Yazawa Kakeru

Affiliation
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Official title
Assistant Professor
ORCID
0000-0002-0528-6103
Email
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Research fields
Linguistics
English linguistics
Foreign language education
Research keywords
Phonetics
Phonology
Second language acquisition
Corpus linguistics
English
Japanese
Research projects
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 -- 2022-03Kakeru 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
-- (current)Tsukuba English Linguistic Society
-- (current)International Phonetic Association
-- (current)The Japan Second Language Association
-- (current)The Phonetic Society of Japan
Honors & Awards
2015-10Oriental COCOSDA 2015 Best Student Oral Paper Award
Articles
  • Spectral and temporal implementation of Japanese speakers’ English vowel categories: A corpus-based study
    Yazawa Kakeru
    Laboratory Phonology/14(1)/pp.1-33, 2023-03
  • Harvard-NGSL sentences for English learner speech corpora
    Yazawa Kakeru
    Proceedings of the 25th Oriental COCOSDA/pp.84-88, 2022-11
  • A comparison of rhythm metrics for L2 speech
    Yazawa Kakeru; Kondo Mariko
    Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody/pp.332-336, 2022-05
  • Transfer of incomplete neutralization: A case of /ei/ and /ou/ in Japanese
    Yazawa Kakeru
    Second Language/20/pp.47-59, 2022-04
  • Prosodic manifestation of question tags in Japanese speakers’ English
    Yazawa Kakeru
    Tsukuba English Studies/40/pp.41-50, 2022-03
  • Investigating vowel productions with Japanese-English speech corpus
    Yazawa Kakeru
    Proceedings of Data Science in Collaboration/5/pp.9-18, 2022-02
  • L1 phonetic drift in vowel production by Japanese learners of English
    矢澤 翔
    Proceedings of the 35th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/pp.113-118, 2021-09
  • Language-dependent cue weighting: An investigation of perception modes in L2 learning
    Yazawa Kakeru; Whang James; Kondo Mariko; Escudero Paola
    Second Langauge Research/36(4)/pp.557-581, 2020-10
  • Transferred lengthening of /ei/ and /ou/ in Japanese speakers’ English
    矢澤 翔
    Proceedings of the 34th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/pp.50-55, 2020-09
  • Acoustic characteristics of Japanese short and long vowels: Formant displacement effect revisited
    Kakeru Yazawa; Mariko Kondo
    Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences/pp.671-675, 2019-08
  • Perception of Japanese vowel length by Australian English listeners
    James Whang; Kakeru Yazawa; Paola Escudero
    Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences/pp.2228-2232, 2019-08
  • Phonemic and featural modelling of new L2 sound acquisition
    Yazawa Kakeru
    Proceedings of HisPhonCog 2019/pp.91-92, 2019-05
  • Effects of phrase-final lengthening on English speakers' manifestation of lexical accent in Japanese
    Kakeru Yazawa; Mariko Kondo
    Proceedings of GALA 2017: Language Processing and Development/p.469, 2019-01
  • Acquisition of English high front vowels /iː, ɪ/ by native Japanese speakers
    矢澤翔; 小西隆之; 近藤眞理子
    Proceedings of the 32nd General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/pp.173-178, 2018-09
  • Modelling Japanese speakers' perceptual learning of English /iː/ and /ɪ/ within the L2LP framework
    Kakeru Yazawa; Mariko Kondo; Paola Escudero
    Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference 2017/p.115, 2017-08
  • L2 English speech rhythm of Japanese speakers: An alternative implementation of the Varco metrics
    Yumi Ozaki; Kakeru Yazawa; Mariko Kondo
    Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference 2017/p.84, 2017-08
  • Acoustic realization of downstep in English speakers' Japanese
    矢澤翔; 近藤眞理子
    Proceedings of the 30th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/pp.120-125, 2016-09
  • Japanese advanced learners of English produce shorter epenthetic vowels
    小西隆之; 矢澤翔; 近藤眞理子
    Proceedings of the 30th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/pp.70-75, 2016-09
  • A study of the production of unstressed vowels by Japanese speakers of English using the J-AESOP corpus
    Kakeru Yazawa Yumi Ozaki Greg Short Mariko Kondo Yosh...
    2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORIENTAL COCOSDA HELD JOINTLY WITH 2015 CONFERENCE ON ASIAN SPOKEN LANGUAGE RESEARCH AND EVALUATION (O-COCOSDA/CASLRE)/pp.96-100, 2015-10
  • Vowel epenthesis in Japanese speakers’ L2 English
    Kakeru Yazawa Takayuki Konishi Keiko Hanzawa Greg Shor...
    Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences/p.969, 2015-08
Conference, etc.
  • Harvard-NGSL sentences for English learner speech corpora
    Yazawa Kakeru
    O-COCOSDA 2022/2022-11/24
  • 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
  • Investigating vowel productions with Japanese-English speech corpus
    Yazawa Kakeru
    DaSiC 5/2022-01-20
  • 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
Teaching
2022-04 -- 2022-07Project Practice (2A)University of Tsukuba.
2022-10 -- 2023-02Graduation Thesis (English Linguistics)University of Tsukuba.
2022-04 -- 2022-08Graduation Thesis (English Linguistics)University of Tsukuba.
2022-10 -- 2022-12Project Practice (2B)University of Tsukuba.
2022-04 -- 2022-07English Phonology and Morphology (2)-aUniversity of Tsukuba.
2022-04 -- 2022-08Studies in English Linguistics-aUniversity of Tsukuba.
2022-04 -- 2022-05Invitation to Arts and SciencesUniversity of Tsukuba.
2022-04 -- 2022-07Project Seminar (2A)University of Tsukuba.
2022-10 -- 2023-02Studies in English Linguistics-bUniversity of Tsukuba.
2022-04 -- 2022-07Project Practice (1A)University of Tsukuba.
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Professional activities
2022-04 -- (current)PHONETIC SOCIETY OF JAPANInternational Exchange Committee
2021-06 -- (current)Frontiers in CommunicationReview Editor
2019-04 -- 2019-08Waseda UniversityNew Sounds 2019 Local Organizing Committee

(Last updated: 2023-03-22)