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AKITA Kimi
 
Organization
Graduate School of Humanities Department of Humanities Associate professor
Graduate School
Graduate School of Humanities
Undergraduate School
School of Humanities Department of Humanities
Title
Associate professor
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Degree 3

  1. Ph.D. ( 2009.3   Kobe University ) 

  2. MA (Literature) ( 2006.3   Kobe University ) 

  3. BA (Literature) ( 2004.3   Aichi Prefectural University ) 

Research Interests 4

  1. Cognitive Linguistics

  2. iconicity

  3. sound symbolism

  4. ideophones

Research Areas 1

  1. Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics  / ideophones, mimetics, sound symbolism, iconicity

Current Research Project and SDGs 4

  1. A theoretical study of the syntax and semantics of sound-symbolic words in Japanese

  2. A crosslinguistic and developmental study of the syntax and semantics of sound-symbolic words: On the roles of lexical iconicity

  3. A frame-semantic study of the peculiarities of sound-symbolic words using audiovisual experiments

  4. An empirical pragmatic study of ideophones based on audiovisual corpora

Research History 7

  1. Nagoya University   Graduate School of Humanities   Associate professor

    2017.4

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    Country:Japan

  2. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics   Theoretical and Contrastive Studies   Visiting associate professor

    2016.8

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    Country:Japan

  3. Nagoya University   Graduate School of Languages and Cultures   Associate professor

    2015.4 - 2017.3

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    Country:Japan

  4. Osaka University   Graduate School of Language and Culture   Lecturer

    2011.10 - 2015.3

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    Country:Japan

  5. University of California, Berkeley   Department of Linguistics   Visiting Scholar

    2009.7 - 2010.12

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    Country:United States

  6. Japan Society for Promotion of Science   University of Tokyo   Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    2009.4 - 2011.9

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    Country:Japan

  7. Japan Society for Promotion of Science   Kobe University   Research Fellow DC2

    2007.4 - 2009.3

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Education 3

  1. Kobe University   Graduate School, Division of Cultural Studies   Language Structure

    2006.4 - 2009.3

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    Country: Japan

  2. Kobe University   Graduate School, Division of Letters   English and American Literature

    2004.4 - 2006.3

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    Country: Japan

  3. Aichi Prefectural University   Faculty of Literature   Department of English

    2000.4 - 2004.3

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    Country: Japan

Professional Memberships 8

  1. Pragmatic Society of Japan

    2015.9 - 2018.2

  2. Kansai Linguistic Society   steering/executive committee

    2014.10

  3. English Linguistic Society of Japan

    2012.4 - 2018.4

  4. Japanese Society for Language Sciences

    2011.4 - 2016.12

  5. The Linguistic Society of America

    2009.12 - 2016.12

  6. Phonological Society of Japan

    2007.6 - 2015.12

  7. Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association   member of the editorial board

    2006.5 - 2022.3

  8. Linguistic Society of Japan

    2004.4 - 2022.3

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Committee Memberships 5

  1. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience   Associate Editor  

    2022.10   

  2. 29th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference   Organizing committee member  

    2021.10   

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  3. Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association   Editorial board member  

    2019.9   

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  4. NINJAL International Symposium 2016: Mimetics in Japanese and Other Languages of the World   Organizing committee  

    2015.10 - 2016.12   

  5. Kansai Linguistic Society   Steering committee, organizing committee  

    2014.10 - 2022.3   

Awards 4

  1. Shinsho Paperback Award 2024

    2024.2   Chuokoron-Shinsha  

    Mutsumi Imai, Kimi Akita

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    Award type:Award from publisher, newspaper, foundation, etc.  Country:Japan

  2. 6th Yaesu Book Award

    2023.11  

    Mutsumi Imai, Kimi Akita

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  3. 国立国語研究所宮地裕日本語研究基金学術奨励賞

    2023.6   国立国語研究所  

    秋田喜美

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    著書『オノマトペの認知科学』(2022, 新曜社)に対して。

  4. Osaka University President's Research Encouragement Award

    2013.8   Osaka University  

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Papers 95

  1. Phonation types matter in sound symbolism Reviewed

    Kimi Akita

    Cognitive Science   Vol. 45 ( 5 )   2021.5

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    DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12982

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  2. オノマトペ研究の現在地 Invited

    秋田喜美

      ( 7 )   2025.6

  3. Sound symbolism Reviewed

    Mutsumi Imai, Kimi Akita

    Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science     2024.7

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    DOI: 10.21428/e2759450.4ea61aa9

  4. オノマトペの言語科学 Invited Reviewed

    秋田喜美

    ラボの世界   Vol. 305   page: 10 - 10   2024.6

  5. 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

  6. On the wordhood and systematicity of ideophonic verbs in Japanese Invited Reviewed

    Kimi Akita

        page: 209 - 235   2023.11

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  7. 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

  8. 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

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  9. Perceptual strength norms for 510 Japanese words, including ideophones: A comparative study with English Reviewed

    Hinano Iida, Kimi Akita

    Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023)   ( 45 ) page: 2201 - 2207   2023.7

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  10. 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

  11. 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

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.18.02aki

  12. 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

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  13. Deaf and hard-of-hearing people can detect sound symbolism: Implications for the articulatory origin of word meaning Reviewed

    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

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  14. Binomial adjective doublets in Japanese: A Relational Morphology account

    Akita, K; Murasugi, K

    MORPHOLOGY   Vol. 32 ( 3 ) page: 281 - 297   2022.9

  15. 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

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.72.03mat

  16. 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

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  17. 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

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.25.04aki

  18. Innovative binomial adjectives in Japanese food descriptions and beyond

    Akita, K; Murasugi, K

    LANGUAGE OF FOOD IN JAPANESE   Vol. 25   page: 111 - 132   2022

  19. 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

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    DOI: 10.1075/sl.17029.aki

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  20. 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

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  21. 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

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  22. Binomial adjectives in Japanese

    Keiko Murasugi, Kimi Akita

    Nanzan Linguistics   Vol. 16   2021.3

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  23. 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

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  24. 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

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  25. 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

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.69

  26. 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

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  27. 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

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  28. Modality-specificity of iconicity: The case of motion ideophones in Japanese Reviewed

    Kimi Akita

    Operationalizing Iconicity     page: 3 - 20   2020.5

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  29. Mimetic 'go'-verbs in Japanese. Reviewed

        page: 68 - 81   2020.3

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  30. 類像性 Invited

    大堀壽夫・秋田喜美

    認知言語学II     page: 115 - 137   2020.3

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  31. Japanese ideophones from a typological perspective.

    Kimi Akita

      Vol. 12   page: 1 - 11   2020.3

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  32. Iconicity ratings across the Japanese lexicon: A comparative study with English

    Thompson, AL; Akita, K; Do, Y

    LINGUISTICS VANGUARD   Vol. 6 ( 1 )   2020.1

  33. オノマトペ Invited Reviewed

    秋田喜美

    よくわかる言語学     page: 192 - 201   2019.10

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  34. 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

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  35. Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in novel words elicited by locomotion videos in Japanese and English

    Saji Noburo, Akita Kimi, Kantartzis Katerina, Kita Sotaro, Imai Mutsumi

    PLOS ONE   Vol. 14 ( 7 )   2019.7

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    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218707

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  36. 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

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    DOI: 10.1177/2041669519861981

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  37. Ideophones (mimetics, expressives) Invited Reviewed International coauthorship

    Kimi Akita, Mark Dingemanse

    Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics     2019.5

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    DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.477

  38. Ideophones Invited Reviewed

    Kimi Akita

    Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics     2019.5

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    DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199772810-0236

  39. Gradability, scale structure, and the division of labor between nouns and adjectives: The case of Japanese

    Oshima David Y., Akita Kimi, Sano Shin-ichiro

    GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS   Vol. 4 ( 1 )   2019.3

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  40. 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

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  41. Innovative bipartite adjectives in Japanese: A preliminary semantic description.

    Kimi Akita, Keiko Murasugi

    Nanzan Linguistics   Vol. 14   page: 1 - 7   2019.3

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  42. Mimetics, gaze, and facial expression in a multimodal corpus of Japanese

    Akita Kimi

    IDEOPHONES, MIMETICS AND EXPRESSIVES   Vol. 16   page: 229 - 247   2019

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  43. Ideophones, mimetics, and expressives Theoretical and typological perspectives INTRODUCTION

    Akita Kimi, Pardeshi Prashant

    IDEOPHONES, MIMETICS AND EXPRESSIVES   Vol. 16   page: 1 - 9   2019

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    DOI: 10.1075/ill.16.01aki

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  44. 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

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  45. 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

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  46. 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

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002222671600030X

  47. An inverse relation between expressiveness and grammatical integration: On the morphosyntactic typology of ideophones, with special reference to Japanese

    Dingemanse, M; Akita, K

    JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS   Vol. 53 ( 3 ) page: 501 - 532   2017.8

  48. 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

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  49. 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

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  50. The "dynamic" nature of stative mimetic verbs in Japanese Invited Reviewed

    Kimi Akita

    Journal of Cognitive Linguistics   Vol. 2   page: 39-56   2017.3

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  51. 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

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  52. Doing linguistics internationally

    Kimi Akita

    Papers from the 17th National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association   Vol. 17   page: 604-609   2017

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  53. Grammatical and functional properties of mimetics in Japanese

    Akita, K

    GRAMMAR OF JAPANESE MIMETICS: PERSPECTIVES FROM STRUCTURE, ACQUISITION, AND TRANSLATION     page: 20 - 34   2017

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  54. 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

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    DOI: 10.1017/S0022226715000171

  55. Mimetics in linguistic systems Invited

    Kimi Akita

    Lexicon Forum   Vol. 7   page: 19-39   2016.5

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  56. Mimetics Invited Reviewed

    Kimi Akita, Natsuko Tsujimura

    The Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation     page: 000-000   2016.2

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  57. 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

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  58. Sound symbolism Invited Reviewed

    Kimi Akita

    Handbook of Pragmatics, Installment 2015     page: 000-000   2015.12

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  59. 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

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  60. 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

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  61. Mimetics Invited

    Kimi Akita

    The Sanseido Dictionary of Linguistics     page: 40-41   2015.8

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  62. 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

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  63. 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

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    DOI: 10.1075/ill.14.06usu

  64. 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

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    DOI: 10.1527/tjsai.30.274

  65. 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

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  66. 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

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  67. A quantitative approach to mimetic diachrony

    Kimi Akita, Satoshi Nakamura, Takanori Komatsu, Sachiko Hirata-Mogi

    Japanese/Korean Linguistics   Vol. 22   page: 181-195   2014

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  68. 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

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  69. 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

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  70. Constraints on the semantic extension of onomatopoeia Reviewed

    Kimi Akita

    The Public Journal of Semiotics   Vol. 5 ( 1 ) page: 21-37   2013.12

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  71. Keret-hangjelentéstan: A japán utánzószavak keretjelentés alapú megközelíése Invited

    Kimi Akita

    Fogalom, hang, gyök: És tanításuk     page: 100-114   2013.12

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  72. 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

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  73. 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

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  74. Mimetic vowel harmony

    Kimi Akita, Mutsumi Imai, Noburo Saji, Katerina Kantartzis, Sotaro Kita

    Japanese/Korean Linguistics   Vol. 20   page: 115-129   2013.7

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  75. 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

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  76. 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

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  77. The lexical iconicity hierarchy and its grammatical correlates Reviewed

    Kimi Akita

    Iconic Investigations     page: 331-349   2013.3

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    DOI: 10.1075/ill.12.24aki

  78. Review of Metaphors in Japanese by Kojiro Nabeshima Invited Reviewed

    Kimi Akita

    Journal of Japanese Grammar   Vol. 12 ( 2 ) page: 213-220   2012.9

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  79. 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

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  80. 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

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  81. 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

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    DOI: 10.1515/cog-2012-0003

  82. Toward a phonosemantic definition of iconic words Reviewed

    Kimi Akita

    Semblance and Signification     page: 3-18   2011.11

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    DOI: 10.1075/ill.10.01aki

  83. 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

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    DOI: 10.1075/cf.3.1.04has

  84. 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

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  85. An embodied semantic analysis of psychological mimetics in Japanese Reviewed

    Kimi Akita

    Linguistics   Vol. 48 ( 6 ) page: 1195-1220   2010.11

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    DOI: 10.1515/ling.2010.039

  86. 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

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  87. Gradient integration of sound symbolism in language: Toward a crosslinguistic generalization

    Kimi Akita

    Japanese/Korean Linguistics   Vol. 17   page: 217-230   2009.10

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  88. The acquisition of the constraints on mimetic verbs in Japanese and Korean

    Kimi Akita

    Japanese/Korean Linguistics   Vol. 16   page: 163-177   2009.7

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  89. 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

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  90. 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

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  91. The dative paradox: The case of Japanese psych-verbs Reviewed

    Kimi Akita

    Lexicon Forum   Vol. 4   page: 91-112   2008.9

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  92. 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

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  93. 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

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  94. 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

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  95. 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

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Books 11

  1. 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

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    Total pages:304   Language:Japanese Book type:General book, introductory book for general audience

  2. Cognitive Science of Ideophones

    Kimi Akita( Role: Sole author)

    2022.8  ( ISBN:978-4788517820

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    Total pages:184   Language:Japanese Book type:General book, introductory book for general audience

  3. Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives Reviewed

    Kimi Akita, Prashant Pardeshi( Role: Joint editor)

    John Benjamins  2019.5 

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    Total pages:324   Language:English Book type:Scholarly book

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.16

  4. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 29

    Kaoru Horie, Kimi Akita, Yusuke Kubota, David Y. Oshima, Akira Utsugi( Role: Joint editor)

    CSLI Publications  2022.5 

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  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

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  6. 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

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    Total pages:212   Language:Japanese Book type:Scholarly book

  7. 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

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    Total pages:256   Language:Japanese Book type:Scholarly book

    Other Link: https://www.amazon.co.jp/Grammar-Japanese-Mimetics-Perspectives-acquisition/dp/1138181900

  8. 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

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  9. Iconicity: East Meets West

    Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara, Kimi Akita( Role: Joint author)

    John Benjamins  2015.2  ( ISBN:978-9027243508

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  10. 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

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  11. 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

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    Japanese translation of:
    Michael Tomasello. 1998. The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Vol. 1. Psychology Press.

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Presentations 108

  1. 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

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    Event date: 2024.8

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Venue:愛知県   Country:Japan  

  2. 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

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    Event date: 2024.6

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Venue:関西学院大学西宮上ヶ原キャンパス   Country:Japan  

  3. 「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

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    Event date: 2024.3

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:ブックファースト新宿店   Country:Japan  

  4. オノマトペとは何か? Invited

    秋田喜美

    JPIC連続講座  2023.11.28  JPIC

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    Event date: 2023.11

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:Zoom   Country:Japan  

  5. 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

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    Event date: 2023.11

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:Zoom  

  6. Ideophones in motion descriptions: An overview. International conference

    Kimi Akita

    "Ideophones in Motion Descriptions" Workshop  2023.10.7 

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    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Japan  

  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 

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    Event date: 2023.9

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:Politecnico di Torino   Country:Italy  

  8. Perceptual strength norms for 510 Japanese words, including ideophones: A comparative study with English International conference

    Hinano Iida, Kimi Akita

    CogSci2023  2023.7.27 

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    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Venue:International Convention Centre Sydney   Country:Australia  

  9. 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

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    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:名古屋大学/オンライン   Country:Japan  

  10. An introduction to the typology of ideophones International conference

    Kimi Akita

    Workshop on Typology of Ideophones  2022.6.24  Kiyoko Toratani, Kimi Akita

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    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:York University and Nagoya University/online  

  11. 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

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    Event date: 2022.3

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:国立国語研究所(オンライン)   Country:Japan  

  12. Japanese binomial adjectives International conference

    Keiko Murasugi and Kimi Akita

    Societas Linguistica Europaea 2021  2021 

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    Event date: 2021.8 - 2021.9

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:Zoom  

  13. 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

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    Event date: 2021.6

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:オンライン   Country:Japan  

  14. 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

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    Event date: 2021.3

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Venue:Zoom   Country:Japan  

  15. 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

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    Event date: 2021.1

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Venue:Zoom   Country:Japan  

  16. 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

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    Event date: 2021.1

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Venue:Zoom   Country:Japan  

  17. Japanese mimetics and linguistic typology Invited

    Kimi Akita

    Prosody & Grammar Festa 3 (Joint meeting of comparative-linguistic projects)  2019.2.16 

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    Event date: 2019.2

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Venue:National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics   Country:Japan  

  18. 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 

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    Event date: 2018.2

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:名古屋大学  

  19. The synesthetic and multimodal nature of ideophones Invited

    Kimi Akita

    Symposium on 3 cognitive phenomena: ideophones, synesthesia, and metaphor, PSJ Metaphor Workshop in Aki 

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    Event date: 2017.12

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Venue:Hiroshima International University, Hiroshima Campus   Country:Japan  

  20. The low iconicity of mimetic reduplication in Japanese

    Kimi Akita

    Workshop on mimetics II: New approaches to old questions 

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    Event date: 2017.11

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University   Country:Japan  

  21. Do foreign languages also have ideophones? Invited

    Kimi Akita

    NINJAL Forum 11: The Marvels and Mysteries of Mimetics 

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    Event date: 2017.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:Ritsumeikan University, Osaka Ibaraki Campus   Country:Japan  

  22. Ideophones melt in: Japanese ideophones from a crosslinguistic point of view

    Kimi Akita

    Workshop on mimetics I: Toward a typology of mimetics 

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    Event date: 2017.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:YIC Kyoto Polytechnic College   Country:Japan  

  23. Decomposing the lexical iconicity hierarchy for ideophones Invited International conference

    Kimi Akita

    Workshop on Types of Iconicity in Language Use, Development and Processing 

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    Event date: 2017.7

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics   Country:Netherlands  

  24. 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 

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    Event date: 2017.4

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:University of Brighton   Country:United Kingdom  

  25. Do foreign languages also have ideophones? Invited

    Kimi Akita

    NINJAL Forum 10: The Marvels and Mysteries of Mimetics 

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    Event date: 2017.1

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:Hitotsubashi Hall, Hitotsubashi University   Country:Japan  

  26. 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 

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    Event date: 2016.12

    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Venue:National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics   Country:Japan  

  27. 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 

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    Event date: 2016.12

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics   Country:Japan  

  28. Ideophones as "words": The world of picturesque sound

    Kimi Akita

    The 4th International Symposium for Academic Exchange between Japan and South Korea 

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    Event date: 2016.12

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (keynote)  

    Venue:Nagoya University   Country:Japan  

  29. On international research activities

    Kimi Akita

    The 17th Annual Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistic Association 

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    Event date: 2016.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Venue:Meiji University, Nakano Campus   Country:Japan  

  30. 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 

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    Event date: 2016.6

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:Nagoya University   Country:Japan  

  31. 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 

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    Event date: 2016.6

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:San Francisco State University   Country:United States  

  32. When ideophones are "childish": Toward a pragmatic typology of ideophones

    Kimi Akita

    the 18th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan 

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    Event date: 2015.12

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Venue:Nagoya University   Country:Japan  

  33. Ideophones and the iconicity of motion event descriptions

    Kimi Akita

    The 4th International Symposium on Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics 

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    Event date: 2015.9

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Country:Japan  

  34. 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 

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    Event date: 2015.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Germany  

  35. 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 

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    Event date: 2015.2

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:United States  

  36. 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" 

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    Event date: 2015.1

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Japan  

  37. 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 

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    Event date: 2014.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:慶應義塾大学日吉キャンパス   Country:Japan  

  38. 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 

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    Event date: 2014.8

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:中国人民大学   Country:China  

  39. 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 

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    Event date: 2014.7

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:明治学院大学   Country:Japan  

  40. Linguistic integration of Japanese mimetics and its typological implications International conference

    Kimi Akita

    Structuring Sensory Imagery: Ideophones across Languages & Cultures 

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    Event date: 2014.5

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Country:United States  

  41. Manner and the framing typology

    Kimi Akita

    ELSJ-ISF 7 

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    Event date: 2014.4

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Country:Japan  

  42. Manner, path, and deixis in English motion descriptions: An experimental study

    Kimi Akita

    NINJAL Typology Festa 2014 

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    Event date: 2014.2

    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Country:Japan  

  43. 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 

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    Event date: 2014.1

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:名古屋大学   Country:Japan  

  44. Japanese mimetics: A thumbnail sketch

    Kimi Akita

    Sound Symbolism Workshop 2013 

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    Event date: 2013.12

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Country:Japan  

  45. The typology of manner expressions: A preliminary look International conference

    Kimi Akita

    International Workshop SYLEX III: Space and Motion across Languages and Applications 

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    Event date: 2013.11

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (keynote)  

    Country:Spain  

  46. 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 

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    Event date: 2013.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:慶應義塾大学日吉キャンパス   Country:Japan  

  47. 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) 

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    Event date: 2013.7 - 2013.8

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Germany  

  48. 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 

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    Event date: 2013.6

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Canada  

  49. 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 

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    Event date: 2013.6

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Country:Canada  

  50. Expressiveness in mimetic syntax: Quantitative evidence from Japanese and English International conference

    Kimi Akita

    Grammar of Mimetics Workshop 

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    Event date: 2013.5

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:United Kingdom  

  51. 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 

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    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Japan  

  52. 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 

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    Event date: 2013.5

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Japan  

  53. 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 

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    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:日本女子大学   Country:Japan  

  54. 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 

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    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:淀屋橋odona   Country:Japan  

  55. 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」 

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    Event date: 2012.11

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:九州大学箱崎キャンパス   Country:Japan  

  56. A frame-semantic analysis of the (limited) flexibility of mimetic verbs

    Kimi Akita

    ELSJ 30 

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    Event date: 2012.11

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Country:Japan  

  57. A quantitative approach to mimetic diachrony International conference

    Kimi Akita, Satoshi Nakamura, Takanori Komatsu, Sachiko Hirata

    The 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 

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    Event date: 2012.10

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Japan  

  58. A qualia account of mimetic resultatives in Japanese International conference

    Takeshi Usuki, Kimi Akita

    The 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 

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    Event date: 2012.10

    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Country:Japan  

  59. Frame phonosemantics: A frame-semantic approach to Japanese mimetics International conference

    Kimi Akita

    Czuczor-Fogarasi Conference 

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    Event date: 2012.10

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Country:Hungary  

  60. A quantitative approach to sound-symbolic involvement

    Kimi Akita

    Sound Symbolism Workshop 2012 

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    Event date: 2012.8

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Japan  

  61. 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 

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    Event date: 2012.8

    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Country:Japan  

  62. 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 

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    Event date: 2012.6

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:クリエイティブ・スペース赤れんが   Country:Japan  

  63. 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 

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    Event date: 2012.6

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:山口県自治会館   Country:Japan  

  64. 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 

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    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:山口県自治会館   Country:Japan  

  65. Register-specific morphophonological constructions in Japanese International conference

    Kimi Akita

    The 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 

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    Event date: 2012.2

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:United States  

  66. 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 

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    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:立教大学   Country:Japan  

  67. 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 

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    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:大阪大学   Country:Japan  

  68. 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) 

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    Event date: 2011.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:箱根湯本富士屋ホテル   Country:Japan  

  69. Register-specific morphophonological constructions: The case of motherese verbs and heavy-prefix verbs in Japanese

    Kimi Akita

    JSLS 13 

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    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Japan  

  70. Iconicity in mimetic grammar International conference

    Kimi Akita

    Eighth International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature 

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    Event date: 2011.6

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Sweden  

  71. 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 

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    Event date: 2011.2

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Country:Japan  

  72. Mimetic vowel harmony in Japanese International conference

    Kimi Akita, Mutsumi Imai, Noburo Saji, Katerina Kantartzis, Sotaro Kita

    20th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 

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    Event date: 2010.10

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:United Kingdom  

  73. 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」 

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    Event date: 2010.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Venue:神戸大学   Country:Japan  

  74. 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」 

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    Event date: 2010.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:福岡大学   Country:Japan  

  75. 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 

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    Event date: 2010.9

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Czech Republic  

  76. Morphological optionality in Construction Grammar: The case of adverbial mimetics in Japanese International conference

    Kimi Akita

    Sixth International Conference on Construction Grammar 

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    Event date: 2010.9

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Czech Republic  

  77. 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 

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    Event date: 2010.8

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Country:China  

  78. 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 

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    Event date: 2010.6

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:京都外国語大学   Country:Japan  

  79. 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 

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    Event date: 2010.6

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:筑波大学   Country:Japan  

  80. 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 

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    Event date: 2009.6

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Canada  

  81. Developmental grounds for lexical iconicity: The acquisition of mimetic semantics in Japanese International conference

    Kimi Akita

    The 18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 

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    Event date: 2008.11

    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Country:United States  

  82. 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 

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    Event date: 2008.10

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Country:Japan  

  83. 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 

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    Event date: 2008.6

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    Venue:学習院大学   Country:Japan  

  84. 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 

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    Event date: 2008.6

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:法政大学   Country:Japan  

  85. Mimetics as root-template combinations: A pedagogical implication from Construction Grammar International conference

    Kimi Akita

    Sixth International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese 

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    Event date: 2008.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Country:United States  

  86. Phonosemantic evidence for the mimetic stratum in the Japanese lexicon International conference

    Kimi Akita

    The 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 

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    Event date: 2008.2

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:United States  

  87. Gradient integration of sound symbolism in language: Toward a crosslinguistic generalization International conference

    Kimi Akita

    The 17th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 

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    Event date: 2007.11

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:United States  

  88. 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 

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    Event date: 2007.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:成蹊大学   Country:Japan  

  89. 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 

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    Event date: 2007.6 - 2007.7

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:神戸大学   Country:Japan  

  90. 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 

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    Event date: 2007.6

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:麗沢大学   Country:Japan  

  91. 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 

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    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:同志社大学   Country:Japan  

  92. The acquisition of the constraints on mimetic verbs in Japanese and Korean International conference

    Kimi Akita

    The 16th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 

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    Event date: 2006.10 - 2006.11

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Country:Japan  

  93. Suru and to for Japanese mimetics: A semantic-integration account International conference

    Kimi Akita

    Fifth International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese 

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    Event date: 2006.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Poster presentation  

    Country:United States  

  94. 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 

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    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:広島大学   Country:Japan  

  95. 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 

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    Venue:関西大学   Country:Japan  

  96. 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 

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    Venue:オンライン  

  97. Binomial adjectives in Japanese International conference

    Keiko Murasugi, Kimi Akita

    Workshop on Mimetics IV: Parameters and Mimetics  2021.1.11 

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  98. On the ideophonic protolanguage hypothesis International conference

    Kimi Akita

    Workshop on Mimetics IV: Parameters and Mimetics  2021.1.11 

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  99. 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 

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  100. 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 

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    Venue:関西学院大学  

  101. 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 

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  102. 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 

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  103. 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 

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    Venue:東京大学本郷キャンパス  

  104. Phonosemantic maps: Toward a typology of sound symbolism International conference

    Kimi Akita

    The 1st Conference on Pokémonastics  2018.5.26 

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  105. General commentary on Pokémonastics Invited International conference

    Kimi Akita

    The 1st Conference on Pokémonastics  2018.5.26 

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  106. Innovative compounds in Japanese food descriptions and beyond International conference

    Kimi Akita, Keiko Murasugi

    Conference on the Language of Japanese Food  2018.5.5 

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    Venue:Toronto, Ontario, Canada  

  107. 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

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    Venue:名古屋大学文学部・オンライン   Country:Japan  

  108. 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

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  1. Multimedia Encyclopedia of Japanese Mimetics (MEJaM)

    2012.10

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  1. オノマトペ解剖辞典

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  1. 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

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  2. 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

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  1. Word Formation Types from the Perspective of Prosody: A Comparative Study of Polysynthetic, Agglutinative, and Isolating Languages

    Grant number:23H00627  2023.4 - 2027.3

    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

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  2. Word Formation Types from the Perspective of Prosody: A Comparative Study of Polysynthetic, Agglutinative, and Isolating Languages

    Grant number:23K25324  2023.4 - 2027.3

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  3. 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

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    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,音象徴性に加え言語進化において本質的でありかつ非常に重要な問題である対称性推論についての学術論文を成果として公開した.
    言語習得における本質的な課題の1つに対称性バイアスの問題がある.この問題は本来一方向でしか成り立たないAならばBの関係の学習から逆方向のBならばAを同時に推論してしまうというものであり,言語学習前の乳児が、そのバイアスを獲得していることに加えチンパンジーにはそのバイアスが見られないことを明らかにし,この成果を、人間特有の思考バイアスの起源と言語の起源に迫る発見として、2021年度論文として投稿・採択された。
    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,日本語における摩擦の意味評定と有声/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,英語やチェコ語における連続する子音による表現も得られ言語が個別に持つ音韻的な構造による影響も見られた.
    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を回答してもらった.本調査の結果を学会および学術論文として公開予定である.
    また、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も,従来の回答結果を分析する研究手法のみではなく,視線計測を用いたオノマトペの判定や,恣意性の高い語群に対する課題について調査を行うよう準備を始めている.
    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準備を進めている.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.

  4. 音象徴の言語間差異にみられる恣意性と有契性:通言語比較実験による理論化の基礎研究

    Grant number:20K00567  2020.4 - 2024.3

    科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(C)

    篠原 和子, 秋田 喜美, 宇野 良子

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    「ブーバ」と「キキ」が図形の名前だとすると、後者の方が尖った(直線的な)図形のように聞こえる。このような音象徴現象は多くの言語に共通しており、身体基盤をもつゆえに普遍的だと信じられてきた。一方、近年では音象徴の一部に言語による違いが発見され、注目されている。本研究では、音象徴の言語間差異を複数の言語で実証的に確認し、その原因を、(1)オノマトペ体系を含む言語の音韻体系による差異、(2)言語音の音声学的性質ににもとづく差異、という2側面から説明するための基礎研究を行う。多様な言語での調査に応用可能な方法を確立し、音象徴に影響を及ぼす言語の恣意性と有契性の研究の基盤固めを目標とする。
    R3年度に引き続き,R4年度においてもコロナ禍の影響が続いたため,主にオンラインで実施可能な内容を中心として継続的に研究を実施した。
    日本語では有声阻害音のほうが無声阻害音よりも「硬い」イメージが喚起されるのに対し英語では無声阻害音のほうが有声阻害音より も「硬い」イメージが喚起されることについて,R3年度に行った実験で仮説を支持するを得ていたが,英語以外の言語についてこのことを確認するため,フランス語およびドイツ語でのオンライン実験を実施したところ,両言語ともに英語と同様の結果が得られた。すなわち日本語の音象徴傾向とは異なり,フランス語もドイツ語も,有声阻害音よりも無声阻害音のほうが「硬い」イメージを換気する傾向があることが確認された。このうち先に結果を得られたフランス語について,R4年度中に,国際認知言語学会(ICLC 16)に応募し,口頭発表として採択された。学会開催はR5年度8月である。
    また,音象徴の語頭効果の日英語比較について,R3年度に実施したオンライン実験から有効な結果が得られたため,論文化し,R4年度中に国際学術誌に発表した。内容は,2音節語において,日本語は第1音節(語頭)に阻害音があるときのほうがそうでないときよりも「硬い」イメージが強く出るのに対し,英語 では第2音節に阻害音があるときのほうがそうでないときよりも「硬い」イメージが強く発生する,という現象である。このような,子音の位置による音象徴イメージの違いは,これまで国際的にも確定的な研究成果が発表されておらず,新規な発見といえる。ただし2音節語でしか確認していないため,英語で見られた効果は第2音節の子音に起因するのか,それとも語末音節の子音に起因するのかが判別できなかった。これは,さらなる確認実験を予定している。
    本課題の開始年度より,コロナ禍への影響による研究実施の遅延があった。2020年度より3年間の計画で開始した研究であるが,初年度にはコロナ禍の影響で大学での対応業務に追われ,研究がほとんど進捗せず,ほぼ1年遅れの進行状況となった。本課題の実施期間を通じてその影響が継続的に残り,2年目,3年目ともに,ほぼ1年遅れの状態で研究が進行することとなった。その結果として,R4年度の進捗状況も「やや遅れている」という評価となる。このため,R5年度まで研究機関を延長することとした。
    具体的には,以下が未実施課題として残っている。
    [1] R4年度までに得た成果があったが,公開に至らなかったものがある。英語・仏語・独語の話者を被験者として成果を得た阻害音の有声性による音象徴の言語間比較について,研究成果の公開をR4年度までに実施できなかった。ただし国際学会への応募までは実施した。
    [2] 「語頭効果」についての日英語比較において,R4年度に論文化ができたが,そこでは実験設計が2音節語に限られていたため,3音節以上の語における分析が課題として残った。これは,本課題の申請当初からわかっていた現象ではなく本課題の研究のなかで明らかになった現象であるため,実際にはより詳しい課題設定となっている。
    上記(研究実績の概要,および現在までの進捗状況)で述べたように,未達成で残っている内容として,成果の公開がある。これはすでにR5年度に開催される国際学会(ICLC 16)での採択が決定しているので,R5年度には確実に実施できる予定である。
    また,本課題の実施過程において発見した「語頭効果」については,一定の成果を得て論文化したが,特に英語については未解決の疑問があるため,これをさらに詳細に分析することが,R5年度の予定である。

  5. A comprehensive study on the nature of words: word- and phrase-formation in isolating, agglutinative, and polysynthetic languages

    Grant number:19H01261  2019.4 - 2023.3

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  6. Arbitrariness and motivation in sound symbolic meanings: theorization through cross-linguistic experimental studies

    Grant number:17K02679  2017.4 - 2020.3

    SHINOHARA Kazuko

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    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.

  7. A typological study of the sound symbolism of ideophones in Japanese, Korean, and English

    Grant number:16F16729  2016.7 - 2018.3

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  8. Why linguistic symbols should and should not be arbitrary: An integrative account from language evolution, acquisition, and brain functions.

    Grant number:16H01928  2016.4 - 2021.3

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    IMAI Mutsumi

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    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.

  9. An empirical pragmatic study of ideophones based on audiovisual corpora

    Grant number:15K16741  2015.4 - 2020.3

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    Akita Kimi

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    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).

  10. 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)

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  11. 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)

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  12. 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 

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  13. A theoretical study of the syntax and semantics of sound-symbolic words in Japanese

    2007.4 - 2009.3

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Teaching Experience (On-campus) 35

  1. 文化事情(英語)

    2021

  2. 英語(中級)

    2021

  3. 人文学入門I

    2021

  4. 英語学概論

    2021

  5. 英語(基礎)

    2021

  6. 英語(上級)

    2021

  7. 英語(コミュニケーション)

    2021

  8. 共時英語学演習II

    2021

  9. 博士論文演習IV

    2021

  10. Theoretical Linguistics I

    2021

  11. Textology Ib

    2017

  12. Lectures on Humanities (C)

    2017

  13. Academic English Seminar

    2017

  14. Academic English Communication

    2017

  15. Academic English Intermediate

    2017

  16. Academic English Survival

    2017

  17. Academic English Advanced

    2017

  18. Cognitive Linguistics/Theoretical Linguistics I

    2017

  19. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, b (Seminar on Synchronic English Linguistics, IIb): Typology of Motion Expressions

    2017

  20. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, a (Seminar on Synchronic English Linguistics, IIa): Iconicity in Language

    2017

  21. Cognitive Linguistics

    2016

  22. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, b

    2016

  23. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, a

    2016

  24. Academic English Communication

    2016

  25. Academic English Communication

    2016

  26. Academic English Intermediate

    2016

  27. Academic English Survival

    2016

  28. Academic English Advanced

    2016

  29. Academic English Basic

    2016

  30. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, b

    2015

  31. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, a

    2015

  32. Academic English (Communication)

    2015

  33. Academic English (Intermediate)

    2015

  34. Academic English (Advanced)

    2015

  35. Academic English (Basic)

    2015

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Teaching Experience (Off-campus) 7

  1. 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)

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  2. Language sciences of ideophones

    2024.3

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  3. 認知意味論入門(集中講義)

    2019.8 Kobe University)

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  4. 音象徴・音声学入門

    2019.2

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  5. 言語と認知

    2015.4 - 2016.3 The University of Kitakyushu)

  6. 言語と認知

    2014.4 - 2015.3 The University of Kitakyushu)

  7. 言語学からみる英語

    2014.4 - 2015.3 The Open University of Japan)

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Social Contribution 3

  1. 長野県伊那北高等学校への模擬講義

    Role(s):Lecturer

    2023.11

  2. NINJAL Open Symposium

    Role(s):Lecturer

    National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics  The Marvels and Mysteries of Mimetics  Hitotsubashi University  2017.1

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    Type:Lecture

    Lecture & panel discussion

  3. 大阪大学21世紀懐徳堂i-spot講座

    2013.2

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    「オノマトペに見ることばのデザイン」というタイトルで市民向けの公開講座を行った。

Media Coverage 19

  1. 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

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  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

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  3. 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

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  4. 〔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

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  5. 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

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  6. 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

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  7. 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

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  8. 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

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  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

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  10. 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

  11. 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

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  12. 言語の本質 Internet

    VOOX  2023.9

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  13. 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

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  14. DAYDREAM MAGIC TV or radio program

    FM AICHI  DAYDREAM MAGIC  2023.7

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  15. 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

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  16. 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

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  17. 『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

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  18. 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

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    スクリーニング素材(講義映像)の提供、審査

  19. Interview by Yomiuri Family Newspaper, magazine

    Yomiuri Jyoho Kaihatsu Osaka  Yomiuri Family  2011.11

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    The number of Japanese mimetics amounts to 1500: "Onomatopoeia," which Kansai people use in bulk

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Academic Activities 5

  1. The Fifth Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics International contribution

    Role(s):Peer review

    2024.8

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  2. 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

  3. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America International contribution

    Role(s):Peer review

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  4. All shades of iconicity: Ideophones, onomatopoeia, and sound symbolism, International Congress of Linguists International contribution

    Role(s):Peer review

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  5. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference International contribution

    Role(s):Peer review

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