Kakeru Yazawa

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Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
: Guest Researcher, Institute of Language and Speech Science, Waseda University
: Guest Researcher, Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN

Degree: PhD(Mar, 2020, Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University)
MA(Mar, 2016, Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University)
BA(Mar, 2014, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201901004020308720
researchmap Member ID: B000352477

Research Interests

Research Areas

Major Research History

May, 2021 - Present

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Mar, 2021 - Present

Guest Researcher, Institute of Language and Speech Science, Waseda University
Aug, 2020 - Present

Guest Researcher, Laboratory for Language Development, RIKEN
Sep, 2020 - Mar, 2021

Assistant Professor (non-tenure-track), School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University
Apr, 2019 - Aug, 2020

Research Associate, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2019

Research Fellow (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Nov, 2017 - Mar, 2018

Guest Researcher, The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University

Education

Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2020

PhD, Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2016

MA, Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda Univeristy
Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2014

BA, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda Univeristy
Aug, 2011 - Aug, 2012

Visiting Student Certificate Program, University of Alberta

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2022 - Present

International Exchange Committee, The Phonetic Society of Japan
Jun, 2021 - Present

Review Editor, Frontiers in Communication
Apr, 2019 - Aug, 2019

Local Organizing Committee Member, New Sounds 2019

Awards

Oct, 2015

Oriental COCOSDA 2015 Best Student Oral Paper Award

Kakeru Yazawa

Papers

A comparison of rhythm metrics for L2 speech

Kakeru Yazawa, Mariko Kondo

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 332-336, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Investigating vowel productions with Japanese-English speech corpus

Kakeru Yazawa

Proceedings of Data Science in Collaboration, 5 9-18, 2022 InvitedLead authorCorresponding author
Transfer of incomplete neutralization: A case of /ei/ and /ou/ in Japanese

Kakeru Yazawa

Second Language, 20 47-59, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Prosodic manifestation of question tags in Japanese speakers’ English

Kakeru Yazawa

Tsukuba English Studies, 40 41-50, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
L1 phonetic drift in vowel production by Japanese learners of English

Kakeru yazawa

Proceedings of the 35th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 113-118, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Language-dependent cue weighting: An investigation of perception modes in L2 learning

Kakeru Yazawa, James Whang, Mariko Kondo, Paola Escudero

Second Langauge Research, 36(4) 557-581, Oct 13, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Transferred lengthening of /ei/ and /ou/ in Japanese speakers’ English

Kakeru Yazawa

Proceedings of the 34th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 50-55, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Acoustic characteristics of Japanese short and long vowels: Formant displacement effect revisited

Kakeru Yazawa, Mariko Kondo

Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 671-675, 2019 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Perception of Japanese vowel length by Australian English listeners

James Whang, Kakeru Yazawa, Paola Escudero

Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2228-2232, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Effects of phrase-final lengthening on English speakers' manifestation of lexical accent in Japanese

Kakeru Yazawa, Mariko Kondo

Proceedings of GALA 2017: Language Processing and Development, 469-482, 2019 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Acquisition of English high front vowels /iː, ɪ/ by native Japanese speakers

Yazawa Kakeru, Konishi Takayuki, Kondo Mariko

Proceedings of the 32nd General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 173-178, 2018 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
L2 English speech rhythm of Japanese speakers: An alternative implementation of the Varco metrics

Yumi Ozaki, Kakeru Yazawa, Mariko Kondo

Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference 2017, 84-88, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Modelling Japanese speakers' perceptual learning of English /iː/ and /ɪ/ within the L2LP framework

Kakeru Yazawa, Mariko Kondo, Paola Escudero

Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference 2017, 115-119, 2017 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Japanese advanced learners of English produce shorter epenthetic vowels

Konishi Takayuki, Yazawa Kakeru, Kondo Mariko

Proceedings of the 30th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 70, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Acoustic realization of downstep in English speakers' Japanese

Yazawa Kakeru, Kondo Mariko

Proceedings of the 30th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 120, 2016 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Vowel epenthesis in Japanese speakers’ L2 English

Kakeru Yazawa, Takayuki Konishi, Keiko Hanzawa, Greg Short, Mariko Kondo

Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 969, 2015 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
A study of the production of unstressed vowels by Japanese speakers of English using the J-AESOP corpus

Kakeru Yazawa, Yumi Ozaki, Greg Short, Mariko Kondo, Yoshinori Sagisaka

Proceedings of the 18th O-COCOSDA/CASLRE, 96-100, 2015 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author

Presentations

Investigating vowel productions with Japanese-English speech corpus

Kakeru Yazawa

DaSiC 5, Jan 20, 2022 Invited
L1 phonetic drift in vowel production by Japanese learners of English

Kakeru Yazawa

The 35th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, Sep 26, 2021
Transfer of phonological neutralization: A case of /ei/ and /ou/ in Japanese

Kakeru Yazawa

J-SLA 2020, Mar 27, 2021
Transferred lengthening of /ei/ and /ou/ in Japanese speakers’ English

Kakeru Yazawa

The 34th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, Sep 27, 2020
A feature-based account of new L2 category formation

Kakeru Yazawa

New Sounds 2019, Sep 1, 2019
Acoustic characteristics of Japanese short and long vowels: Formant displacement effect revisited

Kakeru Yazawa

ICPhS 2019, Aug 6, 2019
Perception of Japanese vowel length by Australian English listeners

Kakeru Yazawa

ICPhS 2019, Aug 5, 2019
Phonemic and featural modeling of new L2 sound acquisition

Kakeru Yazawa

HISPhonCog 2019, May 24, 2019
Developmental paths of English high vowel production by Japanese speakers

Kakeru Yazawa

ICPEAL 17 - CLDC 9, Oct 19, 2018
Acquisition of English high front vowels /i:, I/ by native Japanese speakers

Kakeru Yazawa

The 32nd General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, Sep 15, 2018
Using the J-AESOP L2 English speech corpus: A case study of the acquisition of English /i:/-/I/ by Japanese speakers

Kakeru Yazawa

J-SLA 2018, Jun 16, 2018
Predicting Australian English speakers’ perception of unfamiliar Japanese vowels

Kakeru Yazawa

CoEDL Fest 2018, Feb 5, 2018
Effects of phrase-final lengthening on English speakers’ manifestation of lexical accent in Japanese

Kakeru Yazawa

GALA 2017, Sep 9, 2017
Modelling Japanese speakers’ perceptual learning of English /iː/ and /ɪ/ within the L2LP framework

Kakeru Yazawa

PTLC 2017, Aug 10, 2017
The role of input frequency in L2 speech perception

Kakeru Yazawa

J-SLA 2017, Jun 3, 2017
Acoustic realization of down- step in English speakers’ Japanese

Kakeru Yazawa

The 30th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, Sep 18, 2016
A study of the production of unstressed vowels by Japanese speakers of English using the J-AESOP corpus

Kakeru Yazawa

The 18th Oriental COCOSDA/CASLRE, Oct 29, 2015
Vowel epenthesis in Japanese speakers’ L2 English

Kakeru Yazawa

ICPhS 2015, Aug 11, 2015

Teaching Experience

Oct, 2021 - Present

Project Practice (University of Tsukuba)
Oct, 2021 - Present

Project Seminar (University of Tsukuba)
Oct, 2021 - Present

English Phonology and Morphology (University of Tsukuba)
Sep, 2020 - Present

First Year Seminar A 93 (Waseda University)
Sep, 2020 - Present

First Year Seminar B 83 (Waseda University)
Apr, 2022 - Jun, 2022

First Year Seminar (University of Tsukuba)
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2021

English Phonetics (Hosei University)
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2021

Seminar in Linguistics (2) (Hosei University)

Professional Memberships

2021 - Present

Tsukuba English Linguistic Society
2018 - Present

International Phonetic Association
2017 - Present

The Japan Second Language Association
2017 - Present

The Phonetic Society of Japan

Research Projects

Building pre- and post-study abroad speech database of Japanese speakers' English

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2027

Kakeru Yazawa
Mechanisms for comprehending different English accents: focus on Asian and African varieties

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2025
Corpus-based investigation of L1 phonetic drift and L2 proficiency

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2022

Kakeru Yazawa
L2LP-based modeling of the perception of second language and foreign accented speech

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2020

Kakeru Yazawa
Computational modeling of native and non-native perception of foreign-accented speech

JSPS Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Nov, 2017 - Mar, 2018

Kakeru Yazawa

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