Teacher Profiles

NASUKAWA, Kuniya professor

Research topic

I am interested in all aspects related to phonetics. In particular, I am interested in elucidating the types of characteristics related to phonetics and the regularities that govern phonetic phenomena (sound arrangement, influence relationships between sounds, accent patterns, historical changes, regional variations, etc.) from the perspective of universal grammar.

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Main Books

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (ed.) (2020). Morpheme-internal Recursion in Phonology. Boston and Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.) (2014). Identity Relations in Grammar. Boston and Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Kula, Nancy C., Bert Botma and Kuniya Nasukawa (eds.) (2013). The Bloomsbury Companion to Phonology. London: Bloomsbury.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya and BACKLEY, Phillip (eds.) (2009). Strength Relations in Phonology. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin and New York.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2005). A Unified Approach to Nasality and Voicing. Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin and New York.
• Nishihara, Tetsuo and Nasukawa, Kuniya (eds.) (2005) *Handbook of Phonological Theory*. Eihosha.

Main textbooks and dictionaries

• "Basic Knowledge of Elementary School English Education," Taishukan Publishing (2018) (Contributing author)
• "Linguistics Plus Statistical Analysis: Starting Here," Kyoritsu Shuppan (2016) (Contributing author)
• "The Latest Dictionary of English Linguistics and Linguistic Terms," Kaitakusha (2015) (Editor) (Contributing Author)
• "Comprehensive Dictionary of the Japanese Language," Asakura Shoten (2014) (Contributing author)

Main academic papers

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (2023). Nasal vowels in French: A Precedence-free approach. In Florian Breit, Yuko Yoshida & Connor Youngberg (eds.), Elements, Government and Licensing: Developments in Phonology. London: UCL Press, 289–309. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800085282
• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Nancy C. Kula (2021). Reanalysing 'epenthetic' consonants in nasal-consonant sequences: a lexical specification approach. In Sabrina Bendjaballah, Ali Tifrit & Laurence Voeltzel (eds.), Perspectives on Element Theory. Boston and Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 185–205. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110691948
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2020). Linearization and stress assignment in Precedence-free Phonology: The case of English. Radical: A Journal of Phonology 1, 239–291.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2020). Lexicalising phonological structure in morphemes. Acta Linguistica Academica 67(1). 29–38. https://doi.org/10.1556/2062.2020.00003
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2019). The Prosodic Transfer Hypothesis in the grammar and its treatment of clitics. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9(6), 872–877. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.19077.nas
• Nasukawa, Kuniya, BACKLEY, Phillip, Yoshiho Yasugi & Masatoshi Koizumi (2018). Challenging universal typology: Right-edge prominence in Kaqchikel. Journal of Linguistics 56, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226718000488
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2017). The relative salience of consonant nasality and true obstruent voicing. In Geoff Lindsey & Andrew Nevins (eds.), Sonic Signatures: Studies dedicated to John Harris (Language Faculty and Beyond 14).
  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 146–162. https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.14.c9
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2017). The phonetic salience of phonological head-dependent structure in a modulated-carrier model of speech. In Bridget Samuels (ed.), Beyond Markedness in Formal Phonology (Linguistik Aktuell 241).
  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 121–152. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.241.06nas
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2017). Extending the application of Merge to elements in phonological representations. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 21, 59–70. doi: https://doi.org/10.24467/onseikenkyu.21.1_59
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2016). A precedence-free approach to (de-)palatalisation in Japanese. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 1(1): 9. 1–21. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.26

Main academic presentations

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Ge Song & Sachiko Kiyama (5 September 2024). The phonological representation of the empathetic utterance-final particle -ne in Japanese. The 30th AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing), Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (23 November 2023). Hierarchical Organization and Precedence in Phonology. Workshop on Sequencing in Phonology (SIP), University of Tromsø, Norway.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (23 June 2023). Representing tones without precedence relations. Government Phonology Roundtable (GPRT) 2023. Department of Comparative and General Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (08 January 2020). Analysing the asymmetry between nasality and voicing: A precedence-free approach. Workshop of Nasality and Laryngeal Representations in Phonology. University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (22 November 2019). Recursive structure constructed by phonological primes. Recursivity in Phonology Below and Above the Word (RecPhon2019), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, España.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (14 June 2019). Phonetic linearization of morpheme-internal phonological structure. Government Phonology Roundtable (GPRT) 2019. University of Vienna, Austria.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya & BACKLEY, Phillip (24 May 2019). Nasality and voicing in a modulated-carrier model of speech. The 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (17 January 2019). Voicing (VOT) contrasts and L2 acquisition. Seminar, Departament de Filologia Catalana, Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació, Universitat de València, València, España.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Nancy Kula (15 June 2018). "Epenthetic" consonants in nasal-consonant sequences: Consonant-vowel element interactions. Elements: State of the Art and Perspectives, The University of Nantes, France.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (16 November 2017). Acoustic prominence and phonological head-dependent structure. The Research Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest, Hungary.
• Nasukawa, Kuniya (26 July 2017). Phonetic externalization of head-dependent structure in a modulated-carrier model of speech. Workshop: Phonological Externalization of Morphosyntactic Structure: Universals and Variables.
  2017 Linguistic Institute: Language across Space and Time, University of Kentucky, USA.

Major research funded by external grants such as KAKENHI (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research)

• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (FY2024-2027)
  Project Number 24H00085: "Preservation of Pseudo-Dynamic Functions of Crisis Language and Reflection on Brain Processing Processes Based on a Corpus of Natural Discourse with Physiological Indicators" (Shared Work)
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (FY2024-2027)
  Project Number 24H00059 "Mechanisms of Phonetic Realization and Understanding of Sentence-Final Words Conveying Emotion, and Individual Differences: A Study in Japanese and Chinese" (Shared Work)
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (FY2022-2026)
  Project Number 22K00513: "The Construction Process of Phonological Representation and Phonetic Externalization: Exploring a Unified Mechanism of Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax" (Principal Investigator)
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (FY2020-2024)
  Project Number 23K20094 "Mapping from Syntax to Phonology: Theory, Typology, and History" (Donated)
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research Area Proposal Type) (Language Evolution for Collaborative Communication) (FY2020-2021)
  Project Number 20H05007: "A Study Exploring the Reality of Merging Operations and Hierarchical Structures in the Phonological System" (Principal Investigator)
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (FY2019-2023)
  Project Number 19H05589: "Field Cognitive Neuroscience Study on 'Language Word Order' and 'Order of Thought' from the Perspective of OS Language" (Co-contributing)
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (FY2019-2023)
  Project Number 19H00532 "Language Disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorder as Emotional Dyscalculia in the Hierarchy of Sentence-Final Particles" (Shared Work)
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research Area Proposal Type) (Language Evolution for Collaborative Communication) (FY2018-2019)
  Project Number 18H05081: "A study exploring the existence of recursive hierarchical structures constructed through merger operations targeting phonological categories" (Principal Investigator)
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Exploratory Research) (2018-2019)
  Project Number 19H00532 "Neuroplasticity related to sentence-final empathy prosody in East Asian languages: Formation of a research center for gerontological experimental linguistics" (Co-contributor)
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (FY2017-2019)
  Project Number 19H00532: "Elucidating Second Language Processing from the Perspective of Grammatical Illusions and its Application to English Language Education" (Shared Work)
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (FY2014-2018)
  Project Number 26284067: "An Integrated Study on the Existence of Phonological Regression and Merging and the Positioning of the Phonological Division in the Theory of Minimalism"
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (FY2010-2013)
  Project Number 22320090: "Construction of a minimalist model in the phonology sector and elucidation of the mechanism of phonological acquisition"
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (FY2007-2009)
  Project Number 19520429: "A Study of Representation and Universal Principles in the Phonological Section Based on the Theory of Minimalism"
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (2) (FY2004-2006)
  Project Number 16520254: "An Integrated Study of the Formal Sections of Grammar Based on the Minimalist Theory of Generative Grammar"
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Young Scientists, Category B) (FY2004-2006)
  Project Number 16720117: "Research on Constructing a New Phonological Representation Based on the Theory of Minimalism"
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Young Scientists, Category B) (FY2002-2003)
  Project Number 14710345: "An Integrated Study on Minimization in the Phonological Division"
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (2) (FY2000-2001)
  Project Number 11410121: "An Integrated Study on Minimization in Each Module of Grammar Using Generative Grammar Theory"