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About
Research in phonetics and phonology, and the writing, teaching and materials that follow from it.
- Name
- Go-on Research Institute (語音研究所)
- info@goonresearch.jp
- Operator
- Takeshi Ishihara
- Activities
- Research in phonetics and phonology with open data / writing specialist books / talks and seminars / building educational software
- Contact
- The form on this site
On the name
語音 (go-on, /ɡo.oɴ/) means speech sound: the sounds out of which language is made. It was taken as the name because the same word names both what is studied here and what is built here.
What we do
We do empirical work in phonetics and phonology on spontaneous speech corpora, and the instruments that work requires — an environment for running speech analysis, a way to visualise vowels, a setting in which to run perception experiments — become usable software. Research and product are not separate activities here; they are two sides of the same work.
Our language-learning applications follow the same principle. What they offer is not a count of words or exercises but the research itself — which words, in what order, approached from which facet, make learning efficient — turned into features.