Publications of Reiko Mazuka

Journal Articles

  1. Choi, Y; Nam, M; Yamane, N; Mazuka, R, Lack of early sensitivity and gradual emergence of native phoneme categories: A pattern from underrepresented language learners., Developmental Science (June, 2023), pp. e13422
  2. Singh, L; Rajendra, SJ; Mazuka, R, Diversity and representation in studies of infant perceptual narrowing, Child Development Perspectives, vol. 16 no. 4 (December, 2022), pp. 191-199
  3. Iwamoto, K; Kikuchi, H; Mazuka, R, Speech rate development in Japanese-speaking children and proficiency in mora-timed rhythm., Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 220 (August, 2022), pp. 105411
  4. Peter, V; van Ommen, S; Kalashnikova, M; Mazuka, R; Nazzi, T; Burnham, D, Language specificity in cortical tracking of speech rhythm at the mora, syllable, and foot levels., Scientific Reports, vol. 12 no. 1 (August, 2022), pp. 13477
  5. Ludusan, B; Cristia, A; Mazuka, R; Dupoux, E, How much does prosody help word segmentation? A simulation study on infant-directed speech., Cognition, vol. 219 (February, 2022), pp. 104961
  6. Matsui, S; Iwamoto, K; Mazuka, R, Development of allophonic realization until adolescence: A production study of the affricate-fricative variation of /z/ among Japanese children, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech, vol. 2022-September (January, 2022), pp. 739-743
  7. Yamane, N; Sato, Y; Shimura, Y; Mazuka, R, Developmental differences in the hemodynamic response to changes in lyrics and melodies by 4- and 12-month-old infants., Cognition, vol. 213 (August, 2021), pp. 104711
  8. Ludusan, B; Mazuka, R; Dupoux, E, Does Infant-Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation., Cognitive Science, vol. 45 no. 5 (May, 2021), pp. e12946
  9. Takahasi, M; Okanoya, K; Mazuka, R, How vocal temporal parameters develop: A comparative study between humans and songbirds, two distantly related vocal learners, Journal of Language Evolution, vol. 6 no. 1 (January, 2021), pp. 26-36
  10. Hitczenko, K; Mazuka, R; Elsner, M; Feldman, NH, When context is and isn't helpful: A corpus study of naturalistic speech., Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 27 no. 4 (August, 2020), pp. 640-676
  11. Tsuji, S; Jincho, N; Mazuka, R; Cristia, A, Communicative cues in the absence of a human interaction partner enhance 12-month-old infants' word learning., Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 191 (March, 2020), pp. 104740
  12. Ludusan, B; Jorschick, A; Mazuka, R, Nasal consonant discrimination in infant- And adult-directed speech, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech, vol. 2019-September (January, 2019), pp. 3584-3588
  13. Jincho, N; Oishi, H; Mazuka, R, Developmental Changes in the Utilization of Referential Visual Context during Sentence Comprehension: Eye Movement and Pupil Dilation Evidence from Children and Adults, Language Learning and Development, vol. 15 no. 4 (January, 2019), pp. 350-365
  14. Guevara-Rukoz, A; Cristia, A; Ludusan, B; Thiollière, R; Martin, A; Mazuka, R; Dupoux, E, Are Words Easier to Learn From Infant- Than Adult-Directed Speech? A Quantitative Corpus-Based Investigation., Cognitive Science (May, 2018)
  15. Shin, M; Choi, Y; Mazuka, R, Development of fricative sound perception in Korean infants: The role of language experience and infants' initial sensitivity., Plos One, vol. 13 no. 6 (January, 2018), pp. e0199045
  16. Hitczenko, K; Mazuka, R; Elsner, M; Feldman, NH, How to use context to disambiguate overlapping categories: The test case of Japanese vowel length, Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Cogsci 2018 (January, 2018), pp. 499-504, ISBN 9780991196784
  17. Akimoto, Y; Takahashi, H; Gunji, A; Kaneko, Y; Asano, M; Matsuo, J; Ota, M; Kunugi, H; Hanakawa, T; Mazuka, R; Kamio, Y, Alpha band event-related desynchronization underlying social situational context processing during irony comprehension: A magnetoencephalography source localization study., Brain and Language, vol. 175 (December, 2017), pp. 42-46
  18. Hirose, Y; Mazuka, R, Exploiting Pitch Accent Information in Compound Processing: A Comparison between Adults and 6- to 7-Year-Old Children, Language Learning and Development, vol. 13 no. 4 (October, 2017), pp. 375-394, Informa UK Limited
  19. Miyazawa, K; Shinya, T; Martin, A; Kikuchi, H; Mazuka, R, Vowels in infant-directed speech: More breathy and more variable, but not clearer., Cognition, vol. 166 (September, 2017), pp. 84-93
  20. Mazuka, R; Bernard, M; Cristia, A; Dupoux, E; Ludusan, B, The role of prosody and speech register in word segmentation: A computational modelling perspective, Acl 2017 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers), vol. 2 (January, 2017), pp. 178-183, Association for Computational Linguistics, ISBN 9781945626760
  21. Ota, M; Yamane, N; Mazuka, R, The Effects of Lexical Pitch Accent on Infant Word Recognition in Japanese., Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 8 (January, 2017), pp. 2354
  22. Hayashi, A; Mazuka, R, Emergence of Japanese infants' prosodic preferences in infant-directed vocabulary., Developmental Psychology, vol. 53 no. 1 (January, 2017), pp. 28-37
  23. Sugiura, L; Toyota, T; Matsuba-Kurita, H; Iwayama, Y; Mazuka, R; Yoshikawa, T; Hagiwara, H, Age-Dependent Effects of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT) Gene Val158Met Polymorphism on Language Function in Developing Children., Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), vol. 27 no. 1 (January, 2017), pp. 104-116
  24. Martin, A; Igarashi, Y; Jincho, N; Mazuka, R, Utterances in infant-directed speech are shorter, not slower., Cognition, vol. 156 (November, 2016), pp. 52-59
  25. Ludusan, B; Cristia, A; Martin, A; Mazuka, R; Dupoux, E, Learnability of prosodic boundaries: Is infant-directed speech easier?, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 140 no. 2 (August, 2016), pp. 1239
  26. Tsuji, S; Fikkert, P; Yamane, N; Mazuka, R, Language-general biases and language-specific experience contribute to phonological detail in toddlers' word representations., Developmental Psychology, vol. 52 no. 3 (March, 2016), pp. 379-390
  27. Jincho, N; Oishi, H; Mazuka, R, Referential ambiguity resolution in sentence comprehension: A developmental study measuring eye movements and pupil dilation, The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 64 no. 4 (January, 2016), pp. 531-543, The Japanese Association of Educational Psychology
  28. Nakamura, R; Miyazawa, K; Ishihara, H; Nishikawa, K; Kikuchi, H; Asada, M; Mazuka, R, Constructing the corpus of infant-directed speech and infant-like robot-directed speech, Hai 2015 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human Agent Interaction (October, 2015), pp. 167-169, ISBN 9781450335270
  29. Mazuka, R; Igarashi, Y; Martin, A; Utsugi, A, Infant-directed speech as a window into the dynamic nature of phonology, Laboratory Phonology, vol. 6 no. 3-4 (October, 2015), pp. 281-303, WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
  30. Hawthorne, K; Mazuka, R; Gerken, L, The acoustic salience of prosody trumps infants' acquired knowledge of language-specific prosodic patterns., Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 82 (July, 2015), pp. 105-117, ISSN 0749-596X
  31. Martin, A; Schatz, T; Versteegh, M; Miyazawa, K; Mazuka, R; Dupoux, E; Cristia, A, Mothers speak less clearly to infants than to adults: a comprehensive test of the hyperarticulation hypothesis., Psychological Science, vol. 26 no. 3 (March, 2015), pp. 341-347, ISSN 0956-7976
  32. Hirose, Y; Mazuka, R, Predictive processing of novel compounds: evidence from Japanese., Cognition, vol. 136 (March, 2015), pp. 350-358, ISSN 0010-0277
  33. Arai, M; Nakamura, C; Mazuka, R, Predicting the unbeaten path through syntactic priming., Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 41 no. 2 (March, 2015), pp. 482-500, ISSN 0278-7393
  34. Tsuji, S; Mazuka, R; Cristia, A; Fikkert, P, Even at 4 months, a labial is a good enough coronal, but not vice versa., Cognition, vol. 134 (January, 2015), pp. 252-256, ISSN 0010-0277
  35. Tsuji, S; Nishikawa, K; Mazuka, R, Segmental distributions and consonant-vowel association patterns in Japanese infant- and adult-directed speech., Journal of Child Language, vol. 41 no. 6 (November, 2014), pp. 1276-1304
  36. Gonzalez-Gomez, N; Hayashi, A; Tsuji, S; Mazuka, R; Nazzi, T, The role of the input on the development of the LC bias: a crosslinguistic comparison., Cognition, vol. 132 no. 3 (September, 2014), pp. 301-311, ISSN 0010-0277
  37. Martin, A; Utsugi, A; Mazuka, R, The multidimensional nature of hyperspeech: evidence from Japanese vowel devoicing., Cognition, vol. 132 no. 2 (August, 2014), pp. 216-228, ISSN 0010-0277
  38. Mazuka, R; Hasegawa, M; Tsuji, S, Development of non-native vowel discrimination: Improvement without exposure., Developmental Psychobiology, vol. 56 no. 2 (February, 2014), pp. 192-209
  39. Matsuda, Y-T; Ueno, K; Cheng, K; Konishi, Y; Mazuka, R; Okanoya, K, Auditory observation of infant-directed speech by mothers: experience-dependent interaction between language and emotion in the basal ganglia., Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 8 (January, 2014), pp. 907, FRONTIERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION, ISSN 1662-5161
  40. Jincho, N; Feng, G; Mazuka, R, Development of text reading in Japanese: An eye movement study, Reading and Writing, vol. 27 no. 8 (January, 2014), pp. 1437-1465, ISSN 0922-4777
  41. Arai, M; Mazuka, R, The development of Japanese passive syntax as indexed by structural priming in comprehension., Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006), vol. 67 no. 1 (January, 2014), pp. 60-78
  42. Jincho, N; Feng, G; Mazuka, R, Development of text reading in Japanese: an eye movement study, Reading and Writing, vol. 27 no. 8 (2014), pp. 1-29, Springer Nature, ISSN 0922-4777
  43. Sato, Y; Utsugi, A; Yamane, N; Koizumi, M; Mazuka, R, Dialectal differences in hemispheric specialization for Japanese lexical pitch accent., Brain and Language, vol. 127 no. 3 (December, 2013), pp. 475-483
  44. Zervakis, J; Mazuka, R, Effect of repeated evaluation and repeated exposure on acceptability ratings of sentences., Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, vol. 42 no. 6 (December, 2013), pp. 505-525, ISSN 0090-6905
  45. Igarashi, Y; Nishikawa, K; Tanaka, K; Mazuka, R, Phonological theory informs the analysis of intonational exaggeration in Japanese infant-directed speech., The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 134 no. 2 (August, 2013), pp. 1283-1294
  46. Tajima, K; Tanaka, K; Martin, A; Mazuka, R, Is the vowel length contrast in japanese exaggerated in infant-directed speech?, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech (January, 2013), pp. 3211-3215, ISSN 2308-457X
  47. Gervain, J; Sebastián-Gallés, N; Díaz, B; Laka, I; Mazuka, R; Yamane, N; Nespor, M; Mehler, J, Word frequency cues word order in adults: cross-linguistic evidence., Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 4 (January, 2013), pp. 689
  48. Bion, RAH; Miyazawa, K; Kikuchi, H; Mazuka, R, Learning phonemic vowel length from naturalistic recordings of Japanese infant-directed speech., Plos One, vol. 8 no. 2 (January, 2013), pp. e51594
  49. Tajima, K; Tanaka, K; Martin, A; Mazuka, R, Is the mora rhythm of Japanese more strongly observed in infant-directed speech than in adult-directed speech?, Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, vol. 19 no. 5 (2013), pp. 3341, ISSN 1939-800X
  50. Saikachi, Y; Kitahara, M; Nishikawa, K; Kanato, A; Mazuka, R, The F0 fall delay of lexical pitch accent in Japanese Infant-directed speech, 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, Interspeech 2012, vol. 3 (December, 2012), pp. 2485-2488, ISCA, ISBN 9781622767595
  51. Tsuji, S; Gomez, NG; Medina, V; Nazzi, T; Mazuka, R, The labial-coronal effect revisited: Japanese adults say pata, but hear tapa., Cognition, vol. 125 no. 3 (December, 2012), pp. 413-428
  52. Minai, U; Jincho, N; Yamane, N; Mazuka, R, What hinders child semantic computation: children's universal quantification and the development of cognitive control., Journal of Child Language, vol. 39 no. 5 (November, 2012), pp. 919-956
  53. Nakamura, C; Arai, M; Mazuka, R, Immediate use of prosody and context in predicting a syntactic structure., Cognition, vol. 125 no. 2 (November, 2012), pp. 317-323
  54. Sato, Y; Kato, M; Mazuka, R, Development of single/geminate obstruent discrimination by Japanese infants: early integration of durational and nondurational cues., Developmental Psychology, vol. 48 no. 1 (January, 2012), pp. 18-34
  55. Ito, K; Jincho, N; Minai, U; Yamane, N; Mazuka, R, Intonation facilitates contrast resolution: Evidence from Japanese adults and 6-year olds, Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 66 no. 1 (January, 2012), pp. 265-284, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0749-596X
  56. Mazuka, R, “Nyuji no onsei hattatsu” (In Japanese). (Development of infant speech perception), The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan,, vol. 68 no. 5 (2012), pp. 241-247
  57. Nakamura, C; Arai, M; Mazuka, R, Immediate use of prosody and context in predicting a syntactic structure, Cognition, vol. 125 no. 3 (2012), pp. 413-428
  58. Kouki, M; Hideaki, M; Hideaki, K; Reiko, M, The multi timescale phoneme acquisition model of the self-organizing based on the dynamic features, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech (December, 2011), pp. 749-752, ISSN 1990-9772
  59. Mazuka, R; Cao, Y; Dupoux, E; Christophe, A, The development of a phonological illusion: a cross-linguistic study with Japanese and French infants., Developmental Science, vol. 14 no. 4 (July, 2011), pp. 693-699
  60. Minagawa-Kawai, Y; van der Lely, H; Ramus, F; Sato, Y; Mazuka, R; Dupoux, E, Optical brain imaging reveals general auditory and language-specific processing in early infant development., Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), vol. 21 no. 2 (February, 2011), pp. 254-261
  61. Sato, Y; Mori, K; Koizumi, T; Minagawa-Kawai, Y; Tanaka, A; Ozawa, E; Wakaba, Y; Mazuka, R, Functional lateralization of speech processing in adults and children who stutter., Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 2 (January, 2011), pp. 70
  62. Matsuda, Y-T; Ueno, K; Waggoner, RA; Erickson, D; Shimura, Y; Tanaka, K; Cheng, K; Mazuka, R, Processing of infant-directed speech by adults., Neuroimage, vol. 54 no. 1 (January, 2011), pp. 611-621
  63. Jincho, N; Mazuka, R, Individual differences in sentence processing: Effects of verbal working memory and cumulative linguistic knowledge, in Processing and producing head-final structures, Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 38, edited by H. Yamashita, Y. Hirose, & J. L. Packard, vol. 38 (January, 2011), pp. 49-65, Springer
  64. Utsugi, A; Koizumi, M; Mazuka, R, A robust method to detect dialectal differences in the perception of lexical pitch accent, 20th International Congress on Acoustics 2010, Ica 2010 Incorporating Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society, vol. 5 (December, 2010), pp. 3689-3696
  65. Mazuka, R, Learning the sound system of Japanese: What does it tell us about language acquisition?, 20th International Congress on Acoustics 2010, Ica 2010 Incorporating Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society, vol. 5 (December, 2010), pp. 4186-4193
  66. Sato, Y; Sogabe, Y; Mazuka, R, Development of hemispheric specialization for lexical pitch-accent in Japanese infants., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 22 no. 11 (November, 2010), pp. 2503-2513
  67. Yoshida, KA; Iversen, JR; Patel, AD; Mazuka, R; Nito, H; Gervain, J; Werker, JF, The development of perceptual grouping biases in infancy: a Japanese-English cross-linguistic study., Cognition, vol. 115 no. 2 (May, 2010), pp. 356-361
  68. Miyazawa, K; Kikuchi, H; Mazuka, R, Unsupervised learning of vowels from continuous speech based on self-organized phoneme acquisition model, Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2010 (January, 2010), pp. 2914-2917
  69. Sato, Y; Sogabe, Y; Mazuka, R, Discrimination of phonemic vowel length by Japanese infants., Developmental Psychology, vol. 46 no. 1 (January, 2010), pp. 106-119
  70. Horie, R; Mazuka, R, Learning variation of deterministic chaos in auditory signals, Neuroscience Research, vol. 68 (January, 2010), pp. e407-e407, Elsevier BV
  71. Utsugi, A; Koizumi, M; Mazuka, R, The perception of non-native lexical pitch accent by speakers of 'accentless' Japanese dialects, Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody (January, 2010), ISBN 9780000000002
  72. Mazuka, R; Jincho, N; Oishi, H, Development of executive control and language processing, Language and Linguistics Compass, vol. 3 no. 1 (January, 2009), pp. 59-89, WILEY, ISSN 1749-818X
  73. Mazuka, R, Acquisition of linguistic-rhythm and prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis (In Japanese; Gengorizumu no kakutoku to inritsu ni yoru bootosutorappingukasetsu", Japanese Journal of Phonology, vol. 13 no. 3 (2009), pp. 19-32
  74. Gervain, J; Nespor, M; Mazuka, R; Horie, R; Mehler, J, Bootstrapping word order in prelexical infants: a Japanese-Italian cross-linguistic study., Cognitive Psychology, vol. 57 no. 1 (August, 2008), pp. 56-74
  75. Jincho, N; Namiki, H; Mazuka, R, Effects of verbal working memory and cumulative linguistic knowledge on reading comprehension, Japanese Psychological Research, vol. 50 no. 1 (March, 2008), pp. 12-23, WILEY, ISSN 0021-5368
  76. Mazuka, R, Infant speech perception and language acquisition (In Japanese;Nyuuji no onsei chikaku to gengo kakutoku), Life Science (In Japanese; Seitai No Kagaku), vol. 59 no. 5 (2008), pp. 448-449
  77. Jincho, N; Namiki, H; Mazuka, R, Effects of verbal working memory and cumulative linguistic knowledge on reading comprehension, Japanese Psychological Research, vol. 51 no. 1 (2008), pp. 12-23, ISSN 0021-5368
  78. Sato, Y; Sogabe, Y; Mazuka, R, Brain responses in the processing of lexical pitch-accent by Japanese speakers., Neuroreport, vol. 18 no. 18 (December, 2007), pp. 2001-2004, ISSN 0959-4965
  79. Sato, Y; Mazuka, R; Sogabe, Y, A near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) study of lexical pitch accent processing in Japanese speakers, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, vol. 27 no. SUPPL. 1 (November, 2007), pp. BP13-B06M, ISSN 0271-678X
  80. Imai, M; Mazuka, R, Language-relative construal of individuation constrained by universal ontology: revisiting language universals and linguistic relativity., Cognitive Science, vol. 31 no. 3 (May, 2007), pp. 385-413, ISSN 0364-0213
  81. Matsuda, Y; Ueno, K; Waggoner, RA; Erickson, D; Shimura, Y; Tanaka, K; Cheng, K; Mazuka, R, Processing of infant-directed speech in parents: An fMRI study, Neuroscience Research, vol. 58 (January, 2007), pp. S45-S45, Elsevier BV
  82. Mazuka, R, 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, vol. 9 no. 132 (2007), pp. 1-13
  83. Imai, M; Mazuka, R, Revisiting language universals and linguistic relativity: language-relative construal of individuation constrained by universal ontology, Cognitive Science, vol. 31 (2007), pp. 385-414
  84. Mazuka, R, "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, vol. 49 no. 1 (2006), pp. 75-77
  85. Mazuka, R, "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, vol. 5 (2006), pp. 37-38
  86. Choi, Y; Mazuka, R, Young children's use of prosody in sentence parsing., Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, vol. 32 no. 2 (March, 2003), pp. 197-217, ISSN 0090-6905
  87. Mazuka, R; Friedman, RS, Linguistic relativity in Japanese and English: Is language the primary determinant in object classification, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, vol. 9 no. 4 (January, 2000), pp. 353-377, ISSN 0925-8558
  88. YOSHIOKA, K; HAYASHI, A; DEGUCHI, T; MAZUKA, R, Four to ten month-old infants' sensitivity to the rhythmic pattern of Japanese baby-words, 日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集, vol. 1998 no. 1 (March, 1998), pp. 377-378
  89. Mazuka, R; Itoh, K; Kondo, T, Processing down the garden path in Japanese: processing of sentences with lexical homonyms., Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, vol. 26 no. 2 (March, 1997), pp. 207-228, ISSN 0090-6905
  90. Misono, Y; Mazuka, R; Kondo, T; Kiritani, S, Effects and limitations of prosodic and semantic biases on syntactic disambiguation., Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, vol. 26 no. 2 (March, 1997), pp. 229-245, ISSN 0090-6905
  91. Misono, Y; Mazuka, R; Kondo, T; Kiritani, S, Effects and limitations of prosodic and semantic biases on syntactic ambiguity resolution of Japanese sentences, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, vol. 26 no. 2 (1997), pp. 229-245, ISSN 0090-6905
  92. Mazuka, R; Itoh, K; Kondo, T, Processing down the Japanese garden-path sentences, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, vol. 26 no. 2 (1997), pp. 207-228, ISSN 0090-6905
  93. Yokoyama, H; Niwa, S; Itoh, K; Mazuka, R, Fractal property of eye movements in schizophrenia., Biological Cybernetics, vol. 75 no. 2 (August, 1996), pp. 137-140, ISSN 0340-1200
  94. Kondo, T; Mazuka, R, Prosodic planning while reading aloud: on-line examination of Japanese sentences., Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, vol. 25 no. 2 (March, 1996), pp. 357-381, ISSN 0090-6905
  95. Lust, B; Eisele, J; Mazuka, R, The Binding Theory Module: Evidence from First Language Acquisition for Principle C, Language, vol. 68 no. 2 (June, 1992), pp. 333-333, JSTOR, ISSN 0097-8507
  96. Mazuka, R, Processing of empty categories in Japanese, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, vol. 20 no. 3 (May, 1991), pp. 215-232, Springer Nature, ISSN 0090-6905
  97. Lust, B; Mazuka, R, Cross-linguistic studies of directionality in first language acquisition: the Japanese data--a response to O'Grady, Suzuki-Wei & Cho 1986., Journal of Child Language, vol. 16 no. 3 (October, 1989), pp. 665-684, ISSN 0305-0009

Books

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

Chapters in Books

  1. Mazuka, R., Itoh, K., Kondo, T., Cost of scrambling in Japanese sentence processing, in Papers from International East Asian Psycholinguistics Workshop, edited by M. Nakayama (2002), CSLI, Stanford, California
  2. Mazuka, R., Can a grammatical parameter be set before the first word? Prosodic contributions to early setting of a grammatical parameter, in Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping from Speech to Grammar in Early Acquisition, edited by J. Morgan, & K. Demuth (1996), Lawrence Erlbaum

Chapters in Books

  1. Gervain, J; Christophe, A; Mazuka, R, Prosodic Bootstrapping, in The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody (January, 2021), pp. 553-573, ISBN 9780198832232
  2. Mazuka, R, Learning to become a native listener of Japanese, in Handbook of Japanese Psycholinguistics (January, 2015), pp. 19-47, ISBN 9781614511656
  3. Choi, Y.-O., & Mazuka, R., Acquisition of prosody in Korean, in Handbook of Eastasian Psycholinguistics, Volume III, Korean, edited by Lee, C.-M., Simpson, G., & Kim, Y.J., vol. III (2009), pp. 255-268, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-83335-6
  4. Mazuka, R; Kondo, T; Hayashi, A, Japanese mothers' use of specialized vocabulary in infant-directed speech: Infant-directed vocabulary in Japanese, in The Origins of Language: Unraveling Evolutionary Forces, edited by N. Masataka (January, 2008), pp. 39-58, Springer Japan, ISBN 9784431791010
  5. R. Mazuka, Age of acquisition and critical period in language acquisition (In Japanese; Gengo kakutoku ni okeru nenrei kooka ha rinkaiki ka), in Brain Science and Communication (Gengo to shiko o umu no), edited by A. Iriki (2008), pp. 39-58, University of Tokyo Press
  6. T. Kondo, R. Mazuka, & K. Kakehi, Role of lexical properties in Japanese sentence processing, in Handbook of East-Asian Psycholinguistics: Volume II, Japanese, edited by M. Nakayama, R. Mazuka & Y. Shirai (2006), pp. 226-232, Cambridge University Press
  7. M. Nakayama, Y. Shirai & R. Mazuka, Introduction, in Handbook of East-Asian Psycholinguistics: Volume II, Japanese, edited by M. Nakayama, R. Mazuka & Y. Shirai (2006), pp. 1-10, Cambridge University Press

Papers Published

  1. Choi, Y., Mazuka, R., Akahane-Yamada, R., Korean and Japanese children’s production of English /l/ and /r/, in Papers from the Workshop on Acquisition of East Asian Languages, edited by Nakayama, M. (2001), Kuroshio Publisher, Tokyo, Japan

Commentaries/Book Reviews

  1. Y. Sato, & R. Mazuka, 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 no. 7 (2008), pp. 16-17

Edited Volumes

  1. Arita, S., Goto Butler, Y., Hauser, E., Horie, K., Mazuka, R., Shirai, Y., & Tsubakita, J, Papers from the Tenth Annual Conference of th Japanese Society for Language Sciences: Studies in Language Sciences 10 (2011), Kuroshio Publishers, Tokyo, Japan
  2. M. Nakayama, R. Mazuka & Y. Shirai, Handbook of East-Asian Psycholinguistics: Volume 2 Japanese (2006), Cambridge University Press

Other

  1. Arai, M., Nakamura, C. & Mazuka R, An anticipatory effect of syntactic priming in processing of structurally ambiguous sentences, 2011 IEICE Technical Report (2011), pp. 83-86
  2. Utsugi, A., Koizumi, M., & Mazuka, R, Subtle differences between the speech of young speakers of `Accentless'and Standard Japanese dialects: An analysis of pitch peak alignment, Proceedings for the 17th The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Science (2011), pp. 2046-2049
  3. Jincho, N., Oishi, H., & Mazuka, R, Effects of vision and language on attention during sentence comprehension-A Visual world study, IEICE Technical Report, vol. TL2011-16 no. 2011-8 (2011), pp. 49-52
  4. R. Mazuka, Learning the melody of a language: Investigation into language acquisition through the prosody of Japanese, Proceedings of 2010 IEICE General Conference (2010), pp. SS35-38
  5. Arai, M., & Mazuka, R, Linking syntactic priming to language development: a visual world eye-tracking study, Technical Report of The institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, vol. 110-163 no. (TL2010-18) (2010), pp. 43-48
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