Publications in 2017

    1. T. Arai, E. Iwagami and E. Yanagisawa, “Seeing closing gesture of articulators affects speech perception of geminate consonants,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 141, No. 3, EL319-EL325, Mar. 2017.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4978343,
    2. T. Igeta, S. Hiroya and T. Arai, “Overlapping of /o/ and /u/ in modern Seoul Korean: Focusing on speech rate in read speech,” Phonetics and Speech Sciences, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-7, Mar. 2017.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.13064/KSSS.2017.9.1.001
    3. T. Igeta, S. Hiroya and T. Arai, “Overlapping of back vowels /o/ and /u/ by young Seoul Korean speakers: Focusing on the effect of proceeding consonantal type and utterance unit on overlap in formant distribution,” J. Phonetic Soc. Jpn., Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 53-60, Aug. 2017.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.24467/onseikenkyu.21.2_53
    4. T. Arai, “Integrated mechanical model of [r]-[l] and [b]-[m]-[w] producing consonant cluster [br],” Proc. of INTERSPEECH, Stockholm, pp. 979-983, Aug. 2017.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-617
    5. T. Arai, “Vocal-tract model with static articulators: Lips, teeth, tongue, and more,” Proc. of INTERSPEECH, Stockholm, pp. 4028-4029, Aug. 2017 (Best Show & Tell Paper Award).
    6. T. Arai, “Chiba and Kajiyama measured 3D configurations of the human vocal tract and made physical models based on the measurements,” Proc. of the International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research, Helsinki, pp. 55-60, Aug. 2017.
    7. T. Arai, “Onsei komyunikeshon ni okeru Speech Chain wo kangaeru,” The 115th regular meeting of the Information Processing Society in Japan Special Interest Group on Music and Computer, Jun. 2017 (Invited Talk).
    8. T. Arai, “Eigo-kyouiku no tame no gakusaiteki apurochi ni yoru onsei kenkyuu,” Symposium on “Onsei-kyouiku no Eigo-kyouiku heno Kouken”, The 35th Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Nov. 2017 (Invited Talk).
    9. T. Arai, “Kodomo no “kiku” to “shaberu” no wadai,” Symposium on “Hoiku to Otokankyou”, Acoust. Soc. Jpn. Hokuriku branch,Dec. 2017 (Invited Talk).
    10. T. Kimura and T. Arai, “Bunsetsuteki “nihongo namari” no aru supeingo hatsuwa ni taisuru bogowasha no shukan hyouka,” J. Phonetic Soc. Jpn., Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 127-128, Jun. 2017.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.24467/onseikenkyu.21.2_127
    11. M. Matsui and T. Arai, “Jun-on no syuuhasuu no chigai ga gengo hyougen ni oyobosu eikyou: Igengo kan ni okeru hikaku,” The 36th Conference of the Japan Foundation for Basic Psychology, p. 60, Dec. 2017.
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.14947/psychono.36.46
    12. Y. Amimoto, A. Kaminuma and T. Arai, “Relationship between findings from users’ response time and satisfaction level in vehicle dialogue system,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 75-78, Mar. 2017 (in Japanese).
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    13. T. Arai, “Examples of exhibitions on speech sounds at science museums and more,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1141-1144, Mar. 2017 (in Japanese).
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    14. T. Arai, “What to think when researching human speech communication: Speech production and perception,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1375-1376, Mar. 2017 (in Japanese).
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    15. M. Sonu, H. Kato, K. Tajima and T. Arai, “The bias toward geminate consonant perception in Japanese by Korean native listeners: In relation to perceptual assimilation of tense obstruent consonants in Korean,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1401-1404, Mar. 2017 (in Japanese).
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    16. E. Iwagami, T. Arai, K. Yasu and K. Kobayashi, “Perception of geminate and non-geminate consonants in Japanese with devoicing vowels under white noise conditions by young normal-hearing listeners,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1415-1416, Mar. 2017 (in Japanese).
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    17. T. Igeta and T. Arai, “Identification of back vowels /o/- /u/ by young adult native listeners of Seoul Korean: Focusing on perceptual boundary for lower formants,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1419-1420, Mar. 2017 (in Japanese).
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    18. J. Yun and T. Arai, “Preliminary study on the perception of Japanese and Korean nasal consonants,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1427-1428, Mar. 2017 (in Japanese).
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    19. E. Osawa, T. Arai and M. Kitahara, “Reverberation degrades performance of perception of Japanese vowel length contrast by native listeners and non-native listeners,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1433-1436, Mar. 2017 (in Japanese).
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    20. K. Yasu, T. Arai, K. Kobayashi and M. Shindo, “Relationship between age and fricatives/affricates production and perception in elderly listeners,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1469-1470, Mar. 2017 (in Japanese).
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    21. K. Tomaru and T. Arai, “Impact of acoustic similarity on perceptual assimilation of English schwa by native speakers of Japanese,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1479-1482, Mar. 2017.
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    22. K. Tomaru, T. Nakamura and T. Arai, “Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by native speakers of Japanese under the condition of onset lengthening,” Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1483-1484, Mar. 2017.
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    23. T. Arai, “What we learn through sound and voice related handicrafts,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1541-1544, Sep. 2017 (Invited Talk, in Japanese).
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    24. A. Nishimura, T. Arai, F. Satoh and S. Yokoyama, “A plan of teaching material contest for acoustics and teaching materials on acoustics for school children and junior high school students,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1553-1556, Sep. 2017 (Invited Talk, in Japanese).
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    25. J. Yun and T. Arai, “Nasality of word initial /CV/ syllables produced by a vocal model with the nasal cavity,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1463-1464, Sep. 2017.
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    26. C. T. Justine Hui and T. Arai, “Pitch and duration as auditory cues to identify Japanese long vowels for Japanese learners,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 1465-1468, Sep. 2017.
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    27. R. Shimizu, Y. Sakaguchi, R. Iwasaki, T. Arai, M. Mano, A. Kawano and K. Shirai, “Acoustic analysis on the speech of cochlear implant patient: A case study of severe sudden deafness,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 341-344, Sep. 2017 (in Japanese).
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    28. E. Iwagami, T. Arai, K. Yasu and K. Kobayashi, ” Perception of geminate and non-geminate consonants in Japanese with devoiced vowels by elderly listeners,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 353-356, Sep. 2017 (in Japanese).
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    29. E. Osawa, T. Arai and M. Kitahara, “The categorical perception of Japanese single /geminate contrast in reverberation by native and non-native listeners,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 363-366, Sep. 2017 (in Japanese).
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    30. M. Matsui and T. Arai, “Influence of differences in pitch of pure tones on onomatopoeic expressions: Common tendency in different native speakers,” Proc. Autumn Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., pp. 375-376, Sep. 2017 (in Japanese).
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