To presenters
Please bring at least 50 copies of handouts (80 copies for keynote speakers). Copy machines are available in stores next to the campus. For those who want to use slide-show software on a PC, a Windose note-PC, a projector and a screen is ready in the conference room. All you need is to bring your slide-show file in a floppy or in a USB flash memory. If you prefer to bring your own PC, analogue (Dsub15) cable connection is ready (list of other equipments and photos of the conference room).If you have questions or requests, please send e-mail to the local organizer (kitahara at waseda dot jp).
All talks will be given in Room 301, Building 1.
Wednesday, August 23
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1:30-1:35 Opening remark
Haruo Kubozono, President of the Phonological Society of Japan (Kobe University)
Session 1: Formal aspects of Optimality Theory
Chair: Shin'ichi Tanaka (University of Tokyo)-
1:35-2:35 Keynote Lecture
John McCarthy (University of Massachusetts) ``Optimality Theory: The past, the present, and the future'' -
2:35-3:05
Haruka Fukazawa (Keio University) ``Relativized Faithfulness vs. Local Conjunction: When both are applicable'' -
Break (20 min)
Session 2: Syllable structure, accentuation and intonation
Chair: Hideki Zamma (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)-
3:25-4:20 Ph.D. Recipient's Lecture
Yosuke Igarashi (PhD from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2005) ``Phonology of Russian intonation'' -
4:20-5:15 Ph.D. Recipient's Lecture
Akira Utsugi (PhD from University of Tsukuba, 2005) ``The accentual phrase in Seoul Korean: a reconsideration through an acoustic analysis'' -
Break (20 min)
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5:35-6:30 Ph.D. Recipient's Lecture
Toyomi Takahashi (PhD from University College London, 2004) ``Syllable Theory without Syllables''
Thursday, August 24
Session 3: Segments and word classes
Chair: Akio Nasu (University of Tsukuba)-
9:30-10:00
Kohei Nishimura (Graduate School, University of Tokyo) ``Rendaku and Correspondence'' -
10:00-10:30
Katsuo Tamaoka (Hiroshima University), Mutsuko Ihara(St. Marianna University, School of Medicine), Tadao Murata (Kyushu Institute of Technology) and Hyunjung Lim (Hiroshima Shudo University) ``Psychological determination in Japanese sequential voicing: The influence of first-element phonological-length and etymological-type on the voicing of second elements'' Break (20 min)
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10:50-11:20
Kaori Akashi (Graduate School, University of Tokyo) ``Variation of emphatic mora augmentation in Japanese mimetics'' -
11:20-11:50
Kazutaka Kurisu (Kobe College) ``Positional and segmental licensing in Japanese mimetic palatalization''
Lunch (100 min)
Session 4a: Perception, diachronic change and variation
Chair: Masao Okazaki (Ibaraki University)-
1:30-2:30 Keynote Lecture
Hyunsoon Kim (Hongik University) and Shigeko Shinohara (Sophia University) ``A feature-driven non-native percept in the loanword adaptation between Japanese and Korean'' -
2:30-3:10 Keynote Lecture
Sang-Cheol Ahn (Kyung Hee University) ``Onset clusters in Middle Korean revisited'' Break (20 min)
Session 4b: Perception, diachronic change and variation
Chair: Koichi Tateishi (Kobe College)-
3:30-4:00
Noriko Yamane-Tanaka (Graduate School, University of British Columbia) ``Transguttural harmony in Gitksan: Conflation theory analysis'' -
4:00-4:30
Pinter Gabor (Graduate School, Kobe University) ``Modeling diachronic changes of vowels: A computational approach'' Break (30 min)
5:00-6:00 Keynote Lecture
Ellen Woolford (University of Massachusetts) ``Introduction to OT syntax''
Party! (6:30-)
Friday, August 25
Session 5: Derivational issues and organization of grammar
Chair: Takeru Honma (Tokyo Metropolitan University)9:30-10:30 Ph.D. Recipient's Lecture
Masako Hirotani (PhD from University of Massachusetts, 2005) ``Prosody and LF interpretation: Processing Japanese Wh-questions''10:30-11:00
Hideki Zamma (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) ``Categorical and non-categorical variation in English stress assignment''Break (20 min)
11:20-12:20 Keynote Lecture
John McCarthy (University of Massachusetts) ``Derivations as candidates in Optimality Theory''-
12:30 Closing