LINGUIST List 12.1301

Fri May 11 2001

Confs: Japan Second Language Association

Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist.org>

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1. waka, The First Annual Conf of the Japan Second Lang Association

The first annual conference of the Japan Second Language Association:
J-SLA 2001

Date: 	May 26, 2001 (Saturday)
Place: 	Daito Bunka Meeting Center (Itabashi, Tokyo)
	Cf. < http://www.daito.ac.jp/access.html >
	Tel TEL 03-5399-7399 
Fee: members(general & student) 1,000 yen
 non-members 6,000yen

12:30-13:00	Arrival
13:00-14:15	Plenary Lecture: Professor Heizo NAKAJIMA (Tokyo
		Metropolitan Univesity)
		Title to be announced
14:20-15:00	'Acquisition processes of Japanese rhythm by English 
 	speakers' 
		KONDO, Mariko (Waseda University)

15:00-15:40	'Acquisition of particles WA and GA: An old theme 
		revisited in a new approach
		FURUJIKU, Yukiko (Temple University Japan) 

15:50-16:30	'Adjuncthood and islandhood in the L2 acquisition process of
		relative clauses: A study of Japanese learners of English'
		BANNAI, Masanori (Fukushima National College of Technology)

16:30-17:10	'On grammaticality judgment of Left-branch Constraint 
		by Japanese L2 English learners'
		YAMANE, Maki (Niigata Women's College)

17:10-17:50	'Some triggering factors for Subjacency among
		Japanese learners of English'
		FUJIMORI, Atsushi 

17:50-18:30	Business meeting
18:30-		Banquet

Alternate:	'Japanese as a bridge language to Korean?: Two case studies
		of the crosslinguistic influence of L2 Japanese on the 
		acquisition of L3 and L5 Korean by anglophone learners'
		FOUSER, Robert J. (Kagoshima University)

For more information, please visit our home page
< http://www.kuwana.ne.jp/hidekiy/J-SLA/Index_Japanese.html > or write to
Shigenori Wakabayashi <wakagpwu.ac.jp>.

Thank you for your interest,

Shigenori Wakabayashi
Secretary, J-SLA