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 Aramaki. ‘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 (34):
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)
Place Assimilation of Chinese (L1) and Japanese (L2) Coda Nasals by Speakers of Standard Chinese
(Ultrafesst XI 2024)
Ultrasound Observation of Tongue Contour for Sibilant Fricatives in Fast Speech : A Pilot Study
(Ultrafest XI 2024)
Emphatic Gemination of Nasals in Japanese Reduplicative Mimetics: Preliminary Ultrasound Tongue Observations
(Ultrafesst 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