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Regular Meeting

About Regular Meeting
The Phonetic Society holds regular meetings twice a year in which society members present recent research or work in progress in a setting that is somewhat more informal than the annual convention. The Phonetic Society holds two regular meetings and an annual convention every year.
Regular Meetings

The 342nd Regular Meeting

Time & Date 13:00-17:10 (JST), May 29 (Sat.), 2021.
Venue Online meeting (Zoom)
Admission fees Free
Registration Please access the URL below: https://forms.gle/48PFyZAwQWQFHsb59
Contact information Planning Committee psj2016k@yahoo.co.jp
Timetable

Opening Remarks (13:00-13:05)

Invited Lecture (13:05-14:35)

  1. Katherine Demuth (Macquarie University)
    “Developmental Perspectives on Speech Planning and Production” (Abstract)
    (Lecture in English)
    (Session chair: International Exchange Committee, Haruo Kubozono (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)

    ＜14:35-14:50 Break＞

Oral Presentations (14:50-17:10)

  1. 14:50-15:30
    Kana Otsuka (Graduate School of Business Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba)
    “Phonological Awareness and Writing Skills in Young JSL Learners Who Need Japanese Language Instruction”
    (Presentation in Japanese)

    ＜15:30-15:40 Break＞

  2. 15:40-16:20
    Junichi Azuma (Kobe Gakuin University)
    “Using TTS Synthesized Speech Materials for On-demand Online Classes”
    (Presentation in Japanese)

    ＜16:20-16:30 Break＞

  3. 16:30-17:10
    ZHU Chunyue (Kobe-University)
    “Physiological features of lips rounding: Examination of commonality in multiple languages”
    (Presentation in Japanese)

The 341st Regular Meeting

Date: Saturday, December 5th, 2020
Venue: Online (Zoom)
Organizer: KAGOMIYA Takayuki (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Registration: Free admission. Registration: https://forms.gle/KbveT3z89tmKcq4e6
Contact information: Planning Committee psj2016k@yahoo.co.jp
Program:

Opening (13:00-13:05)

Special presentation（13:05-14:20）

  1. Anne CUTLER (Western Sydney University)
    “Listening to speech – universal and language-specific at the same time!”
    (Presentation in English)
    Session chair: International Exchange Committee KUBOZONO Haruo (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)

Oral presentations（14:45-17:30）

  1. 14:45-15:30
    “Some observations on the tones and tone sandhi patterns of the Chaoshan Dialect in China with a focus on the neutral tone”
    (Presentation in Japanese)
    LIN Zhida (Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences, Hokkaido University)

    ＜15:30-15:45 Break＞

  2. 15:45-16:30
    “The time units of the rhyme in Northern Vietnamese”
    (Presentation in Japanese)
    YAMAOKA Sho (Kyoto University / Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

    ＜16:30-16:45 Break＞

  3. 16:45-17:30
    “Variation in the phrase-initial Fo rise is determined by the distance of phrase-initial tones”
    (Presentation in Japanese)
    MAEKAWA Kikuo (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics), MORI Hiroki (Utsunomiya University)

Closing (17:30-17:35)


Cancellation of the next regular meeting

The 341st regular meeting, which was announced to be held on May 30th, 2020, at the University of Tokyo, has been canceled due to the context surrounding the novel coronavirus. By the end of April, we will provide information about the general meeting, which is planned to be held on September 26th and 27th, 2020, at Kobe Gakuin University.

Planning Committee


The meeting of the councilors, which is usually held after a regular meeting, has been postponed. We expect that the first meeting of this academic year will be held at the general meeting. The exact date of this meeting will be announced at a later time.

General Affairs Committee

The 340th regular meeting

Date: Saturday, November 30th, 2019
Venue: Room 201, Tamatsukuri Campus, Osaka Jogakuin University
（2-26-54, Tamatsukuri, Chuo-ku, Osaka 540-0004 Japan）
http://www.wilmina.ac.jp/oj/?english=access
7-minute walk from Tamatsukuri Station of the JR Osaka Loop Line
3-minute walk from Tamatsukuri Station of the Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Subway Line
Organizer: Tomomi Otsuka (Osaka Jogakuin University)
Support: Research Institute of International Collaboration and Coexistence, Osaka Jogakuin University
Registration: No registration required. Free admission.
Contact information: Planning Committee psj2016k@yahoo.co.jp
Program:

Welcoming speech (13:00-13:05)

Oral presentations（13:05-17:25）

  1. 13:05-13:45
    “The low-back merger in south-central-Pennsylvania English: Diachronic changes in the range of vowel formants”
    (Presentation in Japanese)
    KIMURA Kimihiko (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
  2. 13:45-14:25
    “Continuing recordings of children’s English speech at Doshisha elementary school and acoustic analysis of their pronunciation of English monophthongs”
    (Presentation in Japanese)
    Tsuneo Kato, Fumika Mizutani, Seiichi Yamamoto (Doshisha University)
＜14:25-14:35 Break＞
  1. 14:35-15:15
    “Acoustic characteristics of social laughter during virtual interaction”
    (Presentation in English)
    Takaaki Shochi (CLLE-ERSSàB UMR5263 & LaBRI CNRS UMR 5800, Bordeaux, France), Marine Guerry (CLLE-ERSSàB CNRS UMR5263, Bordeaux, France), Jean-Luc Rouas (LaBRI, CNRS UMR 5800, Talence, France)
  2. 15:15-15:55
    “Tonal System of Bisyllabic Neutral Tone Words in Wuhan Dialect”
    (Presentation in Japanese)
    Duanchi ZHOU (Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Social Sciences)
＜15:55-16:05 Break＞
  1. 16:05-16:45
    “Perception of word-initial stops in Japanese”
    (Presentation in Japanese)
    Byun, Hi-Gyung (Akita International University)
  2. 16:45-17:25
    “Generational differences in acoustic parameters for voicing of word-initial plosives by Tohoku speakers”
    (Presentation in Japanese)
    TAKADA, Mieko (Aichi Gakuin University)
＜17:30 Closing＞

The 340th Regular Meeting -Call for Oral Presentations and Symposium Organization-

　Submission for oral presentations and symposium is now open. Submission is limited to members who have paid the annual membership fee for 2019.
Date: Saturday, November 30th, 2019
Venue: Osaka Jogakuin University, Tamatsukuri Campus
　(2-26-54 Tamatsukuri, Osaka-shi, Osaka)
http://www.wilmina.ac.jp/oj/?english=access
Organizer: Associate Professor Tomomi Otsuka

―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, October 18th, 2019 to psj2016k@yahoo.co.jp in both PDF and MSWord formats. Please insert “Submission for 340th Regular Meeting” in the email subject and “340th Regular Meeting (Presenter’s name)” as the file name. Please embed all fonts in the PDF file. Notification of acceptance will be sent around October 25th 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 (Japanese title not needed if presentation is to be given in English)
  7. Abstract (about 400 Japanese characters, or about 200 English words)
  8. Equipment necessary for presentation (laptop and projector excluded)

―Call for symposium organization―

　Symposiums at Regular Meetings are to offer opportunities for presenters and audience to have discussions on a particular topic after the talks by several presenters. The report at the symposium does not have to be completed work; rather it is aimed for research projects in progress. Submission for symposium presentations is now open. Please send the information below by email in both PDF and MSWord formats by Friday, October 11th, 2018 to psj2016k@yahoo.co.jp Please insert “Submission for symposium at 340th Regular Meeting” in the email subject and “340th Regular Meeting (Presenter’s name)” as the file name. Please embed all fonts when preparing PDF files. Notification of acceptance will be sent around October 18th after the reviewing process.。
  1. Title of symposium in Japanese (less than 50 letters)
  2. Title of symposium in English (less than 25 words)
  3. Organizer’s name, affiliation, and contact information (email, telephone, address)
  4. Names and affiliations of presenters in Japanese
  5. Names and affiliations of presenters in English
  6. Abstract of workshop (less than 1000 Japanese characters, or less than 500 English words. Please indicate time allocations.)
  7. Others (Necessary equipment or material)
  ＜Guidelines for preparing symposium proposal＞
  • Time allocation: The symposium should be at least two hours but should not go over three hours. 20% of the time should be provided for Q&A including the audience.
  • Presenters: There should be more than two presenters, and more than half of them should be members of the Phonetic Society of Japan. The symposium may have a chairperson and panel members (members or non-members).
  • Topic: should be suitable as presentations at the Phonetic Society of Japan.
  • Preparation: PR activities and operations on the symposium day will be supported by the Planning Committee. However, the organizer is fully responsible for any preparation before the symposium day. The Phonetic Society of Japan will not provide travelling expenses or rewards for presenters.
(Planning Committee)

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

    • 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)

    The 338th Regular Meeting -Call for Oral Presentations and Symposium Organization-

    　Submission for oral presentations and symposium is now open. Submission is limited to members who have paid the annual membership fee for 2018.
    Date: Saturday, December 1st, 2018
    Venue: Utsunomiya Kyowa University, Utsunomiya City Campus (1-3-18 Oodori, Utsunomiya-shi, Tochigi)
    http://www.kyowa-u.ac.jp/guide/access.html
    Organizer: Professor Keiichi Takamaru

    ―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 THursday, October 11th, 2018 to psj2016k@yahoo.co.jp in both PDF and MSWord formats. Please insert “Submission for 338th Regular Meeting” in the email subject and “338th 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 October 18th 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 (Japanese title not needed if presentation is to be given in English)
    7. Abstract (about 400 Japanese characters)
    8. Equipment necessary for presentation (laptop and projector excluded)

    ―Call for symposium organization―

    　Symposiums at Regular Meetings are to offer opportunities for presenters and audience to have discussions on a particular topic after the talks by several presenters. The report at the symposium does not have to be completed work; rather it is aimed for research projects in progress. Submission for symposium presentations is now open. Please send the information below by email in both PDF and MSWord formats by Thursday, October 11th, 2018 to psj2016k@yahoo.co.jp Please insert “Submission for symposium at 338th Regular Meeting” in the email subject and “338th Regular Meeting (Presenter’s name)” as the file name. Please embed all fonts when preparing PDF files. Notification of acceptance will be sent by around October 18th after the reviewing process.。
    1. Title of symposium in Japanese (less than 50 letters)
    2. Title of symposium in English (less than 25 words)
    3. Organizer’s name, affiliation, and contact information (email, telephone, address)
    4. Names and affiliations of presenters in Japanese
    5. Names and affiliations of presenters in English
    6. Abstract of workshop (less than 1000 Japanese characters, or less than 500 English words. Please indicate time allocations.)
    7. Others (Necessary equipment or material)
      ＜Guidelines for preparing symposium proposal＞
    • Time allocation: The symposium should be at least two hours but should not go over three hours. 20% of the time should be provided for Q&A including the audience.
    • Presenters: There should be more than two presenters, and more than half of them should be members of the Phonetic Society of Japan. The symposium may have a chairperson and panel members (members or non-members).
    • Topic: should be suitable as presentations at the Phonetic Society of Japan.
    • Preparation: PR activities and operations on the symposium day will be supported by the Planning Committee. However, the organizer is fully responsible for any preparation before the symposium day. The Phonetic Society of Japan will not provide travelling expenses or rewards for presenters.
    (Planning Committee)

    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