Manager of RRU
Manager of RRU, Japanese Studies

Senior Lecturer, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Japanese Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail shinichiro.ishiharaostas.luse
Phone +46 46 222 97 18
Room SOL:A410
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I am Reader / Associate Professor of Japanese at the Centre for Languages and Literature. My main research area is the syntax–phonology interface and its relation to information structure in Japanese and other languages.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
Editorships (1)
Articles (10)
- Ishihara, S. & Kalivoda, N. (2022). Match Theory : An overview. Language and Linguistics Compass, 16. John Wiley & Sons Inc..
- Kawahara, S., Shaw, J. & Ishihara, S. (2022). Assessing the prosodic licensing of wh-in-situ in Japanese : A computational-experimental approach. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 40, 103-122. Springer.
- Ishihara, S. (2016). Japanese downstep revisited. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 34, 1389-1443. Springer.
- Genzel, S., Ishihara, S. & Balázs, S. (2015). The prosodic expression of focus, contrast and givenness : A production study of Hungarian. Lingua, 165 Part B, 183-204. Elsevier.
- Hiraiwa, K. & Ishihara, S. (2012). Syntactic Metamorphosis : Clefts, Sluicing, and In-Situ Focus in Japanese. Syntax, 15, 142-180. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Dehé, N., Feldhausen, I. & Ishihara, S. (2011). The prosody-syntax interface : Focus, phrasing, language evolution. Lingua, 121, 1863-1869. Elsevier.
- Ishihara, S. (2011). Japanese focus prosody revisited : Freeing focus from prosodic phrasing. Lingua, 121, 1870-1889. Elsevier.
- Féry, C. & Ishihara, S. (2009). The phonology of second occurrence focus. Journal of Linguistics, 45, 285-313. Cambridge University Press.
- Ishihara, S. (2009). Interpreting the CCD prosodically. Theoretical Linguistics, 35, 277-287. De Gruyter.
- Ishihara, S. (2007). Major phrase, focus intonation, multiple spell-out (MaP, FI, MSO). The Linguistic Review, 24, 137-167. De Gruyter.
Book chapters (5)
- Ishihara, S. (2022). On the (lack of) correspondence between syntactic clauses and intonational phrases. In Kubozono, H., Ito, J. & Mester, A. (Eds.) Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics, Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces (pp. 420-456). Oxford University Press.
- Ishihara, S. (2017). The intonation of wh- and yes/no-questions in Tokyo Japanese. In Lee, C., Kiefer, F. & Krifka, M. (Eds.) Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Contrastiveness in information structure, alternatives and scaler implicatures (pp. 339-415), 91. Springer.
- Ishihara, S. (2015). Syntax–phonology interface. In Kubozono, H. (Ed.) Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics, Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology (pp. 569-618), 2. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Surányi, B., Ishihara, S. & Schubö, F. (2012). Syntax-prosody mapping, topic-comment structure and stress-focus correspondence in Hungarian. In Elordieta, G. & Prieto, P. (Eds.) Interface Explorations, Prosody and Meaning (pp. 35-71), 25. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Féry, C. & Ishihara, S. (2009). How focus and givenness shape prosody. In Zimmerman, M. & Féry, C. (Eds.) Information Structure : Theoretical, Typological, and Experimental Perspectives (pp. 36-63). Oxford University Press.
Conference contributions (4)
- Ishihara, S. (2021). Testing MatchClause : The prosody of embedded clauses in Japanese.
- Ishihara, S. (2019). On the relation between syntactic and phonological clauses in Japanese.
- Ishihara, S. & Myrberg, S. (2018). Match Theory and the Asymmetry Problem : An example from Stockholm Swedish.
- Ishihara, S., Kitagawa, Y., Nambu, S. & Ono, H. (2018). Non-focal prominence. In Guillemot, C., Yoshida, T. & Lee, S. (Eds.) MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL13) (pp. 243-254), 88. MITWPL.
Administrative
- Manager of Research and Research Education at Japanese Studies
- Member, Board of Section 5, Centre for Languages and Literature
Teaching
Other tasks and qualifications
- Organizer of the research seminar Japanese Linguistics Reading Group (読書会, Dokushokai)
- Co-organizer (together with Arthur Holmer) of the research seminar Lund Circle of East Asian Linguistics (LCEAL)

Senior Lecturer, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Japanese Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail shinichiro.ishiharaostas.luse
Phone +46 46 222 97 18
Room SOL:A410
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20