Kanae Nishi

Postdoctoral Fellow

• Nishi, K., & Kewley-Port, D. (2005). Second language vowel training using vowel subsets: Order of training and choice of contrasts. The 150th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN.

• Kewley-Port, D., Bohn, O.-S., & Nishi, K. (2005). The influence of different native language systems on vowel discrimination and identification. Invited talk in the special session on vowel systems and language learners. The 149th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

• Nishi, K., & Kewley-Port, D. (2005). Effects of vowel perception training: The information learned and maintained after training. The 1st Acoustical Society of America Workshop on Second Language Speech Learning, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

• Nishi, K., & Kewley-Port, D. (2005). Training Japanese listeners to identify American English vowels. The 149th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

• Sperbeck, M. N., Strange, W., Hisagi, M., Nishi, K., & Ito, K. (2005). Effects of training on Japanese listeners’ perception of American English vowels. NYS TESOL The 27th Annual Applied Linguistics Winter 2005 Conference, Borough of Manhattan Community College, NY.

• Nishi, K., Akahane-Yamada, R., Kubo, R., & Strange, W. (2003). Acoustic comparisons of Japanese and English vowels produced by native speakers of Japanese. The 146th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Austin, TX.

• Hisagi, M., Nishi, K., & Strange, W. (2003). Acoustic properties of Japanese and English vowels: Effects of speaking style and consonantal context. Proceedings of Japanese/Korean Linguistics 13.

• Nyang, E.E., Rogers, C.L., & Nishi, K. (2003). Talker and accent variability effects on spoken word recognition. The 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, TN.

• Nishi, K., & Rogers, C.L. (2002). On the relationship between perception and production of American English vowels by native speakers of Japanese: A pair of case studies. The 144th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun, Mexico.

• Strange, W., Weber, A., Levy, E., Shafiro, V., & Nishi, K. (2002). Within- and across language acoustic variability of vowels spoken in different phonetic and prosodic contexts: American English, North German, and Parisian French. The 144th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun, Mexico.

• Nishi, K. (2001). Characteristics and intelligibility of Japanese-accented English. The 142nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

• Rogers, C.L., Dalby, J.M., & Nishi, K. (2001). Effects of noise and proficiency level on intelligibility of Chinese-accented English. The 141st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL.

• Nishi, K., Strange, W., Akahane-Yamada, R., Trent, S.A., & Thornton, D.H. (1998). Perceptual assimilation of Japanese vowels by American English listeners: Effects of speaking style. The 136th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Norfolk, VA.

• Jenkins, J.J., Strange, W., Nishi, K., Fitzgerald, B.H., Trent, S.A., & Thornton, D.H. (1997). Acoustic comparison of the effects of coarticulation on the production of Japanese and American English vowels. The 134th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA.

• Tsushima, T., Takizawa, O., Sasaki, M., Shiraki, S., Nishi, K., Kohno, M., Menyuk, P., & Best, C. (1994). Discrimination of English /r-l/ and /w-y/ by Japanese Infants at 6-12 Months: Language-Specific Developmental Changes in Speech Perception Abilities. 1994 International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, S28F-1, Yokohama, Japan.