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The 340th regular meeting

The 340th regular meeting will be held at Osaka Jogakuin University, Osaka, Japan, on Saturday November 30th, 2019. Further details will be announced later.
Date: November 30th, 2019 (Saturday)
Venue: Osaka Jogakuin University
(2-26-54, Tamatsukuri, Chuo-ku, Osaka, 540-0004, Japan.)
http://www.wilmina.ac.jp/oj/?english=access
Organizer: Tomomi Otsuka (Osaka Jogakuin University)

The 339th Regular Meeting

Date: Saturday, June 1st, 2019
Venue: Daito Bunka Kaikan Cultural Hall (Daito Bunka University)
（2-4-21 Tokumaru, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 175-0083, Japan）
https://www.daito.ac.jp/campuslife/campus/facility/culturalhall.html
5-minute walk from Tōbu-Nerima Station of the Tōbu-Tōjō Line
Organizer: Kiyoko Yoneyama (Daito Bunka University)
Registration: No registration required. Free admission.
Contact information: Planning Committee　psj2016k@yahoo.co.jp
Program:

Welcoming speech (13:00-13:10)

I. Oral presentations（13:10-16:00）

  1. 13:10-13:50
    “Perception of aspiration of word-medial stops in Mongolian”
    (Presentation in Japanese)
    Naoki Ueta (Osaka University / Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS))
  2. 13:50-14:30
    “Perception of varieties of English by professional interpreters”
    (Presentation in Japanese)
    Tomohiko Ooigawa (Nihon University), Kinuko Takahashi (Osaka Jogakuin University)
＜14:30-14:40 Break＞
  1. 14:40-15:20
    “Statistical modeling of natives’ implicit knowledge of accentuation and its use for quantitative analysis of learners’ acquisition of the implicit knowledge”
    (Presentation in Japanese)
    Li Qiao (Dalian University of Technology / University of Tokyo), Li Motong (Osaka University), Minematsu Nobuaki (The University of Tokyo)
  2. 15:20-16:00
    “Development of vowel devoicing in Japanese: A case study of a 1-year-old child”
    (Presentation in English)
    Manami Hirayama (Seikei University)
＜16:00-16:10 Break＞

II. Special presentation (16:10-17:40)

“What is phonetic substance? Insight from individual differences in speech production“
(Presentation in English)
Keith Johnson (University of California, Berkeley)
  • 16:10-17:10 Presentation
  • 17:10-17:40 Questions and discussion

    • Call for Oral/Poster Presentations for the 33rd General Meeting of PSJ

    The information of the 33rd General Meeting is as follows.
    Date: Saturday, September 28 – Sunday, September 29, 2019
    Venue: Seisen University (3-16-21 Higashi Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-8642)
    https://www.seisen-u.ac.jp/eng/access/index.php
    Organizer: Takuya Kimura (Seisen University)

    Submission for oral/poster presentations (both to be held in the afternoon of Day 1) and workshop proposals (morning of Day 2) is now open. Please read the submission guidelines carefully and submit your oral/poster presentation proposals through the electronic submission page.

    Call for oral/poster presentations

    Please submit your proposals through the following website.
    Submissions should be sent in both PDF and MS Word (or text file) formats.

    ◆Submission system website◆
    https://iap-jp.org/psj/conf33/login/

    Deadline: Thursday, June 13th, 2019 (23:59 Japan Standard Time).
    • You should receive a confirmation e-mail after your submission.
    • If you do not receive a confirmation e-mail, your submission may be incomplete or your registered e-mail address incorrect.
    • Please contact the Meeting Helpdesk before June 13th if you encounter any other problem.
    ◆Phonetic Society of Japan, General Meeting Helpdesk◆
    E-mail：psj-desk@bunken.co.jp

    Information necessary for submission

    • Name and affiliation of all the presenters (in Japanese and English)
      • Affiliation for graduate students should be “XX University, Graduate School of XX)
    • Preferred presentation type (oral/poster)
      • Oral presentations will be allocated approximately 30 minutes including time for discussion questions, while poster presentations will be allocated about 90 minutes (exact time allocation may be subject to change and will be confirmed later).
    • Target language (please choose from the following)
      • Japanese (standard/Tokyo dialect), Japanese (other dialects), Japanese education, English/English education, Korean/Korean education, Chinese/Chinese education, Others
    • Area of research (please choose from the following)
      • Vowels, consonants, accent/tone, intonation, rhythm, others
    • Language of presentation (Japanese/English)
    • Title of presentation in Japanese
    • Title of presentation in English
    • Abstract
      • Up to 800 Japanese characters or 400 English words
      • Please submit your abstract in MS-Word (or textfile or TeX) and PDF in A4 paper format, and upload both files through the online submission system.
      • Please download the MS-Word format from: http://www.psj.gr.jp/eng/downloads
    • Whether you would like to be considered for an Outstanding Presentation Award.（Yes／No）

    Guideline for submission

    1. The presenter must be a member of the Phonetic Society of Japan.
      Non-members may submit if the first author is a member.
      The first author must be a member of the society at the time of submission.
      Please check whether the first author has paid the annual membership fees for the current year at the time of submission.
      Submission may be cancelled if the membership fees of the first author remain unpaid by the submission deadline.

      Please see http://www.psj.gr.jp/eng/membership for details.

    2. Only one submission (oral or poster) is permitted as first author.
    3. If the first author is eligible for consideration for an Outstanding Presentation Award (either he/she is a graduate student or younger than 41 years old as of September 15th, 2019), please let us know whether you would like to be considered for this award.
    4. Papers submitted to or scheduled to be submitted to other conferences will not be accepted.
    5. The abstract should include results available at the time of submission.
      Papers with only experiment plans will not be accepted.
    6. Applicants may choose the presentation type (oral or poster), but if you put a check mark on the “open to change”, the final decision will be made by the committee.
    7. Notification of acceptance will be sent around July 10th, 2019.
      If accepted, please submit the full paper in PDF format by Thursday, August 8th, 2019 via the online submission system.
      Late submission may not be published on the website.
      Please note that the papers will be uploaded to the website the way they are submitted (i.e., they will not be edited).
    8. The paper format is the same for oral and poster presentations (less than 6 pages on A4 paper).
    9. Languages which can be used for the presentation are limited to Japanese and English. If accepted, please write the paper in the language specified at the time of submission, and give your presentation in that language.
    10. Distribution of additional materials on the day of the presentation is not allowed.
    11. The proceedings will be made public on the PSJ website prior to the conference venue. We will not provide any hard copies.
    12. Abstracts will be published in the Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan after the conference venue.
    13. Details for poster presentations, including poster size, will be announced shortly.
    14. Revisions to abstracts and papers will not be accepted after submission.
    (Planning Committee)　

    The 339th Regular Meeting –Call for Oral Presentations–

    　Submission for oral presentations is now open. Submission is limited to members who have paid the annual membership fee for 2019.
    Professor Keith Johnson (University of California at Berkeley) will be giving a special lecture. Submission for symposium is not available.
    Date: Saturday, Jun 1st, 2019
    Venue: Daito Bunka Kaikan Cultural Hall (Daito Bunka University)
    (2-4-21 Tokumaru, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 175-0083, Japan)
    https://www.daito.ac.jp/campuslife/campus/facility/culturalhall.html
    Organizer: Professor Kiyoko Yoneyama

    ―Call for oral presentations―

    　Submission for oral presentations (40 minutes, including Q&A. Submission should be original research that has not been published elsewhere) is now open. Please send the information below by email by Friday, April 26th, 2019 to psj2016k@yahoo.co.jp in both PDF and MSWord formats. Please insert “Submission for 339th Regular Meeting” in the email subject and “339th Regular Meeting (Presenter’s name)” as the file name. Please embed all fonts in the PDF file. Notification of acceptance will be sent by around May 7th after the reviewing process.
    1. Names of presenters in Japanese
    2. Names of presenters in English
    3. Affiliations of presenters in Japanese
    4. Affiliations of presenters in English
    5. Names and contact information (email) of persons in charge of receiving notification of acceptance
    6. Title of presentation (a Japanese title is not needed if the presentation is to be given in English)
    7. Abstract (about 400 characters in Japanese, or about 200 words in English)
    8. Equipment necessary for presentation (laptop and projector excluded)
    (Planning Committee)

    【Important】Summary of “The Phonetic Society of Japan finance remediation measures”

    You can now read “The Phonetic Society of Japan finance remediation measures” on the Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan.
    Please read the following for a summary.

    Measure 1: Accepted papers will be electronically released sequentially and will be collectively published as “Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan” at the end of the year.
    We would like to explain once again of the definition of “sequentially” as this term may have caused misunderstandings. Papers accepted up until April will be made public on J-STAGE in April, papers accepted up until August will be made public in August, and papers accepted up until December will be made public in December.

    Measure 2: Mailing of “Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan” will be optional.
    The journal will be mailed only to members who select “yes” to “Would you like to have the journal mailed to you?” (*wording may change) when they pay the annual membership fee. The journal is published once a year. Please be aware that the journal will not be mailed to you if you do not select “yes”. We are now working on the configuration of MyPage, where you will be able to change and check your settings for this feature.

    We thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

    Satoshi IMAIZUMI, PSJ President
    March 2019

    The 33rd General Meeting (date and venue)

    The 33rd General Meeting will be held at:第33回全国大会は，以下の日程で開催予定です。
    • Date: September 28th (Saturday), 29th (Sunday)
    • Venue: Seisen University (Tokyo)

    The 29th Phonetics Seminar: Fundamentals of speech recording and perception

    The following phonetics seminar will be jointly held by the Phonetic Society of Japan and the Acoustical Society of Japan.
    Registration will close after reaching 100 participants. Please register at your earliest convenience.
    Organizer: The Phonetic Society of Japan, Planning Committee
    The Acoustical Society of Japan, Research Committee on Speech Communication
    Date： 13:00 ～ 16:00, Friday, March 22nd, 2019
    Topic： Foundations of speech recording and perception
    Content： This seminar aims to cover once again the fundamentals of speech recording and perception necessary for conducting research in speech sciences.
    Lecturer： Professor Hideki KAWAHARA (Wakayama University)
    Professor Minoru TSUZAKI (Kyoto City University of Arts)
    Professor Ken-ichi SAKAKIBARA (Health Sciences University of Hokkaido)
    Venue： Room B107, Building 8, Waseda Campus, Waseda University https://www.waseda.jp/top/access/waseda-campus
    • Please refrain from contacting the venue.
    Co-host: Institute of Language and Speech Science, Waseda University
    Fee： Participation fee: 1000 yen (member), 2000 yen (non-member)
    Capacity： 100
    Registration： Please register by sending an email message to the following address:
    E-mail address: psj2016k@yahoo.co.jp

    Please write “Registration for 29th Phonetic Seminar” in the subject.
    Please include the following information in the main text.
    • Name：
    • Member/Non-member of the Phonetic Society of Japan/the Acoustical Society of Japan：
    Contact information: Mariko KUNO, The Phonetic Society of Japan (kuno@kokugakuinn.ac.jp)
    Takayuki ARAI, The Acoustical Society of Japan （arai@sophia.ac.jp）

    ご案内ポスター PSJ_29th_Seminar_2019_03.pdf (352kB)

    The 32nd General Meeting – Call for Workshop Proposals

    The 32nd General Meeting will be held in Okinawa in September 2018.
    Submission for workshop proposals (morning of Day 2) is now open.
    • Date:September 15th (Sat) – 16th (Sun), 2018
    • Venue: Okinawa International University
    • Organizer： Ken Nakamoto (University of the Ryukyus) 、Satoshi Nishioka (University of the Ryukyus)

    【Call for Workshop Proposals】

    This workshop is to offer opportunities for presenters and audience to have discussions on a particular topic after the talks by several presenters. The submission process is similar to last year’s (not electronic). Please send the application form (approximately three pages in A4 size) to psj2016k@yahoo.co.jp in PDF and MSWord (or text file) format by June 20th, 2018 to psj2016k@yahoo.co.jp .
    Please insert “Submission for workshop at 32nd General Meeting” in the email subject. The attached files should be named “psj2018workshop (name of organizer)”. We will send an email to notify the acceptance of submission within a few days. If you do not receive this email, please send an email again by June 22nd, as we may not have received your submission email.

    【Proposal format】

    （Page 1）
    • 1.Name and affiliation of organizer in Japanese and English
      　　　＊Graduate students’ affiliations should write “Graduate school, XXX University)
    • 2.Organizer’s contact information（E-mail address and telephone number for notification of acceptance）
    • 3.Moderator’s name and affiliation (Japanese and English)
    • 4.Names and affiliations of presenters in Japanese and English(in the order of presentation)
    （Page 2 onward）
    • 5.Workshop title in Japanese(not needed if presentations are in English)
    • 6.Workshop title in English
    • 7.Abstract of workshop (Aim and content in less than 500 Japanese characters or 250 English words）
    • 8.Titles and abstracts of all presentations in the order of presentation(each less than 300 Japanese characters or 150 English words without stating the presenters’ names in the abstract)

      【Guidelines for workshop submission】

      1. The organizer and presenters must be members of the Phonetics Society of Japan. Two or more presenters must be members of the Phonetic Society of Japan. Submission will be accepted if more than half of them are members. (They must be members at the time of submission or have finished with the application.) Please see http://www.psj.gr.jp/jpn/membership for details.
      2. The workshop may have panel members (members or non-members).
      3. The workshop will be two hours long. More than twenty minutes should be provided for Q&A including the audience.
      4. Workshops organized at or scheduled to be organized at other conferences will not be accepted.
      5. Presenters’ travel expenses and reward will not be provided.
      6. Notification of acceptance will be sent around June 27th, 2018. If accepted, please submit the full paper in PDF format by July 30th (Monday). Late submission may not be published in the proceedings.
      7. The paper format is the same as oral/poster presentations. There should be one page that explains the aims of the workshop. Presentation papers should be less than four pages each.
      8. Languages used for presentations are limited to Japanese and English. Please write the title and abstract in the same language. Papers should be written in the same language as the abstract, and presentations should be given in that language.
      9. Distribution of additional materials on the day of presentation is prohibited.
      10. Abstracts will be made public as is via attachment to the conference program on the PSJ website before the conference dates (excluding references).
      11. You will be asked to write a new abstract to be published in the Journal of Phonetic Society of Japan after the conference.
      12. Revisions on abstract, affiliation, collaborators, etc. will not be accepted after submission. Please double check before submission.

    The 337th Regular Meeting

    Date Saturday, June 16th, 2018, 13:00-17:25
    Venue Konan University, Hirao Memorial Seminar House, Large Hall
    （〒658-0051 2-29-15 Sumiyoshi Honcho, Higashinada-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo）
    http://www.konan-u.ac.jp/access/seminar.html
    ＊Please beware that the venue is NOT Okamoto Campus. The closest station is JR Sumiyoshi station.
    Organizer Tatsuya Kitamura
    Registration None. Free admission.
    Contact information Chair, Planning Committee　kuno@kokugauin.ac.jp
    Co-host The Acoustical Society of Japan, Research Committee on Speech Communication
    Program:

    Welcome speech (President)（13:00-13:05）

    I. Oral presentations（13:05-15:10）

    1. 13:05-13:35
      “The accent system and accentuation of compound nouns in the Hakariishi dialect spoken in Ashikita, Kumamoto Prefecture.”
    2. 13:35-14:05
      “Interrogative intonation of the Iheya Shimajiri dialect.”
    ＜14:05-14:10 Break＞
    1. 14:10-14:40
      “Perception of Japanese Emotional Speech by Chinese Learners.”
    2. 14:40-15:10
      “Acoustic parameters of Japanese word-initial stops: VOT and post-stop F0.”

    ＜15:10-15:25 Break＞

    II. Symposium（15:25-17:25）


    How to teach phonetics: Topics in field research, language learning and speech-language pathologist training

    Head：Takayuki KAGOMIYA（National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics）・Hayato AOI（Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa/National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics）・Junko SUGIMOTO（University of the Sacred Heart）・Yoko UCHIDA（Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology）・Kumi KANAMURA（Nagoya University of Economics）・Michiko HASHI（Prefectural University of Hiroshima）

    • Takayuki KAGOMIYA “Introduction”
    • Hayato AOI “Teaching phonetics in field research”
    • Junko SUGIMOTO・Yoko UCHIDA “Teaching phonetics to non-native teachers and learners of English”
    • Kumi KANAMURA “Teaching phonetics for learners and teachers of Japanese as a foreign language”
    • Michiko HASHI “Teaching phonetics in speech-language pathologist training”
    ＜Break＞
    • General discussion

    Call for Oral/Poster Presentations for the 32nd General Meeting of PSJ

    The information of the 32nd General Meeting is as follows.
    Date: Saturday, September 15 – Sunday, September 16, 2018
    Location： Okinawa International University
    Organizer： Ken Nakamoto (University of the Ryukyus)

    Submissions for oral/poster presentations (both to be held in the afternoon of Day 1) and workshop proposals (morning of Day 2) are now open. Please read the submission guidelines carefully and submit your oral/poster presentation proposals through our electronic submission page.

    Call for oral/poster presentations

    Please submit your proposals through the following website.
    Submissions should be sent in both PDF and MS Word formats (or text file).

    ◆Submission system website◆
    https://iap-jp.org/psj/conf32/login/

    The deadline：Monday, June 11th, 2018.
    • You will receive a confirmation e-mail after your submission
    • If you do not receive your confirmation e-mail, your submission may be incomplete or your registered e-mail address may be incorrect.
    • Please contact the Meeting Helpdesk before June 13th if any other troubles occur.
    ◆Phonetic Society of Japan, General Meeting Helpdesk◆
    E-mail：psj-desk@bunken.co.jp

    Information necessary for submission

    • Names and affiliations of all presenters (Japanese and English)
      • Affliation for graduate students should be “XX University, Graduate School of XX)
    • Presentation style (oral/poster)
    • Target language (please choose from the following)
      • Japanese (standard/Tokyo dialect), Japanese (other dialects), Japanese education, English/English education, Korean/Korean education, Chinese/Chinese education, Others
    • Area of research (please choose from the following)
      • Vowels, consonants, accent/tone, intonation, rhythm, others
    • Language of presentation (Japanese/English)
    • Title of presentation (Japanese)
    • Title of presentation (English)
    • Abstract
      • 800 Japanese characters or 300 English words
      • Please submit your abstract in MS-Word (or textfile or TeX) and PDF in A4-size, and upload both files through the online submission system.
      • Please download the MS-Word format from: http://www.psj.gr.jp/jpn/downloads
    • Whether your submission would like to be considered for Outstanding Article Award.（Yes／No）

    Guideline for submission

    1. The presenter must be a member of the Phonetics Society of Japan.
      Non-members may submit if the first author is a member.
      First authors must be members at time of submission.
      Please check whether the first author has paid the annual membership fee for this year at the time of submission.
      Submission may be cancelled if unpaid by the submission deadline.

      Please see http://www.psj.gr.jp/jpn/membership for details.

    2. Only one submission (oral or poster) is permitted as the first author.
    3. If the first author is eligible for consideration or Outstanding Article Award (either he/she is a graduate student or younger than 41 years old as of September 15th, 2018), please let us know whether your submission would like to be considered for the award
    4. Papers submitted to or scheduled to be submitted to other conferences will not be accepted.
    5. The abstract should include results available at the time of submission.
      Papers with only experiment plans will not be accepted.
    6. Applicants may choose the presentation form (oral or poster), but if you put a check on the “open to change”, the final decision will be made by the committee.
    7. Notification of acceptance will be sent around June 27th, 2018.
      If accepted, please submit the full paper in PDF format by Wednesday, July 30th, 2018 via the online submission system.
      Late submission may not be published on the website.
      Please note that the paper will be uploaded to the website as is.
    8. Format of papers are the same for oral and poster presentations. (less than 6 pages in A4 sized paper)
    9. Languages used for presentations are limited to Japanese and English.
      Please write the title and abstract in the same language.
      If accepted, please write the paper in the language specified at the time of submission, and give your presentation in that language.
    10. Distribution of additional materials on the day of presentation is prohibited.
    11. Papers will be made public on the PSJ website before the conference dates. We do not provide hard copies.
    12. Abstracts will be published in the Journal of Phonetic Society of Japan after the conference.
    13. Details of poster presentations, including poster size, will be announced shortly.
    14. Revisions will not be accepted after submission.
    (Planning Committee)　

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