ISAT2010 successfully finished!!

We had a wonderful conference thanks to the many people involved in it - speakers, discussants, chairs, poster presenters, volunteers, and the enthusiastic audience.

What's ISAT?

Japanese dialects, many of which are currently endangered, display a wide variety of accent systems. ISAT (International Symposium on Accent and Tone) is a forum for descriptive and theoretical research on these accent systems in comparison with those of accent and tone languages all over the world. ISAT is financially supported by a collaborative research grant from the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), titled 'Phonological Characteristics of the Japanese Lexicon'.

ISAT will be held once a year, addressing certain themes each year. The main themes of ISAT 2010 are:

(1)　　Typology of prosodic systems
(2)　　Prosodic systems of endangered languages and dialects

List of speakers at ISAT 2010

・　Ryan Bennett and Robert Henderson (University of California Santa Cruz)
・　Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University Nijimegen)
・　Jose I. Hualde (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
・　Harry van der Hulst (University of Connecticut)
・　Yosuke Igarashi (Hiroshima University)
・　Rene Kager (Utrecht University)
・　Haruo Kubozono (NINJAL)
・　Yeonju Lee (Hokkaido University)
・　Tetsuo Nitta (Kanazawa University)
・　Tomas Riad (Stockholm University)
・　Zendo Uwano (NINJAL)