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 Selected publications
 
Books
Ota, M. (2003). The development of prosodic structure in early words: Continuity, divergence and change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google book preview
Foster-Cohen, S., Sharwood Smith, M., Sorace, A., & Ota, M. (2003). (Eds.) EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 4. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. See book details
Journal articles
Ota, M., & Green, S. J. (To appear). Input frequency and lexical variability in phonological development: A survival analysis of word-initial cluster production. Journal of Child Language.
Dickie, C., Ota, M., & Clark, A. (To appear). Revisiting the phonological deficit in dyslexia: Are implicit non-orthographic representations impaired? Applied Psycholinguistics. Pre-print
Stewart, M. E., McAdam, C., Ota, M., Peppé, S., & Cleland, J. (To appear). Emotional recognition in Autism Spectrum Conditions from voices and faces. Autism.
Ota, M., Hartsuiker, R. J., & Haywood, S. L. (2010). Is a FAN always FUN? Phonological and orthographic effects in bilingual visual word recognition. Language and Speech, 53, 383-403. Pre-print
Ota, M., Hartsuiker, R. J., & Haywood, S. L. (2009). The KEY to the ROCK: Near-homophony in nonnative visual word recognition. Cognition, 111, 263-269. Download
Stewart, M. E. & Ota, M. (2008). Lexical effects on speech perception in individuals with "autistic" traits. Cognition, 109, 157-162. Download
Ota, M. (2006). Children's production of word accents in Swedish revisited. Phonetica, 63, 230-246. Download
Ota, M. (2006). Input frequency and word truncation in child Japanese: Structural and lexical effects. Language and Speech, 49, 261-295. Download
Ota, M. (2004). The learnability of a stratified lexicon. Journal of Japanese Linguistics 20, 19-40. Download from ROA
Ota, M. (2003). The development of lexical pitch accent systems: An autosegmental analysis. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 48, 357-383. Download
Ota, M. (2001). Phonological theory and the acquisition of prosodic structure: Evidence from child Japanese. Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 1, 65-118. Download
Riney, T., Takada, M., & Ota, M. (2000). Segmentals and global foreign accent: The Japanese flap in EFL. TESOL Quarterly, 34, 711-738.
Book chapters
Ota, M. (2010). Kango on'in no syuutoku kanoosee ni tuite [The learnability of Sino-Japanese phonology]. In H. Oshima, A. Nakajima, & R. Blin (Eds.), Kango no gengogaku (pp. 39-55). Tokyo: Kurosio.
Ota, M. & Ueda, I. (2006). Speech acquisition of Japanese. In S. McLeod (Ed.), The international guide to speech acquisition (pp. 457-471). Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Thompson.
Ota, M. (2006). Phonological acquisition. In M. Nakayama, R. Mazuka & Y. Shirai (Eds.), Handbook of East Asian psycholinguistics. Vol. 2: Japanese (pp. 41-47). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Download
Ota, M. (2005). Minimality constraints and the prosodic structure of child Japanese. In N.Tsujimura (Ed.), Japanese linguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics. London: Routledge.]
Jourdenais, R., Ota, M., Stauffer, S., Boyson, B., & Doughty, C. (1995). Does textual enhancement promote noticing? A protocol analysis. In Richard Schmidt (Ed.), Attention and awareness in foreign language learning and teaching (pp. 183-216). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press.
Proceedings
Ota, M., Ladd, D. R., Tsuchiya, M. (2003). Effects of foot structure on mora duration in Japanese? Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, (pp. 459-462). Barcelona: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Download
Ota, M. (1998). The emergence of the unmarked in early prosodic structure. In P. N. Tamanji and K. Kusumoto (eds.), Proceedings of North East Linguistics Society 28, 321-340. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
Ota, M. (1998). Phonological constraints and word truncation in early language acquisition. In A. Greenhill, M. Hughes, H. Littlefield and H. Walsh (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 598-609). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Download
Fukawaza, H., Kitahara, M., & Ota, M. (1998). Lexical stratification and ranking invariance in constraint-based grammars. In M. C. Gruber, D. Higgins, K. S. Olson and T. Wysocki (eds.), Papers from the 34th meeting of the Chicago Lingustic Society. Volume 2: The panels, 47-62. Chicago, IL: CLS. Download from ROA