Kanae Nishi

Postdoctoral Fellow

<Journal Articles and Meeting Proceedings>

• Strange, W., Bohn, O.-S., Nishi, K., & Trent, S.A. (2005). Contextual variation in the acoustic and perceptual similarity of North German and American English vowels. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 118(3), 1751-1762.

• Hisagi, M., Nishi, K., & Strange, W. (in press). Acoustic properties of Japanese and English vowels: effects of speaking style and consonantal context. In M. Endo Hudson, S.-A. Jun, & P. Sells (Eds.), Japanese and Korean Linguistics (Proceedings), Vol. 13. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

• Rogers, C.L., Dalby, J., & Nishi, K. (2004). Effects of noise and intelligibility of Chinese-accented English. Language and Speech, 47 (2), 139-154.

• Strange, W., Bohn, O.-S., Trent, S.A., & Nishi, K. (2004). Acoustic and perceptual similarity of North German and American English vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115(4), 1791-1807.

• Strange, W., Akahane-Yamada, R., Kubo, R., Trent, S.A., & Nishi, K. (2001). Effects of consonantal context on the perceptual assimilation of American English vowels by Japanese listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 1691-1704.

• Strange, W., Akahane-Yamada, R., Kubo, R., Trent, S.A., Nishi, K., & Jenkins, J.J. (1998). Perceptual assimilation of American English vowels by Japanese listeners. Journal of Phonetics, 26, 311-344.

• Nishi, K. (1995). On the developmental aspects of the role of visual information in speech perception -- A study on McGurk Effect (in Japanese). Syntactical Studies and English Education, 17, 142-148. Yamaguchi Shoten: Kyoto.

• Tsushima, T., Takizawa, O., Sasaki, M., Shiraki, S., Nishi, K., Kohno, M., Menyuk, P., & Best, C. (1994). Discrimination of English /r-l/ and /w-y/ by Japanese infants at 6-12 months: Language-specific developmental changes in speech perception abilities. Proceedings of International Conference of Spoken Language Processing 94, Yokohama, 1695-1698.

<Abstracts>

• Nishi, K., & Kewley-Port, D. (2005). Second language vowel training using vowel subsets: Order of training and choice of contrasts. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 1900.

• Kewley-Port, D., Bohn, O.-S., & Nishi, K. (2005). The influence of different native language systems on vowel discrimination and identification. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 2399.

• Nishi, K., & Kewley-Port, D. (2005). Training Japanese listeners to identify American English vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 2401.

• Nishi, K., Akahane-Yamada, R., Kubo, R., & Strange, W. (2003). Acoustic comparisons of Japanese and English vowels produced by native speakers of Japanese. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114, 2364.

• Nyang, E.E., Rogers, C.L., & Nishi, K. (2003). Talker and accent variability effects on spoken word recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113, 2329.

• Nishi, K., & Rogers, C.L. (2002). On the relationship between perception and production of American English vowels by native speakers of Japanese: A pair of case studies. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112, 2250.

• Strange, W., Weber, A., Levy, E., Shafiro, V., & Nishi, K. (2002). Within- and across- language acoustic variability of vowels spoken in different phonetic and prosodic contexts: American English, North German, and Parisian French. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112, 2384.

• Nishi, K. (2001). Characteristics and intelligibility of Japanese-accented English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 2686.

• Rogers, C.L., Dalby, J.M., & Nishi, K. (2001). Effects of noise and proficiency level on intelligibility of Chinese-accented English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 2473.

• Bielec, K.C., Grainger, A.D., Strange, W., Trent, S.A., & Nishi, K. (1998). Acoustic characteristics of American English vowels produced by Floridian female speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104, 1778.

• Nishi, K., Strange, W., Akahane-Yamada, R., Trent, S.A., Thornton, D.H. (1998). Perceptual assimilation of Japanese vowels by American English listeners: Effects of speaking style. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104, 1834.

• Jenkins, J.J., Strange, W., Nishi, K., Fitzgerald, B.H., Trent, S.A., & Thornton, D.H. (1997). Acoustic comparison of the effects of coarticulation on the production of Japanese and American English vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102, 3134.