Updated on 2025/03/05
Ph.D. （ 2009.3 Kobe University ）
MA (Literature) （ 2006.3 Kobe University ）
BA (Literature) （ 2004.3 Aichi Prefectural University ）
Cognitive Linguistics
iconicity
sound symbolism
ideophones
Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics / ideophones, mimetics, sound symbolism, iconicity
A theoretical study of the syntax and semantics of sound-symbolic words in Japanese
A crosslinguistic and developmental study of the syntax and semantics of sound-symbolic words: On the roles of lexical iconicity
A frame-semantic study of the peculiarities of sound-symbolic words using audiovisual experiments
An empirical pragmatic study of ideophones based on audiovisual corpora
Nagoya University Graduate School of Humanities Associate professor
2017.4
Country：Japan
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Theoretical and Contrastive Studies Visiting associate professor
2016.8 - 2021.3
Country：Japan
Nagoya University Graduate School of Languages and Cultures Associate professor
2015.4 - 2017.3
Country：Japan
Osaka University Graduate School of Language and Culture Lecturer
2011.10 - 2015.3
Country：Japan
University of California, Berkeley Department of Linguistics Visiting Scholar
2009.7 - 2010.12
Country：United States
Japan Society for Promotion of Science University of Tokyo Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2009.4 - 2011.9
Country：Japan
Japan Society for Promotion of Science Kobe University Research Fellow DC2
2007.4 - 2009.3
Country：Japan
Kobe University Graduate School, Division of Cultural Studies Language Structure
2006.4 - 2009.3
Country： Japan
Kobe University Graduate School, Division of Letters English and American Literature
2004.4 - 2006.3
Country： Japan
Aichi Prefectural University Faculty of Literature Department of English
2000.4 - 2004.3
Country： Japan
Pragmatic Society of Japan
2015.9 - 2018.2
Kansai Linguistic Society steering/executive committee
2014.10
English Linguistic Society of Japan
2012.4 - 2018.4
Japanese Society for Language Sciences
2011.4 - 2016.12
The Linguistic Society of America
2009.12 - 2016.12
Phonological Society of Japan
2007.6 - 2015.12
Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association member of the editorial board
2006.5 - 2022.3
Linguistic Society of Japan
2004.4 - 2022.3
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Associate Editor
2022.10
29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Organizing committee member
2021.10
Committee type：Academic society
Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association Editorial board member
2019.9
Committee type：Academic society
NINJAL International Symposium 2016: Mimetics in Japanese and Other Languages of the World Organizing committee
2015.10 - 2016.12
Kansai Linguistic Society Steering committee, organizing committee
2014.10 - 2022.3
2024.10 Korea Publishers Society (KOPUS) Gengo no Honshitsu: Kotoba-wa Doo Umare, Shinka-shita-ka [The Nature of Language: How Language Was Born and Evolved] (Chuokoron, 2023)
Mutsumi Imai, Kimi Akita
2024.2 Chuokoron-Shinsha
Mutsumi Imai, Kimi Akita
2023.11
Mutsumi Imai, Kimi Akita
2023.6 国立国語研究所
秋田喜美
Osaka University President's Research Encouragement Award
2013.8 Osaka University
オノマトペ研究の現在地 Invited
秋田喜美
( 7 ) 2025.6
Ideophones are more reliable than metaphors in Japanese pain descriptions
Akita, K
LANGUAGE AND COGNITION Vol. 17 2025.1
Imai, M; Kita, S; Akita, K; Saji, N; Ohba, M; Namatame, M
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Vol. 157 ( 1 ) page： 137 - 148 2025.1
Iida, H; Akita, K
COGNITIVE SCIENCE Vol. 48 ( 12 ) 2024.12
Sound symbolism Reviewed
Mutsumi Imai, Kimi Akita
Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science 2024.7
連載：オノマトペ解剖辞典（全２４回）
秋田喜美
NHK俳句 2024.4
Iconicity mediates semantic networks of sound symbolism
Akita, K; McLean, B; Park, J; Thompson, AL
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Vol. 155 ( 4 ) page： 2687 - 2697 2024.4
On the wordhood and systematicity of ideophonic verbs in Japanese Invited Reviewed
Kimi Akita
page： 209 - 235 2023.11
The Iconicity Ring Hypothesis Bridges the Gap Between Symbol Grounding and Linguistic Relativity
Imai, M; Akita, K
TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE Vol. 15 ( 4 ) page： 676 - 682 2023.10
Psychoacoustic features explain subjective size and shape ratings of pseudo-words Reviewed
Julián Villegas, Kimi Akita, Shigeto Kawahara
Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association: Forum Acusticum 2023 2023.9
Hinano Iida, Kimi Akita
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023) ( 45 ) page： 2201 - 2207 2023.7
Binomial adjective doublets in Japanese: A Relational Morphology account (vol 32, pg 281, 2022)
Akita Kimi, Murasugi Keiko
MORPHOLOGY Vol. 33 ( 1 ) page： 65 - 65 2023.3
The iconicity ring model for sound symbolism Invited Reviewed
Kimi Akita, Mutsumi Imai
Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems Vol. 18 page： 27 - 45 2022.11
対談「ことばをめぐる不思議・謎・面白さに遭遇する」（今井むつみ×秋田喜美） Invited
今井むつみ・秋田喜美
発達 172：子どものことば、再発見！ Vol. 172 page： 2 - 12 2022.11
Mutsumi Imai, Kimi Akita, Sotaro Kita, Noburo Saji, Masato Ohba , Miki Namatame
The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution page： 325 - 332 2022.9
Binomial adjective doublets in Japanese: A Relational Morphology account
Akita, K; Murasugi, K
MORPHOLOGY Vol. 32 ( 3 ) page： 281 - 297 2022.9
Linguistic representations of visual motion: A crosslinguistic experimental study Reviewed
Yo Matsumoto, Kimi Akita, Anna Bordilovskaya, Kiyoko Eguchi, Hiroaki Koga, Miho Mano, Ikuko Matsuse, Takahiro Morita, Naonori Nagaya, Kiyoko Takahashi, Ryosuke Takahashi, Yuko Yoshinari
Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description page： 43 - 67 2022.7
オノマトペの意味のファセット性
秋田喜美
フレーム意味論の貢献 ―動詞とその周辺 page： 213 - 227 2022.3
Innovative binomial adjectives in Japanese food descriptions and beyond Reviewed
Kimi Akita, Keiko Murasugi
The Language of Food in Japanese: Cognitive Perspectives and Beyond page： 111 - 132 2022.2
Innovative binomial adjectives in Japanese food descriptions and beyond
Akita, K; Murasugi, K
LANGUAGE OF FOOD IN JAPANESE Vol. 25 page： 111 - 132 2022
Linguistic representations of visual motion A crosslinguistic experimental study
Matsumoto, Y; Akita, K; Bordilovskaya, A; Eguchi, K; Koga, H; Mano, M; Matsuse, I; Morita, T; Nagaya, N; Takahashi, K; Takahashi, R; Yoshinari, Y
NEGLECTED ASPECTS OF MOTION-EVENT DESCRIPTION Vol. 72 page： 43 - 67 2022
The iconicity ring model for sound symbolism
Akita, K; Imai, M
ICONICITY IN COGNITION AND ACROSS SEMIOTIC SYSTEMS Vol. 18 page： 27 - 45 2022
A typology of depiction marking: The prosody of Japanese ideophones and beyond Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Studies in Language Vol. 45 ( 4 ) page： 865 - 886 2021.11
日本語の人名における表記の冗長性：関係形態論の観点から Reviewed
秋田喜美
国立国語研究所論集 2021.7
Phonation types matter in sound symbolism Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Cognitive Science Vol. 45 ( 5 ) 2021.5
オノマトペの『不自然』な音象徴 Invited
秋田喜美
早稲田文学2021春 ( 1035 ) page： 24 - 36 2021.3
Binomial adjectives in Japanese
Keiko Murasugi, Kimi Akita
Nanzan Linguistics Vol. 16 2021.3
日本語のオノマトペと言語類型論 Invited Reviewed
秋田喜美
日本語研究と言語理論から見た言語類型論 page： 49 - 73 2021.2
音象徴知覚の日英対照：意味地図による検討 Invited International coauthorship
秋田喜美・ボニー＝マクリーン
実験認知言語学の深化 2021
A fine-grained analysis of manner salience: Experimental evidence from Japanese and English Reviewed
Kimi Akita, Yo Matsumoto
Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions page： 143 - 179 2020.8
オノマトペの音象徴性再訪 Invited
秋田喜美
日本認知言語学会論文集 Vol. 20 page： 424 - 438 2020.6
Systematic side of sound symbolism: The case of suffixed ideophones in Japanese Reviewed
Kimi Akita, Jingyi Zhang, Katsuo Tamaoka
KLS Selected Papers Vol. 2 page： 1 - 16 2020.6
Modality-specificity of iconicity: The case of motion ideophones in Japanese Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Operationalizing Iconicity page： 3 - 20 2020.5
Mimetic 'go'-verbs in Japanese. Reviewed
page： 68 - 81 2020.3
類像性 Invited
大堀壽夫・秋田喜美
認知言語学II page： 115 - 137 2020.3
Japanese ideophones from a typological perspective.
Kimi Akita
Vol. 12 page： 1 - 11 2020.3
Iconicity ratings across the Japanese lexicon: A comparative study with English
Thompson, AL; Akita, K; Do, Y
LINGUISTICS VANGUARD Vol. 6 ( 1 ) 2020.1
オノマトペ Invited Reviewed
秋田喜美
よくわかる言語学 page： 192 - 201 2019.10
音象徴・オノマトペと認知言語学 Invited
篠原和子・秋田喜美
認知言語学大事典 page： 405 - 415 2019.10
Saji Noburo, Akita Kimi, Kantartzis Katerina, Kita Sotaro, Imai Mutsumi
PLOS ONE Vol. 14 ( 7 ) 2019.7
Semantic Associations Dominate Over Perceptual Associations in Vowel-Size Iconicity
Hoshi Hideyuki, Kwon Nahyun, Akita Kimi, Auracher Jan
I-PERCEPTION Vol. 10 ( 4 ) 2019.7
Ideophones (mimetics, expressives) Invited Reviewed International coauthorship
Kimi Akita, Mark Dingemanse
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics 2019.5
Ideophones Invited Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics 2019.5
Oshima David Y., Akita Kimi, Sano Shin-ichiro
GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS Vol. 4 ( 1 ) 2019.3
著書紹介：陳奕廷・松本曜著『日本語語彙的複合動詞の意味と体系：コンストラクション形態論とフレーム意味論』 Invited
秋田喜美
国語研 ことばの波止場 Vol. 5 page： 15 - 15 2019.3
Innovative bipartite adjectives in Japanese: A preliminary semantic description.
Kimi Akita, Keiko Murasugi
Nanzan Linguistics Vol. 14 page： 1 - 7 2019.3
Ideophones, mimetics, and expressives Theoretical and typological perspectives INTRODUCTION
Akita Kimi, Pardeshi Prashant
IDEOPHONES, MIMETICS AND EXPRESSIVES Vol. 16 page： 1 - 9 2019
Mimetics, gaze, and facial expression in a multimodal corpus of Japanese
Akita Kimi
IDEOPHONES, MIMETICS AND EXPRESSIVES Vol. 16 page： 229 - 247 2019
The typology of manner expressions: A preliminary look Invited Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Motion and Space across Languages: Theory and Applications page： 39-60 2017.8
The functional nature of deictic verbs and the coding patterns of Deixis: An experimental study in English, Japanese, and Thai Reviewed
Yo Matsumoto, Kimi Akita, Kiyoko Takahashi
Motion and Space across Languages and Applications page： 95-122 2017.8
An inverse relation between expressiveness and grammatical integration: On the morphosyntactic typology of ideophones, with reference to Japanese Reviewed
Mark Dingemanse, Kimi Akita
Journal of Linguistics Vol. 53 ( 3 ) page： 501-532 2017.8
Dingemanse, M; Akita, K
JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS Vol. 53 ( 3 ) page： 501 - 532 2017.8
The linguistic integration of Japanese ideophones and its typological implications
Akita Kimi
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS-REVUE CANADIENNE DE LINGUISTIQUE Vol. 62 ( 2 ) page： 314 - 334 2017.6
Do foreign languages also have mimetics? Invited
Kimi Akita
Mysteries of mimetics: From Pikachu to mofumofu (ed. by Haruo Kubozono) page： 65-85 2017.5
The "dynamic" nature of stative mimetic verbs in Japanese Invited Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Journal of Cognitive Linguistics Vol. 2 page： 39-56 2017.3
Grammatical and functional properties of mimetics in Japanese Invited Reviewed
Kimi Akita
The Grammar of Japanese Mimetics: Perspectives from Structure, Acquisition and Translation page： 20-34 2017.1
Doing linguistics internationally
Kimi Akita
Papers from the 17th National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association Vol. 17 page： 604-609 2017
Grammatical and functional properties of mimetics in Japanese
Akita, K
GRAMMAR OF JAPANESE MIMETICS: PERSPECTIVES FROM STRUCTURE, ACQUISITION, AND TRANSLATION page： 20 - 34 2017
A constructional account of the "optional" quotative marking on Japanese mimetics Reviewed
Kimi Akita, Takeshi Usuki
Journal of Linguistics Vol. 52 ( 2 ) page： 245-275 2016.7
Mimetics in linguistic systems Invited
Kimi Akita
Lexicon Forum Vol. 7 page： 19-39 2016.5
Mimetics Invited Reviewed
Kimi Akita, Natsuko Tsujimura
The Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation page： 000-000 2016.2
A multimedia encyclopedia of Japanese mimetics: A frame-semantic approach to L2 sound-symbolic words Invited Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Cognitive-Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language page： 000-000 2016.2
Sound symbolism Invited Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Handbook of Pragmatics, Installment 2015 page： 000-000 2015.12
The typicality of manner in the typology of manner expressions Invited Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Searching for new possibilities of lexical semantics page： 354-380 2015.11
Gradability and mimetic verbs in Japanese
Naoki Kiyama, Kimi Akita
Proceedings of the Forty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society Vol. 41 page： 245-265 2015.9
Mimetics Invited
Kimi Akita
The Sanseido Dictionary of Linguistics page： 40-41 2015.8
Ideophones and reported discourse as depictive signs
Kimi Akita
Joint project on language & culture 2014: Theoretical approaches to natural language page： 1-10 2015.6
What's in a mimetic?: On the dynamicity of its iconic stem Reviewed
Takeshi Usuki, Kimi Akita
Iconicity: East Meets West page： 109-123 2015.2
Cross-regional comparison of mimetic word uses based on the Minutes of the Diet of Japan Reviewed
Sachiko Hirata-Mogi, Satoshi Nakamura, Takanori Komatsu, Kimi Akita
Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Vol. 30 ( 1 (SP2-H) ) page： 274-281 2015.1
Review: Construction Morphology, by Geert Booij, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010 Invited Reviewed
Kimi Akita
English Linguistics Vol. 31 ( 1 ) page： 275-283 2014.6
Fictivity and frames in mimetic state expressions
Kimi Akita
Joint project on language & culture 2013: Theoretical approaches to natural language page： 1-10 2014.6
A quantitative approach to mimetic diachrony
Kimi Akita, Satoshi Nakamura, Takanori Komatsu, Sachiko Hirata-Mogi
Japanese/Korean Linguistics Vol. 22 page： 181-195 2014
Register-specific morphophonological constructions in Japanese
Kimi Akita
Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society Vol. 38 page： 3-18 2014
FrameNet as a resource for paraphrase research Invited
Yoko Hasegawa, Russell Lee-Goldman, Albert Kong, Kimi Akita
Advances in Frame Semantics page： 109-132 2013.12
Constraints on the semantic extension of onomatopoeia Reviewed
Kimi Akita
The Public Journal of Semiotics Vol. 5 ( 1 ) page： 21-37 2013.12
Keret-hangjelentéstan: A japán utánzószavak keretjelentés alapú megközelíése Invited
Kimi Akita
Fogalom, hang, gyök: És tanításuk page： 100-114 2013.12
Fiction in an encyclopedia: A Generative Lexicon approach to fictive mimetic resultatives in Japanese Reviewed
Takeshi Usuki, Kimi Akita
A view from linguistics 2013: Papers on the 40th anniversary of Fukuoka Linguistic Circle page： 308-321 2013.12
Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism for motion: An exploratory data mining approach Reviewed
Noburo Saji, Kimi Akita, Mutsumi Imai, Katerina Kantartzis, Sotaro Kita
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013) Vol. 35 page： 1253-1258 2013.8
Mimetic vowel harmony
Kimi Akita, Mutsumi Imai, Noburo Saji, Katerina Kantartzis, Sotaro Kita
Japanese/Korean Linguistics Vol. 20 page： 115-129 2013.7
The frame semantics of mimetics in terms of their collocational characteristics
Kimi Akita
Sound symbolism and mimetics: Rethinking the relationship between sound and meaning in language page： 101-115 2013.4
A research history of mimetics and sound symbolism
Kimi Akita
Sound symbolism and mimetics: Rethinking the relationship between sound and meaning in language page： 333-364 2013.4
The lexical iconicity hierarchy and its grammatical correlates Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Iconic Investigations page： 331-349 2013.3
Review of Metaphors in Japanese by Kojiro Nabeshima Invited Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Journal of Japanese Grammar Vol. 12 ( 2 ) page： 213-220 2012.9
Phonosemantic evidence for the mimetic stratum in the Japanese lexicon
Kimi Akita
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society Vol. 34 page： 1-12 2012.8
A quantitative study of the interactional function of mimetics Reviewed
Kimi Akita, Satoshi Nakamura, Takanori Komatsu, Sachiko Hirata
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2012 Vol. 26 page： 2N1-OS-8c-5 2012.6
Toward a frame-semantic definition of sound-symbolic words: A collocational analysis of Japanese mimetics Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Cognitive Linguistics Vol. 23 ( 1 ) page： 67-90 2012.2
Toward a phonosemantic definition of iconic words Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Semblance and Signification page： 3-18 2011.11
FrameNet as a resource for paraphrase research Reviewed
Yoko Hasegawa, Russell Lee-Goldman, Albert Kong, Kimi Akita
Constructions and Frames Vol. 3 ( 1 ) page： 104-127 2011.9
A constructionist analysis of emphatic mimetics in Japanese Reviewed
Kimi Akita
KLS 31: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society Vol. 31 page： 240-251 2011.6
An embodied semantic analysis of psychological mimetics in Japanese Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Linguistics Vol. 48 ( 6 ) page： 1195-1220 2010.11
Deictic path expressions and manner lexicon in the typology of motion expressions Invited
Kimi Akita, Yo Matsumoto, Kyoko Hirose Ohara
Lexicon Forum Vol. 5 page： 1-25 2010.6
Gradient integration of sound symbolism in language: Toward a crosslinguistic generalization
Kimi Akita
Japanese/Korean Linguistics Vol. 17 page： 217-230 2009.10
The acquisition of the constraints on mimetic verbs in Japanese and Korean
Kimi Akita
Japanese/Korean Linguistics Vol. 16 page： 163-177 2009.7
How motion sounds/looks in Japanese and English: Mimetics in the typology of motion expressions
Kimi Akita, Yo Matsumoto, Kyoko Hirose Ohara
Kobe Papers in Linguistics Vol. 6 page： 1-19 2009.1
Statistical information in phonological acquisition: Correlations between phoneme distribution and markedness Reviewed
Hajime Takeyasu, Kimi Akita
Phonological Studies Vol. 12 page： 51-58 2009.1
The dative paradox: The case of Japanese psych-verbs Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Lexicon Forum Vol. 4 page： 91-112 2008.9
Two cognitive subsystems of sound symbolism in Japanese
Kimi Akita
KLS 28: Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society Vol. 28 page： 23-33 2008.6
Defining the mimetic category in the Japanese lexicon: A reply to Tamori and Schourup (1999)
Kimi Akita
Proceedings of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association Vol. 8 page： 428-438 2008.5
One experience viewed in two ways: A viewpoint approach to the case marking patterns of Japanese psych-verbs Reviewed
Kimi Akita
Lexicon Forum Vol. 3 page： 283-297 2007.7
Embodied semantics of Japanese psychomimes
Kimi Akita
KLS 26: Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society Vol. 26 page： 45-55 2006.6
The Nature of Language: How Language was Born and Evolved
Mutsumi Imai and Kimi Akita（ Role： Joint author）
Chuokoron-Shinsha 2023.5 （ ISBN:978-4121027566 ）
Cognitive Science of Ideophones
Kimi Akita（ Role： Sole author）
2022.8 （ ISBN:978-4788517820 ）
Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives Reviewed
Kimi Akita, Prashant Pardeshi（ Role： Joint editor）
John Benjamins 2019.5
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 29
Kaoru Horie, Kimi Akita, Yusuke Kubota, David Y. Oshima, Akira Utsugi（ Role： Joint editor）
CSLI Publications 2022.5
言語類型論
堀江薫・秋田喜美・北野浩章（ Role： Joint author , 第6-7章）
開拓社 2021.10 （ ISBN:978-4758914123 ）
認知言語学の羽ばたき：実証性の高い言語研究を目指して
當野能之・鈴木幸平・秋田喜美・森下裕三（ Role： Joint editor）
開拓社 2020.3 （ ISBN:978-4-7589-2284-5 ）
The Grammar of Japanese Mimetics: Perspectives from Structure, Acquisition, and Translation
Noriko Iwasaki, Peter Sells, Kimi Akita（ Role： Sole author）
Routledge 2017.1 （ ISBN:9781138181908 ）
Thorough discussion on de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics: Dialogue between Saussurean philology and modern linguistics
Kazuhiro Matsuzawa, Kimi Akita, Masahiro Ijima, Shigehiro Kato, Masuhiro Nomura（ Role： Sole author）
Hituzi Syobo 2017 （ ISBN:978-4-89476-825-3 ）
Iconicity: East Meets West
Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara, Kimi Akita（ Role： Joint author）
John Benjamins 2015.2 （ ISBN:978-9027243508 ）
ことばの仕組みから学ぶ和文英訳のコツ
畠山雄二・田中江扶・谷口一美・秋田喜美・本田謙介・内田聖二・成瀬由紀雄（ Role： Joint author）
開拓社 2014.6 （ ISBN:978-4758925464 ）
The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Vol. 1
Toshio Ohori, Kimi Akita, Hiroaki Koga, Minoru Yamaizumi（ Role： Joint author）
Kenkyusha 2011.9 （ ISBN:978-4327401603 ）
秋田喜美
ラボの世界 Vol. 305 page： 10 - 10 2024.12
教員の自著紹介：今井むつみ・秋田喜美著『言語の本質：ことばはどう生まれ、進化したか』
秋田喜美
年報2023：名古屋大学大学院人文学研究科 教育研究推進室 page： 42 - 42 2024.11
山口仲美著『犬は「びよ」と鳴いていた：日本語は擬音語・擬態語が面白い』 Invited
秋田喜美
名著百選（ブックファースト新宿店） Vol. 2024 2024.11
今井先生との音象徴研究
秋田喜美
ABLE2025 Finale 2025.3.15
笑顔は音声を通して伝わるか：笑顔と唇歯音の効果について
秋田喜美
第20回音韻論フェスタ 2025.3.5 日本音韻論学会
オノマトペの類型論を目指して Invited
秋田喜美
九州大学言語文化研究院主催言語学講演会 2025.1.14 九州大学言語文化研究院
オノマトペが伝えるもの Invited
秋田喜美
第10回愛知大学語学教育研究室公開講演会 2024.10.19 愛知大学語学教育研究室
先史時代の石工たち ～ 石職人×考古学者×言語学者（YouTube LIVE対談イベント） Invited
上野梓、門脇誠二、秋田喜美
先史時代の石工たち ～ 石職人×考古学者×言語学者 2024.8.6 名古屋大学高等研究院
言語学の観点から：言語個別的音象徴の4つの出所 Invited
秋田喜美
ンポジウム「オノマトペ研究の可能性：日本語学、言語学、言語心理学の対話」, 関西言語学会第49回大会 2024.6.9 関西言語学会
「新書大賞2024」大賞贈賞式・受賞者記念講演『言語の本質』今井むつみさん・秋田喜美さん講演会 Invited
今井むつみ・秋田喜美
「新書大賞2024」大賞贈賞式・受賞者記念講演『言語の本質』今井むつみさん・秋田喜美さん講演会 2024.3.19 中央公論新社
オノマトペとは何か？ Invited
秋田喜美
JPIC連続講座 2023.11.28 JPIC
オノマトペの意味を記し、教える Invited International conference
秋田喜美
フランス日本語教師会11月勉強会 2023.11.25 フランス日本語教師会
Ideophones in motion descriptions: An overview. International conference
Kimi Akita
"Ideophones in Motion Descriptions" Workshop 2023.10.7
Psychoacoustic features explain subjective size and shape ratings of pseudo-words International conference
Julián Villegas, Kimi Akita, Shigeto Kawahara
10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association: Forum Acusticum 2023 2023.9.12
Perceptual strength norms for 510 Japanese words, including ideophones: A comparative study with English International conference
Hinano Iida, Kimi Akita
CogSci2023 2023.7.27
オノマトペは何をどうやって表すのか
秋田喜美
ホームカミングデイ秋季サロン＜暮らしのなかの再発見 ―音・文字・景観―＞ 2022.10.15 名古屋大学文学部
An introduction to the typology of ideophones International conference
Kimi Akita
Workshop on Typology of Ideophones 2022.6.24 Kiyoko Toratani, Kimi Akita
通言語的観点から見た日本語のオノマトペ Invited
秋田喜美
第121回NINJALコロキウム 2022.3.15 国立国語研究所
Japanese binomial adjectives International conference
Keiko Murasugi and Kimi Akita
Societas Linguistica Europaea 2021 2021
類像性と意味拡張：日本語その他のオノマトペをヒントに Invited
秋田喜美
187回現代日本語学研究会 2021.6.12 現代日本語学研究会
なぜ笛はピーと鳴るのか：ディピクションをマークする3つの方法 Invited
秋田喜美
第12回動的語用論研究会 2021.3.27 動的語用論研究会
Binomial adjectives in Japanese
Keiko Murasugi and Kimi Akita
Workshop on Mimetics IV: Parameters and Mimetics, Zoom 2021.1.11 Nanzan University and Nagoya University
On the ideophonic protolanguage hypothesis Invited International conference
Kimi Akita
Workshop on Mimetics IV: Parameters and Mimetics 2021.1.11 Nanzan University and Nagoya University
Japanese mimetics and linguistic typology Invited
Kimi Akita
Prosody & Grammar Festa 3 (Joint meeting of comparative-linguistic projects) 2019.2.16
類像性の感覚固有性：空間移動を表す日本語オノマトペを例に Invited
秋田喜美
第1回オハイオ州立大学・名古屋大学日本語学・日本語教育研究ワークショップ 2018.2.23
The synesthetic and multimodal nature of ideophones Invited
Kimi Akita
Symposium on 3 cognitive phenomena: ideophones, synesthesia, and metaphor, PSJ Metaphor Workshop in Aki
The low iconicity of mimetic reduplication in Japanese
Kimi Akita
Workshop on mimetics II: New approaches to old questions
Do foreign languages also have ideophones? Invited
Kimi Akita
NINJAL Forum 11: The Marvels and Mysteries of Mimetics
Ideophones melt in: Japanese ideophones from a crosslinguistic point of view
Kimi Akita
Workshop on mimetics I: Toward a typology of mimetics
Decomposing the lexical iconicity hierarchy for ideophones Invited International conference
Kimi Akita
Workshop on Types of Iconicity in Language Use, Development and Processing
Limits of auditory iconicity: The semantics of motion ideophones in Japanese International conference
Kimi Akita
The 11th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature
Do foreign languages also have ideophones? Invited
Kimi Akita
NINJAL Forum 10: The Marvels and Mysteries of Mimetics
Lexical portraits of Japanese mimetics: Browsing through the BCCWJ corpus using NLB
Prashant Pardeshi, Kimi Akita
NINJAL International Symposium 2016: Mimetics in Japanese and Other Languages of the World
Ideophones, gaze, and facial expression: A preliminary report from Japanese Invited
Kimi Akita
NINJAL International Symposium 2016: Mimetics in Japanese and Other Languages of the World
Ideophones as "words": The world of picturesque sound
Kimi Akita
The 4th International Symposium for Academic Exchange between Japan and South Korea
On international research activities
Kimi Akita
The 17th Annual Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistic Association
Toward a multidisciplinary study of language: A crosslinguistic study of the relationship between the form and meaning of mimetic words
Kimi Akita
The 1st Symposium on Excellent, Leading, and Advanced Research at Nagoya University: Creation and Succession of Wisdom in Humanities and Social Sciences
Determinants of the L1 acquisition of ideophones in Japanese and Korean International conference
Ji-Yeon Park, Kimi Akita
The 9th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese
When ideophones are "childish": Toward a pragmatic typology of ideophones
Kimi Akita
the 18th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan
Ideophones and the iconicity of motion event descriptions
Kimi Akita
The 4th International Symposium on Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics
Sound effect symbolism crosslinguistically: The case of Japanese and American animated cartoons International conference
Kimi Akita
The 10th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature
Gradability and mimetic verbs in Japanese: A frame-semantic account International conference
Naoki Kiyama, Kimi Akita
The 41st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Frequencies of manner specifications and types of manner expressions: A finer-grained analysis in English and Japanese
Kimi Akita, Yo Matsumoto
NINJAL Symposium "Typology and Cognition in Motion Event Descriptions"
音象徴語に潜む言語普遍性と個別性：産出実験からのアプローチ
佐治伸郎, 秋田喜美, カテリーナ・カンタルチス, 喜多壮太郎, 今井むつみ
日本認知言語学会第15回全国大会
実験調査からみた他動性と意図性の関係：中国語・日本語・英語の場合 International conference
鄭聖汝, 秋田喜美
第六届汉日对比语言学研讨会
オノマトペの言語的統合性
秋田喜美
日本フランス語学会フランス語談話会
Linguistic integration of Japanese mimetics and its typological implications International conference
Kimi Akita
Structuring Sensory Imagery: Ideophones across Languages & Cultures
Manner and the framing typology
Kimi Akita
ELSJ-ISF 7
Manner, path, and deixis in English motion descriptions: An experimental study
Kimi Akita
NINJAL Typology Festa 2014
オノマトペの認知言語学：擬音語の意味拡張に対する非類像性制約
秋田喜美
大学院国際言語文化研究科第19回応用言語学講座公開講演会
Japanese mimetics: A thumbnail sketch
Kimi Akita
Sound Symbolism Workshop 2013
The typology of manner expressions: A preliminary look International conference
Kimi Akita
International Workshop SYLEX III: Space and Motion across Languages and Applications
日本語オノマトペにおける継承関係（日本語オノマトペの構文文法的分析）
秋田喜美
国立国語研究所日本語レキシコン共同プロジェクト研究発表会
Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism for motion: An exploratory data mining approach International conference
Noburo Saji, Kimi Akita, Mutsumi Imai, Katerina Kantartzis, Sotaro Kita
The 35th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013)
Crosslinguistic tendencies in the intralinguistic variations of motion descriptions: An experimental study of manner, path, and deixis International conference
Yo Matsumoto, Kimi Akita, Fabiana Andreani, Kiyoko Eguchi, Noriko Imazato, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Ikuko Matsuse, Takahiro Morita, Naonori Nagaya, Kiyoko Takahashi, Ryosuke Takahashi, Yuko Yoshinari
12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Constructing an online multimedial encyclopedia of Japanese mimetics International conference
Kimi Akita
Cognitive and Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language Symposium: A Pre-Conference Symposium at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Expressiveness in mimetic syntax: Quantitative evidence from Japanese and English International conference
Kimi Akita
Grammar of Mimetics Workshop
On the underspecified syntactic-categorial status of mimetics: Research history and beyond International conference
Takeshi Usuki, Kimi Akita
9th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature
Comparison of using rate of onomatopoeia between the speakers' hometown in the Japanese Diet record International conference
Sachiko Hirata-Mogi, Satoshi Nakamura, Takanori Komatsu, Kimi Akita
9th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature
言語における類像性
秋田喜美
「言語と人間」研究会（HLC）第38回春期セミナー
オノマトペに見ることばのデザイン
秋田喜美
大阪大学21世紀懐徳堂i-spot講座
オノマトペの形態統語的実現に関するフレーム意味論的一般化
秋田喜美
日本言語学会第145回大会ワークショップ「オノマトペと言語理論：統語と意味の接点から」
A frame-semantic analysis of the (limited) flexibility of mimetic verbs
Kimi Akita
ELSJ 30
A quantitative approach to mimetic diachrony International conference
Kimi Akita, Satoshi Nakamura, Takanori Komatsu, Sachiko Hirata
The 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
A qualia account of mimetic resultatives in Japanese International conference
Takeshi Usuki, Kimi Akita
The 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
Frame phonosemantics: A frame-semantic approach to Japanese mimetics International conference
Kimi Akita
Czuczor-Fogarasi Conference
A quantitative approach to sound-symbolic involvement
Kimi Akita
Sound Symbolism Workshop 2012
The internal structures of sound-symbolic systems: The universal and language-specific portions of sound symbolism International conference
Noburo Saji, Kimi Akita, Mutsumi Imai, Katerina Kantartzis, Sotaro Kita
CogSci 2012
オノマトペのインタラクション性に関する量的考察
秋田喜美, 中村聡史, 小松孝徳, 平田佐智子
人工知能学会全国大会第26回大会
オノマトペに対する意識の地域比較
平田佐智子, 秋田喜美, 小松孝徳, 中村聡史, 藤井弘樹, 澤井大樹
人工知能学会全国大会第26回大会
国会議事録コーパスを用いたオノマトペの通時的分析
中村聡史, 平田佐智子, 秋田喜美
人工知能学会全国大会第26回大会
Register-specific morphophonological constructions in Japanese International conference
Kimi Akita
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
オノマトペの多義性と類像性
秋田喜美
「言語と人間」研究会11月例会
僕らが銀座をぶらぶらとしない理由：オノマトペ述語の意味特性と「と」の分布再考
秋田喜美・臼杵岳
形態論・レキシコン研究会年次大会2011
小さな窓から見る大きめの世界：オノマトペの形態的随意性への構文論的アプローチ
秋田喜美
日本認知科学会サマースクール若手研究者プレゼンテーション（言語学）
Register-specific morphophonological constructions: The case of motherese verbs and heavy-prefix verbs in Japanese
Kimi Akita
JSLS 13
Iconicity in mimetic grammar International conference
Kimi Akita
Eighth International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature
Universal and language-specific sound symbolism: The case of Chinese and English speakers' semantic inference of Japanese mimetics
Shang Rong, Kimi Akita
Keio/Tamagawa Mimetics & Sound Symbolism Workshop
Mimetic vowel harmony in Japanese International conference
Kimi Akita, Mutsumi Imai, Noburo Saji, Katerina Kantartzis, Sotaro Kita
20th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
共起特性から見る日本語オノマトペのフレーム意味論
秋田喜美
日本認知科学会第27回大会ワークショップ「オノマトペと音象徴」
オノマトペ文法における類像性
秋田喜美
第8回福岡大学言語学コロキアム「オノマトペからみる言語理論」
A study of paraphrasing in terms of FrameNet and frame semantics International conference
Yoko Hasegawa, Russell Lee-Goldman, Albert Kong, Kyoko H. Ohara, Kimi Akita, Satoru Uchida, Charles J. Fillmore
Sixth International Conference on Construction Grammar
Morphological optionality in Construction Grammar: The case of adverbial mimetics in Japanese International conference
Kimi Akita
Sixth International Conference on Construction Grammar
The cognitive semantics of onomatopoeia: A crosslinguistic perspective on the lexical integration of sound symbolism International conference
Kimi Akita
Symposium "Universality and Language-Specificity of Sound Symbolism: The Interplay of Multimodality, Embodiment, and Iconicity," the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Science
パンをこんがり「と」焼く理由：いわゆる強調副詞的擬態語の構文音韻形態論的分析
秋田喜美
関西言語学会第35回大会
オノマトペにおける有生性：声と音の違いが生む違い
秋田喜美
日本言語学会第140回大会
The lexical basis of sound symbolism of "sound-symbolic words" in Japanese International conference
Kimi Akita
Seventh International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature
Developmental grounds for lexical iconicity: The acquisition of mimetic semantics in Japanese International conference
Kimi Akita
The 18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
How motion sounds/looks in Japanese and English: Mimetics in the typology of motion expressions
Kimi Akita
Kobe Conference on Language Typology: English, Japanese, and Other Languages
オノマトペの「特異性」再考：音韻と意味の接点
秋田喜美, 竹安大
日本言語学会第136回大会
音韻獲得における有標性と個別言語の音素出現頻度：発達段階・後続母音・語彙層の影響
竹安大, 秋田喜美
日本音韻論学会第15回春期研究発表会
Mimetics as root-template combinations: A pedagogical implication from Construction Grammar International conference
Kimi Akita
Sixth International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese
Phonosemantic evidence for the mimetic stratum in the Japanese lexicon International conference
Kimi Akita
The 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Gradient integration of sound symbolism in language: Toward a crosslinguistic generalization International conference
Kimi Akita
The 17th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
音象徴語の「範疇化問題」への一つの答え：田守・スコウラップ(1999)へのリプライ
秋田喜美
日本認知言語学会第8回大会
日本語音象徴語の音韻形態への構文文法的アプローチ
秋田喜美
形態論・レキシコン研究会2007
日本語における音象徴語を含む述語の事象タイプ決定
秋田喜美
日本言語学会第134回大会
日本語音象徴語における二つの音象徴
秋田喜美
関西言語学会第32回大会
The acquisition of the constraints on mimetic verbs in Japanese and Korean International conference
Kimi Akita
The 16th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
Suru and to for Japanese mimetics: A semantic-integration account International conference
Kimi Akita
Fifth International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese
日本語の擬情語心理動詞における時間性：日英通常心理動詞との比較
秋田喜美
日本言語学会第131回大会
日本語の擬態語心理表現における身体性
秋田喜美
関西言語学会第30回記念大会
なぜ笛はピーと鳴るのか：ディピクションをマークする3つの方法 Invited
秋田喜美
第12回動的語用論研究会 2021.3.27
Binomial adjectives in Japanese International conference
Keiko Murasugi, Kimi Akita
Workshop on Mimetics IV: Parameters and Mimetics 2021.1.11
On the ideophonic protolanguage hypothesis International conference
Kimi Akita
Workshop on Mimetics IV: Parameters and Mimetics 2021.1.11
Ideophones and iconicity in Japanese Invited International conference
Kimi Akita
Pre-event lectures on the Japanese language from cognitive/typological perspectives, 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2019.8.6
オノマトペの音象徴性再訪 Invited
秋田喜美
日本認知言語学会第20回大会 2019.8.5
Mimetic predicates in the VP-shell hypothesis: Deriving the mimetic parameter from morphological typology International conference
Keiko Murasugi, Kimi Akita
Workshop on Mimetics III: Crucibles of Mimetics 2019.8.3
Systematic side of sound symbolism: The case of suffixed mimetics in Japanese
Kimi Akita, Jingyi Zhang, Katsuo Tamaoka
The 44th Annual Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society 2019.7.13
日本語における状態述語の意味的な住み分け：程度性とスケール構造の観点から
大島デイヴィッド義和・秋田喜美・佐野真一郎
日本言語学会第156回大会 2018.6.23
Phonosemantic maps: Toward a typology of sound symbolism International conference
Kimi Akita
The 1st Conference on Pokémonastics 2018.5.26
General commentary on Pokémonastics Invited International conference
Kimi Akita
The 1st Conference on Pokémonastics 2018.5.26
Innovative compounds in Japanese food descriptions and beyond International conference
Kimi Akita, Keiko Murasugi
Conference on the Language of Japanese Food 2018.5.5
オノマトペは何をどうやって表すのか Invited
秋田喜美
ホームカミングデイ秋季サロン＜暮らしのなかの再発見 ―音・文字・景観―＞ 2022.10.15 名古屋大学文学部
オノマトペが伝えるもの Invited
秋田喜美
第10回愛知大学語学教育研究室公開講演会 2024.10.19 愛知大学豊橋キャンパス
Multimedia Encyclopedia of Japanese Mimetics (MEJaM)
オノマトペ解剖辞典
Movimiento y espacio desde la tipología semántica II: Nuevos retos y nuevas aplicaciones en la traducción y la adquisición (MovEsII) International coauthorship
Grant number：FFI2013-45553-C3 2014 - 2017
Authorship：Collaborating Investigator(s) (not designated on Grant-in-Aid) Grant type：Competitive
Movimiento y espacio desde la tipología semántica y su aplicación a la traducción y la adquisición. MovEs International coauthorship
Grant number：FFI2010-14903 2011 - 2013
Authorship：Collaborating Investigator(s) (not designated on Grant-in-Aid) Grant type：Competitive
Grant number：23H00627 2023.4 - 2027.3
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Authorship：Coinvestigator(s)
Grant number：23K25324 2023.4 - 2027.3
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Authorship：Coinvestigator(s)
音象徴進化仮説ー普遍性から言語個別性、身体性から抽象性・体系性へ
Grant number：20H00014 2020.4 - 2025.3
科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(A)
今井 むつみ, 大槻 美佳, 生田目 美紀, 秋田 喜美, 佐治 伸郎
Authorship：Coinvestigator(s)
子どもは乳児期から複数の感覚を脳内で対応づけ統合することができ，音象徴などの類像性が言語習得初期に重要であるという音象徴ブートストラッピング仮説(Imai & Kita, 2014)が支持されている．他方で，身体性オノマトペでも，個別言語の音韻体系に大きく制約された恣意性をもつ．このことは，身体に接地しながらどのように記号の抽象化が進み，子どもが言語習得の過程でどのように抽象的な概念を身体化していくのかという問いが重要であることを示す．この問題を解明するために,音象徴の進化の過程に焦点をあて,生物学的要因を基盤とする類像性が文化的，言語学的な要因とどのように相互作用するのかを明らかにする．
語彙習得の問題に関して近年注目されているのが身体性と類像性(iconicity)の役割である.類像性とは,形式と意味の間に感じられる類似性と定義される(Peirce, 1932).子どもは言語学習がはじまる以前の乳児期から視覚,聴覚,触覚などの異感覚を脳内で対応づけ,統合することができ,音象徴(「タケテ」が尖った図形と結びつくように,音と意味が偶然を越えた関係を持つ現象)やジェスチャーに代表される類像性が言語習得初期に非常に重要であるという音象徴ブートストラッピング仮説(Perniss & Vigliocco, 2014; Imai & Kita, 2014)は多くの研究者に支持されている.
他方で異言語比較研究では,身体とのつながりが強いオノマトペでも,個別言語の音韻体系に大きく制約された恣意性をもつことも示された(Saji et al.,2019).このことは,身体に接地しながらどのように記号の抽象化が進んでいき,子どもが言語習得の過程でどのように抽象的な概念を身体化していくのかという問いこそが重要であることを示す.本研究では,こういった記号接地問題(Harnad, 1990)と呼ばれる問題を解明するために,音象徴の進化の過程に焦点をあて,生物学的要因を基盤とする類像性が文化的,言語学的な要因とどのように相互作用するのかを,言語学,認知心理学,数理心理学,神経心理学,フィールド言語学の学際的な共同研究によって,多角的,多層的に明らかにするため,言語共通の音象徴性と言語固有の音象徴性を作り出す要因の同定や聴覚障がい者の音象徴性に関する調査・分析を行った.さらに, 音象徴性を含めた言語習得研究の大局について
学術論文として公開した.
研究代表者の今井と,研究分担者の佐治は学術雑誌「認知科学」において「言語習得研究のこれまでとこれから」と題し,論文を発表言語習得研究を俯瞰的に捉えこれまでの歴史的な研究経緯を振り返りつつ,これからの研究の青写真を展開し,その中で本研究のキーワードである音象徴がどのような役割を果たしうるのかを述べた.
次に，言語共通の音象徴性と言語固有の音象徴性を作り出す要因の同定,のテーマにおいては触覚素材を用いて日本語・英語・チェコ語の各言語の話者による音象徴表現を収集し，各刺激に対してどのような特徴を見出し, どのような音が用いられたのかを分析した．その結果, 日本語における有声/無声の関連など従来の研究結果と一致する結果を得られるとともに，軸を共有しつつ逆向きの傾向を示す音素があるなど言語個別の音韻的な構造による影響が見られた.
さらに,聴覚障がい者の持つ音象徴性を検討するため, bouba-kikiとして知られる丸い図形と尖った図形に対し, 音象徴研究においてこれまで用いられてきた無意味語を提示し，当てはまるかどうか評価してもらう調査を行った.本調査の結果を学術論文として公開するため論文化を進めている.
I)言語共通の音象徴性と言語固有の音象徴性を作り出す要因の同定のテーマにおいては順調にデータの収集が進んでおり,分析を継続して進める予定である．聴覚障がい者の持つ音象徴性を検討するテーマにおいては,分析が進み成果公開のための論文を投稿中である．音象徴の脳内基盤の検討つまり失語症患者を対象とした音象徴性の調査については,研究分担者と計測機器のやり取りを行い,調査の進め方などを検討している．
Grant number：20K00567 2020.4 - 2024.3
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Shinohara Kazuko
Authorship：Coinvestigator(s)
This study aimed to empirically investigate which aspects of sound symbolic correspondences exhibit cross-linguistic differences by conducting experiments in multiple languages, and to build hypotheses and lay the groundwork for theoretical explanation based on two aspects: (1) differences rooted in the arbitrary systematicity of phonemic contrasts, and (2) differences based on the embodied iconicity of the phonetic properties of individual language sounds. During the research period, we empirically confirmed that certain linguistic sounds (phonetic features) tend to evoke properties such as shapes, hardness, and maliciousness. We also confirmed that some sound symbolic associations vary across languages. From this, we argued that some of the causes of cross-linguistic differences in sound symbolism lie in the morpho-phonological systematicity of language.
Grant number：19H01261 2019.4 - 2023.3
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Shen Li
Authorship：Coinvestigator(s)
This study diverges from the traditional approach that seeks to define words based on grammatical and phonological characteristics. Instead, it explores how internal elements such as morphemes and pre-morphemic sound chains are integrated into words. The goal is to analyze word formation across different linguistic types: isolating, agglutinative, polysynthetic, and pseudo-polysynthetic, and thereby elucidate the essence of words.
The results of this four-year research project have been compiled in a collection of essays titled "The Essence of Words from a Typological Perspective," published in 2023 by Hituzi Syobo. The collection reveals that natural languages can be divided into polysyllabic and monosyllabic languages, with word formation in polysyllabic languages occurring at both the lexical and syntactic levels, whereas in monosyllabic languages, it occurs solely at the syntactic level.
Arbitrariness and motivation in sound symbolic meanings: theorization through cross-linguistic experimental studies
Grant number：17K02679 2017.4 - 2020.3
SHINOHARA Kazuko
Authorship：Coinvestigator(s)
Using experimental methods, we explored whether there are cross-linguistic differences in sound symbolism, which is a kind of perceptual phenomenon where linguistic sounds evoke certain images or meanings. Plosives in Japanese and English were tested for several images such as hardness and evilness. It was found that voiced plosives in these languages could evoke different sound symbolic images. English word-initial voiceless plosives evoked harder images than voiced plosives, while in Japanese the opposite association was observed. This means that sounds that are phonologically the same can result in different sound symbolic images, when phonetic properties of the sounds vary among different languages.
A typological study of the sound symbolism of ideophones in Japanese, Korean, and English
Grant number：16F16729 2016.7 - 2018.3
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
Authorship：Principal investigator
Grant amount：\1500000 （ Direct Cost: \1500000 ）
Grant number：16H01928 2016.4 - 2021.3
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
IMAI Mutsumi
Authorship：Coinvestigator(s)
Uncovering the relation between form and meaning of words is important for understanding the nature and evolution of language. Form and meaning of words are associated not only by language-specific arbitrary conventions, but also by an intrinsic link, called sound symbolism, which reflects perceived resemblance between sound and properties of referents. Does one need to be able to hear sound to detect sound symbolism? Here, we show that one does not need to. Deaf-and-Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) participants, even those with profound hearing loss, could judge the sound symbolic match between shapes and words in the same way as hearing participants do, as long as DHH participants could move their tongue freely. This indicates that they detected sound symbolism via inherent resemblance between articulatory movements and shapes. This further suggests that linguistic symbols can emerge through iconic mapping between oral gesture and sensory experience of the world.
An empirical pragmatic study of ideophones based on audiovisual corpora
Grant number：15K16741 2015.4 - 2020.3
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Akita Kimi
Authorship：Principal investigator
Grant amount：\3510000 （ Direct Cost: \2700000 、 Indirect Cost：\810000 ）
This study observed the multimodal properties of ideophones (a.k.a. giongo/gitaigo, mimetics, expressives) in audiovisual data, especially Japanese interviews. Qualitative and quantitative examinations revealed that ideophones are often accompanied by prominent intonation and voice quality, gesture, facial expression, and eye contact. These behavioral features are more frequent in adverbial ideophones (e.g., guruguru-to mawaru ‘to rotate whirlingly’) than in verbal ideophones (e.g., guruguru-suru ‘to whirl’). It is suggested that ideophones are an ambivalent medium of communication that is both linguistic and “prelinguistic” (like gesture and vocal mimicry).
An empirical pragmatic study of ideophones based on audiovisual corpora
2015.4 - 2019.3
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)
Authorship：Principal investigator
A frame-semantic study of the peculiarities of sound-symbolic words using audiovisual experiments
2012.4 - 2015.3
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)
Authorship：Principal investigator
A crosslinguistic and developmental study of the syntax and semantics of sound-symbolic words: On the roles of lexical iconicity
2009.4 - 2012.3
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Authorship：Principal investigator
A theoretical study of the syntax and semantics of sound-symbolic words in Japanese
2007.4 - 2009.3
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Authorship：Principal investigator
文化事情（英語）
2021
英語（中級）
2021
人文学入門I
2021
英語学概論
2021
英語（基礎）
2021
英語（上級）
2021
英語（コミュニケーション）
2021
共時英語学演習II
2021
博士論文演習IV
2021
Theoretical Linguistics I
2021
Academic English Survival
2017
Academic English Advanced
2017
Cognitive Linguistics/Theoretical Linguistics I
2017
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, b (Seminar on Synchronic English Linguistics, IIb): Typology of Motion Expressions
2017
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, a (Seminar on Synchronic English Linguistics, IIa): Iconicity in Language
2017
Academic English Intermediate
2017
Textology Ib
2017
Lectures on Humanities (C)
2017
Academic English Seminar
2017
Academic English Communication
2017
Cognitive Linguistics
2016
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, b
2016
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, a
2016
Academic English Communication
2016
Academic English Communication
2016
Academic English Intermediate
2016
Academic English Survival
2016
Academic English Advanced
2016
Academic English Basic
2016
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, b
2015
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, a
2015
Academic English (Communication)
2015
Academic English (Intermediate)
2015
Academic English (Advanced)
2015
Academic English (Basic)
2015
認知言語学（中上級）：言語における類像性（日本言語学会夏期講座2024）
2024.8 （Kobe University）
Country：Japan
Language sciences of ideophones
2024.3
Level：Postgraduate Country：Japan
認知意味論入門（集中講義）
2019.8 （Kobe University）
Level：Undergraduate (specialized)
音象徴・音声学入門
2019.2
Level：Undergraduate (specialized)
言語と認知
2015.4 - 2016.3 （The University of Kitakyushu）
言語と認知
2014.4 - 2015.3 （The University of Kitakyushu）
言語学からみる英語
2014.4 - 2015.3 （The Open University of Japan）
なんか伝わるオノマトペ
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アドミュージアム東京 なんか伝わる広告展 2024.12
見る、聞く、感じる！オノマトペディア
Role(s)：Media coverage, Advisor
大阪HAL 未来創造展2025「JAPONISM TO THE WORLD」 2024.10
オノマトペ処方展
Role(s)：Advisor
Itochu SDGs Studio オノマトペ処方展 2024.4 - 2024.7
長野県伊那北高等学校への模擬講義
Role(s)：Lecturer
2023.11
Role(s)：Lecturer
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics The Marvels and Mysteries of Mimetics Hitotsubashi University 2017.1
大阪大学21世紀懐徳堂i-spot講座
2013.2
“ドキドキ”“ゴロゴロ”繰り返すのはなぜ？ TV or radio program
日本放送協会 チコちゃんに叱られる 2024.10
鼎談：『記号接地する』とはどういうことか？ Newspaper, magazine
左右社 生成AI時代の言語論（THINKING O 020） 67-144 2024.10
社会課題の解決にドンドン役立つ!? 言語学者 秋田喜美先生と「オノマトペ」の可能性を考えてみた Internet
電通 電通報 https://dentsu-ho.com/articles/8949 2024.6
意外と知らない“オノマトペ”：『ヒリヒリ』『ごしごし』など、医療現場や教育でも活躍 TV or radio program
日本テレビ 日テレNEWS NNN 2024.6
幼稚なイメージはもう古い？「オノマトペ」で子どもとのコミュニケーションを“グッと”豊かに！体感イベントも開催中 Internet
NTT docomo ぎゅってweb https://enfant.media/ 2024.6
ワクワク魅惑のオノマトペ：研究20年名大准教授秋田さん Newspaper, magazine
中日新聞社 中日新聞 12 2024.6
Onomatopoeia allows looking back to the origin of language and forward to interdisciplinary collaborations Promotional material
2024.3
新書大賞2024：大賞受賞者に聞く：『言語の本質』今井むつみ、秋田喜美 Newspaper, magazine
中央公論新社 中央公論 138(3) 110-113 2024.2
著者インタビュー：今井むつみ・秋田喜美『言語の本質：ことばはどう生まれ、進化したか』 Newspaper, magazine
PRESIDENT 61(23) 106 2023.12
特別鼎談：なぜ人は『言語』を理解できるのか Newspaper, magazine
Voice 553 210-215 2023.12
〔鼎談〕海の語源は感嘆の『う』なのか？『言語の本質』の謎に迫る Newspaper, magazine
中央公論新社 中央公論 137(12) 144-153 2023.11
言語の本質とは何か？ オノマトペから始まった壮大な旅はベストセラーに 日々何の気なしに話しているその“ことば”、実はものすごく奥深いものだった！ Newspaper, magazine
JBpress 2023.11
話題の本『言語の本質』今井むつみさんx秋田喜美さんに聞く、この時代にこそ知りたい、言語の本質。 Newspaper, magazine
マガジンハウス anan 2367 28-29 2023.10
オノマトペから探る『言語』の世界 Newspaper, magazine
医学書院 看護教育64(5) 541-548 2023.9
言語の本質を探す旅
代官山T-SITE, 中央公論新社・代官山蔦屋書店 『言語の本質』（中公新書）刊行記念 今井むつみ×秋田喜美×千葉雅也トークイベント 2023.9
オノマトペって面白い！『寄り道のつもりがライフワークになった』名大研究者 Internet
名古屋大学広報課 名古屋大学広報課取材チームnote. 2023.9
今井むつみ・秋田喜美 ベストセラー『言語の本質』著者インタビュー Newspaper, magazine
集英社 kotoba 2023年秋号 2023.9
言語の本質 Internet
VOOX 2023.9
増刷重ねる新書『言語の本質』：オノマトペから進化に迫る Newspaper, magazine
中日新聞夕刊 5 2023.9
AIと人間は言語の学習において、正反対のアプローチを採っている：ベストセラー新書『言語の本質』著者インタビュー Internet
Real Sound 2023.8
DAYDREAM MAGIC TV or radio program
FM AICHI DAYDREAM MAGIC 2023.7
人間にChatGPTできてにできぬ『意味理解』の深層 Newspaper, magazine
週刊東洋経済 2023/8/5特大号 88-89 2023.7
今井むつみ・秋田喜美インタビュー ＜知性とは、人間とはなにか＞ 『言語の本質 ことばはどう生まれ、進化したか』（中央公論新社） Newspaper, magazine
週刊読書人 2023.7
『言語の本質』が教えてくれるヒトの素晴らしき可能性 Internet
テンミニッツTV 2023.7
みんぱく手話通訳研修事業に関わるスクリーニング素材提供
国立民族学博物館 2016.4
Interview by Yomiuri Family Newspaper, magazine
Yomiuri Jyoho Kaihatsu Osaka Yomiuri Family 2011.11
The Fifth Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics International contribution
Role(s)：Peer review
2024.8
オノマトペの多感覚性を理解し、複数の媒体で教える International contribution
Role(s)：Supervision (editorial)
2022.3
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America International contribution
Role(s)：Peer review
All shades of iconicity: Ideophones, onomatopoeia, and sound symbolism, International Congress of Linguists International contribution
Role(s)：Peer review
16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference International contribution
Role(s)：Peer review
