Job title：
Assistant Professor
Other affiliations (1)：
Waseda University
Institute of Language and Speech Science
Guest Researcher
Research field (2)：
Foreign language education
, Linguistics
Research keywords (7)：
Phonetics
, Phonology
, Second language acquisition
, Corpus linguistics
, Computational linguistics
, English
, Japanese
Research theme for competitive and other funds (5)：
2022 - 2027 Building pre- and post-study abroad speech database of Japanese speakers' English
2021 - 2025 Mechanisms for comprehending different English accents: Focus on Asian and African varieties
2020 - 2024 Corpus-based investigation of L1 phonetic drift and L2 proficiency
2018 - 2020 L2LP-based modeling of the perception of second language and foreign accented speech
2017 - 2018 Computational modeling of native and non-native perception of foreign-accented speech
Papers (31)：
Minn Kim, Kakeru Yazawa. Investigating L2 Japanese word-initial stop production by L1 Korean learners. Proceedings of the 38th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan. 2024. 58-63
Kakeru Yazawa, Hiroaki Hatano. Corpus-based investigation of English speakers’ production of Japanese lexically (un)accented words. Proceedings of the 38th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan. 2024. 64-69
Kakeru Yazawa, Takayuki Konishi, Rubén Pérez-Ramón, Mariko Kondo. More foreign-accented but more comprehensible: Attrition and amelioration of L1 speech in proficient L2 learners. F1000Research. 2024. 13. 867. 1-17
Kakeru Yazawa. NEW sounds can be easier to learn than SIMILAR sounds, but only when acoustic cues are FAMILIAR. Tsukuba English Studies. 2024. 42. 305-325
Kakeru Yazawa, James Whang, Mariko Kondo, Paola Escudero. Feature-driven new sound category formation: Computational implementation with the L2LP model and beyond. Frontiers in Language Sciences. 2023. 2. 1-19
The Cambridge handbook of bilingual phonetics and phonology
Cambridge University Press 2024
Lectures and oral presentations (26)：
Corpus-based investigation of English speakers’ production of Japanese lexically (un)accented words
(The 38th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 2024)
Patterns of misaccentuation of unaccented words in English speakers’ Japanese
(CorpusPhon 2024)
More foreign-accented but more comprehensible: Attrition and amelioration of L1 speech in proficient L2 learners
(Linguistics Colloquium at Seoul National University 2024)
Bidirectional influences between L1 accentedness/comprehensibility and L2 proficiency
(International workshop on speech assessment and native and non-native linguistic variation: Trends and methods 2023)
An evaluation of the phonetic balance of the Harvard-NGSL sentences
(The 37th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 2023)
2016 - 2020 Waseda University Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies PhD
2014 - 2016 Waseda Univeristy Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies MA
2010 - 2014 Waseda Univeristy School of International Liberal Studies BA
2011 - 2012 University of Alberta Visiting Student Certificate Program
Professional career (1)：
PhD (Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University)
Work history (10)：
2021/09 - 現在 Waseda University School of International Liberal Studies Adjunct Lecturer
2021/05 - 現在 University of Tsukuba Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
2021/03 - 現在 Waseda University Institute of Language and Speech Science Adjunct Researcher
2020/08 - 2023/03 RIKEN Laboratory for Language Development Adjunct Researcher
2020/09 - 2021/03 Waseda University School of International Liberal Studies Assistant Professor (non-tenured)
2020/04 - 2021/03 Hosei University Faculty of Letters Part-time Lecturer
2019/04 - 2020/08 Waseda University School of International Liberal Studies Research Associate
2018/04 - 2019/03 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow (DC2)
2014/01 - 2019/03 RIKEN Laboratory for Language Development Part-time Research Assistant
2017/11 - 2018/03 Western Sydney University The MARCS Institute Guest Researcher
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Committee career (3)：
2022/04 - 現在 The Phonetic Society of Japan International Exchange Committee
2021/06 - 現在 Frontiers in Psychology Review Editor
2019/04 - 2019/08 New Sounds 2019 Local Organizing Committee Member
Awards (3)：
2023/11 - University of Tsukuba Young Faculty Encouragement Award (Dean's Award), Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences
2015/10 - Oriental COCOSDA 2015 Best Student Oral Paper Award
2014/03 - School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University Excellent Senior Thesis Paper
Association Membership(s) (5)：
Association for Laboratory Phonology
, Tsukuba English Linguistic Society
, International Phonetic Association
, The Japan Second Language Association
, The Phonetic Society of Japan
