Peer-reviewed Journal Papers
Wu, X., Kawase, S.,Wang, Y. (2016). Effects of acoustic and linguistic aspects on Japanese pitch accent processing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (First View), pp. 1-16, doi:10.1017/S1366728916000559
Kawase, S., Hannah, B., Wang, Y. (2014). The influence of visual speech information on the intelligibility of English consonants produced by non-native speakers. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136(3), 1352-1362, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4892770
Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings
Kawase, S., Kim, J., & Davis, C. (2016). The relative contribution of duration and amplitude to the perception of Japanese-accented English as a function of L2 experience, Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Kawase, S., Kim, J. Aubanel, V., & Davis, C (2016). Perceiving foreign-accented auditory-visual speech in noise: the influence of visual form and timing information, Proceedings of Speech Prosody 8 (pp. 484-488), Boston, USA, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-99
Kawase, S., Kim, J., & Davis, C. (2016). The influence of second language experience on Japanese-accented English rhythm. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 8 (pp. 746-750), Boston, USA, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-153
Kawase, S., Kim, J., Aubanel, V., & Davis, C. (2015). Influences of visual speech information on the perception of foreign-accented speech in noise. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow. ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4. Paper number 274. retrieved from http://www.icphs2015.info/pdfs/Papers/ICPHS0274.pdf
Tyler, M., Kawase, S., & Antoniou, M. (2014). Does immersion experience reduce /r/-/l/ category overlap for Japanese learners of English, Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Christchurch, N.Z.
Kawase, S., Wang, Y. (2012). Effects of visual speech information on native listener judgments of L2 speech consonant intelligibility. In INTERSPEECH (Vol. 2012, pp.1712-1715), Portland, USA. retrieved from http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/archive_papers/interspeech_2012/i12_1712.pdf
Kawase, S. (2011). Effects of rater’s attention on the perceived degree of foreign accent. Proceedings of the
17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1042-1045), Hong Kong, China. retrieved from https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2011/OnlineProceedings/RegularSession/Kawase/Kawase.pdf
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Phonetics
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Psycholinguistics
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Perception and production of speech by second language learners
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Audiovisual speech processing
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Perception of foreign-accented speech
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2018-2021 Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKEN) for Young Scientists (approx. $25,000 USD) Principal Investigator [Project Number 18K12381]
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2018 Grants for Special Research Projects, Waseda University (approx. $2,800 USD) Principal Investigator [Project Number 2018K-244]
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2017 Grants for Special Research Projects, Waseda University (approx. $2,000 USD) Principal Investigator [Project Number 2017S-097]
Research Interests
Conference Presentations (without proceedings)
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2016 Kawase, S., Shaw, J, Kim, J., & Davis, C. Intra- and inter-gestural coordination in L2 speech production by Japanese learners of English. New Sounds 2016, Aarhus, Denmark.
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2015 Kawase, S., Kim, J., Aubanel, V., & Davis, C. Decreased visual speech benefit for foreign-accented speech perception in noise Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference 2015, Sydney, Australia, April 8-11.
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2013 Harada, T., Kawase, S (co-presenter). Effects of minimal input in childhood on talker differences in second language speech perception. New Sounds, Montreal, Quebec, May 17-19.
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2012 Kawase, S., Hannah, B., Wang, Y. Effects of visual speech information on native listener judgments of L2 speech intelligibility and accent. Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching conference (PSLLT), Vancouver, Canada, August 24-25.
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2011 Kawase, S. Effect of speech content on the perception of foreign accent. The 27th Northwest Linguistics Conference, Victoria, February 19.
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2010 Kawase, S. Effects of audiovisual and audio training on English vowel perception of Japanese EFL learners, The10th Commemorative Conference of English Phonetics Society of Japan, Tokyo, May 30.
Research Activities
Fields of Specialization
Grant
Grant
2018 The National Science Foundation (NSF) – Linguistics
Journal
2017- Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
2017- Language and Speech
Conference/Workshop Organizer
2018-2019 Local planning committee, New Sounds 2019, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Programme Committee of the 9th Speech Prosody (SP9) conference
2016 Student volunteer, Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, USA
2015 The Western Sydney student social committee, the 1st Summer School of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Sydney
2012 Local planning committee, Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (PSLLT), Vancouver, Canada
2011 Local organizing committee, the 2011 Western Conference on Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada