• Date: February 24th 10:45-25th 15:10, 2014
• Host: Phonological Association in Kansai (PAIK)，Tokyo Circle of Phonologists (TCP), NINJAL, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) "The Obligatory Contour Principle: Its Scope, Effects, and Roles in Linguistic Theory"
• Venue: Hotel KKR Atami

February 24th

• 10:45 Opening Remark: Toshiyuki Tabata (Organizer, Chiba University)
• Session 1: The Phonetics and Phonology of Vowels
  Chair: Masao Okazaki (Ibaraki University)
• 10:50-11:20 Gakuji Kumagai (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Graduate School)
  Bidirectionality of Vowel Harmony in Loanword Adaptation
• 11:20-11:50 Masato Shirota (Kyoto University, Graduate School)
  On "Mid Vowels" in Northern Kikaijima Amami Dialects
• 11:50-13:00 Lunch
• 13:00-13:30 Emiko Kaneko, Younghyon Heo, Jeremy Perkins, Takako Yasuta (Aizu University)
  Comparison of Vowels between the Aizu Dialect and Standard Japanese: An Explanatory Study
• Keynote Lecture 1
  Chair: Marco Fonseca (The University of Tokyo, Graduate School)
• 13:30-14:30 Tha$iuml;s Cristófaro Alves da Silva (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
  Palatalization: A Dynamic Approach
• 14:30-14:40 Break
• Session 2: Rendaku and Voicing Phenomena
  Chair: Takeru Homma (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
• 14:40-15:10 Masaki Sone (The University of Tokyo, Gradiate School)
  An Empirical Study on Rendaku Occurence of Children - A Test on a Rule Based on Moraic Structure -
• 15:10-15:40 Mark Irwin (Yamagata University)
  Rendaku across Duplicate Moras
• 15:40-15:50 Break
• 15:50-16:20 Shin-ichi Tanaka (The University of Tokyo)
  Turbid Representations for Opacity (3): Where do Underapplication and Overapplication come from?
• Keynote Lecuture 2
  Chair: Timothy J. Vance (NINJAL)
• 16:20-17:20 Jie Zhang (University of Kansus)
  Opaque Tone Substitution and Transparent Tone Spreading in Three Dialects of Chinese

February 25th

• Session 3: Interaction of Vowels and Consonants Chair: Ryuji Harada (Otsuma Women's University)
• 9:00-9:30 Liu Yongliang (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Graduate School)
  The Influence of Vowel Sudden Stop on Perception of Geminates - Gemination in Borrowing Mongolian Words -
• 9:30-10:00 Ayako Hashimoto (Tokyo Kasei University)
  Devoicing of Vowels and Consonants in Tohoku Japanese
• 10:00-10:10 Break
• 10:10-10:40 Naoya Watabe (The University of Tokyo, Graduate School)
  Theoretic Analysis of "Soft Consonants" in Slavic Languages
• Keynote Lecture 3 Chair: Haruo Kubozono (NINJAL)
• 10:40-11:40 Yosuke Igarashi (Hiroshima University), K. Nishikawa, K. Tanaka, R. Mazuka (RIKEN BSI)
  Phonological Theory Informs the Analysis of Intonational Exaggeration in Japanese Infant-Directed Speech
• 11:40-13:00 Lunch
• Session 4: Prosody and Its Categories Chair: Zendo Uwano (NINJAL)
• 13:00-13:30 Arin Kim (Kyushu University, Graduate School)
  Separation between tetrasyllabic and pentasyllabic words in Jumunjin Korean (Gangwondo)
• 13:30-14:00 Shu Hirata (The University of Tokyo, Graduate School)
  Accent System in Owase Japanese Revisited
• 14:00-14:10 Break
• Chair: Clemens Poppe (The University of Tokyo, Graduate School)
• 14:10-14:40 Seyed Ayat Hosseini (The University of Tokyo, Graduate School)
  The Direciton of Cliticization of Persian
• 14:40-15:10 Marco Fonseca and Kiyono Fujinaga (The University of Tokyo, Graduate School)
  Implicit Prosody in Resolving Syntactic Ambiguity in Brazilian Portuguese
• 15:10 Closing Remark: Shin-ichi Tanaka (Organizer, The University of Tokyo)