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The Linguistic Society of Japan is delighted to announce the winners of the Outstanding Paper Award 2023 and the Best Presentation Award for the 166th Annual Meeting.

＜The Outstanding Paper Award of LSJ for the year 2023＞（1 winner）
Yuko Morokuma
“Differential Object Marking and Information Structure in Ayacucho Quechua” Gengo Kenkyu 163，pp. 111-138 (Sep., 2022).

＜The Best Presentation Award for the 166th Annual Meeting (June 2023)＞ （2 winners）
Terumichi Ariga
“Top-down effects of lexical pitch accent on categorization of vowel length in Japanese”
(co-authored with Risa Matsubara)

Koya Tanaka
“Verb Classification by Volitionality in Burmese”

[Paper Award 2023]
[Presentation Award LSJ 166]

Information about the 167th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan is updated (handbook). Please check the webpage for the 167th Meeting.

National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) will hold Special Lectures on Japanese Language Science / The 139th NINJAL Colloquium “Empathy, Character and Grammar” on November 28 2023. For more information, please visit the site.

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The Institute of Liberal Arts and Science, Kanazawa University invites applications for two tenured faculty positions as professor, associate professor, or lecturer specializing in English language education, culture of English-speaking regions, English linguistics, or its related fields. The application deadline is October 31, 2023. For details, please visit the site (in Japanese).

• Information about the 167th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan is updated (program and online registration).
• The registration period is from Oct. 12th. Please register as soon as possible.
• Please check the webpage for the 167th Meeting.
• Registration page (Peatix) https://lsj167.peatix.com.
• The registration fee is 2,000 yen for general members, 1,000 yen for student members, 3,000 yen for non-members and 2,000 yen for student non-members.

「幼児語の音韻的特徴と語彙発達・言語進化の関係」(The lecture will be conducted in Japanese only.)
Date: 25/Oct/2023
Venue: Zoom & NINJAL
Speaker: Mitsuhiko Ota (The University of Edinburgh)
For more information, please visit the site.

ILCAA’s online platform for academic fieldworkers ‘Fieldnet’ will hold a round table meeting titled ‘Fieldworkers Return to the Fields’ on
October 21, 2023. For more information, please visit the site (in Japanese).

The Faculty of International Communication, Gunma Prefectural Women’s University, invites applications for a faculty member (Associate Professor or Lecturer) specializing in “Language and Society”. The deadline for application is January 31, 2024. For more details, please see the site.

A job opening for a position of professor or associate professor specializing in japanese language studies at university of the ryukyus.
The application deadline is October 20, 2023. For details, please visit the site (in Japanese).