2019 - 2023 Investigation of the differences between phonetic and phonemic perception using mismatch negativity (MMN) responses
2016 - 2019 English Vowel Perception for Japanese speakers Evaluated by Event-Related Potentials (ERP)
2014 - 2016 Second-Language Audiovisual Training for Children and Adults
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Papers (16):
Yasuaki SHINOHARA, Chao HAN, Arild HESTVIK. English vowel discrimination and perceptual assimilation by Japanese listeners. Language and Speech. 2023
Albert LEE, Yasuaki SHINOHARA, Faith CHIU, Tsz Ching MUT. Perception of vowel and consonant quantity contrasts by Cantonese, English, French and Japanese speakers. Proc. the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic 2023. 2023. 2477-2481
Yasuaki SHINOHARA, Mariko UCHIDA, Tomoko MATSUI. Perception of Japanese pitch accent by typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorders. Proc. the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic 2023. 2023. 231-235
Yasuaki Shinohara, Chao Han, Arild Hestvik. Discriminability and prototypicality of nonnative vowels. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 2022. 44. 5. 1260-1278
Yasuaki Shinohara. Perception of noise-vocoded sine-wave speech of Japanese pitch-accent words. JASA Express Letters. 2022. 2. 8. 085204-085204
Communication Strategies 1 (5th ed.)
DTP Publishing 2023
Communication Strategies 2 (4th ed.)
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Lectures and oral presentations (36):
Cross-linguistic differences in neural encoding and processing of stop consonants: the impact of language experience on attention allocation
(Neuroscience 2023 2023)
Mismatch Negativity responses for phonemic representations and acoustic-phonetic realizations
(Invited talk to be given at the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences, University of Delaware, Delaware, USA 2023)
Japanese pitch-accent perception by typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorders
(The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2023, Prague, Czech Republic 2023)
Perception of vowel and consonant quantity contrasts by Cantonese, English, French and Japanese speakers
(The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2023, Prague, Czech Republic 2023)
Development of phoneme perception in children aged 6-12: Investigating with an auditory discrimination task
(The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) 2023: The 24th Annual International Conference, Tokyo, Japan 2023)
2010 - 2014 University College London PHD Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
2008 - 2009 University College London MA Phonetics
2004 - 2008 Waseda University School of Education Department of English Language and Literature
Professional career (3):
PHD (Doctor of Philosophy), (University College London (United Kingdom))
MA (Master of Arts), (University College London (United Kingdom))
BA (Bachelor of Arts), (Waseda University)
Work history (6):
2022/08 - 現在 City University of New York, Graduate Center Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Visiting Research Scholar
2020/09 - 現在 Waseda University Faculty of Commerce Associate Professor
2018/09 - 現在 University of Delaware Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences Affiliated Associate Professor
2017/04 - 2020/08 Waseda University, Faculty of Commerce, School of Commerce Assistant Professor
2017/09 - 2018/08 University of Delaware Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences Affiliated Assistant Professor
2014/04 - 2017/03 Waseda University, Faculty of Scienceand Engineering, School of Creative Science and Engineering Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE) Assistant Professor (without tenure)
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Committee career (4):
2019/07 - 2021/06 The Linguistic Society of Japan Local Organizing Committee for the 162nd Meeting
2017/12 - 2019/09 New Sounds 2019 Local Organizer
2015/07 - 2017/07 The English Phonetic Society of Japan Kanto Branch Committee Member
2016/07 - 2016/07 Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) 2016 Local Organizer
Awards (10):
2022/05 - Research Institute of Business Administration, Waseda University R.I.B.A. Research Award
2021/05 - Research Institute of Business Administration, Waseda University R.I.B.A. Research Award
2020/05 - Research Institute of Business Administration, Waseda University R.I.B.A. Research Award
2020/03 - Waseda University E-teaching Award (Good Practice)
2018/05 - Research Institute of Business Administration R.I.B.A. Research Award
2010/09 - JASSO Japan Student Services Organization Scholarship for Studying Abroad (Long Dispatch, Sept. 2010- Aug. 2013)
2008/09 - University College London Departmental Studentship (Univeristy College London)
2007/05 - Waseda University Okuma Memorial Scholarship
2006/05 - Waseda University Okuma Memorial Scholarship
2005/05 - Waseda University Okuma Memorial Scholarship
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Association Membership(s) (4):
The Linguistic Society of Japan
, Institute of Language and Speech Science, Waseda University
, Acoustical Society of America
, British Association of Academic Phoneticians