Kitahara Mafuyu

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Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Department of English Studies, Sophia University

Degree: 文学士(京都大学)
文学修士(京都大学)
Joint Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science(Indiana University)
Joint Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive(インディアナ大学)

Researcher number: 00343301
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901080120047185
researchmap Member ID: 5000016134

External link: http://pweb.cc.sophia.ac.jp/mafuyu/

2000-2000 NTTコミュニケーション基礎科学研究所日本語のアクセントおよびレキシコンの構造について研究
2001-2004 山口大学工学部日本語のアクセントおよびレキシコンの構造について研究
2004-2016 早稲田大学法学部　日本語・英語のレキシコンの構造およびその英語学習への影響について研究
2016-現在上智大学外国語学部英語学科および国際言語情報研究所音声学研究室　日本語と英語の音声学・音韻論について研究中

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Sep, 2016 - Present

Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University
Apr, 2009 - Aug, 2016

School of Law, Waseda University
Apr, 2004 - Mar, 2009

School of Law, Waseda University
Nov, 2001 - Mar, 2004

Faculty of Engineering, Yamaguchi University

Papers

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-reviewedLast author
Perception of Incomplete Voicing Neutralization of Obstruents in Tohoku Japanese

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

INTERSPEECH 2023, 1803-1807, Aug 20, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead author
Perception of pop-out voice in various conditions of babble noise

Mafuyu Kitahara, Shigeaki Amano, Kawahara Hideki

Proceedings of ICPhS 2023, 536-539, Aug, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead author
Phonetic realization of multiple stress levels by speakers of a non-stress language: A case of Japanese-accented English.

Keiichi Tajima, Mafuyu Kitahara, Kiyoko Yoneyama

Proceedings of ICPhS 2023, 2681-2685, Aug, 2023
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 18, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Detection of pop-out voice at various SN ratios

北原真冬, 田嶋圭一, 米山聖子, 北村達也, 河原英紀, 天野成昭

日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM), 2022, Sep, 2022
Teaching phonetics amongst World Englishes and fluent speech

Mafuyu Kitahara

1371-1372, Mar, 2021 InvitedLead author
Effects of Japanese prosody on english word production: Interaction between voicing and gemination

Kiyoko Yoneyama, Mafuyu Kitahara, Keiichi Tajima

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody, 2020-May 900-904, 2020
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

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2020-October 1873-1877, 2020
無声化母音の知覚に関する実験

吉田夏也, 北原真冬, 白勢彩子

音声研究, 23, 2019
残響下における日本語長母音のカテゴリー知覚-母語話者と非母語話者の比較-

大澤恵里, 荒井隆行, 北原真冬

日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集(CD-ROM), 2017, 2017
日英のコーパスを用いたプロソディ研究

北原真冬

音声研究, 21(3), 2017
無声化母音の心内処理に関する実験

吉田夏也, 北原真冬

音声研究, 21(3), 2017
Perception of non-contrastive variations in American English by Japanese Learners: Flaps are Less Favored Than Stops

Kiyoko Yoneyama, Mafuyu Kitahara, Keiichi Tajima

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2017-August 359-363, 2017
日本語話者によるアメリカ英語の弾音・閉鎖音と流音の知覚について

北原真冬, 田嶋圭一, 米山聖子

音声研究, 19(3), 2015
Voicing Effect on Vowel Duration: Corpus Analyses of Japanese Infants and Adults, and Production Data of English Learners(<Feature Articles>Data-Driven Phonetic Analysis Using Large-Scale Corpora)

YONEYAMA Kiyoko, KITAHARA Mafuyu

Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 18(1) 30-39, 2014
Deriving functional load of phonemes from a prosodically extended neighborhood analysis

Mafuyu Kitahara, Keiichi Tajima, Kiyoko Yoneyama

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19, 2013
The F0 fall delay of lexical pitch accent in Japanese Infant-directed speech

Yoko Saikachi, Mafuyu Kitahara, Ken'ya Nishikawa, Ai Kanato, Reiko Mazuka

13TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2012 (INTERSPEECH 2012), VOLS 1-3, 2485-2488, 2012
The F0 fall delay of lexical pitch accent in Japanese Infant-directed speech.

Yoko Saikachi, Mafuyu Kitahara, Ken'ya Nishikawa, Ai Kanato, Reiko Mazuka

INTERSPEECH 2012(INTERSPEECH), 2486-2489, 2012
音声分析ソフトウェアPraatを用いた聴取実験-F₀再合成による刺激作成と実験の制御-

北原真冬, 田嶋圭一

日本音響学会誌, 67(8), 2011

Misc.

言語学者の道具箱(11)Praatで音声を可視化する(5)音声の再合成

北原真冬, 田嶋圭一

言語, 37(11) 88-93, Nov, 2008
言語学者の道具箱(10)Praatで音声を可視化する(4)音声分析と自動化

北原真冬, 田嶋圭一

言語, 37(10) 90-95, Oct, 2008
言語学者の道具箱(9)Praatで音声を可視化する(3)分節とラベリング

北原真冬, 田嶋圭一

言語, 37(9) 86-91, Sep, 2008
言語学者の道具箱(8)Praatで音声を可視化する(2)SoundEditorを使ってみよう

北原真冬, 田嶋圭一

言語, 37(8) 100-105, Aug, 2008
言語学者の道具箱(7)Praatで音声を可視化する(1)まず録音してみよう

北原真冬, 田嶋圭一

言語, 37(7) 84-89, Jul, 2008
B9. 対乳児発話における母音の音質 : 『理研日本語母子会話コーパス』を用いた分析(研究発表,日本音声学会2008年度(第22回)全国大会発表要旨)

新谷敬人, 西川賢哉, 五十嵐陽介, 北原真冬, 馬塚れい子

音声研究, 12(3) 113-113, 2008

Books and Other Publications

音声学を学ぶ人のためのPraat入門

北原, 真冬, 田嶋, 圭一, 田中, 邦佳

ひつじ書房, Nov, 2017 (ISBN: 9784894768710)
Category structure and function of pitch accent in Tokyo Japanese

北原, 真冬

UMI Dissertation Services,[Distributed by] Yushodo, Dissertation Service Center, 2001

Presentations

B9. 対乳児発話における母音の音質 : 『理研日本語母子会話コーパス』を用いた分析(研究発表,日本音声学会2008年度(第22回)全国大会発表要旨)

新谷敬人, 西川賢哉, 五十嵐陽介, 北原真冬, 馬塚れい子

音声研究, 2008, 日本音声学会
理数系科目と連係するベーシックデザイン教育用課題の考案と学習効果の定量的評価

木下武志, 篠原久美子, 森上あゆみ, 一川誠, 北原真冬

日本感性工学会大会予稿集, 2005
Functional load of pitch accent for identifying words in Japanese

KITAHARA Mafuyu, AMANO Shigeaki

IEICE technical report. Speech, Jul 21, 2000, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Vowel Devoicing and the Function of Pitch Accent

KITAHARA Mafuyu

IEICE technical report. Speech, Jul 8, 1999, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

多様な外国語プロソディーの知覚と産出に影響を与える要因に関する通言語学的研究

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2027

田嶋圭一, 北原真冬, 米山聖子
英語学習における語彙的特性の効果: ネイティブライクイングリッシュの聴取力醸成

科学研究費助成事業, 基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2026

米山聖子, 北原真冬, 田嶋圭一
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), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2025
Compensatory contribution of linguistic and social factors for early language acquisition: Cross linguistic study between European and Asian languages

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Jul, 2020 - Mar, 2025
ポップアウト・ボイスの生成・知覚基盤の解明に基づく高性能拡声音技術の開発

科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(A), 基盤研究(A), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2024

天野成昭, 近藤眞理子, 北原真冬, 坂野秀樹, 牧勝弘, 北村達也, 米山聖子, 田嶋圭一, 山川仁子, 榊原健一
音声の産出と知覚においてレキシコンの構造と特性がもたらす効果についての研究

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, 2019 - Mar, 2022

北原真冬, 米山聖子, 田嶋圭一
自然なプロソディーのための音声の弱化に関する研究

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, 2018 - Mar, 2021

田嶋圭一, 北原真冬, 米山聖子
An experimental study of mental processing of Japanese vowel devoicing.

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, 2018 - Mar, 2021
An empirical study on the acoustic characteristics and lexical representations of native-like English

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, 2018 - Mar, 2021
The role of non-phonemic features in the learning of stress-accent language

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, 2016 - Mar, 2019

Kitahara Mafuyu
Stochastic and empirical study of phonological knowledge based on corpus and phonetic experiment

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2019

HONMA Takeru, Anttila Arto, Coetzee Andrie, Hayes Bruce, Zuraw Kie, Kingston John
Effects of cross-linguistic differences in sound structure on production and perception of spoken language

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, 2015 - Mar, 2018

Tajima Keiichi
A study on the effects of the second-language learners' lexical properties on speech perception and production

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

Yoneyama Kiyoko, MUNSON Benjamin
Acquisition and learning of non-phonemic phonetic features

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, 2013 - Mar, 2016

KITAHARA Mafuyu, TAJIMA Keiichi, YONEYAMA Kiyoko
Data Collection and Annotation of Relatively Spontaneous Utterances by Japanese Learners of English

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2009 - Mar, 2014

HARADA Yasunari, NAKANO Michiko, NARITA Masumi, KUSUMOTO Noriaki, STOCKWELL Glen, KITAHARA Mafuyu, HOSHII Makiko, MAENO Joji, KAWAMURA Mayumi, SUZUKI Masanori, ENDO Tomoko, YOKOMORI Daisuke, MAEBO Kanako
A cross-linguistic study on the psychological reality of prosodic structure in spoken language

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, 2011 - 2013

TAJIMA Keiichi, KITAHARA Mafuyu, YONEYAMA Kiyoko, HISAGI Miwako, KATO Hiroaki, MARTIN Andrew, MAZUKA Reiko, SAGISAKA Yoshinori, HUFNAGEL Stefanie Shattuck, SONU Mee, TANAKA Kuniyoshi
Properties of native and non-native lexicons through speech production and perception

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, 2011 - 2013

YONEYAMA Kiyoko, KITAHARA Mafuyu, TAJIMA Keiichi, MUNSON Benjamin, NAKAMURA Yusuke
Utterance Data Collection from College Learners of English in Japan : Toward Construction of a Learners Corpus of English

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2006 - 2008

HARADA Yasunari, NAKANO Michiko, ISAHARA Hitoshi, KUSUMOTO Noriaki, KITAHARA Mafuyu, HOSHII Makiko, KAWAMURA Mayumi, MAEBO Kanako
On the role of distirubutional properties of mental lexicon in segmental distinction

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, 2006 - 2007

KITAHARA Mafuyu
理数系科目と連係するベーシックデザイン教育用課題の考案と学習効果の定量的評価

科学研究費助成事業特定領域研究, 特定領域研究, 日本学術振興会, 2003 - 2004

木下武志, 三池秀敏, 一川誠, 北原真冬, 長篤志

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2023 - Present

編集委員, 日本音響学会
Apr, 2023 - Present

評議員, 日本英語学会
Apr, 2019 - Present

理事, 日本音声学会
Mar, 2017 - Present

音声コミュニケーション委員会委員, 日本音響学会
Nov, 2009 - Oct, 2015

評議員, 日本音声学会
Apr, 2003 - Mar, 2007

理事, 日本音韻論学会