2018

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Past news

  • 2018.4.
    • Congratulations to Prof. Tomoyuki Yoshida on his Kakenhi grant "A non-invasive test for diagnosing cognition in three SOV languages: Japanese, Korean and Bodo" (18K00546) from 2018-2020.
  • 2018.5.12-13

The 4th workshop of the PhoPhoNO project will be held at University of Aizu.

  • 2018.5.14-20

Dr. Elena Koulidobrova (Central Connecticut State University): Three lectures on American Sign Language

  • 2018.5.21-6.2

Dr. Cédric Patin (University of Lille): Lectures on Shingazidja and Prosody-Syntax Interface

        • Hiatus resolution in Shingazidja (5/22)
        • Saghala Tones (5/23)
        • French pronunciation (6/1)
  • 2018.5.25-26

Dr. Lee and Dr. Cédric Patin will co-present a talk at the Japan Association for African Studies (JAAS) (Sapporo)

  • 2018.6.5.

Spring 2018 Linguistics Meeting @ H-115

  • 2018.6.9

PhoPhoNO members will present a talk at the 国立国語研究所プロジェクト研究発表会 (NINJAL, Tokyo)

  • 2018.6.16

PhoPhoNO members will present a poster at the 海外学術調査フェスタ (AA Ken, Tokyo)

  • 2018.6.18-20

PhoPhoNO members will present a talk on Dränjongke at the 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (Berlin)

  • 2018.6.22

PhoPhoNO members will present a talk on Dzongkha at the Phonological Society of Japan meeting (Tokyo)

  • 2018.6.23

PhoPhoNO and DCon members will present talks on Dränjongke, Dzongkha and Venda at the Linguistic Society of Japan meeting (Tokyo)

  • 2018.6.25-28

Dr. Lee will teach a course at the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) (Gainesville, FL, USA)

  • 2018.7.2-6

DCon members will present talks on Xitsonga at the 20th International Congress of Linguists (Cape Town)

  • 2018.7.6-11

DCon members will conduct fieldwork at University of Venda in Thohoyandou, South Africa

  • 2018.7.16-24
    • RHOAM members will conduct fieldwork in 5 locations in Hokkaido (Hakodate, Otaru, Asahikawa, Kushiro, Kitami): M. Suzuki, T. Asayam, K. Suda
  • 2018.7.23-27

RyuVoN members will conduct fieldwork in Miyako island, Okinawa

  • 2018.8.5

PhoPhoNO members will present a poster at the 国際シンポジウムとポスターセッション (NINJAL)

  • 2018.8.6-18

Dr. Lee will give lectures at Univesity of Concepción and a talk at University of Frontera (Chile)

  • 2018.8.27-31

PhoPhoNO members will conduct fieldwork in Kathmandu (Nepal)

  • 2018.9.10-11

A joint PhoPhoNO workshop with the Swiss team will be held at ICU.

  • 2018.9.19-21

Dr. Lee and Céleste Guillemot will present at the 2nd International Symposium on Applied Phonetics.

  • 2018.10.13-14

Yoshika Kuroiwa and Michinori Suzuki will present their research at the 3rd Asian Junior Linguists Conference in Hong Kong. Dr. Lee will give an invited workshop on articulatory phonetics at the conference.

  • 2018.10.11-13

Dr. Lee and Dr. Cédric Patin will present a talk at the International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TIE2018) at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Presentation will be delivered by Dr. Patin.

  • 2018.10.26-27

Dr. Lee and Dr. Sato will present their research at the AKS meeting (Seoul)

Dr. Sato "A copula functioning as a light verb in Korean: Aspectual Prominence and Subject Selection" [Download slides 740Kb]

Dr. Lee "Phonetics of /h/ Following Plosives in Two Korean Dialects: Seoul and Gwangju" [Download slides 3.1 MB]

  • 2018.10.26-28

Dr. Jeremy Perkins, Dr. Julián Villegas and Dr. Lee will present a poster at the 5th NINJAL International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology (ICPP-5). Presentation will be delivered by Dr. Perkins.

  • 2018.11.

J. of Japanese Linguistics (34.2) is dedicated to the late Prof. Kazuko Inoue, the founder of the ICU linguistics program. Dr. Yoshida was one of the co-editors.

  • 2018.11

A new book by Yoshida sensei) 『破格の構造』 (Anatomy of Deviation from the Norm) 小林亜希子、吉田智行著、朝倉書店（11月刊行）

  • 2018.11

Machi Niiya and Audrey Lai will serve as editors for ICUWPL 5 that will include papers from the field methods course on Kiribati and other materials from the course.

  • 2018.11.2-4

Dr. Lee will present a talk at the Nominals at the Interfaces conference. The title of this talk is "Word order and agreement in nominals: case studies from Xitsonga and Kiribati" [Download slides 5.3 MB]

  • 2018.11.6

2018 Autumn Linguistics Meeting (12:45-13:45 @ H-107)

  • 2018.11.13-25

Dr. Lee and Dr. Nishida will head to Guwahati (Project "SOV" for Bodo) and Gangtok (PhoPhoNO for Dränjongke).

  • 2018.11.26-12.1

With Dr. Crous Hlungwani, Dr. Lee is organizing the 7th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop (SAMWOP7) (Thohoyandou, South Africa). Dr. Lee and H. Ogawa will present a talk about SiSwati nasals.

  • 2018.12.7-10

Dr. Hayashi and Dr. Lee will collect nasal airflow data of the Miyakoan Ryukyuan.

  • 2018.12

Machi Niiya ('18, G'19) passed the Japanese Language Teaching Competency Test. Machi also received an offer of a position of Cultural Program Coordinator at Colorado College for 2019-2020, where she will be teaching Japanese classes and organizing cultural events.

  • 2018.12.21.

Congratulations to Dr. Céleste Guillemot who successfully defended her dissertation titled "On the Pronunciation of the Japanese Consonantal Length Contrast by Italian, French and English Native Speakers (フランス語・英語・イタリア語母語話者の日本語の促音の発音について)".

  • 2019. 1.16-18

Reiko Aso (NINJAL) and Dr. Lee will present a talk titled "Building a heavy syllable with strong aspiration in Hateruma Yaeyama" at the 16th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP16).

  • 2019. 1.29-2.1

Dr. Sangim Lee-Kim (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) will present a guest lecture (H-314, 13:15-14:15) and run an ultrasound workshop. The title of her lecture is "Contrastive perception in speech: f0 and duration cues for stop distinction".

  • 2019.2.4.

Congratulations to Machi Niiya who successfully defended her Master thesis titled "Vowel Length Perception by English Learners of Japanese".

  • 2019. 2.7-9

The 6th workshop of the PhoPhoNO project will be held in Tohoku University (hosted by Dr. Fuminobu Nishida).

  • 2019.2.15.

Four Linguistics Seniors will present at the JICUF Undergraduate Research Day (Yoshika Kuroiwa, Michinori Suzuki, Haruya Ogawa, Yui Kasahara)

  • 2019.2.20

Linguistics Pizza party will be held in H-152 from 12:45-13:45.

  • 2019.2.22-2.27

Dr. Lee will run a workshop on Praat and R at the University of Dar Es Salaam during the first year workshop funded by a grant "Establishment of a Research Network for Exploring the Linguistic Diversity and Linguistic Dynamism in Africa [ReNeLDA]". (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania)

  • 2019.2.28-3.5

Dr. Villegas and Dr. Lee will present "Creating maps for linguistic field-work using R " at a technology showcase session during the International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC). (Honolulu, USA)

  • 2019.3.4.-3.5

Guillemot, Kawahara, Perkins, Monou and Lee will present "A Quantitative Analysis of a Laryngeal Contrast in Dränjongke (Bhutia) fricatives" at the Phonology Festa 14. (Urayasu Campus, Meikai University)

  • 2019.3.7-19

Perkins and Lee will conduct Drenjongke fieldwork in Gangtok Sikkim. Lee will present a colloquium talk at University of Delhi on March 8th. Lee also runs a workshop and presents a talk at Makhim.

  • 2019.3.21.

Congratulations to graduating linglab members! Dr. Céleste Guillemot (PhD), Machi Niiya (MA), Akari Sekiguchi (BA), Ayaka Hayashi (BA), Haruka Takeyama (BA), Haruya Ogawa (BA), Yui Kasahara (BA), Kazuki Kato (BA), Michinori Suzuki (BA), Takahiro Asayama (BA), Yoshika Kuroiwa (BA), Yuki Takagi (BA).

  • 2019.3.27-29

A colloquium talk by Lee at University of Macao.

  • 2019.4.3-6

A colloquium talk by Lee at University of Calgary.