YAZAWA Kakeru

Affiliation
Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
Official title
Assistant Professor
ORCID
0000-0002-0528-6103
URL
Email
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Research fields
Linguistics
English linguistics
Foreign language education
Research keywords
Phonetics
Phonology
Second language acquisition
Corpus linguistics
Computational linguistics
English
Japanese
Research projects
Understanding the mastery of multiple languages and dialects2025-07 -- 2028-06Paola EscuderoAustralian Research Council/Discovery Projects60,000,000Yen
Mechanisms for comprehending different English accents: focus on Asian and African varieties2021-04 -- 2025-03Mariko KondoJapan Society of for the Promotion of Science/Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)16,120,000Yen
Building pre- and post-study abroad speech database of Japanese speakers' English2022-04 -- 2027-03Kakeru YazawaJapan Society of for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists3,770,000Yen
Corpus-based investigation of L1 phonetic drift and L2 proficiency2020-04 -- 2024-03Kakeru YazawaJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists2,470,000Yen
L2LP-based modeling of the perception of second language and foreign accented speech2018-04 -- 2020-03Kakeru YazawaJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows900,000Yen
Computational modeling of native and non-native perception of foreign-accented speech2017-11 -- 2018-03Kakeru YazawaJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/JSPS Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers1,100,000Yen
Career history
2021-09 -- (current)Waseda UniversitySchool of International Liberal Studies,Part-time lecturer
2021-05 -- (current)University of TsukubaFaculty of Humanities and Social SciencesAssistant Professor
2020-08 -- 2023-03RIKENLaboratory for Language DevelopmentGuest Researcher
2020-09 -- 2021-03Waseda UniversitySchool of International Liberal StudiesAssistant Professor
2020-04 -- 2021-03Hosei UniversityFaculty of LettersPart-time Lecturer
2019-04 -- 2020-08Waseda UniversitySchool of International Liberal StudiesResearch Associate
2018-04 -- 2019-03Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceResearch Fellow (DC2)
2014-01 -- 2019-03RIKENLaboratory for Language DevelopmentPart-time Research Assistant
2017-11 -- 2018-03Western Sydney UniversityThe MARCS InstituteGuest Researcher
Academic background
2016-04 -- 2020-03Waseda Univeristy Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies (PhD)
2014-04 -- 2016-03Waseda Univeristy Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies (MA)
2010-04 -- 2014-03Waseda Univeristy School of International Liberal Studies (BA)
2011-08 -- 2012-08University of Alberta
Degree
2020-03Doctor of Philosophy in International Culture and Communication StudiesWaseda University
2016-03Master of Arts in International Culture and Communication StudiesWaseda University
2014-03Bachelor of Arts in International Liberal StudiesWaseda University
Academic societies
2024-04 -- (current)Association for Laboratory Phonology
2021-05 -- (current)Tsukuba English Linguistic Society
2018-07 -- (current)International Phonetic Association
2017-04 -- (current)The Japan Second Language Association
2016-04 -- (current)The Phonetic Society of Japan
Honors & Awards
2023-11Young Faculty Encouragement Award (Dean's Award)
2015-10Oriental COCOSDA 2015 Best Student Oral Paper Award
2014-03Excellent Senior Thesis Paper
Articles
Books
Conference, etc.
  • Corpus-based investigation of English speakers’ production of Japanese lexically (un)accented words].
    矢澤 翔
    The 38th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/2024-09-29
  • Patterns of misaccentuation of unaccented words in English speakers’ Japanese
    Yazawa Kakeru
    CorpusPhon/2024-06-26
  • More foreign-accented but more comprehensible: Attrition and amelioration of L1 speech in proficient L2 learners
    Yazawa Kakeru
    Linguistics Colloquium at Seoul National University/2024-03-29
  • Bidirectional influences between L1 accentedness/comprehensibility and L2 proficiency
    Yazawa Kakeru
    International workshop on speech assessment and native and non-native linguistic variation: Trends and methods/2023-10-06
  • An evaluation of the phonetic balance of the Harvard-NGSL sentences
    矢澤 翔
    The 37th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/2023-09-17
  • L2 proficiency predicts L1 accentedness and comprehensibility
    Yazawa Kakeru
    ICPhS 2023/2023-08-09
  • Harvard-NGSL sentences for English learner speech corpora
    Yazawa Kakeru
    O-COCOSDA 2022/2022-11-24
  • Investigating vowel productions with Japanese-English speech corpus
    Yazawa Kakeru
    DaSiC 5/2022-01-20
  • L1 phonetic drift in vowel production by Japanese learners of English
    矢澤 翔
    The 35th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/2021-09-26
  • Transfer of phonological neutralization: A case of /ei/ and /ou/ in Japanese
    矢澤翔
    J-SLA 2020/2021-03-27
  • Transferred lengthening of /ei/ and /ou/ in Japanese speakers’ English
    矢澤翔
    The 34th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/2020-09-27
  • A feature-based account of new L2 category formation
    矢澤 翔
    New Sounds 2019/2019-09-01
  • Acoustic characteristics of Japanese short and long vowels: Formant displacement effect revisited
    矢澤 翔
    ICPhS 2019/2019-08-06
  • Perception of Japanese vowel length by Australian English listeners
    矢澤 翔
    ICPhS 2019/2019-08-05
  • Phonemic and featural modeling of new L2 sound acquisition
    矢澤 翔
    HISPhonCog 2019/2019-05-24
  • Developmental paths of English high vowel production by Japanese speakers
    矢澤翔
    ICPEAL 17 - CLDC 9/2018-10-19
  • Acquisition of English high front vowels /i:, I/ by native Japanese speakers
    矢澤翔
    The 32nd General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/2018-09-15
  • Using the J-AESOP L2 English speech corpus: A case study of the acquisition of English /i:/-/I/ by Japanese speakers
    矢澤翔
    J-SLA 2018/2018-06-16
  • Predicting Australian English speakers’ perception of unfamiliar Japanese vowels
    矢澤翔
    CoEDL Fest 2018/2018-02-05
  • Effects of phrase-final lengthening on English speakers’ manifestation of lexical accent in Japanese
    矢澤翔
    GALA 2017/2017-09-09
  • Modelling Japanese speakers’ perceptual learning of English /iː/ and /ɪ/ within the L2LP framework
    矢澤翔
    PTLC 2017/2017-08-10
  • The role of input frequency in L2 speech perception
    矢澤翔
    J-SLA 2017/2017-06-03
  • Acoustic realization of down- step in English speakers’ Japanese
    矢澤翔
    The 30th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/2016-09-18
  • A study of the production of unstressed vowels by Japanese speakers of English using the J-AESOP corpus
    矢澤翔
    The 18th Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE/2015-10-29
  • Vowel epenthesis in Japanese speakers’ L2 English
    矢澤翔
    ICPhS 2015/2015-08-11
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Teaching
2024-04 -- 2024-07Project Seminar (2A)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2025-02Graduation Thesis (English Linguistics)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Studies in Foreign Language Education BUniversity of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Project Practice (1B)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Project Seminar (1B)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Project Practice (2B)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12Project Seminar (2B)University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2025-02Studies in English Linguistics-bUniversity of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-07Project Seminar (1A)University of Tsukuba.
2024-12 -- 2025-02English Phonology and Morphology (2)-bUniversity of Tsukuba.
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Other educational activities
2024-07 -- 2024-07"Introduction to English Phonetics" (Visiting Lecture)Chiba Prefectural Naruto High School
2023-12 -- 2023-12"Why Study a Foreign Language in This Era?" (Visiting Lecture)Kumamoto Prefectural Toryo High School
Professional activities
2022-04 -- (current)PHONETIC SOCIETY OF JAPANInternational Exchange Committee
2021-06 -- (current)Frontiers in PsychologyReview Editor
2019-04 -- 2019-08Waseda UniversityNew Sounds 2019 Local Organizing Committee
Other activities
2024-10 -- 2024-10TGSW2024 Session Organizer ("Second Language Acquisition Research under East-Asian Native Speakers' Context")
2023-10 -- 2023-10Organizer ("International Workshop on Phonetic and Phonological Processing and Learning")
2022-01 -- 2022-01Organizer ("International Workshop on Recent Advancement in Phonetic and Phonological Research"）
2023-03 -- 2023-12Sponsoring Visiting Scholar (Prof. James Whang from Seoul National University, South Korea)

(Last updated: 2024-11-26)