Yosuke IGARASHI, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Hiroshima University

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Igarashi, Yosuke, Yukinori Takubo, Thomas Pellard, and Yuka Hayashi (2011) The three-tone system of Ikema Ryukyuan and its implications for historical studies The workshop "Advances in Ryukyuan Historical Linguistics" held during the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (June 25-30: National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan).

Igarashi, Yosuke, Yukinori Takubo, Yuka Hayashi, and Tomoyuki Kubo (2011) Ikema Ryukyuan has three, not two, lexical tones Workshop on East Asian Languages (WEAL) (March 18-19: UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA).

Igarashi, Yosuke (2010) Typology of prosodic phrasing in Japanese dialects from a cross-linguistic perspective ISAT 2010 (Dec. 19 at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan).

Igarashi, Yosuke (2010) Nihongoshohoogen no inritsukukeiseikatei o ruikeika suru [in Japanese:] Proceedings of the Autumn Conference of the Society for Japanese Linguistics in 2010 (Oct. 23 at Aichi University, Tokyo, Japan).

Igarashi, Yosuke (2010) Toogoron ni okeru edawakarekoozoo wa inritsu ni dono yoo ni han'ei sareru no ka [in Japanese:] Proceedings of the 24th general meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (Oct. 10 at Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, Japan).

Takeuchi, Mayumi and Yosuke Igarashi (2010) Chuugokugo futsuuwa ni mirareru tokui na seichoo jitsugen: Ninshodaimeishi oyobi keisei ga renzoku suru baai [in Japanese:] Proceedings of the 24th general meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (Oct. 10 at Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, Japan).

Sakai, Hiromu, Yosuke Igarashi, Rosalynn Chiu, Miyu Tabuchi (2010) Hanashikotoba no rikai ni okeru inritsujohoshori no taimukoosu -Shikakusekaiparadaimu o shiyoo shi ta shisenkeisoku ni yoru kentoo-.[in Japanese:] The Auditory Research Meeting Sponsored by the Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics (Jul. 18 at Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan).

Hayashi, Yuka, Yukinori Takubo, Yosuke Igarashi, Thomas Pellard, and Tomoyuki Kubo (2009) The word prosody of Ikema Ryukyuan [in English] Workshop on Ryukyuan Languages and Linguistic Research (Oct. 25, 2009, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA).

Takeuchi, Mayumi and Yosuke Igarashi (2009) Chuugokugo futsuuwa ni okeru shenme to zenme no seichoo no tokuisei: Onkyoobunseki to on'inkaishaku [in Japanese: Peculiarity of tonal realization of 'shenme' and 'zenme' in Mandarin Chinese: Acoustic analysis and phonological interpretation] Proceedings of the 23rd general meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (Sep. 27 at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan).

Hayashi, Yuka, Thomas Pellard, Yukinori Takubo, Tomoyuki Kubo, and Yosuke Igarashi (2009) The tone system of Ikema Ryukyuan [in English] The History & Reconstruction of Japanese Accent (HRJA2009) (Sep. 4, 2009, Paris, France).

Igarashi, Yosuke, Ken'ya Nishikawa, Kuniyoshi Tanaka and Reiko Mazuka (2009) Pitch range expansion in Japanese infant-directed speech. [in English] The 4th International Workshop on the Interface between Prosody and Information Structure (Jan. 11, 2009, Otsu, Shiga, Japan).

Kitahara, Mafuyu, Ken'ya Nishikawa, Yosuke Igarashi, Takahito Shinya and Reiko Mazuka (2009) Characteristics of pitch accents in infant-directed speech. [in English] The 4th International Workshop on the Interface between Prosody and Information Structure (Jan. 11, 2009, Otsu, Shiga, Japan).

Shinya, Takahito, Ken'ya Nishikawa, Yosuke Igarashi, Mafuyu Kitahara, Kuniyoshi Tanaka and Reiko Mazuka (2009) Vowel quality and voice quality of vowels in Infant-directed speech: Hyperarticulated but soft voices of IDS vowels. [in English] The 4th International Workshop on the Interface between Prosody and Information Structure (Jan. 11, 2009, Otsu, Shiga, Japan).

Hayashi, Yuka, Yukinori Takubo, Yosuke Igarashi, and Tomoyuki Kubo (2009) On the tonal system and its realization rules of Ikema Ryukyuan (revised) [in English] The 4th International Workshop on the Interface between Prosody and Information Structure (Jan. 11, 2009, Otsu, Shiga, Japan).

Takubo, Yukinori, Yuka Hayashi, Tomoyuki Kubo, and Yosuke Igarashi (2008) On the tonal system and its realization rules of Ikema Ryukyuan [in English] Mind Speaks with Prosody: Mini-Workshop on Prosodic Cues in Japanese Grammar (Sep. 19, 2008, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA).

Hayashi, Yuka, Yosuke Igarashi, Yukinori Takubo and Tomoyuki Kubo (2008) An instrumental analysis of the two tone system in Ikema Ryukyuan [in English] Proceedings of the 22nd general meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 175-180. (Sep. 15, 2008, Meikai University, Chiba, Japan).

Kitahara Mafuyu, Ken'ya Nishikawa, Yosuke Igarashi, Takahito Ken'ya, and Reiko Mazuka (2008) Tai nyuuji hatsuwa ni okeru pitchakusento no seishitsu ni tsui te: Riken Nihongo Boshikaiwa Koopasu o mochii ta bunseki [Japanese: Characteristics of pitch accents in infant-directed speech: An analysis of Riken Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus] IEICE Technical Report, 108(338), SP2008-101, pp. 133-136 (Dec. 20, 2008, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan).

Shinya, Takahito, Ken'ya Nishikawa, Yosuke Igarashi, Mafuyu Kitahara, and Reiko Mazuka (2008) Tai nyuuji hatsuwa ni okeru boin no on'shitsu: Riken Nihongo Boshikaiwa Koopasu o mochii ta bunseki [Japanese] Proceedings of the 22nd general meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 117-122. (Sep. 15, 2008, Meikai University, Chiba, Japan).

Igarashi, Yosuke (2008a) Presence or absence of 'phrasal tones' in Japanese dialects [in English] The 3rd International Workshop on the Interface between Prosody and Information Structure (Jan. 12, 2008, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan).

Igarashi, Yosuke and Reiko Mazuka (2007b) [Invited talk] Exaggerated prosody in infant-directed speech? Intonational phonological analysis of Japanese infant-directed speech [in English] Talk presented by Department of Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Nov. 5, 2007, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)

Igarashi, Yosuke and Reiko Mazuka (2007a) Exaggerated prosody in infant-directed speech? Intonational phonological analysis of Japanese infant-directed speech [in English] The Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 32) (Nov. 2, 2007, Boston, MA, USA).

Igarashi, Yosuke (2007g) Pitch accent deletion and pitch range compression in Fukuoka Japanese [in English] Proceedings of the 21st general meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (Sep. 23 at Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan).

Igarashi, Yosuke & Yoshihisa Kitagawa (2007) Post-focal monotony [in English] Workshop on Prosody, Syntax and Information Structure III (WPSI3) (Sep. 14 at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.).

Igarashi, Yosuke (2007f) Pitch pattern alternation in Goshogawara Japanese: Evidence for a prosodic phrase above the domain for downstep [in English]. Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, 434-437. Interspeech 2007 (Aug. 28, Antwerp, Belgium)

Igarashi, Yosuke (2007e) Lexical pitch accent in Goshogawara Japanese: Rising or falling? [in English]. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Science, 1157-1160. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2007) (Aug. 7 2007, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany)

Maekawa, Kikuo and Yosuke Igarashi (2007) Prosodic phrasing of bimoraic accented particles in spontaneous Japanese [in English]. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Science, 1217-1220. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2007) (Aug. 9 2007, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany)

Igarashi, Yosuke (2007d) [Invited talk] Typology of prosodic phrasing in Japanese dialects [in English]. Workshop on "Intonational Phonology: Understudied or Fieldwork Languages", ICPhS 2007 Satellite Meeting (Aug. 5, 2007, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany)

Igarashi, Yosuke (2007a) Towards an intonational typology of Japanese dialects [in English]. The 2nd International Workshop on the Interface between Prosody and Information Structure (Jan. 13, 2006, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)

Igarashi, Yosuke and Reiko Mazuka (2006b) Hahaoya tokuyuu no hanashi kata (motherese) wa otona no nihongo to doo chigau ka -RIKEN Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus- [in Japanese: How does Japanese motherese differ from adults' speech? -RIKEN Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus-] IEICE Technical Report 106(443), 31-35. The 8th Spoken Language Symposium (Dec. 21-22, 2006, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan)

Menezes, Caroline and Yosuke Igarashi (2006) The speech laugh spectrum [in English]. Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), 157-524 (Dec. 13-15, 2006, Ubatuba-SP, Brazil).

Igarashi, Yosuke (2006e) 'Rising' pitch accent of Goshogawara Japanese? [in English]. The 1st SLIL Seminar on Phonetics (Nov. 24, 2006, Korea University, Seoul, Korea)

Igarashi, Yosuke (2006d) Dephrasing in Kobayashi Japanese: Is it a reality? [in English]. Proceedings of the 126th conference of the Linguistic Society of Japan: (Nov. 9 at Sapporo Gakuin University, Hokkaido, Japan)

Igarashi, Yosuke (2006c) A preliminary analysis of the relation between lexical pitch accent and prosodic phrasing in Goshogawara Japanese. [in English]. Proceedings of the 20th general meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan: 141-146.(Oct. 1 at Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan)

Igarashi, Yosuke (2006b) Phonology of Russian intonation. [in English] Ph.D. recipient's lecture Phonology Forum, Japan Society of Phonology (Aug. 23-25 at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan).

Mazuka, Reiko, Yosuke Igarashi and Ken'ya Nishikawa (2006) Input for learning Japanese: RIKEN Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus. [in English]. The 6th International Workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences: Human Sentence Processing and Production. (July 14-15, 2006, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)

Igarashi, Yosuke and Reiko Mazuka (2006) Speech rate in Japanese infant-directed speech is NOT slower than adult-directed speech. [in English]. International Conference on Infant Studies. (ICIS) (June 19-22, 2006, Westin Miyako Hotel, Kyoto, Japan)

Igarashi, Yosuke (2005d) Roshiago ni okeru 2-shurui no kakoo intoneeshon patan. [in Japanese (Two types of falling intonation pattern in Russian)]. The 55th conference of The Japanese Association of Russian Scholars. (October 8-9, 2005, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)

Igarashi, Yosuke (2005c) Russian interrogatives and intonational categories. [in English]. Invited talk: Workshop: Sentence and Context. DFG Research Group: Linguistic foundations of cognitive science -Linguistic and conceptual knowledge- (June 25-26, 2005, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany).

Igarashi, Yosuke (2005b) How many falling intonation patterns in Russian?: categories of F0 alignment. [in English]. Programme & Book of Abstracts: Between and Stress and Tone: 32-33. The Between Stress and Tone (BeST). (June 18, 2005, The International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands).

Igarashi, Yosuke (2004d) Categories of F0 alignment: the case of Russian falling intonation patterns. [in English]. Proceedings of the 18th general meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (Sep. 26 at Tokyo University of Foreign studies, Tokyo, Japan).

Igarashi, Yosuke (2003d) Tonal alignment patterns in Russian under changes in pitch range. [in English]. Proceedings of the 17th general meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 51-56 (Sep. 28 at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan).