Publications

Recent published work

Papers
- Shinohara, Y., Han, C., & Hestvik, A. (2023). English vowel discrimination and perceptual assimilation by Japanese listeners. Language and Speech, 238309231209311. Advance online publication. DOI:  10.1177/00238309231209311   [URL]
- Shinohara, Y., Uchida, M., & Matsui, T. (2023). Perception of Japanese pitch accent by typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorders. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proc. of
the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
(pp. 231–235). Guarant International.  [PDF]     [URL]
- Lee, A., Shinohara, Y., Chiu, F., & Mut, T. C. (2023). Perception of vowel and consonant quantity contrasts by Cantonese, English, French and Japanese speakers. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proc. of
the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
(pp. 2477–2481). Guarant International.   [PDF]     [URL]
- Shinohara, Y., Han, C., & Hestvik, A. (2022). Discriminability and prototypicality of nonnative vowels. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 44(5), 1260–1278. DOI: 10.1017/S0272263121000978    [PDF]   [URL]
- Shinohara, Y. (2022). Perception of noise-vocoded sine-wave speech of Japanese pitch-accent words. JASA Express Letters, 2(8), 085204. DOI: 10.1121/10.0013423     [PDF]   [URL]
- Lee, A., Shinohara, Y., & Mut, T. C. (2022). Non-native length contrast perception by Japanese and Cantonese speakers. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 45, 060003. DOI: 10.1121/2.0001529    [PDF]   [URL]
- Shinohara, Y., & Iverson, P. (2021). The effect of age on English /r/-/l/ perceptual training outcomes for Japanese speakers. Journal of Phonetics, 89, 101108. DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101108   [PDF]   [URL]
- Shinohara, Y. (2021). Audiovisual English /r/-/l/ identification training for Japanese-speaking adults and children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(7). 2529-2538. DOI: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00506   [PDF]   [URL]
- Hestvik, A., Shinohara, Y., Durvasula, K., Verdonschot, R., & Sakai, H. (2020). Abstractness of human speech sound representations. Brain Research, 1732, 146664. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2020.146664 [The first two authors share first authorship]   [PDF]   [URL]
- Shinohara, Y., Han, C., & Hestvik, A. (2019). Effects of perceptual assimilation: The perception of English /æ/, /ʌ/, and /ɑ/ by Japanese speakers. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proc. the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 2344-2348). ISBN 978-0-646-80069-1   [PDF]   [URL
- Shinohara, Y., & Iverson, P. (2018). High variability identification and discrimination training for Japanese speakers learning English /r/–/l/. Journal of Phonetics, 66, 242–251. DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2017.11.002    [PDF]   [URL]
- Shinohara, Y. (2016). Audiovisual Training Effects for Japanese Children Learning English /r/-/l/. Proc. Interspeech 2016, 204–207. DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2016.641    [PDF]   [URL]
- Shinohara, Y., & Iverson, P. (2015). Effects of English /r/-/l/ perceptual training on Japanese children’s production. Proc. the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, article 540. ISBN: 978-0-85261-941-4    [PDF]   [URL]
- Shinohara, Y., & Iverson, P. (2013). Perceptual training effects on production of English /r/-/l/ by Japanese speakers. In J. Przedlacka, J. Maidment., & M. Ashby (Eds.), Proc. the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference: PTLC2013, 83–86. ISBN (eBook-PDF): 978-0-9926394-0-2   [PDF]   [URL]
- Shinohara, Y., & Iverson, P. (2013). Computer-based English /r/-/l/ perceptual training for Japanese children. Proc. Meetings on Acoustics, 19(1), 60049. DOI: 10.1121/1.4805599   [PDF]   [URL]
- Shinohara, Y., Huckvale, M., & Ashby, M. (2011). Differences in glottal stop perception between English and Japanese listeners. In W. E. Lee, & E. Zee (Eds.), Proc. the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1830–1833. ISBN: 978-962-442-341-9    [PDF]   [URL]

Books
- Sheppard, C., Fujii, M., Manalo, E., Masuda, H., Orita, N., Sakai, H., Shinohara, Y., Tanaka-Ellis, N., & Ueno, Y. (2023). Communication Strategies 1 (5th ed.). Tokyo: DTP Publishing.
- Sheppard, C., Fujii, M., Manalo, E., Masuda, H., Shinohara, Y., Tanaka-Ellis, N., & Ueno, Y. (2017). Communication Strategies 1 (4th ed.). Tokyo: DTP Publishing.
- Sheppard, C., Fujii, M., Manalo, E., Masuda, H., Shinohara, Y., Tanaka-Ellis, N., & Ueno, Y. (2017). Communication Strategies 2 (4th ed.). Tokyo: DTP Publishing. 

Presentations

- Oliveira, A., Kothari, Y., Bloder, T., Shinohara, Y., Shafer, V., & Cunha, P. (2023, November). Cross-linguistic differences in neural encoding and processing of stop consonants: the impact of language experience on attention allocation. Neuroscience 2023, Washington, D. C., USA.
- Shinohara, Y. (2023, October). Mismatch Negativity responses for phonemic representations and acoustic-phonetic realizations (tentative title). Invited talk to be given at the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences, University of Delaware, Delaware, USA.
- Shinohara, Y., Uchida, M., & Matsui, T. (2023, August). Japanese pitch-accent perception by typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorders. The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Lee, A., Shinohara, Y., Chiu, F., & Mut, T. C. (2023, August). Perception of vowel and consonant quantity contrasts by Cantonese, English, French and Japanese speakers. The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Uchida, M., Shinohara, Y., Matsui, T., Ikeda, K., Fujino, H., Tojo, Y., & Hakarino, K. (2023, July). 6 歳から 12 歳の子どもにおける音韻カテゴリ知覚の発達:弁別課題を用いて [Development of phonological category perception for 6-12 year-old children: Investigating with an auditory discrimination task]. The Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS) 2023: The 24th Annual International Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
- Shinohara, Y., & Shafer, V. (2023, June). Neural indices of acoustic-phonetic and phonological differences. PhonolEEGy 2, Amherst, Massachusetts USA.
- Kothari, Y., Durney, A., Bloder, T., Rinker, T., Shinohara, Y., & Shafer, V. (2023, June). Cross-Linguistic neural discrimination of stop consonant laryngeal features by Hindi, English and Romance-language speakers. PhonolEEGy 2, Amherst, Massachusetts USA.
- Lee, A., Shinohara, Y., Chiu, F., & Mut, T. C. (2023, May). Discrimination and identification of Japanese quantity contrasts by native Cantonese, English, French, and Japanese listeners. Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics & Cognitive Sciences of Language 2023 (HISPhonCog 2023), Seoul, Korea.
- Shinohara, Y., Uchida, M., & Matsui, T. (2023, May). Japanese pitch-accent identification accuracy by children with autism spectrum disorder. The 184th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois USA.
- Shinohara, Y., (2022, December). Japanese pitch-accent perception of noise-vocoded sine-wave speech. The 183rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, Tennessee USA.
- Lee, A., Shinohara, Y., & Mut, T. C. (2021, November). Perception of non-native quantity contrasts by Cantonese and Japanese speakers. The 181st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, Washington USA. (The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(4), A43–A43. DOI: 10.1121/10.0007568)
- Uchida, M., Shinohara, Y., Matsui, T., Ikeda, K., Fujino, H., Tojo, Y., Hakarino, K. (2020, March). 自閉スペクトラム症児の音韻カテゴリ知覚 [Phonological category perception of children with autism spectrum disorder]. The 31st Annual Meeting for the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology (JSDP 2020), Osaka, Japan.
- Shinohara, Y., Han, C., & Hestvik, A. (2019, September). Effects of perceptual assimilation and vowel peripherality in perceiving non-native vowels. New Sounds 2019, Tokyo, Japan.
Shinohara, Y., Han, C., & Hestvik, A. (2019, August). Effects of perceptual assimilation: The perception of English /æ/, /ʌ/, and /ɑ/ by Japanese speakers. The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia.
- Shinohara, Y.,  (2019, May). Examination of theoretical models in second-language (L2) speech perception: The Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) and the Natural Referent Vowel (NRV) framework. Research Workshop of Institute of Language and Speech Science, Tokyo, Japan.
Shinohara, Y. (2018, December). Effects of perceptual assimilation for Japanese speakers perceiving English vowels. Invited talk given at the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences, University of Delaware, Delaware, USA.
- Shinohara, Y. (2018, July). English /r/-/l/ perception for Japanese speakers: Training methods and age effects. The 33rd annual meeting of the Sophia Linguistic Society, Tokyo, Japan.
- Shinohara, Y., Hestvik, A., Durvasula, K., & Sakai, H. (2018, June). Asymmetric memory encoding for voicing contrasts across languages. The 8th Mismatch Negativity Conference (MMN 2018), Helsinki, Finland.
- Shinohara, Y., & Sakai, H. (2018, May). Phonological representation of voicing contrasts and Mismatch Negativity. 2018 Research Workshop of Institute of Language and Speech Science, Tokyo, Japan.
- Shinohara, Y., & Sakai, H. (2018, April). Underspecification and MMN asymmetry: Voicing contrasts in Japanese. Brain Science of Language Inference and Thought (BLIT) Colloquium, Tokyo, Japan.
- Shinohara, Y., Hestvik, A., Durvasula, K., Verdonschot, R., & Sakai, H. (2017, November). Cross-linguistic differences in MMN asymmetry: Voicing underspecification in Japanese. Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2017, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- Shinohara, Y. (2017, September). L2 phonetic perceptual training for Japanese speakers learning English /r/-/l/. Invited talk given at the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences, University of Delaware, Delaware, USA.
- Shinohara, Y. (2016, December). Influence of age-related factors on English /r/-/l/ audiovisual training for Japanese speakers. The 5th Joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Hawaii, USA.
- Shinohara, Y. (2016, August). Audiovisual Training Effects for Japanese Children Learning English /r/-/l/. Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, US.
- Shinohara, Y. (2016, April). Effects of audiovisual training on the English /r/-/l/ identification by Japanese adults and children. Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering Colloquium, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
- Shinohara, Y., & Iverson, P. (2015, August). Effects of English /r/-/l/ perceptual training on Japanese children’s production. The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK.
- Shinohara, Y. (2015, February). Influence of age-related factors on second-language perceptual training. Invited talk given at the 96th Kagamiyama Linguistics Colloquium, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
- Shinohara, Y. (2015, January). Theories of second-language speech acquisition and training methods. Invited lecture given at the Faculty of Foreign Languages (English Department), Daito Bunka University, Tokyo, Japan.
- Shinohara, Y. (2014, April). Effects of English /r/-/l/ perceptual training for Japanese adults, adolescents and children. Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering Colloquium, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
- Shinohara, Y., & Iverson, P. (2013, August). Perceptual training effects on production of English /r/-/l/ by Japanese speakers. The Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference: PTLC2013, London, UK.
- Shinohara, Y., & Iverson, P. (2013, June). Computer-based English /r/-/l/ perceptual training for Japanese children. The 21st International Congress on Acoustics / The 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America / The 52nd Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Montréal, Canada.
- Shinohara, Y., & Iverson, P. (2013, May). Age effects on English /r/-/l/ phonetic learning for Japanese speakers. New Sounds 2013, Montreal, Canada.
- Shinohara, Y., & Iverson, P. (2012, March). Identification and discrimination training for English /r/-/l/ perception by Japanese adults. Bilingual & Multilingual Interaction, Bangor, UK.
- Shinohara, Y., & Iverson, P. (2012, March). Perceptual training for English /r/-/l/ for adult Japanese listeners. British Association of Academic Phoneticians, Leeds, UK.
- Shinohara, Y., Huckvale, M., & Ashby, M. (2011, August). Differences in glottal stop perception between English and Japanese listeners. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, China.
- Shinohara, Y. (2010, March). A cross-language study of glottal stop perception. British Association of Academic Phoneticians, London, UK.