YAZAWA Kakeru
- Affiliation
- Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Official title
- Assistant Professor
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-0528-6103
- URL
- %T<U<R<gF<F@MPgB=^miPgONPFP=<g<>gEK
- Research fields
Linguistics English linguistics Foreign language education - Research keywords
Phonetics Phonology Second language acquisition Corpus linguistics Computational linguistics English Japanese - Research projects
Mechanisms for comprehending different English accents: focus on Asian and African varieties 2021-04 -- 2025-03 Mariko Kondo Japan 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' English 2022-04 -- 2027-03 Kakeru Yazawa Japan Society of for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 3,770,000Yen Corpus-based investigation of L1 phonetic drift and L2 proficiency 2020-04 -- 2024-03 Kakeru Yazawa Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 2,470,000Yen L2LP-based modeling of the perception of second language and foreign accented speech 2018-04 -- 2020-03 Kakeru Yazawa Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows 900,000Yen Computational modeling of native and non-native perception of foreign-accented speech 2017-11 -- 2018-03 Kakeru Yazawa Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/JSPS Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers 1,100,000Yen - 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 -- 2023-03 RIKENLaboratory for Language DevelopmentGuest Researcher 2020-09 -- 2021-03 Waseda UniversitySchool of International Liberal StudiesAssistant Professor 2020-04 -- 2021-03 Hosei UniversityFaculty of LettersPart-time Lecturer 2019-04 -- 2020-08 Waseda UniversitySchool of International Liberal StudiesResearch Associate 2018-04 -- 2019-03 Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceResearch Fellow (DC2) 2014-01 -- 2019-03 RIKENLaboratory for Language DevelopmentPart-time Research Assistant 2017-11 -- 2018-03 Western Sydney UniversityThe MARCS InstituteGuest Researcher - Academic background
2016-04 -- 2020-03 Waseda Univeristy Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies (PhD) 2014-04 -- 2016-03 Waseda Univeristy Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies (MA) 2010-04 -- 2014-03 Waseda Univeristy School of International Liberal Studies (BA) 2011-08 -- 2012-08 University of Alberta - Degree
2020-03 Doctor of Philosophy in International Culture and Communication Studies Waseda University 2016-03 Master of Arts in International Culture and Communication Studies Waseda University 2014-03 Bachelor of Arts in International Liberal Studies Waseda 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
2023-11 Young Faculty Encouragement Award (Dean's Award) 2015-10 Oriental COCOSDA 2015 Best Student Oral Paper Award 2014-03 Excellent Senior Thesis Paper - Articles
- Investigating L2 Japanese word-initial stop production by L1 Korean learners
KIM Minn; YAZAWA Kakeru
The 38th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/pp.58-63, 2024-09 - Corpus-based investigation of English speakers’ production of Japanese lexically (un)accented words].
矢澤 翔; 波多野 博顕
The 38th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/pp.64-69, 2024-09 - More foreign-accented but more comprehensible: Attrition and amelioration of L1 speech in proficient L2 learners
Yazawa Kakeru; Konishi Takayuki; Pérez-Ramón Rubén; Ko...
F1000Research/13(867)/pp.1-17, 2024-08 - NEW sounds can be easier to learn than SIMILAR sounds, but only when acoustic cues are FAMILIAR
Yazawa Kakeru
Tsukuba English Studies/42/pp.305-325, 2024-02 - Feature-driven new sound category formation: Computational implementation with the L2LP model and beyond
Yazawa Kakeru; Whang James; Kondo Mariko; Escudero Paola
Frontiers in Language Sciences/2/pp.1-19, 2023-12 - Australian English listeners’ perception of Japanese vowel length reveals underlying phonological knowledge
Yazawa Kakeru; Whang James; Escudero Paola
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY/14/pp.1-14, 2023-10 - An evaluation of the phonetic balance of the Harvard-NGSL sentences
矢澤 翔
Proceedings of the 37th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan/pp.108-113, 2023-09 - Modeling a phonotactic approach to segment recovery: The case of Japanese high vowels
Whang James; Yazawa Kakeru
Studies in phonetics, phonology and morphology/29(2)/pp.271-295, 2023-09 - L2 proficiency predicts L1 accentedness and comprehensibility
Yazawa Kakeru; Pérez-Ramón Rubén; Kondo Mariko
Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences/pp.2840-2844, 2023-08 - Spectral and temporal implementation of Japanese speakers’ English vowel categories: A corpus-based study
Yazawa Kakeru; Konishi Takayuki; Whang James; Escudero...
LABORATORY PHONOLOGY/14(1)/pp.1-33, 2023-03 - Annotating second language learner speech: Reflecting on the development of the J-AESOP corpus
矢澤 翔
Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan/26(3)/pp.111-123, 2022-12 - 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 DaSiC/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 - Testing Second Language Linguistic Perception: A case study of Japanese, American English, and Australian English vowels
矢澤 翔
Waseda University Repository/pp.1-287, 2020-03 - 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 - 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 - 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 - more...
- Investigating L2 Japanese word-initial stop production by L1 Korean learners
- 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 - more...
- Corpus-based investigation of English speakers’ production of Japanese lexically (un)accented words].
- Teaching
2024-04 -- 2024-07 Project Seminar (2A) University of Tsukuba. 2024-10 -- 2025-02 Graduation Thesis (English Linguistics) University of Tsukuba. 2024-10 -- 2024-12 Studies in Foreign Language Education B University of Tsukuba. 2024-10 -- 2024-12 Project Practice (1B) University of Tsukuba. 2024-10 -- 2024-12 Project Seminar (1B) University of Tsukuba. 2024-10 -- 2024-12 Project Practice (2B) University of Tsukuba. 2024-10 -- 2024-12 Project Seminar (2B) University of Tsukuba. 2024-10 -- 2025-02 Studies in English Linguistics-b University of Tsukuba. 2024-04 -- 2024-07 Project Seminar (1A) University of Tsukuba. 2024-12 -- 2025-02 English Phonology and Morphology (2)-b University of Tsukuba. more... - 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 JAPAN International Exchange Committee 2021-06 -- (current) Frontiers in Psychology Review Editor 2019-04 -- 2019-08 Waseda University New Sounds 2019 Local Organizing Committee - Other activities
2024-10 -- 2024-10 TGSW2024 Session Organizer ("Second Language Acquisition Research under East-Asian Native Speakers' Context") 2023-10 -- 2023-10 Organizer ("International Workshop on Phonetic and Phonological Processing and Learning") 2022-01 -- 2022-01 Organizer ("International Workshop on Recent Advancement in Phonetic and Phonological Research") 2023-03 -- 2023-12 Sponsoring Visiting Scholar (Prof. James Whang from Seoul National University, South Korea)
(Last updated: 2024-09-24)