• Date: February 21st 10:30-22nd 16:30, 2008
• Host: Phonological Association in Kansai (PAIK)，Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP)
• Assent: JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kobe University), 21st Century COE Program Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences at the University of Tokyo
• Venue: Hotel KKR Atami

February 21st

• Session 1 Tone and Rhythm of Japanese dialects
  Chair: Shosuke Haraguchi (Meikai University)
• 10:30-11:10 Andrea Tews (Kobe University, Indiana University)
  Intonation of Sentences Involving Word Focus: Tokyo and Osaka Japanese
• 11:10-11:50 Michinori Shimoji (The Australian National University, Graduate School), Yuka Hayashi (Kyoto University, Graduate School)
  Tonal Alternation and Rhythmic Structure in Irabu Ryukyuan
• Lunch
• Session 2 Segments and Morphophonology
  Chair: Masao Okazaki (Ibaraki University)
• 12:50-13:30 Toshihiro Oda
  The Sonority Conversion between Vowels: The More Sonorous TURNED V than High Peripheral Vowels in Present-Day English
• 13:30-14:10 Kohei Nishimura (The University of Tokyo, Graduate School)
  Morphological Structure and Lexical Information in Rendaku Application
• 14:10-15:10 Bum-ki Son (The University of Tokyo, Graduate School)
  Rendaku in Korean: sai-sios
• Break
• Session 3 Morphophonology in the typological perspective
  Chair: Haruo Kubozono (Kobe University)
• 15:00-16:00 Talk: Shin-ichi Tanaka (The University of Tokyo)
  Adjacency in the Typology of Dissimilation: Another Case for Lyman's Law in Japanese Loanwords
• 16:00-17:00 Ryuji Harada (Otsuma Women's University)
  A Note on Language Typology by the Status of Reduplication
• Break
• Session 4 Morphophonology of Japanese accent
  
• 17:10-18:10 Talk: Eric Rosen（University of British Columbia)
  Deriving the Accentual Behavior of Japanese Suffixes: A New OT Account

February 22nd

• Session 5 Loanword Phonology
  Chair: Itsue Kawagoe (Kyoto Sangyo University)
• 9:00-9:40 Kyoko Hirano (Kobe Shoin Women's University, Graduate School)
  Japanese Loanword Adaptation: Historical Point of View - Optimality Theoretical Analysis -
• 9:40-10:20 Fatima Tiemi Kimoto (Japan International Cooperation Agency), Masahiko Komatsu (Health Sceinces University of Hokkaido)
  Characteristics of Foreign Accent in Brazilian Portuguese by Japanese Native Speakers
• Break
• Session 6 Accent of Compounds and Phrases 1: Korean
  Chair: Zendo Uwano (The University of Tokyo)
• 10:35-11:15 Munsuk Lee (Surugadai University)
  Compound Accent and the number of syllables in Jeolla Korean
• 11:15-11:55 Jaehyun Son（Tokyo University of Foreign Studies）
  Comparative Study of accents in Korean Dialects - with a focus on Gyeongsang Korean -
• Lunch
• Session 7 Accent of Compounds and Phrases 2: Japanese
  Chair: Takeru Homma (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
• 13:00-13:40 Kyoko Takano (The University of Tokyo, Graduate School)
  Exception of Compound Accent in Japanese
• 13:40-14:40 Talk: Satoshi Ohta (Yamaguchi University)
  Compound Accent in Japanese
• Break
• Session 8 Accent of Compounds and Phrases: Germanic Languages
  Chair: Satoshi Ohta (Yamaguchi University)
• 14:50-15:30 Tatsuyuki Mimura (The University of Tokyo, Graduate School)
  Compound Accents and Semantic Constraints in Danish: a New Proposal from Alphabet-Related Words
• 15:30-16:30 Talk: Noriko Hattori (Mie University)
  Eurhythmy Observed in Accent Shift
• 16:30 Closing Remarks