Updated on Nov. 22, 2011

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DAY 1: Rendaku and voicing - Dec. 10 (Sat)

Opening remarks　(12:50-13:00)
Taro Kageyama

Session　1　(13:00-14:30)
【Invited lecture 1】
Jeroen van de Weijer (Shanghai International Studies University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Rendaku in the combined model"
John Kupchik (Kyoto University, JSPS)　ABSTRACT
　　"Rendaku as a rhythmic stabilizer in Eastern Old Japanese poetry"

Coffee break (14:30-14:50)

Session　2　(14:50-16:20)
Mark Irwin (Yamagata University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Rendaku dampening and prefixes"
Mutsuko Ihara, Katsuo Tamaoka and Hyunjung Lim
(Chiba University/Nagoya university/Tamaguchi Prefectural University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Rendaku and markedness: Phonetic and phonological effects"
Shigeto Kawahara (Rutgers University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Lyman's Law is active in loan and nonce words: Evidence from judgement studies"

Session　3　(16:35-17:35)
【Invited lecture 2】
Yutaka Suzuki (Bunkyo Gakuin University)　ABSTRACT　
　　"The history of Rendaku research - How Lyman's law has been accepted"

Reception　(18:00-)

DAY 2: Sokuon and geminate consonants - Dec. 11 (Sun)

Session　4　(9:30-11:00)
【Invited lecture 3】
John Kingston and Shigeto Kawahara
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst/Rutgers University)　ABSTRACT
　　"The phonological consequences of geminate phonetics"

Coffee break (11:00-11:20)

Session　5　(11:20-12:50)
Feng-fan Hsieh and Yueh-chin Chang (National Tsing Hua University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Gemination in Taiwanese diminutives: A typological anomaly?"
Masako Fujimoto (NINJAL)　ABSTRACT
　　"Physiological characteristics of Sokuon: A preliminary study"
Wayne P. Lawrence (The University of Auckland)　ABSTRACT
　　"Geminate plosives in Japanese and Ryukyuan - A phonological perspective on a phonetic difference"

Session　6　(14:00-15:30)
Ranjan Sen (University of Sheffield)　ABSTRACT
　　"The Littera-rule: Inverse compensatory lengthening in Latin"
Somdev Kar (IIT Popar)　ABSTRACT
　　"Gemination before liquids in Bangla"
Shashikanta Tarai (IIT Madras)　ABSTRACT
　　"Role of gemination and degemination in the adaptation of loanwords:
　　A study of English loanwords in Japanese and Arabic loanwords in Odia"

Poster session 1　(15:30-16:30)
1. Mizuki Miyashita (The University of Montana)　ABSTRACT
　　"Phonetics-phonology of geminate and triplet consonants in Blackfoot"
2. Setyo Prasiyanto Cahyono and Raden Arief Nugroho
　　(Dian Nuswantoro University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Errors in pronunciation of final stop consonants by Indonesian EFL"
3. Yasushi Otaki (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)　ABSTRACT
　　"A diachronic account of consonant gemination in Japanese"
4. Yutaka Sato, Mahoko Kato and Reiko Mazuka
　　(RIKEN BSI/RIKEN BSI/ RIKEN BSI, Duke University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Development of single/geminate obstruent discrimination by Japanese infants"
5. Saris Phoongprasertying and Phanintra Teeranon (Mae Fah Luang University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Students' reflection stimulated through cross learning session to drive change of learning activities"
6. Miki Taniguchi-Tagashira (Tokai University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Analysis of tone and function on conjunctions using the corpus of spontaneous Japanese"
7. Takehiro Shioda (NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute)　ABSTRACT
　　"The age difference of Rendaku on nationwide surveys"
8. Emil Tanev (Osaka University)　ABSTRACT
　　"World knowledge and competition in the information-prosody interface"

Session　7　(16:30-18:00)
Emiko Kaneko, Ian Wilson and Yusuke Abe (University of Aizu)　ABSTRACT
　　"Gemination of final consonants in English nonsense words:
　　The effects of orthography, vowel duration, and borrowers' L2 proficiency on loanword adaptation"
Itsue Kawagoe and Akiko Takemura (Kyoto Sangyo University/NINJAL)　ABSTRACT
　　"Geminate perception of English-like words by Japanese native speakers:
　　Differences in the borrowed forms of "chapter" and "Chaplin""
Toshiyuki Tabata (Chiba University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Geminate nature of [eng] in Japanese loanwords"

DAY 3: Geminate consonants / Accent and tone - Dec. 12 (Mon)

Session　8　(9:30-10:30)
【Invited lecture 4】
Rachid Ridouane (CNRS, University of paris 3)　ABSTRACT
　　"The phonetics and phonology of geminate consonants"

Coffee break (10:30-10:50)

Session　9　(10:50-11:50)
Mahjoub Zirak and Peter M. Skaer (Hiroshima University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Evidence of gemination in Persian"
Mohammed Nour Yousef Abu-Guba (Sharjar University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Gemination in English loanwords in Jordanian Arabic"

Session　10　(13:00-14:30)
Wencui Zhou and Carlos Gussenhoven
(Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics /
Radboud University Nijmegen, Queen Mary University of London)　ABSTRACT
　　"Exploiting the effect of pitch contour shape on perceived duration"
Yoko Mori, Tomoko Hori and Donna Erickson
(Doshisha University/Tokyo National College of Technology/Showa Music University)　ABSTRACT
　　"The roles of duration, F0, F1, and jaw displacement
　　in the realization of accent for English vs. Japanese speakers"
Mafuyu Kitahara, Ken'ya Nishikawa, Yosuke Igarashi and Reiko Mazuka
(Riken BSI, Waseda University/RIKEN BSI/RIKEN BSI, Hiroshima University/RIKEN BSI, Duke University) ABSTRACT
　　"Delayed-fall of pitch accents in Japanese Infant-Directed and Adult-Directed Speech"

DAY 4: Accent and tone - Dec. 13 (Tue)

Session　11　(9:30-11:00)
【Invited lecture 5】
Stuart Davis (Indiana University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Surveying strategies of loanword prosody"
Dongmyung Lee (Dong-A University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Tone patterns of the loanword compounds in South Kyungsang Korean"

Coffee break (11:00-11:20)

Session　12　(11:20-12:50)
Zhuting Chang and Dianne Bradley (CUNY Graduate Center)　ABSTRACT
　　"Tonal assignment for English loanwords in Mandarin: An experimental approach"
Karen Huang (University of Hawaii)　ABSTRACT
　　"Another look at the prosody of English loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin – A case study of an online forum"
Siu-lun Lee & Chen Yongyin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)　ABSTRACT
　　"Tonal structure and stress patterns of English loanwords in Cantonese and in Japanese"

Session　13　(14:00-15:30)
Haruo Kubozono and Mikio Giriko (NINJAL)　ABSTRACT
　　"Where does loanword prosody come from? Analysis of alphabetic acronyms in Japanese dialects"
Shin'ichi Tanaka (Kobe University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Syllable weight, word length and compound accentuation in Japanese"
Yuki Asano and Bettina Braun (University of Konstanz)　ABSTRACT
　　"Integrating lexical and post-lexical suprasegmental information in native and non-native Japanese"

Poster session 2　(15:30-16:30)
1. Tetsuo Nishihara (Miyagi University of Education)　ABSTRACT
　　"On the stress placement in blending phonological headedness"
2. Yoko Saikachi, Mafuyu Kitahara, Ken’ya Nishikawa, Ai Kanato and Reiko Mazuka
　　(RIKEN BSI/RIKEN BSI, Waseda University/RIKEN BSI/Waseda University/RIKEN BSI, Duke University)
　　ABSTRACT
　　"Acoustic analysis of lexical pitch accent in Japanese Infant-Directed speech"
3. Tokiko Okuma (McGill University)　ABSTRACT
　　"L2 acquisition of Japanese compound noun accent rules"
4. Mariko Sugahara (Doshisha University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Variations in the shiki domain formation of Kinki Japanese compound words: A pilot study"
5. Si Chen and Caroline Wiltshire (University of Florida)　ABSTRACT
　　"Differences of tone representation between younger and older speakers of Nanjing dialect"
6.Anastasia Karlsson and Arthur Holmer (Lund University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Pragmatic function of low boundary tone in Puyuma: Question intonation and beyond"
7. Toshio Matsuura (Hokusei Gakuen University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Question prosody and intonational phrasing in Fukuoka Japanese"

Session　14　(16:30-18:00)
Carlos Gussenhoven
(Radboud University Nijmegen, Queen Mary University of London)　ABSTRACT
　　"You take the High Rise and I take the Low Rise. On the fate of two question intonations in Dutch dialects"
【Invited lecture 6】
Nobuko Kibe (NINJAL)　ABSTRACT
　　"Intonation at the end of interrogative sentences in Japanese dialects"

Banquet　(18:30-)

DAY 5: Accent and tone - Dec. 14 (Wed)

Session　15　(9:30-11:00)
【Invited lecture 7】
Annie Rialland (CNRS, University of Paris 3)　ABSTRACT
　　"The African "Lax" question prosody: Its realizations and areal distribution"
Bruce Connell, Elven Koo, Will Bennett and Ebitare Obikudo
(York University/University of Toronto/Rutgers University/University of Port Harcourt)　ABSTRACT
　　"Question prosody in two Nigerian languages"

Coffee break (11:00-11:20)

Session　16　(11:20-12:50)
Hyun Kyung Hwang (NINJAL/JSPS)　ABSTRACT
　　"Pre-and post-focal compression and question prosody"
Nicholas Bacuez (The University of Texas at Austin)　ABSTRACT
　　"Linguistic vagueness: Applying soft-computing to closed questions prosody"
Kenji Yoshida (Indiana University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Phonetic evidence for the three phonological pitch levels in Japanese dialects"

Session　17　(14:00-15:30)
Junko Ito and Armin Mester (UC Santa Cruz, ICU/UC Santa Cruz, NINJAL)　ABSTRACT
　　"Non-prominent positions"
Hisao Tokizaki (Sapporo University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Japanese as an accent and stress language"
James Byrnes (University of Tronto)　ABSTRACT
　　"Towards a universal framework of pitch accent languages"

Coffee break (15:30-15:50)

Session　18　(15:50-17:20)
Radwa Fathi (Universite Paris 7/LLF- CNRS)　ABSTRACT
　　"Length, duration and some other prosodic aspects of Colloquial Egyptian Arabic (CEA)"
Yasunori Takahashi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies/JSPS)　ABSTRACT
　　"Effects of morpho-syntactic and phonetic factors on two tone sandhi in Shanghai Chinese"
Shigeki Kaji (Kyoto University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Lokolé, the talking drum of the Mongo"

Closing remarks　(17:20-)
Haruo Kubozono