Research Interests
My works can be classified into three topics. While almost works are written in Japanese, I wrote some abstracts and handouts in English.- Tonal structure in Nagasaki Japanese
- Influences of prosody on parsing
- Phonological structure of Shanghai Chinese
A title list of my presentation in seminar talk and a list of manuscripts are available.
Tonal Structure in Nagasaki Japanese
Thesis
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2008)
- Phonology of Word Prosody in Nagasaki Japanese, Doctoral dissertatioin, Kyushu University.
Papers
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2009)
- Accentual pattern of Sino-Japanese compounds in Nagasaki Japanese, Kyushu University Papers in Linguistics 30.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2008) [paper]
- Position sensitivity in Nagasaki Japanese prosody, Journal of East Asian Linguistics 17(4)(A special volume on the Loanword Phonology of East Asian Languages), pp.381-397, Springer Netherlands.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2008)
- Accentual pattern of personal names in Nagasaki Japanese, Masao Teramura, Tomoyuki Kubo, and Takahiro Fukumori (eds.) Studies of languages: From the viewpoint of Eurasian languages, pp.405-421, Tokyo: Daito Bunka University.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2008) [abstract]
- A condition on the occurrence of exceptional compound accent patterns in Nagasaki Japanese, the Phonological Society of Japan (ed) Phonological Studies 11, pp.11-18. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2006) [abstract]
- Two types of compound tone in Shimabara Japanese, the Phonological Society of Japan (ed) Phonological Studies 9, pp.67-74. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2005) [abstract]
- Tonal neutralization in compounds and loanword tone in Shimabara Japanese, (in Japanese) the Phonological Society of Japan (ed) Phonological Studies 8, pp.49-56. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
Talks
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2009)
- Tone of alphabetical words in Nagasaki Japanese (in Japanese), the 23rd annual conversation of Phonetic Society of Japan, Kyushu University (Fukuoka), 27 Sep.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2009)
- Phonology of Nagasaki Japanese word tone[Ph.D recipient's lecture] (in Japanese), the spring meeting of the Phonological Society of Japan, Daito Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo), 19 Jun.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2008)
- Phonetic features of word tone in Nagasaki Japanese (in Japanese), the 69th Kyushu University Linguistic Colloqium, Kyushu University (Fukuoka), 6 Dec.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2008)
- A preliminary analysis on phonetic realization of word tone in Nagasaki Japanese (in Japanese), the 137th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Kanazawa University (Kanazawa), 29 Nov.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2008)
- The phonological representation and realization rules of accent: A contrastive study on proper noun in Japanese dialects, (in Japanese), Fukuoka Linguistic Circle, Kyushu University (Fukuoka), 19 July.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2007) [handout]
- Occurence condition of exceptional compound accent in Nagasaki Japanese, (in Japanese) Phonology Forum 2007, Sapporo Gakuin University (Sapporo), 28 Aug.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2007)
- On the accentual pattern of Sino-Japanese compound in Nagasaki Japanese, (in Japanese) 134th General Meetings of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Reitaku University (Kashiwa), 16 June.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2007)
- Accentual adaptation in Nagasaki Japanese, (in Japanese) the meeting of the Phonological Association in Kansai (PAIK), Kobe University (Kobe), 19 May.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2006) [slide]
- More Evidence for a Pseudo-compound Analysis of Loanwords: Word size and Tone in Nagasaki Japanese, International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, the University of Toronto (Ontario), 10-12 November.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2006)
- Hirayama's law reconsidered: Tone of compounds and loanwords in Shimabara Japanese, (in Japanese) Atami Phonology Festa, Hotel KKR Atami (Atami), 9 March.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2006)
- Tone and length in Shimabara Japanese, Asia-Pacific Week 2006, Australian National University (Canberra), 29 Jan-2 February.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2005)
- Phonetic realization and underlying representation of tone in Shimabara Japanese, (in Japanese) 131st General Meetings of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Hiroshima University (Higashi Hiroshima), pp.72-77 (proceedings), 19-20 November.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2005) [slide]
- Two types of compound tone in Shimabara Japanese, (in Japanese) Phonology Forum 2005, Fukuoka University (Fukuoka), 25 August.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2005)
- On the tone of Sino-Japanese two-morpheme compounds in Shimabara dialect, (in Japanese) 80th Meeting of the Dialectological Circle of Japan, Konan University (Kobe), 27 May.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2004)
- On the tone of ‘short’ words in Shimabara Japanese, (in Japanese) 199th Chikushi Japanese Linguistics Colloquium, Kyushu University (Fukuoka), 28 December.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2004) [handout]
- Tonal disappearance and the length of morpheme in Shimabara Japanese, (in Japanese) Phonology Forum 2004, Hiroshima Jogakuin University (Hiroshima), 1 September.
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2002) [abstract]
- Tone of nouns in Shimabara Japanese, (in Japanese) 125th General Meetings of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Tohoku Gakuin University (Sendai), pp.110-115 (proceedings), 4 November.
Influences of Prosody on Parsing
Papers
- Muraoka, Satoru, Toshio MATSUURA, and Tsutomu Sakamoto (2008)
- Two types of prosodic information and resolving a temporary structural ambiguity, the Phonological society of Japan (ed.) Phonological Studies 11, pp.19-26. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
- Muraoka, Satoru, Toshio MATSUURA, and Tsutomu Sakamoto (2007) [abstract]
- The effect of pitch and pause in processing relative clauses in Japanese, Tsutomu Sakamoto (ed)Communicating Skills of Intention, pp.239-255. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo Publishing.
- Muraoka, Satoru, Toshio MATSUURA, and Tsutomu Sakamoto (2006) [abstract]
- On the Influence of Prosody in Processing Relative Clauses in Japanese, Journal of Cognitive Science7(2), pp.115-137.
- Muraoka, Satoru, Toshio MATSUURA, and Tsutomu Sakamoto (2006) [abstract]
- The effects of explicit prosodic information in Japanese sentence processing, (in Japanese) the Phonological Society of Japan (ed) Phonological Studies 9, pp.75-82. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
- Muraoka, Satoru, Toshio MATSUURA, and Tsutomu Sakamoto (2005) [abstract]
- The effects of explicit prosodic information on reanalysis in parsing, (in Japanese) the Phonological Society of Japan (ed) Phonological Studies 8, pp.57-64. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
Talks
- MATSUURA, Toshio, Satoru Muraoka, Tsutomu Sakamoto (2008) [handout] [slide]
- Effects of intonational patterns on processing of relative clauses in Japanese, Workshop on Prosody, University of Delaware (Delaware), 19 Sep.
- Muraoka, Satoru, Toshio MATSUURA, Tsutomu Sakamoto (2007)
- The effect on sentence processing of two types of prosodic information, Phonology Forum 2007, Sapporo Gakuin University (Sapporo), 27 Aug.
- Muraoka, Satoru, Toshio MATSUURA, Tsutomu Sakamoto (2007)
- On the role of prosodic information in processing of relative clauses, 134th General Meetings of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Reitaku University (Kashiwa), 16 June.
- MATSUURA, Toshio, Satoru MURAOKA, and Tsutomu SAKAMOTO (2007) [handout]
- On the role of phonological phrasing in processing left clause boundary in Japanese, 2nd International Workshop on the Interface between Prosody and Information Structure, Kyushu University (Fukuoka), 13 January.
- Sakamoto, Tsutomu, Satoru Muraoka, and Toshio MATSUURA (2005)
- Pitch and pause in detecting left clause boundary in Japanese, International Workshop on the Interface between Prosody and information structure, Kobe University (Kobe), 17 December.
- Muraoka, Satoru, Toshio MATSUURA, and Tsutomu Sakamoto (2005) [slide]
- Temporal information and pitch contour information in processing relative clauses in Japanese, (in Japanese) Phonology Forum 2005, Fukuoka University (Fukuoka), 26 August.
- MATSUURA, Toshio, Satoru Muraoka, and Tsutomu Sakamoto (2005) [abstract]
- Pitch contour information and reanalysis on processing relative clause in Japanese, International Symposium on Communicating Skills of Intention, Aso Rehabiliatation College (Fukuoka), 13 February
- Muraoka, Satoru, Toshio MATSUURA, and Tsutomu Sakamoto (2004) [slide]
- The relation between explicit prosodic information and parsing: The position of pitch resetting and left-clause boundary, (in Japanese) Phonology Forum 2004, Hiroshima Jogakuin University (Hiroshima), 1 September.
Phonological Structure of Shanghai Chinese
Thesis
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2002)
- Segmental phonology in Shanghai Chinese, (in Japanese) Master thesis, Graduate school of Humanities, Kyushu University.
Papers
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2003) [abstract]
- The idiolectral variation of a language game and syllable structure in Shanghai Chinese, (in Japanese) Kyushu University Papers in Linguistics 23, pp.23-33.
- Hayata, Teruhiro and Toshio MATSUURA (2001) [abstract]
- The vowel system in Shanghai Chinese: A proposal of two-vowel system, (in Japanese) Bulletin of Daito Bunka University39(Human Science), pp.127-134.
Talks
- MATSUURA, Toshio (2001)
- An account for redundancy of a phonological system by the "gap" of phonological structure: A case study of segmental phonology in Shanghai Chinese, (in Japanese) 2nd Regular Meeting in 2001 of Fukuoka Linguistic Circle, Kyushu University, 21 July.