Ai Mizoguchi

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Maebashi Institute of Technology
: Adjunct Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Degree: Ph.D. in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences(The City University of New York)
M.A. in Applied Linguistics(Teachers College, Columbia University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201801002177130037
researchmap Member ID: B000340377

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Linguistics / Phonetics

Research History

Apr, 2022 - Present

Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Maebashi Institute of Technology
Apr, 2018 - Present

Adjunct Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Sep, 2019 - Mar, 2022

Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering Department of Integrated Design Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology

Papers

23

An Interaction of Mutually Bleeding Processes: Voicing of Intervocalic Plosives and Vowel Devoicing in Tohoku Japanese

Sanae Matsui, Ai Mizoguchi, Ayako Hashimoto, Chuyu Huang, Naoya Watabe, Hiroto Noguchi, Mafuyu Kitahara

Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 30 387-395, Sep, 2023 Peer-reviewed
22

Perception of Incomplete Voicing Neutralization of Obstruents in Tohoku Japanese

Mafuyu Kitahara, Naoya Watabe, Hiroto Noguchi, Chuyu Huang, Ayako Hashimoto, Ai Mizoguchi

INTERSPEECH 2023, 1802-1807, Aug 20, 2023 Peer-reviewed
22

Articulatory timing of the Japanese singleton and geminate /t/ produced by speakers of Standard Chinese

Maho Morimoto, Ai Mizoguchi, Li Weiyu, Takayuki Arai

Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2691-2695, Aug, 2023 Peer-reviewed
27

Tongue contours for the Japanese moraic nasal by speakers of Standard Chinese

Ai Mizoguchi, Maho Morimoto, Weiyu Li, Takayuki Arai

Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2622-2626, Aug, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
27

Text-to-tune alignment in Japanese “Happy Birthday to You”

Haruo Kubozono, Ai Mizoguchi

Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 580-584, Aug, 2023 Peer-reviewed
14

Neutralization and secondary acoustic cues of voicing contrast: A Tohoku and Tokyo Japanese production experiment

Chuyu Huang, Matsui Sanae, Watabe Naoya, Noguchi Hiroto, Hashimoto Ayako, Mizoguchi Ai, Kitahara Mafuyu

Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 763-767, Aug, 2023 Peer-reviewed
26

VOT and F0 perturbations for the realization of voicing contrast in Tohoku Japanese

Hiroto Noguchi, Sanae Matsui, Naoya Watabe, Chuyu Huang, Ayako Hashimoto, Ai Mizoguchi, Mafuyu Kitahara

Interspeech 2022, 3428-3432, Sep, 2022 Peer-reviewed
57

Inter-Speaker Variability of Articulation for the Japanese Moraic Nasal: An Ultrasound Study

Ai Mizoguchi, Mark K. Tiede, D. H. Whalen

Phonological Studies, 25 121-132, Mar, 2022 InvitedLead authorCorresponding author
36

Neutralization of Voicing Distinction of Stops in Tohoku Dialects of Japanese: Field Work and Acoustic Measurements

Ai Mizoguchi, Ayako Hashimoto, Sanae Matsui, Setsuko Imatomi, Ryunosuke Kobayashi, Mafuyu Kitahara

Interspeech 2020, 2020-October 1873-1877, Oct 25, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead author
17

Production of the Japanese moraic nasal /N/ by speakers of English: An ultrasound study

Ai Mizoguchi, Mark Tiede, Doug Whalen

Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 3493-3497, Aug, 2019 Peer-reviewed
18

The Phonetics and Phonology of Vocative Intonation in Tokyo Japanese

Haruo Kubozono, Ai Mizoguchi

Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 497-501, Aug, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Articulation of the Japanese Moraic Nasal: Place of Articulation, Assimilation, and L2 Transfer

Ai Mizoguchi

Doctoral dissertation, City University of New York, Feb, 2019
Covert contrast in velar fronting: An acoustic and ultrasound study

Tara McAllister Byun, Adam Buchwald, Ai Mizoguchi

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 30(3-5) 249-276, May, 2016 Peer-reviewed

Presentations

Generational dynamics in velar palatalization: An acoustic study of Tohoku Japanese

Naoya Watabe, Chuyu Huang, Ai Mizoguchi, Hiroto Noguchi, Ayako Hashimoto, Mafuyu Kitahara, Megumi Kimoto, Sanae Matsui

The 187th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nov 21, 2024
Ultrasound observations of tongue root configuration in Japanese geminated /t/

Maho Morimoto, Ai Mizoguchi, Weiyu Li, Takayuki Arai

The 187th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nov 21, 2024
Speech errors in fast speech of alveolar and alveo-palatal consonants: A preliminary study using ultrasound

Misato Shimizu, Takayuki Arai, Ai Mizoguchi, Maho Morimoto, Weiyu Li, Noriko Yamane

The 187th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nov 19, 2024
Velar palatalisation in Tohoku Japanese

Naoya Watabe, Hiroto Noguchi, Chuyu Huang, Ayako Hashimoto, Ai Mizoguchi, Mafuyu Kitahara, Sanae Matsui

The 21st International Congress of Linguists, Sep 10, 2024
東北方言：フィールドとリモートから得られた音声データの分析

橋本文子, Chuyu Huang, 北原真冬, 木元めぐみ, 松井さなえ, 溝口愛, 野口大斗, 渡部直也

音韻論フォーラム2024, Aug 23, 2024
The Effect of Pitch-Accent on the Articulation of Coda Nasals in Japanese

Maho Morimoto, Ai Mizoguchi, Takayuki Arai

The 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology: LabPhon 19, Jun 29, 2024
Ultrasound Observation of Tongue Contour for Sibilant Fricatives in Fast Speech : A Pilot Study

Misato Shimizu, Takayuki Arai, Ai Mizoguchi, Maho Morimoto, Weiyu Li, Noriko Yamane

Ultrafest XI, Jun 25, 2024
Place Assimilation of Chinese (L1) and Japanese (L2) Coda Nasals by Speakers of Standard Chinese

Ai Mizoguchi, Maho Morimoto, Weiyu Li, Takayuki Arai

Ultrafesst XI, Jun 25, 2024
Tongue position in Japanese intervocalic voiced and voiceless stops

Weiyu Li, Ai Mizoguchi, Maho Morimoto, Takayuki Arai

Ultrafest XI, Jun 25, 2024
Emphatic Gemination of Nasals in Japanese Reduplicative Mimetics: Preliminary Ultrasound Tongue Observations

Maho Morimoto, Ai Mizoguchi, Weiyu Li, Takayuki Arai

Ultrafesst XI, Jun 24, 2024
Utilizing articulatory data in linguistic research: Practice of tongue shape analysis using ultrasound

Ai Mizoguchi

The 2024 Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Mar 7, 2024 Invited
The Effect of Pitch-Accent Patterns on Japanese Vowel Articulation: A Preliminary Ultrasound Analysis

Erena Aiba, Maho Morimoto, Ai Mizoguchi, Weiyu Li, Takayuki Arai

The 2024 Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Mar 7, 2024
A Preliminary Study on Tongue Control During High-Speed Speech: Observations using Ultrasound

Misato Shimizu, Takayuki Arai, Ai Mizoguchi, Maho Morimoto, Weiyu Li, Noriko Yamane

The 2024 Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Mar 7, 2024
Weakening patterns of intervocalic voiced plosives in Japanese

Weiyu Li, Ai Mizoguchi, Maho Morimoto, Takayuki Arai

Acoustics 2023, Dec 6, 2023
Japanese Fricative Geminates Produced by Speakers of Standard Chinese: A Preliminary Study on the Temporal Characteristics

Maho Morimoto, Li Weiyu, Ai Mizoguchi, Takayuki Arai

The 2023 Autumn meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Sep 26, 2023
Place Assimilation of the Moraic Nasal to /r/ in Japanese

Maho Morimoto, Ai Mizoguchi, Takayuki Arai

Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HISPhonCog), May 27, 2023
Effects of Fine Phonetic Detail on Speaker Identification from Japanese Nasal Consonants

Ai Mizoguchi, Mark K. Tiede, D. H. Whalen

Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HISPhonCog), May 26, 2023
Identification of /ba/-/wa/ in reverberant environments with synthesized continuum by changing formant transitions

Tomoko Kawai, Eri Osawa, Ai Mizoguchi, Takayuki Arai

The 2023 Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Mar 16, 2023
Durational Characteristics of Japanese Geminates Produced by Speakers of Standard Chinese: The Effect of Pitch Accent Type

Maho Morimoto, Weiyu Li, Ai Mizoguchi, Takayuki Arai

The 2023 Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Mar 16, 2023
Japanese Voicing Contrast in Word-medial Plosives Produced by Native Speakers and Comparison with Chinese-native Japanese Learners

Weiyu Li, Maho Morimoto, Ai Mizoguchi, Takayuki Arai

The 2023 Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Mar 16, 2023

Research Projects

Place of articulation and assimilation of Japanese moraic nasal by learners of Japanese: Observations on tongue shape using ultrasound.

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2028
Phonetic typology from cross-linguistic perspectives (phase 2)

ILCAA Joint Research Project, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2027
Investigation of Various Distinctive Features Based on Extensive Field Work and Acoustic Analysis of Tohoku Japanese

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2025
Production and perception of English word-final consonants in connected speech by Japanese and English speakers

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2025
Production of the Japanese moraic nasal /N/ by speakers of English: An ultrasound study

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, JSPS, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2021

Ai Mizoguchi
Curriculum Development for Literacy Instruction Connecting Elementary to Junior High School

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2017

Hatae Mika, NAGAKURA Wakasa, DALCORTIVO Nancy, MIZOGUCHI Ai, AOYANA Shoko, DANMOTO Minori

Social Activities

超音波検査装置計測の言語学的応用 2024

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国立国語研究所次世代言語科学研究センター・言語資源開発センター, 第3回音声生成に関する計測技術ハンズオンセミナー, Aug 20, 2024 - Aug 21, 2024
超音波検査装置計測の言語学的応用

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国立国語研究所共同利用推進センター・言語資源開発センター, 第2回音声生成に関する計測技術に関するハンズオンセミナー, Aug 31, 2023 - Sep 1, 2023

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Apr, 2025 - Present

International Exchange Committee, The Phonetic Society of Japan
Apr, 2023 - Present

Executive board member, The Phonological Society of Japan

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