Publications of Reiko Mazuka

Journal Articles

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

Books

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

Chapters in Books

  1. Choi, Y.-O., & Mazuka, R. "Acquisition of prosody in Korean." Handbook of Eastasian Psycholinguistics, Volume III, Korean. Ed. Lee, C.-M., Simpson, G., & Kim, Y.J. Cambridge University Press, 2009: 255-268.
  2. R. Mazuka "Age of acquisition and critical period in language acquisition (In Japanese; Gengo kakutoku ni okeru nenrei kooka ha rinkaiki ka)." Brain Science and Communication (Gengo to shiko o umu no). Ed. A. Iriki University of Tokyo Press, 2008: 39-58.
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. Mazuka, R; Kondo, T; Hayashi, A "Japanese mothers' use of specialized vocabulary in infant-directed speech: Infant-directed vocabulary in Japanese." The Origins of Language: Unraveling Evolutionary Forces. Ed. N. Masataka Springer Japan, January, 2008: 39-58.
  7. Mazuka, R "Learning to become a native listener of Japanese." Handbook of Japanese Psycholinguistics. January, 2015: 19-47.
  8. Gervain, J; Christophe, A; Mazuka, R "Prosodic Bootstrapping." The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody. January, 2021: 553-573.
  9. 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.

Commentaries/Book Reviews

  1. Y. Sato, & R. Mazuka (2008). [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, 7, 16-17.

Edited Volumes

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

Other

  1. 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.
  2. Arai, M., Nakamura, C. & Mazuka R (2011). An anticipatory effect of syntactic priming in processing of structurally ambiguous sentences. 2011 IEICE Technical Report, 83-86.
  3. Kitahara, M., Nishikawa, K., Igarashi, Y., Shinya, T., & Mazuka, R (2008). Charactiristics of pitch accents in infant-directed speech -An analysis of Riken Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus (In Japanese; Tai nyuuji hatsuwa ni okeru pitchi akusento no seishitsu ni tsuite; riken nihongo boshi kaiwa koopasu o tsukatta bunseki. The Institute of Elecgtronics, Information and Communication Engeneers Technical Report, NLC2008(46), 133-136.
  4. Tajima, K., Tanaka, K., & Mazuka, R (2008). Does Japanese motherese help children acquire Japanese rhythm? -- Distributional analysis of moraic phonemes in infant-directed speech -- (In Japanese; hahaoya tokuyuu no hanashi kata wa nihongo rizumu no kakutoku ni yakudatsuka? --tainyuuji onsei ni okeru tokushuhaku onso no bunseki kara. The Institute of Elecgtronics, Information and Communication Engeneers Technical Report, SP2008(37), 99-104.
  5. Jincho, N., Oishi, H., & Mazuka, R (2011). Effects of vision and language on attention during sentence comprehension-A Visual world study. IEICE Technical Report, TL2011-16(2011-8), 49-52.
  6. 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.
  7. Hayashi, A., & Mazuka, A. (2010). Infants’ speech perception between 5- and 13-months. Proceedings of Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Acoustical Society of Japan, 1-6.
  8. Kondo, T., Jincho, N., Mazuka, R., & Hayashi, A (2007). Influences of phonological length prosody in silent reading (In Japanese; Yomi no katei ni okeru onincho oyobi inritu no eikyo). The Institute of Electronics, Information communication engineers (IEICE) Technical Report, TL2007(8), 41-46.
  9. 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.
  10. R. Mazuka (2010). Learning the melody of a language: Investigation into language acquisition through the prosody of Japanese. Proceedings of 2010 IEICE General Conference, SS35-38.
  11. Arai, M., & Mazuka, R (2010). Linking syntactic priming to language development: a visual world eye-tracking study. Technical Report of The institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, 110-163((TL2010-18)), 43-48.
  12. R. Mazuka (2009). Role of linguistic rhythm for language acquisition. (In Japanese;Gengokakutoku no kiban wo nasu rhythm ninchi). Gekkan Gengo (Japanese monthly magazin, "Language"), 38(6), 58-65.
  13. Utsugi, A., Koizumi, M., & Mazuka, R (2011). 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, 2046-2049.
  14. Miyazawa, K., Kikuchi, H., Shinya, T., & Mazuka, R. (2009). The dynamic structure of vowels in infant-directed speech. –Riken Japanese Mother-Infant Conversation Corpus --(In Japanese; Tainyujihatsuwa no boin no jikan kozo, Riken Nihongo boshikaiwa kopasu o mochita bunseki.. The Institute of Electronics, Information and communication engineers (IEICE), Technical Report, SP2009(73), 67-72.
  15. Oishi, H., Jincho, N., & Mazuka, R (2010). The involvement of inhibition function during garden-path recovery in sentence processing. Technical Report of The institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, 110-163((TL2010-18)).