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e-mail
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kubozono@lit.kobe-u. ac.jp
(Delete a space between "kobe-u." and "ac".)
- Main Interests
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Prosody in general (syllable, mora, accent and intonation), phonological theory, sound change, interface between phonology and other areas of linguistics, and speech disfluencies such as stuttering and speech errors.
Education
- Osaka University of Foreign Studies, BA. 1979
- Nagoya University, MA. 1981
- Edinburgh University, Ph.D. 1988
Grants and Awards
- Fulbright Fellowship (University of California at Santa Cruz), 1994-1995
- Ichikawa Sanki Prize, 1995
- Kindaichi Prize, 1997
Teaching
- Nanzan University, 1982-1992
- Osaka University of Foreign Studies, 1992-1996
- Kobe University, 1996-present
Selected Publications
- 1989.
'The mora and syllable structure in Japanese: Evidence from speech errors', Language and Speech 32-3, pp.249-278
- 1991.
'Modeling syntactic effects on downstep in Japanese.' In Papers in Laboratory Phonology II, pp.368-387. Cambridge UniversityPress.
- 1993.
The Organization of Japanese Prosody. Tokyo: Kurosio.
- 1995.
Gokeisei to Oninkoozoo (Word Formation and Phonological Structure) Tokyo: Kurosio.
- 1995.
'Perceptual evidence for the mora in Japanese.' In Phonology and Phonetic Evidence: Papers in Laboratory Phonology IV, pp.141-156, Cambridge University Press
- 1996.
'Syllable and accent in Japanese: Evidence from loanword accentuation', Bulletin, The Phonetic Society of Japan. No. 211, pp.71-82.
- 1996.
'Speech segmentation and phonological structure.' In T. Otake and A. Cutler (eds.) Phonological Structure and Language Processing: Cross-linguistic Studies, pp.77-94, Mouton de Gruyter.
- 1997.
'Lexical markedness and variation: A nonderivational account of Japanese compound accent', Proceedings of The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 15, CSLI, Stanford, pp.273-287.
- 1999.
'Mora and Syllable.' In N. Tsujimura (ed.) The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, pp.31-61. Blackwell.
- 1999.
Nihongo no Onsei (The Sound System of Japanese) Tokyo: Iwanami Publishers.
- 2001.
'Epenthetic vowels and accent in Japanese: Facts and paradoxes.' In J. van de Weijer and T. Nishihara (eds.) Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology. Mouton de Gruyter.
- 2002.
'The syllable as a unit of prosodic organization in Japanese'. To appear in F. Fery and R. van der Vijver (eds.) The Syllable in Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.