Akita Kimi

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate professor
Homepage URL (1)： https://sites.google.com/site/akitambo/

Research field (1)： Linguistics

Research keywords (4)： Cognitive Linguistics , iconicity , sound symbolism , ideophones

Research theme for competitive and other funds (14)：

2023 - 2027 Word Formation Types from the Perspective of Prosody: A Comparative Study of Polysynthetic, Agglutinative, and Isolating Languages
2023 - 2027 Word Formation Types from the Perspective of Prosody: A Comparative Study of Polysynthetic, Agglutinative, and Isolating Languages
2020 - 2025 音象徴進化仮説ー普遍性から言語個別性、身体性から抽象性・体系性へ
2020 - 2023 音象徴の言語間差異にみられる恣意性と有契性:通言語比較実験による理論化の基礎研究
2019 - 2023 A comprehensive study on the nature of words: word- and phrase-formation in isolating, agglutinative, and polysynthetic languages

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Papers (82)：

Mutsumi Imai, Sotaro Kita, Kimi Akita, Noburo Saji, Masato Ohba, Miki Namatame. Does sound symbolism need sound?: The role of articulatory movement in detecting iconicity between sound and meaning. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2025. 157. 1. 137-148
Hinano Iida, Kimi Akita. Iconicity Emerges From Language Experience: Evidence From Japanese Ideophones and Their English Equivalents. Cognitive Science. 2024. 48. 12
秋田喜美. 日本語の人名における表記の冗長性:関係形態論の観点から. 国立国語研究所論集. 2021
秋田喜美. オノマトペの『不自然』な音象徴. 早稲田文学2021春. 2021. 1035. 24-36
Keiko Murasugi, Kimi Akita. Binomial adjectives in Japanese. Nanzan Linguistics. 2021. 16

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MISC (54)：

Yo Matsumoto, Kimi Akita, Kiyoko Takahashi. The functional nature of deictic verbs and the coding patterns of Deixis: An experimental study in English, Japanese, and Thai. Motion and Space across Languages and Applications. 2017. 95-122
Kimi Akita. The typology of manner expressions: A preliminary look. Motion and Space across Languages: Theory and Applications. 2017. 39-60
Mark Dingemanse, Kimi Akita. An inverse relation between expressiveness and grammatical integration: On the morphosyntactic typology of ideophones, with reference to Japanese. Journal of Linguistics. 2017. 53. 3. 501-532
Akita Kimi. The linguistic integration of Japanese ideophones and its typological implications. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS-REVUE CANADIENNE DE LINGUISTIQUE. 2017. 62. 2. 314-334
Kimi Akita. Do foreign languages also have mimetics?. Mysteries of mimetics: From Pikachu to mofumofu (ed. by Haruo Kubozono). 2017. 65-85

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Books (8)：

言語類型論
開拓社 2021
認知言語学の羽ばたき:実証性の高い言語研究を目指して
開拓社 2020 ISBN:9784758922845
Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives
John Benjamins 2019
Thorough discussion on de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics: Dialogue between Saussurean philology and modern linguistics
Hituzi Syobo 2017 ISBN:9784894768253
The Grammar of Japanese Mimetics: Perspectives from Structure, Acquisition, and Translation
Routledge 2017 ISBN:9781138181908

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Lectures and oral presentations (95)：

Japanese binomial adjectives
(Societas Linguistica Europaea 2021 2021)
なぜ笛はピーと鳴るのか:ディピクションをマークする3つの方法
(第12回動的語用論研究会 2021)
なぜ笛はピーと鳴るのか:ディピクションをマークする3つの方法
(第12回動的語用論研究会 2021)
Binomial adjectives in Japanese
(Workshop on Mimetics IV: Parameters and Mimetics, Zoom 2021)
On the ideophonic protolanguage hypothesis
(Workshop on Mimetics IV: Parameters and Mimetics 2021)

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Works (1)：

Multimedia Encyclopedia of Japanese Mimetics (MEJaM)
2012 - 現在

Education (3)：

2006 - 2009 Kobe University Graduate School, Division of Cultural Studies Language Structure
2004 - 2006 Kobe University Graduate School, Division of Letters English and American Literature
2000 - 2004 Aichi Prefectural University Faculty of Literature Department of English

Professional career (3)：

BA (Literature) (Aichi Prefectural University)
MA (Literature) (Kobe University)
Ph.D. (Kobe University)

Work history (9)：

2017/04/01 - 現在 Nagoya University Graduate School of Humanities Associate Professor
2017/04/01 - 現在 Nagoya University Graduate School of Humanities Department of Humanities 1 Associate professor
2016/08/01 - 現在 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Theoretical and Contrastive Studies Visiting associate professor
2015/04/01 - 2017/03/31 Nagoya University Graduate School of Languages and Cultures Associate professor
2015/04/01 - 2017/03/31 Nagoya University Graduate School of Languages and Cultures Department of Japanese Language and Culture Applied Linguistics Associate professor

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Committee career (6)：

2019/09 - 現在 Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association Editorial board member
2014/10/01 - 現在 Kansai Linguistic Society Steering committee, organizing committee
2014/10/01 - 現在関西言語学会運営委員・大会実行委員
2021/10 - 2021/10 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Organizing committee member
2015/10/01 - 2016/12/18 NINJAL International Symposium 2016: Mimetics in Japanese and Other Languages of the World Organizing committee

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Awards (1)：

2013/08/02 - Osaka University Osaka University President's Research Encouragement Award

Association Membership(s) (8)：

Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association , Japanese Society for Language Sciences , Pragmatic Society of Japan , Kansai Linguistic Society , English Linguistic Society of Japan , The Linguistic Society of America , Phonological Society of Japan , Linguistic Society of Japan

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