A little warning about lunch: We strongly recommend that you bring your lunch both days, especially on the Sunday, because there are very few places near the venue where you can get lunch!!!!!!

December 19 (Sun)

Registration　(09:30-)

Opening remarks　(10:00-10:10)
Taro Kageyama
Haruo Kubozono

Session　1　(10:10-12:20)
Harry van der Hulst (University of Connecticut)　ABSTRACT
　　"Typology of pitch accent systems"
Zendo Uwano (NINJAL)　ABSTRACT
　　"Types of accent kernels and their geographical distribution in Japanese"

Session　2　(13:30-15:20)
Tetsuo Nitta (Kanazawa University)　ABSTRACT
　　"On the accent of the Shiramine dialect"
Haruo Kubozono (NINJAL)　ABSTRACT
　　"Accent of the Koshikijima dialect"

Session　3　(15:40-17:40)
Yosuke Igarashi (Hiroshima University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Typology of prosodic phrasing in Japanese dialects from a cross-linguistic perspective"
Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University Nijimegen)　ABSTRACT
　　"A typology of tones, with reference to the intonation of some varieties of English"

Reception　(18:00-) (Note that there is a charge of ¥1,000 for the reception; we'll issue the receipt.)

December 20 (Mon)

Session　4　(9:30-12:35)
José I. Hualde (University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign)　ABSTRACT
　　"Basque prosody"
Ryan Bennett and Robert Henderson (University of California Santa Cruz)　ABSTRACT
　　"Accent of Uspanteko, a Mayan language"
Yeonju Lee (Hokkaido University)　ABSTRACT
　　"The accent system and phrasal intonation in Middle Korean
　　as compared with the accent systems and Modern Kyeongsang dialects"

Session　5　(12:35-14:30)
Poster presentations*

Session　6　(14:30-16:40)
Tomas Riad (Stockholm University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Culminativity in Swedish in comparison with Japanese, Basque and Greek"
René Kager (Utrecht University)　ABSTRACT
　　"Typology of stress language: with special reference to stress windows"

General discussion　(16:40-17:00)

*Poster presentations

Group A　(12:35-13:30)
1. Hyesun Cho (Seoul National University) ABSTRACT
　　"Phonologically-conditioned variations in tonal timing in Tokyo Japanese"
2. Mikio Giriko, Takao Ohshita and Haruo Kubozono (NINJAL / Kobe University / NINJAL) ABSTRACT
　　"On the accent of the plural morpheme [zu] in Japanese: The emergence of the unmarked"
3. Hyun Kyung Hwang (JSPS) ABSTRACT
　　"Overriding Syntactic Islands with Prosodically Marked Wh-scope"
4. Shinichiro Ishihara (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) ABSTRACT
　　"Intonation of wh-questions with lexically unaccented wh-phrases"
5. Masahiko Masuda (Kyushu University) ABSTRACT
　　"Tone sandhi in Suzhou Chinese"
6. Toshio Matsuura (Hokusei Gakuen University) ABSTRACT
　　"An acoustic-phonetic investigation of word tone in Nagasaki Japanese"
7. Tatsuyuki Mimura (Kogakuin University) ABSTRACT
　　"Prosody of the compounds in the Sandnes dialect of Norwegian: A descriptive study"
8. Dongmyung Lee (Dong-A University) ABSTRACT
　　"On accentless words in South Kyungsang Korean"
9. José Joaquín Atria, Takuya Kimura, Hirotaka Sensui, Miyuki Takasawa and Atsuko Toyomaru
　　(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies / Seisen University / Nanzan University / Waseda University /
　　Takushoku University) ABSTRACT
　　"Influence of sentence intonation in the perception of Spanish accent position by Japanese learners"
10. Shuichiro Nakao (Kyoto University) ABSTRACT
　　"'Split prosody' in Juba Arabic, an Arabic-based pidgin"

Group B　(13:30-14:25)
1. Mariko Sugahara (Doshisha University) ABSTRACT
　　"The perception of English stress: English speakers vs. Japanese speakers"
2. Izumi Takiguchi (Sophia University) ABSTRACT
　　"Effects of pitch cues on the identification of vowel length in L2 Japanese"
3. Akiko Takemura (Kobe University) ABSTRACT
　　"Tonal change in Kagoshima Japanese: the case of noun+ga (nominative)"
4. Hajime Takeyasu and Mikio Giriko (Mie University / NINJAL) ABSTRACT
　　"Effects of the lexical accent on the perception of geminate stops in Japanese"
5. Timothy J. Vance (NINJAL) ABSTRACT
　　"Lyman's description of the late 19th-century Tokyo accent system"
6. Kyoko Yamaguchi (The University of Tokyo) ABSTRACT
　　"Deaccenting morphemes in Japanese"
7. Tetsuo Nishihara (Miyagi University of Education) ABSTRACT
　　"On phonological head and stress placement: From a variety of viewpoints"
8. Noa Nishimoto (Kyoto University) ABSTRACT
　　"Morphological derivation and stress shift in the Tandroy dialect of Malagasy"
9. Markus Rude (Tsukuba University) ABSTRACT
　　"Raising awareness on accentuation and its meaning among students of German:
　　 The influence of symbolic vs. geometric visualizations of sentence stress in teaching materials"
10. Hisao Tokizaki (Sapporo University) ABSTRACT
　　"Prominence location in languages with tone and pitch accent"