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Takahito Shinya

Department: Linguistics
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Department of Linguistics
226 South College
130 Hicks Way
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003

Welcome to my homepage!! I am a graduate student of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

You can see my CV here.

I defended my Ph.D. dissertation on October 27, 2006. It is titled The Role of Lexical Contrast in the Perception of Intonational Prominence in Japanese. The final version will be out in May, 2007.

Research Interests:

I am basically interested in the sound aspects of speech. So far, I have been doing:

Prosody and intonaiton
Focus and phonological phrasing: alignment of pitch accent and initial lowering; interface between phonology and syntax.

Speech perception
Relation between the perception of epenthetic stops and phonotactic knowledge; effects of prosody on phonotactic information.

Publications/ presentations and papers:

Kawahara, Shigeto and Shinya, Takahito (resubmitted) "The intonation of gapping and coordination in Japanese: Evidence for Intonational Phrase." Phonetica

2006

Shinya, Takahito (2006) "The phonetic and phonological triggers of downstep in Japanese: Evidence from perception," to be presented at the 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, November 28 - December 2, 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Shinya, Takahito (2006) "A Perceptual Study of Japanese Intonation Using Praat (in Japanese)," Conference Handbook 24: The 24th Conference of The English Linguistics Society of Japan, 170-175, (paper presented at the symposium titled "The Phonetic and Phonological Research with Phonetic Analysis Tools such as Praat: From Introduction to the State of the Art," The English Linguistic Society of Japan, November 4-5, 2006, Tokyo, Japan.) Powerpoint

Shinya, Takahito (2006) "Lexical accent status affects perceived prominence of intonational peaks in Japanese,"Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006, 89-92.

2005

Shinya, Takahito (2005) "Lexical accent effects on the perception of fundamental frequency peaks in Japanese," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 118, 2033 (abstract). (Presented at the 150th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, held jointly with NOISE-CON 2005, October 17-21, 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.) Abstract Poster

Shinya, Takahito (2005) "The perception of epenthetic stops in English: The effects of cluster type and silent interval duration," University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 31: Papers in Experimental Phonetics/Phonology, GLSA.

Shinya, Takahito (2005) "The intonational asymmetry between argument and adjunct in Japanese," University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 30: Papers in Prosody, GLSA, 185-218.

Kawahara, Shigeto and Shinya, Takahito (2005) "The intonation of gapping and coordination in Japanese: Evidence for Intonational Phrase," University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 30: Papers in Prosody, GLSA, 91-127.

2004

Kawahara, Shigeto and Shinya, Takahito (2004) "The intonation of gapping in Japanese,"presented at 14th Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona. handout

Selkirk, Elisabeth; Shinya, Takahito and Kawahara, Shigeto (2004) "Phonological and phonetic effects of minor phrase length on F0 in Japanese," Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, 183-187. Poster

Shinya, Takahito; Selkirk, Elisabeth and Kawahara, Shigeto (2004) "Rhythmic boost and recursive minor phrase in Japanese," Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, 345-348. Poster

2003

Kingston, John and Shinya, Takahito (2003) "Markedness asymmetries in place perception in consonant clusters," Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 399-402.

Selkirk, Elisabeth, Shinya, Takahito and Sugahara, Mariko (2003) "Degree of initial lowering in Japanese as a reflex of prosodic structure Organization," Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, 491-494.

Translation:

Imatomi, Setsuko; Arai, Takayuki; Sugawara, Tsutomu; Shinya, Takahito; Ishihara, Takeshi; Kitagawa, Yuko (2003) Onseichikaku-no kiso, Tokyo: Kaibundo, chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8 (Japanese translation of Jack Ryalls' (1996) A Basic Introduction of Speech Perception, San Diego, CA: Singular Publishing Group Inc).

2000

Komatsu, Masahiko; Shinya, Takahito; Takasawa, Miyuki and Arai, Takayuki (2000)"Consonant recognition by LPC residual signal and phonotactics," Proceeding s of the 14th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 49-54 (in Japanese).

1999

Shinya, Takahito and Takasawa, Miyuki (1999) "The alignment of utterance-final F0 falling in Japanese," (with Miyuki Takasawa) Proceeding s of the 13th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 149-154 (in Japanese).

Shinya, Takahito (1999) "The blocking of downstep by focus and articulatory overlap in English and Japanese," Proceedings of Sophia University Linguistic Society No. 14, 35-51 (in Japanese).

Shinya, Takahito (1999) The Effect of Focus on Downstep in English and Japanese, MA thesis, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.

1998

Yahagi, Etsuhiro; Aoyagi, Makiko; Ikoma, Miki; Takasawa, Miyuki; Imatomi, Setsuko; Shinya, Takahito; Ishihara Takeshi; Toyomaru, Atsuko and Kawada, Fumitaka (1998) "The acoustic characteristics of the vowels in the Kahoku-gun area in Akita prefecture," presented at the 298th meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (in Japanese).

Unpublished Papers, manuscripts and notes:

Shinya, Takahito (2004) “On the double-o constraint: An OT account," ms University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Shinya, Takahito (2004) “The prosody of scrambling," ms. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Shinya, Takahito (2002) "Exceptions in Japanese loanword truncation," ms. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Shinya, Takahito (2002) "The identification of number and place of stop consonants in VC-CV sequences," ms. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Shinya, Takahito (2001) "A phonetic and phonological analysis on the intonation of Tashlhit Berber," ms. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Shinya, Takahito (2001) "The origins of diachronic metathesis: Possible connections to child language and speech error," ms. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Shinya, Takahito (2001) "Loanword truncation in Japanese," ms. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Teaching:

Academic Year 2007 (all in Japanese)　　 C　 K　 T

Spring 2006
Teachind associate for Ling 201 Introduction to Linguistic Theory.

Fall 2005
Teachind associate for Ling 201 Introduction to Linguistic Theory.

Fall 2004
Teachind assistant for Ling 414 Phonetics for Linguists.

Fall 2003 & Spring 2004
Teaching associate for Ling 201 Introduction to Linguistic Theory.

Other stuff

I am managing the webpage of Amherst Japanese Language School in South Hadley.