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30th General Meeting Program

The Ninetieth Anniversary and Thirtieth General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan
The Ninetieth Anniversary and
Thirtieth General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan
Sponsor: The Phonetic Society of Japan
Co-sponsor: Language and Speech Science Research Laboratories, Waseda University
Venue: Waseda University, Waseda Campus
1-6-1 Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-0051
(https://www.waseda.jp/top/access/waseda-campus)
Organizer: Mafuyu Kitahara (Waseda University)

Program (PDF format)
Day 1: Saturday, September 17th
Venue: Building 27 (Ono Auditorium, B2F Lobby)
10:00- Registration
10:30-12:30 Venue: Building 27, B2F Lobby
  • Poster Session
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Venue: Ono Auditorium
  • 90th Anniversary Speech by Satoshi IMAIZUMI (PSJ President)
  • Speech by Host University: Mariko KONDO, Director of Language and Speech Science Research Laboratories
  • Awarding Ceremony (Outstanding Article Award, Academic Research Incentive Award)
14:40-17:10 Venue: Ono Auditorium
90th Anniversary Symposium
Tsutomu Chiba (1883-1959): Aspects of his work and its context
  • Chair: Hiroko SAITO (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
  • The works of Tsutomu Chiba and Masato Kajiyama in their historical context

    Kikuo MAEKAWA (NINJAL)
  • Images from the past: Re-discovering some lost X-ray data of Tsutomu Chiba

    Michael Ashby（University College London）
  • What Tsutomu Chiba left behind

    Takayuki ARAI (Sophia University)
17:30-17:50 Venue: Rihga Royal Hotel Tokyo
  • Photo session
18:00-20:00 Venue: Rihga Royal Hotel Tokyo
90th Anniversary Celebration Party
  • Chair: Makoto KUNO (Chair, 90th Anniversary Event)
Day 2: Sunday, September 18th
Venue: Ono Auditorium (Building 27, B2F Lobby), International Conference Center (Building 18)
09:30- Registration
10:00-11:00 Venue: Ono Auditorium
90th Anniversary Lecture
Interacting with Phonetics
Patricia Ashby（University of Westminster）
  • Chair: Junko Sugimoto (University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo)
11:00-11:10 Break
11:10-11:40 Venue: Ono Auditorium
  • General Assembly
11:40-13:00 Lunch
13:00-16:40 Venue: International Conference Center 3F
  • Oral presentations
16:40 Closing

Day 1: Research Presentation Program (September 17)

※Underlined presenters are eligible presenters for Outstanding Presentation Award. Winners and the dates for the awarding ceremony will be announced on the PSJ website after the General Meeting. Winners will be notified via e-mail.
Poster Presentations 10:30-12:30
Building 27, B2F Lobby
Chair: Michiko SUDO & Kyoto TAKEUCHI
P1 The excrescent b in Indo-European languages
Mutsuko ISONO (Meijigakuin Unversity)
P2 Perception of Japanese Fricatives [s], [z], [ɕ] and [ʑ] by Indonesian Javanese-speaking Learners
Hernawati HENI (Nagoya University)
P3 Effects of pronunciation training and translation training in English vocabulary learning by Japanese speakers
Sayoko EGUCHI (ATR, Kobe University),
Reiko YAMADA (ATR, Kobe University)
P4 Effects of perceptual training and vocabulary training of Mandarin tones for Japanese listeners: Pretest – post-test Comparison
Shuyi YANG (Kobe University), Reiko YAMADA (ATR, Kobe University)
P5 Asymmetry of English liquid recognition by Japanese speakers
Mariko KONDO (Waseda University)
P6 Intonation pattern from the interjection to the subsequent word and its function in Japanese chat
Jun SUDO (Doshisha University)
P7 The Prosody of Sentence-Final Particles in Kumamoto Dialect
Yukinori TAGAWA (Nihon University)
P8 On the Perception of Japanese Initial Voiced Stops by Taiwanese Learners
Chi CHU (Soochow University (Taiwan)), Yuki Okazaki (Nagoya University)
◇Poster Presentations
 Poster session is 120 minutes. Please put up your poster on your designated poster board by 10:30am. Please come back to the venue when the session starts.Odd numbered posters will be in the first 60 minutes, and even numbered posters will be in the latter 60 minutes. Presenters can be at their poster for 120 minutes, or leave when it is not their time to present. Poster boards are 170cm high and 114cm wide. Pointers and tapes will be available at the venue. Presenters should use headphones when presenting sounds. There will be no power supply available at the venue.

Day 2: Research Presentation Program (September 18)

Oral Presentations
Venue A (Conference Room 1, International Conference Center 3F)
Chair: Atsuko SHIMIZU & Yuko SHITARA
A1
13:00-13:30 		Consonant clusters by Japanese learners of English
Katsumi NAGAI (Kagawa University)
A2
13:35-14:05 		Japanese Advanced Learners of English Produce Shorter Epenthetic Vowels
Takayuki KONISHI , Kakeru YAZAWA, Mariko KONDO (Waseda University)
A3
14:10-14:40 		The Validity of Rhythm Indices (IM & PVI) in L2 Research:
An Analysis on English Spoken by L1 Japanese Speakers
Yumi OZAKI (Waseda University)
  Break
Chair: Chieko NAKAGAWA & Makiko MATSUDA
A4
15:00-15:30 		Japanese noun accent by Vietnamese learners
Thi Huyen Trang NGUYEN (Osaka University)
A5
15:35-16:05 		The Accent Pattern of Japanese Nouns Produced by Chinese Learners: Focusing the Relationship of Perception and Knowledge
Ruilai Wang (Kobe University), Ryoko Hayashi (Kobe University), Kazuhiro ISOMURA (The Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute), Jun ARAI (Charles University in Prague)
A6
16:10-16:40 		The factors that influenced teaching pronunciation of non-native Japanese teacher
– An example for teaching prosody of Vietnamese teachers –
Thi May SAI(Waseda University)
Oral Presentations 13:00-16:40
Venue B (Conference Room 2, International Conference Center 3F)
Chair: Takuya KIMURA & Keiichi TAKAMARU
B1
13:00-13:30 		MyVoice and phonetics education
Shigeto KAWAHARA (Keio University), Tomoko MONOU (Keio University, Mejiro University), Yasuyo MINAGAWA (Keio University)
B2
13:35-14:05 		The difference between singers and non-singers on the perception of high-pitched sung vowels
Nozomi ENDO(The University of Tokyo), Shigeto KAWAHARA (Keio University), Yasuyo MINAGAWA (Keio University)
B3
14:10-14:40 		How to write by hand the International Phonetic Alphabet
Kyoko TAKEUCHI (Kokugakuin University)
  Break
Chair: Seiya FUNATSU & Takehiko MAKINO
B4
15:00-15:30 		Acoustic Realization of Downstep in English Speakers’ Japanese
Kakeru YAZAWA Mariko KONDO (Waseda University)
B5
15:35-16:05 		Reconsideration of the notion of mora in speech rhythm and spoken word recognition
Takashi OTAKE (E-Listening Laboratory)
B6
16:10-16:40 		The articulatory characteristics of Japanese alveolar geminates based on the EPG analysis
Michinao MATSUI (Osaka Health Science University), Shigeto KAWAHARA (Keio University),
Jason SHAW (University of Western Sydney)
Oral Presentations 13:00-16:40
Venue C (Conference Room 3, International Conference Center 3F)
Chair: Harumi MITSUI & Akemi MINEDA
C1
13:00-13:30 		A dialect of Mainland Japanese retaining the Class B vs. Class C tonal distinction:
The comparison between the Saga-Kishima dialect and Ryukyuan
Yosuke IGARASHI (Hitotsubashi University), Tatsuya Hirako (Komazawa University)
C2
13:35-14:05 		Mechanism of establishment of the “”Yamada rules””
Yosuke MIKI (JSPS/NINJAL)
C3
14:10-14:40 		Mutual assimilation of sequential vowels in verbs in Nakai-machi dialect, Kanagawa Prefecture
Kaoru SAKAMOTO(Kokugakuin University)
  Break
Chair: Kazuaki UENO & Ken NAKAMOTO
C4
15:00-15:30 		Syllable “”e”” & “”o”” in Japanese : the phonology of their history
Yuichiro KASAMA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
C5
15:35-16:05 		Accent opposition of two registers in Suzuka Mie
Haruka TAKEUCHI(Kokugakuin University)
C6
16:10-16:40 		The accent of Japanese four-kanji compound words composed of a patient noun and a verbal noun
Xi CHEN(Osaka University)
◇Oral presentations
 Presenting time is 25 minutes followed by 5 minutes Q&A. Presenters who wish to spend more time on Q&A may present for 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes Q&A. There will be 5 minutes between presentations for presenters to get ready, but this time may not be used for presentations or Q&A. Presenters should follow the chairs’ instructions.
  1. Presenters should be in the room at the time their session begins. Presenters should be seated at the front seats. Please wait for your turn in your seats.
  2. Projectors are available in all rooms.
  3. Projectors:
    Presenters should check their laptop-projector connection before their presentations. Student staff at Waseda University will be available for assistance at the International Conference Center from 12pm. We will not prepare laptops at the venue, so presenters should bring their own laptops. Please disconnect your laptop and projector as soon as the presentation is over.
    *Please note that the connector on the projector is a widely used D-sub 15 pin (Mini D-sub15pin or HD(3way)15pin) with 3 lines of 15pin. Presenters should be responsible for technical issues other than issues with the projector itself.
◇Participation fee and proceedings
 Proceedings (on paper and USB) will be on sale at the registration booth (1000 yen for students, 2000 yen for members, and 3000 yen for non-members except students). Those attending the conference must purchase the proceedings as participation fee. Students of undergraduate and graduate schools must show their student ID at registration. Proceedings will be on sale only at the convention venue. The public symposium is open to all. All will receive a 90th anniversary gift.
◇Proceedings back issues
 Back issues are on sale or distributed at registration. First come, first served. Pre-ordering and mailing will not be accepted.
  • The past two issues (28th and 29th conventions): 500 yen each
  • Issues before 27th convention: Free
◇Membership registration
 If you wish to become a member, please register at the registration booth.
*Members cannot pay their membership fee at the convention registration.
◇90th Anniversary Party
 The convention party will be held on Day 1 (6PM, Saturday) at “Emerald”, 2nd floor of Rhiga Royal Hotel Tokyo (7 minute walk from Ono Auditorium). Participation fee is 6000 yen for members, 3000 yen for students. Please make a reservation by September 9th via website（https://goo.gl/EKGWZt）.You will also find the link on the PSJ website. Participation without reservation will only be accepted when there is vacancy. Pre-registration is recommended.
◇Lunch
 The venue will not provide lunches. There are restaurants and convenience stores around the campus.
◇Nursery room
 The nursery room is available during the convention with the cooperation of the venue. The fee is at a reasonable price (500 yen/hour for one child). Participants with small children are encouraged to use this system. Please make a reservation in advance if you wish to use this system. Further information will be announced on the website.
◇Convention administration committee
Mafuyu KITAHARA (Chair), Miki IKOMA, Takayuki KONISHI,
Mariko KONDO, Takako TODA, Chieko NAKAGAWA, Yukio KIGAWA,
Takayuki KAGOMIYA, Kenji YOSHIDA, Kiyoko YONEYAMA
◇Planning Committee
Mariko KUNO (Chair), Seiya FUNATSU (Alternate Chair), A Rongna,
Miki IKOMA, Kahoru IMAMURA, Makio OONO, Takuya KIMURA,
Yuko SHITARA, Ayako SHIROSE, Keiichi TAKAMARU, Kyoko TAKEUCHI,
Chieko NAKAGAWA, Ken NAKAMOTO, Makiko MATSUDA, Takehiko MAKINO,
Yosuke MIKI, Akemi MINEDA, Nobuaki MINEMATSU
◇90th Anniversary Committee
Makoto KUNO (Chair), Mafuyu KITAHARA, Yoshio SAITO,
Keiichi TAKAMARU, Kiyoko YONEYAMA
◇Access to Venue
(Waseda Campus, Waseda University on both days)
  • JR/Seibu Line: 20 minute walk from Takadanobaba Station
  • Bus (Toei Bus Gaku02): 7 minute walk from Sodai-Seimon Bus Stop
  • Tozai Line (Metro): 5 minute walk from Waseda Station
  • Fukutoshin Line (Metro): 17 minute walk from Nishi-Waseda Station
  • Toei Bus: Waseda, Nishi-Waseda, Sodai-Seimon, Baba-Shitamachi Stops
  • Toei Streetcar (Toden): 5 minute walk from Waseda Station

Call for Presentation: The 30th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan

The 30th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan will be held on September 17th and 18th. Submission for oral/poster presentations (Day 2) is now open.
PSJ is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. All oral and poster presentations will be held on September 18th, 2016.
  • Date: September 17th-18th, 2016
  • Location: Waseda University

Call for Oral/Poster Presentations

Please submit proposals through the following website.
https://iap-jp.org/psj/conf30/login
  • Please download paper template from the following page.
    http://www.psj.gr.jp/eng/downloads
  • Submissions should be sent in both PDF and MS Word format (or text file).
  • The deadline is June 21st, 2016.

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.
  2. Papers submitted to or scheduled to be submitted to other conferences will not be accepted. Submission will be cancelled if this is the case, and will be made public via the PSJ website.
  3. The abstract should include results available at the time of submission. Papers with only experiment plans will not be accepted.
  4. Notification of acceptance will be sent by around July 7th. If accepted, please submit the full paper by July 25th. Late submission will not be published in the proceedings.
  5. Format of papers are the same for oral and poster presentations. (less than 6 pages in A4 sized paper)
  6. Applicants may choose the presentation form (oral or poster), but the final decision will be made by the committee. Please be ready to present in either forms.
  7. 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.
  8. Distribution of additional materials on the day of presentation is prohibited.
  9. Abstracts will be made public as is via attachment to the conference program on the PSJ website before the conference dates (excluding references). The same abstract will be published in the Journal of Phonetic Society of Japan after the conference. Revisions will not be accepted after submission.
  10. Details of poster presentations, including poster size, will be announced shortly.

The 30th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan

The 30th General Meeting (90th Anniversary Meeting)
  • Date: September 17th & 18th, 2016
  • Location: Waseda University

The 29th General Meeting

The 29th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan
Host: The Phonetic Society of Japan
Venue: Kobe University, Rokkodai Daiichi Campus
1-2-1 Tsurukabuto, Nada-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan
(http://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/en/access/rokko/campus.html)
Organizer: Ryoko Hayashi (Kobe University)

Program
Day 1: Saturday, October 3rd
Venue: Building B & M, Faculty of Intercultural Studies
12:00- Registration
13:00-14:40 Oral presentations
14:40-14:50 Break
14:50-15:50 Poster presentations
15:50-16:00 Break
16:00-17:40 Oral presentations
18:00-20:00 Party (Japanese restaurant Sakura, 3rd floor, Academia Hall for Social Sciences, Rokkodai Daiichi Campus)
Day 2: Sunday, October 4th
Venue: Buildings B & K, Faculty of Intercultural Studies
9:30- Registration (for those who did not register on Day 1)
10:00-12:00 Workshop 1 (Room B207)
“Current issues in the study of 3-pattern accent systems”
Workshop 2 (Room B204)
“Residual voices: how to catch them”
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-13:45 Venue: Building K (Room K202), Faculty of Intercultural Studies Opening speech
  • Hirokazu Sato, President of PSJ
  • Kazuhiro Ohtsuki, Dean, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University
  • General Assembly
  • Award Ceremony (Outstanding Article Award, Outstanding Presentation Award, Academic Research Incentive Award)
13:50-16:30 Public Symposium
“3-pattern accent system in Japanese: Principle and history”
  • Chair: Tetsuo Nitta (Kanazawa University)
  • Lecturer:
    • Akiko Matsumori (Japan Women’s University)
      “Past, present, and future of descriptive research of 3-pattern accent system: 3-pattern accent of Oki Islands”
    • Yosuke Igarashi (Hitotsubashi University)
      “3-pattern accent system of Miyako Ryukyuan: Ikema and Tarama dialects”
    • Tetsuo Nitta (Kanazawa University) & Kohei Matsukura (The University of Tokyo)
      “3-pattern accent system in Heiya region of Fukui”
  • Commentator: Zendo Uwano (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo)
16:30 Closing

Program (October 3rd)

Presenters with underline are eligible presenters for Outstanding Presentation Award. The awarding ceremony for this year will be on Day 2 (Sunday, October 4th) after the general assembly. Candidates are expected to participate in the ceremony.
Oral presentations 13:00 – 14:40, 16:00 – 17:40
Conference room A (Room M202, Building M, Faculty of Intercultural Studies)
Chair: Ayako Shirose & Toshio Matsuura
A1
13:00-13:30 		“2 mora words pitch accent of Japanese learners in Taiwan: To aim at memory of accent, the listening comprehension and the accent pronunciation”
Kuanlin Chen (University of Osaka)
A2
13:35-14:05 		“The accent pattern of Japanese compound noun produced by Chinese learners”
Ruilai Wang (Kobe University)
A3
14:10-14:40 		“Sino-Japanese word accent production by native speakers of Chinese: Focusing on overgeneralization and L1 transfer”
Motong Li (Osaka University)
  (Break & Poster Session)
Chair: Yasuyo Minagawa & Keiichi Tajima
A4
16:00-16:30 		“Phonological interference of pronouncing Kanji words in Japanese learners in Taiwan- Analysis of vowel length”
Yu-wen Yang (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Ming Chuan University(Taiwan))
& Motoi Kawatsu (Nagasaki University)
A5
16:35-17:05 		“Perception and production of special morae and yo-on (contracted sounds) by Japanese learners: A study of spelling performance as production data”
Miki Motohashi (Kansai Gaidai University) & Toru Ishizawa (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
A6
17:10-17:40 		“Effects of VOT and f0 on stop voicing contrast in Japanese and Korean: a comparison between native speakers and Japanese learners of Korean”
Hi-Gyung Byun (Akita International University)
Oral presentations 13:00 – 14:40, 16:00 – 17:40
Conference room B (Room M201, Building M, Faculty of Intercultural Studies)
Chair: Itsue Kawagoe & Donna Erickson
B1
13:00-13:30 		“Vowel Duration, Quality, and Pitch which Correlate with English Rhythm―Comparison between English Native Speakers and Japanese Learners of English”
Shigeo Nakano (Meiji Gakuin University)
B2
13:35-14:05 		“Effects of Vowel Quality in Stress Perception of English”
Sayoko Eguchi (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International)
B3
14:10-14:40 		“Perception of flap, stop, and liquid sounds in American English by Japanese speakers”
Mafuyu Kitahara (Waseda University), Keiichi Tajima (Hosei University)
& Kiyoko Yoneyama (Daito Bunka Univeristy)
  (Break & Poster Session)
Chair: Yasunori Takahashi & Mafuyu Kitahara
B4
16:00-16:30 		“Spanish Stress Perception: A Comparison between Native Speakers and Japanese Learners of Spanish”
Takuya Kimura (Seisen University/Sophia University) & Takayuki Arai (Sophia University)
B5
16:35-17:05 		“Acoustic Analysis of Thai Tones in Three Word Sentences”
Yukie Masuko, Makoto Minegishi & Hirokazu Sato (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
B6
17:10-17:40 		“The pitch patterns and word structure of Chinese disyllabic words: A case of “Tone4+Tone4” nouns”
Xi Chen (Osaka University)
Oral presentations 13:00 – 14:40, 16:00 – 17:40
Conference room C (Room M203, Building M, Faculty of Intercultural Studies)
Chair: Isao Ueda & Michinao Matsui
C1
13:00-13:30 		“Young EFL Japanese learners’ perception and production capability of English sounds on non-words tests”
Hiromi Kawai (Kanda University of International Studies)
C2
13:35-14:05 		“Phrase-final lengthening and prosodic phrases in spontaneous Japanese”
Yoko Mori (Doshisha University)
C3
14:10-14:40 		“Pitch contours after the peak in Japanese accent systems”
Nozomi Kodama (Kumamoto University)
  (Break & Poster Session)
Chair: Tatsuya Hirako & Yosuke Igarashi
C4
16:00-16:30 		“The accents in Ninomiya dialect”
Kaoru Sakamoto (Kokugakuin University)
C5
16:35-17:05 		“A Comparison of the Effects of Different Accent Misuse Patterns on Perceptual Naturalness”
Chen Liang (Nagoya University)
C6
17:10-17:40 		“A novel accentual variation of functional words observed in younger speakers’ pronunciation: Decline of the unaccented pattern of nagara-clauses”
Akio Nasu (Tsukuba University) & Fuka Kuriki (Minami-Rokugo elementary school)
Poster Presentations 14:50 – 15:50
Conference rooms D & E (Rooms B204 & B207, Building B, Faculty of Intercultural Studies)
Chair: Satoshi Ohta & Timothy Vance
P01 “Perception of Paralanguage Speech Acts Involved in the Emphasis of the Mental Attitude”
Masako Fukuoka (Mie University)
P02 “An audiovisual aid for instructing the timing of stress on learning English rhythm”
Tatsuya Kitamura (Konan University), Shogo Kagawa (Konan University), Ryo Nagata (Konan University)
& Koutaro Funakoshi (Honda Research Institute Japan)
P03 “The difference of prosodic features according to function”
Megumi Takamura (Kwansei Gakuin University)
P04 “Basic Research in Japanese Moraic Nasal Production: Utterance Measurement Focusing on Phonetic Environments by Japanese Native Speakers”
Kenichi Ohyama (Tokyo Denki University), Masako Okubo (Aoyama Gakuin University)
& Keiko Hanzawa (Waseda University)
P05 “Production and Perception of Japanese /n/ and /r/ by Chongqing dialect speakers: Effects of phonetic environments”
Shuyi Yang (Kobe University)
P06 Lexicalized schwa in Armenian: the effects of lexical schwa
Astghik, Movsisyan (Nagoya University)
P07 “A study on the C/D model-based analysis of Japanese vowel devoicing”
Michinao Matsui (Osaka Health Science University)
P08 “The accent of declinable word in Suzuka Mie”
Haruka Takeuchi (Kokugakuin University)
P09 “Acoustic characteristic of “”the mood”” in the voice of the infant”
Yasuko Sakai (Konan Woman’s University), Narumi Amatsu (National Instruments Japan)
P10 “Falling tone, from historical accent materials standpoint”
Yuichiro Kasama (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Workshop Program (October 4th)

Workshop 1: “Current issues in the study of 3-pattern accent systems” (Venue: B207)
  • Organizer/Chair: Shinji Ogawa (Prefectural University of Kumamoto)
  • Presenter:
    • Kohei Matsukura (The University of Tokyo)
      “3-pattern accent system of Kitagata and Hamasaka dialects in Awara-shi, Fukui prefecture”
    • Hayato Aoi (JSPS/NINJAL)
      “3-pattern accent system of Tarama dialect”
    • Shinji Ogawa (Prefectural University of Kumamoto) & Reiko Aso (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
      “3-pattern accent system of Hateruma dialect”
  • Commentator: Nozomi Kodama (Kumamoto University)
Workshop 2: “Residual voices: how to catch them”(Venue: B204)
  • Organizer/Chair: Toshiyuki Sadanobu (Kobe University)
  • Presenter:
    • Toshiyuki Sadanobu & Ryoko Hayashi (Kobe University)
      “Residual voices and communication research”
    • Chunyue Zhu & Toshiyuki Sadanobu (Kobe University)
      “Residual voices and articulatory movement”
    • Mihoko Teshigawara (Komazawa University)
      “Residual voices and voice quality”
<Participation fee and proceedings>
Proceedings will be on sale at the registration booth (1000 yen for students, 2000 yen for members, and 3000 yen for non-members except students). Those presenting at the convention are asked to purchase the proceedings as participation fee. Students of undergraduate and graduate schools must show their student ID at registration. Proceedings will be on sale only at the convention venue. The public symposium is open to all.
<Proceedings back issues>
Back issues are on sale or distributed at registration. First come, first served. Pre-ordering and mailing will not be accepted.
The past two issues (27th and 28th conventions): 500 yen each
Issues before 26th convention: Free
<Membership registration>
If you wish to become a member, please register at the registration booth. Membership fee for this year is 7000 yen for members and 4000 yen for students. Admission fee is 1000 yen.
*Members cannot pay their membership fee at the convention registration.
<Party>
The convention party will be held on Day 1 (6pm, Saturday, October 3rd) at Japanese restaurant Sakura, 3rd floor, Academia Hall for Social Sciences, Rokkodai Daiichi Campus. Participation fee is 5000 yen for members, 3000 yen for students. Please make a reservation preferably by September 25th by sending your name and membership status (student member, non-student member, non-member) to psj.party2015@gmail.com. Participation without reservation will only be accepted when there is vacancy. Pre-registration is recommended.
<Lunch>
The venue will not provide lunches. The university cafeteria will be closed on both days. There are no restaurants or stores near the campus, so please bring your lunch to the venue.
<Nursery room>
The nursery room is available during the convention with the cooperation of the venue. The fee is at a reasonable price (500 yen/hour for one child). Participants with small children are encouraged to use this system. Please make a reservation in advance if you wish to use this system. Further information will be announced on the website.
<Exhibition>
Books and acoustical instruments will be exhibited on both days in Room B208.
<Wireless LAN>
Participants will be able to use the wireless LAN. Please stop by at the registration booth if you wish to use it during the convention.
<Convention administration committee >
Ryoko Hayashi (Chair), Shunyaku Shu, Shin’ichi Tanaka, Gabor Pinter, Yasunori Takahashi (Kobe University)
<Planning Committee>
Haruo Kubozono (Head), Yosuke Igarashi, Donna Erickson, Mafuyu Kitahara, Hideki Zamma, Mariko Sugawara, Keiichi Tajima, Shin’ichi Tanaka, Michinao Matsui, Toshio Matsuura, Tim Vance
<Access to venue (Kobe University, Rokkodai Daiichi Campus)>
Please get off at JR “Rokkomichi” station, Hankyu “Rokko” station, or Hanshin “Mikage” station. Please take the Kobe city bus #16 bound for Rokko Cable, and get off at “Shindai Kokusai Bunka Gakubu mae” station. You can also walk from Hankyu “Rokko” station (15 minutes). The campus is 5 minutes from Hankyu “Rokko” station and 10 minutes from JR “Rokkomichi” station by car. There are several campuses around the area. Please do not get off at “Kobe Daigaku Seimon mae” and “Bunri Nougakubumae” stations.

The 29th Annual Convention (2015)

The 29th General Meeting
  • Date: October 3rd & 4th, 2015
  • Venue: Kobe University, Tsurukabuto Campus (Kobe City, Nada-ku)

Program of the 28th General Meeting (Preliminary)

The Twenty-Eighth General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan
Host The Phonetic Society of Japan
Venue Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei Campus, Lecture Hall Building for Faculty of Engineering
Address: 2-24-16 Naka-cho, Koganei-shi, Tokyo, 184-8588 (http://www.tuat.ac.jp/basic_information/access/index.html)
Organizer Yasuko MISONO (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)

Overall Schedule

Day 1: Saturday, September 27th
Venue Lecture Hall Building for Faculty of Engineering (L0011~L0013, L0017)
12:00- Registration
13:00-14:40 Oral presentations
14:40-14:50 Coffee break
14:50-15:50 Poster presentations
15:50-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:40 Oral presentations
18:00-20:00 Welcome party (Ellipse, 140th anniversary memorial hall)
Day 2: Sunday, September 28th
Venue Lecture Hall Building for Faculty of Engineering (L0026)
9:30- Registration (only those who have not registered on Day 1)
10:00-12:00 Workshop
“Studies of voiced geminates: Focusing on dialectal variations and stylistic differences”
  • Organizer: Toshio MATSUURA (Hokusei Gakuen University)
  • Moderator: Michinao MATSUI (Osaka Health Science University)
  • Presenters:
    • Toshio MATSUURA (Hokusei Gakuen University)
    • Mieko TAKADA (Aichi Gakuin University)
    • Michinao MATSUI (Osaka Health Science University)
    • Shigeto KAWAHARA (Keio University)
  • Commentator:Hiroaki KATO (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-13:45
  • Welcome speech (Hirokazu SATO, President, Phonetic Society of Japan)
  • Welcome speech by university (Masaomi TSUTSUMI, Trustee, Vice-President for Public Relations and International Affairs, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
  • General Assembly
  • Award ceremony (Best Paper Award, Best Presentation Award, Encouragement Award)
13:50-16:00 Public lectures “Communication Without Speech”
  • Daisuke Hara (Toyota Technological Institute)
    “Phonotactics in Japanese Sign Language”
  • Robert E. Johnson (Gallaudet University)
    “Sequence and Segment in Signed Languages”
  • Mihoko Kato (Toyohashi Univertsity of Technology)
    “Sign Language in Japan”
16:00 Closing
Each oral presentation has a 30 minute time slot (25 minutes for presentation, 5 minutes for discussion). Presenters may spend 20 minutes on presentation and 10 minutes on discussion if they wish to spend more time on discussion. There is a 5 minute break between presentations for preparing for the next presentation, but it will not be used to extend the previous discussion. Please follow the chairperson’s instructions to be on time.
Poster session is 60 minutes. Please put up your posters on your designated poster board by the time session begins. Posters with odd ID numbers will present in the first 45 minutes of the session, and those with even ID numbers will present in the latter 45 minutes. Presenters may stand in front of their posters for the full 60 minute session, or only for the designated 45 minutes. Poster board size is 180cm high and 120cm wide. Each presenter will be given a pointer and a roll of tape for putting up their posters. Please give sufficient consideration to the adjacent presenters (e.g. use headphones to demonstrate sounds to the audience). There will be no power supply in the conference room.

Presentation Program (September 27th)

Presenters with underline are eligible presenters for Best Presentation Award. The awarding ceremony for this year’s Best Presentation Award will be on Day 2 (September 28th) after the general assembly. Candidates are expected to attend the general assembly.
Abstracts (PDF format)
Oral presentations: 13:00 – 14:40, 16:00 – 17:40
Conference Room A (Lecture Hall Building for Faculty of Engineering, L0011)
Chairperson: Tetsuo NITTA, Toshio MATSUURA
A1
13:00-13:30 		Three-pattern accent system of the Kitagata Dialect in Awara City, Fukui Prefecture
Kohei MATSUKURA(Graduate School, University of Tokyo)
A2
13:35-14:05 		Accent of Noun in the Suzuka City Dialect of Mie Prefecture
Haruka TAKEUCHI(Graduate School, Kokugakuin University)
A3
14:10-14:40 		Initial consonant-clusters of the Yura dialect in Awaji-shima
Kohei NAKAZAWA(Graduate School, University of Tokyo)
  Coffee break & Poster session
Chairperson: Masahiko KOMATSU, Hideki ZAMMA
A4
16:00-16:30 		A Comparison of Intermediate and High Proficient Learners of English on Listening Comprehension: From the Perspective of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processing
Aiko FURUYA(Graduate School, Kansai University)
A5
16:35-17:05 		Prolongations in L1 oral picture description tasks
Tomoko HORI (Tokyo National College of Technology), Yoko MORI (Doshisha University)
A6
17:10-17:40 		Reconsideration of mora-timing
Takashi OTAKE (E-Listening Laboratory)
Oral presentations: 13:00 – 14:40, 16:00 – 17:40
Conference Room B (Lecture Hall Building for Faculty of Engineering, L0012)
Chairperson: Yoshio SAITO, Keiichi TAJIMA
B1
13:00-13:30 		Closed Syllable Vowel Shortening in Korean
JEON, MIJU (Hitotsubashi University), Kikuo MAEKAWA (NINJAL)
B2
13:35-14:05 		VOT differences of Korean word-initial stops in age, gender, speech style, and speech rate
Hi-Gyung BYUN (Akita International University)
B3
14:10-14:40 		Comparison of the frequency of stutters' blocks between shadowing and repeating
A Rongna, Naomi SAKAI, Koichi MORI (National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities)
  Coffee break & Poster session
Chairperson: Hiroaki KATO, Michinao MATSUI
B4
16:00-16:30 		Acoustic analysis from the results of a perception survey of paralinguistic information: Targeted on foreign Japanese learners
Mi JEONG (Graduate School, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
B5
16:35-17:05 		Pre-aspiration and experimental phonetics: Is pre-aspiration harder to hear than post-aspiration?
Yuji SHIMBO(Graduate School, Chiba University)
B6
17:10-17:40 		The Effect of Stop and Fricative Consonants on Perception of the Following Vowels: Comparative Study of Native Japanese Speakers and Native English Speakers
Tamami KATAYAMA (Prefectural University of Hiroshima)
Oral presentations: 13:00 – 14:40, 16:00 – 17:40
Conference Room C (Lecture Hall Building for Faculty of Engineering, L0013)
Chairperson: Shunyaku SHU, Shin’ichi TANAKA
C1
13:00-13:30 		The impact of short-term study abroad experience on VOT and pitch span of Mandarin words produced by Japanese learners
Haruka SAITO (Waseda University), Aiko NISHIMIYA (Graduate School, Waseda University)
C2
13:35-14:05 		Intonation of Chinese Syntactically Ambiguous Sentences
Ruoxing ZHANG (Graduate School, Osaka University)
C3
14:10-14:40 		Linguistic factors affecting production of vowel devoicing in Japanese by native Chinese and Mongolian speaker
Sudiya (Graduate School, Nagoya University)
  Coffee break & Poster session
Chairperson: Takako TODA, Mafuyu KITAHARA
C4
16:00-16:30 		Effects of Syllable Positions and Accent Patterns on Vowel Length Perception in Mandarin Chinese Speaking Learners of Japanese
Michiyo KURIHARA (Kokushikan University)
C5
16:35-17:05 		Ease of Acquisition of Geminate Consonants in Native Speakers of Chinese Dialects with “RUSHENG Tone” —A Case Study of Cantonese Speakers—
LinSheng ZHANG (Osaka Prefecture University), Yongliang LIU (Graduate School, Tokyo Metropolitan University), Yingchun SHI (Osaka Prefecture University)
C6
17:10-17:40 		The Effect of the Duration of the Preceding/Following Vowel on the Japanese Geminate Stop: On the Basis of the Data of Cantonese Native Speakers
Wen GUI (Graduate School, Tsukuba University)
Poster presentations: 14:50 – 15:50
Conference Room D (Lecture Hall Building for Faculty of Engineering, L0017）
Chairperson: Yasuo IWAI, Timothy VANCE
P1 The effect of pitch variation on perception of Japanese pitch accent by L2 learners of Japanese
Sirikanerat THANASAK (Graduate School, Tohoku University), Natsue SUGAYA (Tohoku University)
P2 On the perceptual cues to voicing of Japanese consonants using irregular synthesis sounds
Michinao MATSUI (Osaka Health Science University)
P3 Prosody of modal particles expressing rebuttal in German speech
Miki IKOMA (Waseda University)
P4 Types of phrase final intonation extension in Korean Japanese learners
Youjin KIM (Graduate School, Tsukuba University)
P5 Perception of Stop Consonants by Chinese Learners of Japanese: Relation to Position, Following Vowel and Accent types
Yiching LIU (Graduate School, Kobe University)
P6 The Development of the Common Japanese Framework of Reference for English Sounds: Global Scale
Akiyo JOUTO (Prefectural University of Hiroshima), Yuri NISHIO (Gifu Pharmaceutical University)
P7 Experimental investigation of the definition of reference accent distance between speakers toward automatic accent clustering of speakers of World Englishes
Tianze Shi (Tsinghua University, University of Tokyo), Shun Kasahara, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito, Keikichi Hirose (University of Tokyo)
P8 Schwa in Armenian: Schwa as constructor of syllable
Astghik Movsisyan (Graduate School, Nagoya University)

Call for papers: The 28th Annual Convention of the Phonetic Society of Japan

Submission for oral/poster presentations (Afternoon of Day 1) and workshop organization (Morning of Day 2) are now open.
  • Date: September 27th-28th, 2014
  • Location: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Call for Oral/Poster Presentations

Please send your application form to psj2014[at]nacos.com in PDF and MS Word format (or text file) by June 10th. The length should not be longer than 2 pages (A4-size). Please insert “Submission for 28th Annual Convention” in the email subject. The attached files should be named “psj2014 (name of first author)”. 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 15th, as we may not have received your submission email.
[Page 1]
  1. Name(s) and affiliation(s) of presenter(s) in Japanese or English
  2. Name(s) and affiliation(s) of presenter(s) in English
  3. Would the first author like to be reviewed for the Best Presentation Award, if (s)he are eligible*?
    *Graduate students or members under age 40. Please write his/her DOB in parenthesis.
  4. First author’s E-mail address and telephone number for notification of acceptance.
[Page 2]
  1. Title of presentation in Japanese (not needed if presentation is in English)
  2. Title of presentation in English
  3. Oral or poster presentation
  4. Abstract of presentation (less than 800 Japanese characters, or less than 500 words in English)
    *Please indicate the number of characters or words in parenthesis at the end of the abstract. (e.g. (796 characters))

‹Guidelines 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.
  2. Papers submitted to or scheduled to be submitted to other conferences will not be accepted. Submission will be cancelled if this is the case, and will be made public via the PSJ website.
  3. The abstract should include results available at the time of submission. Papers with only experiment plans will not be accepted.
  4. Notification of acceptance will be sent by June 20th. If accepted, please submit the full paper in both electronic and hard copy by July 20th (tentative). Late submission may not be published in the proceedings.
  5. Format of papers are the same for oral and poster presentations. (less than 6 pages in A4 sized paper)
  6. Applicants may choose the presentation form (oral or poster), but the final decision will be made by the committee. Please be ready to present in either forms.
  7. 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.
  8. Distribution of additional materials on the day of presentation is prohibited.
  9. Abstracts will be made public as is via attachment to the conference program on the PSJ website before the conference dates (excluding references). The same abstract will be published in the Journal of Phonetic Society of Japan after the conference. Revisions will not be accepted after submission.
  10. Details of poster presentations, including poster size, will be announced shortly.

Call for Workshop Organization

Submission for workshop organizations launched from this year. The workshop will be held in the morning of the second conference day (two hours). This workshop is to offer opportunities for presenters and audience to have discussions on a particular topic after the talks by several presenters. Submission for workshop organization is now open. Please send the application form (approximately three pages in A4 size) to psj2014[at]nacos.com in PDF and MSWord (or text file) format by June 10th. Please insert “Submission for workshop at 28th Convention” in the email subject. The attached files should be named “psj2014workshop (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 15th, as we may not have received your submission email.
[Page 1]
  1. Name and affiliation of organizer in Japanese and English
  2. Organizer’s 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]
  1. Workshop title in Japanese (not needed if presentations are in English)
  2. Workshop title in English
  3. Abstract of workshop (Aim and content in less than 500 Japanese characters or 250 English words
  4. 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.) The workshop may have panel members (members or non-members).
  2. The workshop will be two hours long. More than twenty minutes should be provided for Q&A including the audience.
  3. Workshops organized at or scheduled to be organized at other conferences will not be accepted. Submission will be cancelled if this is the case, and will be made public via the PSJ website.
  4. Presenters’ travel expenses and reward will not be provided.
  5. Notification of acceptance will be sent by June 20th. If accepted, please submit the full paper by July 20th (tentative). Late submission may not be published in the proceedings.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Distribution of additional materials on the day of presentation is prohibited.
  9. Abstracts will be made public as is via attachment to the conference program on the PSJ website before the conference dates (excluding references). The same abstract will be published in the Journal of Phonetic Society of Japan after the conference. Revisions will not be accepted after submission.
(Planning Committee, Phonetic Society of Japan)

The 28th general meeting

  • Date: September 27th (Saturday) and 28th(Sunday) 2014
  • Venue: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei Campus
    (2-24-16 Naka-cho, Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-8588)
    http://www.tuat.ac.jp/basic_information/access/index.html
  • Head of committee: Yasuko MISONO (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)

The 27th Annual Convention

Call for papers

Submission for oral and poster presentations are now open. Both are scheduled to be held on the first day of the convention.
  • Date: September 28 – 29, 2013
  • Location: Kanazawa University
Please send your application forms in PDF or MSWord format to presentation.psj[at]gmail.com by June 30th. The length should not be longer than 2 pages (A4-size). Please insert “Submission for 27th Annual Convention” in the email subject. 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 July 5th, as we may not have received your submission email.
  1. Name(s) and affiliation(s) of presenter(s) in Japanese, if available
  2. Name(s) and affiliation(s) of presenter(s) in English
  3. Would the first author like to be reviewed for the Best Presentation Award, if (s)he are eligible*?
    *Graduate students or members under age 40.
  4. Oral or poster presentation
  5. First author’s E-mail address and telephone number for notification of acceptance.
  6. Title of presentation in Japanese (unnecessary if presentation is in English)
  7. Title of presentation in English
  8. Abstract of presentation (less than 800 Japanese characters, or less than 500 words in English)


Please read the following before 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.
  2. Papers submitted to or scheduled to be submitted will not be accepted.
  3. The abstract should include results available at the time of submission. Papers with only experiment plans will not be accepted. (See also 8.)
  4. Notification of acceptance will be sent by July 10th. If accepted, please send the full paper by August 10th.
  5. Format of papers are the same for oral and poster presentations. (less than 6 pages in A4 sized paper)
  6. Applicants may choose the presentation form (oral or poster), but the final decision will be made by the committee. Please be ready to present in either oral (1st day) or poster (2nd day) form.
  7. 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 language selected at submission.
  8. Distribution of additional materials on the day of presentation is prohibited.
  9. Abstracts will be published in the conference journal Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan. Revisions will not be accepted after submission.
  10. Details of poster presentations, including poster size, will be announced shortly.

The 27th Annual Convention of the Phonetic Society of Japan (in Japanese)

http://www.psj.gr.jp/jpn/annual-convention/2013

The 25th Annual Convention

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.
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