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] 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