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Satsuki Nakai

Publications

In preparation

The onset of phrase-final lengthening in Finnish and Japanese. (With Alice Turk).

Multiple loci for L1 homophone effects. (With Mitsuhiko Ota, Evia Kainada and Shane Lindsay).

Journal articles and book chapters

Nakai, S., Turk, A., Suomi, K., Granlund, S., Ylitalo, R. & Kunnari, S. (Under revision). Quantity and constraints on the temporal implementation of phrasal prosody in Northern Finnish.

Nakai, S. (Under review). An explanation for phonological word-final vowel shortening: Evidence from Tokyo Japanese.

Nakai, S. & Turk, A. (2011). Separability of prosodic phrase boundary and phonemic information. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129, 966-976. © (2011) Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. The above article may be found here.

Nakai, S., Kunnari, S., Turk, A., Suomi, K. & Ylitalo, R. (2009). Utterance-final lengthening and quantity in Northern Finnish. Journal of Phonetics, 37, 29-45. Corrigendum.

Turk, A., Nakai, S. & Sugahara, M. (2006). Acoustic segment durations in prosodic research: a practical guide. In S. Sudhoff, D. Lenertová, R. Meyer, S. Pappert, P. Augurzky, et al. (Eds.), Methods in empirical prosody research (pp. 1-28). Berlin, NY: Mouton de Gruyter.

Vihman, M. M., Nakai, S., & DePaolis, R. A. (2006). Getting the rhythm right: a cross-linguistic study of segmental duration in babbling and first words. In L. Goldstein, D. Whalen, & C. Best (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 8: Varieties of phonological competence (pp. 341-66). NY: Mouton de Gruyter.

Vihman, M. M., Lum, J., Thierry, G., Nakai, S. & Keren-Portnoy, T. (2006). The onset of word form recognition in one language and in two. In P. McCardle & E. Hoff (Eds.) Childhood Bilingualism (pp. 30-44). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Houston-Price, C. & Nakai, S. (2004). Distinguishing novelty and familiarity effects in infant preference procedures. Infant and Child Development, 13, 341-348.

Houston-Price, C. & Nakai, S. (2004). Response to commentaries by Leslie B. Cohen and Alan Slater. Infant and Child Development, 13, 357-359.

Vihman, M. M., Nakai, S., DePaolis, R. A. & Hallé, P. (2004). The role of accentual pattern in early lexical representation. Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 336-353.

Kunnari, S., Nakai, S. & Vihman, M. M. (2001). Cross-linguistic evidence for the acquisition of geminates. Psychology of Language and Communication, 5, 13-24.

Articles in peer-reviewed conference proceedings

Nakai, S. & Turk, A. (2007). Segmental vs. suprasegmental processing interactions revisited. Proceedings of ICPhS 07, 717-720. Saarbrücken.

Vihman, M. M. & Nakai, S. (2003). Experimental evidence for an effect of vocal experience on infant speech perception. Proceedings of ICPhS 03, 1017-1020, Barcelona.

DePaolis, R. A., Vihman, M. M., Nakai, S., Evans, L. & Kunnari, S. (1999). Physiological constraints on prosody at the onset of word use? Proceedings of ICPhS 99, 1189–1191. San Francisco.

Vihman, M. M., DePaolis, R. A., Nakai, S., Evans, L. & Kunnari, S. (1999). Cross-linguistic evidence for early prosodic learning in babble and first words. Proceedings of ICPhS 99, 1193–1196. San Francisco.

Nakai, S. (1997). Perceptual factors in the acquisition of FL vowels. New Sounds 97: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second-Language Speech, 249-256. Krägenfurt.