April 1999 - Present
Doctoral program, Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan (on leave since Fall 2001)

M.A. 1999 in Linguistics.
Master's program, Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.
Thesis: The Effect of Focus on Downstep in English and Japanese.

B.A. 1996 in English.
Department of English, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan.

Teaching

Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
Teaching Associate, Introduction to Linguistic Theory (Linguistics 201), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with full responsibility of class activities including regular class teachings, making up homework assignments and exams and grading.

Fall 2001 - Spring 2002
Teaching Assistant, People and Their Language (Linguistics 101: Professor Margaret Speas for Fall 2001; Professor John Kingston for Spring 2002), University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
My responsibilities included leading discussion sections of the course, helping preparing for assignments and exams, grading, and meeting with students.

April 2000 - July 2000
Teaching Assistant, Phonetics and Phonology,* and Experimental Phonetics,** Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.
*Level: introductory-level graduate course.
**Level: intermediate-level graduate course.
My responsibilities included teaching half of a class meeting every week, preparing audio-visual materials and presenting them in class, helping students with carrying out experiments (experimental phonetics) and with preparing for their class presentations (Phonetics and Phonology).

April 1999 - March 2000
Teaching Assistant, Phonetics, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.
Level: senior-level undergraduate course.
My responsibilities included preparing audio-visual materials, presenting them in class, and helping students with their class presentations.

Awards and Fellowships

April 1999 - March 2002
Nihon Ikueikai Fellowship, Sophia University.

Professional activities

Spring 2005
Research Assistant for Professor Elisabeth Selkirk, University of Massachusetts for an NSF grant project called "The Reflexes of Focus in Phonologyh.

Fall 2002 - Spring 2003
Research Assistant for Professor Elisabeth Selkirk, University of Massachusetts for an NSF grant project called "The Reflexes of Focus in Phonologyh.

Fall 2002 - Spring 2003
Linguistic Colloquium Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst 1997-1998.

Publications/conference presentations and papers

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

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) 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.

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

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

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, Amherst, Mass.: GLSA.

Shinya, Takahito (2005) "The intonational asymmetry between argument and adjunct in Japanese," University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 30: Papers in Prosody, Amherst, Mass.: 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, Amherst, Mass.: GLSA, 91-127.

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

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, Nara, Japan, 183-187.

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

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

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

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

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

Shinya, Takahito (1999) gThe blocking of downstep by focus and articulatory overlap in English and Japanese,h 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.

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

Translation

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

Unpublished Papers, manuscripts and notes

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

Shinya, Takahito (2004) gThe prosody of scrambling," ms. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Shinya, Takahito (2002) gExceptions in Japanese loanword truncation,h ms. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Shinya, Takahito (2002) gThe intonational asymmetry between argument and adjunct in Japanese,h ms. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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

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

Shinya, Takahito (2001) gThe origins of diachronic metathesis: possible connections to child language and speech error,h ms. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Shinya, Takahito (2001) gLoanword truncation in Japanese,h ms. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Languages

Research Interest

Laboratory phonology: effects of prosody on the perception of phonotactic information, the perception of epenthetic stops.

Fieldwork Experiences