Organization
Faculty of Letters Associate Professor
Title
Associate Professor
Contact information
External link
KUMAGAI,Gakuji
Research Areas
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Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics / Phonetics; Phonology
Research History
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Kansai University Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters Associate Professor
2021.4
Country：Japan
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Keio University Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies Research Associate
2020.4
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Meikai University Graduate School of Applied Linguistics Lecturer
2020.4 - 2021.3
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Meikai University Faculty of Languages and Cultures Full-time lecturer
2018.4 - 2021.3
Professional Memberships
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THE ENGLISH LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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THE PHONETIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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THE PHONOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN
Committee Memberships
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The English Linguistic Society of Japan The Conference Organizing Committee
2022.12 - Present
Committee type：Academic society
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The Phonological Society of Japan Board Member
2021.4 - Present
Committee type：Academic society
Papers
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Exploring avoidance of consecutive heavy syllables in Japanese compound truncation Reviewed
Changyun Moon, Gakuji Kumagai
Phonological Studies 27 35 - 42 2024.3
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How Russian speakers express evolution in Pokémon names II: The effects of contrastive palatalization and name length Reviewed
Gakuji Kumagai, Naoya Watabe, Shigeto Kawahara
Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 27 64 - 72 2023.10
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Sound symbolic values of phonological/morphological structures and accentedness: A case study of Japanese baby diaper names Reviewed
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 26 97 - 108 2023.4
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Lyman’s Law can count only up to two Reviewed International journal
Shigeto Kawahara, Gakuji Kumagai
Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 14 ( 1 ) 1 - 27 2023.1
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Rendaku is not blocked by two nasal consonants: A reply to Kim (2022) Reviewed International journal
Shigeto Kawahara, Gakuji Kumagai
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8 ( 1 ) 1 - 16 2023.1
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What’s in a Japanese kawaii ‘cute’ name? A linguistic perspective Reviewed International journal
Gakuji Kumagai
Frontiers in Psychology 13 1040415 2022.11
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How Russian speakers express evolution in Pokémon names: an experimental study with nonce words Reviewed International journal
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Linguistics Vanguard 8 ( 1 ) 15 - 27 2022.10
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The sound-symbolic effects of consonants on food texture: An experimental study of snack names in Japanese Invited Reviewed International journal
Gakuji Kumagai, Ryoko Uno, Kazuko Shinohara
The language of food in Japanese: Cognitive perspectives and beyond 79 - 110 2022.2
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Do labial consonants evoke the images of softness and cuteness cross-linguistically? An experiment with Chinese and Korean speakers Reviewed
Gakuji Kumagai, Changyun Moon
Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 25 87 - 96 2022.1
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Analysing spells in the Harry Potter series: Sound-symbolic effects of syllable lengths, voiced obstruents and low vowels Reviewed International journal
Gakuji Kumagai
Open Linguistics 7 511 - 530 2021.9
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English speakers can infer Pokémon types based on sound symbolism Reviewed International coauthorship International journal
Shigeto Kawahara, Mahayana C. Godoy, Gakuji Kumagai
Frontiers in Psychology 12 648948 2021.7
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What voiced obstruents symbolically represent in Japanese: Evidence from the Pokémon universe Reviewed International journal
Shigeto Kawahara, Gakuji Kumagai
Journal of Japanese Linguistics 37 ( 1 ) 3 - 24 2021.4
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Phonological factors that affect the formation of Japanese loanword compound truncation: On phonological markedness in consonant gemination Reviewed
Changyun Moon, Gakuji Kumagai
Japanese Language and Literature 116 61 - 78 2021.2
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Sound symbolism in Brazilian Portuguese Pokémon names: Evidence for cross-linguistic similarities and differences Reviewed International coauthorship International journal
Godoy, Mahayana C, André Lucas Gomes, Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 20 ( 1 ) 1 - 23 2021.2
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The pluripotentiality of bilabial consonants: The images of softness and cuteness in Japanese and English Reviewed International journal
Gakuji Kumagai
Open Linguistics 6 ( 1 ) 693 - 707 2020.12
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What's in a villain’s name? Sound symbolic values of voiced obstruents and bilabial consonants Reviewed International journal
Ryoko Uno, Kazuko Shinohara, Yuta Hosokawa, Naho Atsumi, Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18 ( 2 ) 428 - 457 2020.11
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Do sibilants fly? Evidence from the sound symbolic pattern in Pokémon names Reviewed International coauthorship International journal
Shigeto Kawahara, Mahayana C. Godoy, Gakuji Kumagai
Open Linguistics 6 ( 1 ) 386 - 400 2020.9
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Sound-symbolic effects of voiced obstruents and mora counts on the monster names of Digital Monster and Monster Hunter and on the spell names of Final Fantasy Reviewed
Gakuji Kumagai, Kazuaki Yoshitake, Hiromu Tanji, Takuya Matsuhashi
Onsei Kenkyu [Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan] 24 ( 2 ) 63 - 70 2020.8
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Feature-based sound symbolism: Labiality and diaper names in Japanese Reviewed
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Gengo Kenkyu [Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan] 157 149 - 161 2020.3
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The sound symbolic patterns in Pokémon move names in Japanese
Shigeto Kawahara, Michinori Suzuki, Gakuji Kumagai
ICU Working Papers in Linguistics 10 17 - 30 2020.3
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Markedness in loanwords: The case of compound truncation in Japanese Reviewed International journal
Changyun Moon, Gakuji Kumagai
Proceedings of GLOW in Asia 2019 497 - 506 2019.10
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Inferring Pokémon types using sound symbolism: The effects of voicing and labiality Reviewed
Kawahara, Shigeto, Gakuji Kumagai
Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 23 111 - 116 2019.8
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A sound-symbolic alternation to express cuteness and the orthographic Lyman’s Law in Japanese Reviewed International journal
Gakuji Kumagai
Journal of Japanese Linguistics 35 ( 1 ) 39 - 74 2019.5
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Accounting for stochastic nature of sound symbolism using Maximum Entropy model Reviewed International journal
Kawahara, Shigeto, Hironori Katsuda, Gakuji Kumagai
Open Linguistics 5 109 - 120 2019.5
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Expressing evolution in Pokémon names: Experimental explorations Reviewed International journal
Shigeto Kawahara, Gakuji Kumagai
Journal of Japanese Linguistics 35 ( 1 ) 3 - 38 2019.5
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Effects of vowels and voiced obstruents on Pokémon names: Experimental and theoretical approaches Reviewed
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Gengo Kenkyu [Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan] 155 65 - 99 2019.3
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Sound symbolic patterns of Pokémon names Reviewed International journal
Shigeto Kawahara, Atsushi Noto, Gakuji Kumagai
Phonetica 75 ( 3 ) 219 - 244 2018.4
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Stochastic phonological knowledge and word formation in Japanese Reviewed
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Gengo Kenkyu [Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan] 153 57 - 83 2018.3
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Gakuji Kumagai
Phonological Studies 20 77 - 84 2017.3
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Recursive feet and hidden phonology: The case of Fijian Reviewed International journal
Gakuji Kumagai
Proceedings of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 23 123 - 137 2016.10
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Resolving the issue of the target of vowel copy in Fijian loanwords Reviewed International journal
Gakuji Kumagai
Supplemental Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology 2015 2016.6
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Vowel epenthesis of English loanwords in Fijian Reviewed
Gakuji Kumagai
Phonological Studies 19 27 - 34 2016.3
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Prosodic prominence conditions and local conjunction Reviewed
Gakuji Kumagai
Phonological Studies 18 27 - 34 2015.3
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Gakuji Kumagai
Studies in Language Sciences 13 124 - 145 2014.12
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Hidden constraints and the foot structure of Tokyo Japanese accent
Gakuji Kumagai
Metropolitan Linguistics 26 53 - 90 2013.1
Books
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The language of food in Japanese : Cognitive perspectives and beyond Reviewed
Gakuji Kumagai, Ryoko Uno, Gakuji Kumagai（ Role： ContributorChapter 3. The sound-symbolic effects of consonants on food texture: An experimental study of snack names in Japanese）
John Benjamins, ed. by Kiyoko Toratani 2022.2 （ ISBN:9789027210821 ）
MISC
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How many Kawaii phonological features are needed for suffixation? Examples from Japanese female idol nicknames
Gakuji Kumagai
Proceedings of the 167th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan 67 - 73 2023.11
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Variants of the diminutive suffix -tyan in Japanese female idol nicknames: A sound symbolic analysis
Gakuji Kumagai
Proceedings of the 166th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan 53 - 59 2023.6
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Accentedness in sound symbolism: A case study of Japanese baby diaper names
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Proceedings of the 36th Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 13 - 18 2022.9
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Sound symbolism of bilabial consonants: A case study of baby formula names in Japanese
Go Hirabara, Gakuji Kumagai
Papers from the 21st National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association 21 481 - 485 2021.5
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Comments on case studies
Gakuji Kumagai
Papers from the 21st National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association 21 486 - 488 2021.5
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Sound symbolism and syllable structure: A case study of baby diaper names in Japanese
Gakuji Kumagai
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 157 - 162 2019.9
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Effects of vowels and voiced obstruents on Pokémon naming
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Proceedings of the 155th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan 127 - 132 2017.11
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How abstract is sound symbolism? Labiality and diaper names in Japanese
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 49 - 54 2017.9
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The logical problem of loanword adaptation
Gakuji Kumagai
The state of the art of phonology 172 - 175 2016.9
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Epenthetic vowels of loanwords in Fijian: Default vowel epenthesis, consonantal spreading, and vowel harmony
Gakuji Kumagai
Proceedings of the 27th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 185 - 190 2013.9
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The learnability of epenthetic vowels in Japanese loanwords
Gakuji Kumagai
Proceedings of the 26th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 133 - 138 2012.9
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On Japanese speakers’ processing of three-word compounds with rendaku
Gakuji Kumagai
Japanese Society for Language Sciences 2009 Handbook 79 - 82 2009.7
Presentations
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Do Yuru-chara names sound cute? A comparison with Japanese female idol nicknames
Gakuji Kumagai
The 19th Phonology Festa 2024.3
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How many Kawaii phonological features are needed for suffixation? Examples from Japanese female idol nicknames
Gakuji Kumagai
The 167th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan 2023.11
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Consecutive heavy syllables in compound truncation
Changyun Moon, Gakuji Kumagai
Phonological Association in Kansai (PAIK) 2023.7
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Variants of the diminutive suffix -tyan in Japanese female idol nicknames: A sound symbolic analysis
Gakuji Kumagai
The 166th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan 2023.6
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Exploring consonantal features of associated with kawaii
Gakuji Kumagai
Phonological Association in Kansai (PAIK) 2023.5
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Exploring ‘kawaii’ from the perspective of phonetics
Gakuji Kumagai
Linguistics Fes 2023 2023.1
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‘Kawaii’ phonetics: An experimental exploration Invited
Gakuji Kumagai
2022.11
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Accentedness in sound symbolism: A case study of Japanese baby diaper names
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
The 36th Conference of the Phonetic Society of Japan 2022.9
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Palatalization vs. [i]: which is symbolically smaller? Evidence from Russian
Gakuji Kumagai, Naoya Watabe, Shigeto Kawahara
Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP) 2022.7
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The OCP effect of heavy syllables on Japanese compound truncation: The case of the moraic nasal
Gakuji Kumagai
The 17th Phonology Festa 2022.3
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Sound symbolism and phonological theory Invited
Gakuji Kumagai
Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP) 2022.1
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Retesting the psychological reality of the right-branch condition on rendaku
Gakuji Kumagai
Phonological Association in Kansai (PAIK) 2022.1
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Does Lyman’s Law count? Invited
Gakuji Kumagai
The 3rd NINJAL-SNU Joint Workshop on Japanese/Korean Phonology Workshop 2021.10
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Does Lyman’s Law count?
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Annual Meeting on Phonology 2021 2021.10
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Sound symbolism of spells in the Harry Potter series
Gakuji Kumagai
NINJAL Online Meeting 2021.6
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Sound symbolism in Pokémon names: An experiment with Russian speakers
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP) 2021.5
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Exploring sound-symbolic associations of cuteness and softness in Japanese and Korean
Gakuji Kumagai, Changyun Moon
The 28th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 2020.9
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Theoretical and practical insights from sound symbolic research: empirical studies of character and product names
The 21st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association 2020.9
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The sound symbolic value of Japanese lexical pitch accent: A case study of baby diaper names
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
The 6th International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology (ICPP) 2019.12
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How is evolution expressed sound-symbolically? An analysis of the monster names of Digital Monster
Kazuaki Yoshitake, Gakuji Kumagai
The 6th International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology (ICPP) 2019.12
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The sound-symbolic effect of voiced obstruents on the spell names of Final Fantasy
Takuya Matsuhashi, Gakuji Kumagai
The 6th International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology (ICPP) 2019.12
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A sound symbolic analysis of the monster names of Monster Hunter
Hiromu Tanji, Gakuji Kumagai
The 6th International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology (ICPP) 2019.12
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Sound symbolism and syllable structure: A case study of baby diaper names in Japanese
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
The 33rd Annual Meeting of Phonetic Society of Japan 2019.9
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Markedness in loanwords: The case of compound truncation in Japanese
Changyun Moon, Gakuji Kumagai
The 12th GLOW in Asia & The 21st Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG) 2019.8
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Labial or not? The Japanese glide /w/ revisited
Gakuji Kumagai
Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP) 2019.5
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Sound symbolic patterns in Pokémon move names in Japanese
Michinori Suzuki, Shigeto Kawahara, Gakuji Kumagai
Phonology Festa 2014 2019.3
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A sound-symbolic alternation to express cuteness
Gakuji Kumagai
The 1st conference on Pokémonastics 2018.5
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The sound-symbolic effect of consonant voicing on the naming of snacks in Japanese: An experimental study
Gakuji Kumagai, Ryoko Uno, Kazuko Shinohara
Conference on the Language of Japanese Food 2018.5
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Effects of vowels and voiced obstruents on Pokémon naming
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
The 155th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan 2017.11
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The orthographic Lyman’s Law and OCP effects in Japanese nicknames
Gakuji Kumagai
The 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference 2017.10
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Experiments on identity avoidance in Japanese word formation
Gakuji Kumagai
The 165th NINJAL Salon 2017.10
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How abstract is sound symbolism: Labiality and diaper names in Japanese
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
The 31st Annual Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 2017.9
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Testing the orthographic Lyman’s Law and Identity Avoidance in Japanese
Gakuji Kumagai
Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP) 2017.7
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The maximum entropy model of Japanese word formation
Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP) 2017.1
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Sound patterns of pokemon names
Shigeto Kawahara, Atsushi Noto, Gakuji Kumagai
Seoul International Conference on Phonology 2016 2016.12
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Sound (symbolic) patterns of pokemon names
Atsushi Noto, Gakuji Kumagai, Shigeto Kawahara
Phonological Association in Kansai (PAIK) 2016.11
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The ganging-up of OCP-labial effect on Japanese rendaku
Gakuji Kumagai
The 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology 2016.10
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Unexpected L1 negative transfer in L2 phonology: A perception-based account
Gakuji Kumagai, Hiromi Kawai
Pacific Second Language Research Forum 2016 2016.9
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OCP-labial effect on Japanese Rendaku: An experimental approach
Gakuji Kumagai
Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP) 2016.7
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Recursive feet and hidden phonology: The case of Fijian
Gakuji Kumagai
The23rd Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association 2016.6
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Testing OCP-labial effect on Japanese Rendaku
Gakuji Kumagai
The 8th Formal Approaches of Japanese Linguistics 2016.2
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The POA-map
Gakuji Kumagai
Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP) 2015.12
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Resolving the issue of the target of vowel copy in Fijian loanwords
Gakuji Kumagai
The Annual Meeting on Phonology 2015 2015.10
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The too-many-solutions problem on English word-initial sC clusters
Gakuji Kumagai
International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology 2015 2015.9
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The adaptation of English sibilants in Fijian-Polynesian languages
Gakuji Kumagai
Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP) 2015.4
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The target of vowel harmony and the foot structure in Fijian
Gakuji Kumagai
The 10th Phonology Festa 2015.3
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Local conjunction of the prosodic prominence hierarchy
Gakuji Kumagai
Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP) 2014.7
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Epenthetic vowel quality in Fijian loanword adaptation: Consonant sonority, harmonizing features, and /sC/ clusters
Gakuji Kumagai
The 22nd Manchester Phonology Meeting 2014.5
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Bidirectionality of vowel harmony in loanword adaptation
Gakuji Kumagai
The 9th Phonology Festa 2014.4
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Vowel epenthesis of loanwords in Fijian: A crosslinguistic perspective
Gakuji Kumagai
Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP) 2013.10
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Epenthetic vowels of Loanwords in Fijian
Gakuji Kumagai
The 27th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 2013.9
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Loanword adaptation and nativization in Fijian
Gakuji Kumagai
Phonology Forum 2013 2013.8
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Hidden native phonology of Tokyo Japanese accentuation
Gakuji Kumagai
The International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology (ICPP) 2013 2013.1
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The learnability of epenthetic vowels in Japanese loanwords
Gakuji Kumagai
The 26th GeneralMeeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan 2012.9
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On Japanese speakers’ processing of three-word compounds with rendaku
Gakuji Kumagai
The 11th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences 2009.7
Awards
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Excellent paper award
2021.12 The Japanese Language and Literature Society of Korea Phonological factors that affect the formation of Japanese loanword compound truncation: On phonological markedness in consonant gemination
Changyun Moon, Gakuji Kumagai
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The 19th president's award
2019.11 NINJAL A sound-symbolic alternation to express cuteness and the orthographic Lyman’s Law in Japanese
Gakuji Kumagai
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The 16th president's award
2018.5 NINJAL Stochastic phonological knowledge and word formation in Japanese
Gakuji Kumagai
Research Projects
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Experimental explorations of phonetic and phonological features associated with kawaii ‘cute’
Grant number：23K12180 2023.4 - 2027.3
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
Gakuji Kumagai
Authorship：Principal investigator Grant type：Competitive
Grant amount：\4680000 （ Direct Cost: \3600000 、 Indirect Cost：\1080000 ）
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Crosslinguistic and theoretical research on sound symbolism: A perspective from child language acquisition
Grant number：19K13164 2019.4 - 2023.3
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists
Gakuji Kumagai
Authorship：Principal investigator Grant type：Competitive
Grant amount：\4290000 （ Direct Cost: \3300000 、 Indirect Cost：\990000 ）
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Phonological research on English loanwords in Fijian
Grant number：15J04596 2015.4 - 2017.3
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
Gakuji Kumagai
Authorship：Principal investigator Grant type：Competitive
Grant amount：\2070000 （ Direct Cost: \1800000 、 Indirect Cost：\270000 ）
Teaching Experience
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English Linguistics: Phonology
2024.4 - Present Institution：Kansai University
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English Linguistics: Phonetics and Phonology
2021.4 - Present Institution：Graduate School of Letters, Kansai University
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English Phonetics
2021.4 - Present Institution：Kansai University
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Phonetics and Phonology
2020.4 - 2021.3 Institution：Graduate School of Applied Linguistics, Meikai University
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An Introduction to Phonetics
2019.4 - 2020.3 Institution：Meikai University
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English phonetics
2018.4 - 2021.3 Institution：Meikai University
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English Linguistics (Phonetics and Phonology)
2018.4 - 2021.3 Institution：Meikai University
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English Linguistics: Phonetics and Phonology
2018.4 - 2019.3 Institution：Otsuma Women's University
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English
2016.4 - 2021.3 Institution：Otsuma Women's University
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Practical English
2016.4 - 2017.9 Institution：Tokyo Metropolitan University
Social Activities
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Watashi no baka semai si
Role(s)： Media coverage
Fuji Television Network, Inc. Watashi no baka semai shi 2024.3
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Mobile App 'Sugoi Jikanwari'
Role(s)： Media coverage
Recruit Co., Ltd. Koiken 2023.12
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Testing the bouba-kiki effect!
Role(s)： Appearance
Yomirui Telecasting Corporation Rutennonteru 2023.9
Media Coverage
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Why does "Pomupomupurin" sound cute 'kawaii'? Internet
Yomiuri Online 2024.3
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Are there sounds that make people feel kawaii 'cute'? Internet
hotozero 2023.4
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Searching for Kawaii 'cute' sounds Newspaper, magazine
Tokyo Web 2022.10