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Announcement of HISPhonCog 2018

April 21st, 2018

A program-at-a-glance of HisPhonCog 2018 (Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics & Cognitive Sciences of Language) to be held on May 18-19 (Friday & Saturday) 2018 at Hanyang University, Seoul Korea is now available.

Theme:
Linguistic/cognitive functions of phonetic granularity in speech production and/or perception in L1 and L2.

Program-at-a-glance:
http://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/program-at-a-glance

Free Registration: April 20, 2018 (can be extended a few more days)
(including Lunches, Banquet and Conference Handbook)

Download the pre-registration form:
http://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/registration

Invited Speakers & Commentator

Aoju Chen (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
The production, perception and comprehension of prosodic granularity in children and adults

Mirjam Ernestus (Radboud University, the Netherlands)
Does the mental lexicon contain representations for reduced word pronunciation variants? Evidence from native listeners and language learners

Elizabeth Johnson (University of Toronto, Canada)
The acquisition of systematic language variation in early childhood

Holger Mitterer(University of Malta, Malta)
The letters of speech: evidence from perceptual learning and selective adaptation

Eva Reinisch (University of Munich, Germany)
The relation between perception and production of second language sound contrasts

Annie Tremblay (University of Kansas, USA)
The functional weight of suprasegmental cues in the native language predicts spoken word recognition in a second language

Natasha Warner (University of Arizona, USA)
Conversational speech reduction across languages, second languages, and dialects

Anne Cutler (Western Sydney University, MARCS, and ARC Centre ofExcellence, Australia)
Commentary

Plus 18 more oral presentations and 40 more poster presentations

Conference Website:
http://site.hanyang.ac.kr/web/hisphoncog/program-at-a-glance

Now Accepting Applications for the FY2017 Academic Research Incentive Award of the Phonetic Society of Japan

October 6th, 2017

The Academic Research Incentive Award was established in FY2012 by the Phonetic Society of Japan to encourage research and development in phonetics. This award consists of a certificate recognizing excellent work or activity contributing to the development and dissemination of phonetics by members of the Society and an additional prize of 50,000 yen

We are accepting applications for FY2017 as described below. You are cordially invited to apply.

Chair of Incentive Award Selection Committee
Hirokazu SATO

Guidelines for Application for the FY2017 Academic Research Incentive Award of the PSJ

Eligibility for application:

Eligibility is limited to members of the Society who have paid their dues for the current fiscal year. In case of group application, group representatives must be members of the Society who have paid their dues for the current fiscal year. Collective members and supporting members are not eligible.

Works or activities eligible for consideration:

Research and education works or activities from the last five fiscal years including the current fiscal year, other than research papers and verbal presentations, contributing to the development and dissemination of phonetics, including publications such as textbooks and dictionaries, audio sources and corpora, teaching materials and aids, teaching and diagnostic methods, and software and electronic tools.

Application method:

Please send the necessary application forms to the e-mail address below.
Note: Please also submit any necessary physical supporting materials relevant to the applicant’s work.

Application forms:

(Note: In principle, application forms and supporting materials received will not be returned.)

Applicant information (Form 1-1): Name, date of birth, address, phone number, e-mail address, affiliation and position, educational background, and research history (group research history in case of collaborative works) Note: In case of collaborative work, submit information on all members separately. (Form 1-2)
Description of the applicant’s work or activity (Form 2):
1. Title of work or activity
2. Summary of work or activity (one sheet of A4-sized paper in approx. 1,200 characters, together with necessary photos, etc.)
  - Note 1: Provide URL etc. in the summary of the work if the work is a website.
  - Note 2: If electronic data other than websites are submitted in support of the work, submit the data as supporting materials relevant to the applicant’s work as described in (c).
3. Indicate if submitting physical supporting materials relevant to the applicant’s work
  - Note 1: Submit the actual work if the work is a book or other physical medium.
  - Note 2: It is possible to submit sound or video materials relevant to the applicant’s work. However, they should be submitted in a format independent of any special device or software for reproduction.
  - Note 3: Send supporting materials by simple registered mail (You can use the letter pack service) and write “FY2016 applicant’s work for the Academic Research Incentive Award of the Phonetic Society of Japan” in red on the cover.
Recommendation for the applicant’s work written by a member of the Society who has paid his/her membership fee for the current fiscal year in approx. 1,200 characters (Form 3)

Deadline for application:

January 20, 2018

E-mail address for application:

psj-shoureishou@bunken.co.jp
Note: Please enter as subject: Application for the Academic Research Incentive Award of the Phonetic Society of Japan

Address for physical delivery of supporting materials relevant to the applicant’s work:

The Administration Office of the Phonetic Society of Japan
c/o International Academic Publishing Company, Ltd., Academy Center,
358-5 Yamabuki-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-0801, Japan; TEL: +81-3-5937-6763
Note: Deadline: Same as the deadline for application

Contact:

psj-shoureishou@bunken.co.jp
Note: Please enter as subject: Inquiry about the Academic Research Incentive Award of the Phonetic Society of Japan

Screening schedule:

January 20, 2018: Deadline for application
January and February 2018: Screening
March 2018: Result presentation (Announcement the winners on the website of the Society, etc.)
September 2018: Presentation ceremony (at the General Meeting of the Annual Convention)

End

Application Forms for the FY2016 Academic Research Incentive Award

Form1-1 (pdf)
Form1-2 (pdf)
Form2 (pdf)
Form3 (pdf)

Form1-1 (MS Word)
Form1-2 (MS Word)
Form2 (MS Word)
Form3 (MS Word)

Phonetics Seminar “Emotional Speech Seminar”

September 16th, 2017

Lecturer: Professor Donna Erickson (Sophia Soliphic, Haskins Laboratories)
Date: 1:30-5:00pm, Saturday, October 14th, 2017
Venue: Keio University, Hiyoshi Campus, Eighth Building, Room 812
http://lsdcom.keio.ac.jp/access/index.html
Host: Phonetic Society of Japan (Phonetics Promotion Committee, Planning Committee)
Co-host: Keio University, Center for Life-Span Development of Communication Skills (MEXT-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities)
Organizer: Yasuyo Minagawa (Keio University)
Admission: Free for members and students, 1000yen for non-members, 500yen for non-member students
Capacity: 80

Registration: Please fill in the following form. On-site registration is also possible.
https://goo.gl/forms/znFjCUKkxGbiDvBB2
　
In this seminar, you will learn the basic acoustic, physiological, and perceptual features of emotional speech, as well as emotional speech in acting, cultural and individual differences, and various research methods concerning emptional speech.You are able to learn how to express emotions via voice in different cultures, performances and situations, so we welcome not only researchers but also language teachers, voice-over actors, actors, and singers. (The lecture will be held in English, but Q&A in Japanese is possible.)

Program (tentative)

Session 1: 13:30-14:30
1. Why study emotional speech?
2. What are some acoustic and articulatory changes?
3. Brief tutorial of F0, loudness and voice quality.
4. Why does experiencing emotion result in changes in the voice?
10 min rest
Session 2: 14:40-15:30
5. Some phonetic/perceptual similarities/differences for spontaneous & acted emotions
6. Acted emotions & cultural differences in perception
7. Social “emotions”: Social affective expressions
8. Social affective expressions: Cultural similarities and differences
10 min rest
Session 3: 15:40-16:30 9. Social affective expressions and personalities
10. Some tips on how to study “emotional” speech
11. Other topics: gender issues, social laugher/spontaneous laughter, etc.
12. Analysis of voice quality
10 min rest
Session 4: 16:40-17:00　questions & free discussion

Contact: Chair, Phonetics Promotion Committee

Paper Release on JSTAGE

September 15th, 2017

We have been working on transferring the “Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan” from CiNII-ELS to JSTAGE. We have now finished transferring articles from Vol.1-19 to JSTAGE where you can search and read articles. Since articles from Vol.20 onward are already on JSTAGE, you are now able to search and read all articles (including reviews and article reviews) on JSTAGE.

To overview the “Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan”, insert “Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan” in the search box under “Titles” at the upper right corner on the JSTAGE website (see following URL). There will only be one search result, so click on the journal title. All articles from Vol.1-20 will be listed.

JSTAGE
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse

Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan (in JSTAGE)
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/onseikenkyu

We will now begin to work on transferring the categories in Vol.1-19. At this moment, papers are uploaded in both CiNII-ELS and JSTAGE,however CiNII-ELS is expected to discontinue its service in the future. Papers in Vol.20 onwards will not be uploaded on CiNII-ELS for this reason, so please use JSTAGE to access the papers.

Talks at Sophia Univ. by Dr. Spencer D. Kelly and Dr. Yukari Hirata (Colgate Univ.)

May 26th, 2017

Dr. Spencer D. Kelly and Dr. Yukari Hirata (Colgate University) will give talks at Sophia University. Dr. Kelly specializes in Psychology and Neuroscience, and Dr. Hirata specializes in Linguistics at Colgate Univ. Dr. Hirata is also one of the Global Mentors of Sophia Univ.

Date: June 6, 2017
Time: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Location: Sophia University (Yotsuya Campus, Room 2-406)
（Campus map　http://www.sophia.ac.jp/jpn/info/access/map/map_yotsuya）
Pre-registration: not necessary
Registration fee: none
Language: English

Direct inquiries to: Dr. Takayuki ARAI (Sophia University)（arai@sophia.ac.jp）

Host:
Sophia University Faculty of Science and Technology Department of Information and Communication Sciences (Arai Lab.)
Sophia Linguistic Institute for International Communication (Phonetics Lab.)

Co-host：The Phonetic Society of Japan

Supporting organizations:
The Research Committee on Speech Communication of the Acoustical Society of Japan,
Office for the Promotion of Diversity of Sophia University

Obituary (Professor Osamu Fujimura)

March 21st, 2017

We regret to announce that Professor Osamu Fujimura passed away on March 13th. Professor Fujimura was a great pioneer in the field of speech science. He served as Professor at the Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Tokyo, Director at Bell Laboratories, and Professor at The Ohio State University. He had recently moved to Kona, Hawaii to receive medical treatment. The Special Issue of the Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan entitled “Adventures in Speech Science: Focus on the C/D Model and Its Impact on Phonetics & Phonology” was published in honor of Professor Osamu Fujimura. He provided researchers with continuous support and encouragement, and will be sorely missed.

President, The Phonetic Society of Japan Satoshi Imaizumi

Prof. Osamu Fujimura
Photo by Donna Erickson (Dec. 1, 2016)

Now Accepting Applications for the FY2016 Academic Research Incentive Award of the Phonetic Society of Japan

September 18th, 2016

The Academic Research Incentive Award was established in FY2012 by the Phonetic Society of Japan to encourage research and development in phonetics. This award consists of a certificate recognizing excellent work or activity contributing to the development and dissemination of phonetics by members of the Society and an additional prize of 50,000 yen.

We are accepting applications for FY2016 as described below. You are cordially invited to apply.

Chair of Incentive Award Selection Committee
Hirokazu SATO

Guidelines for Application for the FY2016 Academic Research Incentive Award of the PSJ

Digitizing PSJ publications

July 30th, 2016

As the Phonetic Society of Japan celebrates its 90th anniversary this year, we are working on digitizing our intellectual property such as “The Study of Sounds” for the purpose of preserving valuable works, making them easily accessible online, and cost reduction. We would like to ask for your understanding and cooperation especially from the authors and those involved in the publication process.
We will distribute a USB memory stick with The Study of Sounds at the 30th General Meeting of the PSJ which is to be held at Waseda University on September 17th – 18th.
If you have any comments, especially about copyright issues, please contact the PSJ Administrative Office <psj-post@bunken.co.jp>

PSJ President, Satoshi IMAIZUMI

Joint lecture by Sophia University & PSJ (2016/06/14)

June 12th, 2016

Title：Word Predictability Effects: Implications for Phonology
Lecturer：Prof. Elizabeth Hume
　　　　　University of Canterbury,New Zealand
Date：Tuesday, June 14th, 2016, 13:30-14:50
Location：Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus, Building 3 Room 571
　　　　　http://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/info/access/map/map_yotsuya
Language: English (no translation)
Registration not necessary
Contact:Takayuki Arai, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University(arai@sophia.ac.jp)

Announcement of 2015 Phonetic Society of Japan Academic Research Incentive Awards

March 18th, 2016

Phonetic Society of Japan Academic Research Incentive Award Selection Committee Chair
TANAKA Yukari (Nihon University)

After careful deliberation, the committee has selected the following two research projects as worthy recipients of this award. (in order of application)

(1) KAWAHARA Shigeto (application spokesperson)
“MyVoice: Rescuing voices of ALS patients”
Websites relating to award winning project:
http://user.keio.ac,jp/~kawahara/myvoice.html
http://takaki.la.coocan.jp/hearty/

(2) NAKAMOTO Ken (application spokesperson)
“Development of teaching materials and textbooks and preservation and revitalization of the Ryukyuan dialect”
Website relating to award winning project:
http://www.pref.okinawa.jp/site/bunka-sports/bunka/documents/simakutuba.html

http://www.psj.gr.jp/eng/psj_awards

The 2015 selection committee was composed of the following members:
TANAKA Yukari, Chair
ARAI Takayuki, Member
KUNO Mariko, Member
MISONOO Yasuko, Member
HAYASHI Naoki, Executive Secretary

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