Reiko Akahane

Training native speakers of Japanese to distinguish English /r/and /l/: Order effect of the perception training and production training 

Acoustical Science and Technology, 38(4) 229-231, 2017  Peer-reviewed

Dependence on age of interference with phoneme perception by first- and second-language speech maskers 

Acoustical Science and Technology, 36(5) 397-407, 2015  

Sustaining Outside-of-Class CALL Activities by Means of a Student Self-Evaluation System in a University Blended Learning EFL Course 

LEARNING AND COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGIES: TECHNOLOGY-RICH ENVIRONMENTS FOR LEARNING AND COLLABORATION, PT II, 8524 146-154, 2014  Peer-reviewed

Non-native perception and learning of the phonemic length contrast in spoken Japanese: training Korean listeners using words with geminate and singleton phonemes 

JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS, 22(4) 373-398, Nov, 2013  Peer-reviewed

A one-year longitudinal study of English and Japanese vowel production by Japanese adults and children in an English-speaking setting 

JOURNAL OF PHONETICS, 39(2) 156-167, Apr, 2011  Peer-reviewed

Training the brain to weight speech cues differently: A study of finnish second-language users of english 

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(6) 1319-1332, Jun, 2010  Peer-reviewed

Influences of speech compression on perception and learning of English speech by native speakers of Japanese 

Educ Technol Res, 31(1-2) 41-48, Nov, 2008  

Acoustic and perceptual similarity of Japanese and American English vowels 

JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 124(1) 576-588, Jul, 2008  

The first years in an L2-speaking environment: A comparison of Japanese children and adults learning American English 

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 46(1) 61-90, Apr, 2008  Peer-reviewed

Training English listeners to perceive phonemic length contrasts in Japanese 

JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 123(1) 397-413, Jan, 2008