Mari Hirayama

Biographic Data

ID313936
NAMEMari Hirayama
GIVEN NAMESMari
FAMILY NAMEHirayama
SIGNATUREHIRAYAMA M
AFFILIATIONSSeikei University
ORCID0000-0001-7946-7807
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • On the L1 acquisition of recursive no in Japanese

    Open AccessAna Teresa Perez-Leroux, Yves Roberge et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of…2023

    This article investigates the emergence of recursive DPs in child language. In certain languages, DP modification can be achieved via diverse structures and any number of different embedding markers (prepositions, particles, case-marker, etc.), each having to be learned; this diversity may impact the L1 development of recursive DP modification. Japanese, in contrast, relies on two uniform unrestricted strategies: the adnominal particle の ( no ) o…

  • Lexical Category and Downstep in Japanese

    Open AccessMari Hirayama, Hyun Kyung Hwang et al.ARTICLELanguages2022References: 12

    In pursuing the mapping between syntax and phonology/prosody, little attention has been paid to the kinds of syntactic information that can affect prosody. In this paper, we explore Japanese downstep, a process in phrasal phonology. What syntactic information affects downstep and what does not? Specifically, do lexical categories affect downstep? We investigate the effects of nouns, adjectives, and verbs in different syntactic settings (e.g., [X1…

  • Can prosody encode recursive embedding? Children's realizations of complex NPs in Japanese

    Open AccessMari Hirayama, Manami Hirayama et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2021

    Recursive NPs are difficult to produce and late to emerge. We compare prosodic and syntactic abilities in Japanese-speaking five- and six-year-olds (n = 28) and adults (n = 10). It is reported that syntactic structure in Japanese is prosodically marked via downstep and metrical boost. Results of an elicited imitation task suggested that children had acquired the lexical prosody (contrast between accented and unaccented words), a pre-requisite for…

  • Lay Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice

    Open AccessSean Steele, Carol Lawson et al.ARTICLEAsian Journal of Law and Society2020Cited by: 1References: 5

    This article highlights reliance on lay participation as a mechanism for solving perceived problems in Japanese criminal justice by examining three reforms aimed at increasing lay participation in Japanese criminal justice: the mandatory prosecution power given to Prosecution Review Commissions, the saiban’in seido (lay-judge system), and Penal Institution Visiting Committees. The article argues that lay participation plays an important role in l…

  • Reflections on the Tepco Trial

    Open AccessDavid T Johnson, H Fukurai et al.ARTICLEJapan focus2020

    This article focuses on the criminal justice consequences of the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima that was precipitated by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. Through a process of "mandatory prosecution" initiated by Japan's unique Prosecution Review Commissions, three executives of the Tokyo Electric Power Company were charged with criminal negligence in 2015-2016. They were acquitted at trial in 2019 when the Tokyo District Court conclud…

  • Relative Clause and Downstep in Japanese

    Open AccessMari Hirayama, Manami Hirayama et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Annual…2019

    It has been proposed that Japanese downstep, in which the pitch register is lowered after an accented phrase, is sensitive to certain syntactic boundaries. In this paper, we investigate whether downstep is blocked at the relative clause boundary in a production experiment with ten speakers. The results suggest that it does not block downstep. On the other hand, there is a difference between adjectives and verbs when they are used attributively wi…