The Phonetic Society of Japan

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: The 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference

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The 22nd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (J/K22) will be held at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tokyo on October 12-14, 2012. The deadline for abstracts is May 15, 2012. For details, please see the conference website (http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/jk2012/). Two pre-conference workshops will be held on the afternoon of October 11th, one on endangered dialects of Korean and Japanese, and the other on Japanese and Korean corpus linguistics.

Date:	October 12-14, 2012
Place:	National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL)
Website:	http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/jk2012/
Contact:	jk2012@ninjal.ac.jp

The 324th Regular Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan

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Date	2012/3/17(Sat)
Time	13:00-17:20
Location	Aichi Shukutoku University (Hoshigaoka Campus) Access map http://www.aasa.ac.jp/guidance/map.html#hoshi-top
Meeting organizer	Shigeaki AMANO, Kimiko YAMAKAWA
Time Table:
13:00-15:00 Oral presentation
13:00-13:40	Chiyuki Ito (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa) “A Sociophonetic Study of the Ternary Laryngeal Contrast in Yanbian Korean.”
13:40-14:20	Tatsuya Hirako (Kyoto University/JSPS) “On the accentual system of Noto-jima dialects.”
14:20-15:00	Kenji Yoshida (Showa Music Academy) “Phonetic realization and phonological interpretation of the ‘low-attaching-shiki’ in the Northern-Shikoku dialects of Japanese.”
14:55-15:10 Break
15:20-17:20 Symposium
Symposium on the present situation and the future of Japanese prosody teaching in Japan and foreign countries Nobuaki Minematsu（The University of Tokyo） Chieko Nakagawa（Waseda University） Noriko Nakamura (Keio University) Hiroko Hirano（Jilin Huaqiao Foreign Languages Institute, China） Naoko Endo（The University of Tokyo）

The 323rd Regular Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan

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Date & Time	June 25, 2011 (Sat) 13:00 – 17:10
Location	University of Yamanashi Kofu Campus Building M 4-3-11, Takeda, Kofu, Yamanashi 400-8511 Japan Access Map http://www.yamanashi.ac.jp/english/access/kofu.html
Meeting organizer	Tetsuya EZAKI
Time table:
13:00-14:55 Oral Presentation
13:00-13:35	Yosuke MIKI (Kokugakuin University) “Consideration from feature of Yamanashi Prefecture Uenohara City dialect accent ―From the comparison with the Tokyo surrounding area various dialect accent―”
13:40-14:15	Yasuko SAKAI (Konan Women’s University) “The Three Sound Voice of Japanese Infants in the Pre-Linguistic Period”
14:20-14:55	Kanako TOMARU and Takayuki ARAI (Sophia University) Are phonemes more perceptible than allophones? ?The case of English listeners’ perception of English stops
14:55-15:10 Break
15:10-17:10 Symposium
Shohei OKADA (Kyushu Kyoritsu University,Proposer), Chie TAKAGI (Osaka University), Yukari TANAKA (Nihon University),and Shingo Hayano (Miyazaki University) “Agreement-requiring expressions and their accompanying intonations in Japanese dialects”

The Public Symposium on the Current Descriptive Study of Japanese Dialects will be held in Kobe University

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The Public Symposium on the Current Descriptive Study of Japanese Dialects, which was postponed due to the earthquake and the tsunami damage, will be held in Kobe University on May 21st, under the aegis of the National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL).
Participation is free.

Location: Kobe University
http://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/info/access/rokko/rokkodai-dai2.htm
Date: May 21 (Sat.) 1:00 – 5:30 PM
Contact Information: Haruo Kubozono
URL: http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/event/project-meeting/m-2011/20110521-005/

The 25th Annual Convention

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The 25th Annual Convention of the Phonetic Society of Japan will be held on the 24th and 25th of September 2011 at Kyoto University.
More details about the convention will be announced later.

The 26th Annual Convention of the Phonetic Society of Japan will be held at Daito Bunka University in 2012.

A multilingual menu of information on the earthquake and tsunami damage and current situation

psj-edit — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:43:38 +0000

Click here to access a multilingual menu of information on the earthquake and tsunami damage and current situation.

http://www.nacos.com/gengoren/index.html

Information on postponement of the Public Symposium on the Current Descriptive Study of Japanese Accent

psj-edit — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:40:38 +0000

Due to the earthquake and the tsunami damage plus the uncertain situation regarding radiation biohazard, we regretfully announce the postponement of the Public Symposium on the Current Descriptive Study of Japanese Accent, which was scheduled to be held at Japan Women’s University on March 19, 2011. The new schedule for the Symposium will be announced when it becomes available.

Waseda University Public Lecture: Accent of Family Names Based on Monomorphemic Nouns

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Date & Time	March 12, 2011 (Sat) 14:00 – 16:00
Location	Waseda University Waseda Campus #22 Building, 2nd floor, #201 http://www.waseda.jp/eng/campus/map.html
Speaker	Timothy J. Vance (Professor, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Chair	Tetsuo Harada (Professor, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University)
Abstract	Available in Japanese
MC	Chieko Nakagawa (Representative, Tokyo Onsei Kenkyu-kai)
Co-sponsors	Tokyo Onsei Kenkyu-kai
Admission Fee	200 yen (for lecture materials)
Language	Japanese
Pre-registration	Not necessary
Contact	Kenichi Oyama (Graduate School, Waseda University)
E-mail	tokyo.onsei@gmail.com
URL：	http://wiki.livedoor.jp/tokyo_onsei/

Public Symposium: Current Descriptive Study of Japanese Accent

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Japan Women’s University Faculty of Humanities & Graduate School of Humanities
Academic Exchange Program
Public Symposium: Current Descriptive Study of Japanese Accent

Date & Time	March 19, 2011 (Sat) 13:00 – 17:30
Location	Japan women’s University Mejiro Campus 2-8-1 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 112-8681 http://www.jwu.ac.jp/eng/access.html
Schedule	Available in Japanese
MC	Kiyoe Sakamoto (Professor, Japan Women’s University)
Sponsors	Japan Women’s University Faculty of Humanities & Graduate School of Humanities National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics（NINJAL）
Note	This symposium is held to present the study results of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (#22320085)
Admission Fee	None
Pre-registration	Not necessary
Contact	Akiko Matsumori (Faculty of Humanities, Japan Women’s University) Email: matumori@fc.jwu.ac.jp
Official Web Site	http://www.jwu.ac.jp/grp/lecture_news/2010/20110319.html

Urgent: The 19th Phonetics Seminar has been cancelled.

psj-edit — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:54:48 +0000

We are very sorry to announce that the 19th Phonetics Seminar has been cancelled due to sudden illness of the instructor. We ask for your understanding at this time, and truly apologize for any inconvenience caused by this change.

Kikuo MAEKAWA (Chair, Planning Committee)