Updated on Dec. 19, 2013

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What to Do for Lunch

We strongly encourage conference participants to buy a lunch each morning and bring it to NINJAL. You will see convenience stores and other places selling lunches in and around every major train station, including Tachikawa.

The area around NINJAL offers very few options for food. The only real restaurant in the immediate vicinity is Zuikyō 瑞京, which serves Chinese food, but it is quite small. There are also two convenience stores within easy walking distance from the conference venue, but they will not be prepared for a sudden rush of customers and are likely to run out of lunches and other popular items.

There are hundreds of restaurants near Tachikawa Station, of course, but the conference lunch breaks will not give you enough time to make the round trip.

DAY 1: Geminate Consonants - Dec. 20 (Fri)

Registration (12:30-13:25)
Welcome (13:25-13:30)

Session　1　(13:30-14:30) [Chair: Hiroaki Kato]

【Keynote lecture 1】
Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN Brain Science Institute/Duke University) [abstract]
　　"Learning that duration can be phonemic: Acquisition of duration-based vowel and consonant
　　phonemic contrasts in Japanese"

　　[Commentator: Yukari Hirata (Colgate University)]

Poster Session 1 with coffee (14:30-16:00)

Session　2　(16:00-17:30) [Chair: Michinao Matsui]

Keiichi Tajima (Hosei University/RIKEN Brain Science Institute) [abstract]
　　"Are phonemic length contrasts in Japanese exaggerated in infant-directed speech?"

Hyunsoon Kim (Hongik University) [abstract]
　　"Korean speakers' perception of Japanese geminates: Evidence for the role of L1 grammar"

DAY 2: Accent and tone - Dec. 21 (Sat)

Session　3　(9:30-10:30) [Chair: Ray Iwata]

【Keynote lecture 2】
Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley) [abstract]
　　"Towards a typology of tone system changes"

　　[Commentator: John Phan (JSPS/NINJAL)]

Coffee break (10:30-10:45)

Session　4　(10:45-12:15) [Chair: Yosuke Igarashi]

Mitsuaki Endo (Aoyama Gakuin University) [abstract]
　　"Bidirectional change in tone: Evidence from Chinese"

Pittayawat Pittayaporn (Chulalongkorn University) [abstract]
　　"Contour change as restructuring of tonal variation: The case of Tone 4 in Thai"

Lunch (12:15-13:30)

Session　5　(13:30-15:00) [Chair: Zendo Uwano]

Jonathan Evans (Academia Sinica) [abstract]
　　"Tone reduction processes in Sino-Tibetan languages"

Haruo Kubozono (NINJAL) [abstract]
　　"Accent changes in Kagoshima Japanese due to dialect contact"

Poster Session 2 with coffee (15:00-16:30)

Session　6　(16:30-18:00) [Chair: Shigeki Kaji]

Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University Nijmegen) [abstract]
　　"On the origin and development of the Central Franconian tone"

Jeffrey Heinz (University of Delaware) [abstract]
　　"StressTyp2: A database for the accentual patterns in the world's languages"

Banquet (18:00-)

DAY 3: Rendaku and voicing - Dec. 22 (Sun)

Session　7　(9:30-10:30) [Chair: Emiko Kaneko]

【Keynote lecture 3】
Laurence Labrune (University of Bordeaux/CNRS) [abstract]
　　"A cross-linguistic approach to rendaku-like compound markers, with special reference
　　to Korean and Basque"

　　[Commentator: Mark Irwin (Yamagata University)]

Coffee break (10:30-10:45)

Session　8　(10:45-12:15) [Chair: Katsuo Tamaoka]

Mieko Takada (Aichi Gakuin University) [abstract]
　　"Regional differences in voicing patterns during the closure of Japanese voiced geminates"

Shin-ichiro Sano and Shigeto Kawahara (Okayama Prefectural University/Keio University) [abstract]
　　"Testing rendaku experimentally: Rosen's Rule, (Strong) Lyman's Law and Identity Avoidance"

Farewell (12:15-)

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