We will hold a public seminar to introduce the field of phonetics.
This seminar will focus on spoken Japanese dialects and introduction of the field of phonetics. We organized the seminar so that it will be interesting to everyone including high school and university students and the general public.

Date:	Saturday, November 22nd, 2014 (1:30-5:00pm)
Venue:	Kobe University Faculty of Intercultural Studies, Tsurukabuto Campus 1, Room B101 http://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/en/access/rokko/campus.html (Building 14 on map)
Host:	The Phonetic Society of Japan (Phonetics Promotion Committee)
Participation fee:	Free
Capacity:	80 Please register in advance via e-mail. Registration on the day of the seminar is available only if the number of participants has not reached 80. Please refer to the PSJ website for registration updates. If e-mail is unavailable, please send mail for fax to the organizer.
How to register:	Please send an e-mail to psjf.regist[at]gmail.com (please replace [at] with @). Please write "1122 lecture registration" in the e-mail subject, and send your name, affiliation if you are a student (name of school or university), and your membership status (member or non-member). One e-mail should include information for only one person. If you do not receive a reply from the office after three days, please contact us. If you do not write "1122 lecture registration" in the e-mail subject, the e-mail may not be processed.
Program	1:00pm- Registration 1:30-2:15pm What is phonetics?” General linguistics and phonetics (Shin’ichi TANAKA, Faculty of Letters, Kobe University) Foreign language studies and phonetics (Chunyue ZHU, School of Languages and Communication, Kobe University) -Information engineering, medical science and phonetics (Ryoko HAYASHI, Faculty of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University) (There will be a Q&A session after the lectures) 2:30-5:00pm Introduction to spoken Japanese dialects: surprising pronunciations in dialects –west Japan including Ryukyu region– Lecturer: Professor Makoto KUNO (Professor Emeritus, Kochi University) (4:30pm- Q&A, 5:00pm end of seminar)
Organizer:	Ryoko HAYASI (Kobe University) Contact information: Tsurukabuto 1-2-1, Nada-ku, Kobe-shi, 657-8501, Japan. Faculty of Intercultural Studies , Kobe University. Fax: 078-803-7463 E-mail: onseigakunyumon[at]gmail.com (please replace [at] with @)