Publications in 2016

    1. T. Arai, “Vocal-tract models and their applications in education for intuitive understanding of speech production,” Acoust. Sci. Tech., Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 148-156, Jul. 2016 (Invited Paper).
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1250/ast.37.148
    2. K. Tomaru and T. Arai, “Role of labeling mediation speech perception: Evidence from a voiced stop continuum perceived in different surrounding sound contexts,” Acoust. Sci. Tech., Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 303-314, Nov. 2016.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1250/ast.37.303
    3. M. Ishida and T. Arai, “Missing phonemes are perceptually restored but differently by native and non-native listeners,”Springerplus, Vol.5, No. 1, 713, Jun. 2016.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-2479-8
    4. M. Ishida, A. G. Samuel and T. Arai, “Some people are more lexical than others,” Cognition, Vol. 151, pp. 68-75, Jun. 2016.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.03.008
    5. T. Arai and T. Arai, “Virtual lung model for education in phonetics and speech science,” Acoust. Sci. Tech., Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 173-174, Jul. 2016.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1250/ast.37.173
    6. T. Arai and R. Uchida, “Projection mapping of articulation for education in phonetic science,” Acoust. Sci. Tech., Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 175-177, Jul. 2016.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1250/ast.37.175
    7. K. Amino, T. Arai, F. Satoh, K. Nakamura, A. Nishimura and S. Yokoyama, “Exhibition at ‘Summer-Holiday Science Square’ hosted by National Museum of Nature and Science,” Acoust. Sci. Tech., Vol. 37, No.4, pp. 178-180, Jul. 2016.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1250/ast.37.178
    8. T. Arai, “What Tsutomu Chiba left behind,” J. Phonetic Soc. Jpn., Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 117-120, Dec. 2016.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.24467/onseikenkyu.20.3_117
    9. T. Arai and A. Mugitani, “The acoustic environment and spoken language development of children,” J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 129-136, Mar. 2016.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.20697/jasj.72.3_129
    10. F. Satoh, T. Arai and A. Nishimura, “History and activities of the Research Committee on Education in Acoustics in ASJ,” Acoust. Sci. Tech., Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 143-147, Jul. 2016 (Invited Review).
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1250/ast.37.143
    11. S. kawahara, M. Homma, T. Yoshimura and T. Arai, “MyVoice: Rescuing voices of ALS patients,” Acoust. Sci. Tech., Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 202-210, Sep. 2016 (Invited Review).
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1250/ast.37.202
    12. S. Kawahara, M. Hommma, T. Yoshimura and T. Arai, “My voice: Rescuing voices of ALS patients,” J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 72, No. 10, pp. 653-661, Dec. 2016 (in Japanese).
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.20697/jasj.72.10_653
    13. T. Arai “Sound spectrograph,” J. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 72, No. 9, pp. 570-571, Sep. 2016 (in Japanese).
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.20697/jasj.72.9_570
    14. T. Arai, Book review “What does speech convey?: Speech Science of Emotion, Paralinguistic Information, and Speaker Individuality,” Onsei kenkyuu, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 111-112, Aug. 2016 (in Japanese).
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.24467/onseikenkyu.20.2_111
    15. T. Arai, “Mechanical production of [b], [m] and [w] using controlled labial and velopharyngeal gestures,” Proc. of INTERSPEECH, San Francisco, pp. 1099-1103, Sep. 2016.
      DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-189
    16. C. T. Justine Hui, C. Watson and T. Arai, “Visualisation tools to analyse phonetic confusions for speech perception tests,” Proc. of Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney, pp. 321-324, Dec. 2016.
    17. M. Ishida and T. Arai, “Perceptual integration of locally time-reversed speech in Japanese,” International Neuropsychological Society, Boston, Feb. 2016 (Poster Presentation).
    18. M. Ishida, T. Arai and M. Kashino, “How Japanese native speakers restore temporal distortion in English”. International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Jul. 2016 (Oral Presentation).
    19. T. Arai, “Tools for education in acoustics and phonetics,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 140, No. 4, Pt. 2, p. 2952, Nov.-Dec. 2016 (Invited Paper).
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4969115
    20. T. Arai, “Tools for education in acoustics and phonetics,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., p. 3196, Nov.-Dec. 2016 (Demonstration).
    21. F. Satoh, T. Arai and Akira Nishimura, “Activities of the research committee on education in acoustics in ASJ for children,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 140, No. 4, Pt. 2, pp. 3196-3197, Nov.-Dec. 2016 (Invited Paper).
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4970059
    22. T. Kimura and T. Arai, “Goodness evaluation by L1 Spanish speakers of various allophones, made by human and by vocal tract models, of the Spanish phonemes /l/ and /r/,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 140, No. 4, Pt. 2, p. 3282, Nov.-Dec. 2016 (Invited Paper).
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4970432
    23. K. Yasu, T. Arai, K. Kobayashi and M. Shindo, “Relationship between auditory degradation and fricatives/affricates production and perception in elderly listeners,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 140, No. 4, Pt. 2, p. 3365, Nov.-Dec. 2016 (Invited Paper).
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4970742
    24. T. Arai, S. Kawahara, M. Homma and T. Yoshimura, “A speech synthesizer of Japanese saves patients’ voices,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 140, No. 4, Pt. 2, p. 3365, Nov.-Dec. 2016 (Invited Paper).
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4970743
    25. Y. Amimoto and T. Arai, “Auditory and tactile senses for perceiving the hardness of wood board,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 140, No. 4, Pt. 2, p. 3266, Nov.-Dec. 2016.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4970358
    26. E. Osawa, T. Arai, N. Hodoshima and T. Igeta “Non-native speakers perform poorer than native speakers in Japanese speech recognition in reverberation,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 140, No. 4, Pt. 2, p. 3333, Nov.-Dec. 2016.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4970625
    27. J. Moore, S. Kawahara and T. Arai, “Japanese English learners use a variety of articulation strategies to produce English liquids,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 140, No. 4, Pt. 2, p. 3339, Nov.-Dec. 2016.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4970658
    28. E. Iwagami, T. Arai, K. Yasu, E. Yanagisawa and K. Kobayashi, “Perception of geminate consonants and devoiced vowels in Japanese by elderly and young listeners,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 140, No. 4, Pt. 2, p. 3439, Nov.-Dec. 2016.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4971086
    29. T. Arai, “What Tsutomu Chiba left behind,” Proc. of the 30th General Meeting of the PSJ, Special issue of the ninetieth anniversary, pp. 6-7, Sep. 2016 (in Japanese).
    30. Y. Murayama, H. Yoshihata, M. Shindo and T. Arai, “Koureisha to jakunensya ni okeru onsei kara no kanjoo ninchi,” Proc. of The 42nd meeting of Japanese Association for Communication Disorders, p. 76, May. 2016 (in Japanese).
    31. K. Tomaru, T. Nakamura and T. Arai, “Perceptual vowel insertion to the pre-syllable positions of English /ra/ and /la/ syllables by native speakers of Japanese,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 441-444, Mar. 2016 (in Japanese).
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    32. T. Arai, A. Ota and K. Yasu, “Relation between speaking rate and overlap-masking by long-path echo,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1599-1602, Mar. 2016 (in Japanese).
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    33. T. Arai, “Ideas for exhibiting vocal-tract models at science museums,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1619–1622, Mar. 2016 (in Japanese).
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    34. M. Shono, T. Arai and K. Amino, “Effects of the fundamental frequency patterns on human speaker identification: Investigation focusing on Japanese pitch accent,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 235-238, Sep. 2016 (in Japanese).
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    35. M. Yamada and T. Arai, “Effects of difference in shape of the connected-tube vocal-tract models on their acoustic properties,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 289-292, Sep. 2016 (in Japanese).
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    36. T. Arai, E. Osawa, T. Igeta and N. Hodoshima, “Reverberation degrades native listener’s perception of Japanese mono-syllables / special-morae,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 293-296, Sep. 2016 (in Japanese).
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    37. T. Arai, E. Iwagami and E. Yanagisawa, “Perceptual cues signaling possible timing with initial geminate consonants in Japanese,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 297-300, Sep. 2016 (in Japanese).
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    38. E. Iwagami, T. Arai, K. Yasu, E. Yanagisawa and K. Kobayashi, “Perception of Japanese geminate consonant by elderly and young listeners,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 605-608, Sep. 2016 (in Japanese).
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