JSLS 2000: Conference Program

Susanne Miyata smiyata at asu.aasa.ac.jp
Mon Jul 10 03:58:14 UTC 2000


	The Second Conference of the Japanese Society

                   for Language Sciences (2000)


        Date: August 4 (Fri) and 5 (Sat), 2000
        Location: Co-op Inn Kyoto
               Address: Yanagi-baba Tako-yakushi agaru, Nakagyo-ku,
               Kyoto, Japan 604-8113
               Phone: +81-75-256-6600
               Fax: +81-75-251-0120
               Access Info:
                 Easiest Way: From JR Kyoto Station, 10 min. by Taxi
                 Cheaper Way: From JR Kyoto Station, Either take a bus (Route 4
                   and 14), Get off at Shijo-Takakura (Daimaru department
store),
                   or take a subway, get off at Shijo Station, take Exit 13.
                   And 10 min. walk.
                 From Kansai Airport, take a bus to JR Kyoto Station, get off at
                  South Exit of Kyoto Station. And follow the above instruction.



     		        -- Program --

        Note
        1: The abstracts are available at
          < http://jchat.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/JSLS/JSLS2000/ProgramE.html>
        2: In the program, Language used in the talk is shown as [J] (Japanese)
             and [E] (English).

August 4th (Fri)
  9:50-10:00 Opening
  10:00-12:00 L1 Acquisition (1)
                 1-J Naomi Hamasaki (Chukyo University)
                      Timing of Turn Taking of Two-year-olds' responses to
                        Yes-No Questions
                 2-J Masae Kazama and Jun-ichi Abe (Hokkaido University)
                      Phonological development in Japanese 4-year-old children:
                      Examining the correlational relationships with the
                      other cognitive abilities
                 3-E Katsura Aoyama (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
                      Quantity contrast in Japanese and Finnish: Differences in
                      adult production and acquisition
                 4-E Keiko Nakamura (Keio University)
                      Polite language usage in mother-infant interactions:
a look
                      at language socialization
  12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
  13:30-15:00 L1 Acquisition (2)
                 5-E Ayako Kubota and Peggy Li (University of Pennsylvania)
                      Universal Ontology and Linguistic Influence on Naming
                        Practices
                 6-E Harumi Kobayashi (Kyoritsu Women's University)
                      Learning novel part names with observation of adults'
                        gestures
                 7-E Takaaki Suzuki (Kyoto Sangyo University)
                      Learning Japanese Argument Structure Constructions
  15:00-15:10 Break
  15:10-16:10 L2 Acquisition (1)
                 8-E Gisela Jia (City University of New York) and Doris Aaronson
                	           (New York University)
                      Immigrants learning English in the US: What
contributes to
                      their long-term proficiency in the new language?
                 9-E Kyoko Baba (Nagoya University)
                      The Roles of Learners' Vocabulary in Sentence Production
                      of L2 Composition: A Case Study
	16:10-16:20 Break
	16:20-17:50 Plenary Talk
                     Chair: Yuriko Oshima-Takane (McGill University)
                     Speaker: Michael Tomasello  (Max Planck Institute for

Evolutionary Anthropology)
                     Title: Children's Syntactic Development
                     Abstract:
                     Most accounts of child language acquisition use as analytic
                     tools adult-like syntactic categories and schemas
(grammars)
                     with little concern for whether they are psychologically
                     real for young children. Recent research has demonstrated,
                     however, that children do not operate initially with such
                     abstract linguistic entities, but instead operate on the
                     basis on concrete, item-based constructions. Children
                     construct more abstract linguistic constructions only
                     gradually - on the basis of linguistic experience in which
                     frequency plays a key role - and they constrain these con-
                     structions to their appropriate ranges of use only
gradually
                     as well - again on the basis of linguistic experience in
                     which frequency plays a key role. The best account of first
                     language acquisition is provided by a usage-based model in
                     which children process the language they experience in dis-
                     course interactions with other persons, relying explicitly
                     and exclusively on social and cognitive skills that
children
                     of this age are known to possess.
  19:00-21:00 Reception

August 5th (Sat)
  9:00-10:30 L2 Acquisition (2)
                10-J Yuko Goto Butler (Stanford University)
                      Japanese Students' Metalinguistic Knowledge and
Strategies
                      in Their Use of English Articles
                11-J Nobuko Kamura (Research Fellow of JSPS (Japan Societ
             		 for the Promotion of Science))
                      Developmental Sequences of Negation in Japanese as a
Second
                      Langugage (in Japanese)
                12-J Tomohiko Shirahata (Sizuoka University)
                      The acquisition of functional categories: evidence from
                      Japanese as a second language
  10:30-10:40 Break
  10:40-12:10 Semantics/Discourse
                13-J Takashi Nakamura, Tatsuo Hemmi and Asumi Koizumi
             		(Niigata University)
                      Semantic feature of specific words in the closing
sentences
                      of newspaper articles (in Japanese)
                14-J Kazuko Shinohara(Tokyo University of Agriculture and
                	Technology)
                      Correspondence between the spatial front-back axis and
                      temporal concepts in Japanese
                15-E Shizuka Lauwereyns (Michigan State University)
                      Blurry reference - the use of toka 'or something' in
Japanese
                      spoken discourse
  12:10-13:10 Lunch Break
  13:10-13:40 General Meeting of JSLS
  13:40-14:40 Bilingualism
                16-J Tomoko Asano and Heidi Harley (New College of the
                         University of South Florida)
                      Japanese-English Bilingual Children's Language
                      Switching in Mixed-Language Conversation
                17-E Masahiko Minami (San Francisco State University)
                      Vocabulary Development in Bilingual and Language-Minority
                      Children
  14:40-14:50 Break
  14:50-17:50 Symposium
                     Title: Language use across social contexts:
		Pragmatic issues in L1 and L2 acquisition
                     Chair: Yasuhiro Shirai (Cornell University)
                     Organizer: Kiyoshi Otomo (Tokyo Gakugei University)
                     Speakers:
                     Gabriele Kasper (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
                     Haruko Cook (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
                     Yuriko Kite (Kansai University) and Keiko Sakui
                  	(University of Auckland)
                     Keiko Nakamura (Keio University)
                     Discussants:
                     Masaaki Yamanashi (Kyoto University)
                     Ruth Kanagy (Independent Researcher)
  17:50-18:00 Closing
        Alternate
                A1-J Junko Sugiyama (Aichi Shukutoku University)
                      A study of self-repair in Japanese conversation between
                      native and nonnative speakers
                A2-J Koji Suda and Shigenori Wakabayashi
             		(Gunma Prefectural Women's University)
                      Pronominal Case-marking by Japanese learners of English:
                      evidence from production and grammaticality judgement
                       data

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			-- How to register --


Registration fee

				Member		Non-member
         Pre-registration
             (paid in full by July 15, 2000)	3,000 yen
	5,000 yen
         Late registration/on-site
             registration (after
             July 16, 2000)		4,000 yen		6,000 yen
         Conference handbook		2,000 yen		3,000 yen
         Reception			3,000 yen		3,000 yen

	(Note) Those who apply for membership on or before the first day
     	       of the conference will be considered to be JSLS members.

Detailed information is available on
<http://jchat.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/JSLS/JSLS2000/CFPart2000j.html#form2>

The JSLS homepage URL is
        <http://diana.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/JSLS/>


Conference registration fees, conference program & reception participation
fees should be paid to:

         Postal deposit:
         Name of account: JCHAT Gengo Kagaku Kenkyuukai
         Account number: 00850-7-33033

         Bank deposit:
         Name of account: JCHAT Gengo Kagaku Kenkyuukai
            Daihyoo Miyata Susanne
         Account type/number: Futsuu 1082733
         Account branch: Kamiyashiro branch (Branch number: 231)
         Bank name: Chukyo Bank



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Form #2: Registration Form

Note (1) Conference presenters also need to submit this form.
      (2) Those registering by email: please put "JSLS Registration"
          in the subject header.
      (3) The email address is <jsls2000 at diana.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp>

I would like to register for the Second Conference of JSLS.

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Amount deposited, with relevant sums:
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Overseas participants, please indicate the method by which you will be
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If you are an overseas presenter, please indicate if you would like to
apply for a registration fee waiver:
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          Not applicable
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You can also apply by mail or fax (address to JSLS Sirai):

                Prof. Hidetosi Sirai
                Department of Cognitive Science
                Chukyo University
                101 Tokodate, Kaizu-cho, Toyota, Aichi, 470-0393 JAPAN
                Fax number: +81-565-46-1299 (address to JSLS Sirai)
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