Program (tentative)

All times in Japan Standard Time (JST).

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Day 1

Saturday, September 11th, 2021

9:00 ～ 9:10

Opening Remarks

Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University)

Session 1 9:10 ～ 10:40 Chair: Yuko Otsuka, Timekeeper: Min Wang

9:10 ～ 10:10

11-1 Keynote Talk

Exceptive constructions in Japanese and beyond

Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)

10:10 ～ 10:40

11-2

The effects of word order, case marking, and agreement cues on interpreting Central Alaskan Yup’ik sentences

Rei Emura

10:40 ～ 10:50

Break

Session 2 10:50 ～ 12:20 Chair: Hyeonjeong Jeong, Timekeeper: Ge Song

10:50 ～ 11:20

11-3

Case and word order in children’s comprehension of wh-questions: A cross-linguistic study

Koichi Otaki, Manami Sato, Hajime Ono, Koji Sugisaki, Noriaki Yusa, Yuko Otsuka, and Masatoshi Koizumi

11:20 ～ 11:50

11-4

High sense of agency versus low sense of agency in event framing in Japanese

Manami Sato, Keiyu Niikuni, and Amy J. Schafer

11:50 ～ 12:20

11-5

Brain mechanisms for the processing of Japanese syntactic particles wa, ga and no

Toshiki Iwabuchi, Satoshi Nambu, Kentaro Nakatani, and Michiru Makuuchi

12:20～ 13:00

Lunch break

Session 3 13:00 ～ 15:00 Chair: Hiromu Sakai, Timekeeper: Liya Cheng

13:00 ～ 14:00

11-6 Keynote Talk

Flexibility and fallibility in verb-initial language processing

Matthew Wagers (University of California, Santa Cruz)

14:00 ～ 14:30

11-7

Word orders, gestures, and a view of the world from OS languages

Hajime Ono, Takuya Kubo, Manami Sato, Hiromu Sakai, and Masatoshi Koizumi

14:30 ～ 15:00

11-8

A cross-linguistic diachronic trajectory from causal to conditional: a game-theoretic analysis

Yurie Hara

15:00 ～ 15:10

Break

Session 4 15:10 ～ 17:10 Chair: Hiroaki Oishi, Timekeeper: Rei Emura

15:10 ～ 15:40

11-9

Adaptation in language comprehension

Masataka Yano

15:40 ～ 16:10

11-10

An EEG analysis of long-distance scrambling in Japanese: Processing load modulates the neural activity for discontinuous dependency

Shingo Tokimoto and Naoko Tokimoto

16:10 ～ 16:40

11-11

Decompositional similarities between semantically transparent and lexicalized suffixation in Japanese: An ERP study

Jun Nakajima and Shinri Ohta

16:40 ～ 17:10

11-12

Sentence processing cost caused by word order and context

Daichi Yasunaga

17:10 ～ 17:20

Break

Session 5 17:20 ～ 19:20 Chair: Mikihiro Tanaka, Timekeeper: Min Wang

17:20 ～ 17:50

11-13

Developmental changes in the interpretation of an ambiguous structure and an ambiguous prosodic cue in Japanese

Yuki Hirose and Reiko Mazuka

17:50 ～ 18:20

11-14

Producing long-distance dependencies in English and Japanese

Mari Kugemoto and Shota Momma

18:20 ～ 19:20

11-15 Keynote Talk

A cross-linguistic perspective on dependency marking in sentence planning

Sebastian Sauppe (University of Zurich)

Day 2

Sunday, September 12th, 2021

Session 6 9:00 ～ 10:30 Chair: Yoko Nakano, Timekeeper: Min Wang

9:00 ～ 10:00

12-1 Keynote Talk

A piece for which puzzle(s)? Investigation of human language processing and production in less-commonly investigated languages

Hiroko Yamashita (Rochester Institute of Technology)

10:00 ～ 10:30

12-2

Investigating the wide variety of disjuncts in Japanese language

Ayaka Tamura

10:30 ～ 10:40

Break

Session 7 10:40 ～ 12:10 Chair: Yukiko Koizumi, Timekeeper: Ge Song

10:40 ～ 11:10

12-3

The time course of SOV and OSV sentence formations in Japanese

Katsuo Tamaoka

11:10 ～ 11:40

12-4

Auditory comprehension of Japanese scrambled sentences by patients with aphasia: An ERP study

Michiyo Kasai, Sachiko Kiyama, Keiyu Niikuni, Shingo Tokimoto, Liya Cheng, Min Wang, Ge Song, Kohei Todate, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Shunji Mugikura, Takashi Ueno, and Masatoshi Koizumi

11:40 ～ 12:10

12-5

Pragmatic atypicality of individuals with autism spectrum disorder: Preliminary data of sentence-final particles in Japanese

Taiga Naoe, Tsukasa Okimura, Toshiki Iwabuchi, Sachiko Kiyama, and Michiru Makuuchi

12:10～ 12:50

Lunch break

Session 8 12:50 ～ 14:50 Chair: Sachiko Kiyama, Timekeeper: Liya Cheng

12:50 ～ 13:50

12-6

Keynote Talk

Cross cultural comparison of lexical partitioning of color space

Satoshi Shioiri (Tohoku University) with Rumi Tokunaga and Ichiro Kuriki

13:50 ～ 14:20

12-7

Spoken term detection from utterances of minority languages

Akinori Ito

14:20 ～ 14:50

12-8

Human language processing in comparative computational psycholinguistics

Yohei Oseki

14:50 ～ 15:00

Break

Session 9 15:00 ～ 16:30 Chair: Takuya Goro, Timekeeper: Rei Emura

15:00 ～ 15:30

12-9

Asymmetric effects of sub-lexical orthographic/phonological similarities on L1-Chinese and L2-Japanese visual word recognition

Kexin Xiong, Keiyu Niikuni, Toshiaki Muramoto, and Sachiko Kiyama

15:30 ～ 16:00

12-10

Effects of annual quantity of second language input on pronunciation in EFL environments

Cornelia D. Lupsa, Noriaki Yusa, Jungho Kim, Kuniya Nasukawa, Masatoshi Koizumi, and Hiroko Hagiwara

16:00 ～ 16:30

12-11

Integrating different types of long-distance dependencies: A case study of a negative polarity dependency in Japanese

Kentaro Nakatani

16:30 ～ 16:40

Break

Session 10 16:40 ～ 18:40 Chair: Koji Sugisaki, Timekeeper: Min Wang

16:40 ～ 17:10

12-12

Experimental studies on clefts and right dislocations in child Japanese

Kyoko Yamakoshi and Hiroyuki Shimada

17:10 ～ 17:40

12-13

Disjunction acquisition across languages

Kazuko Yatsushiro

17:40 ～ 18:40

12-14 Keynote Talk

Taking cross-linguistic differences seriously in language development research: Acquisition of the Japanese sound system

Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN Center for Brain Science)

18:40 ～ 18:50

Closing Remarks

Haruo Kubozono (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)