Program
Here is the schedule of events (as of July 30, 2012).
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| Conference Location: | The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) |
| The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) | |
| National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) | |
| (ISM and NIJL share the same building.) |
*The registration desk will be on the 3rd floor of ISM.
On August 2, 8-9am, the registration desk will be on the 2nd floor, in front of Lecture Hall at NINJAL.
Seminar room 1 and 2 are located at ISM.
Breakfast will be served on August 2 - 4.
Lunch will be served on August 2 and 3.
Wednesday, August 1st
| 12:00pm - 6:00pm | Registration (3rd floor, ISM) |
| 1:00pm - 1:15pm | Opening Remarks (Seminar room 1) |
| Yoshiyuki Asahi | |
| NINJAL | |
| 1:15pm - 2:30pm | Workshop 1: Japanese sociolinguistics: its past, present, and future (Seminar room 1) |
| Yoshiyuki Asahi | |
| NINJAL | |
| 2:30pm - 2:45pm | BREAK |
| 2:45pm - 4:15pm | Workshop 2: Workshop on Second Language Acquisition Research Using Variation Analysis (Seminar room 1) |
| Victoria Rau | |
| National Chung Cheng University | |
| 4:15pm - 4:30pm | BREAK |
| 4:30pm - 6:00pm | Workshop 3: The Sociophonetic Analysis and Manipulation of Pitch and Intonation (Seminar room 1) |
| Robert J. Podesva, Sakiko Kajino, Kyuwon Moon | |
| Stanford University, Georgetown University, Stanford University | |
| 6:30pm - | Opening Reception (4th floor, ISM) |
Thursday, August 2nd
| 8:00am - 9:00am | Registration (3rd floor, ISM) |
| 9:00am - 6:00pm | Registration (2nd floor, NINJAL) |
| 8:00am - 9:00am | BREAKFAST (2nd floor, NINJAL) |
| 9:00am - 11:00am | Invited Talk: J.K. Chambers Title: "Professor Shibata's haha and Other Sociolinguistic Insights" (Lecture Hall, NINJAL) |
| 11:00am - 11:15am | BREAK |
| 11:15am - 12:45pm | Session 1: Gender and Stylistic Variation (Seminar room 1) Chair: Kenjiro Matsuda |
| 11:15am - 11:45am | Stylistic variation of female call center employees: Negotiating femininity and professionalism in South Korea |
| Kyuwon Moon | |
| Stanford University | |
| 11:45am - 12:15pm | Kathoeys and the linguistic construction of gender identity in Thailand |
| Pavadee Saisuwan | |
| Queen Mary, University of London | |
| 12:15pm - 12:45pm | The Intersection between Gender and Style among the Young in Bangkok: Sociolinguistic Variation of /r/ in Bangkok Thai |
| Orapat Pookkawes | |
| University of Florida | |
| 12:45pm - 2:00pm | LUNCH (served in seminar room 5) |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm | Poster Session 1 (Meeting Room 1, 2nd floor, NIJL)
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| Bilingual first language acquisition; A case study of English-Japanese bilingual children in Christchurch | |
| Mineko Shirakawa | |
| University of Canterbury
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| Sociolinguistic Variation in the Pitch Movement of Japanese Dialects | |
| Ichiro Ota, Shoji Takano, Hitoshi Nikaido, Akira Utsugi, Yoshiyuki Asahi | |
| Kagoshima University, Hokusei Gakuen University, Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University, Tsukuba University, NINJAL
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| Personification Effect: the use of Japanese noun `Yatsu' on inanimate object and its social meaning | |
| Jinsok Lee, Nikki Barbeau | |
| Georgetown Univeristy
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| Nana or Schichi: Sound alternation in the classifier construction in Japanese | |
| Rika Ito, Natalie Dmytrenko | |
| St. Olaf College
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| Kulitan, the indigenous Kapampangan script: A possible answer to the unsettled dispute on the Romanized Kapampangan orthography | |
| Michael Raymon Pangilinan | |
| Aguman Sulat Kapampangan
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| The rhythmic differences between Standard Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin | |
| Karen Huang | |
| University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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| Linguistic Survey in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area Using Mobile Phone | |
| Kanetaka Yarimizu, Harumi Mitsui | |
| NINJAL | |
| 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Session 2: Morphological/Syntactic Variation and Change (Seminar room 1) Chair: Shobha Satyanath |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm | Indefinite verb agreement in N'kep |
| Miriam Meyerhoff | |
| University of Auckland | |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm | Dynamic Shift of Word Frequency Effect in the Course of Linguistic Change |
| Shin-ichiro Sano | |
| International Christian University
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| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | A Variationist's Approach to a Grammaticalized Motion Verb of Japanese |
| Fumihito Arai | |
| Kobe Shoin Women’s University | |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm | The Syntactic Development of the Japanese Pragmatic Marker "nanka" |
| Kevin Heffernan | |
| Kwansei Gakuin University | |
| 5:30pm - 5:45pm | BREAK |
| 5:45pm - 6:45pm | Session 3: Exploring Models and Methods (Seminar room 1) Chair: Ichiro Ota |
| 5:45pm - 6:15pm | Development of a way to visualize and observe linguistic similarities on a linguistic atlas |
| Yasuo Kumagai | |
| NINJAL | |
| 6:15pm - 6:45pm | The Question of Density: Multi-Agent Modeling of Field Data from Sui Exogamous Villages |
| James Stanford, Ian Stewart | |
| Dartmouth College | |
| 7:00pm - | NWAV-AP2 Conference Party (Place: Japanese style pub "Tamagawa") |
Friday, August 3rd
| 8:00am - 6:00pm | Registration (3rd floor, ISM) | |
| 8:00am - 9:00am | BREAKFAST (3rd floor, ISM) | |
| 9:00am - 10:00am | Session 4: Syntactic Variation 1 (Seminar room 1) Chair: Miriam Meyerhoff | |
| 9:00am - 9:30am | Explaining formal variation in subjects and objects in Vera'a | |
| Stefan Schnell | ||
| Centre for Research on Language Diversity at La Trobe University | ||
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| 9:30am - 10:00am | Frequency Effects on Constructional Variation in Japanese | |
| Natsuko Tsujimura | ||
| Indiana University | ||
| 10:00am - 11:00am | Session 5: Language Contact and Variation 1 (Seminar room 1) Chair: Miriam Meyerhoff | |
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Looking for contact-induced change in Heritage Cantonese: Pronouns, classifiers and VOT | |
| Naomi Nagy | ||
| University of Toronto | ||
| 10:30am - 11:00am | The status of lone English-origin nouns in otherwise Japanese discourse: A comparative variationist approach to borrowing | |
| Yukiko Yoshizumi, Shana Poplack | ||
| University of Ottawa | ||
| 11:00am - 11:15am | BREAK | |
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| 11:15am - 12:45pm | Session 6: Sound Change (Seminar room 1) Chair: Sakiko Kajino | Session 7: Syntactic Variation 2 (Seminar room 2) Chair: Shoji Takano |
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| 11:15am - 11:45am | A corpus-based analysis of word order variation in Yami relative clause | |
| Hui-Huan Chang, D. Victoria Rau | ||
| National Chung Cheng University | ||
| cancelled | ||
| 11:45am - 12:15pm | Diffusion of spirantization from labial plosive to velar plosive | A Choice of the Interpretations of the Case Particle -no in Japanese |
| Kakoli Dey | Satoshi Nambu | |
| University of Delhi | NINJAL | |
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| 12:15pm - 12:45pm | Patterns of diffusion of linguistic changes in Nineteenth century Bengal | The Placement of the Prepositional Dative Construction in Spoken Mandarin Varieties |
| Shobha Satyanath | Chun-Yi Peng | |
| University of Delhi | Michigan State University | |
| 12:45pm - 2:00pm | LUNCH (served in seminar room 5) | |
| 2:00pm - 4:00pm | Session 8: Dialect, Change, and Variation 1 (Seminar room 1) Chair: James Stanford | Session 9: Endangered Languages and Variation (Seminar room 2) Chair: Kuniyoshi Kataoka |
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| 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Real time change in intra-speaker variation: Evidence from Hokkaido Japanese | Maintaining dialectal variation in a high endangerment scenario: Ngan'gikurunggurr and Ngen'giwumirri |
| Yoshiyuki Asahi | Nicholas Reid | |
| NINJAL | University of New England | |
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| 2:30pm - 3:00pm | Japanese Honorifics: 20, 36 and 55 years later | Endangered Tribal Dialects : When ‘variation’ is not just any variation |
| Kenjiro Matsuda | Resmi Prakash | |
| Kobe Shoin Women’s University | Jawaharlal Nehru University | |
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| 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Session 10: Creole and Variation (Seminar room 2) Chair: Kuniyoshi Kataoka |
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| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Osaka Japanese honorifics - change over time, in more ways than one | Co-occurrence constraints of past-time marker wen in Hawai'i Creole |
| Anna Strycharz-Banas | Aya Inoue | |
| Meertens Institute | Kinjo Gakuin University | |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm | A contemporary history of Okazaki honorifics and the world history of honorifics | Mapping Linguistic Ideologies on O'ahu |
| Fumio Inoue | James Grama, Katie Drager | |
| Meikai University | University of Hawai'i at Manoa | |
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| 4:00pm - 5:30pm | Poster Session 2 (Meeting Room 1, 2nd floor, National Institute of Japanese Literature) | |
| (Business Meeting, from 4:15pm-5:15pm, Seminar room 2)
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| Language contact as generic intertextuality: Translations of Chinese government texts into Bai | ||
| Brook Hefright | ||
| University of Maryland
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| The degree of negation of the Singlish 'never' | ||
| Amelia Leong | ||
| National University of Singapore
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| Katakana Scripts In a Japanese Publication in Malaysia: A Case Study of Katakana Words in " SENYUM" Magazine | ||
| Poo Ching Feng, Norhana Md. Salleh, Kamila Ghazali | ||
| Universiti Malaya, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris,
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| Speaking out of character: Consistency in yakuwari-go `role-playing' speech in a corpus of Japanese comics | ||
| Giancarla Unser-Schutz | ||
| Rissho University
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| The Pidgin in Speech-act?: The interference of the politeness strategies Japanese Bilingual meeting | ||
| Kaoru Amino | ||
| Dalarna University | ||
| 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Invited Talk: Junko Hibiya Title: The velar nasal in Japanese revisited (seminar room 1) | |
| 8:00pm - | Special Conference Dinner (Tachikawa Grand Hotel) | |
Saturday August 4th
| 8:00am - 12:00pm | Registration (3rd floor, ISM) | |
| 8:00am - 9:00am | BREAKFAST (3rd floor, ISM) | |
| 9:00am - 11:00am | Session 11: Dialect, Change, and Variation 2 (Seminar room 1) Chair: Victoria Rau | Session 12: Sign Language and Variation (Seminar room 2) Chair: Kenjiro Matsuda |
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| 9:00am - 9:30am | Changes from dialect use to standard language use along west coast of Japan | Lexical Variations and Diachronic Change in Hong Kong Sign Language: Preliminary observations |
| Akemi Yamashita, Meikai University | Felix Sze, Kenny Chu, Connie Lo, Lisa Lo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
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| 9:30am - 10:00am | Standardization and Dialect Leveling in Tokunoshima | Sign language use and variations in Jakarta Sign Language |
| Motoei Sawaki, Yumi Nakajima, Chitsuko Fukushima | Felix Sze, James Woodward, Adhika Irlang Suwiryo, Laura Lesmana Wijaya, Iwan Satryawan | |
| Shinshu University, Hitotsubashi University, University of Niigata Prefecture | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am | Where is the Best and Worst Korean Spoken?: The Perceptual Dialectology of Korea | Signing varieties in Jakarta and Yogyakarta: dialects or separate languages? |
| Lisa Jeon | Silva Tenrisara Pertiwi Isma | |
| University of North Texas | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am | Historical dialectology of Azuma | |
| John Kupchik | ||
| Kyoto University/JSPS | ||
| 11:00am - 11:15am | BREAK | |
| 11:15am - 12:15pm | Session 13: Language Contact and Variation 2 (Seminar room 1) Chair: Sakiko Kajino | Session 14: Corpus, Translation, and Variation (Seminar room 2) Chair: Satoshi Nambu |
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| 11:15am - 11:45am | Dialect contact and retention of the northern Japanese plantation immigrants in Hawai'i | Variations in the Distribution of Length-Specific Tokens in Early Modern Chinese Scientific Translations |
| Mie Hiramoto, Hiroyuki Shiraiwa | Meng Ji | |
| The National University of Singapore, The Osaka University | Waseda University | |
| 11:45am - 12:15pm | Session 15: Written Language and Variation (Seminar room 2) Chair: Satoshi Nambu | |
| 11:45am - 12:15pm | Giving invitations is like borrowing money for Chinese speakers of English: A Cognitive sociolinguistic study of email Invitations | |
| Yuan-shan Chen, Wan-jing Li, D. Victoria Rau | ||
| National Chin-Yi University of Technology, National Chung Cheng University | ||
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| 1:00pm - | Excursion to Kawagoe | |
