Publications of Reiko Mazuka     :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Journal Articles

  1. Jincho, N., Namiki, H., Mazuka, R. (2008). Effects of verbal working memory and cumulative linguistic knowledge on reading comprehension. Japanese Psychological Research, 51(1), 12-23.
  2. M. Imai & R. Mazuka (2007). Revisiting language universals and linguistic relativity: language-relative construal of individuation constrained by universal ontology. Cognitive Science, 31, 385-414.
  3. Sato Y., Mazuka R. (2007). Brain Responses in the Processing of Lexical Pitch-Accent by Japanese Speakers. Neuroreport, 18(18), 2001-2004.
  4. J. Gervain, M. Nespor, R. Mazuka, R. Horie, J. Mehler (in press). Bootstrappiing word order in prelexical infants: a Japanese-Italian cross-Linguistic study. Cognitive Psychology.
  5. R. Mazuka (2007). The rhythm-based prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis of early language acquisition: Does it work for learning for all languages?. Journal of the Liguistic Society of Japan, 9(132), 1-13.
  6. R. Mazuka (2006). "Nyuuji no onsee-chikaku-gakushuu ni okeru kobetsu gengo no eikyou -- Hayashi ronbun e no komento--" (In Japanese: Influence of individual languages for infants' speech perception development. -- response to Hayashi paper --). Japanese Psychological Review, 49(1), 75-77.
  7. R. Mazuka (2006). "Gengo-nai no kobetsu reberu tokusei to gengo kakutoku no mekanizumu" (In Japanese: The role of language specific characteristics for the mechanisms for language acquisition). Baby Science, 5, 37-38.
  8. Choi, Y., Mazuka, R., Akahane-Yamada, R. (2001). Korean and Japanese children’s production of English /l/ and /r/. Papers from the Workshop on Acquisition of East Asian Languages.
  9. Mazuka, R., Friedman, R. (2000). Linguistic relativity in Japanese and English: Is language the primary determinant in object classification?. Journal of East Asian Linguistics.
  10. Mazuka, R., Itoh, K., & Kondo, T. (1997). Processing down the Japanese garden-path sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 26(2), 207-228.
  11. Misono, Y., Mazuka, R., Kondo, T., Kiritani, S. (1997). Effects and limitations of prosodic and semantic biases on syntactic ambiguity resolution of Japanese sentences. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 26(2), 229-245.

Books

  1. Mazuka, R. (1998). The Development of Language Processing Strategies: A cross-linguistic study between Japanese and English.. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  2. Mazuka, R., Nagai N. (Eds.) (1995). Japanese Sentence Processing.. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Chapters in Books

  1. R. Mazuka, T. Kondo, & A. Hayashi "Japanese mothers’ use of specialized vocabulary in infant-directed speech: infant-directed vocabulary in Japanese." Origin of Language Reconsidered. Ed. N. Masataka Springer Verlag, in press
  2. Y.-O. Choi, & R. Mazuka "Prosodic development in Korean." Handbook of Eastasian Psycholinguistics,Handbook of Eastasian Psycholinguistics, Volume III, Korean.. Ed. C.-M., Lee Cambridge University Press, in press
  3. T. Kondo, R. Mazuka, & K. Kakehi "Role of lexical properties in Japanese sentence processing." Handbook of East-Asian Psycholinguistics: Volume II, Japanese. Ed. M. Nakayama, R. Mazuka & Y. Shirai Cambridge University Press, 2006: 226-232.
  4. M. Nakayama, Y. Shirai & R. Mazuka "Introduction." Handbook of East-Asian Psycholinguistics: Volume II, Japanese. Ed. M. Nakayama, R. Mazuka & Y. Shirai Cambridge University Press, 2006: 1-10.
  5. Mazuka, R., Itoh, K., Kondo, T. "Cost of scrambling in Japanese sentence processing." Papers from International East Asian Psycholinguistics Workshop. Ed. M. Nakayama CSLI, Stanford, California, 2002
  6. Mazuka, R. "Can a grammatical parameter be set before the first word? Prosodic contributions to early setting of a grammatical parameter." Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping from Speech to Grammar in Early Acquisition. Ed. J. Morgan, & K. Demuth Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996

Commentaries/Book Reviews

  1. Y. Sato, & R. Mazuka (in press). [Relation between prenatal learning and post-natal language development: Comments on Morokuma, S., Fukushima, K., Nakano, H., and Wake, N. "Evaluating central nervous system fetus' behavior" (In Japanese)]. Baby Science.

Edited Volumes

  1. M. Nakayama, R. Mazuka & Y. Shirai (Ed.). (2006). Handbook of East-Asian Psycholinguistics: Volume 2 Japanese. Cambridge University Press.

Other

  1. Y. Igarashi, & R. Mazuka (2008). Exaggerated Prosody in Infant-directed Speech?: Intonational Phonological Analysis of Japanese Infant-Directed Speech. Proceedings for Boston University Conference for Language Development, 32.
  2. Y. Igarashi & R. Mazuka (2006). "Hahaoya tokuyuu no hanashikata (Motherese) wa otona no Nihongo to doochigau ka -- RIKEN Niongoboshikaiwa koopasu"(In Japanese: How do mothers speak differently to infants? -- RIKEN Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus --). The Institute of Elecgtronics, Information and Communication Engeneers Technical Report, 2006, 31-35.
  3. R. Mazuka, Y. Igarashi, & K. Nishikawa (2006). Input for learning Japanese: RIKEN Japanese Mother-infant Conversation Corpus. IEICE Technical Report, TL-2006-16, 11-15.