2017 Events

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• 2018.3.7-11
  • The PhoPhoNO Japanese team participated in a workshop at the University of Bern.
• 2018.2.20-21
  • The 3rd workshop of the PhoPhoNO project was held in the Dialogue House, ICU.
• The 1st ICU Undergraduate Research Day will be held on February 24th, 2018. [LINK]
  • Haruka Tada and Seo Yuki represented the linguistics major.
• 2017.11.10-11
  • ICU linglab members presented at Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences
• 2017.11.16-24
  • Fieldwork for the DCon project occurred in Thohoyandou, South Africa (Xitsonga and Tshivenda).
• 2017.11.30.
  • Lee presented at the workshop "Linguistic Structures, Culture and Foreign Language Education" organized by the Institute of Foreign Language Education, Seoul National University.
• 2017.12.1.
  • Lee met with a Tamang sepaker in Shizuoka as part of the PhoPhoNO project.
• 2017.12.2.
  • LingLab members and affiliates (Lee, Kawahara, Hayashi, Aso, Perkins) presented at the symposium on Field Phonetics at the 336th Regular Meeting of the Phonetics Society of Japan (Showa Women's University) [Program]
• 2017. 12.5.
  • Lee ran a workshop and presented a colloquium talk at Seogang University. The event is hosted by Dr. Michael Barrie.
• 2017.12.8-10
  • The 2nd Asian Junior Linguists Conference [LINK]
  • Location: International Conference Room, Dialogue House, ICU
  • Organizers: Michinori Suzuki (19), Mana Ashida (20)
• 2017.12.11-12
  • Workshop on "Linguistic Variation in Languages of the Northeast of India" [LINK]
  • Location: Room 203/204, Dialogue House, ICU
  • Speakers: Dr. Tanmoy Bhattacharya (U of Delhi), Dr. Priyankoo Sarmah (IIT Guwahati)
• 2017.12.25-28
  • RyuVoN members (Aso, Hayashi, Lee) conducted fieldwork in the Hateruma island.
• 2018.2.13
  • Winter Linguistics Meeting 12:45-13:45 @ H-168
• 2017.9.30 - Two presentations at the Phonetic Society of Japan meeting (University of Tokyo)
• 2017.9. - Publication of ICUWPL 2

Workshop on "Linguistic Variation in Languages of the Northeast of India"

December 11-12, 2017

Location: Room 203/204, Dialogue House, ICU

(Mon) Dec. 11th

10:10-11:10 Linguistic variation: general introduction (Dr. Seunghun Lee)

11:30-12:30 Dr. Tanmoy Bhattacharya (U of Delhi)

Argument Indexation in the North, East, and the Northeast: Of Peoples and their Actions

13:50-14:50 Dr. Priyankoo Sarmah (IIT Guwahati)

Vowel variation in a few languages of North East India: tales of history, phonetics, and phonology

(Tue) Dec. 12th

10:10-11:10 Dr. Seunghun J. Lee (ICU)

Variation in the tone system of two languages in North East India

11:30-12:30 Linguistic variation beyond the Northeast

The 2nd Asian Junior Linguists Conference @ ICU [LINK]

December 8-10, 2017

(Fri) December 8th, 2017

Plenary talk 1: Yurie Hara "Evidentials and Causal Relations: an experimental approach"

Oral Session 1 (5)

1-1 Yuki Seo (ICU) Licensing of the Japanese verbal suffix, sugiru

1-2 Monica Yip (University of Birmingham/City U of HK) A corpus-based study of the literal, metaphorical, and prosodic meanings of embrace

1-3 Natsuki Kato (ICU) Sa topicalization in Japanese

1-4 Ryotaku Tabuse (ICU) Glottal Stop Insertion as a Hiatus Resolution Strategy in Manyika Shona

1-5 Yuka Morinaga (Australian National University) Machine-Readable Field Notes: A Dependency Treebank for Bumthang

(Sat) December 9th, 2017

Plenary talk 2: Hajime Ono "The prediction advantage coming from a distance"

Oral Session 2 (3)

2-1 Yui Suzuki (TUFS) When the the past suffix means future: An analysis of -di in Turkish

2-2 Bonnie McLean (Australian National University) Ideophones in varieties of Japonic: lexical and semantic variation

2-3 Mei Yoshimoto (Tsuda U) The correlation between self-paced reading data of aspectual coercion and a psychological measure

Workshop "Syntactic Processing" by Hajime Ono & Takuya Goro

Oral Session 3 (4)

3-1 Jia Ren (City U of Hong Kong) Wh-Questions in Child Language Acquisition in Mandarin

3-2 Haruka Tada (ICU) DP-Internal Structure in Tagalog

3-3 Ruangrin Ldallitsakool (Thammasat U) Production of Spanish Lexical Stress by Thai Adult Learners: An Acoustic Study

3-4 Machi Niiya (ICU) Vowel Length Production by English Learners of Japanese

(Sun) December 10th 2017

Plenary talk 3: Stephanie Shih "Cross-linguistic sound-meaning correspondences in the Pokémon universe"

Oral Session 4

4-1 Hanna Kaji (ICU) Blocking effects among category-changing suffixes in Japanese : -sa, -sei, -na, and -teki

4-2 Siril Tronseth (ICU) Incomplete neutralization of Norwegian pitch accent in compounds

4-3 Mana Asano (ICU) Rhetorical imperative in Japanese

4-4 Michinori Suzuki (ICU) Sound symbolic patterns in Pokémon move names