Kimiko YAMAKAWA

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Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Contemporary Culture, Shokei University

Degree: Ph. D(Kumamoto University)

Researcher number: 80455196
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901025322723106
researchmap Member ID: 5000093972

日本語を母語としない人が、簡単に「日本語らしい」発音を習得するための方法を探っています。今はもっぱら「なぜ日本語らしく聞こえないのか」という原因面に興味があります。「日本語らしい音声」とは何か。そもそもそんなものはあるのか。興味・疑問はつきません。

Major Research Interests

Research History

Apr, 2024 - Present

Professor, Faculty of Contemporary Culture, Shokei University
Apr, 2015 - Present

Associate Professor, Department of Culture and Language, Shokei University
Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2015

Assistant Professor, Aichi Shukutoku Univ.
Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2010

Postdoctral fellow, National Institute of Informatics, Speech media group
Mar, 2001 - Feb, 2003

Lecturer of Japanese, Jeollanam-do Provincial Office of Education

Major Papers

Japanese and Korean speakers’ perceptual boundary and discrimination sensitivity of Japanese fricative /s/ and affricate /ts/

Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano

Acoustical Science and Technology, accepted, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead author
Vietnamese speakers' mispronunciation of Japanese singleton and geminate stops

Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano, Mariko Kondo

Acoustical Science and Technology, 43(5) 241-250, Sep 1, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Classification of fricative /s/ and affricate /ts/ at various speaking rates

Shigeaki Amano, Kimiko Yamakawa, Mariko Kondo

Acoustical Science and Technology, 43(3) 197-200, May 1, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Japanese and Korean speakers’ production of Japanese fricative /s/ and affricate /ts/

Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano

Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 14(1) 13-19, Mar, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Acoustic features of pop-out voice in babble noise

Shigeaki Amano, Hideki Kawahara, Hideki Banno, Katuhiro Maki, Kimiko Yamakawa

Acoustical Science and Technology, 43(2) 105-112, Mar 1, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Perceptual boundary and discrimination sensitivity of Japanese singleton and geminate stops in Japanese and Taiwanese Mandarin speakers

Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano, Mariko Kondo

Acoustical Science and Technology, 43(2) 96-104, Mar 1, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Predicting and classifying Japanese singleton and geminate consonants using logarithmic duration

Shigeaki Amano, Mariko Kondo, Kimiko Yamakawa

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(3) 1830-1843, Sep, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Thai speakers’ mispronunciation of Japanese singleton and geminate stops

Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano

Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 25 97-103, May, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author
Mapping Japanese alveolar fricative, alveolar affricate, and alveolo-palatal affricate in time-spectral space

Shigeaki Amano, Kimiko Yamakawa

Acoustical Science and Technology, 42(3) 134-139, May 1, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Mispronunciation of Japanese singleton and geminate stops by Korean and Taiwanese Mandarin speakers

Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano, Mariko Kondo

Acoustical Science and Technology, 42(2) 73-82, Mar 1, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author
A survey of foreign visitors’ opinions about loudspeaker announcements

Shigeaki Amano, Katsuhiro Maki, Kimiko Yamakawa

Bulletin of Aichi Shukutoku University, Faculty of Human Informatic, (11) 1-8, 2021
Acoustic analysis of non-native speakers' unnatural Japanese

Yamakawa Kimiko, Amano Shigeaki

BULLETIN, 52(52) 157-162, Mar, 2020 Lead author
The word appearance frequency, word familiarity, phonemes composition in the loudspeaker broadcasting in ski resorts

山川仁子, 天野成昭

尚絅大学研究紀要. A, 人文・社会科学編, (50) 109-116, Mar, 2019 Lead author
일본어의 무성 파찰음・마찰음을 나타내는 한글 표기의 지각적 타당성 검토

Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano

Journal of Japanese language, (55) 127-139, Mar, 2018 Peer-reviewedLead author
Development of Japanese read-sentence database for non-native speakers of Japanese

Kimiko YAMAKAWA, Shigeaki AMANO, Mariko KONDO

Bulletin of Aichi Shukutoku University, Faculty of Human Informatics, (5) 9-14, Mar, 2015 Lead author
Development of Japanese Read-sentence Database for Non-native Speakers of Japanese

(5) 9-14, 2015
Development of "Elementary Seminar", a Freshman Class Aimed at Encouragement of Proactive Learning

(5) 15-27, 2015
Acoustic features of Japanese words spoken by Japanese natives and non-natives.

Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano, Mariko Kondo

18th International congress of phonetic sciences, 2015 Peer-reviewedLead author
Discrimination of Japanese fricatives and affricates by production boundaries in time and spectral domains: A case study of a female native speaker

Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano

Acoustical Science and Technology, 36(4) 296-301, 2015 Peer-reviewedLead author
雪中への音の伝播特性

榊原健一, 牧勝弘, 天野成昭, 山川仁子

北海道の雪氷, 33 125-129, Sep, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Perceptual discrimination of Japanese utterances of native and non-native Japanese speakers

Kimiko YAMAKAWA, Shigeaki AMANO

Bulletin of Aichi Shukutoku University, Faculty of Human Informatics, (4) 15-19, Mar, 2014 Lead author
A Variable to Discriminate Voiceless Affricates at Word Initial in Read and Spontaneous Japanese Speech(<Feature Articles>Data-Driven Phonetic Analysis Using Large-Scale Corpora)

YAMAKAWA Kimiko, AMANO Shigeaki

Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 18(1) 40-44, 2014 Peer-reviewedLead author
Speaking-rate effects on production boundaries between affricate [ts] and fricative [s] in Japanese native speakers

Kimiko YAMAKAWA, Shigeaki AMANO

Bulletin of Aichi shukutoku University -Faculty of Human Informatics-, (3) 21-25, Mar, 2013 Lead author
Variables to discriminate affricate [ts] and fricative [s] at word initial in spoken Japanese words

Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano, Shuichi Itahashi

Acoustical Science and Technology, 33(3) 154-159, May 1, 2012 Peer-reviewedLead author
Subjective evaluation of Japanese voiceless affricate spoken by Korean

YAMAKAWA Kimiko, CHISAKI Yoshifumi, USAGAWA Tsuyoshi

Acoustical Science and Technology, 27(4) 236-238, Jul 1, 2006

Major Misc.

113

Small advice for future researchers

Kimiko Yamakawa

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan, 77(1) 50-51, Dec, 2020 InvitedLead author
外国語の拡声音声による情報伝達に関する基礎調査

山川仁子, 天野成昭

電気通信普及財団研究調査助成報告書(Web), (34), 2019
熊本県内企業における多文化共生実現のための調査研究

山川仁子

平成29年度尚絅大学地域連携推進センター活動報告書, 34-34, Jun, 2018 Lead author
私のすすめるこの一冊

山川仁子

日本音響学会誌, 73(11) 739-740, Nov, 2017 Lead author
地方公共団体との取組

山川仁子

尚絅大学地域連携推進センター活動報告書, 7-8, Jun, 2017 Lead author

Professional Memberships

Major Research Areas

Presentations

105

Effects of vowel devoicing on the closure duration of Japanese singleton and geminate stops

Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano, Mariko Kondo

Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Nov 29, 2021
Durational Features of Affricates and Fricatives in Korean

Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano

Transaction on Technical Committee of Human Speech communication, Sep, 2021
Acoustic features of a voice popping out from babble noise

S. Amano, H. Kawahara, H. Banno, K. Maki, K. Yamakawa

Abstracts of the XXXII International Congress of Psychology, Jul 18, 2021
Improvement of word intelligibility in loudspeaker announcements for non-native speakers

K. Yamakawa, S. Amano

Abstracts of the XXXII International Congress of Psychology, Jul 18, 2021
Evaluation experiment of pop-out voices in babble noise

天野成昭, 河原英紀, 坂野秀樹, 牧勝弘, 山川仁子

日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM), 2021
Acoustic analysis of pop-out voice

坂野秀樹, 牧勝弘, 河原英紀, 山川仁子, 天野成昭

日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM), 2021
撥音と鼻子音の生成範疇境界を表す変数

天野成昭, 山川仁子, 近藤眞理子

日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM), 2019
拡声放送のための聞き取りやすい日本語の提案

山川仁子, 天野成昭

日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM), 2019
熊本県内企業における多文化共生実現のための調査研究

山川仁子

平成29年度尚絅大学地域連携推進センター活動報告書, Jun, 2018
Recognition Ratio of Japanese Spoken Words with Time-delayed Overlap

天野成昭, 牧勝弘, 山川仁子

聴覚研究会資料 = Proceedings of the auditory research meeting, Mar 3, 2018, 日本音響学会
促音・非促音を含む単語における発声速度と母音無声化率

天野成昭, 近藤眞理子, 山川仁子

日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM), Feb 27, 2018
非日本語母語話者における拡声音声の単語の難易度解析

山川仁子, 天野成昭

日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM), Feb 27, 2018
Recognition Ratio of Japanese Spoken Words with Time-delayed Overlap

天野成昭, 牧勝弘, 山川仁子

電子情報通信学会技術研究報告, Feb 24, 2018
Perception Boundary of Singleton and Geminate Stops by Japanese and Taiwanese Mandarin Speakers

Jan 20, 2018
Perception Boundary of Singleton and Geminate Stops by Japanese and Taiwanese Mandarin Speakers

天野成昭, 山川仁子

電子情報通信学会技術研究報告, Jan 13, 2018
破裂音/t/・摩擦音/s/・破擦音/ch/の促音・非促音の生成範疇境界を表す変数

天野成昭, 山川仁子

日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM), 2018
非日本語母語話者が発声した日本語の自然性に関わる変数

山川仁子, 天野成昭, 近藤眞理子

日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM), 2018
拡声音声情報伝達における音素および単語親密度を考慮した単語の選定

天野成昭, 山川仁子

日本災害情報学会学会大会予稿集, Oct 21, 2017
母音の無声化を伴う促音・非促音の知覚範疇境界を表す変数

天野成昭, 山川仁子

日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM), Sep 11, 2017
日本語母語話者の生成範疇境界に基づく韓国語母語話者のツ・チュ・スの判別

山川仁子, 天野成昭

日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM), Sep 11, 2017

Books and Other Publications

Handbook "Knowledge base"

Shuichi ITAHASHI, Tomoko OSUGA, Kimiko YAMAKAWA (Role: Joint author, 2-7-4.5 Speech corpus)

IEICE, Apr, 2012
Computer Processing of Asian Spoken Languages

S. Itahashi, K.Yamakawa, T. Osuga (Role: Joint author, NII-Speech Resources Consortium)

Consideration Books，USA, Mar, 2010
『第７次教育課程運営支援을 위한日本語教育課程-特技・適性職務研修-』

山川仁子 (Role: Contributor, 「日本語の発音」)

全羅南道教育研修院, Feb, 2002

Major Research Projects

Exploring the effectiveness and universality of acoustic features of phonemes using logarithmic duration

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2027
音声学と心理言語学を基盤とする聞き取りやすい「やさしい日本語」の研究

科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(C), 基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

山川仁子, 天野成昭
Prediction model for naturalness of spoken Japanese

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

Yamakawa Kimiko
外国語の拡声音声による情報伝達に関する基礎調査

公益財団法人電気普及財団助成－研究調査関係ー, 公益財団法人電気普及財団, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019

山川仁子
Acoustic features for naturalness of Japanese spoken by non-native speakers

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, 2014 - Mar, 2017

Yamakawa Kimiko
日本語無声摩擦音における母語話者別の音響的特徴の解明

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan society for the promotion of science, Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2013

Kimiko YAMAKAWA

Major Teaching Experience

Apr, 2021 - Present

日本語教育実習 (尚絅大学)
Apr, 2020 - Present

表現コミュニケーション演習Ⅰ・Ⅱ (尚絅大学)
Apr, 2017 - Present

日本語学概論 (尚絅大学)
Apr, 2015 - Present

聴解・会話Ⅱ (尚絅大学)
Apr, 2015 - Present

聴解・会話Ⅰ (尚絅大学)
Apr, 2015 - Present

初級総合日本語Ⅱ (尚絅大学)
Apr, 2015 - Present

初級日本語Ⅰ (尚絅大学)
Apr, 2015 - Present

異文化理解 (尚絅大学)
Apr, 2015 - Present

音声言語 (尚絅大学)
Apr, 2015 - Present

日本語表現論Ⅰ (尚絅大学)
Apr, 2015 - Present

日本語教授法 (尚絅大学)
Apr, 2015 - Present

多文化共生論 (尚絅大学)
Apr, 2015 - Present

言語心理学 (尚絅大学)
Apr, 2015 - Present

日本語教育文法 (尚絅大学)
- Present

卒業研究 (尚絅大学)
対照言語学 (尚絅大学)

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2023 - Present

庶務幹事, 日本音響学会九州支部
Nov, 2022 - Present

学会活動賞選定委員, 日本音響学会
Apr, 2010 - Present

論文誌査読委員, 日本音響学会
Sep, 2016 - Sep, 2021

音声コミュニケーション調査委員会委員, 日本音響学会
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019

九州支部会計幹事, 日本音響学会
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

幹事, 日本音響学会聴覚研究会
Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2013

企画委員会委員, 日本音声学会
Nov, 2008 - Mar, 2009

情報通信技術委員会コミュニティーツール作業部会副主査
Jun, 2006 - Jun, 2006

WESPAC9（西太平洋地区音響学会）Member of International Student Council

Awards

2019

学会活動貢献賞, 日本音響学会
Feb, 2005

Student Award, Acoustic analysis of the affricate "tsu" in Japanese by Korean learners of Japanese, Kyushu Chapter of the Acoustical Society of Japan

Kimiko YAMAKAWA

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