Welcome to Konan PsychLing!
甲南大学大学院 人文科学研究科 英語英米文学専攻 言語学/心理言語学研究室 (KonanPsychLing) は，理論言語学および心理言語学に特に注力しているラボです。
本研究科では院生を募集しています（修士課程・博士後期課程）。
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・概要については下の「About us」をクリックしてください。
・カリキュラム，学費等については→ こちら（英語）をご覧ください。
・心理言語学専攻の院生への研究奨励金制度もあります。
・ラボのヴァーチャルツアーについては→ こちらをご覧ください。
本研究科への進学に関心のある方はお気軽にメールフォーム（中谷宛）または分野が近い先生に直接お問い合わせください。
About us (Japanese)
実験研究の方法論として，容認性調査，自己ペース読文課題，視線計測など，統計手法としてt検定，分散分析，ロジスティック回帰，線形回帰，線形混合効果モデル分析など，ソフトウェアとして，R，PCIbex，Experiment Builderなどを学べます。
また，関西レキシコンプロジェクト(KLP)や関西心理言語学研究会(KCP) [link]といった研究会のネットワークを通して，関西圏の理論言語学・心理言語学研究のリソースへの寄与と研究活動の振興を目指しています。
修士課程および博士後期課程を完備しています。上記のような理論言語学・心理言語学の分野を学べるほか，様々な実験手法や統計分析の方法なども身につけることができます。言語学/心理言語学のコースは，「人文科学研究科 英語英米文学専攻」の一部となっています。専攻内で分野ごとに履修計画を立てられるので，言語学分野を研究する場合，文化・文学科目を履修する必要はありません。
修士課程の到達目標
1. 言語理論，特に統語論，音声学，音韻論および意味論の基礎知識を修得する。
2. 心理言語学の方法（実験計画・実験方法・統計分析）の基礎を学ぶ。
3. 英語で書かれた学術論文を正しく読めるようになる。
4. （少なくとも研究会や小規模学会，できれば全国規模学会で）研究発表を行えるようになる。
5. 指導教員の指導のもと，修士論文のプロジェクトを完遂する。
博士後期課程の到達目標
1. 独自のプロジェクトを立ち上げ，進めることができるようになる。
2. 全国規模の学会や国際学会で発表を行えるようになる。
3. 特に実験手法などについて後進に指導・アドバイスできるレベルになる。
4. 論文を学術誌などに投稿し，出版する。
5. 博士論文を完成させる。
本研究科では院生を募集しています（修士課程・博士後期課程）。心理言語学専攻の院生への授業料補助制度も検討中です。本研究科への進学に関心のある方はお気軽にメールフォーム（中谷宛）にお問い合わせください。
カリキュラムについてはこちらをご覧ください（英語）。
ラボのヴァーチャルツアーについては→
こちらをご覧ください。
入試情報についてはリンクを参照ください。
実験研究の方法論として，容認性調査，自己ペース読文課題，視線計測など，統計手法としてt検定，分散分析，ロジスティック回帰，線形回帰，線形混合効果モデル分析など，ソフトウェアとして，R，PCIbex，Experiment Builderなどを学べます。
また，関西レキシコンプロジェクト(KLP)や関西心理言語学研究会(KCP) [link]といった研究会のネットワークを通して，関西圏の理論言語学・心理言語学研究のリソースへの寄与と研究活動の振興を目指しています。
修士課程および博士後期課程を完備しています。上記のような理論言語学・心理言語学の分野を学べるほか，様々な実験手法や統計分析の方法なども身につけることができます。言語学/心理言語学のコースは，「人文科学研究科 英語英米文学専攻」の一部となっています。専攻内で分野ごとに履修計画を立てられるので，言語学分野を研究する場合，文化・文学科目を履修する必要はありません。
修士課程の到達目標
1. 言語理論，特に統語論，音声学，音韻論および意味論の基礎知識を修得する。
2. 心理言語学の方法（実験計画・実験方法・統計分析）の基礎を学ぶ。
3. 英語で書かれた学術論文を正しく読めるようになる。
4. （少なくとも研究会や小規模学会，できれば全国規模学会で）研究発表を行えるようになる。
5. 指導教員の指導のもと，修士論文のプロジェクトを完遂する。
博士後期課程の到達目標
1. 独自のプロジェクトを立ち上げ，進めることができるようになる。
2. 全国規模の学会や国際学会で発表を行えるようになる。
3. 特に実験手法などについて後進に指導・アドバイスできるレベルになる。
4. 論文を学術誌などに投稿し，出版する。
5. 博士論文を完成させる。
本研究科では院生を募集しています（修士課程・博士後期課程）。心理言語学専攻の院生への授業料補助制度も検討中です。本研究科への進学に関心のある方はお気軽にメールフォーム（中谷宛）にお問い合わせください。
カリキュラムについてはこちらをご覧ください（英語）。
ラボのヴァーチャルツアーについては→ こちらをご覧ください。
入試情報についてはリンクを参照ください。
Linguistics/Psycholinguistics Lab at the Department of English, Konan University (KonanPsychLing) is specialized in theoretical-linguistic and psycholinguistic studies in various languages, especially English, Japanese and Vietnamese.
We are accepting applications from qualified students in our master's and doctoral programs (Click here for an overview). For more information, feel free to contact Ken Nakatani from the Mail Form.
About us (English)
Konan University Linguistics/Psycholinguistics Lab (PsychLing) is comprised of linguistics/psycholinguistics graduate students and faculty members of the English Literature and Language program of the Graduate School of Humanities at Konan University (Kobe, Japan) (=> Japanese; English).
Our research interest ranges over various fields of theoretical and experimental linguistics including 1st and 2nd language acquisition, sentence processing, experimental phonetics and phonology, as well as theoretical syntax, lexical semantics, formal semantics, and pragmatics.
We welcome applications for our graduate program (master's and doctoral) from those who are interested in the above mentioned field. Click here for an overview.
Our research interest ranges over various fields of theoretical and experimental linguistics including 1st and 2nd language acquisition, sentence processing, experimental phonetics and phonology, as well as theoretical syntax, lexical semantics, formal semantics, and pragmatics.
We welcome applications for our graduate program (master's and doctoral) from those who are interested in the above mentioned field. Click here for an overview.
Application schedule 2024-2025 (TENTATIVE; To be formally announced around May)
| Application period | Date of the interview | |
| 1 July 25th--August 1st, 2024 | September 7nd, 2023 | |
| 2 September 20th--September 27th, 2024 | October 12nd, 2024 | |
| January 13th--20th, 2025 | February 22th, 2025 |
2 For internal applications from qualified Konan students only.
Those who are interested are encouraged to contact one of the faculty members for details.
News
Scholarship for psycholinguistic research
2.17.2024
We are starting a merit-based scholarship for psycholinguistic research: 甲南大学大学院 人文科学研究科英語英米文学専攻 心理言語学研究奨励金. We are awarding 200,000 JPY a year to grad students with outstanding academic achievements who are aiming for experimental psycholinguistic research. Applications for the 2024 scholarship are accepted from February 26 to March 9. Those eligible who are planning to apply are advised to download the following zip file including the relevant documents.
Event
12.12.2023
We are hosting an international workshop devoted to sentence processing, to be held on January 6 and 7, 2024.
KCP International Workshop
https://www.konan-u.ac.jp/hp/nakatani/kcp/iw/
Venue:
平生記念セミナーハウス
兵庫県神戸市東灘区住吉本町２丁目２９−１５
JR神戸線 住吉駅 または阪急 神戸線 御影駅より徒歩10分
Invited speakers:
Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh
Douglas Roland, University of Tokyo
Program:
--January 6th, Saturday
13:00- Registration open
13:25-13:30 Opening remarks
13:30-14:10 Hajime Ono (Tsuda University)
"The role of resumptive pronouns in Tongan relative clause processing."
14:10-14:50 Douglas Roland (U Tokyo) [Invited talk]
"Prediction as a consequence of integration"
15:00-15:40 Kentaro Nakatani (Konan U)
"Processing negative-sensitive elements in Japanese"
15:40-16:20 Shinnosuke Isono (U Tokyo)
"Towards a universal theory of locality effects in comprehension"
16:30-17:30 Hannah Rohde (U Edinburgh) [Invited talk]
"Discourse dependencies: Raising and answering questions in discourse"
--January 7th, Sunday
10:30-11:10 Mikihiro Tanaka (Konan Women U)
"Mapping concept onto syntax in sentence production: Evidence from coercion and metonymy"
11:10-11:50 Yoko Nakano (Kwansei Gakuin U)
"Mechanisms for producing inflectional verb forms in L1 and L2 Japanese"
13:00-13:40 Rei Emura (Tohoku U)
"Lingering misinterpretations of Japanese garden-path sentences"
13:40-14:20 Ken Nakatani & Shoko Shida (Konan U)
"Affectedness, awareness and re-mention in a maze"
14:20-15:00 Franklin Chang & Tomoko Tatsumi (Kobe City U of Foreign Studies)
"My mouth is lonely: Processing of the emotions of inanimate objects"
15:00-15:40 Masataka Yano (Tokyo Metropolitan U)
"Processing of null subjects in Japanese"
16:00-17:00 Hannah Rohde (U Edinburgh) [Invited talk]
"Informativity in cooperative communication"
There's no registration fee. Anybody is welcome to join us!
New publication
12.06.2023
Ken has a new publication.
- Kentaro Nakatani "Locality-based retrieval effects are dependent on dependency type: A case study of a negative polarity dependency in Japanese." In Masatoshi Koizumi (ed.) Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives Volume 2: Interaction Between Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Factors, 31-54, De Gruyter Mouton.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778939-003
Glad to see this published because this represents one of my central concerns.
New presentation
9.24.2023
Ken is presenting a poster at 日本言語学会 第167回大会, to be held at 同志社大学京田辺キャンパス on November 11, 12. The title is as follows:
- 中谷健太郎「テシマウは本当に完了のアスペクト形式なのか」
New publication and presentation
9.24.2023
Miki and Ken has a proceedings paper published. This is a new study developed from the presentation at 甲南英文学会 incorporating the comments from the audience.
- 石原実樹・中谷健太郎. 2023. 「語彙性判断課題における文脈情報の影響」信学技報 TL2023-19: 19-24.
The oral presentation of the paper will be given at IEICE Technical Committee on Thought and Language (TL) (電子情報通信学会 思考と言語研究会 (TL)), to be held at 東京大学駒場キャンパス on September 30 and October 1.
Konan English Literary Society 2023
6.23.2023
The annual meeting will be held on July 1 [link], and there will be two talks from the PsychLing lab:
- Nigel Duffield "How not to ask questions in English"
- 石原実樹「日本人英語学習者の英語の多義語の理解について ―語彙性判断課題を通して―」
This year's invited talk will be given by Yohei Oseki of the University of Tokyo!
- 大関洋平（東京大学）「深層学習時代の言語学」
New publication
5.31.2023
Ken has a new publication in Glossa. It took almost 10 years to finish up this paper.
- Nambu, Satoshi & Nakatani, Kentaro. An experimental study of the adjacency constraint on the genitive subject in Japanese. Glossa 8(1): pp.1-30. https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9509
New publications
5.11.2023
Nigel has three publications on syntax and Vietnamese:
- Duffield, Nigel & Phan, Trang (eds). Progress in Vietnamese Linguistics. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics. Introduction to Special Issue — Proceedings of ISVL-2.
- Duffield, Nigel. Ellipsis. In T. Ionin, S. Montrul & R. Slabakova (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics. Pp. nn. London: Routledge.
- Duffield, Nigel. Nominative Case and X’-Theory Revisited: ‘We bade it a tedious returning’. To appear in Elena Anagnostopoulou, Dionysios Mertyris and Christina Sevdali (eds.) The Place of Case in Grammar Oxford: Oxford University Press.
New presentation
1.24.2023
Miki Ishihara, an undergrad who is joining our grad program, is going to present at 言語学フェス this Saturday. Nice work!
- 石原実樹「日本人英語学習者の英語の多義語判断の際の文脈の影響」 言語学フェス2023, online, Jan. 28, 2023.
New presentation
10.12.2022
Ken is going to give a talk at a symposium of the 75th meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan:
- 中谷健太郎「統語構造と言語運用のインターフェイス」シンポジウム『統語論と言語学関連分野とのインターフェイス』, 日本英文学会九州支部第 75 回大会, 於西南学院大学, Oct. 22. (Program)
New publication
9.21.2022
Nigel has a new publication:
- Phan, Trang & Duffield, Nigel. 2022. A Roadmap to Vietnamese Phrase Structure. In Chris Shei & Saihong Li (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics. London: Taylor & Francis.
New publication
9.21.2022
Ken has a book review published in JJL:
- Kentaro Nakatani. 2022. "Kageyama, Taro, Peter E. Hook and Prashant Pardeshi: Verb-verb complexes in Asian languages."
Journal of Japanese Linguistics 38: 291-293.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jjl-2022-2063/html
Paper accepted (IICE 2023)
9.21.2022
An abstract by Nigel with Ayumi Matsuo and Trang Phan to 2023 Hawaii International Conference on Education has been accepted for presentation.
- Title: "Investigating sensitivity to partial rules in English wh-questions: comparing Japanese and Vietnamese L2 learners."
New publications
5.12.2022
Nigel has two publication on Vietnamese:
- Duffield, N. (2022) Whales and Other Mammals: A Naturalist's Take on Syntactic Variation (with Particular Reference to Vietnamese & Irish). In Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society — special publication #9: Vietnamese Linguistics: State of the Field, edited by Trang Phan, John Phan and Mark Alves, pp. 127-167. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52500
- Phan, Trang & Duffield, Nigel. 2022. A Roadmap to Vietnamese Phrase Structure. To appear in Chris Shei & Saihong Li (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics. London: Taylor & Francis.
Grad school application schedule
6.26.2022
The application schedule for our grad school is (belatedly, finally) officially issued. The pdf version of the brochure should be available on line soon from https://www.konan-u.ac.jp/exam/graduate/application/.
There is a major change in the application/admission procedure:
- There will be no paper-based exam.
- Instead, applicants have to submit a research proposal and an essay.
- Applicants graduated from a college/university whose main language is not English must file a score of an English proficiency test.
- There will be an interview on a specified date, but this could be done via Zoom.
The schedule is as follows:
| Application period | Date of the interview | |
| 1 July 25th--August 1st, 2022 | September 3rd, 2022 | |
| January 11th--18th, 2023 | February 18th, 2023 |
Those who are interested are encouraged to contact one of the faculty members for details.
New presentation
5.6.2022
Ken is joining a workhop at the 164th meeting of Linguistic Society of Japan as a commentator, on June 19, 2022.
- ワークショップ「語彙と語用のはざまで」
日本言語学会 第164 回大会 (Zoom)
June 19 (Sun), 10:00-12:00
Program
New presentations
2.2.2022
Kenta and Ken presented at 言語学フェス2022 on January 29, an informal online linguistics gathering. It was fun!
- Kenta Izumoto "The resolution of syntactic ambiguity in some...others"
- Ken Nakatani "あなたも実験研究してみませんか?! Konan PsychLing Lab紹介"
New publication
11.18.2021
Ken has a new publication an edited book intended to be a textbook.
- 中谷健太郎「統語論と言語運用のインターフェイス」中村浩一郎（編）『統語論と言語学諸分野とのインター フェイス (言語のインターフェイス・分野別シリーズ 第1巻) 』p.125-160. 開拓社.
This one seems to be an interesting textbook, devoted to the interface issues.
New publication
11.03.2021
Nigel has yet another new publication on Vietnamese!
- Duffield, N. & Phan, T. (2021) Introducing 'Vietnamese: a generative-typological approach'. In Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Vietnamese Studies. A Preprint of the paper will be available soon on Lingbuzz.
New publication
9.14.2021
Nigel has a new publication on Vietnamese.
- Phan, Trang & Duffield, Nigel. "On the Structure and Acquisition of Telicity and Unaccusativity in Vietnamese." Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 19.2., 1-32.
New presentation
9.14.2021
Nigel has three future and past presentations. Nice work!
- Duffield, Nigel. & Phan, Trang. 2021. Introducing Vietnamese Syntax: A Generative-Typological Approach. Talk to be given at the 6th international conference on Vietnamese Studies, Linguistics Session, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi. [originally scheduled July, now postponed; proceedings paper has already been submitted, pre-print available through LingBuzz)
- Duffield, Nigel. “‘We Bade it a Tedious Returning’: Reconsidering Nominative Case in English, past and present”. Presented at ICEHL-21 (International Conference on English Historical Linguistics), Leiden, NL, June 2021 [online presentation -- proceedings abstract submitted]].
- Duffield, Nigel. 2021. UG in the Eye of the Beholder: a Naturalist’s Take on Syntactic Variation. Harvard-Yenching Workshop on Vietnamese Linguistics, Typology and Language Universals. Online Workshop, April 15-16th 2021.
New presentation
9.7.2021
Ken was invited to present at International Symposium on Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives, on September 11 and 12, 2021. This is a symposium jointly organized by The Field-based Approaches to Language, Cognition, and Human Nature (FALCOHN) Project and NINJAL.
- Kentaro Nakatani "Integrating different types of long-distance dependencies: A case study of a negative polarity dependency in Japanese."
- Toshiki Iwabuchi, Satoshi Nambu, Kentaro Nakatani, and Michiru Makuuchi "Brain mechanisms for the processing of Japanese syntactic particles wa, ga and no"
New publication
3.31.2021
Andy has a new publication!
- Andrew Martin "The sound symbolism of size and speed in Japanese vehicle and Pokémon character namess." In Journal of Konan University: Faculty of Letters 171: 53-58. http://doi.org/10.14990/00003759
Also, below is the list of Andy's recent publications:
- Andrew Martin, Yosuke Igarashi, Nobuyuki Jincho & Reiko Mazuka. 2016. "Utterances in infant-directed speech are shorter, not slower" Cognition 156: 52-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.07.015
- Bogdan Ludusana, Alejandrina Cristia, Andrew Martin, Reiko Mazuka & Emmanuel Dupoux. 2016. "Learnability of prosodic boundaries: Is infant-directed speech easier?" Jounal of Acoustical Society of America 140: 1239-1250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4960576
- Kouki Miyazawa, Takahito Shinya, Andrew Martin, Hideaki Kikuchi & Reiko Mazuka. 2017. "Vowels in infant-directed speech: More breathy and more variable, but not clearer." Cognition 166: 84-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.05.003
- Adriana Guevara-Rukoz, Alejandrina Cristia, Bogdan Ludusan, Roland Thiolliere, Andrew Martin, Reiko Mazuka, Emmanuel Dupoux. 2018. "Are Words Easier to Learn From Infant- Than Adult- Directed Speech? A Quantitative Corpus-Based Investigation." Cognitive Science 42: 1586-1617. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12616
New publication
3.17.2021
Ken has contributed an article to a Festschrift for Takane Ito.
- Kentaro Nakatani "Locality Effects in the Processing of Negative-Sensitive Adverbials in Japanese." In Reiko Okabe, Jun Yashima, Yusuke Kubota & Tatsuya Isono (Eds.) The Joy and Enjoyment of Linguistic Research: A Festschrift for Takane Ito, pp. 462–472, 2021, Tokyo, Kaitakusya.
New publication
2.26.2021
Ken has contributed some entries including "言語産出", "言語能力", "言語理解", "統語解析", "統語論", "普遍文法", and (gasp) "文法" to the new "有斐閣 現代心理学辞典". It was pretty difficult to define "文法" in 1000 letters...
People
Faculty members:
Nigel G. Duffield, Ph.D. (University of Southern California)
Professor
Syntax, language and cognition, L1 and L2 acquisition, Vietnamese syntax
>> CV/publications
Akitoshi Fukushima, M.A. (Konan University)
Professor
Phonetics, prosody
>> CV/publications
Kentaro Nakatani, Ph.D. (Harvard University)
Professor
Sentence processing, lexical semantics
Co-organizer of Kansai Circle of Psycholinguistics (KCP)
>> CV/publications
Andrew T. Martin, Ph.D. (UCLA)
Professor
Phonology, language acquisition
>> CV/publications
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Past news
New presentation
12.1.2020
Ken will present his collaborative work with Satoshi Nambu (Monash University) at MAPLL 2020!
- Satoshi Nambu (Monash U) and Kentaro Nakatani (Konan U) "Intervention effects on the processing of genitive subjects in Japanese." To be presented as TL/MAPLL 2020 on December 5, 2020.
Paper published / New presentation
11.10.2020
A new publication and an upcoming presentation from Nigel.
- Duffield, Nigel. "Bah, Humbug! Some extemporaneous thoughts on the past, present and future of Tense and Comp in Vietnamese." In From T to C: Grammatical Representations of Tense and Speech Acts. [Conference Proceedings Paper]. Hanoi: Vietnamese Institute of Linguistics. lingbuzz/004986
- Duffield, Nigel. [scheduled June 2021] "‘We Bade it a Tedious Returning’: Reconsidering Nominative Case in English, past and present." Accepted to ICEHL-21 (International Conference on English Historical Linguistics), Leiden, NL, June 2021 [postponed from June 2020].
Paper published
11.4.2020
A new publication from Shoko!
- 志田祥子, 中谷健太郎. 2020. 「動詞意味論における事象の反復性―動詞と目的語からみて― 」由本陽子・岸本秀樹（編）『名詞をめぐる諸問題 : 語形成・意味・構文』 109 - 120. 開拓社.
Congrats, Shoko!
Paper published
9.2.2020
A new publication from Nigel!
- Duffield, Nigel. "‘Down, Down, Down’: how many layers can there be to Inner Aspect?" in McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 25: Heading in the right direction: Linguistic treats for Lisa Travis https://www.mcgill.ca/mcgwpl/current-issue
New presentations
3.19.2020
Here's the list of past and future presentations by Nigel since the last update!
- Duffield, Nigel. [scheduled June 2020] “‘We Bade it a Tedious Returning’: Reconsidering Nominative Case in English, past and present”. Accepted to ICEHL-21 (International Conference on English Historical Linguistics 21), Leiden, NL, June 2020. ***Due to the present emergency, it is unlikely that this conference will take place in physical form, but so far no announcement has been made.
- Duffield, Nigel. 2020. Bah, Humbug! Some extemporaneous thoughts on the past, present and future of Tense and Comp in Vietnamese. In From T to C: Grammatical Representations of Tense and Speech Acts. Hanoi: Vietnamese Institute of Linguistics, January 15th -16th, 2020.
- Duffield, Nigel & Ayumi Matsuo. 2020. ‘L2 learners’ sensitivity to partial rules in English wh-questions’. Joint poster with Ayumi Matsuo. 18th Hawaii International Conference on Education. Honolulu, Hawaii 4-7th January 2019.
Paper published
3.18.2020
Ken has contributed a chapter to a Festschrift for Hideki Kishimoto, 統語構造と語彙の多角的研究. The title of the chapter is as follows:
- Kentaro Nakatani "Aspectual interpretation of -te kuru as a result of modal slide."
Paper published
11.28.2019
Ken and Shoko have contributed a chapter to Hideki Kishimoto's new edited book レキシコンの現代理論とその応用, which has just been published. The title is as follows:
- 中谷健太郎・志田祥子 「言語運用における意味計算: ネクスト・メンションを例に」
This is basically a published version of our 2018 talk at LSJ; this also includes a portion of the talk I gave at ELSJ this month.
Invited talk at the English Linguistics Society of Japan
11.1.2019
Ken has been invited to give a talk at the 37th Annual Conference of the English Linguistics Society of Japan, to be held at Kwansei Gakuin University, November 9-10, 2019. The talk itself will be on the first day (9th). The title is as follows:
- Kentaro Nakatni "Linguistic competence, performance, entailment, and inference––How is our mental system organized"
Well, the title is big, the actual talk will be small, but please come anyway!
New edited book published
10.9.2019
The book on Vietnamese linguistics edited by Nigel that has been announced earlier this year has been finally published!
- Nigel Duffield, Trang Phan & Tue Trinh (eds.) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics
Congrats, Nigel!
Paper published
8.5.2019
An article by Nigel has been published on Liliane Haegemen’s Webschrift, Mapping Linguistic Data: Essays in honour of Liliane Haegeman (Link). The title of the paper is as follows:
New edited book published
8.1.2019
A textbook on experimental methods edited by Ken has been published and now available in stores!
Natsuno also has contributed a chapter. Check it out!
Poster accepted (AMLaP 2019)
6.23.2019
An abstract by Natsuno Aoki submitted to Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing 2019 (AMLaP 2019), to be held at Digital business space, Moscow, Russia, Septermber 6-8, 2019, has been accepted for a poster presentation. Congratulations, Natsuno! The title is as follows:
- Natsuno Aoki and Ken Nakatni "Causation types in Bump-alternation in Japanese -from data of self-paced reading studies"
Konan English Literary Society 2019
6.23.2019
The annual meeting will be held on July 6 [link], and there will be one tutorial and one talk from the PsychLing lab:
- 中谷健太郎 チュートリアル「形式意味論の基本的な考え方について －外延，内包，集合，可能世界に焦点を当てて－」
- 志田祥子・中谷健太郎 「1回/1回だけ」が導くsemelfactiveとactivityのアスペクト解釈の違い」
Two papers accepted (MAPLL-TCP-TL)
5.24.2019
There will be a MAPLL-TCP-TL(*) 2019 workshop held at Konan this July, and two papers from our department have been accepted for oral presentations.
(*Mental Architecture of Processing and Learning of Language / Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics / Technical Committee on Thought and Language)
- Nigel Duffield and Ayumi Matsuo. / 'The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions’: L2 learners’ sensitivity to partial rules in English wh-questions
- Shoko Shida and Ken Nakatani. / Can you do it once or only once? An experimental study of activity and semelfactive verbs
This will be an exciting event, especially because there will be invited talks by two distinguished scholars, Colin Phillips and Matt Wagers.
And congratulations on all of you who are presenting!
New edited book accepted for publication
5.24.2019
The publication proposal of the book on Vietnamese linguistics Nigel is editing has been accepted for publication by John Benjamins. The prospective title of the book is as follows:
- Duffield, Phan & Trinh (eds.) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics
It will probably take a little more while before it actually comes out, but congratulations anyways on your great work, Nigel!
KLP April 20
4.20.2019
Natsuno will be presenting at the next KLP meeting (April 20). The title of the talk is as follows:
- 青木奈律乃「弾当て代換が表す移動と使役タイプについて ––容認性判断と自己ペース読文課題の結果から」
Doctoral degree awarded
3.25.2019
Natsuno has been awarded a doctoral degree. Contratulations!!!!
Paper published
12.7.2018
Nigel Duffield has published two articles:
- Duffield, Nigel. ‘Down, Down, Down’: how many layers can there be to Inner Aspect? In L. Kalin, I. Paul, and J. Vander Klok (eds.) McGill Working Papers in Linguistics – Special Issue in Honour of Lisa Travis, Vol 25, 1: 110-122.
- Duffield, Nigel. Parsing Out in English and Vietnamese [Conference Version] Proceedings of 5th NaFosted Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS). To appear, November 2018.
Nigel is also currently editing a book on Vietnamese linguistics. We'll announce it when it comes out!
KCP October 27, 2018
10.3.2018
Ken Nakatani and Shoko Shida are giving a practice talk at the next KCP meeting for the upcoming LSJ meeting. Mano Miho from KLP is also joining us as a speaker. Please come! See the website for detail.
Conference talks
9.26.2018
Nigel Duffield is going to give three talks at three conferences:
- "She to go, and he to follow her, t'is the best anymore: Theoretical Implications of 'unmarked' and 'default' nominative Case in English, past and present." To be presented at Place of Case in Grammar (PlaCiG), Rethymnon, Crete, 18-20 October 2018.
- "Parsing Out in Vietnamese and English: a processing account of grammatical intervention effects." To be presented at the 5th NICS Conference (Linguistics Section), Saigon, Vietnam, 22-24 November 2018.
- "'The young man knows the rules, the old man knows the exceptions': L2 learners' sensitivity to partial rules in English Wh-Questions." To be presented at the 17th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education to be held from January 5 to January 8, 2019.
Kudos to the great job!
Paper accepted (The Linguistic Society of Japan)
9.24.2018
An abstract by Ken Nakatani and Shoko Shida submitted to the Linguistic Society of Japan (日本言語学会) for its 157th meeting, November 17-18, 2018, at Kyoto University, has been accepted for a paper presentation. The title is as follows:
- Kentaro Nakatani and Shoko Shida "Effects of the inferred affectedness factor in the next-mention preferences in Japanese."
It's sort of a preliminary study, but it is a new direction for me, so I'm glad it's been accepted.
Konan English Literary Society 2018
8.18.2017
The annual meeting is held on September 15 [link], and there will be 2 talks from the PsychLing lab:
- Natsuno Aoki "Structural Preference in Japanese Locative Alternation"
- Andy T. Martin "Function word reduction in infant-directed Japanese"
Looking forward to them!
Poster accepted (LSJ Summer Institute)
7.20.2018
I heard that Natsuno’s oral presentation at the 10th International Conference on Construction Grammar in Paris was successful. Good job, Natsuno!
Here’s another thing: An abstract by Shoko Shida, which is a joint work with Natsuno Aoki and me, for a poster presentation at the LSJapan Summer Institute to be held at 東京外大, has been accepted. The title is as follows:
- 志田祥子・青木奈律乃・中谷健太郎「オノマトペが引き起こすsemelfactive解釈とアスペクト解釈に関する再考察－自己ペース読文課題を用いて–」
This is a small follow-up study to Shoko's oral presentation at the 154th LSJ meeting. Congrats on your nice job, Shoko!
LSJ Summer Institute
5.27.2018
Ken Nakatani is giving a series of lectures on psycholinguistics at LSJ Summer Institute. Independently of my contribution, LSJ Summer Institute (originally inspired by LSA Summer Institute) is an excellent opportunity to get to know about various topics in linguistics in a short period of time, as well as to know fellow grad students from other universities.
LSJ Summer Institute is accepting applications until July 20. See the website for details: https://sites.google.com/view/lsj2018/home
Post-doc joining Konan PychLing
4.28.2018
Santa Vinerte (University of Ottawa) has been awarded a two-year post-doctoral fellowship from NSERC(Canada)-JSPS to study cognitive control in Japanese-English bilinguals, under Nigel's supervision.
Welcome, Santa!
Paper accepted (International Conference on Construction Grammar)
2.28.2018
An abstract by Natsuno Aoki submitted to the 10th International Conference on Construction Grammar has been accepted for a paper presentation. The title is as follows:
- Natsuno Aoki "Preverbal processing cost in locative alternation in Japanese."
Good job, Natsuno!
Book published!
2.24.2018
A book by Nigel Duffield has finally been published! The book is entitled Reflections on Psycholinguistic Theories: Raiding the Inarticulate, published by Cambridge University Press.
Available in stores including Amazon. Kindle version is also available. Check this out!
Kansai Linguistic Society (KLS43) will be held at Konan
1.22.2018
The 43rd annual meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society (KLS43) will be held at Konan on June 9-10. Abstract submission is now being invited (deadline: February 28). Hope to see you all there!
See the following link for details: KLS43
KLP January 20
12.29.2017
Natsuno and Shoko will be presenting at the next KLP meeting (January 20). The titles of the talks will be as follows:
- 青木奈律乃「壁塗り交替における構文の選好性 ––オンライン処理の観点から––」
- 志田祥子・中谷健太郎「semelfactive動詞における繰り返し解釈はどこからくるのか？––動詞と目的語の組み合わせに着目して––」
Poster accepted (16th Annual Hawaii Conference on Education)
12.8.2017
An abstract by Nigel Duffield submitted to the 16th Annual Hawaii Conference on Education, ESL section, January 4-7, 2018, has been accepted for a poster presentation. Congratulations, Nigel! The title is as follows:
- Nigel Duffield "The Negative Role of Experience on L2 Speech Perception."
The poster will also be posted on the wall of the department.
By the way, Natsuno's latest poster is also on the wall now.
KCP October 7, 2017
9.21.2017
Ken Nakatani is giving a practice talk at the next KCP meeting for his Hawai'i workshop paper. See the website for detail.
Paper accepted (The Linguistic Society of Japan)
9.16.2017
An abstract by Shoko Shida and Ken Nakatani submitted to the Linguistic Society of Japan (日本言語学会) for its 155th meeting, November 25-26, 2017, at Ritsumeikan University, has been accepted for a paper presentation. The title is as follows:
- Shoko Shida and Kentaro Nakatani "How many times is the action repeated? An analysis of semelfactive interpretations based on the combination of the verb and its object."
Good job, Shoko!
Paper to be published soon (JEAL)
9.13.2017
Nigel Duffield has a paper entitled "On what projects in Vietnamese" accepted by Journal of East Asian Linguistics [link]. It's coming out later this month. Congrats!
Poster accepted (LingBaW 2017)
9.13.2017
An abstract by Natsuno Aoki submitted to Linguistics Beyond And Within 2017 (LingBaW 2017), International Linguistics Conference in Lublin, October 18-19, 2017, to be held at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, has been accepted for a poster presentation. Congratulations, Natsuno! The title is as follows:
- Natsuno Aoki "What Decides Processing Cost in Locative Alternation in Japanese? -From Data of Self-paced Reading Study."
Paper accepted (EAP2017)
8.13.2017
An abstract by Ken Nakatani submitted to East Asian psycholinguistics: Recent developments, a satellite workshop of Japanese/Korean Linguistics 25, October 15, 2017, to be held at University of Hawai'i, Manoa, has been accepted for a paper presentation. The title is as follows:
- Kentaro Nakatani "Anti-locality effects of surprisal: A case of negative polarity items in Japanese"
Paper accepted (MLF2017)
8.13.2017
An abstract by Ken Nakatani submitted to Morphology and Lexicon Forum (MLF) for its 2017 meeting (MLF2017), September 10, 2017, to be held at Konan University, has been accepted for a paper presentation. The title is as follows:
- Kentaro Nakatani "Aspectual interpretation of -te kuru as a result of modal slide"
Morphology & Lexicon Forum 2017 (MLF2017) will be held at Konan
7.10.2017
Morphology & Lexicon Forum 2017 will be held at Konan on September 9-10. Abstract submission is still being invited (deadline: July 24). Hope to see you all there!
See the following link for details: MLF 2017
KLP July 9
7.1.2017
Shoko and Natsuno will be presenting at the next KLP meeting (July 9). The talk is entitled "日本語のsemelfactive事象とアスペクト計算について––自己ペース読文課題の結果から".
Konan English Literary Society 2017
6.30.2017
The annual meeting is held on July 8 [link], and there will be 2 talks from the PsychLing lab:
- Shoko Shida, Natsuno Aoki & Ken Nakatani「オノマトペ副詞と時間副詞の相互作用からみるアスペクト解釈」
- Nigel. G. Duffield "'Raiding the Inarticulate’: An Introduction"
Nigel's talk will be on his forthcoming book, Reflections on Psycholinguistic Theories: Raiding the Inarticulate.
Update: Conference presentations to come
6.1.2017
Programs and details have been uploaded for the conferences where members from the Konan PsychLing lab are presenting their work. Here are the relevant links:
- June 10, 2017 at 関西言語学会: ワークショップ「パソコンがあれば出来ることばの実験研究の実際」（中谷健太郎（甲南大学），中野陽子（関西学院大学），田中幹大（甲南女子大学），青木奈律乃（甲南大学院））→第42回大会のお知らせ
- June 24, 2017 at 近代英語協会: 乾拓也「後期近代英語期における動詞移動について－Haeberli and Ihsane（2016）の議論を中心に－」→Poster, Program, Synopsis
- June 24, 2017 at 日本言語学会: Shoko Shida, Natsuno Aoki and Kentaro Nakatani "When an onomatopoeia triggers different semelfactive interpretations: An experimental study" →日本言語学会第154回大会 (The program has not been uploaded yet as of May 19, but our presentation is tentatively scheduled on June 24, 13:00)
Companion website for Nigel's forthcoming book
The companion website for Nigel Duffield's forthcoming book is now up and running! The book is entitled Reflections on Psycholinguistic Theories: Raiding the Inarticulate, and will be published by Cambridge University Press later this year. Check this out!
Paper accepted (The Linguistic Society of Japan)
An abstract by Shoko Shida, Natsuno Aoki and Kentaro Nakatani submitted to the Linguistic Society of Japan (日本言語学会) for its 154th meeting, June 24-25, 2017, at Tokyo Metropolitan University, has been accepted for a paper presentation. The title is as follows:
Shoko Shida, Natsuno Aoki and Kentaro Nakatani "When an onomatopoeia triggers different semelfactive interpretations: An experimental study"
Good job, Shoko and Natsuno!
Workshop at KLS
In order to stimulate the interest in psycholinguistic research in the Kansai area, people from KCP (Kansai Circle of Psycholinguistics) including Ken Nakatani and Natsuno Aoki are holding a workshop at the 42nd annual meeting of Kansai Linguistic Society (KLS42: June 10-11, 2017, at Kyoto University; this workshop will be on June 10):
ワークショップ「パソコンがあれば出来ることばの実験研究の実際」
登壇者：中谷健太郎（甲南大学），中野陽子（関西学院大学），田中幹大（甲南女子大学），青木奈律乃（甲南大学院）
This will be a hands-on tutorial on how to run experiments on your PC. The intended audience is those who are interested in linguistic experiments, but have not conducted any. Hope to see many people there!
Paper accepted (Modern English Association)
An abstract by Takuya Inui submitted to Modern English Association (近代英語協会) for its 34th annual meeting, June 24, 2017, at Aoyama Gakuin University has been accepted for a paper presentation. The title is as follows:
乾拓也「後期近代英語期における動詞移動について－Haeberli and Ihsane（2016）の議論を中心に－」
Congrats, Takuya!
Colloquium talk at National Tsing Hua University, March 8
Nigel Duffield will be giving an invited colloquium talk on Vietnamese syntax and semantics at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan on 8th March. The talk is entitled "Right where it belongs? On multifunctionality, projection and (covert) movement in Vietnamese".
KLP February 5
Natsuno Aoki will be presenting at the next KLP meeting (Feb 5). The talk is entitled "弾当て代換におけるヲ格選択の可能性について-同延的使役とperspective shiftの観点から-".
Paper out in the proceedings (CogALex-V 2016)
The paper for a poster presentation at a COLING workshop, CogALex-V 2016, by Natsuno Aoki and Ken Nakatani entitled " A Study of the Bump Alternation in Japanese from the Perspective of Extended/Onset Causation" has been published in the proceedings.
Grant awarded
A joint project of Natsuno Aoki and Shoko Shida (with K. Matsuo a doctoral student from the Human Sciences program) has been awarded a grant in the amount of 200,000 yen from Konan Research Institute （甲南大学総合研究所）. The title of the project is as follows:
「日英語動詞の比較にもとづく、アスペクト分類におけるsemelfactive 動詞の位置付けの再検討」
Congrats!!!
Poster accepted (CogALex 2016, a COLING workshop)
An abstract by Natsuno Aoki and Ken Nakatani entitled " A Study of the Bump Alternation in Japanese from the Perspective of Extended/Onset Causation" (an extension of the previous Konan ELS presentation), submitted to a COLING workshop, "Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-V)" (https://sites.google.com/site/cogalex2016/home) has been accepted for a poster presentation. Congrats, Natsuno!
Paper published (Cognition)
Andy Martin has published a research article entitled "Utterances in infant-directed speech are shorter, not slower", as the first author, in Cognition [link]. Congrats!
Konan English Literary Society 2016
The annual meeting is held on Sep 17 [link], and there will be 2 talks from the PsychLing lab:
- Takuya Inui is presenting his paper "現代英語における動詞移動".
- Natsuno Aoki & Ken Nakatani are presenting "弾当て代換が表す移動についての再考―extent causationとcontrollabilityの観点から―".
Professor Takao Gunji at Konan English Literary Society 2016
Konan English Literary Society is pleased to announce that Professor Takao Gunji has accepted to be a keynote speaker at the annual meeting this year [link]. The keynote talk is open to non-members. All are welcome!
PacSLRF2016
Nigel Duffield is presenting at PacSLRF 2016, held at Chuo University, Sep.9-11 [link]. The talk is entitled "Seeing Names, Hearing Faces: A Crossmodal Investigation of Perceptual Narrowing in Second Language Learners".
KCP July 16, 2016
Nigel Duffield is presenting at the next KCP meeting (July 16). The talk is entitled "Are second language learners really narrow-minded? Investigating the ‘Other Race effect’". See the website for detail.
KLP June 6, 2016
Ken Nakatani will be presenting at the next KLP meeting (June 6). The talk is entitled "Incremental pragmatics: A case of auxiliary selection in the processing of Japanese benefactive constructions".
KCP May 28, 2016
Ken Nakatani will be presenting at the next KCP meeting (May 28). The talk is entitled "What does it mean to be local? Rethinking locality effects in the processing of various dependencies in Japanese". See the website for detail.
