Research Summary

Selected Publications

• 1.Guevara-Rukoz, A., Cristia, A., Ludusan, B., Thiollière, R., Martin, A., Mazuka, R., and Dupoux, E.:
  “Are words easier to learn from Infant- Than Adult-Directed Speech? A quantitative corpus-based investigation.”
  Cognitive Science, 42(5), pp.1586-1617. (2018)
• 2.Ota, M., Yamane, N., and Mazuka, R.:
  “The Effects of lexical pitch accent on infant word recognition in Japanese.”
  Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 8, pp.2354. (2018)
• 3.Akimoto, Y., Takahashi, H., Gunji, A., Kaneko, Y., Asano, M., Matsuo, J., Ota, M., Kunugi, H., Hanakawa, T., Mazuka, R., and Kamio, Y.:
  “Alpha band event-related desynchronization underlying social situational context processing during irony comprehension: a magnetoencephalography source localization study.”
  Brain and Language, 175, pp.42-46. (2017)
• 4.Ludusan, B., Mazuka, R., Bernard, M., Cristia, A., and Dupoux, E.:
  “The role of prosody and speech register in word segmentation: A computational modelling perspective.”
  Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Short Papers), pp.178-183. (2017)
• 5.Mazuka, R., Hayashi, A., and Kondo, T.:
  “Sounds of infant-directed vocabulary: Learned from infants’ speech or part of linguistic knowledge?”
  Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 21(1), pp.45-58 (2017)
• 6.Miyazawa, K., Shinya, T., Martin, A., Kikuchi, H., and Mazuka, R.:
  “Vowels in Infant-directed speech: More breathy and more variable, but not clearer.”
  Cognition, 166, pp.84-93.(2017)
• 7.Hirose, Y, and Mazuka, R.:
  “Exploiting pitch accent information in compound processing: A comparison between adults and 6- to 7-year-old children.”
  Language Learning and Development, 13(4), pp.375-394. (2017)
• 8.Sugiura, L., Toyota, T., Matsuba-Kurita, H., Iwayama, Y., Mazuka, R., Yoshikawa, T., and Hagiwara, H.:
  “Age-dependent effects of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase(COMT) Gene Val158Met Polymorphism on language function in developing children.”
  Cerebral Cortex, 27(1), pp.104-116. (2017)
• 9.Hayashi, A., and Mazuka, R.:
  “Emergence of Japanese Infants’ Prosodic Preferences in Infant-Directed Vocabulary.”
  Developmental Psychology, 53(1), pp.28-37. (2017)
• 10.Martin, A., Igarashi, Y., Jincho, N., and Mazuka, R.:
  “Utterances in infant-directed speech are shorter, not slower.”
  Cognition, 156, pp.52-59. (2016)

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