MEETINGS/FORUM

2025-26

• Spring Meeting 2025
  Date: May 17, 2025
  Place: Fukuoka University & Zoom (hybrid)
  Program: Program (pdf)

2024-25

• Phonology Forum 2024
  • Date: August 22-23, 2024
  • Venue: Nagoya Gakuin University Nagoya Campus Shirotori & Online (Zoom)
  • Program
  • Keynote presentations
    • Jeffrey Heinz (Stony Brook University)
      "The Logical Structure of Phonological Generalizations"
    • Jae-Hyun Sung (Kongju National University)
      "Articulatory Variation in L1 and L2 English Coronal Consonants"
    • Markus Pöchtrager (University of Vienna)
      "On the Structural Representation of Aperture and its Implications"
• Spring Meeting 2024
  Date: June 22, 2024
  Place: International Christian University (ICU) & Zoom (hybrid)
  Program: Program (pdf)

2023-24

• Phonology Forum 2023
  Date: August 21-22, 2023
  Venue: Mejiro University + Zoom
  Program: Program (pdf)
  Keynote presentations
  • Hyung-Soo Kim (Professor Emeritus, Jeonju University)
    "High vowel devoicing revisited: preferentiality, universality and typology"
  • Abby Walker (Virginia Tech)
    "Uniform- vs. Mixed-Input Listeners: How long-term exposure to dialectal variability impacts speech perception [online]"
  • Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh)
    "Fortition is impossible. But does it occur? [online]"
• Spring Meeting 2023
  Date: June 3, 2023
  Place: Online (Zoom)
  Program: Program (pdf)

2022-23

• Phonology Forum 2022
  Date: August 24-25, 2022
  Venue: Seikei University + Online (Zoom)
  Program: Program (pdf)
  Keynote presentations
  • Wayne Lawrence (University of Auckland)
    On the syllable-internal falling tone and empty consonants in Hatoma (Southern Ryukyuan)
  • Eon-Suk Ko (Chosun University) and Jongho Jun (Seoul National University)
    Phonological variation in child-directed speech is modulated by lexical frequency
  • Yu Chen (Tianjin University of Technology)
    Tone pattern theory: A phonetics based Mandarin tone phonology
  • Soohyun Kwon (Seoul National University)
    Categorical and gradient effects in segmental deletion: The case study of /w/-deletion in Seoul Korean
• Spring Meeting 2022
  Date: June 4, 2022
  Venue: Online (Zoom)
  Program: Program (pdf)

2021-22

• Phonology Forum 2021

  Date: August 23-25, 2021
  Place: On-line (Zoom)
  Program: Program (pdf)
  Keynote presentations:

  • Martin Krämer (University of Tromsø; UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
    Word-Initial Sibilants and Prenuclear Syllable Structure
  • Kathleen Currie Hall (University of British Columbia)
    Testing “Message-Oriented” Phonology in the Signed Modality
  • Sang-Oak Lee (Seoul National University)
    Comparison of Quadro-Syllabic Idioms in Chinese, Korean and Japanese: Sino-Korean and Sino-Japanese Idioms Mainly from Chinese Originals
  • Suyeon Yun (Chungnam University)
    The String-Based Domains of Duration Preservation

  Talk by the new PhSJ President:

  • Hisao Tokizaki (Sapporo University)
    Parameters in Phonology and Morphosyntax

  Symposium: "Research with Online Methods" (co-sponsored by the United Association of Language Studies)
  Invited talk:

  • Junichi Azuma (Kobe Gakuin University)
    TTS合成音声の教育・研究シーンでの活用をめぐって (Presentation in Japanese)

• Spring Meeting 2021
  Place: Online (Zoom)
  Date: June 19, 2021
  Program: Program (pdf)

2020-21

• Phonology Festa 16 (Main sponsors: PAIK & TCP)
  Place: On-line (Zoom)
  Date: March 8-9, 2021

• Phonology Forum 2020
  Place: On-line (virtual conference)
  Date: August 28-30, 2020
  Keynote Lectures

  • Bryan GICK (University of British Columbia)
    “Talking Postures
  • Jennifer SMITH (University of North Carolina)
    “How Productive Is Core-Periphery Structure in the Japanese Lexicon? Empirical Results and Theoretical Implication
  • Minji KANG (Yonsei University) and Inkie CHUNG (Sogang University)
    “Effects of Phonemic Length Contrast on Perception of Lengthened Sounds: A Cross-Linguistic Study”
  • Young HWANG (Jeonju University)
    “Current Change in the Loanword Tonology of North Kyungsang Korean”

• Spring Meeting 2020
  Place: Online (virtual conference)
  Date: June 19, 2020

2019-20

• 15th Phonology Festa (sponsor: PAIK&TCP) ** CANCELED **
  Place: Doshisha University, Imadegawa Campus
  Date: March 15-16, 2020

• Phonology Forum 2019
  Place: Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
  Date: August 26-28, 2019

• Spring Meeting 2019
  Place: Tokyo Metropolitan University Akihabara Satellite Campus
  Date:June 21, 2019
  

2018-19

• 14th Phonology Festa(sponsor: PAIK&TCP)
  Place: Meikai University, Urayasu Campus
  Date: March 4-5, 2019

• Phonology Forum 2018
  Place: Nagoya University, Higashiyama Campus
  Date: August 27-29, 2018

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Hyesun Cho (Dankook University)
  “Perceptibility of vowel duration contrasts and dispersion in the English lexicon”
• Christian Uffmann (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
  “Default segmentism between markedness and underspecification”
• Eunhae Oh (Konkuk University)
  “Bidirectional L1-L2 interaction in children's production”
• Tobias Scheer (Université de Nice)
  “The workings of phonology and its interfaces in a modular perspective”

• Spring Meeting 2018
  Place: Daito Bunka University
  Date: June 22, 2018
  

2017-18

• 13th Phonology Festa(sponsor: PAIK&TCP)
  Place: Waseda University Waseda Campus
  Date: March 5-6, 2018

• Phonology Forum 2017
  Place: Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Osawa Campus
  Date: August 23-25, 2017

• Spring Meeting 2017
  Place: Keio University Hiyoshi Campus
  Date: June 23, 2017
  

2016-17

• 12th Phonology Festa(sponsor: PAIK&TCP)
  Place: Ritsumeikan University Suzaku Campus
  Date: March 8-9, 2017

• Phonology Forum 2016
  Place: Kanazawa University Satellite Plaza
  Date: August 24-26, 2016

• Spring Meeting 2016
  Place: Tokyo Metropolitan University Akihabara Satellite Campus
  Date: June 24, 2016
  

2015-16

• 11th Phonology Festa(sponsor: PAIK&TCP)
  Place: Ritsumeikan University Suzaku Campus
  Date: March 10-11, 2016

• Phonology Forum 2015
  Place: Osaka University, Toyonaka Campus
  Date: August 19-21, 2015

• Spring Meeting 2015
  Place: Tokyo Metropolitan University Akihabara Satellite Campus
  Date: June 19, 2015
  

2014-15

• 10th Phonology Festa(sponsor: PAIK&TCP)
  Place: KKR Hotel Atami
  Date: March 20-22, 2015

• Phonology Forum 2014
  Place: University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus
  Date: August 20-22, 2014

• Spring Meeting 2014
  Place: Tokyo Metropolitan University Akihabara Satellite Campus
  Date: June 6, 2014
  

2013-14

• Phonology Forum 2013
  Place: Sapporo Gakuin University, Regional Collaboration Center
  Date: August 21-23, 2013

  Satellite Workshop: New Perspectives in Element Theory

• Spring Meeting 2013
  Place: Tokyo Metropolitan University Akihabara Satellite Campus
  Date: June 14, 2013
  

2012-13

• Phonology Forum 2012
  Place: Tohoku Gakuin University, Tsuchitoi Campus
  Date: August 20-22, 2012
  

• Spring Meeting 2012
  Place: Tokyo Metropolitan University Akihabara Satellite Campus
  Date: June 15, 2012
  

2011-12

• Phonology Forum 2011
  Place: Doshisha University, Shinmachi Campus
  Date: August 24-26, 2011
  

• Spring Meeting 2011
  Place: Tokyo Metropolitan University Akihabara Satellite Campus
  Date: June 15, 2011
  

2010-11

• Phonology Forum 2010
  Place: University of Shizuoka
  Date: August 23-25, 2010
  

• Spring Meeting 2010
  Place: Tokyo Metropolitan University Akihabara Satellite Campus
  Date: June 18, 2010
  

2009-10

• Phonology Forum 2009
  Place: Kobe University
  Date: August 24-25, 2009
  

• Spring Meeting 2009
  Place: Daito Bunka University
  Date: June 19, 2009
  

2008-09

• Phonology Forum 2008
• Date: August 25-27, 2008
• Venue: University Consortium Ishikawa
• Organization: Kanazawa University
  • Keynote presentations
    • Michael Kenstowicz (MIT) & Chiyuki Ito (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) On paradigms
    • Hyo Young Kim (Kookmin University) Duration of /s/+stop clusters produced by Korean learners and native speakers of English
    • Jin-hyung Kim (Korea University of Technology and Education) Adjacency effects on bracketing paradoxes in English derivation
    • 新田哲夫　Tetsuo Nitta (金沢大学) 「アクセントの類推変化と式保存」
• Spring Meeting 2008
• Venue: Hosei University Ichigaya campus
• Date: June 20, 2008

2007-08

• Phonology Forum 2007
  • Venue: Sapporo Gakuin University Social Collaboration Center (Odori campus)
  • Date: August 27-29, 2007
• 10th Anniversary Commemoration Meeting
  • Venue: The University of Tokyo Komaba campus
  • Date: June 15, 2007

2006-07

• Phonology Forum 2006
  • Venue: Waseda University
  • Date: August 29-30, 2006
• Spring Meeting 2006
  • Venue: Daito Bunka University Itabashi campus
  • Date: June 13, 2006

2005-06

• Phonology Forum 2005
  • Venue: Fukuoka University
  • Date: August 25-27, 2005
• Spring Meeting 2005
  • Venue: Aoyama Gakuin University Aoyama campus
  • Date: June 10, 2005

2004-05

• Phonology Forum 2004
  • Venue: Hiroshima Gakuin University
  • Date: September 1-3, 2004
• Spring Meeting 2004
  • Venue: Aoyama Gakuin University Aoyama campus
  • Date: June 18, 2004

BEFORE 2004

• Details of meetings held in 2003 and before are not available.