JSLS 2015 Program

July 18, Saturday

11:30-12:45

Registration

B-Con Plaza Foyer (Hall) 3F

Room 1: International Conference Room

12:30-12:45

Opening Address

12:50-14:05

Individual Oral Sessions 1-3

Individual Oral Session 1

[English]

Room 1: International Conference Room

Chair: Akihiro Kano (Kwassui Womens University)

12:50-13:15

Non-native learners and researchers who work with classical Japanese language and texts:
difficulties and learning styles
Maki Yamaguchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) & Naoki Takei (Tokyo Institute
of Technology)

13:15-13:40

Written codeswitching in electronic discourse: The emails of Japanese-English bilinguals

Kei Nakamura (International Christian University/Keio University) &
Riku Yasutomi (American School in Japan)

13:40-14:05

Influence of speech rates on listening: Brain activity engaged in L1, L2, and L3
familiar language) listening

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Mayumi Kajiura (Nagoya University), Toru Kinoshita (Nagoya University) &

Gao Fei (Nagoya University)

Individual Oral Session 2

Room 2: Conference Room

[English & Japanese]

Chair: Harumi Kobayashi (Tokyo Denki University)

12:50-13:15

Narratives ability in Chinese-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder:

Referential choice
Wen-Hui Sah (National Chengchi University)

13:15-13:40

Autistic childrens use of contextual and prosodic information in pragmatic inference

Yui Miura (Kanazawa University)

13:40-14:05

Language learning by deaf children: A case study based on some Japanese particle and
English prepositions

Individual Oral Session 3

[Japanese] Room 3: Meeting Room 31

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12:50-13:15

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14:05-14:15

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14:15-15:30

Individual Oral Sessions 4-6

Individual Oral Session 4

[English]

Room 1: International Conference Room

Chair: Yuko Goto Butler (University of Pennsylvania)

14:15-14:40

Does input alone facilitate L2 English relative clause acquisition? Evidence from Japanese
university students
Minna Kirjavainen (Osaka Gakuin University) & Donna Fujimoto (Osaka Gakuin
University)

14:40-15:05

L2 negation development in young Japanese EFL learners: A cross-sectional study

Akiko Eguchi (Nagoya University) & Masatoshi Sugiura (Nagoya University)

15:05-15:30

Animate and inanimate contrast in the acquisition of unaccusative verbs

Takako Kondo (University of Shizuoka), Ayano Otaki (Shizuoka University),
Koji Suda (University of Shizuoka) & Tomohiko Shirahata (Shizuoka University)

Individual Oral Session 5

[English & Japanese]

Room 2: Conference Room

Chair: Mihoko Kubota (Tokyo Zokei University)

14:15-14:40

The old Japanese rendaku database and the strong version of Lymans Law
Timothy J. Vance (NINJAL)

14:40-15:05

Processing Japanese sentences as a zero-sum game

Shodai Uchida (The University of Tokyo), Manabu Arai (The University of Tokyo),
Edson T. Miyamoto (Tsukuba University) & Yuki Hirose (The University of Tokyo)

15:05-15:30

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[Japanese]

Room 3: Meeting Room 31

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14:15-14:40

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15:40-16:50 Invited lecture [Japanese]

Room 1: International Conference Room

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17:00-18:30

Poster Session 1

[English & Japanese]

Foyer (Hall)

1. An fMRI study on implicit and explicit second language knowledge modulated by task types
and proficiency level
Hyeonjeong Jeong (Tohoku University), Rod Ellis (University of Auckland),
Wataru Suzuki (Miyagi University of Education), Keyvan Kashkouli Nejad
(Tohoku University), Benjamin Thyreau (Tohoku University), Daniele Magistro
(Tohoku University), Satoru Yokoyama (Chiba Institute of Science), &
Ryuta Kawashima (Tohoku University)
2. Settings, stance, and tone-of-voice
Mark Campana (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
3. Referential communication in children with autism spectrum disorder
Ayana Tamura (Institute for Developmental Research, Aichi Human ServiceCenter),
Kohei Tsunemi (Iwaki Junior College), Shino Ogawa (Kyoto University),
Sakiko Yoshikawa (Kyoto University) & Nobuo Masataka (Kyoto University)

4. Definiteness, specificity, and Japanese speakers knowledge of the English article system
Ken Urano (Hokkai-Gakuen University)
5. Why is cooked rice the Japanese staple food? An analysis from generative lexicon approach
Juan Romero Daz (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
6. Verb-Object compounds vs. Phrases in Taiwan Southern Min
Huei-Ling Lin (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
7. Chinese coordinator KESHI and its English counterpart
Rui-heng Ray Huang (National Taipei University of Business)
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July 19, Sunday

9:00-10:20

Registration

9:20-11:00

Individual Oral Sessions 7-9

Individual Oral Session 7

Foyer (Hall)

[English]

Room 1: International Conference Room

Chair: Kei Nakamura (International Christian University/Keio University)

9:20-9:45

Adults wearing eyeglasses helps joint attention in 2-year-olds but not in 4-year-olds
Tetsuya Yasuda (Jumonji Univesity) & Harumi Kobayashi (Tokyo Denki
University)

9:45-10:10

An investigation of overregularization of the English past-tense forms in EFL learners:

Gender and frequency
Jou-An Chung (National Chengchi University) & Wen-hui Sah (National Chengchi
University)

10:10-10:35

Ambiguity resolution in the first and the second language processing: A study of native
speakers of Chinese, Mongolian, Turkish and Japanese
Chunhua Bai (The University of Tokyo) & Yuki Hirose (The University of Tokyo)

10:35-11:00

Factors affecting the assessment of Japanese-speaking childrens referential behavior

Jun Nomura (Kyoto Womens University)

Individual Oral Session 8

[Japanese]

Room 2: Conference Room

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9:20-9:45

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Individual Oral Session 9 [English & Japanese] Room 3: Meeting Room 31

Chair: Mihoko Kubota (Tokyo Zokei University)

9:20-9:45

Investigating participation behavior in a graduate-level American classroom: A mutual effect

between East-Asian and native-English-speaking students
Junko Takahashi (Columbia University)

9:45-10:10

Preparing Japanese EFL Learners for courses in English: Understanding lectures and notetaking
Shizuka Sakurai Lauwereyns (Fukuoka Womens University)

10:10-10:35

Investigating the relative contributions of computerised working memory training and

English language teaching to cognitive and foreign language development
Yuko Hayashi (Saga University), Taisei Kobayashi (Fukuoka University),
Tsuyoshi Toyoshige (Fukuoka University) & Shota Kawano (Saga University)

10:35-11:00

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Poster Session 2

[English & Japanese]

Foyer (Hall)

1. From Want to Control: Mandarin-Speaking childrens gestural and vocative requests

Yupin Chen (Tamkang University)
2. A cross-cultural comparison of mental state understanding: An examination of Japanese and Australian adults
reasoning for their responses to theory-of-mind questionnaire
Kaoru Toyama (Ryukoku University), Kana Imuta (The University of Queensland),
Virginia Slaughter (The University of Queensland), Michiteru Kitazaki (Toyohashi
University of Technology), & Shoji Itakura (Kyoto University)
3. Event-related potential studies on M-scrambling of dative and accusative noun phrases in Japanese
Yuki Kojima (Fomer, Kwansei Gakuin University), Fumie Sugimoto (National Institute of
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Junichi Katayama (Kwansei Gakuin
University), & Yoko Nakano (Kwansei Gakuin University)
4. Coordinated NPs agree with singular or plural in there-constructions?: A comparison between NS and NNS
in a self-paced reading task
Yu Tamura (Nagoya University), Junya Fukuta (Nagoya University &The Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science), Yoshito Nishimura (Nagoya University) & Daiki Kato (Nagoya
University)
5. Is a musically talented person also talented at learning English?: A correlation between English
proficiency and the Music Ability Test (MAT)
Chise Kasai (Gifu University), Kenichi Hayashi (Gifu University), Lucas Sinclair
(Tokyo Seitoku University Junior & Senior High School), & Yo Hamada (Akita University)
6. [Alternate] Constructional meaning revisited: The case of TIME-away
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12:50-13:20

Lunch

12:50-13:20

General Meeting

13:30-15:00

Plenary Talk [English]

Room 1: International Conference Room

Room 1: International Conference Room

Chair: Tomoko Matsui (Tokyo Gakugei University)

How is language affected by cognitive deficits and differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Francesca Happ (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Director of the Social, Genetic &
Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Kings College London)

15:10-17:00

Invited Symposium [English]

Room 1: International Conference Room

Chair: Harumi Kobayashi (Tokyo Denki University)

Language use based on cognitive and social ability: Examination of reading, writing, and comprehension
Masamichi Yuzawa (Hiroshima University)
Hidetsugu Komeda (Kyoto University)
Tomoko Matsui (Tokyo Gakugei University)
Discussant: Francesca Happ (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Director of the Social, Genetic
& Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Kings College London)

17:00-17:20

Closing Address

Room 1: International Conference Room