S. Kawahara

Publications
Influence

Analytic bias and phonological typology *

A. Albright, A. Kaun, +6 authors P. Smolensky
2008

Two factors have been proposed as the main determinants of phonological typology: channel bias, phonetically systematic errors in transmission, and analytic bias, cognitive predispositions making… Expand

A Faithfulness Ranking Projected from a Perceptibility Scale: The Case of [+ Voice] in Japanese

S. Kawahara
Computer Science
1 September 2006

This article provides empirical support for the P-map hypothesis, whose fundamental tenet is that the rankings of faithfulness constraints are grounded in perceptual-similarity rankings. Expand

Japanese Honorifics as Emotive Definite Descriptions

Christopher Potts, S. Kawahara
Psychology
9 September 2004

Harada ( 1 976) identifies honorifics as one of "the salient features of the Japanese language" (p. 500) and provides an extensive overview of pressing syntactic is sues surrounding this system. But… Expand

Consonant Cooccurrence Restrictions in Yamato Japanese

S. Kawahara
Mathematics
2006

A Cross-linguistic Study of Sound Symbolism: The Images of Size

K. Shinohara, S. Kawahara
Psychology
24 August 2010

paper reports an experiment on size-related sound symbolism, which shows that certain sound symbolic patterns hold robustly across languages. In particular, we investigate how the images of size… Expand

Contextual effects on the perception of duration

J. Kingston, S. Kawahara, Della Chambless, Daniel Mash, Eve Brenner-Alsop
Computer Science, Medicine
J. Phonetics
1 July 2009

In the experiments reported here, listeners categorized and discriminated speech and non-speech analogue stimuli in which the durations of a vowel and a following consonant or their analogues covary in speakers' productions of such sequences. Expand

Voicing and geminacy in Japanese: An acoustic and perceptual study

S. Kawahara
2005

Maintaining voicing in obstruents is articulatorily challenging. During obstruent closure, intraoral air pressure goes up quickly, and as a consequence it becomes difficult to maintain a sufficient… Expand

Sound Symbolic Patterns in Pokémon Names

S. Kawahara, A. Noto, Grace Kumagai
Mathematics, Computer Science
Phonetica
11 April 2018

We found that the number of voiced obstruents in Pokémon names correlates positively with size, weight, evolution levels, and general strength parameters, except for speed. Expand

Contextual effects on the perception of duration

S. Kawahara
Psychology
4 May 2006

English speakers perceive silent intervals with the same duration as longer when preceded by shorter vocalic intervals [Kluender et al. ‘‘Vowel length differences before voiced and voiceless… Expand

Half rhymes in Japanese rap lyrics and knowledge of similarity

S. Kawahara
Sociology, Mathematics
22 March 2007

AbstractUsing data from a large-scale corpus, this paper establishes the claim that in Japanese rap rhymes, the degree of similarity of two consonants positively correlates with their likelihood of… Expand

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