Shigeto Kawahara (川原 繁人, Kawahara Shigeto, born March 9, 1980) is a Japanese phonetician and phonologist.
He is currently an associate professor in the linguistics institute at Keio University.
He was awarded his BA (liberal arts) from International Christian University in 2002 and Ph.D. (Linguistics) from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007 under the supervision of John Kingston.
[1] Kawahara primarily investigates phonetic bases of emergent phonological patterns.
He has also studied verbal art patterns including Japanese rap rhymes and puns.