Program

JSLS2007 The Ninth Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society of Language Sciences (JSLS2007)

PROGRAM

 July 7, 2007 (Saturday)

10:00- Registration

10:45-11:00 Opening Ceremony (C203)

開催校挨拶（welcome address）
宮城学院女子大学　 (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University)
学長 (President)
吉崎泰博(Yasuhiro Yoshizaki)

11:00-12:30 Oral Presentations (Sessions 1, 2, & 3)

Session 1 Syntax & Language Processing [ENG/JPN] (K302)

Chair: Kazumi Matsuoka (Keio University)

11:05-11:30   Non-movement and kakari-musubi in Old Japanese
              Janick Wrona (Kyoto University)

11:35-12:00   統語的観点から見た英文ライティングにおけるポーズ位置の分析: 
              英語母語話者と日本人英語学習者の比較
              松野和子（名古屋大学）、村尾玲美（早稲田大学）、森田光宏（山形大学）、
              阪上辰也（名古屋大学）、村木恭子（名古屋大学）、大名力（名古屋大学）＆　
              杉浦正利（名古屋大学） 

12:05-12:30   A processing study of Japanese unaccusatives 
              Tomoko Monou (Keio University), 
              Masayuki Komachi (Keio University/Mie University) & 
              Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

Session 2 Japanese as a Foreign Language [JPN] (K306)

Chair: Yasuhiro　Shirai （University of Pittsburgh）

11:05-11:30   中国語母語話者によるアスペクト形式「テイル」の習得過程：ロジスティック回帰分析を用いて」
              Chien Hui-Wen & 中村渉（東北大学）

11:35-12:00   学習者の談話におけるジェスチャーによる指示対象の同定
              吉岡慶子（ライデン大学）

12:05-12:30   「形の共有化」と「内容の共有化」との創発--海外初級日本語教室の実践から
               山本冴里（Institut de Management Europe-Asie）

Session 3 Parent-Child Interaction [ENG/JPN] (K209)

Chair: Harumi Kobayashi (Tokyo Denki University)

11:05-11:30   母子インタラクションに見る係助詞「は」の機能と発達
              車田千種（東京大学）[JPN]

11:35-12:00   母の言語入力変化の個人差と子どもにおける動詞の項の省略と
              語彙化のパターン  [JPN]
              伊藤恵子(東京未来大学)、大嶋百合子(マギル大学)、       
              加山裕子(マニトバ大学)　＆　平川眞規子(東京国際大学)

12:05-12:30   An English-Japanese comparative study of clarification 
              responses of parent-child dyads [ENG]
              Mihoko Kubota (Tohoku Fukushi University)

12:30-13:30 Lunch / JSLS Board Meeting (C301)

13:30-15:00 Plenary 1 [JPN](C203)

Yasuhiro Ichida (National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities)
Title: 手話の言語学　─言語の図像性をめぐって─
       Sign Language Linguistics: Iconicity in Language
       日本手話通訳付き（to be translated into Japanese sign language by a local interpreter）

co-sponsored by  the Institute of Developmental Science and English Department
Association of Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University
Chair: Kazumi Matsuoka (Keio University)             

15:10-16:40 Invited Symposium: The Origins of Language (C203)

Kazuo Okanoya (Riken)
Shigeru Watanabe (Keio University)
Chair: Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

16:50-17:50 Oral Presentations (Sessions 4, 5, & 6)

Session 4 L2 Acquisition [JPN] (K302)

Chair: Yasushi Terao (University of Shizuoka)

16:50-17:15   Neural plasticity for second language learning in the brain: 
               A longitudinal fMRI study 
              横山悟　(東北大学)、金情浩　(学術振興会/東北大学)、内田信也　(東北大学)、
              バイチェン(ＣＯＥプログラム･東北大学)、岡本英行(東北大学)、遊佐典昭(宮城学院女子大学)、
              宮本正夫(東北大学)、吉本啓(東北大学)、堀江薫(東北大学)、 
              佐藤滋(東北大学)、川島隆太(東北大学)

17:20-17:45   日本人英語学習者はどのように心的辞書に語彙を貯蔵しているのか？：派生接尾辞付き語の貯蔵
              森田光宏(山形大学)       

Session 5 Discourse [ENG] (K306)

Chair: Kei Nakamura (Keio University)

16:50-17:15   Half-Japanese girls’ideological dilemmas of“gaijin”discourses
              in a Japanese children’s book: Discursive psychology discourse analysis 
              Laurel Kamada (Aomori Akenohoshi Junior College)

17:20-17:45   Female‘generational talk’in contemporary Japan: 
               A study from Aomori and Akita              
              Barry Kavanagh (Aomori University of Health and Welfare)

Session 6 L2 Acquisition and Language Evolution [ENG] (K209)

Chair: Yuki Hirose (University of Tokyo)

16:50-17:15   The ‘Poverty of the Stimulus’in L2 acquisition or the struggle 
               between (implicit) hypothesis-making and (explicit) reasoning
              Montserrat Sanz and Roger Civit  (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)

17:20-17:45   First stages in the evolution of human language 
              Mike Dowman (University of Tokyo) 

18:30- Reception

Location: 仙台ロイヤルパークホテル ( Sendai Royal Park Hotel)
 Two shuttle buses will be arranged to take the participants to the hotel from the conference venue.

 July 8, 2007 (Sunday)

9:30- Registration

9:30-11:00 Oral Presentations (Sessions 7, 8, & 9)

Session 7 English as a Foreign Language [ENG] (K302)

Chair: Shunji Inagaki (Osaka Prefecture University)

 9:30- 9:55   Simulated newscast for developing oral delivery and 
             question-and-answer skills  in the high school English classroom
              Miki Misumi (Hokkaido Sapporo Keihoku Commercial High School) & 
              Mandy Manning (Sapporo City Board of Education)

10:00-10:25   Could learners’self-reflection on preparation for a vocabulary test 
              be a predictor for performance on the test?
              Manami Suzuki (Dokkyo University)

10:30-10:55   A longitudinal study examining the effect of self-assessment among 
              young learners of English
              Yuko Goto Butler (University of Pennsylvania)

Session 8 Psychological Perspectives [ENG/JPN] (K306)

Chair: Harumi Kobayashi (Tokyo Denki University)

 9:30- 9:55   Are young children better at representing false belief 
              in communication settings?−[ENG]
              Kensuke Sato (University of Tokyo/JSPS)

10:00-10:25   1〜4歳児の文末助詞「かな」の使用と理解 [JPN]
              橋本亜井（京都大学霊長類研究所）、松井智子（京都大学霊長類研究所）、
              天野成昭（ＮＴＴコミュニケーション科学基礎研究所）＆　
              近藤公久（ＮＴＴコミュニケーション科学基礎研究所）

10:30-10:55   幼児による話し手の確信度の理解−文末助詞とイントネーションに示された手がかりから− [JPN]
              三浦優生　＆　松井智子（京都大学霊長類研究所）

Session 9 Semantics & Morphology　[ENG] (K209)

Chair: Mineharu Nakayama (The Ohio State University)

 9:30- 9:55   The semantic evolution of EAT-expressions in Indo-Aryan languages
              Peter Edwin Hook (University of Virginia) & 
              Prashant Pardeshi(Kobe University)

10:00-10:25   Constructing a Japanese word association database 
              Terry Joyce (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

10:30-10:55   An investigation into the change in use of English articles and the
              implications for L2 attrition on young Japanese returnees.
              Michi Tomoda (University of Tokyo)

11:00-12:30 Poster Presentations (C201前の廊下)

 1. Perception of students and teachers in a Japanese language classroom in Singapore: 
   Its implications on classroom communication
    Lai Siew Hoon & Tomiko Kato (National University of Singapore) [ENG][Alternate]

 2. 日英語における連想と認識への一考察
    菊池晃（名古屋外国語大学）[JPN]

 3. Metaphor and abstract concept understanding
    Lihan Pang (Meikai University) [ENG]

 4. Some thoughts on the syntactic mind/body problem
    Franklin Chang (NTT Communication Sciences Laboratories) [ENG]

 5. The influence of cases and word orders on Japanese relative clause attachment
    Yoko Nakano, Yoko Hirose, Masao Yamasaki, Hao Liu, & 
    Maki Nishiuchi (Kochi University) [ENG]

 6. Syntactic status of spatial terms in Japanese locative expressions
    Kaori Takamine (University of Tromso, Norway) [ENG]

 7. 提示のthere構文
    靱江静（東京都立大学）[JPN]

 8.ＴＡＭシステムの機能的類像性について
    原田依子（慶應義塾大学）[JPN]

 9. 幼児における助詞「ハ」の獲得過程：共起語のカテゴリー頻度による解析
    橋本智也（大阪市立大学）＆　天野成昭（ＮＴＴコミュニケーション科学基礎研究所）

10. Japanese EFL learners’ processing of English relative clauses: 
    Matrix VP processing and head determination
    Satoshi Morimoto & Kaoru Horie (Tohoku University) [ENG]

11. 大学生の海外短期英語研修の成果 - 過去三年間のデータ検証
    中山峰治（オハイオ州立大学）、吉村紀子（静岡県立大学）＆
   　澤崎宏一（静岡県立大学）[JPN]

12. 台湾在住の国際結婚家庭の子どもの日中二言語習得における事例研究
    李美靜（お茶の水女子大学）[JPN]

13. The relationship between years of formal schooling and verb diversity in 
    a narrative task performed by Spanish-speaking adults
    Peggy F. Jacobson (St. John’s University), Edith Tsouri (St. John’s University), & 
    Yesenia Phillips [ENG]

14. An investigation of intercultural relationship of L1 and L2 and its effect 
    on L2 language proficiency according to Persian learners’ attitudes
     Azadeh Nasri Nasrabady (Islamic Azad University of Abarkooh, Iran) & 
     Abbass Islami Rasekh (Isfahan University, Iran) [ENG]

15. What is chutzpah?: Analyzing an Israeli cultural key term
    Yoshimi Miyake (Akita University) [ENG]

16. Diplomatic discourse in terms of linguistics, translation and 
    intercultural communication
    Tatiana A. Volkova (Chelyabinsk State University, Russia) [ENG]

17. Sinclair and Coulthard’s model of discourse analysis: IRF fit to a task-based lesson
    John Gunning (Gifu Pharmaceutical University) [ENG]

18. The difference between both sexes: Education and age on the value of reality 
    of compliments
    Chao-Chien Hsu (National Hsinchu University of Education)[ENG]

19. A genre analysis of hotel overviews: Analysis of moves in overviews of 
    different classes of hotels on the web
    近藤　雪絵（立命館大学）[JPN]

20. 在米日本人が多く書き込む電子提示版における日本語の会話ストラテジー
    田代健二　＆　南雅彦（サンフランシスコ州立大学）[JPN]

12:30-13:30 Lunch / JSLS General Meeting (C203)

13:30-14:55 Oral Presentations (Sessions 10, 11, and 12)

Session 10 Language Development [ENG] (K302)

Chair: Yuriko Oshima-Takane (McGill University)

13:30-13:55   Attributive naming can promote young children’s acceptance of 
              alternative names for familiar objects
              Harumi Kobayashi, Tetsuya Yasuda (Tokyo Denki University), & 
               Martin Doherty (Stirling University)

14:00-14:25   Early verb representations: Learning meets parsing
              Sudha Arunachalam, Lila Gleitman, & John Trueswell 
               (University of Pennsylvania)

14:30-14:55   Effects of early exposure to English on the development of 
              metalinguistic awareness in Japanese children
              Natsuko Katsura (Tohoku University/JST(RISTEX)),
              Takuya Goro (University of Maryland/JST(RISTEX)), 
              Noriaki Yusa (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University/JST (RISTEX)),＆
              Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University/JST(RISTEX))

Session 11 Discourse [JPN]　(K306)

Chair: Kazumi Matsuoka (Keio University)

13:30-13:55   例示表現：インタラクションとインフォメーションの観点から                                          
              ユキ・テイラー (UCLA)

14:00-14:25   男性誌広告文の変遷
              三澤直美　＆　南雅彦(サンフランシスコ州立大学)

14:30-14:55   クメール語の命令表現に用いられる文末詞phoongとcoh
              森奏子(東北大学)

Session 12 Phonology & Phonological Processing [ENG] (K209)

Chair: Yuko Goto Butler (University of Pennsylvania)

13:30-13:55   Tongue-twister effects in the silent and oral reading of 
              Japanese sentences: An exploratory study
              Sachiko Matsunaga (California State University, Los Angeles) & 
              Timothy Vance (University of Arizona)

14:00-14:25   Word minimality and the emergence of the unmarked in 
              Japanese loanword truncation
              Eddie Chih-jen Cheng (Jianguo High School)

14:30-14:55   Four rules for Sino-Japanese numeral-counter pronunciation: 
              From phonological description to pedagogical application
              Takashi Matsuzawa

15:00-16:30 Plenary 2 [ENG] (C203)

Andrea Moro (University "Vita-salute" San Raffaele)
The borders of Babel: The brain and the enigma of impossible languages
Chair: Noriaki Yusa (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University)   

16:30-17:00 展望講演　Perspectives talk [JPN (with slides in English)] (C203)

大津由紀雄　Yukio Otsu （慶應義塾大学　Keio University）
Title: 言語科学の研究環境　
        Towards a Better Research Environment for Language Sciences
Chair:　白井恭弘　Yasuhiro　Shirai （ピッツバーグ大学　University of Pittsburgh）

17:00-17:05 Closing Ceremony (C203)

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