Program

(Fri) December 8th, 2017

13:30-14:00 Registration

14:00-15:00 Plenary talk 1

Yurie Hara "Evidentials and Causal Relations: an experimental approach"

15:00-15:30 Break 1

15:30-15:50 Opening ceremony

15:50-17:50 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

10:00-11:00 Plenary talk 2

Hajime Ono "The prediction advantage coming from a distance"

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 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

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-16:30 Workshop "Syntactic Processing"

Hajime Ono & Takuya Goro

16:30-17:00 Break (Group photo)

17:00-18:20 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

19:00-21:00 Banquet @ Alumni House

(Participants other than presenters will be asked to contribute 1000 yen.)

(Sun) December 10th 2017

10:00-11:00 Plenary talk 3

Stephanie Shih "Cross-linguistic sound-meaning correspondences in the Pokémon universe"

11:00-11:20 Break

11:20-12:40 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 imperetive in Japanese

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

12:40-13:00 Closing Ceremony