Reports

April 2013-March 2014

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2014)
  Features and recursive structure in phonology. In John Kingston, Claire Moore-Cantwell, Joe Pater & Robert Staubs (eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 Meeting on Phonology. the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

• Onuma, Hitomi (2014)
  Prosodic dependency and empty nuclei. Tohoku: Essays and Studies in English Language and Literature 47, Tohoku Gakuin University, 1–21.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Yoshiho Yasugi & Masatoshi Koizumi (2013)
  Syllable structure and the head parameter in Kaqchikel. In Michael Kenstowicz (ed.), Studies in Kaqchikel Grammar, MIT Working Papers on Endangered and Less Familiar Languages 8, 81–95.

• Otaki, Koichi, Koji Sugisaki, Noriaki Yusa & Masatoshi Koizumi (2013)
  The parameter of argument ellipsis: the view from Kaqchikel. In Michael Kenstowicz (ed.), Studies in Kaqchikel Grammar. MIT Working Papers on Endangered and Less Familiar Languages 8,153–162.

• Snape, Neal & Noriaki Yusa (2013)
  Explicit article instruction in definiteness, specificity, genericity and perception. In Whong, M., K-H. Gil, & H. Marsden, H. (eds.), Universal Grammar and the Second Language Classroom. Dordrecht: Springer, 161–183. DOI; 10.1007/978-94-007-6362-3

• Abe, Jun (2013)
  Pronunciation and LF Interpretation in the ECM Construction. In Il-Jae Lee & Uujinbai Dolgormaa (eds.), 2013 Universals and Parameters: Proceedings of the 15th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, 3–21.

• Abe, Jun (2013)
  Reconstruction into parasitic gaps. JELS 30, The English Linguistic Society of Japan, 3–9.

• Ono, Hajime, Miki Obata & Noriaki Yusa (2013)
  Interference and subcategorization information: a case of pre-verbal NPs in Japanese. In Kazuko Yatsushiro & Uli Sauerland (eds.), Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 66, 133–144.

• Abe, Jun (2013)
  Backward anaphora in Japanese: cases of Condition C violations. In Kazuko Yatsushiro & Uli Sauerland (eds.), Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 6, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 66, 5–15.

April 2012-March 2013

• Kula, Nancy C., Bert Botma & Kuniya Nasukawa (2013).
  The Bloomsbury Companion to Phonology. London: Bloomsbury.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (2013)
  The role of L in the pitch accent system of Tokyo Japanese. Phonological Studies 16, 37–44.

• Abe, Jun (2012)
  Can a modular approach to Binding be successful?: review article of Eric Reuland's anaphora and
  language design. English Linguistics 29.2, 382–412.

• Abe, Jun & Chizuru Nakao (2012)
  String-vacuity under Japanese right node raising. In Ryan Bennett, Anie Thompson & Matthew Tucker (eds.), Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 5, MITWPL 64, 1–14.

• Abe, Jun & Norbert Hornstein (2012)
  ‘Lasnik-effects’and string-vacuous ATB movement. In Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria & Vidal Valmala (eds.), Ways of Structure Building, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 169–205.

• Onima, Hitomi (2013)
  The syllabification of geminates in Japanese. Phonological Studies 16, 45–52.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2012)
  How prosody controls the directionality of voicing assimilation. In Eugeniusz Cyran, Henryk Kardela & Bogdan Szymanek (eds.), Sound, Structure and Sense: Studies in Memory of Edmund Gussmann. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL (KUL Universtity Press), 447–464.

April 2011-March 2012

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (2012)
  Prosody controls melody. Phonological Studies 15, 11–18.

• Onuma, Hitomi (2012)
  The velarisation of l as a case of weakening. Phonological Studies 15, 19–26.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2012)
  Recursion in intra-morphemic phonology. In Luke McCrohon, Tomomi Fujimura, Koji Fujita, Roger Martin, Kazuo Okanoya, Reiji Suzuki and Noriaki Yusa (eds.), Five Approaches to Language Evolution: Proceedings of the Workshops of the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, 30–31.

• Yusa, Noriaki (2012)
  Structure Dependence in the Brain. In Luke McCrohon, Tomomi Fujimura, Koji Fujita, Roger Martin, Kazuo Okanoya, Reiji Suzuki and Noriaki Yusa (eds.), Five Approaches to Language Evolution: Proceedings of the Workshops of the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, 25–26.

• Tokizaki, Hisao & Kuniya Nasukawa (2012)
  Tone in Chinese: preserving tonal melody in strong positions. In A. McKillen & J. Loughran (eds.), Proceedings from the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto (MOT) Phonology Workshop 2011: Phonology in the 21st Century: In Honour of Glyne Piggott. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 22, Issue 1.

• Abe, Jun (2012)
  Optionality in word order: a case study of a Japanese sign language. Tohoku Gakuin University Review: Essays and Studies in English Language and Literature 96, 1–40.

• 遊佐典昭 (2012)　
  「構造依存性と刺激の貧困」 大橋浩・久保智之・西岡宣明・宗正佳啓・村尾治彦（共編）『ことばとこころの探究』 開拓社. 61–74.

• 遊佐典昭 (2012)
  「ブローカ野における階層構造と回帰的計算」 藤田耕司・岡ノ谷一夫（共編）『進化言語学の構築—新しい人間科学を目指して—』 ひつじ書房. 75–93.

• Onuma, Hitomi (2012)
  The phonetic interpretation of empty categories in phonology. Studies in English Literature: Regional Branches Combined Issue 4, The English Literary Society of Japan, 145–154.

• Abe, Jun (2012)
  Scrambling and operator movement. Lingua 122, 66–91.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2011)
  Representing phonology without precedence relations. English Linguistics 28, 278–300.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (2011)
  The internal structure of 'r' in Japanese. Phonological Studies 14, 27–34.

• Backley, Phillip (2011)
  An introduction to Element Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

• Yusa, Noriaki, Masatoshi Koizumi, Jungho Kim, Naoki Kimura, Shinya Uchida, Naoki Miura, Ryuta Kawashima and Hiroko Hagiwara (2011)
  Second language instinct and instruction effects: nature and nurture in second language acquisition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23, 2716–2730.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2011).
  First language acquisition: phonology. In Fujiko Sano, Hideo Oka, Noriaki Yusa & Asako Kaneko (eds.), Second Language Acquisition, A Series of Studies on English Education 5. Tokyo: Taishukan Shoten, 37–47.

• Yusa Noriaki (2011).
  Second language acquisition and brain science. In Fujiko Sano, Hideo Oka, Noriaki Yusa & Asako Kaneko (eds.), Second Language Acquisition, A Series of Studies on English Education 5. Tokyo: Taishukan Shoten, 109–117.

• Abe. Jun (2011)
  Real parasitic gaps in Japanese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 20, 195–218.

April 2010-March 2011

• Tokizaki, Hisao, Kayono Shiobara & Kuniya Nasukawa (2011)
  Workshop report: Linear information, structure and performance systems. JELS 28, 196–197.

• Onuma, Hitomi (2011)
  English schwa in Particle Phonology. Tohoku: Essays and Studies in English Language and Literature 44, Tohoku Gakuin University, 15–38.

• Abe. Jun (2011)
  Why parameters in the Minimalist Program? Tohoku Gakuin University Review: Essays and Studies in English Language and Literature 95, Tohoku Gakuin University, 1–40.

• Botma, Bert, Nancy C. Kula & Kuniya Nasukawa (2011).
  Features. In Kula, Nancy C., Bert Botma & Kuniya Nasukawa (eds.), Continuum Companion to Phonology. London: Continuum, 33–63.

• Kula, Nancy C., Bert Botma & Kuniya Nasukawa (2011).
  The Continuum Companion to Phonology. London: Continuum.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2010)

• Prosodic affiliation of NC sequences in Lungu (Cilungu). In Karsten Legère & Christina Thornell (eds.), Bantu Languages: Analysis, Description and Theory. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 191–207.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2010) Place-dependent VOT in L2 acquisition. SLRF 2008: Selected proceedings of the 2008 Second Language Research Forum: exploring SLA Perspectives, positions, and practices. Somerville: Cascadilla Press, 197–210.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2010)
  No consonant-final stems in Japanese verb morphology. Lingua 120, 2336–2352.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (2010)
  Consonant-vowel unity in Element Theory. Phonological Studies 13, 21–28.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (2010)
  Eliminating precedence relations from phonology. Universal Grammar and Individual Languages, The 2010 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2010). Hankookmunhwasa.

• Yusa, Noriaki, Kuniya Nasukawa, Masatoshi Koizumi, Jungho Kim, Naoki Kimura & Kensuke Emura (2010)
  Unexpected Effects of the Second Language on the First Language, In Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Magdalena Wrembel & Małgorzata Kul (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech New Sounds 2010 (ISBN: 978-83-928167-9-92), 580–584.

Presentations

April 2013-March 2014

• Ono, Hajime, Miki Obata & Noriaki Yusa (13 March 2014). Interference effects of pre-verbal NPs on sentence processing in Japanese. 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Ohio State University, USA.

• Abe, Jun (20 February 2014). Non-constituent deaccenting and deletion: a phase-based approach. Syntax Workshop on Phase, Yokohama National University, Japan.

• Abe, Jun (10 February 2014). Hierarchy and linear order in phrase structure. 第29回英語学・理論言語学セミナー, Akita University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (11 February 2014).　Why the palatal glide is not a consonant in Japanese. Sapporo University Linguistic Circle, Sapporo University, Japan.

• Onuma, Hitomi (11 February 2014). The role of empty nuclei in phonology. Sapporo University Linguistic Circle, Sapporo University, Japan.

• 遊佐典昭 (15 December 2013).　Language development in the brain, 生物言語学･東京ワークショップ, 上智大学.

• Abe, Jun (14 December 2013). A movement theory of Pro-drop in Japanese. 慶應言語学コロキアム第二部, 慶応義塾大学.

• Abe, Jun (13 December 2013). A movement theory of anaphora. 慶應言語学コロキアム第一部, 慶応義塾大学.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (12 December 2013). Headship as melodic and prosodic prominence. pS-prominenceS: Prominence in Linguistics, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Hitomi Onuma (5 December 2013). Place of articulation and changes in VOT values in L2 acquisition. The 17th English in South East Asia (ESEA 2013) Conference. Research Management & Innovation Complex, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (1 December 2013). The relation between linguistic competence and the auditory/visual channels. Anthropological Studies of Materiality. MINPAKU (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) Seminar Linguistics in Daily Life Language Disorders and Linguistics. Nippon Foundation Hall The Nippon Zaidan Building, Tokyo, Japan.

• Abe, Jun (9 Nobember 2013). Why not VP-ellipsis analysis for Japanese null arguments? 日本英語学会第31回大会ワークショップ: 空項 (null argument) の諸問題をめぐって, 福岡大学.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (9 November 2013). Features and recursive structure in phonology. Phonology 2013, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (31 October 2013). Features and recursive structure. Features in Phonology, Morphology, Syntax and Semantics: What are They? University of Tromsø/CASTL, Norway.

• Abe, Jun (9 October 2013). Pronunciation and LF interpretation in the ECM construction. The 15th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (22 August 2013). Representing prosodic prominence. Phonology Forum 2013. Sapporo Gakuin University, Sapporo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (20 August 2013). Recursion in melodic structure. Workshop: New Perspectives in Element Theory, Sapporo Gakuin University, Sapporo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (29 July 2013). Syllable structure in English, Japanese and Kaqchikel II. The 31st Lecture for the Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language Certificate Program, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Japan.

• Yusa, Noriaki, Masatoshi Koizumi & Jungho Kim (26 July 2013). Social interaction affects neural measures of syntactic processing: evidence from fMRI. 19th International Congress of Linguists, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

• Backley, Phillip (2 July 2013). Prosodic markers in segmental structure. Colloque du Réseau Français de Phonologie, University of Nantes, France.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (23 June 2013). Frication in Kaqchikel. The Fifth Meeting of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese government (grant number 22222001), Kinki University, Higashiosaka, Japan.

• Abe, Jun (5 June 2013). The Head Parameter as encoded into functional categories. International Workshop: Towards a theory of Syntactic Variation, Bilbao, The Basque Country.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (30 May 2013). Syllable structure in English, Japanese and Kaqchikel. The 26th Lecture for the Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language Certificate Program, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (24 May 2013). L as the only laryngeal source property in Tokyo Japanese. The 21th Manchester Phonology Meeting: Twentieth anniversary meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Onuma, Hitomi (24 May 2013). Empty nuclei and their phonetic interpretations. The 21th Manchester Phonology Meeting: Twentieth anniversary meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Noriaki Yusa (27 April 2013)
  Imaging language processing in the brain. The English Society of Japan 6th International Spring Forum, University of Tokyo.

April 2012-March 2013

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (16 March 2013). Representations, computations and interfaces. Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP). University of Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (18 January 2013). The multiple role of features in representations. CUNY Conference on the feature in phonology and phonetics, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (17 January 2013). Prosodic markers under parametric control. The 10th Old World Conference in Phonology. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (17 January 2013). Pitch accent in Tokyo Japanese: an L-based analysis. The 10th Old World Conference in Phonology. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Onuma, Hitomi (17 January 2013). Geminates and syllabification in Japanese. The 10th Old World Conference in Phonology. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (9 December 2012). Syllable structure in Kaqchikel. Workshop: Human Language Design from an OS languages perspective, Hiroshima University, Higashi Hiroshima, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Yoshiho Yasugi & Masatoshi Koizumi (24 November 2012). Prosodic boundary markers and phonological structure in Kaqchikel. The 145th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

• Onuma, Hitomi (24 November 2012). Asymmetries between phonological features. The 145th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (13 November 2012). Aspiration and syllable structures. The Phonological Society of Bantu Languages. Osaka University, Minoo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (22 September 2012). Phonological rules and representations in relation to morphology and the lexicon. Morphology and Lexicon Forum (MLF) 2012. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Yoshiho Yasugi & Masatoshi Koizumi (6 September 2012). Aspiration and prosodic structure in Kaqchikel. LAGB Meeting 2012. University of Salford, Manchester, UK.

• Onuma, Hitomi (21 August 2012). The syllabification of geminates in Japanese. Phonology Forum 2012. Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

• Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (20 August 2012). The role of L in the pitch accent system of Tokyo Japanese. Phonology Forum 2012. Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (16 June 2012). Tonal features in Japanese. Workshop: Accent-bearing Units and Tonal Features, The 144th Meeting of Japan Linguistic Society, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (25 May 2012). The segment in monostratal phonology. The 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting: Twentieth anniversary meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (23 May 2012). Segmental complexity through recursion. The mfm Fringe Meeting on Segmental Architecture, University of Manchester, UK.

April 2011-March 2012

• 遊佐典昭 (17 March 2011)　「実験言語学から見た第二言語獲得研究」 明海大学応用言語学会 明海大学.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (15 March 2011). Recursion in phonology. Sapporo University Linguistic Circle, Sapporo University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (13 March 2012). Recursion in intra-morphemic phonology. Workshop: Language and Brain. The 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang IX), Kyoto, Japan.

• Noriaki Yusa (13 March 2012). Structure dependence in the brain. Workshop: Language and Brain. The 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang IX), Kyoto, Japan.

• Abe, Jun & Hideaki Yamashita (18 February 2012). The null operator movement analysis of parasitic gap-type particle stranding in Japanese, The 7th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.

• Abe, Jun (4 February 2012). String-vacuity and island effects: a case of Japanese relativization, Seminar in Theoretical Linguistics 24/25, Akita University, Akita, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (21 January 2012). The phonology of English past tense. Workshop: Some Issues on Acquisition of English Tense by Japanese L2 Learners of English, Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (11 January 2012). The segment in monostratal phonology. CUNY Conference on the segment, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA.

• Onuma, Hitomi (11 January 2012). Silent segments and prosodic dependency. CUNY Conference on the segment, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Yoshiho Yasugi, Lolmay Pedro García Matzar, Juan Esteban Ajsivinac Sián & Masatoshi Koizumi (17 December 2011). The phonetics and phonology of Kaqchikel. Workshop: Language Comprehension, Production and Acquisition in Kaqchikel, Nanairo no Kaze, Oita, Japan.

• Abe, Jun (17 December 2011). The residue of the NIC and super-raising: an examination of Japanese A-movement. Nanzan University Colloquium 39, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.

• Noriaki Yusa (9-10 December 2011) Neuroimaging evidence for the poverty of the stimulus problem in second language acquisition. Ling50@MIT, Massachusetts, USA.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (8 December 2011). The foot: an integrated approach for phonological phenomena. Sapporo University Linguistic Circle, Sapporo University, Japan.

• 遊佐典昭 (13 November 2011) 「第二言語獲得における個別性と普遍性」 日本英語学会第29回大会シンポジウム 『言語と言語の接点から見る言語知識の普遍性と個別性』 新潟大学.

• Abe, Jun & Hideaki Yamashita (20-22 October 2011). Particle stranding meets parasitic gaps in Japanese. The 21st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Seoul National University.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (9 September 2011). The phonological representation of NC sequences in Lungu. LAGB Meeting 2011. University of Manchester, UK.

• Onuma, Hitomi & Kuniya Nasukawa (8 September 2011). No resyllabification in morphological formation: the case of the English lateral. LAGB Meeting 2011. University of Manchester, UK.

• Abe, Jun (8-11 September 2011). Make short answers shorter: support for the in-situ approach. The 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Universidad de la Rioja, Logroño, Spain.

• Abe, Jun (7 Septemeber 2011). A movement theory of obviation effects. HiTT Linguistics Seminar at the University of the Basque Country.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (24 August 2011). Prosody controls melody. Phonology Forum 2011. Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.

• Onuma, Hitomi (24 August 2011). The velarisation of l as a case of weakening. Phonology Forum 2011. Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.

• 遊佐典昭 (15 July 2011) 「第二言語獲得研究の可能性」 三重大学言語学コロキアム.

• 遊佐典昭 (14 July 2011) 「第二言語獲得の普遍性と個別性」 名古屋学院大学.

• Kuniya Nasukawa (1 July 2011). Eliminating precedence relations from phonological representations. Annesso Cartesiano di Villa Salmi Inaugural Workshop: The Representation of Structure in Grammar. Arezzo, Italy.

• 遊佐典昭 (11 June 2011) （司会兼発表）「言語発達の脳科学－感受性期以降の統語獲得を中心に－」 第36回関西言語学会 『第二言語の脳科学：言語発達の脳科学－言語学と脳科学の連携に向けて』 大阪府立大学.

• Tokizaki, Hisao & Kuniya Nasukawa (7 May 2011). Tone in Chinese: preserving tonal melody in strong positions. Phonology in the 21st Century: In Honour of Glyne Piggott. McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (1 May 2011). Contrastiveness: the basis of identity avoidance. Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 34. University of Vienna, Austria.

April 2010-March 2011

• Abe, Jun (12-13 February 2011). A movement theory of reflexives: evidence from multiple occurrences of zibun. The Workshop on Chains in Minimalism, Yokohama National University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (20 January 2011). The correlation between ‘r’ and front vowels. The eighth Old World Conference in Phonology. The University of Hassan II, Casablanca, Marrakech, Morocco.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya, Noriaki Yusa & Masatoshi Koizumi (9 December 2010). VOT improvement and place of articulation in L2 acquisition. The 14th English in South East Asia (ESEA 2010) Conference. University of Macau, China.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (13 November 2010). The redundancy of linear information in phonology. Workshop: linear information, structure and performance systems, The 28th Meeting of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (30 October 2010). The phonology of English articles. Workshop: Some issues on acquisition of English articles by Japanese L2 learners of English, Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, Sendai, Japan.

• Abe, Jun (11-12 September 2010). Discourse/inter-sentential anaphora of null arguments in Japanese: to be Pro or not to be. The Workshop on the interface between syntax and pragmatics/semantics. Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya & Phillip Backley (23 August 2010). The internal structure of ‘r’ in Jaspanese. Phonology Forum 2010. Shizuoka University, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (23 June 2010). Eliminating precedence relations from phonology. The 2010 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2010), Korea University, Seoul, Korea.

• Abe, Jun (12 June 2010). The residue of NIC and super-raising: an examination of Japanese A-Movement. Sendai Area Circle of of Linguistics (SACL), Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan.

• Nasukawa, Kuniya (20 May 2010). Eliminating precedence relations from phonology. The 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, UK.

• Abe, Jun & Chizuru Nakao (7-9 May 2010). String vacuity under Japanese right node raising. The 5th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference (FAJL5), UC Santa Cruz, USA.

• Yusa, Noriaki, Kuniya Nasukawa, Masatoshi Koizumi, Naoki Kimura & Kensuke Emura (3 May 2010). Unexpected effects of the second language on the first. The 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, NEW SOUNDS 2010, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.