TCP Proceedings Submission Guidlines

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TCP 2013 Program

We inform about the conference program of TCP 2013.
Please click here.
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

TCP 2013 Conference information

-Invited Speakers:
Dr. Caterina Donati (Sapienza University of Rome)
Dr. Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University)

-Date:
March 8 and 9, 2013

-Program&Abstracts

-Place:
Kita-kan hall, Keio University, Mita

-Call for Papers (Dead line: November 30, 2012)

-Registration fee (Pre-registration is not necessary.):
1,000yen (TCP 2013 Handbook)

-Reception (March 8):
Students--1,000yen
Non-students--2,000yen

-Access Information:
Direction to Keio University

TCP 2013 Staff

Director: Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

Associate Director: Hitomi Murata (Keio University)

Committee: Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University), Koji Sugisaki (Mie University), Miwa Isobe (Tokyo University of the Arts), Masayuki Komachi (Shizuoka University), Tomoko Monou (Keio University), Atsushi Nagai (Visiting Research Fellow at the Japan Foundation, Center for
Japanese-Language Testing), Mayumi Fujita (Keio University), Mika Igarashi (Keio University), Naomi Kodama (Keio University), Masako Kumagai (Keio University)

Staff: Daijiro Nishiura, Kayoko Watanabe, Fumie Hokari, Sayuri Kumano, Yuki Nakahara, Marisa Shinohara

Advisory Board: Cedric Boeckx (ICREA/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Noam Chomsky (MIT), Harald Clahsen (University of Essex), Stephen Crain (Macquarie University), Kevin Gregg (St. Andrew's University), Yosef Grodzinsky (McGill University), Hiroko Hagiwara (Tokyo Metropolitan University), Kazuko I. Harada (Kinjo Gakuin University), Masayuki Ike-uchi (Tsuda College), Noriko Imanishi-Terazu (University of Tokyo), Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University), Thomas Hun-tak Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jacques Mehler (International School for Advanced Study, Trieste, Italy and EHESS/CNRS, Paris France), Edson Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba), Heizo Nakajima (Gakushuin University), Yuji Nishiyama (Meikai University), Luigi Rizzi (University of Siena), Thomas Roeper (UMass/Amherst), Tsutomu Sakamoto (Kyushu University), Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University), Bonnie D. Schwartz (University of Hawaii), William Snyder (University of Connecticut), Koji Sugisaki (Mie University), Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo), Noriaki Yusa (Miyagi Gakuin Women's University)

TCP 2012 Held

TCP 2012 was held on March 9 and 10.

This year we invited Dr. Shoichi Takahashi (Hitotsubashi University) and Dr. Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania). Dr. Takahashi talked on asymmetries in movement in terms of Case. Dr. Yang discussed exceptions to productive regularities in the grammar and the learning of them.

We also had several oral and poster presentations dealing with topics such as linguistic theory, L1 and L2 acquisition, and language processing. The invited talks and each presentation inspired lively discussions with the participants.

This year, we had many participants from the begging, and at the reception held on Day1 everyone enjoyed informal conversations with other attendees.

We are delighted that the conference was over smoothly and successfully (though last year we were forced to cancel most of the program because of the earthquake). We thank the invited speakers, participants, and other concerned parties for helping TCP2012.

We look forward to your continuous assistance and meeting you at TCP 2013 on March 8 and 9.

TCP 2012 Program

We inform about the conference program of TCP 2012.

Please click here to view the abstracts.

We are looking forward to seeing you at this conference.

TCP 2011 Proceedings

Edited by Yukio Otsu（大津由紀雄 編）
ISBN 978-4-89476-581-8
Y9800E
Hituzi Publishing Company（ひつじ書房）
Amazon (Japan)

Can Eagles That Fly Swim? Guaranteeing the Simplest Answer to a New Puzzle
Hisatsugu Kitahara 1

Grammar-Parser Interactions in the Acquisition of Syntax
Jeffrey Lidz 17

On Grammatical Maturation
Cedric Boeckx 45

Universals and Uniqueness in Lexical Tone Perception
Ao Chen and René Kager 55

Grammatical Encoding in the Production of Passive Sentences: Evidence from Structural Priming Effects in Japanese
Ying Deng, Hajime Ono, and Hiromu Sakai 71

On the Adjunction-based Licensing of the Accusative Wh-adjunct Nani-o Yasuhiro Iida Re-examining the “NP/DP” parameter in light of the diversity of East-Asian classifiers
Youngmi Jeong 93

Incremental Processing of Gap-filler Dependencies: Evidence from the Processing of Subject and Object Clefts in Japanese
Barış Kahraman, Atsushi Sato, Hajime Ono, and Hiromu Sakai 113

The Disambiguation Effect as a Manifestation of Pragmatic Competence
Marina Kalashnikova and Karen Mattock 133

Uniqueness and Co-variation in Chinese Wh-conditionals
Qiong-peng Luo and Stephen Crain 169

Two Types of Benefactive in Child Japanese: A Preliminary Experimental Study
Reiko Okabe 191

Antecedent Selection of a Reflexive Pronoun in Bi-clausal Structure: An ERP Study in Japanese
Reiko Okabe, Yuki Kobayashi, and Takane Ito 209

That-trace Reconsidered: Definiteness and Complementizer Agreement
Koji Shimamura 229

Children’s Grammatical Conservatism: Evidence from the Acquisition of Case Markers and Postpositions in Japanese
Koji Sugisaki 249

Toward a Better Understanding of Japanese Scramblings: The Ban on String Vacuous Scrambling and Phonetically Inaudible Scrambling
Hideaki Yamashita 261

TCP 2011 Program

TCP 2012 Call for Papers

The Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies at Keio University will be holding the 13th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP 2012) on March 9 and 10, 2012.

The invited speakers are
Dr. Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania and
Dr. Shoichi Takahashi, Hitotsubashi University.
We encourage you to submit papers for oral presentation and poster presentation.
For details, visit our website: http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/

[Call for Papers]
The 13th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/
Keio University, Mita, Tokyo
March 9 and 10, 2012

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, 2011 by 11:59 pm JST (Japan Standard Time) via e-mail to: tcpabst2012#otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp (#→@). This address will be effective from October 1 to November 30, 2011. 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. Please note that you cannot revise your abstract once it has been submitted.
We w ill notify you of the results of our review process via e-mail by January 13, 2012 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 2012. 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 2012.

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

TCP Proceedings 2011 & TCP 2012

On the first day of TCP 2011 (March 11th), a devastating earthquake hit us. It happened around 3 p.m., just after the third presentation of the program. Considering the severity of the situation at that time, we had no choice but to cancel the rest of the program.

Although this circumstance was totally unexpected, the participants remained calm in the sudden disaster. We greatly appreciate their patience and understanding. We also appreciate the warm and supportive messages that people from all over the world have been sending us. All of the staff members are fine.

Following our original plan, we will publish the proceedings of TCP 2011 in November 2011. The proceedings will contain all of the papers that were presented or scheduled to be presented at TCP 2011, including the ones of the two guest speakers, namely, Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland) and Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University).

Additionally, TCP 2012 will be held on March 9 and 10 at Keio University in Tokyo next year as scheduled. This is because many parts of Tokyo have been recovering from the disaster and judging by present circumstances, there should not be any impediments to holding of the conference. We will post the Call for Papers for TCP 2012 in our blog and poster in July.

We hope many people will participate in TCP 2012, and would like to ask all of you to consider submitting an abstract to the next TCP. We are looking forward to seeing you at the next conference.

TCP Organizers
Yukio Otsu Lab

We are all okay.

To those who sent us e-mail messages,

We are all okay. The earthquake hit us when we were in the midst of the Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, and we were forced to escape from the conference hall for some time. Fortunately, none of us were injured. The staff members stayed overnight in a room next to the conference hall since public transportation was paralyzed, and we just got back to our office a few minutes ago.

We reluctantly decided to cancel the rest of the TCP program. We appreciate your understanding.

TCP organizers
Yukio Otsu Lab

TCP 2011 update: cancellation and other info

March 12th, 02:00 am
Due to unexpected circumstances, we are forced to cancel the rest of TCP 2011. We are sorry for this unfortunate decision, but we appreciate your understanding and your continuing support for TCP.


Although we will make every effort to keep the program as below, it is subject to change due to unexpected emergencies, we appreciate your understanding.

The revised program for tomorrow.

10:00-10:30 “Grammatical Encoding in the Production of Passive Sentence: Evidence from Structural Priming Effects in Japanese”
Ying Deng (Hiroshima University), Hajime Ono (Kinki University) and Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University)


10:30-11:00 “Antecedent Selection of a Reflexive Pronoun in Bi-clausal Structure: An ERP Study in Japanese”
Reiko Okabe (Nihon University), Yuki Kobayashi and Takane Ito (The University of Tokyo)


11:00-11:30 “Structural Expectations in Chinese Relative Clause Comprehension”
Zhong Chen, Kyle Grove and John Hale (Cornell University)


12:30-14:00 11:30-12:30 Poster Session
“Universals and Uniqueness in Lexical Tone Perception”
Ao Chen and René Kager (Utrecht University)


“Re-examining the ‘NP/DP’ Parameter in Light of the Diversity of East-Asian Classifiers”
Youngmi Jeong (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)


“Incremental Processing of Gap-filler Dependencies: Evidence from the Processing of Subject and Object Clefts in Japanese”
Barış Kahraman (Hiroshima University), Atsushi Sato (Hiroshima University/Japan Society for Promotion of Science), Hajime Ono (Kinki University) and Hiromu Sakai (Hiroshima University)

“String Vacuous Phonetically Inaudible Scrambling in Japanese”
Hideaki Yamashita (Yokohama National University)


12:30-13:00 “The Disambiguation Effect as a Manifestation of Socio-pragmatic Competence”
Marina Kalashnikova and Karen Mattock (Lancaster University)


13:00-13:30 “Two Types of Benefactives in Child Japanese: A Preliminary Experimental Study”
Reiko Okabe (Nihon University)

13:30-14:00 “Children's Grammatical Conservatism: Evidence from the Acquisition of Case-markers and Postpositions in Japanese”
Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)


14:00-14:30 “Uniqueness and Co-variation in Chinese Wh-conditionals”
Qiong-peng Luo and Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)


14:30-15:00 “On the Adjunction-based Licensing of the Accusative Wh-adjunct Nani-o”
Yasuhiro Iida (Osaka University)


15:00-15:30 “That-trace Reconsidered: Definiteness and Complementizer Agreement”
Koji Shimamura (Osaka University)


15:30-15:40 BREAK


15:40-16:40 Invited Lecture
“Parser-grammar Interactions in the Acquisition of Syntax”
Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland)



16:40-16:50 BREAK


15:45-16:45 16:50- 17:50 Invited Lecture
“Can Eagles That Fly Swim? -Guaranteeing the Simplest Answer to a New Puzzle-“
Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)

TCP 2011 program

Please click here to view the abstracts.

TCP 2011 - abstract submissions

The deadline for abstract submissions has passed.
Thank you for submitting your abstract to TCP 2011.

Call for papers

The 12th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics
http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/
Keio University, Mita, Tokyo
March 11 and 12, 2011

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, 2010 by 11:59 pm JST (Japan Standard Time) via e-mail to: tcpabst2011@otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp. This address will be effective from October 1 to November 30, 2010. 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 Poster or Oral

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. 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 12, 2011 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 2011. 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 2011.

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

TCP 2011 Conference information

- Invited Speakers:
Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)
Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland)

- Date: March 11 and 12, 2011

-Program&Abstracts

- Place: Kita-kan hall, Keio University, Mita

- Call for Papers (Dead line: November 30, 2010)

-Registration fee: 1,000yen (Pre-registration is not necessary. )

- Reception (March 11):
Students--1,000yen
Non-students--2,000yen

- Access Information:Direction to Keio University