LSJ The 131st Meeting : Lectures and Events

The 131st Meeting (Fall, 2005)

  • Date:…… November 19th (Sat) and 20th (Sun)
  • Place:…… Hiroshima University (Higashi-Hiroshima Campus)
  • President…… Masahiro Shogaito
  • Director (LSJ)…… Yoichi Tsuge
  • Director (Local)…… Hiromitsu Machi

This meeting is supported by the promotion of academic activity program by Higashi-Hiroshima City

The 1st day (Saturday, November 19th)

Opening Remarks and Special Program (Satake Memorial Hall)

  1. Opening…Masahiro Shogaito (President, Linguistic Society of Japan)
  2. Greeting from the Host…Taizo Muta (President, Hiroshima University)
  3. Special Program (open for public audience) “]Language development and brain nurturing”
    • Chair: Hiroko Hagiwara (Tokyo Metropolitan University), Hideaki Koizumi (Fellow, Hitachi Seisakusho)
    • Symposium: Neurological approach in linguistic inquiries
      • Japanese grammar viewed from cognitive neuroscience……Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University)
      • Neurological mechanisms for understanding speakers’ intention: Interaction between language and emotion……(Hiroshima Prefectural University)
      • “Broca’s region and the linearisation of prominence hierarchies”
        ……Ina Bornkessel (Max Planck Institute)
      • Commentators: Nina Kazanina (University of Ottawa), Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University)
    • Reception (Reception Hall, Faculty Club Building)

The 2nd day (Sunday, November 20th)

  1. Oral presentation  [Program]
  2. Poster presentation
  3. Workshops