Sachiko Kiyama

Biographic Data

ID217825
NAMESachiko Kiyama
GIVEN NAMESSachiko
FAMILY NAMEKiyama
SIGNATUREKIYAMA S
AFFILIATIONSTohoku University
ORCID0000-0001-6942-5937
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Orthographic component of masked cognate priming in Chinese–Japanese bilinguals

    Open AccessKexin Xiong, Sachiko Kiyama et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    Aims and objectives: Bilinguals recognize second language (L2) words more quickly when their forms are similar to their first language (L1) counterparts, known as cognates, due to cross-language orthographic and phonological similarities. However, it remains unclear how orthography functions independently from phonology because these two representations are difficult to separate in phonetic alphabetic scripts. To address this, we investigated cog…

  • Overreliance on Orthographic Similarity in L2‐Japanese Conceptual Processing by L1‐Chinese Learners

    Open AccessXiaojie Zhao, Kexin Xiong et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Applied…2025

    Orthographic and phonological similarities between first (L1) and second (L2) languages can facilitate L2 processing. Particularly, L1‐Chinese learners of L2‐Japanese can benefit from the shared morphosyllabic Chinese characters (Japanese kanji /Chinese hanzi ) because of their similar orthographies. However, they also face challenges from phonological inconsistency derived from the lack of lexical origin: Japanese kanji has both Chinese‐origin r…

  • The empathetic utterance-final particle - ne in Japanese

    Kuniya Nasukawa, Ge Song et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Linguistics2025References: 15

    Utterance-final particles (UFPs) in Japanese can be immediately preceded by any lexical item, and can carry various tonal contours, each conveying nuanced meanings in discourse. This paper focuses on the empathetic UFP - ne , investigating its phonological representation (rather than its morphological, syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic representation) based on its usage as established in the literature. While traditionally viewed as a consonant-v…

  • The role of pitch accent in lexical recognition in Japanese

    Taiga Naoe, Shingo Tokimoto et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Linguistics2025References: 32

    This study examined (i) the stage at which pitch accents contribute to lexical processing in native Japanese speakers and (ii) the interpretation pathway for the meaning of words pronounced with incorrect pitch accents. Event-related potential analyses during spoken word processing showed that words with incorrect accents elicited greater N400 amplitudes than those with correct accents, indicating that accent information aids in selecting suitabl…

  • Cross-language facilitatory and inhibitory effects in the naming of Japanese words by Chinese-Japanese bilinguals

    Xuehan Zhao, Kexin Xiong et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Linguistics2024

    This study investigates the effects of orthographic and phonological overlaps between the first language (L1) and the second language (L2) during word naming by adult Chinese-Japanese bilinguals, in the light of the Orthographic Depth Hypothesis which posits that the processing of printed words depends on the extent of grapheme-phoneme correspondence in the language. We compared their naming performance of L2 Japanese words written in moraic hira…

  • Multiple Factors Act Differently in Decision Making in the East Asian Region

    Open AccessSachiko Kiyama, Youngmi Choung et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2019References: 22

    Cultural resemblance between Japan and Korea has been assumed, because both East Asian cultures are generally characterized by collectivism. However, subsequent investigations suggest a contrast between the two cultures in the decision-making process, concurrent with a growing call for a more elaborate model of self-construal. This study compares the diverse ways of self-construal underlying decisions regarding invitations between Japan and Korea…

  • On the (non)universality of the preference for subject-object word order in sentence comprehension

    Open AccessMasatoshi Koizumi, Yoshiho Yasugi et al.ARTICLELanguage2014Cited by: 6

    The processing load of sentences with three different word orders (VOS, VSO, and SVO) in Kaqchikel Maya was investigated using a sentence-plausibility judgment task. The results showed that VOS sentences were processed faster than VSO and SVO sentences. This supports the traditional analysis in Mayan linguistics that the syntactically determined basic word order is VOS in Kaqchikel, as in many other Mayan languages. More importantly, the result r…

  • Applicability of Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory to a Non-Western Culture

    Open AccessSachiko Kiyama, Katsuo Tamaoka et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2012Cited by: 2References: 43

    To examine applicability of Brown and Levinson's politeness theory to facework in a non-Western culture, we conducted a questionnaire survey of native Japanese speakers. A rank order of influences on facework behavior was investigated among the five factors: (a) intrinsic factor (Ri; that is, effects caused by difference in settings), (b) contextual factor (Rc; that is, effects caused by difference in types of interlocutor's contradictory attitud…