• Date: Saturday, December 12th, 2015
• Location: Hosei University, Ichigaya Campus
• Organizer: Professor Keiichi Tajima

Date	Saturday, June 27th, 2015 (Afternoon)
Location	Waseda University, Waseda Campus, Building 9, 5th floor (1-6-1 Nishi-waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8050)
Organizer	Professor Mafuyu Kitahara (Waseda University)

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 (PDF and MS Word format) by Monday, April 20th, 2015, to kubozono@ninjal.ac.jp. Please insert “Submission for 331st Regular Meeting” in the email subject and “331st Regular Meeting (Presenter’s name)” as the file name. Notification of acceptance will be sent by around April 30th.

1. Names of presenters in Japanese, with hiragana
2. Names of presenters in English
3. Affiliations of presenters in Japanese
4. Affiliations of presenters in English
5. Name and contact information (email address) of person in charge of receiving notification of acceptance (member of PSJ)
6. Title of presentation in both Japanese and English (Japanese title not needed if presentation is to be given in English)
7. Abstract (about 400 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; it can be a report on ongoing research projects.
Submission for symposium presentations is now open. Please send the information below by email by Monday, April 20th, 2015 (PDF and MS Word format), to kubozono@ninjal.ac.jp. Please insert “Submission for symposium at 331st Regular Meeting” in the email subject and “331st 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 April 30th 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 (with hiragana), affiliation, and contact information (email, telephone, address)
4. Names (with hiragana) and affiliations of presenters, in Japanese
5. Names and affiliations of presenters in English
6. Abstract of workshop (less than 1000 Japanese characters or 500 English words. Please indicate time allocations.)
7. Others (Necessary equipment or material)

Date	Saturday, December 6th, 2014 (1:30-4:00pm)
Location	Japan Women’s University, Mejiro Campus, Shin Izumiyama Building, Large conference hall (2-8-1 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8681, Japan) https://www.jwu.ac.jp/unv/access.html
Organizer	Professor Akiko Matsumori (Japan Women’s University)
Registration	No registration needed. Free admission fee for members.
Contact information	Chair, Planning Committee kubozono@ninjal.ac.jp
PROGRAM
1:30-2:15 Thomas Dallyn (Graduate student, Hokkaido University) “Phrase-initial tone distribution in South Hokkaido Japanese” 2:20-3:05 Junko Nakagawa (Keio University), Mutsumi Tachikawa (Sophia University) “Japanese learners’ pronunciation of German—Effects on listeners’ perception and impression” 3:15-4:00 Anatolii Vakhromeev (Graduate student, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Hirosi Nakagawa (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Instrumental phonetic analysis of the four click types in G|ui”

University. Submission for oral presentations and symposium is now open. Submission is limited to members who have paid the annual membership fee for 2014.

Date	2014/12/6 (Sat) (afternoon)
Location	Japan Women’s University, Mejiro Campus, Shin Izumiyama Building, Large conference hall (2-8-1 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8681, Japan) https://www.jwu.ac.jp/unv/access.html
Organizer	Professor Akiko Matsumori (Japan Women’s University)

-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 (PDF or MS Word format) by Friday, October 10th, 2014, to kubozono@ninjal.ac.jp. Please insert “Submission for 330th Regular Meeting” in the email subject and “330th Regular Meeting (Presenter’s name)” as the file name. Notification of acceptance will be sent by around October 20th.

1. Names of presenters in Japanese, if available
2. Names of presenters in English
3. Affiliations of presenters in Japanese, if available
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 in Japanese and English (Japanese title is not needed if presentation is to be given in English)
7. Abstract (about 400 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 new research projects or research projects in progress. Submission for symposium presentations is now open. Please send the information below by email by Friday, October 10th, 2014 (PDF and MS Word format), to kubozono@ninjal.ac.jp. Please insert “Submission for symposium at 330th Regular Meeting” in the email subject and “330th 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 20th 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, if available
5. Names and affiliations of presenters in English
6. Abstract of workshop (less than 1000 Japanese letters, or less than 500 English words. Please indicate time allocations.)
7. Others (Equipment or material necessary)

Guidelines for preparing symposium proposal:

• Time allocation: The symposium should be within two to three hours long. 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.

Date	June 21st, 2014
Time	13:30-17:30
Location	Faculty of Letters, Kobe University (Hyogo Prefecture, Kobe, Nada Ward, Rokkodaicho) http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/english/access.html
Organizer	Shin’ichi TANAKA (Kobe University)
Registration	No pre-registration needed. Free admission (for Members).
Contact information	Planning Committee kubozono@ninjal.ac.jp
Program:
I. Oral presentations (13:30—14:50) 1. Kohei Matsukura (Graduate student, University of Tokyo) “N-pattern accent systems in Awara City, Fukui Prefecture” 2. Naoki Hayashi (College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University) “The vagueness and distinctiveness of word accent in the Eastern Tokyo Metropolitan area: A pilot study based on acoustic features”
14:50-15:10 Break
II. Symposium (15:10—17:30) Theme:Recent trends in measuring techniques for speech production: Invitation to articulatory phonetics and vocology Organizer: Ryoko Hayashi (Kobe University) Speakers: Michiko Hashi (Prefectural University of Hiroshima) and Yukiko Nota (Kobe Univ., ATR-Promotions) Zhu Chunyue (Kobe Univ.) and Hiroaki Hatano (Kobe Univ., ATR-IRC) Masako Fujimoto (NINJAL) Kumi Kanamura (Nagoya University of Economics), Hiroshi Imagawa (Tokyo University) and Ken-ichi Sakakibara (Health Science University of Hokkaido) Tatsuya Kitamura (Konan Univ.)

The 329th Regular Meeting will be held in the afternoon of Saturday, June 21st, 2014, at Kobe University. Submission for oral presentations and symposium is now open. Submission is limited to members who have paid this year’s annual membership fee.

Date	June 21st, 2014
Venue	Faculty of Letters, Kobe University (Hyogo Prefecture, Kobe, Nada Ward, Rokkodaicho) http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/english/access.html
Organizer	Shin’ichi TANAKA (Kobe University)

-Call for oral presentations-

Submission for oral presentations (40 minutes, including Q&A) is now open. All presentations should not be previously published at a nationwide scale conference. Please send the information below by email (PDF or MS Word format) by Thursday, April 10th, 2014, to kubozono@ninjal.ac.jp. Please insert “Submission for 329th Regular Meeting” in the email subject and “329th Regular Meeting (Presenter’s name)” as the file name. Notification of acceptance will be sent by around April 20th.

1. Names of presenters in Japanese, if available
2. Names of presenters in English
3. Affiliations of presenters in Japanese, if available
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 in Japanese and English (Japanese title is not needed if presentation is to be given in English)
7. Abstract (about 400 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 new research projects or research projects in progress. Submission for symposium presentations is now open. Please send the information below by email in PDF and MS Word format by Thursday, April 10th, 2014, to kubozono@ninjal.ac.jp. Please insert “Submission for symposium at 329th Regular Meeting” in the email subject and “329th 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 April 20th 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, if available
5. Names and affiliations of presenters in English
6. Abstract of workshop (less than 1000 Japanese letters, or less than 500 English words. Please indicate time allocations.)
7. Others (Equipment or material necessary)

Guidelines for preparing symposium proposal:

• Time allocation: The symposium should be within two to three hours long. 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.

Date	December 7th, 2013 (Sat)
Time	1pm – 5pm
Location	Nihon University, College of Humanities and Sciences, Bldg.3, 4th Floor, Room 3408 (Setagaya-Ku, Tokyo) http://www.chs.nihon-u.ac.jp/english/english_access/
Meeting organizer	Yukari TANAKA
Registration	No pre-registration needed. Free admission (for Members).
Contact information	Planning Committee kubozono@ninjal.ac.jp
Program:
I. Oral presentations (13:00—14:20)
13:00-13:40	1.Mari Akatsuka (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies) “Effects of notational systems of English prosody on teaching English pronunciation to Japanese learners”
13:40-14:20	2.Kohei Nakazawa (Graduate student, University of Tokyo) “On the accent of auxiliary verb “zya” and geminate consonants in the Awaji-shima dialect”
14:20-14:40 Break
II. Symposium (14:40—17:00)
Theme:Development of corpus-based study of prosody in spontaneous Japanese Organizer: Hanae Koiso (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics) Speakers: Hanae Koiso (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics) Yosuke Igarashi (Hiroshima University) Yuichi Ishimoto (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)

The 328th Regular Meeting will be held in the afternoon of Saturday, December 7th, 2013, at Nihon University. Submission for oral presentations and symposium is now open. Submission is limited to members who have paid this year’s annual membership fee.

Date:	2013/12/7 (Sat)
Location:	College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University (Setagaya, Tokyo) http://www.chs.nihon-u.ac.jp/access/
Organizer:	Yukari Tanaka (Nihon University)

―Call for oral presentations―

Submission for oral presentations (40 minutes, including Q&A) is now open. Please send the information below by email (PDF or MS Word format) by Thursday, October 10th, 2013 to kubozono@ninjal.ac.jp. Please insert “Submission for 328th Regular Meeting” in the email subject and “328th Regular Meeting (Presenter’s name)” as the file name. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of October.

1. Names of presenters in Japanese, if available
2. Names of presenters in English
3. Affiliations of presenters in Japanese, if available
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 (not needed if presentation is to be given in English)
7. Abstract (about 400 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 new research projects or research projects in progress. Submission for symposium presentations is now open. Please send the information below by email in PDF and MS Word format to kubozono@ninjal.ac.jp. Please insert “Submission for symposium at 328th Regular Meeting” in the email subject and “328th Regular Meeting (Presenter’s name)” as the file name. Please embed all fonts when preparing PDF files. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the end of October 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, if available
5. Names and affiliations of presenters in English
6. Abstract of workshop (less than 1000 Japanese letters, or less than 500 English words. Please indicate time allocations.)
7. Others (Equipment or material necessary)

Guidelines for preparing symposium proposal:

• Time allocation: The symposium should be within two to three hours long. 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.

Date	June 22nd, 2013 (Sat)
Time	1pm – 5pm
Location	Auditorium, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) (10-2 Midori-cho, Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo) http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/english/utility/access/
Meeting organizer	Haruo Kubozono (NINJAL)
Registration	No pre-registration needed. Free admission.
Contact information	kubozono@ninjal.ac.jp
Others	Phonetics related NINJAL project workshop will be held on June 23rd (Sun) at the same location. (No pre-registration needed. Free admission.) Please see http://www.ninjal.ac.jp/ for details.
Program:
I. Oral presentations (13:00—14:20)
13:00-13:40	Rintaro Takayama (Graduate School, University of Tokyo) A study on marked accents of compound verbs in Higashimurayama City and Okayama City
13:40-14:20	Michiko Watanabe (NINJAL) Complexity of upcoming phrases as a factor affecting the use of filled pauses in Japanese
14:20-14:40 Break
II. Symposium (14:40—17:00)
Theme: Tonal mobility as allophony in phonetic realizations of word-tones Moderator：Nozomi Kodama (Kumamoto University) Speakers & Titles Syuntarô Tida (Kumamoto University) “Reconsidering tone systems in New Guinea: With a special focus on Simbu languages and word-tone systems” Nozomi Kodama (Kumamoto University) “Tonal mobility as a clue to the word-tone type in some Kyushu dialects of Japanese” Yuji Goto (Graduate school, Seoul National University) “Allophonic realizations of edge tones in Kosa (Central Kumamoto) dialect of Japanese and Seoul Dialect of Korean” Commentator: Yasutosi Yukawa

Date	2013/3/23(Sat)
Time	13:00-14:20
Location	National Institute of Informatics http://www.nii.ac.jp/
Meeting organizer
Program:
13:00-14:20 Oral presentation
13:00-13:40	Makita Masako(Graduate School, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies) Use of Listening Strategies and the keys -Analysis of 3groups; advanced learners, intermediate learners and Japanese native speakers-
13:40-14:20	Hiroaki Hatano, Tatsuya Kitamura (Faculty of Intelligence and Informatics, Konan University), Ryoko Hayashi (Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University), and Donna Ericksona (Showa University of Music) Analysis of English schwa vowel based on observations of articulatory and acoustic data