Personnel Information

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KEVIN HEFFERNAN

Organization
School of Policy Studies Department of Policy Studies
Laboratory Address
Rm. 302, Building I
Research Fields, Keywords
corpus, dialect, linguistics, morphology, コーパス, 形態論, 方言, 言語学
Teaching and Research Fields
Language variation and change in vernacular Japanese
Mail Address
kevin@kwansei.ac.jp
Syllabus information URL
https://syllabus.kwansei.ac.jp/uniasv2/UnSSOLoginControlFree?REQ_ACTION_DO=/AGA030PLS01Action.do?REQ_FUNCTION_JUMP_START_FLG=1&SLB_LINK_DISP_FLG=227&TCH_NO=090132&REQ_PRFR_FUNC_ID=AGA030
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Degree 【 display / non-display 】

  • Degree name:Doctor (Phil.)
    Classified degree field:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics
    Conferring institution:University of Toronto, Canada
    Acquisition way:Coursework
    Date of acquisition:2007.05

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  • Affiliation:Kwansei Gakuin University
    Title:Professor
    Date:2009.09 -

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Association Memberships 【 display / non-display 】

  • Academic society name:日本方言研究会
    Academic country located:Japan

  • Academic society name:関西言語学会
    Academic country located:Japan

  • Academic society name:社会言語学科会
    Academic country located:Japan

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Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

  • Research field:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics
    Research keywords：linguistics

  • Research field:Humanities & Social Sciences / Japanese linguistics

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Papers 【 display / non-display 】

  • Language: English
    Title: The incredible shrinking Noun phrase: Ongoing change in Japanese word formation
    Journal name: Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research  vol.4  (1)  (p.1 - 23)
    Date of publication: 2023.08
    Author(s): Heffernan, Kevin, and Yusuke Imanishi

    DOI: 10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.1
    Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)
    Field of experts:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics

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  • Language: English
    Title: 仮名化傾向は続いているのか：表記ゆれの基調を捉える
    Journal name: The Japanese Society for Language Sciences JSLS 2023 Conference Handbook  (p.173 - 174)
    Date of publication: 2023
    Author(s): Yo Sato

    Type of publication: Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)
    Field of experts:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics

  • Language: English
    Title: Correlating cognitive effort and noun role in spoken Japanese
    Journal name: Journal of Japanese Linguistics  vol.37  (2)  (p.181 - 201)
    Date of publication: 2021.05
    Author(s): Heffernan Kevin

    DOI: 10.1515/jjl-2021-2040
    Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)
    Co-author classification: Single Author
    Field of experts:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics, Humanities & Social Sciences / Japanese linguistics

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  • Language: English
    Title: Gender-based differences in expository language use: A corpus study of Japanese
    Journal name: Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research  vol.1  (2)  (p.1 - 14)
    Date of publication: 2020.12
    Author(s): Heffernan Kevin, Nishino Keiko

    DOI: 10.22925/APJCR.2020.1.2.1
    Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)
    Co-author classification: Multiple Authorship
    Field of experts:Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics, Humanities & Social Sciences / Japanese linguistics, Humanities & Social Sciences / Gender studies

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  • Language: Japanese
    Title: 関西弁におけるウ音便の名残り―不規則性単語と頻度の役割―
    Journal name: 日本方言研究会第108回研究発表会発表原稿集  (p.39 - 46)
    Date of publication: 2019.05
    Author(s): ヘファナン・ケビン、佐藤陽

    Type of publication: Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)
    Co-author classification: Multiple Authorship

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  • Heffernan, K., & Nishino, K. (2020). Gender-based differences in expository language use: A corpus study of Japanese. Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, 1(2), 1-14.
    https://.doi.org/10.22925/APJCR.2020.1.2.1

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Books 【 display / non-display 】

  • Language: English
    Title: The grammar of Kansai vernacular Japanese
    Publisher: Kwansei Gakuin University Press
    Date of publication: 2019.02
    Author(s): Kevin Heffernan

    Type of books: Scholarly book
    Authorship：Sole author
    Field of experts:Humanities & Social Sciences / Japanese language education

  • Language: English
    Title: Introduction to Communication for Japanese Students
    Publisher: Kuroshio Publishing
    Date of publication: 2013.04
    Author(s): Kevin Heffernan

    Type of books: Textbook, survey, introduction
    Authorship：Sole author

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Research Projects 【 display / non-display 】

  • Research category:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
    Project year：2017.04 - 2020.03
    Title:The Corpus of Kansai Vernacular Japanese

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