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Use of mimetics in motion event descriptions by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese: Does typology make a difference? (2016)
Book Chapter
Iwasaki, N. (2016). Use of mimetics in motion event descriptions by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese: Does typology make a difference?. In N. Iwasaki, P. Sells, & K. Akita (Eds.), The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation (pp. 193-218). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315646695-10

This chapter addresses the issues by examining how first language (L1) English or Korean speakers of second language (L2) Japanese describe Motion events depicted in animated cartoons, by first selecting Motion events for which many L1 Japanese speak... Read More about Use of mimetics in motion event descriptions by English and Korean learners of L2 Japanese: Does typology make a difference?.

The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation (2016)
Book
N. Iwasaki, P. Sells, & K. Akita. (Eds.). (2016). The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315646695

Mimetic words, also known as ‘sound-symbolic words’, ‘ideophones’ or more popularly as ‘onomatopoeia’, constitute an important subset of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African langu... Read More about The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation.

Japanese and Korean Speakers' Production of Mimetic Words (2013)
Book Chapter
Iwasaki, N., Brown, L., Kita, S., & David, V. (2013). Japanese and Korean Speakers' Production of Mimetic Words. In B. Frellesvig, & P. Sells (Eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 20 (pp. 199-213). CSLI.

Multiple noun class prefixes in Otjiherero (2009)
Book Chapter
Kavari, J., & Marten, L. (2009). Multiple noun class prefixes in Otjiherero. In P. Austin, O. Bond, M. Charette, D. Nathan, & P. Sells (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Language Description and Theory (pp. 165-173). SOAS.

Mapping negation in conceptual space (2009)
Book Chapter
Bond, O. (2009). Mapping negation in conceptual space. In P. Austin, O. Bond, M. Charette, D. Nathan, & P. Sells (Eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2 (pp. 51-60). Department of Linguistics, SOAS.

Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2 (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Austin, P., Bond, O., Charette, M., Nathan, D., & Sells, P. (Ed.). (2009). Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2 [Edited Proceedings]. Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory (LDLT) 2, SOAS University of London. https://elpublishing.org/our-ebooks/ldlt-proceedings/ldlt-2/

The acoustics of Korean fricatives revisited (2008)
Book Chapter
Chang, C. B. (2008). The acoustics of Korean fricatives revisited. In S. Kuno, I.-H. Lee, J. Whitman, J. Maling, Y.-S. Kang, P. Sells, H.-S. Sohn, & Y. Jang (Eds.), Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics XII (pp. 137-150). Hanshin Publishing Company. https://googledrive.com/host/0B1_NoAiLQlnkZ2kwQlFrVmRIZVU/Chang_HSIKL12.pdf

This study examined the production of the two-way laryngeal contrast in Korean sibilant fricatives in two experiments covering low and high vowel environments. Acoustic analyses show that in a low vowel environment, the two fricatives differ from eac... Read More about The acoustics of Korean fricatives revisited.

Korean Copular Constructions: A Lexical Sharing Approach (2008)
Book Chapter
Kim, J.-B., Sells, P., & Wescoat, M. T. (2008). Korean Copular Constructions: A Lexical Sharing Approach. In P. Clancy, M. E. Hudson, S.-A. Jun, & P. Sells (Eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics. Vol.13. CSLI Publications.