About Us
Title
Interdisciplinary Empirical Research Project on Disfluent Utterance Patterns
Brief Introduction
In the real world, the speech of native speakers often is disfluent. Such disfluency is easy to accept without treating it as disfluent in communication. But how, and on what points, does the disfluency of native speakers differ from the essence of disfluency?
This study will elucidate this essence of disfluency through interdisciplinary and empirical methods.
It will elucidate, through interdisciplinary cooperation among specialists in linguistics (descriptive linguistics and corpus linguistics), conversation analysis, second-language education, and medicine, how disfluency of native Japanese speakers that is accepted in communication differs from, and what it shares in common with, the disfluency of learners of Japanese and the disfluency of people with linguistic disabilities.
It will secure the demonstrativeness of its research through the practical production activities of developing a digital archive of disfluent utterances by native Japanese speakers, a voice-synthesis system to generate disfluent speech resembling that of native speakers, and a Japanese-language textbook to enable learners to utter disfluent speech resembling that of native speakers.
Research Organization
Honorifics omitted/ as of April 2024, Japanese alphabetical order.
PI:
Toshiyuki Sadanobu (Kyoto University)
Co-Investigators:
Tomoko Endo (The University of Tokyo)
Mizuki Funahashi (Waseda University)
Ryoko Hayashi (Kobe University)
Takehiko Maruyama (Senshu University)
Akiko Mokhtari (Toyama Prefectural University)
Descriptive Linguistics Group
| Mayumi ADACHI (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) |
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| Andrej BEKEŠ (University of Ljubljana) |
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| Tsuyoshi ONO (University of Alberta) |
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| Shigeko OKAMOTO (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
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| * | Toshiyuki SADANOBU (Kyoto University) |
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| Yukiko SHUKURI (Tohoku University) |
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| Ryouko SUZUKI (Keio University) |
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| Hayato DAIKUHARA (Doshisha University) |
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| Mariko TANI (Graduate student of Kyoto University) |
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| Hiroshi TANIGUCHI (Graduate student of Kyoto University) |
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| Cheng Ya-Yun(Graduate student of Kyoto University) |
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| Deng JinXuan(Graduate student of Kyoto University) |
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| Kenji TOMOSADA (Prefectural University of Hiroshima) |
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| Toshihide NAKAYAMA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) |
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| Han Minji (Graduate student of Kyoto University) |
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| Fumino HORIUCHI (Japan Women's University) |
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Corpus Linguistics Group
| Moe IBATA (Graduate student of Nanzan University) |
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| Hanae KOISO (NINJAL) |
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| Aiko SASAKI (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
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| Shinichirou SANO (Keio University) |
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| * | Takehiko MARUYAMA (Senshu University) |
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| Nao YOSHIDA (Senshu University) |
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Conversation Analysis Group
| Satsuki ISEKI (Graduate student of Rutgers University/The University of Tokyo) |
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| * | Tomoko ENDO (The University of Tokyo) |
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| Satomi KUROSHIMA (Tamagawa University） |
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| 呉 青青 (Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies) |
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| Atsuki SANADA (Graduate student of Kyoto University) |
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| SeungHee Jang (SISA Academy of foreign languages) |
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| 陳 力 (Kanda University of International Studies) |
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| Kaoru HAYANO (Japan Women's University) |
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| Mari YAMAMOTO (Kwansei Gakuin University) |
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| Daisuke YOKOMORI (Kyoto University) |
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| 李 嘉 (Gifu Shotoku Gakuen, Graduate student of The University of Tokyo) |
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| Miao Liu (Okinawa International University) |
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| Yukun Li (Graduate student of The University of Tokyo) |
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Language Education Group
| 郭 跻 (Graduate student of Kyushu University) |
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| Megumi KASHIMA (Kumamoto University) |
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| Madoka KONISHI (Tokyo Gakugei University) |
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| Junko SATO (Graduate student of Hokkaido University) |
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| Jun SUDOU (Doshisha University) |
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| Kanami CHIBA (Hokkaido University) |
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| Fumiko NISHIMURA (WAIKATO University) |
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| Miki HIRATA (Hokkaido University) |
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| * | Mizuki FUNAHASHI (Waseda University) |
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| Aiko MIYANAGA (Yamaguchi University) |
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Communication Science and Disorder Group
| Rongna A (RIKEN) |
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| Satoshi IMAIZUMI (University of Tokyo Health Sciences) |
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| WANG Kexin (Graduate student of Kobe University) |
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| Takayuki KAGOMIYA (NINJAL) |
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| Tatsuya KITAMURA (Konan University) |
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| Megumi KIMOTO (Kobe University PD) |
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| Masahiko KOMATSU (Kanagawa University) |
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| Shunyaku SHU (Kobe University) |
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| SUN Jing (Graduate student of Kobe University) |
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| Yuuki TAKAKURA (Hokkaido University) |
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| Tetsuya TUDA (Prefectural University of Hiroshima) |
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| Fumie NANBA (Graduate student of Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare) |
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| Michiko HASHI (Prefectural University of Hiroshima) |
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| * | Ryoko HAYASHI (Kobe University) |
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| Naohisa FURUTA (Minamino Hospital) |
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| Yasuto YADA (Graduate student of Tokyo Metropolitan University) |
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| Xinyue Li (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science PD) |
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AI Group
| Jun ARAI (Kobe University) |
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| Nick CAMPBELL (Trinity College Dublin) |
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| Hiroaki HATANO (University of Tsukuba) |
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| * | Akiko Mokhtari (Toyama Prefectural University) |
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Group of Overall Coordination
| Andrej BEKEŠ (University of Ljubljana) |
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| Donna ERICKSON (Haskins Laboratories) |
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| Michio OKADA (Toyohashi University of Technology) |
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| Nick CAMPBELL (Trinity College Dublin) |
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| Yoshinori SAGISAKA (Waseda University) |
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| * | Toshiyuki SADANOBU (Kyoto University) |
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| Takaaki SHOCHI (Bordeaux Montaigne University) |
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| Masahiko MIZUTANI (Kyoto University) |
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| Akiko MOKHTARI (Toyama Prefectural University) |
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| * | Group Leader |
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Special Advisors:
Nick Campbell (Trinity College Dublin)
Donna Erickson (Haskins Laboratories/Kanazawa Medical University)
Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda University)
Kenji Tomosada (Prefectural University of Hiroshima)
Category
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
Research period
2020-2024
Project number
20H05630