Program

All times in Japan Standard Time (JST).

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Day 1

Saturday, September 11th, 2021

Opening Remarks

Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University)

11-1 Keynote Talk

Exceptive constructions in Japanese and beyond [Abstract] [Slides]

Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)

11-2

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

Rei Emura

Break

11-3

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

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

11-4

High sense of agency versus low sense of agency in event framing in Japanese [Abstract]

Manami Sato, Keiyu Niikuni, and Amy J. Schafer

11-5

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

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

Lunch break

11-6 Keynote Talk

Flexibility and fallibility in verb-initial language processing [Abstract]

Matthew Wagers (University of California, Santa Cruz)

11-7

Word orders, gestures, and a view of the world from OS languages [Abstract] [Slides]

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

11-8

A cross-linguistic diachronic trajectory from causal to conditional: a game-theoretic analysis [Abstract] [Slides]

Yurie Hara

Break

11-9

Adaptation in language comprehension [Abstract]

Masataka Yano

11-10

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

Shingo Tokimoto and Naoko Tokimoto

11-11

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

Jun Nakajima and Shinri Ohta

11-12

Sentence processing cost caused by word order and context [Abstract] [Slides]

Daichi Yasunaga

Break

11-13

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

Yuki Hirose and Reiko Mazuka

11-14

Producing long-distance dependencies in English and Japanese [Abstract]

Mari Kugemoto and Shota Momma

11-15 Keynote Talk

A cross-linguistic perspective on dependency marking in sentence planning [Abstract]

Sebastian Sauppe (University of Zurich)

Day 2

Sunday, September 12th, 2021

12-1 Keynote Talk

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

Hiroko Yamashita (Rochester Institute of Technology)

12-2

Investigating the wide variety of disjuncts in Japanese language [Abstract]

Ayaka Tamura

Break

12-3

The time course of SOV and OSV sentence formations in Japanese [Abstract]

Katsuo Tamaoka

12-4

Auditory comprehension of Japanese scrambled sentences by patients with aphasia: An ERP study [Abstract] [Slides]

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

12-5

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

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

Lunch break

12-6

Keynote Talk

Cross cultural comparison of lexical partitioning of color space [Abstract] [Slides]

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

12-7

Spoken term detection from utterances of minority languages [Abstract] [Slides]

Akinori Ito

12-8

Human language processing in comparative computational psycholinguistics [Abstract]

Yohei Oseki

Break

12-9

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

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

12-10

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

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

12-11

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

Kentaro Nakatani

Break

12-12

Experimental studies on clefts and right dislocations in child Japanese [Abstract] [Slides]

Kyoko Yamakoshi and Hiroyuki Shimada

12-13

Disjunction acquisition across languages [Abstract]

Kazuko Yatsushiro

12-14 Keynote Talk

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

Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN Center for Brain Science)

Closing Remarks

Haruo Kubozono (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)