TCP Proceedings Submission Guidlines

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TCP 2013 Program

We inform about the conference program of TCP 2013.
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We are looking forward to seeing you at this conference.

A missing page in the TCP 2012 Proceedings

We regret to inform you that we have discovered that the last page (p.136) of the co-authored paper by Dr. Masakazu Kuno, Dr. Takaomi Kato and Dr. Hiroki Narita, titled "-To in Japanese as an NPI Scalar Focus Particle", is missing in the TCP 2012 Proceedings. (An electronic file of the page will appear here.)

We deeply apologize to the three authors for the inconveniences caused by this error.

We would also like to apologize to everyone who purchased the TCP 2012 Proceedings as well as to the authors who received copies of the book.

We are currently investigating the cause and will decide how the Hituzi Publishing Company and the TCP Committee will deal with this matter as soon as possible.

We appreciate your understanding and patience regarding this matter.

Sincerely,

TCP Committee

abstract submissions

The deadline for abstract submissions has passed.
Thank you for submitting your abstract to TCP 2013.

TCP 2012 Proceedings

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄 編）
ISBN 978-4-89476-642-6
Y9800E
Hituzi Publishing Company（ひつじ書房）
Amazon (Japan)






Learning Exceptions
Charles Yang

Japanese-Speaking Children’s Interpretation of Measure Phrase Comparatives
Tomoe Arii

Children’s Acquisition of English Datives: Competing Parametric Accounts
Soyoung Eom and William Snyder

Modeling of Coreference Relations in Multi-Object Constructions
Sandiway Fong and Jason Ginsburg

Sentence Processing of Nominative-Genitive Conversion in Japanese by Turkish Speaking Learners and Native Speakers
Barış Kahraman

Japanese Children’s Interpretation of Disjunction in Comparative Sentences and Negative Sentences
Emi Komine

-To in Japanese as an NPI Scalar Focus Particle
Masakazu Kuno, Takaomi Kato and Hiroki Narita

Wh-Movement and Inversion in Spanish: A Visual Analogue Scale Analysis
Hideki Maki, Luisa Martí, and Satoru Yokoyama

Implicature Calculation in Young Children: The Role of the Question Under Discussion
Luisa Meroni and Andrea Gualmini

On Episodic Free Choice Items in Japanese
Shinobu Mizuguchi

Interpretation of Elided Bare Nouns in L2 Japanese
Tomoko Monou

Transitive-intransitive pairs with inalienable possession relations in Japanese
Mitsue Motomura

How Do Children Map Verbs onto Subcomponents of a Causative Event?
Kyoko Sakamoto, Noburo Saji, Mutsumi Imai and Hiromu Sakai

QR in Child Japanese and the CNPC
Hiroyuki Shimada

Are Mandarin-Speaking Children in Early Control?
Cheng Yang and Xiaolu Yang

L2 Knowledge at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Interpretations of Reflexives by Japanese, Korean, and Chinese ESL Learners
Noriko Yoshimura, Mineharu Nakayama, Koichi Sawasaki, Atsushi Fujimori and Hiroya Shimizu

Abstract submission

We sincerely apologize that the e-mail address for abstract submission (tcpabst2013@otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp) publicized between November 1 and November 19 was not properly functioning. If you submitted an abstract during these times, and did not receive a notification of receipt, please resend your abstract to tcpabst2013@otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp. We again sincerely apologize for any trouble that this may have caused you.

TCP 2013 Call for Papers

The Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics welcomes papers that represent any scientific endeavor that addresses itself to “Plato’s Problem” concerning language acquisition: “How we can gain a rich linguistic system given our fragmentary and impoverished experience?” Its scope thus includes linguistic theory (phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics), L1 and L2 acquisition, language processing, and the neuroscience of language, among other topics.

We believe that there are some types of studies which are suitable for oral presentations, and others, which are suitable for poster presentations. We would like to accept both types of studies at the Conference. The time for an oral presentation will be 20 minutes with a 10 minute discussion period (a total of 30 minutes). There is the possibility that some papers of outstanding quality will be given longer time slots (i.e., a 30 minute presentation with a 15 minute discussion period). Furthermore, the space allotted to a poster presentation will be 90 cm (width) x 180 cm (length).

The guidelines for the abstract submission are as follows.

Submissions that do not meet the guidelines will be rejected without review.

1. Only e-mail submissions will be accepted.

2. You may submit at most one single (sole-authored) paper and two joint (co-authored) papers. Namely you may submit any of the following:

a. one sole-authored paper

b. one sole-authored paper and one co-authored paper

c. one sole-authored paper and two co-authored papers

d. one co-authored paper

e. two co-authored papers

3. The abstract must be received by November 30, 2012 by 11:59 pm JST (Japan Standard Time) via e-mail to: tcpabst2013@otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp. This address will be effective from November 1 to November 30, 2012. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt.

4. The subject of the e-mail should be “abstract”.

5. The body of the e-mail should include:

a. the author information (name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number; If your paper has multiple authors, provide information regarding all of the co-authors. And, if you are in Japan, add kanji where relevant.),

b. the type of presentation (Your choice will not be revealed to the reviewers, and thus will not influence the review process.), A) Oral B) Poster C) Either Oral or Poster

c. the title of paper,

d. the language(s) which you are focusing on in your paper,

e. the field(s) which your abstract involves (e.g, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax, Pragmatics, L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, Language Processing, Neuroscience of Language, and so on), and

f. 3 keywords/phrases that best describe your paper.

6. A PDF file of your abstract in English should be attached to the e-mail. Document files (e.g., MS Word format) cannot be accepted. If you have any problems in applying by e-mail with a PDF file attachment, do not hesitate to contact us. (The abstract, if accepted, will be photocopied to be included in the conference handbook and be placed on the TCP website.)

Format the files of your abstracts as follows (including bibliography):

a. The maximum length is 2 pages.

b. A4 paper size

c. Single-spaced

d. The font size should be 12 point. For any fonts used, a font file should be attached.

e. Do not add page numbers.

f. The top margin of the first page must be more than 30mm.

g. The other margins must be more than 18mm.

h. Do not put your name on your abstract (The abstract reviews will be anonymous.).

i. Put the title in the center of the top of the first page.

7. Submitted papers must be original work (i.e., not been presented at other conferences, not been submitted for publication or published elsewhere).

8. Please note that you cannot revise your abstract once it has been submitted.

We will notify you of the results of our review process via e-mail by January 13, 2013 at the latest. Those who are accepted as speakers will be requested to reply within several days if they are willing to present their papers at TCP 2013. Please let us know if you plan to be away from e-mail in early January.

In addition, we are planning to publish a volume of the conference proceedings. If your abstract is accepted, we will inform you of the details regarding this matter later. Most likely, you will be asked to e-mail us your paper as a MS Word and a PDF file attachment by mid-May 2013.

Unfortunately, TCP has no funds for financial assistance. Participants are expected to make their own travel arrangements.

For further information, contact: Yukio Otsu (Director), Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan