Updated on Jan. 21, 2013

You can download the program with more information from here.

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: Rendaku and voicing / Geminate consonants - Jan. 25 (Fri)

Registration (09:00-09:55)
Welcome (09:55-10:00)

Session　1　(10:00-12:20) [Chair: Ian Wilson (University of Aizu)]

【Invited lecture 1】
Keren Rice (University of Toronto) [abstract]
　　"Sonorant obstruents revisited"
　　[Commentator: Shigeto Kawahara (Rutgers University)]

Mahjoub Zirak and Peter M. Skaer (Hiroshima University) [abstract]　
　　"VOT Changes in obsolescing languages: Evidence from Kurmanji"

Andrew Martin, Akira Utsugi and Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN) [abstract]
　　"Vowel devoicing in infant-directed Japanese"

Lunch (12:20-13:30)

Session　2　(13:30-15:00) [Chair: Emiko Kaneko (University of Aizu)]

John Kupchik (Kyoto University, JSPS) [abstract]
　　"The rhythmic effects of rendaku and hiatal elision in Western Old Japanese poetry"

【Invited lecture 2】
Takanori Hirano (Yamaguchi University) [abstract]
　　"A rule-application approach to Rendaku"
　　[Commentator: Mark Irwin (Yamagata University)]

Poster session 1 with coffee (15:00-16:15)

Session　3　(16:15-17:45) [Chair: Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN)]

Alexei Kochetov and Yoonjung Kang (University of Toronto) [abstract]
　　"When long is tense and tense is long: An EPG study of Japanese and Korean stops"

【Invited lecture 3】
Yukari Hirata (Colgate University) [abstract]
　　"The interplay among various durational units in Japanese stop quantity distinction"
　　[Commentator: René Kager (Utrecht University)]

DAY 2: Geminate consonants / Accent and tone - Jan. 26 (Sat)

Session　4　(9:30-10:30) [Chair: Hiroaki Kato (NICT)]

【Invited lecture 4】
Anders Löfqvist (Haskins Laboratories) [abstract]
　　"Articulatory kinematics in long and short consonants"
　　[Commentator: Donna Erickson (Showa University of Music)]

Coffee break (10:30-10:50)

Session　5　(10:50-12:20) [Chair: Manami Hirayama (Ritsumeikan University)]

Fusa Katada (Waseda University) [abstract]
　　"The representation of weight and length of geminates in Japanese:
　　Evidence from a ludling savant with Williams syndrome"

Sandra Kotzor (University of Oxford) [abstract]
　　"Processing consonant length in Bengali: ERP and behavioural evidence"

Yasuko Suzuki (Kansai Gaidai University) [abstract]
　　"On characterizing Sanskrit gemination"

Lunch (12:20-13:30)

Session　6　(13:30-15:00) [Chair: Shin'ichi Tanaka (kobe University)]

Chiyuki Ito (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) [abstract]
　　"Analogical change in progress: accent shift in Yanbian Korean"

Jan-Olof Svantesson (Lund University) [abstract]
　　"Tone features, segmental features and tonogenesis"

Liu Liquan and René Kager (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS) [abstract]
　　"A speech perception loss but an acoustic gain:
　　A cross-age study of tone and non-tone language listeners’ perception of lexical tones"

Poster session 2 with coffee (15:00-16:15)

Session　7　(16:15-17:45) [Chair: Haruo Kubozono (NINJAL)]

Jeremy Perkins and Seunghun J. Lee
(Rutgers University / Central Connecticut State University, ZAS) [abstract]
　　"Seeking adequacy in describing the tonal system of Du’an Zhuang:
　　Using phonetic evidence for tonal descriptions"

【Invited lecture 5】
Ray Iwata (Kanazawa University) [abstract]
　　"On the context dependent/independent tonal neutralization in Chinese dialects"
　　[Commentator: Feng-fan Hsieh (National Tsing Hua University)]

Banquet (18:00-20:30)

DAY 3: Accent and tone - Jan. 27 (Sun)

Session　8　(9:30-10:30) [Shigeki Kaji (Kyoto University)]

【Invited lecture 6】
Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley) [abstract]
　　"Towards a typology of postlexical tonal neutralizations"
　　[Commentator: Jose Ignacio Hualde (University of Illinois)]

Coffee break (10:30-10:50)

Session　9　(10:50-12:20) [Zendo Uwano (NINJAL)]

Hayato Aoi (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, JSPS) [abstract]
　　"Accent neutralizations in the Tarama variety of Miyako Ryukyuan"

Yosuke Igarashi, Yukinori Takubo and Thomas Pellard
(Hiroshima University / Kyoto university / CNRS) [abstract]
　　"Tone neutralization and tone merger in the Ikema dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan"

Haruo Kubozono (NINJAL) [abstract]
　　"Tonal neutralization in Kagoshima Japanese"

Lunch (12:20-13:30)

Session　10　(13:30-15:00) [Chair: Mitsuaki Endo (Aoyama Gakuin University)]

Feng-fan Hsieh and Yueh-chin Chang (National Tsing Hua University) [abstract]
　　"Real surface-oriented correspondence: Evidence from neutral tones in two Mandarin dialects"

Manami Hirayama and Mikio Giriko (Ritsumeikan university / NINJAL) [abstract]
　　"Perception of accent contrasts in vowel devoicing in Japanese"

Kenji Yoshida and Tetsuo Nitta (Waseda University / Kanazawa University) [abstract]
　　"The source of reinforcement of pitch fall in kakoo-shiki in the Shiramine dialect of Japanese"

Farewell (15:00-15:05)