FACULTY

Ayaka Sugawara

SUGAWARA, Ayaka (菅原　彩加), Associate Professor

ResearchMap site : https://researchmap.jp/ayakasugawara

E-mail : [ayakasug@waseda.jp]

I am interested in the interaction between sounds and meaning, and the linguistic mechanism behind the effect. Specifically, a sentence “All of the apples didn’t fall (from a tree)” with falling intonation at the end is ambiguous between the “none fell”-reading and the “not all fell”-reading – on the other hand, the same sentence with a stress on “All” and rising intonation at the end will unambiguously yield the “not all fell”-reading. My research investigates theoretical background of such phenomena (similar examples can be found in different types of sentences in different languages) and whether children and foreign language learners are sensitive to the effect.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
  • M.A. in English Linguistics, University of Tokyo, 2010
  • B.A. in English Linguistics, University of Tokyo, 2008

Current CELESE responsibilities

Administrative roles :

Courses : Communication Strategies, Academic Reading, Concept Building and Discussion

Research areas and interests

Linguistics, First language acquisition, Semantics, Pragmatics, Prosody, Second language acquisition

Representative works

  • 菅原, 宮本. “意味論と第一言語獲得のインターフェイス　－Exhaustificationの観点から－” in 言語におけるインターフェイス. 西原哲雄ほか(編). 開拓社. Pp. 153-167. 2019.
  • Sode and Sugawara. “On the deliberative use of the German modal sollte,” in New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2018 Workshops, JURISIN, AI-Biz, SKL, LENLS, IDAA, Yokohama, Japan, November 12-14, 2018, Rivised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Eds. by Kazuhiro Kojima et al. Springer. Pp. 341-356. 2019.
  • Yatsushiro, Sugawara, and Sauerland. “Quantifier scope and intonation in German,” in Proceedings of the 43rd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. 2019.
  • Ito, Shimamura, and Sugawara. “Manipulating π-geometry of (pronominal) zibun in Kansai Japanese and its relevance to imposters,” in Proceedings of the 158th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan. 2019.
  • Ito, Shimamura and Sugawara. “Manipulating π-geometry of (pronominal) zibun in Kansai Japanese and its relevance to imposters,” the 158th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, June, 2019.

Other

  • 「ことば教室」（未就学児対象イベント）協賛：高野会計事務所様　ミライズムオープニングイベント, Ibaraki, Japan, September 21-22, 2020.
  • 「言葉のふしぎ　音楽のふしぎ」（一般向け講演） Talk at ヴァイオリニスト須賀麻里江主催　音楽講座シンフォニア, Tokyo, Japan, October 27, 2019.