Japanese Language Variation Observed in Corpora
-Corpora of conversations, dialects, learners' Japanese, and historical Japanese-

Project Title, Project Leader
General Research for the Study and Conservation of Endangered Dialects in Japan
KIBE Nobuko (Professor, Department of Language Change and Variation, NINJAL)
Study on Teaching and Learning Japanese as a Second Language in a Multicultural Society
SAKODA Kumiko (Professor, Center for JSL Research and Information, NINJAL)
Date
Sturday, December 6 2014 (14:00-18:00)
Sunday, December 7 2014 (10:00-16:00)
Venue
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)
10-2 Midori-cho, Tachikawa City, Tokyo
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Program
Theme: Japanese Language Variation Observed in Corpora
-Corpora of conversations, dialects, learners' Japanese, and historical Japanese-

Sturday, December 6 2014 (14:00-18:00)

14:00-Opening remarks SAKODA Kumiko (Center for JSL Research and Information, NINJAL)

14:15-Presentations 1:

  • "Corpus of conversational Japanese"
    KOISO Hanae (Department of Linguistic Theory and Structure, NINJAL)
  • "Corpus of Japanese dialects"
    KIBE Nobuko (Department of Language Change and Variation, NINJAL)

15:45-Demonstrations

16:30-Presentations 2:

  • "Corpus of L2 Japanese"
    SAKODA Kumiko (Center for JSL Research and Information, NINJAL)
  • "Corpus of historical Japanese"
    OGISO Toshinobu (Department of Corpus Studies, NINJAL)

Sunday, December 7 2014 (10:00-16:00)

10:00-Panel discussion
KOISO Hanae, KIBE Nobuko, SAKODA Kumiko and OGISO Toshinobu

11:30-Keynote lecture "Profit and debt of corpus analysis"MAEKAWA Kikuo (Department of Corpus Studies, NINJAL)

12:30-Lunch

13:00-Sub-sessions

  • Corpus of conversational Japanese
    Coordinator KOISO Hanae
  • Corpus of Japanese dialects
    Coordinator KIBE Nobuko
  • Corpus of L2 Japanese
    Coordinator SAKODA Kumiko
  • Corpus of historical Japanese
    Coordinator OGISO Toshinobu

16:00Closing