{"id":83,"date":"2013-08-31T22:31:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T13:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cogpsy.sfc.keio.ac.jp\/imailab\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2023-06-22T18:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T09:35:47","slug":"papers-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cogpsy.sfc.keio.ac.jp\/imailab\/papers-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Referred journal articles and proceeding papers (written in English)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Relation between language and thought<\/h2>\n

Imai, M., Akita, K. (2023) The Iconicity Ring Hypothesis Bridges the Gap Between Symbol Grounding and Linguistic Relativity: TopiCS<\/em> in Cognitive Science >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Imai, M., Murai, C., Miyazaki, M., Okada, H & Tomonaga, M. (2021). The contingency symmetry bias (affirming the consequent fallacy) as a prerequisite for word learning: A comparative study of pre-linguistic human infants and chimpanzees:\u00a0Cognition<\/em>, volume214.\u00a0>online<\/a><\/p>\n

Imai, M., Kanero, J., & Masuda, T.(2020). Culture, Language, and Thought, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology.\u00a0 >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Imai, M., Kanero, J., & Masuda, T.(2016). The Relation between Language, Culture and Thought. Current Opinion in Psychology. 8:70\u201377. >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Saji, N., Asano, M., Oishi, M. & Imai, M. (2015).How do children construct the color lexicon?: Restructuring the domain as a connected system. D.V. Noelle,R. Dale, A.S. Warlaumon.,J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings & P.P. Maglio (Eds.) Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society(pp.2080-2085). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.>online<\/a><\/p>\n

Imai, M., & Kanero, J. (2015) The nature of the count\/mass distinction in Japanese. In. J.J. Nakayama (Ed). Handbook of Japanese Psycholinguistics. (In Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics Series) Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. Pp.49-80.<\/p>\n

Kanero, J., Imai, M., Okada, H. & Hoshino, N. (2015). Do classifiers make the syntactic count\/mass distinction? Insights from ERPs in classifier processing in Japanese. Journal of Memory and Language, 83, 20-52. >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Malt, B., Ameel, E., Imai,M., Gennari,S. , Saji,N., & Majid, A. (2014 ) Human Locomotion in Languages: Constraints on Moving and Meaning. Journal of Memory and Language, 74, 107-123. >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Imai, M. , Schalk, L., Saalbach, H., & Okada, H. (2014). All giraffes have female-specific properties: Influence of grammatical gender on deductive reasoning about sex-specific properties in German speakers. Cognitive Science, 38(1), 514\u2013536. >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Saalbach, H., Imai, M. & Shalk, L. (2012). Grammatical gender and inferences about biological properties in German-speaking children. Cognitive Science, 36, 1251\u20131267. >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Saalbach, H. & Imai, M. (2012). The Relation between Linguistic Categories and Cognition: The case of numeral classifiers. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 381-428. >online<\/a><\/p>\n

G\u00f6ksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, Golinkoff, R. M., Imai, M., Konishi, H., & Okada, H. (2011). Who is crossing where?: Infants\u2019 discrimination of figures and grounds in events. Cognition, 121, 176-195. >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Imai M, Saalbach, H & Stern, E (2010). Are Chinese and German children taxonomic, thematic or shape biased?: Influence of classifiers and cultural contexts. Frontiers in Psychology. 2010;1: 194. >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Imai, M., Schalk, L., Saalbach, H. & Okada, H. (2010). Influence of grammatical gender on deductive reasoning about sex-specific properties of animals. In the Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 32nd Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pp. 1160-1165.<\/p>\n

Maguire, M. Hirsh-Pasek,K., Golinkoff, R., Imai, M., Haryu, E., Vanegas,S. Okada, H.,Pulverman, R., Sanchez-Davis, B.(2010) A developmental shift from similar to language specific strategies in verb acquisition: A comparison of English, Spanish, and Japanese. Cognition, 114, 299-319. >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Malt, B., Gennari, S., Imai, M., Ameel, E., Tsuda, N. & Majid, A. (2008). Talking about Walking: Biomechanics and the Language of Locomotion. Psychological Science, 19, 232-240. >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Saalbach, H. & Imai, M. (2007). The scope of linguistic influence: Does a classifier system alter object concepts? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 485-501. >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Imai, M. & Mazuka, R. (2007). Language\u2010Relative Construal of Individuation Constrained by Universal Ontology: Revisiting Language Universals and Linguistic Relativity . Cognitive Science, 31,385-413.<\/p>\n

Saalbach, H. & Imai, M. (2006). Categorization, Label Extension, and Inductive Reasoning in Chinese and German Preschoolers: Influence of a Classifier System and Universal Cognitive Constraints. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 703-708). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.<\/p>\n

Saalbach, H., & Imai, M. (2005). Do Classifier Categories Structure our Concepts? In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1901-1906). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.<\/p>\n

Imai, M. & Gentner, D. (1997). A crosslinguistic study on constraints on early word meaning: Linguistic influence vs. universal ontology. Cognition, 62, 169-200.<\/p>\n

Imai, M. & Gentner, D. (1994). Linguistic relativity vs. universal ontology: Cross-linguistic studies of the object\/substance distinction. The proceedings of the 29th Chicago Linguistic Society. pp.171-186<\/p>\n

Language Development, Word meaning acquisition, conceptual development<\/h2>\n

Scott, E. Molly., Kanero, J., Saji, N., Chen, Y., Imai, M., Golinkoff, M. R., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2022). \u00a0From green to turquoise: Exploring age and socioeconomic status in the acquisition of color terms: First Language<\/em>, doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177%2F01427237221112499 >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Imai, M., Murai, C., Miyazaki, M., Okada, H & Tomonaga, M. (2021). The contingency symmetry bias (affirming the consequent fallacy) as a prerequisite for word learning: A comparative study of pre-linguistic human infants and chimpanzees:\u00a0Cognition<\/em>, volume214.\u00a0>online<\/a><\/p>\n

Saji, N.,Asano, M., & Imai, M. (2020) Acquisition of the meaning of the word orange requires understanding of the meanings of red, pink and purple: Constructing a lexicon as a connected system. Cognitive Science<\/em>. >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Imai, M. (2020). Lexical development is a process of Symbol Grounding and System Construction. In J. Childers, S. Graham, L. Namy (Eds.) Learning Language and Concepts from Multiple Examples in Infancy and Childhood. Springer. >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Imai, M., Hidaka, S., Saji, N., & Ohba, M. (2018). Symbol grounding and system construction in the color lexicon. In T. T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.),\u00a0Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>pp.1853-1858. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.\u00a0>online<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Abbot-Smith, K., Imai,M. Durrant,S. & Nurmsoo, E. (2017). The role of timing and prototypical causality on how preschoolers fast-map novel verb meanings. First Language. 37, 186\u2013204. DOI: 10.1177\/0142723716679800>online<\/a><\/p>\n

Saji, N., Asano, M., Oishi, M. & Imai, M. (2015).How do children construct the color lexicon?: Restructuring the domain as a connected system. D.V. Noelle,R. Dale, A.S. Warlaumon.,J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings & P.P. Maglio (Eds.) Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society(pp.2080-2085). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.<\/p>\n

Saji, N & Imai, M (2013). Evolution of verb meanings in children and L2 adult learners through reorganization of an entire semantic domain: The case of Chinese carry\/hold verbs. Scientific Research in Reading, Special issue: Reading in Chinese,17, 71\u201388. DOI: 10.1080\/10888438.2012.689788<\/p>\n

Saalbach, H., Imai, M. & Shalk, L. (2012). Grammatical gender and inferences about biological properties in German-speaking children. Cognitive Science, 36, 1251\u20131267.<\/p>\n

G\u00f6ksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, Golinkoff, R. M., Imai, M., Konishi, H., & Okada, H. (2011). Who is crossing where?: Infants\u2019 discrimination of figures and grounds in events. Cognition, 121, 176-195.<\/p>\n

Saji, N., Imai, M., Saalbach, H., Zhang, Y., Shu, H., & Okada, H. (2011). Word learning does not end at fast-mapping: Evolution of verb meanings through reorganization of an entire semantic domain. Cognition,118, 45-61<\/p>\n

Haryu, E., Imai, M., & Okada, H. (2011). Object Similarity Bootstraps Young Children to Action-Based Verb Extensions. Child Development, 82, 674-686.<\/p>\n

Imai M, Saalbach, H & Stern, E (2010). Are Chinese and German children taxonomic, thematic or shape biased?: Influence of classifiers and cultural contexts. Frontiers in Psychology. 2010;1: 194. doi: 10.3389\/fpsyg.2010.00194<\/p>\n

Saji, N., Saalbach, H., Imai, M., Zhang, Y., Shu, H. & Okada, H. (2008). Fast-mapping and reorganization: Development of verb meanings as a system. In the Proceedings of the 30th Anuual Cognitive Science Society Meeting,( pp.35-40). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.<\/p>\n

Imai, M., Li, L., Haryu, E., Okada, H., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. & Shigematsu, J. (2008). Novel noun and verb learning in Chinese-, English-, and Japanese-speaking children. Child Development. 79, 979-1000 .<\/p>\n

Imai, M. (2008). Children\u2019s use of argument structure, meta-knowledge of the lexicon, and extra-linguistic contextual cues in inferring meanings of novel verbs. In S. M\u00fcller (Eds.), The Proceedings of HPSG08 conference, pp 417-435. Palo Alto, USA: CSLI publications.<\/p>\n

Imai, M., Haryu, E., & Okada, H. (2005). Mapping novel nouns and verbs onto dynamic action events: Are verb meanings easier to learn than noun meanings for Japanese children? Child Development, 76, 340-355.<\/p>\n

Haryu, E., Imai, M., Okada, H., Li, L., Meyer, M. Hirsh-Pasek, K., &Golinkoff, R.(2005). Noun bias in Chinese children: novel noun and verb learning in Chinese, Japanese and English preschoolers. In A. Grugos, M. Clark-Cotton, & S. Ha. (Eds.), Proceedings the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Sommerville, MA:Cascadilla Press. (pp.272-283)<\/p>\n

Haryu, E. & Imai, M. (2002). Reorganizing the lexicon by learning a new word: Japanese children\u2019s interpretation of the meaning of a new word for a familiar artifact. Child Development.
\n73, 1378-1391.<\/p>\n

Imai, M., Haryu, E., & Okada, H. (2002). Is verb learning easier than noun learning for Japanese children? : 3-year-old Japanese children\u2019s knowledge about object names and action name. Proceedings of the 26th Boston University Conference of Language Development. Vol. 1, 324-335.<\/p>\n

Imai, M .& Haryu, E. (2001). Learning proper nouns and common nouns without clues from syntax. Child Development, 72(3), 787-803.<\/p>\n

Imai, M. & Haryu, E. (1999). Word learning without aid from syntax: How do Japanese children learn proper nouns and common nouns? The Proceedings of the 23rd Boston University Conference on Language Development.pp.277-288. Somerville, Mass: Cascadilla Press.<\/p>\n

Imai, M. (1999). Constraint on word learning constraints. Japanese Psychological Research, 41(1) 5-20.<\/p>\n

Haryu, E. & Imai, M. (1999). Controling the application of the mutual exclusivity assumption in the acquisition of lexical hierarchies. Japanese Psychological Research, 41(1),21-34 .<\/p>\n

Uchida, N. & Imai, M. (1999). Heuristics in learning classifiers: The implications from the acquisition of the classifier system on the nature of lexical acquisition. Japanese Psychological Research, 41(1),50-69.<\/p>\n

Imai, M. & Gentner, D. (1997). A crosslinguistic study on constraints on early word meaning: Linguistic influence vs. universal ontology. Cognition, 62, 169-200.<\/p>\n

Imai, M. (1996). Asymmetry in the taxonomic assumption: word learning vs. property induction. Child Language Research Forum, 27. pp.157-167.<\/p>\n

Gentner, D. & Imai, M. (1995). Further examination of the shape bias in early word learning. Child Language Research Forum, 26. pp.167-176.<\/p>\n

Imai, M., Gentner, D. & Uchida, N. (1994). Children’s theories of word meanings: The role of shape similarity in early acquisition. Cognitive Development, 9. pp.45-75.<\/p>\n

Sound symbolism and its role in language development<\/h2>\n

Imai, M., Akita, K. (2023) The Iconicity Ring Hypothesis Bridges the Gap Between Symbol Grounding and Linguistic Relativity: TopiCS<\/em> in Cognitive Science >> online<\/a><\/p>\n

Akita, K., and Imai, M. (2022). The iconicity ring model for sound symbolism. In Sara Lenninger, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg, and El\u017cbieta Tabakowska (eds.), Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, 27-45. (Iconicity in Language and Literature 18.) Amsterdam\/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.\u00a0 >PDF<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0>online<\/a><\/p>\n

Saji, N., Akita, K, Kantartzis, K, Kita, S., and Imai, M. (2019). Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in novel words elicited by locomotion videos in Japanese and English. PLOS ONE, 14(7): \u00a0e0218707. doi:10.1371\/journal.pone.0218707<\/p>\n

Yang, J., Asano, M., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Imai, M. (2019). Sound symbolism processing is lateralized to the right temporal region in the prelinguistic infant brain. Scientific Reports<\/em>, 9, 13435. doi: 10.1038\/s41598-019-49917 >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Kantartzis, K., Imai, M., Evans, D. & Kita, S. (2019) Sound symbolism facilitates long-term retention of the semantic representation of novel verbs in three-year-olds. \u00a0Languages, Special Issue: Embodied Cognition and Language: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives.<\/em> doi: 10.3390\/languages4020021<\/p>\n

Imai, M. (2017). The \u201cSymbol Grounding Problem\u201d reinterpreted from the perspective of language acquisition. In J.Zlatev, Sonesson, G., P. Konderak (Eds.). Meaning, Mind and Communication; Explorations in Cognitive Semiotics.\u3000pp145-160. Frunkfurt am Mein: Peterlang >online<\/a><\/p>\n

Imai, M., Miyazaki, M., Yeung, Henny, Hidaka, S, Kantartzis, K, Okada, H., and Kita, S. (2015) Sound symbolism facilitates word learning in 14-month-olds. PLOS ONE, 10(2): e0116494. doi:10.1371\/journal.pone.0116494<\/p>\n

Asano, M., Imai, M., Kita, S., Kitajo, K., Okada, H. & Thierry, G. (2015). Sound Symbolism Scaffolds Language Development in Preverbal Infants. Cortex, 63, 196-205. doi: 10.1016\/j.cortex.2014.08.025<\/p>\n

Imai, M. & Kita, S. (2014). The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Soceity B. Phil., vol.,369: no. 1651, pii: 20130298, doi:10.1098\/rstb.2013.0298<\/p>\n

Kanero J, Imai M, Okuda J,Okada H,Matsuda T(2014). How sound symbolism is processed in the brain: A study on Japanese mimetic words. PLoS ONE 9(5):e97905.doi: 10.1371\/journal.pone.0097905<\/p>\n

Kantartzis, K., Imai, M. & Kita, S. (2011). Japanese sound symbolism facilitates word learning in English speaking children. Cognitive Science, 35, 575-586.<\/p>\n

Akita, K., Imai, M., Saji, N., Kantartzis, K., & Kita, S. (2011). Mimetic Vowel Harmony in Japanese. B. Frellesvig & P. Sells (Eds.), Japan\/Korean Linguistics, 20, CSLI Publications.<\/p>\n

Imai, M. Kita, S., Nagumo, M. & Okada, H. (2008) Sound symbolism facilitates early verb learning. Cognition, 109, 54-65.<\/p>\n

Kita, S., Kantartzis, K., & Imai, M. (2010). Children learn sound symbolic words better: Evolutionary vestige of sound symbolic protolanguage. In A. D. M. Smith, M. Schouwstra, B. de Boer & K. Smith (Eds.), The evolution of language: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8) (pp. 206-213). Singapore: World Scientific.<\/p>\n

Word meaning representation and other topics<\/h2>\n

Imai, M. & Kanero, J. (2020). How classifiers affect mental representation of entities. In Chungmin Lee, Young-Wha Kim, & Byeong-Uk Yi (Eds).\u00a0Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.\u00a0<\/em>(pp.197-230). Roudledge.<\/p>\n

Hashida, K., Sotaro, S. & Imai, M. (2017). The process of hypothesis formulation and symbol grounding. Cognitive Studies (\u8a8d\u77e5\u79d1\u5b66)\u300023, 65-73.<\/p>\n

Malt, B., Ameel, E., Imai,M., Gennari,S. , Saji,N., & Majid, A. (2014 ) Human Locomotion in Languages: Constraints on Moving and Meaning. Journal of Memory and Language, 74, 107-123.<\/p>\n

Malt, B., Gennari, S., Imai, M., Ameel, E., Tsuda, N. & Majid, A. (2008). Talking about Walking: Biomechanics and the Language of Locomotion. Psychological Science, 19, 232-240.<\/p>\n

Middleton, E. Wisniewski, E., Trindel, K., & Imai, M. (2004) Separating the chaff from the oats: Evidence for a conceptual distinction between count noun and mass noun aggregates. Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 371-394.<\/p>\n

Gentner, D., Imai, M., & Boroditsky, L. (2002). As time goes by: Evidence for two systems in processing space-time metaphors. Language and Cognitive Processes, 17(5), 537-565.<\/p>\n

Imai, M., Nakanishi, T., Miyashita, H., Kidachi, Y. & Ishizaki, S. (1999).
\nThe meanings of FRONT \/BACK \/LEFT \/RIGHT. Cognitive Studies, 6(2), 207-225.<\/p>\n

Wisneiwski,E. , Imai, M & Casey, L. (1996). On the equivalence of superoridinate concepts. Cognition, 60, 269-298.<\/p>\n

Imai, M., Anderson, R., Willkinson, I. & Yi, H. (1992). Properties of attention during reading lessons. Journal of Educational Psychology, 84, pp.160-173.<\/p>\n

Gentner, D. & Imai, M. (1992). ‘Is the future always ahead? Evidence for system-mappings in understanding space-time metaphors’. The Proceedings of the Forteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp.510-515. Lawrence Erlbaum.<\/p>\n

Mason, J. M., Anderson, R. C., Omura, A., Uchida, N. and Imai, M. (1989).
\nLearning to read in Japan. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 21, pp.389-407.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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