Program

(keynote lectures: 40 + 10 min; other talks: 30 + 10 min)

Day 1 (Dec 17): Formal (and functional) properties of mimetics

9:00-9:30	Registration
9:30-9:50	Opening remarks: Taro Kageyama (NINJAL)
Session 1	Phonology 1 (Chair: Timothy J. Vance [NINJAL])
9:50-10:40	[1] G. Tucker Childs (Portland State U) “The knowledge of ideophones and multilingualism: A West African pilot study” [abstract]
10:50-11:30	[2] Haruo Kubozono (NINJAL) “The phonological structure of Japanese mimetics and motherese” [abstract]
11:30-12:10	[3] Nahyun Kwon (JSPS/Nagoya U) “Canonical approach to phonaesthemes in Korean ideophones” [abstract]
13:00-14:00	Poster session 1
Session 2	Phonology 2 (Chair: Haruo Kubozono [NINJAL])
14:00-14:50	[4] Shoko Hamano (George Washington U) “Monosyllabic and disyllabic roots in the diachronic development of mimetic expressions” [abstract]
14:50-15:30	[5] Akio Nasu (U of Tsukuba) “The phonological regularity of Japanese mimetics: Segmental markedness in mimetic neologisms” [abstract]
Session 3	Morphology & syntax (Chair: Kimi Akita [Nagoya U/NINJAL])
15:40-16:30	[6] Gérard Diffloth (Formerly École française d’Extrême-Orient) “Historical morphology in Austroasiatic Expressives” [abstract]
16:30-17:10	[7] Kiyoko Toratani (York U) “Classification of nominal compounds containing mimetics: A Construction Morphology perspective” [abstract]
17:10-17:50	[8] Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan U) “Mimetics as the argument-structure sprouts in child Japanese” [abstract]
18:00-20:00	Dinner

Day 2 (Dec 18): Functional (and formal) properties of mimetics

Session 4	Semantics (Chairs: Prashant Pardeshi [NINJAL]/Nahyun Kwon [JSPS/Nagoya U])
9:00-9:50	[9] Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (U of Zaragoza) “The importance of ideophones in the lexicalisation of motion events” [abstract]
9:50-10:30	[10] Noriko Iwasaki (SOAS, U of London) & Keiko Yoshioka (Leiden U) “The use of mimetics and gesture among speakers of Japanese as a second language” [abstract]
10:40-11:30	[11] Masako Ueda Fidler (Brown U) “Probing onomatopoeia with corpus data in Czech” [abstract]
11:30-12:10	[12] William J. Herlofsky (Nagoya Gakuin U) “Translation as an investigative tool: Searching for a common ground for examining mimetics in Japanese and JSL” [abstract]
13:00-14:00	Poster session 2
Session 5	Pragmatics & cognition (Chairs: Kiyoko Toratani [York U]/Keiko Murasugi [Nanzan U])
14:00-14:50	[13] Mark Dingemanse (MPI for Psycholinguistics) “Ideophones and sensory language in social interaction” [abstract]
14:50-15:30	[14] Kimi Akita (Nagoya U/NINJAL) “Ideophones, gaze, and facial expressions: A preliminary report from Japanese” [abstract]
15:40-16:20	[15] Mutsumi Imai (Keio U) “What insights can we draw from universal and language-specific sound symbolism onto the Symbol Grounding Problem?” [abstract]
16:20-17:10	[16] Janis B. Nuckolls (Brigham Young U) “Rethinking mono-sensory, implicational approaches to ideophones in Pastaza Quichua and the Americas” [abstract]
17:10-17:30	Closing remarks