Publications
Paper
- Amano, S. (1992). "Perception of tonal and microtonal structure
over octaves," Japanese Psychological Research 34, 89-95.
- Amano, S. (1993). ``Effects of lexicon and coarticulation on phoneme
perception,'' The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan (E) 14,
91-97.
- Amano, S. (1994). ``Phonemic restoration of a stop consonant in a
vowel-consonant-vowel syllable in speeded and nonspeeded tasks,'' The
Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan (E) 15, 261-267.
- Amano, S. (1996). ``Lexical facilitation of phoneme perception in
time-modified speech,'' The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan
(E) 17, 9-14.
- Amano, S., Kondo, T., and Kakehi, K. (1995). ``Modality dependency
of familiarity ratings of Japanese words,'' Perception and
Psychophysics 57, 598-603.
- Inui, T., Amano, S., Kondo, T., and Katagiri, S. (2003).
``A study of word and sentence acquisition: Quantitative analysis of
longitudinal data,'' Coginitive Stuidies 10, 304-317. (in Japanese)
- Kajikawa, S., Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (2004). ``Speech
overlap in Japanese mother-child conversations,'' Journal of Child
Language 31, 215-230.
- Fais, L., Kajikawa, S., Werker, J. F., and Amano, S. (2005).
"Japanese listeners' perceptions of phonetactic violations," Language
and Speech 48, 185-201.
- Amano, S., Nakatani, T., and Kondo, T. (2006). "Fundamental
frequency of infants' and parents' utterances in longitudinal
recordings," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119,
1636-1647.
- Kajikawa, S., Fais, L., Werker, J., and Amano, S. (2006).
"Cross-language sensitivity to phonotactic patterns in infants,"
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 120, 2278-2284.
- Mugitani, R., Kobayashi, T., Ishizuka, K., Amano, S., and Hiraki,
K. (2006). "Audiovisual matching in lips and voice on vowel /i/ by
Japanese-learning infants," Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan
10, 96-108, (in Japanese).
- Werker, J. F., Pons, F., Dietrich, C., Kajikawa, S., Fais, L. and
Amano, S. (2007). "Infant-directed speech supports phonetic category
learning in English and Japanese," Cognition 103, 142-162.
- Amano, S., Kasahara, K., and Kondo, T. (2007). "Reliability of
familiarity rating of ordinary Japanese words for different years and
places," Behavior Research Methods 39, 1008-1011.
- Ishizuka, I., Mugitani, R., Kato, H., and Amano, S. (2007).
"Longitudinal developmental changes in spectral peaks of vowels
produced by Japanese infants,"
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121, 2272-2282.
- Vallabha, G. K., McClelland, J. L., Pons, F., Werker, J. F., and
Amano, S. (2007). "Unsupervised learning of vowel categories from
infant-directed speech," Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 104, 13273-13278.
- Mugitani, R., Fais, L., Kajikawa, S., Werker, J., and Amano,
S. (2007). "Age-related changes in sensitivity to native phonotactics
in Japanese infants," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
122, 1332-1335.
- Nakatani, T., Amano, S., Irino, T., Ishizuka, K., & Kondo,
T. (2008). "A method for fundamental frequency estimation and voicing
decision: Application to infant utterances recorded in real acoustical
environments," Speech Communication 50, 203-214.
- Kato, H., Taniguchi, M., Nakatani, T., and Amano, S. (2008).
"Classification and similarity analysis of fundamental frequency
patterns in infant spoken language acquisition," Statistical
methodology 5, 187-208.
- Amano, S., Sakamoto, S., Kondo, T., and Suzuki,Y. (2008). "Development
of familiarity-controlled word lists 2003 (FW03) to assess spoken word
intelligibility in Japanese," Speech Communication 51, 76-82.
Book
- Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (1999).
``
Nihongo-no Goi-Tokusei (Lexical properties of Japanese) Vol. 1,''
Sanseido, Tokyo.
- Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (1999).
``
Nihongo-no Goi-Tokusei (Lexical properties of Japanese) Vol. 3,''
Sanseido, Tokyo.
- Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (1999).
``
Nihongo-no Goi-Tokusei (Lexical properties of Japanese) Vol. 4,''
Sanseido, Tokyo.
- Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (2000).
``
Nihongo-no Goi-Tokusei (Lexical properties of Japanese) Vol. 7,''
Sanseido, Tokyo.
- Kondo, T., and Amano, S. (1999).
``
Nihongo-no Goi-Tokusei (Lexical properties of Japanese) Vol. 2,''
Sanseido, Tokyo.
- Kondo, T., and Amano, S. (1999).
``
Nihongo-no Goi-Tokusei (Lexical properties of Japanese) Vol. 5,''
Sanseido, Tokyo.
- Kondo, T., and Amano, S. (1999).
``
Nihongo-no Goi-Tokusei (Lexical properties of Japanese) Vol. 6,''
Sanseido, Tokyo.
- Sakuma, N., Ijuin, M., Fushimi, T., Tatsumi, I., Tanaka, M., Amano, S., Kondo, T. (2005).
``
Nihongo-no Goi-Tokusei (Lexical properties of Japanese) Vol. 8,''
Sanseido, Tokyo (ISBN 4-385-35898-2).
- Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (2003).
``
Nihongo-no Goi-Tokusei (Lexical properties of Japanese) Vol. 1-6,
CD-ROM version,''
Sanseido, Tokyo (ISBN 4-385-61135-1).
- Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (2003).
``
Nihongo-no Goi-Tokusei (Lexical properties of Japanese) Vol. 7,
CD-ROM version,''
Sanseido, Tokyo (ISBN 4-385-61136-X).
International Conference
- Amano, S. (1988). "Phoneme processing in the perception of spoken
Japanese words," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 84, Suppl. 1, S158.
- Amano, S. (1990). "Lexical and coarticulatory effects on phoneme
monitoring before and after a word identification point in spoken
Japanese words," Proceedings of International Conference on
Spoken Language Processing, 397-400.
- Amano, S. (1992). "Lexical effects on phoneme perception in spoken
Japanese words," Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics 14,
383-390.
- Amano, S. (1994). "Perception of time-compressed/expanded Japanese
words depends on the number of perceived phonemes," Proceedings of
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1415-1418.
- Amano, S. (1997). "Rime cognate: A new lexical competitor set for
spoken word recognition," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102, Pt. 2, 3aSCb11,
3135.
- Amano, S., Kondo, T., and Kakeki, K. (1994). "Correlation of
familiarity ratings between auditorily and visually presented Japanese
words," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, Pt. 2, 5pSP35, 3014.
- Amano, S., Torretta, G. M., and Luce, P. A. (1997). "Positional
neighborhood effects on spoken word recognition," J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
101, Pt. 2, 4aSC9 3155.
- Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (1998). "Estimation of mental lexicon size
with word familiarity database," Proceedings of International
Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 5, 2119-2122.
- Amano, S., and Kondo (1999). "Neighborhood effects on spoken word
recognition in Japanese," Eurospeech 99 Proceedings, Vol.4,
1663-1666.
- Amano, S., Kondo, T., and Kato, K. (1999). "Familiarity effect on
spoken word recognition in Japanese," Proceedings of the 14th
international congress of phonetic science, Vol. 2, 873-876.
- Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (2000). "Neighborhood and cohort in lexical
processings of Japanese spoken words," Proceedings of spoken word
access process, 91-94.
- Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (2000). "Development of word-frequency
database from Japanese newspapers published in the last 14 years,"
International Journal of Psychology 35, 57-58.
- Amano, S., Kato, K. and Kondo T. (2002). "Development of Japanese
infant speech database and speaking rate analysis," Proceedings of
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Vol. 1, 317-320.
- Amano, S., Nakatani, T., and Kondo, T. (2003). "Fundamental
frequency analysis of longitudinal recording in a Japanese infant
speech database," Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of
Phonetic Science, 1983-1986.
- Amano, S., Nakatani, T., and Kondo, T. (2004). "Developmental
changes in voiced-segment ratio for Japanese infants and parents,"
Proceedings of the International Conference of Speech and Language
Processing, 3, 1853-1856.
- Amano, S. (2005). "Developmental change of phoneme duration in a
Japanese infant and mother," Proceedings of the 9th European
Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2217-2220.
- Amano, S., Mugitani, R., and Kobayashi, T. (2005). "Perception of a
Japanese moraic obstruent in an identification task," Proceeding of
the 149th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America 117, 2620.
- Amano, S., Sakamoto, S., Kondo, T., and Suzuki, Y. (2006).
"Development of FW03: Japanese word lists for spoken-word
intelligibility test," Proceedings of Western Pacific Acoustic
Conference, ar-1-1, 231.
- Amano, S., Kondo, T., Sakamoto, S., and Suzuki,
Y. (2006). "Influence of word familiarity on spoken word recognition,"
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Proceeding of fourth
joint meeting of ASA and ASJ) 120, 3322.
- Amano, S., (2008).
"The correlation between word familiarity and semantic word familiarity,"
Abstracts of the XXIX International Congress of Psychology, 441.
- Kajikawa, S., Amano, S., & Kondo, T. (2002). "Rhythms of
turn-taking in Japanese mother-child dialogue," Proceedings of LP2002, 78.
- Nakatani, T., Amano, S., & Irino, T. (2002). "An estimation method
for fundamental frequency and voiced segment in infant utterance,"
First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics (144th Meeging of
ASA), JASA 112, 2322.
- Inui, T., Amano, S., and Katagiri, S. (2003). "Quantitative
analysis of the vocabulary spurt," Proceeding of XIth European
Conference on Developmental Psychology, 312-313.
- Kajikawa, S., and Amano, S. (2003). "Mutual imitation of
fundamental frequency in parent-infant vocal interactions,"
Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Science,
1999-2002.
- Kajikawa, S., Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (2003). "Development of
conversational style in Japanese mother-child interactions: Speech
overlap, particle use, and backchannels," BUCLD 27: Proc. of the 27th
annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 370-379.
- Kajikawa, S., and Amano, S. (2003). "Japanese Infant's perception
of word boundaries in native and non-native speech," Proceeding of
XIth European Conference on Developmental Psychology, 93.
- Kato, H., Nakatani, T., Kajikawa, S., and Amano, S. (2003). "A
statistical analysis for fundamental frequency patterns in infant
language acquisition," Proc. of the 30th Anniversary of the
Information Criterion (AIC), Science of Modelling, 386-387.
- Bond, F., Fujita, S., Hashimoto, C., Kasahara, K., Nariyama, S.,
Nichols, E., Ootani, A., Tanaka, T., Amano, S. (2004). "The Hinoki
Treebank: Working Toward Text Understanding," 5th Workshop on
Linguistically Interpreted Corpora, 7-10.
- Bond, F., Fujita, S., Hashimoto, C., Kasahara, K., Nariyama, S.,
Nichols, E., Ootani, A., Tanaka, T., Amano, S. (2004). "The Hinoki
Treebank: A Treebank for Text Understanding," Proceedings of the First
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
(IJCNLP-04), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
- Fais, L., Kajikawa, S., Amano, S., and Werker, J. (2004). "Adult
perceptions of phonotactic violantions in Japanese," Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America 115, 5, 2395.
- Kajikawa, S., Fais, L., Werker, J. and Amano, S. (2004). "Adult
and infant sensitivity to phonotactic features in spoken Japanese,"
Proceedings of the International Conference of Speech and Language
Processing 1, 481-484.
- Kato, H., Kajikawa, S., Nakatani, T., and Amano, S. (2004).
"Discrimination and Clustering for Fundamental Frequency Patterns of
Infant and Parents Speech," Poster presentation at 2004 NTT Workshop
on Communication Scene Analysis (CSA2004).
- Sakamoto, S., Iwaoka, N., Suzuki, Y., Amano, S., and Kondo, T.
(2004). "A Compensation method for word-familiarity difference with
SNR control in word intelligibility test," Proceedings of the
International Conference of Speech and Language Processing 1, 333-336.
- Sakamoto, S., Suzuki, Y., Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (2004).
"Compensation between word familiarity and SNR in word intelligibility
test," Proceedings of the International Conference of International
Congress on Acoustics 1, 229-232.
- Harada, N., Iwaki, S., Nakagawa, S., Amano, S., and Tonoike,
M. (2005). "Effect of word familiarity on auditory evoked magnetic
fields," Proceeding of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Organization for
Human Brain Mapping (NeuroImag 26), Supplement 1, 1115.
- Ijiri, M., Inui, T., Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (2005). "An
articulatory model with developmental constraints: Some evidence from
child speech data," Proceeding of ICDL-05, 62-67.
- Ijiri, M., Inui, T., Amano, S., and Kondo, T. (2005).
"Developmentally constrained articulatory model for children's
deviations from adult articulation forms," The VII-th International
Conference Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics Proceedings, 293-302.
- Ishizuka, K., Mugitani, R., Kato, H., and Amano, S. (2005). "A
longitudinal analysis of the spectral peaks of vowels for a Japanese
infant," Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech
Communication and Technology (Interspeech2005 - Eurospeech),
1169-1172.
- Kobayashi, T., Mugitani, R., and Amano, S. (2005). "Perception of a
Japanese moraic obstruent in a discrimination task," Proceeding of the
149th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America 117, 2620.
- Mugutani, R., Fais, L., Kajikawa, S., Amano, S., and Werker,
J. (2005). "Perceptual development of phonotactic features in Japanese
infants," Proceeding of the 149th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America 117, 2167.
- Mugitani, R., Ishizuka, K., and Amano, S. (2005). "Longitudinal
development of mora-timed rhythmic structure in Japanese," The 30th
Boston University Conference on Language Development, 52.
- Fais, L., Kajikawa, S., Deacon, H., Amano, S., and Werker, J. F.
(2006). "U-shaped development of infants' ability to perceive
word-final consonant sequences," Proceedings of International
Conference on Infant Studies, 19-19.
- Fais, L., Kajikawa, S., Mugitani, R., Amano, S., and Werker,
J. F. (2006). "Perception of phonotactic violations by Japanese
adults and infants," Proceedings of International Conference on Infant
Studies, 135-135.
- Kobayashi, T., Mugitani, R., and Amano, S. (2006). "Integration
of object identity and motion properties in infancy," Proceeding of
Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of
Behavioural Development (ISSBD), 554.
- Kobayashi, T., Mugitani, R., and Amano, S. (2006).
"Development of infants' ability to associate words with intrinsic
motions," Proceedings of International Conference on Infant Studies,
150-151.
- Mazuka, R., and Amano, S. (2006). "What we can learn by studying
infants learning a non-European language: Phonological foundations for
word learning in Japanese," Proceedings of International Conference on
Infant Studies, 328-331.
- Mugitani, R., Pons, F., Dietrich, C., Werker, J. F., and Amano,
S. (2006). "Native-language specific asymmetries in vowel length
perception in infants," Proceedings of International Conference on
Infant Studies, 328-329.
- Pons, F., Mugitani, R., Amano, S., and Werker, J. F. (2006).
"Distributional learning in vowel length distinctions by 6-month-old
English infants," Proceedings of International Conference on Infant
Studies, 154-155.
- Sakamoto, S., Yoshikawa, T., Amano, S. Suzuki, Y., and Kondo,
T. (2006). "Speech reception threshold of words in FW03,"
Proceedings of Western Pacific Acoustic Conference, ar-1-1, 579.
- Sakamoto, S., Yoshikawa, T., Amano, S., Suzuki, Y., and Kondo,
T.(2006). "New 20-word lists for word intelligibility test in
Japanese," Proceeding of INTERSPEECH, 2158-2161.
- Kobayashi, T., Mugitani, R., and Amano, S. (2006). "Mapping words
with intransitive actions by 14-month-old infants," BUCLD 31: Abstract
of the 31th annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development, 54.
- Mugitani, R., Kobayashi, T., and Amano, S. (2006). "Perception
and lexical acquisition of Japanese pitch accent in infants," BUCLD
31: Abstract of the 31th annual Boston University Conference on
Language Development, 65.
- Fais, L., Werker, J., Kajikawa, S., and Amano, S. (2006). "Vowel
devoicing in Japanese infant- and adult-directed speech," Journal of
the Acoustical Society of America (Proceeding of fourth joint meeting
of ASA and ASJ) 120, 3295.
- Sakamoto, S., Suzuki, Y., Amano, S., and Kondo,
T. (2006). "Development of word lists for word intelligibility tests
in Japanese," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Proceeding
of fourth joint meeting of ASA and ASJ) 120, 3322.
- Kondo, T., Amano, S., Sakamoto, S., and Suzuki, Y. (2006). "Word
and mora intelligibility in Familiarity-controlled word-lists 2003
(FW03)," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Proceeding of
fourth joint meeting of ASA and ASJ) 120, 3360.