the 2017 Spring Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan. 2017. 1483-1484
Effects of offset transitional movements on perceptual duration of preceding formant steady state
(the Meeting of the Technical Committee on Speech Communication, the Acoustical Society of Japan 2021)
Discrimination of mono-syllables in sentence context: the case of Japanese listeners’ perception of /ba/-/da/ continuum
(the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics 2019)