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International Symposium:
"Learning Sounds of Asian Languages"

Co- sponsored

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)16H06319
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (#4903-17H06382)
NINJAL collaborative research project 'Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar’

Date

Admission

Free

Venue

21 KOMCEE EAST-K011,
Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo
walk from the station Komaba-todaimae on the Inokashira Line
http://ds.adm.u-tokyo.ac.jp/material/image/20171017103702.pdf

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Language

English

Speakers

Youngon Choi (Chung-Ang Univ.): "Learning Unusual Sound Contrasts with Diachronic Changes: The case for Korean."
Leher Singh (National Univ. of Singapore): "The Acquisition of Lexical Tones in Infancy and Early Childhood."
Mutsumi Imai (Keio Univ.): "The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis: How children bootstrap themselves from multi-sensory mapping to language-specific linguistic systems."
Henny Yeung (Simon Fraser Univ.): "Babytalk is not always WEIRD: Distinct acoustic characteristics of infant- versus adult-directed speech in Lenakel (Austronesian) and English (Indo-European)"
Hyun Kyung Hwang (Univ. of Tsukuba): "Acoustic characteristics of Motherese and early Perceptual development: A case STUDY of Japanese stops."
Chutamanee Onsuwan (Thammasat Univ.): "Phonetic modifications of Thai stops' Voice-Onset-Time, vowel duration, and lexical tones in Infant-Directed Speech"
Katherine Demuth (Macquarie Univ.): "Learning the Tones of Mandarin: Acoustic Evidence from Children with Cochlear Implants"

Host

International Symposium:"Learning Sounds of Asian Languages"