MAEKAWA Kikuo Last updated: Sep 25, 2019 at 22:54
Profile My specialty is phonetics. I'm also involved deeply in the design and implementation of Japanese corpora, both spoken and written, ever since 1999 when I started compiling the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese. My recent papers in phonetics deal with the issues of phonetic variations and prosodic characteristics of spontaneous Japanese.
Awards & Honors
Sep 2011
"Weakening of Stop Articulation in Japanese Voiced Plosives", Best Paper Award, Phonetic Society of Japan
Sep 2012
"Phonetic shape and linguistic function of penultimate non-lexical prominence." Journal of Phonetic Society of Japan, 15 (1), 2011., Best paper award, Phonetic Society of Japan
Published Papers
Speech organ contour extraction using real-time MRI and machine learning method
Hironori Takemoto, Tsubasa Goto, Yuya Hagihara, Sayaka Hamanaka, Tatsuya Kitamura, Yukiko Nota and Kikuo Maekawa
INTERSPEECH 2019 Sep 2019
Five peaces of evidences suggesting large lookahead in spontaneous monologue
Kikuo Maekawa
DiSS 2019 Sep 2019
A real-time MRI study of Japanese moraic nasal in utterance-final position
Kikuo Maekawa
ICPhS 2019 Aug 2019
An Investigation into Modern Mongolian Vowel Harmony Using Real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Yoshio Saito, Yurong, Kikuo Maekawa
ICPhS 2019 Aug 2019
Weakening of Stop Articulation in Japanese Voiced Plosives
Kikuo Maekawa
Jouranal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 22(1) 21-34 Apr 2018 [Refereed][Invited]
Phonetic Shape and Linguistic Function of Penultimate Non-Lexical Prominence
Kikuo Maekawa
Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 22(1) 35-51 Apr 2018 [Refereed][Invited]
'NINJAL Web Japanese Corpus' and Its Search System 'BonTen'
MAEKAWA Kikuo
59(2) 299-305 Feb 2018 [Refereed]
Kikuo Maekawa and Hiroki Mori
Journal of Phonetic Society of Japan 21(3) 53-62 Dec 2017 [Refereed][Invited]
A new model of final lowering in spontaneous monologue.
Kikuo Maekawa
INTERSPEECH 2017 Aug 2017
Phonetic characteristics of filled pauses: a preliminary comparison between Japanese and Chinese.
Kikuo Maekawa, Ken'ya Nishikawa, and Shu-Chuan Tseng
DiSS2017 Aug 2017
Misc
Discrimination of speech registers by prosody
Kikuo Maekawa
17th ICPhS Aug 2011
Laryngeal Characteristics during the Production of Geminate Consonants
Masako Fujimoto, Kikuo Maekawa and Seiya Funatsu
INTERSPEECH2010 Sep 2010
Final lowering and boundary pitch movements in spontaneous Japanese
Kikuo Maekawa
DiSS-LPSS Joint Workshop 2010 Sep 2010
Two-level annotation of utterance-unit in Japanese dialogs: An empirically emerged scheme
Yasuharu Den, Hanae Koiso, Takehiko Maruyama, Kikuo Maekawa, Katsuya Takanashi, Mika Enomoto, and Nao Yoshida
International Conference of Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2010) May 2010
Books etc
What does speech convey? ---Speech Science of Emotion, Paralinguistic Information, and Speaker Individiality---
MAEKAWA Kikuo (Part:Joint Work)
Corona Publishing, Tokyo Japan Dec 2014 ISBN:978-339-01332-0
A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese
Yukio Tono, Makoto Yamazaki, and Kikuo Maekawa (Part:Joint Work)
Routledge Feb 2013
Corpus-based study of spontaneous speech
MAEKAWA Kikuo
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Ph.D. Thesis) Mar 2011
Conference Activities & Talks
Some personal reflections on (national) corpora [Invited]
Kikuo Maekawa
Second ILAS Anuual Linguistic Forum: National Language Corpora: Design and Construction 19 Apr 2019
Functional difference between the two variants of rising-falling intonation in spontaneous Japanese monologue
Kikuo Maekawa
18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2015), 13 Aug 2015
Domain of final lowering in spontaneous Japanese.
Kikuo Maekawa
167th Meeting Acoustical Society of America 5 May 2014
Prediction of F0 height of filled pauses in spontaneous Japanese: A preliminary study
MAEKAWA Kikuo
DiSS2013 25 Aug 2013
Linguistics-Oriented Language Resource Development at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics [Invited]
Kikuo Maekawa
Oriental COCOSDA 2011 Oct 2011
Development of Japanese Corpora at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics: With Emphasis on Five Sources of Difficulty in Japanese Corpus Development [Invited]
Kikuo Maekawa
Aug 2011
Design, Compilation, and Preliminary Analyses of Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese
Kikuo Maekawa, Makoto Yamazaki, Takehiko Maruyama, Masaya Yamaguchi, Hideki Ogura, Wakako Kashino, Toshinobu Ogiso, Hanae Koiso, and Yasuharu Den
International Conference of Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2010) May 2010
Kikuo Maekawa
22nd International Conference on the Computer Procesing of Oriental Languages Mar 2009
Compilation of the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese in the KOTONOHA Initiative [Invited]
Kikuo Maekawa
Second International Symposium on Universal Communication Dec 2008
Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanes. [Invited]
Kikuo Maekawa
6th Workshop on Asian Language Resources Jan 2008
Works
Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese
MAEKAWA Kikuo Database Dec 2011
Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese
MAEKAWA Kikuo Database May 2004
Research Grants & Projects
JPSJ: Kakenhi
Project Year: Apr 2017 - Mar 2020 Investigator(s): Kikuo Maekawa
Clarification of the phonetic characteristics of filled pauses by the analysis of spontaneous speech corpora
JSPS: Kakenhi Kiban (B)
Project Year: Apr 2014 - Mar 2017 Investigator(s): Kikuo Maekawa
Others
Jul 2019 Council member, International Phonetic Association
Advisory Committee of the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica 2017-
Editorial board member of Speech Communication (Elsevier) 2005-2010
Editorial board member of Phonetica (Karger) 2009-2014
Apr 2019 President, Phonetic Society of Japan
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