Presentations

2024

October 2024.

Invited talk on ideophones. Aichi, Japan.

26-31 August 2024.

Cognitive linguistics (intermediate/advanced): Iconicity in language. The Linguistic Society of Japan Summer Institute 2024, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan.

8 June 2024.

Gengogaku-no kanten-kara [From a linguistic point of view]. Symposium "Onomatope-kenkyuu-no kanoosei: Nihongogaku, gengogaku, gengo-sinrigaku-no taiwa [Possibilities of ideophone research: A roundtable of Japanese linguistics, linguistics, and linguistic psychology]". 49th Annual Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya Uegahara Campus, Hyogo, Japan.

23-24 March 2024.

Language sciences of ideophones. Intensive course, Tokyo Gengo Laboratory, Tokyo/Zoom.

19 March 2024.

Sinsyo-taisyoo 2024 taisyoo zoosyoosiki/zyusyoosya-kinen-kooen: Gengo-no honsitu Imai Mutumi-san/Akita Kimi-san kooen-kai [Shinsha Paperback Award 2024 ceremony: Mutsumi Imai and Kimi Akita's talk meeting on The Nature of Language], Book 1st Shinjuku branch, Tokyo, Japan.

14 March 2024.

Byoosya-no ruikei: Nihongo-onomatope-no purosodii-o hinto-ni [A typology of depiction: Suggestions from the prosody of Japanese ideophones]. Kaken B Meeting, Zoom/Doshisha University, Kyotanabe Campus, Kyoto, Japan.

2023

28 November 2023.

Onomatope-to-wa nani-ka? [What are ideophones?]. JPIC lecture series, online.

25 November 2023.

Onomatope-no imi-o sirusi, osieru [Describing and teaching the meanings of mimetics]. Invited talk, study meeting of Association des Enseignants de Japonais en France, online.

24 November 2023.

Pluripotentiality of sound symbolism: A cross-linguistic experimental study. Kaken C Results Meeting, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan.

14 November 2023.

Onomatope-kara miru ningen-no gengo [Human language in terms of ideophones]. Special lecture for students of Nagano Inakita High School, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan.

7 October 2023. (w/ Kiyoko Toratani)

Ideophones in motion descriptions: An overview. "Ideophones in Motion Descriptions" Workshop. York University and Nagoya University/Zoom.

14 September 2023. (w/ Julián Villegas [1], Shigeto Kawahara [3])

Psychoacoustic features explain subjective size and shape ratings of pseudo-words. 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association: Forum Acusticum 2023, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.

27 July 2023. (w/ Hinano Iida [1])

Perceptual strength norms for 510 Japanese words, including ideophones: A comparative study with English. CogSci 2023, International Convention Centre Sydney, Australia. (OSF)

23 June 2023.

Onomatope-no ninti-kagaku [Cognitive science of ideophones]. 1st NINJAL Yutaka Miyaji Award Ceremony, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan/online.

28 May 2023.

What is iconicity? Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society, Zoom/Nagoya University.

4 April 2023.

Onomatope (giongo/gitaigo)-no gengogaku [Linguistics of ideophones (mimetics)]. 10th self-introduction meeting, School of Humanities, Nagoya University.

29 January 2023.

Onomatope-to gengo-no honsitu? [Ideophones and the essence of language?]. Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society, Zoom/Nagoya University.

2022

13 November 2022.

Nihongo onomatope-to setu-taipu [Japanese ideophones and clause types]. Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society, Zoom/Nagoya University.

15 October 2022.

Onomatope-wa nani-o dooyatte arawasu-no-ka [What do ideophones mean and how?]. Homecoming Day Fall Salon: Kurasi-no naka-no sai-hakken: Oto, mozi, keikan [Rediscoveries in our daily lives: Sounds, letters, and scenes], Nagoya University/online.

19 August 2022.

Seisitu-no ruizoosei [Iconicity of voice quality]. Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society, Zoom/Nagoya University.

24 June 2022.

An introduction of the typology of ideophones. Workshop on Typology of Ideophones, York University and Nagoya University/Zoom.

22 March 2022.

Onomatope-no takankakusei-o rikai-si, hukusuu-no baitai-de osieru [Understanding ideophones as multisensory and teaching them multimodally]. Short video lecture for Stella Zhivkova's online course at Sofia University, Bulgaria.

15 March 2022.

Tuugengoteki-kanten-kara mita nihongo-no onomatope [Japanese ideophones from a crosslinguistic perspective]. 121st NINJAL Colloquium, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics/Zoom. 

2021

19 September 2021. (withdrawn)

Onomatope-doosi-no imi-to gosei [Meaning and wordhood of ideophonic verbs]. Symposium on the nature of "words" in terms of linguistic typology at the 53rd Meeting of Chinese and Japanese Theoretical Linguistics Circle, Doshisha University/Zoom.

1 September 2021. (w/ Keiko Murasugi [1])

Japanese binomial adjectives. Workshop on "Iconicity in prosaic lexicon," SLE 2021: 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zoom.

12 June 2021.

Ruizoosei-to imi-kakutyoo: Nihongo/sonota-no onomatope-o hinto-ni [Iconicity and semantic extension: The case of ideophones in Japanese and beyond]. The 187th Workshop on Present-day Japanese Linguistics, Zoom.

3 April 2021.

Seisitu-no ruizoo-teki kinoo (aka Onomatope-no tyoobunsetu-teki tokutyoo-no kinoo) [Iconic functions of voice quality (aka On the functions of the suprasegmental features of ideophones)]. 13th Meeting of the "Rich Linguistics" Group, Zoom.

27 March 2021.

Naze hue-wa pii-to naru-no-ka: Dipikusyon-o maaku-suru mit-tu-no hoohoo [Why does a whistle go "Beep!": 3 ways to mark depiction]. 12th meeting of the Dynamic Pragmatics Association, Zoom.

11 January 2021. (w/ Keiko Murasugi [1])

Binomial adjectives in Japanese. Workshop on Mimetics IV: Parameters and Mimetics, Zoom/Nanzan University and Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan.

11 January 2021.

On the ideophonic protolanguage hypothesis. Workshop on Mimetics IV: Parameters and Mimetics, Zoom/Nanzan University and Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan.

2020

29 March 2020. (postponed)

Naze hue-wa pii-to naru-no-ka: Dipikusyon-o maaku-suru mit-tu-no hoohoo [Why does a whistle go "Beep!": 3 ways to mark depiction]. 11th meeting of the Dynamic Pragmatics Association, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan.

2019

6 August 2019.

Ideophones and iconicity in Japanese. Pre-event lectures on the Japanese language from cognitive/typological perspectives, 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan.

5 August 2019.

Onomatope-no onsyootyoosei saihoo [Sound symbolism of ideophones revisited]. A symposium on "Gengogaku-o koete hirogaru onomatope-no kanoosei [The potential of ideophones growing beyond linguistics]". 20th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan. (Handbook)

3 August 2019. (w/ Keiko Murasugi [1])

Mimetic predicates in the VP-shell hypothesis: Deriving the mimetic parameter from morphological typology. Workshop on Mimetics III: Crucibles of Mimetics, Nanzan University, Aichi, Japan.

13 July 2019. (w/ Jingyi Zhang [2] & Katsuo Tamaoka [3])

Systematic side of sound symbolism: The case of suffixed mimetics in Japanese. The 44th Annual Meeting of the Kansai Linguistic Society, Kansai University, Senriyama Campus, Osaka, Japan.

3-5 May 2019. (w/ Keiko Murasugi [2]; withdrawn)

The historical development of ideophonic constructions in Japanese. 12th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, Lund University, Sweden.

16 February 2019.

Nihongo-no onomatope-to gengo-ruikeiron 2 [Japanese mimetics and linguistic typology 2]. Prosody & Grammar Festa 3 (Joint meeting of comparative-linguistic projects), National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tokyo, Japan.

12 February 2019.

A diachronic survey of ideophonic constructions in Japanese. Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society (NILLS), Nagoya University, Higashiyama Campus, Aichi, Japan.

8 February 2019.

Sound symbolism and phonetics: An introduction. Special lecture, Keio University, Shonan-Fujisawa Campus, Kanagawa, Japan.

5 February 2019.

Iconicity, systematicity, and prototypicality: Reduplicated vs. non-reduplicated ideophones in Japanese. Expressives Kaken Meeting, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

2018

4 December 2018.

Some linguistic evidence for the Ideophonic Protolanguage Hypothesis. Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society (NILLS), Nagoya University, Higashiyama Campus, Aichi, Japan.

3 July 2018.

(Not) born to be sound-symbolic?: Phoneme distribution of Japanese athletes' names. Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society (NILLS), Nagoya University, Higashiyama Campus, Aichi, Japan.

23 June 2018. (w/ David Yoshikazu Oshima [1], Shin-ichiro Sano [3])

Nihongo-ni okeru zyootai-zyutugo-no imi-teki-na sumiwake: Teidosei-to sukeeru-koozoo-no kanten-kara [How Japanese stative predicates divide the labor: With special reference to gradability and scale structure]. The 156th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, the University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus, Tokyo, Japan.

26 May 2018.

Phonosemantic maps: Toward a typology of sound symbolism. Poster presentation, The 1st Conference on Pokémonastics, Keio University, Mita Campus, Tokyo, Japan.

26 May 2018.

General commentary on Pokémonastics. The 1st Conference on Pokémonastics, Keio University, Mita Campus, Tokyo, Japan.

5 May 2018. (w/ Keiko Murasugi [2])

Innovative compounds in Japanese food descriptions and beyond. Conference on the Language of Japanese Food, York University, Toronto, Canada.

30 March 2018.

Mimetic 'go'-verbs in Japanese: Toward a constructional account. Kansai University English Linguistics Workshop, Kansai University, Senriyama Campus, Osaka, Japan.

8 March 2018.

Mimetic 'go'-verbs in Japanese. Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society (NILLS), Nagoya University, Higashiyama Campus, Aichi, Japan.

23 February 2018.

Ruizoosei-no kankaku-koyuusei: Kuukan-idoo-o arawasu nihongo-onomatope-o rei-ni [Modality-specificity of iconicity: The case of motion ideophones in Japanese]. The OSU-NU Japanese Linguistics and Pedagogy Workshop, Nagoya University, Higashiyama Campus, Aichi, Japan.

17 February 2018. (withdrawn)

Nihongo-no onomatope-to gengo-ruikeiron [Japanese mimetics and linguistic typology]. Invited talk?, Symposium on Japanese and linguistic typology, Prosody & Grammar Festa 2 (Joint meeting of comparative-linguistic projects), National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Tokyo, Japan.

8 February 2018.

Suprasegmental expressivization and modes of signification. Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society (NILLS), Nagoya Gakuin University, Aichi, Japan.

2017

9 December 2017.

Onomatope-no kyookankakusei-to takankakusei [The synesthetic and multimodal nature of ideophones]. Invited talk, Symposium on 3 cognitive phenomena: ideophones, synesthesia, and metaphor, PSJ Metaphor Workshop in Aki, Hiroshima International University, Hiroshima Campus, Hiroshima, Japan.

11 November 2017.

The low iconicity of mimetic reduplication in Japanese. Workshop on mimetics II: New approaches to old questions, Center for Linguistics, Nanzan University, Nagoya Campus, Aichi, Japan.

1 November 2017.

Nihongo-onomatope-ni okeru sen-teki-zyunzyo [Linear order in ideophone syntax in Japanese]. Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society (NILLS), Nagoya University, Higashiyama Campus, Aichi, Japan.

25 September 2017.

Phonosemantic maps: A semantic-map approach to sound symbolism. Japan Circle of Mimetics and Sound Symbolism 2017, Nagoya University, Higashiyama Campus, Aichi, Japan.

10 September 2017.

Gaikokugo-ni-mo onomatope-wa aru-ka? [Do foreign languages also have ideophones?]. Invited talk, 11th NINJAL Forum "Onomatope-no miryoku-to husigi" [The Marvels and Mysteries of Mimetics], Ritsumeikan University, Osaka Ibaraki Campus, Osaka, Japan. (videos: talk, panel discussion)

9 September 2017.

Onomatope-wa tokekomu: Tuugengo-teki-kanten-kara miru nihongo-onomatope [Ideophones melt in: Japanese ideophones from a crosslinguistic point of view]. Workshop on mimetics I: Toward a typology of mimetics, YIC Kyoto Polytechnic College, Kyoto, Japan.

8 September 2017. (withdrawn)

Gradability of mimetic adjectives in Japanese. Kansai University English Linguistics Workshop, Kansai University, Senriyama Campus, Osaka, Japan.

22 August 2017. (w/ Nahyun Kwon [2])

A canonical-typological definition of ideophones in Japanese and beyond. Second Meeting of Expressives Kaken Group, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

6 July 2017.

Decomposing the lexical iconicity hierarchy for ideophones. Invited talk, Workshop on Types of Iconicity in Language Use, Development and Processing, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

10 May 2017.

Nihongo "odaka"-onomatope-no ruizoo-teki-kiban [The iconic basis for the "final-high" accent of Japanese ideophones]. Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society (NILLS), Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan.

2 May 2017.

Niti-ei-taisyoo ninti-gengogaku [Japanese-English contrastive cognitive linguistics]. Lecture series "Zinbungaku nyuumon" [An introduction to humanities], School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan.

8 April 2017.

Limits of auditory iconicity: The semantics of motion ideophones in Japanese. The 11th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, University of Brighton, UK.

8 February 2017.

What makes a language abound with ideophones? Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society (NILLS), Nagoya Gakuin University at Shirotori, Aichi, Japan.

21 January 2017.

Gaikokugo-ni-mo onomatope-wa aru-ka? [Do foreign languages also have ideophones?]. Invited talk, 11th NINJAL Forum "Onomatope-no miryoku-to husigi" [The Marvels and Mysteries of Mimetics], Hitotsubashi Hall, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.

2016

18 December 2016.

Ideophones, gaze, and facial expression: A preliminary report from Japanese. Self-invited talk, NINJAL International Symposium 2016: Mimetics in Japanese and Other Languages of the World, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan.

17 December 2016. (w/ Prashant Pardeshi [1])

Lexical portraits of Japanese mimetics: Browsing through the BCCWJ corpus using NLB. Poster presentation, NINJAL International Symposium 2016: Mimetics in Japanese and Other Languages of the World, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan.

9 December 2016.

"Kotoba"-to site-no onomatope: E-ni nary oto-no sekai [Ideophones as "words": The world of picturesque sound]. Keynote lecture, 4th International Symposium for Academic Exchange between Japan and South Korea, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan.

10 September 2016.

Kokusai-teki-ni katudoo-suru [On international research activities]. Workshop "Sekai-ni kenkyuu-o hassin-suru: Wakate-kenkyuusya-kara mita igi-to hoohoo" [Workshop on how to present linguistic research to the world: Its significance and methods for young researchers], the 17th Annual Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistic Association, Meiji University, Nakano Campus, Tokyo.

7 September 2016.

Toward a "canonical-typlogical" definition of ideophones: A starter. Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society (NILLS), Nagoya Gakuin University at Shirotori, Aichi, Japan.

30 August 2016.

Karikari-sita syokkan-to karit-to-sita syokkan: Gitaigo-zyootai-doosi-no doo-teki-sokumen [Feels like karikari vs. karit-to: The dynamic aspect of stative mimetic verbs]. Kansai University Linguistic Meeting, Kansai University at Senriyama, Osaka, Japan.

23 July 2016.

Introduction to expressives in East Asia: A view from Japanese. First Meeting of Expressives Kaken Group, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

6 July 2016.

Morphological alternation of stative mimetic verbs in Japanese. Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society (NILLS), Nagoya Gakuin University at Shirotori, Aichi, Japan.

29 June 2016.

Bun'ya-oodan-gata-gengo-kenkyuu-no kokoromi: Onomatope (giongo/gitaigo)-no keisiki/imi-no soogo-kankei-ni kan-suru ninti-gengogaku-teki-tuu-gengo-taisyoo-kenkyuu [Toward a multidisciplinary study of language: A crosslinguistic study of the relationship between the form and meaning of mimetic words]. The 1st Symposium on Excellent, Leading, and Advanced Research at Nagoya University: Creation and Succession of Wisdom in Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan.

5 June 2016. (w/ Jiyeon Park [1])

Nik-kan-onomatope-no dai-iti-gengo-syootoku-ni kakawaru syo-yooso-no yakuwari [Determinants of the L1 acquisition of ideophones in Japanese and Korean]. The 9th International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese (ICPLJ9), San Francisco State University, California, USA.

30 April 2016.

Onomatope-to kao [Ideophones and faces], Kyoto Linguistic Colloquium, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

27 April 2016.

Deideophonization in Japanese. Monthly meeting of Nagoya Iconicity in Language and Literature Society (NILLS), Nagoya Gakuin University at Shirotori, Aichi, Japan.

10 April 2016.

Gengo-taikei-no naka-no onomatope: Sinsai-syoogen-koopasu-o motiita ryoo-teki-kenkyuu [Ideophones in the linguistic system: A quantitative study using a corpus of earthquake interviews]. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan.

26 March 2016. (w/ David Y. Oshima [1])

Gradability, scale structure, and classes of stative predicates in Japanese. Semantics Workshop in Tokai 2016, Nagoya Gakuin University, Aichi, Japan.

2015

6 December 2015.

When ideophones are "childish": Toward a pragmatic typology of ideophones. Symposium "Comparing Pragmatics Practices across Languages: Views from Linguistic Anthropology, Discourse Analysis, Corpus-Based Cognitive Linguistics, and Functional Typology," the 18th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Nagoya University, Higashiyama Campus, Aichi, Japan.

21 November 2015.

Gengo-kigoo-no siisei-to ruizoosei [The arbitrariness and iconicity of linguistic signs]. Saussure Roundtable, Hituzi Syobo, Tokyo, Japan.

21 September 2015.

Ideophones and the iconicity of motion event descriptions. Invited talk, The 4th International Symposium on Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan.

1 September 2015.

Path-of-motion sound symbolism of English sound-emission verbs. Prof. Seizi Iwata's linguistic meeting, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan.

19 July 2015.

Auditory vs. visual icons in motion event descriptions. A "brainstorming" session after Nahyun Kwon's invited talk, Nagoya University, Higashiyama Campus, Aichi, Japan.

18 July 2015.

Sound effect symbolism cross-linguistically: The case of Japanese and American animated cartoons. Informal talk, Sound Symbolism Meeting with Nahyun Kwon (or a meeting of the Japan Society of Mimetics and Sound Symbolism), Nagoya University, Tokyo Office, Tokyo, Japan.

8 June 2015.

Onomatope-to kookaon [Sound symbolism and sound effect symbolism]. Invited lecture, Language and Cognition, University of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan.

17 May 2015.

Byoosya-kigoo-to site-no onomatope-to in'yoo [Ideophones and reported discourse as depictive signs]. Nagoya de Socio, Nagoya University.

27 March 2015.

Sound effect symbolism crosslinguistically: The case of Japanese and American animated cartoons. The 10th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, Tübingen University, Germany.

8 March 2015.

Onomatope-doosi-to dankaisei [Mimetic verbs and gradability]. Kansai Lexicon Project, Kobe University, Hyogo.

7 February 2015. (w/ Naoki Kiyama [1])

Gradability and mimetic verbs in Japanese: A frame-semantic account. The 41st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, CA, US.

25 January 2015. (w/ Yo Matsumoto [2])

Frequencies of manner specifications and types of manner expressions: A finer-grained analysis in English and Japanese. NINJAL International Symposium: Typology and Cognition in Motion Event Descriptions, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo.

2012

25 November 2012.

Onomatope-no keitai-toogoteki-zitugen-ni kansuru hureemu-imironteki-ippanka [A frame-semantic generalization of the morphosyntactic realization of mimetics]. Workshop "Mimetics and Linguistics Theories: At the Interface of Syntax and Semantics," The 145th Semiannual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Kyushu University at Hakozaki, Fukuoka, Japan. (handbook: pp. 380-385)

11 November 2012.

A frame-semantic analysis of the (limited) flexibility of mimetic verbs. Special Workshop on "Typology of Event Semantics and Argument Encoding" (organized by Toshio Ohori), The Thirtieth Conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Keio University, Mita Campus, Tokyo, Japan. (handbook: pp. 198-203)

9 November 2012.

A frame-semantic analysis of the (limited) flexibility of mimetic verbs. Workshop on the semantics of events in functional-typological perspective, the University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Tokyo, Japan.

12 October 2012 (w/ Satoshi Nakamura [2], Takanori Komatsu [3], & Sachiko Hirata [4]).

A quantitative approach to mimetic diachrony. The 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan.

12 October 2012 (w/ Takeshi Usuki [1]).

A qualia account of mimetic resultatives in Japanese. Poster presentation 1. The 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan.

6 October 2012.

Frame phonosemantics: A frame-semantic approach to Japanese mimetics. Invited talk. Czuczor-Fogarasi Conference, Jókai Mór Művelődési Központ, Budaörs, Hungary.

30 August 2012.

On Metaphors in Japanese (Nabeshima 2011). Kansai Cognitive Linguistics Circle, Osaka University at Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan.

25 August 2012.

Onomatope-no imi-to keitai-toogoteki-zitugen-no kankei saikoo: Hureemu-to hureemingu-no kanten-kara [Revisiting the relationship between the meaning and morphosyntax of sound-symbolic words: From the perspectives of frames and framing]. Hotarugaike Cognitive Linguistics Circle, Hotarugaike Community Center, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan.

7 August 2012.

A quantitative approach to sound-symbolic involvement. Sound Symbolism Workshop 2012 (co-hosted with Mutsumi Imai, Noburo Saji, Masato Ohba, Michiko Asano, & Hiroyuki Okada), Keio University at Mita, Tokyo.

2 August 2012 (w/ Noburo Saji [1], Mutsumi Imai [3], Katerina Kantartzis [4], & Sotaro Kita [5]).

The internal structures of sound-symbolic systems: The universal and language-specific portions of sound symbolism. Poster session 1 (#127), CogSci 2012, Sapporo Convention Center, Hokkaido, Japan.

5 July 2012.

Sounds of pain: An online lexical resource of Japanese pain mimetics. The 1st Osaka Conference on Understanding Healthcare in English, Osaka University at Tokyonaka, Osaka, Japan.

13 June 2012 (w/ Satoshi Nakamura [2], Takanori Komatsu [3], & Sachiko Hirata [4]).

Onomatope-no intarakusyonsei-ni kansuru ryooteki-koosatu [A quantitative study of the interactivity of mimetics]. Organized Session "Onomatope-no rikatuyoo: Onomatope-kenkyuu-no bun'ya-oodan-renkei-o mezasite" [The use and application of mimetics: Toward interdisciplinary collaborations in the study of mimetics], The 26th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Creative Space "Red Brick," Yamaguchi, Japan. (Proceedings: 2N1-OS-8c-5)

12 June 2012 (w/ Satoshi Nakamura [1], Sachiko Hirata [2]).

Kokkai-giziroku-koopasu-o motiita onomatope-no tuuziteki-bunseki [A diachronic analysis of onomatopoeia in the Diet record]. Organized Session "Onomatope-no rikatuyoo: Onomatope-kenkyuu-no bun'ya-oodan-renkei-o mezasite" [The use and application of mimetics: Toward interdisciplinary collaborations in the study of mimetics], The 26th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Yamaguchi Prefecture Jichi Kaikan, Yamaguchi, Japan. (Proceedings: 1M1-OS-8a-7)

12 June 2012 (w/ Sachiko Hirata [1], Takanori Komatsu [3], Satoshi Nakamura [4], Hiroki Fujii [5], & Daiki Sawai [6]).

Onomatope-ni taisuru isiki-no tiiki-hikaku [A dialectal comparison of the image and use of onomatopoeia]. Organized Session "Onomatope-no rikatuyoo: Onomatope-kenkyuu-no bun'ya-oodan-renkei-o mezasite" [The use and application of mimetics: Toward interdisciplinary collaborations in the study of mimetics], The 26th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Yamaguchi Prefecture Jichi Kaikan, Yamaguchi, Japan. (Proceedings: 1M1-OS-8a-6)

31 March 2012.

Onomatope-doosi-no koo-koozoo saihoo [The argument structure of mimetic verbs revisited]. A monthly meeting of Kansai Lexicon Project, Osaka University at Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan.

28 March 2012.

Onomatope-no tagisei: Ruisyoosei-to hureemu-tokusei [Mimetic polysemy: Iconicity and frames]." LC Rhetoric Seminar, Osaka University at Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan.

9 March 2012.

Onomatope-doosi-no zyuunansei-to kihansei [On the (limited) flexibility of mimetic verbs]. Kansai Cognitive Linguistics Circle, Kobe University, Japan. 

12 February 2012.

Register-specific morphophonological constructions in Japanese. The 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, California, US.

2010

23 November 2010.

Mimetic "quotation" in Japanese: Summary and extension. Japanese Language Seminar at Berkeley, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, USA.

19 October 2010.

Toward a frame-semantic definition of Japanese mimetics. Japanese Language Seminar at Berkeley, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, USA.

5 October 2010.

Toward a frame-semantic definition of sound-symbolic words: A collocational analysis of Japanese mimetics. Informal talk at a weekly meeting of Dr. Sotaro Kita's lab, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

1 October 2010 (w/ Mutsumi Imai [2], Noburo Saji [3], Katerina Kantartzis [4], & Sotaro Kita [5]).

Mimetic vowel harmony in Japanese. The 20th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

19 September 2010.

Seiki-tokusei-kara miru nihongo-onomatope-no hureemu-imiron [A collocational approach to the frame semantics of Japanese mimetics]. Workshop "Mimetics and Sound Symbolism" (co-chaired with Sachiko Hirata [1]) at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan.

13 September 2010.

Onomatope-bunpoo-ni okeru ruisyoosei [Iconicity in mimetic grammar]. Invited talk at the 8th Fukuoka University Linguistics Colloquium "Onomatope-kara miru gengo-riron" [Linguistic theories viewed from mimetics], Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan.

5 September 2010 (w/ Yoko Hasegawa [1], Russell Lee-Goldman [2], Albert Kong [3], Kyoko H. Ohara [4], Satoru Uchida [6], & Charles J. Fillmore [7]).

A study of paraphrasing in terms of FrameNet and frame semantics. Sixth International Conference on Construction Grammar, Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic. (Proceedings: pp. 88-89)

4 September 2010.

Morphological optionality in Construction Grammar: The case of adverbial mimetics in Japanese. Sixth International Conference on Construction Grammar, Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic. (Proceedings: pp. 40-41)

18 August 2010.

The cognitive semantics of onomatopoeia: A crosslinguistic perspective on the lexical integration of sound symbolism. Symposium on "Universality and Language-Specificity of Sound Symbolism: The Interplay of Multimodality, Embodiment, and Iconicity" (co-chaired with Sachiko Hirata) at the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Science, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China. (Proceedings: pp. 38-39)

27 June 2010.

Pan-o kongari-to yaku riyuu: Iwayuru kyootyoo-hukusiteki gitaigo-no koobun-on'in-keitaironteki bunseki [Why we bake bread brownly in Japanese: The construction morphophonology of so-called emphatic mimetics]. The 35th Annual Meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Kyoto, Japan.

19 June 2010.

Onomatope-ni okeru yuuseisei: Koe-to oto-no tigai-ga umu tigai [Animacy in mimetics: On the difference between voice and noise]. The 140th Semiannual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

2009

14 December 2009.

On the nonexistence of a null complementizer on bare mimetics in Japanese: An indirect reply to Toratani (2006). The 5th regular meeting of Kansai Mimetics Club, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan.

23 November 2009.

Toward a functional typology of ideophonic syntax. A weekly forum of Syntax & Semantics Circle, Linguistics Department, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.

25 October 2009.

The frame semantics of mimetics. The 4th regular meeting of Kansai Mimetics Club, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan, and Skype.

29 June 2009.

A grammar of sound-symbolic words in Japanese: Theoretical approaches to iconic and lexical properties of mimetics. Oral dissertation defense, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan.

10 June 2009.

The lexical basis of sound symbolism of "sound-symbolic words" in Japanese. Seventh International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, University of Toronto (Victoria College), Toronto, Canada.

17 March 2009.

The constructional semantics of mimetics: How meaningful are mimetic roots? The 3rd regular meeting of Kansai Mimetics Club, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan.

2008

23 December 2008.

A sound-symbolic grammar of Japanese. Year-end colloquium, Department of Linguistics, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan. 

13 November 2008.

Developmental grounds for lexical iconicity: The acquisition of mimetic semantics in Japanese. Poster presentation. The 18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, The City University of New York, New York, USA. 

25 October 2008.

How motion sounds/looks in Japanese and English: Mimetics in the typology of motion expressions. Kobe Conference on Language Typology: English, Japanese, and Other Languages, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan. 

27 September 2008.

The aspectual semantics of mimetic predicates in Japanese. A Monthly Meeting of Kansai Lexicon Project, Kwansei Gakuin University at Umeda, Osaka, Japan. 

11 September 2008.

Linguistic encodings of motion events with sounds in Japanese and English: A preliminary look. Workshop on the Typology of Motion Expressions, Keio University at Hiyoshi, Kanagawa, Japan. 

10 July 2008.

Goiteki ruisyoosei-no hattatuteki konkyo: Nihongo-ni okeru onsyootyoogo-no imi-kakutoku-no kanten-kara [Developmental grounds for lexical iconicity: The acquisition of mimetic semantics in Japanese]. The first regular meeting of Kansai Mimetics Club , Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan. 

21 June 2008 (w/ Hajime Takeyasu [2]).

Onomatope-no "tokuisei" saikoo: On'in-to imi-no setten [Mimetic "peculiarity" reconsidered: At the phonology-semantics interface]. The 136th Semiannual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan. 

20 June 2008 (w/ Hajime Takeyasu [1]).

On'in-kakutoku-ni okeru yuuhyoosei-to kobetu-gengo-no onso-syutugen-hindo: Hattatu-dankai/koozoku-boin/goisoo-no eikyoo [Markedness in phonological acquisition and frequency of phonemes in individual languages: Influences of developmental stages, subsequent vowels, and lexical strata]. The 15th Annual Meeting of the Phonological Society of Japan, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan.

24 May 2008 (w/ Hajime Takeyasu [1]).

On'in-kakutoku-ni okeru yuuhyoosei-to kobetu-gengo-no onso-syutugen-hindo: Hattatu-dankai/koozoku-boin/goisoo-no eikyoo [Markedness in phonological acquisition and frequency of phonemes in individual languages: Influences of developmental stages, subsequent vowels, and lexical strata]. A monthly meeting of Phonological Association in Kansai, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan. 

14 May 2008.

Onsyootyoo-kooka-wa onomatope-ka ina-ka-de kotonaru-ka? [Do sound-symbolic effects differ between mimetics and non-mimetics?]. 1st Science Cafe SP, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan.

1-2 March 2008.

Mimetics as root-template combinations: A pedagogical implication from Construction Grammar. Poster presentation. Sixth International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese, San Francisco State University, California, USA.

10 February 2008.

Phonosemantic evidence for the mimetic stratum in the Japanese lexicon. The 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA. 

2007

9 November 2007.

Gradient integration of sound symbolism in language: Toward a crosslinguistic generalization. The 17th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, University of California at Los Angeles, California, USA.

23 September 2007.

Onsyootyoogo-no “hantyuuka-mondai”-e-no hitotu-no kotae: Tamori & Schourup (1999)-e-no ripurai [A solution to the “categorization problem” of mimetics: A reply to Tamori and Schourup (1999)]. The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan.

30 June 2007.

Nihongo-onsyootyoogo-no on’in-keitai-e-no koobun-bunpoo-teki apurooti [A constructionist approach to mimetic morphophonology]. Morphology and Lexicon Forum 2007, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan. 

16 June 2007.

Nihongo-ni okeru onsyootyoogo-o hukumu zyutugo-no zisyoo-taipu-kettei [Eventuality type determination of mimetic predicates in Japanese]. The 134th Semiannual Meeting of Linguistic Society of Japan, Reitaku University, Chiba, Japan. 

9 June 2007.

Nihongo-onsyootyoogo-ni okeru hutatu-no onsyootyoo [Two kinds of sound symbolism in Japanese mimetics]. The 32nd Annual Meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.

2006

8 October 2006.

The acquisition of the constraints on mimetic verbs in Japanese and Korean. The 16th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

4-5 March 2006.

Suru and to for Japanese mimetics: A semantic-integration account. Poster presentation. Fifth International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese, San Francisco State University, California, USA.

2005

19 November 2005.

Nihongo-no gizyoogo-sinri-doosi-ni okeru zikansei: Niti-/ei-tuuzyoo-sinri-doosi-to-no hikaku [An aspectual approach to mimetic psych verbs in Japanese: In comparison with Japanese and English regular psych verbs]. The 131st Semiannual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan. (handout available in the LSJ 131 proceedings) 

4 June 2005.

Nihongo-no gitaigo-sinri-hyoogen-ni okeru sintaisei [Embodied semantics of Japanese psychomimes]. The 30th Annual Meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan.