Prosody and Grammar Festa
Dates: February 18-19 (Sat.-Sun.), 2017
Venue: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)
Conference language: Japanese
No registration fees.
[Program]
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Saturday, February 18th (DAY 1)
12:30 Registration opens
13:30~14:40
Hiromu Sakai (Waseda University) and Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University)
“Experimental pragmatics: When and how is language connected to context?”
Haruo Kubozono (NINJAL)
“no-contraction and syllable structure in Kagoshima Japanese”
15:00~16:10
Yosuke Igarashi (Hitotsubashi University), Tomoki Tamura (Hitotsubashi University), Kosuke Nakano (Hitotsubashi University) and Yuki Takahashi (Hitotsubashi University)
“Realization of pitch accent in the Nakatane dialect of Tanegashima Japanese”
Yuki Hirose (University of Tokyo), Yuki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo) and Takane Ito (University of Tokyo)
“Processing of pitch accent in Japanese: Evidence from ERP studies”
16:30~17:30 【Plenary Lecture】
Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
“Perceptual narrowing in infant speech perception development: A Comparative Asian language perspective”
18:00 Banquet
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Sunday, February 19th (DAY 2)
9:30~11:15
Hisashi Noda (NINJAL)
“Contrastive studies of toritate expressions: Methods and significance”
Mai Osawa (Toho University)
“Two uses of just: restrictive and depreciatory”
Kumiko Nakanishi (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)
“The usage of toritate expressions and problems of learners of Japanese”
11:30~12:30 【Plenary Lecture】
Masaru Inoue (Reitaku University)
“A contrastive study of toritate expressions in Japanese and Chinese”
13:30~14:40
Keiko Murasugi (Nanzan University) and Yuji Takano (Kinjo Gakuin University)
“Generative perspectives on the syntax and acquisition of Japanese”
Prashant Pardeshi (NINJAL)
“Visualizing the distribution of noun modifying expressions (NMCs) in the languages of Asia and Africa”
15:00~16:10
Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka University)
“Noun modifying constructions in Bantu languages: Semantic relations and forms”
Megumi Kurebito (University of Toyama)
“Noun modifying clauses in Koryak: Complementary formation by particles and finite verbs”
16:30~17:30【Plenary Lecture】
Takashi Masuoka (Kansai Gaidai University)
“Noun modifying constructions in Japanese: Toward a functional analysis”