Researcher Information - NAKAMURA Mitsuhiro |

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NAKAMURA Mitsuhiro

Department / Course

Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English

Job Professor

Specialization and related fields
Phonetics and Phonology, English Linguistics and English Phonetics, Linguistics

Academic background
1.	Department of English College of Humanities and Sciences Nihon University Graduated
2.	Master Department of English Graduate School, Division of Letters Nihon University Finished
3.	Doctorial Department of English Graduate School, Division of Letters Nihon University Expired with Credits Obtained
4.	Doctorial Department of Phonetics and Linguistics University College London, Graduate School Finished
5.	University College London Linguistics and Phonetics Ph.D. in Phonetics

Business career
1.	2020/04/01 ～	Professor Aoyama Gakuin University College of Literature Department of English
2.	2008/04 ～ 2020/03	Professor Nihon University, College of Economics
3.	2008/04 ～ 2020/03	Lecturer Nihon University, Graduate School of Literature and Social Sciences, English Language and Literature
4.	2005/09 ～ 2007/03	Lecturer
5.	2003/04 ～ 2020/03	Lecturer Nihon University, College of Humanities and Sciences, Department of English
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Belonging society
1.	1987/04 ～	The English Linguistic Society of Japan
2.	1987/04 ～	The Phonetic Society of Japan
3.	1993/10 ～	The Phonological Society of Japan

Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
1.	2025/04 ～ 2027/03	Articulatory Organization and Socio-Indexical Information: A Sociophonetic Study of Phonetic Variation Across English Accents Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (C) (General)
2.	2015/04 ～ 2018/03	Articulatory Organisation and Phonological Structure: A Theoretical and Experimental Study Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
3.	2012/04 ～ 2015/03	Articulatory Organisation and Language Use: A Theoretical and Experimental Study Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
4.	2009/04 ～ 2012/03	A Theoretical and Experimental Study of Dynamic Characteristics of Articulatory Gestures and their Prosodic Controls Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
5.	2005/04 ～ 2009/03	Articulatory Organisation and Prosody: The Parametric Phonetics of Allophonic Variations in English. Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Committee and society
1.	2018/06	Reviewer; The 17th Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney, Australia
2.	2009/08	Scientific Committee, Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference 2009, London, England

Book and thesis
1.	Papers	Some phonetic observations on the apical-laminal distinction in American English /l/. Thought Currents in English Literature 97,pp.105-117 (Sole-authored) 2024/12
2.	Papers	An Articulatory Study of the Word-initial /str/ Cluster in British English. Sharnitzl, R. and J. Volin (Eds.) Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech.,pp.997-1001 (Sole-authored) 2023/08
3.	Papers	Coarticulation and Phonetic Variation: A Cased Study. 4,pp.41-53 (Sole-authored) 2023/03
4.	Papers	Gestural Reduction, Phonetic Context, and Word Frequency: A Case Study of Word-Final Singleton /l/ in British English. The Journal of College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University 64,pp.1-12 (Sole-authored) 2023/03
5.	Papers	Intergestural Coordination in English Syllable-Final /n/: Preliminary Considerations. Journal of College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University,pp.57-75 (Sole-authored) 2022/03
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2024/01/20	Coarticulatory Variability in British English /s/-retraction: an exploratory study (Tokyo Circle of Phonologists, January 2024)
2.	2023/08/07	An Articulatory Study of the Word-initial /str/ Cluster in British English (The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech, August 7-11, 2023)
3.	2019/08/06	Exploring temporal characteristics of lingual gestures in American English /l/. (The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia)
4.	2018/10/19	Universal Phonetics, or Searching for the Biological Grounding of Phonology. (The 6th Meeting of Linguistics Beyond and Within - International Linguistics Conference in Lublin.)
5.	2018/09/28	What can Individual Phonetic Variation Tell us about Phonology? (The 25th Conference of J. Jablonskis 'Variation across Languages and their Varieties.')
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