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Amano, S. and Hirata, Y. (2010) “Perception and production boundaries between single and geminate stops in Japanese.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 128, No. 4, pp. 2049-2058.
Hirata, Y. and Kelly, S. (2010) “Effects of lips and hands on auditory learning of second-language speech sounds.” Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 298-310. Project supported by Colgate’s Picker Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, 2007-2009.
Hirata, Y. (2009) “Factors affecting the perception of Japanese moraic rhythm by second language learners.” Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 33-43.
Hirata, Y. and Tsukada, K. (2009) “Effects of speaking rate and vowel length on formant frequency displacement in Japanese.” Phonetica, Vol. 66, pp. 129-149.
Hirata, Y., *Whitehurst, E., and *Cullings, E. (2007) “Training native English speakers to identify Japanese vowel length contrast with sentences at varied speaking rates.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 121, No. 6, pp. 3837-3845. Project supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), 2004-2007.
Hirata, Y. (2007) “Durational variability and invariance in Japanese stop quantity distinction: Roles of adjacent vowels.” Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 9-22.
Hirata, Y. (2006) “Why second language learners of Japanese need to learn difficult minute sounds in connected speech.” In James Dean Brown and Kimi Kondo-Brown (eds), Perspectives on Teaching Connected Speech to Second Language Speakers (pp. 231-243). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, National Foreign Language Resource Center.
Hirata, Y. and *Whiton, J. (2005) “Effects of speaking rate on the single/geminate stop distinction in Japanese.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 118, No. 3, pp. 1647-1660. American Institute of Physics.
Hirata, Y. and Lambacher, S. G. (2004) “Role of word-external contexts in native speakers’ identification of vowel length in Japanese.” Phonetica, Vol. 61, pp. 177-200. S. Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers.
Hirata, Y. (2004) “Training native English speakers to perceive Japanese length contrasts in word versus sentence contexts.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 116, No. 4, pp. 2384-2394. American Institute of Physics.
Hirata, Y. (2004) “Effects of speaking rate on the vowel length distinction in Japanese.” Journal of Phonetics, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 565-589. Elsevier Ltd.
Hirata, Y. (2004) “Computer assisted pronunciation training for native English speakers learning Japanese pitch and durational contrasts.” Computer Assisted Language Learning, Vol. 17, No. 3-4, pp. 357-376. Taylor & Francis Publishers.
Hirata, Y. (1990) “Perception of geminated stops in Japanese word and sentence levels.” The Phonetic Society of Japan, No. 194, pp. 23-28.
Hirata, Y. (1990) “Perception of geminated stops in Japanese word and sentence levels by English-speaking learners of Japanese language.” The Phonetic Society of Japan, No. 195, pp. 4-10.