Online Virtual Conference
JSLS2021 will be held June 5 (Sat.)- June 6 (Sun.), 2021. It will be an
online virtual conference hosted by Okinawa International University in
Okinawa, Japan. (Note: JSLS2020 was originally scheduled to be held in-person
at Okinawa International University in 2020, but was cancelled due to
COVID-19.)
JSLS hopes to stimulate research in the language sciences based on natural
language data, in areas including language acquisition, psycholinguistics,
discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, and to support the development of the
language sciences through exchange between researchers. This conference is
international and multidisciplinary.
Conference website: https://jslsconference.jpn.org/jsls2021/
Submission
link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jsls2021
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Wednesday,
January 27, 2021 (23:59 JST).
Plenary Speaker
Dr. William O'Grady (University of Hawai'i at Manoa): "Language
Endangerment and Language Revitalization in East Asia: The Role of Experimental
Linguistics"
Special Sessions
① Symposium:Two
approaches to Second language acquisition (in English)
Discussant: Takaaki Suzuki (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Speakers:
· Kitaek Kim (Seoul
National University)
· On-Soon Lee (Sunchon
National University)
· Il Jae Lee (Kwangwoon
University)
② Forum:
Language policy and experimental research on the endangered Truku language (in
English)
Discussant: William O’Grady (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Speakers:
· Apay Tang (National
Dong Hwa University)
· Hajime Ono (Tsuda
University)
· Masataka Yano (Tokyo
Metropolitan University)
· Manami Sato (Okinawa
International University)
Contact: All questions about submissions should be emailed to the JSLS2021
Review Committee Chairperson, Kei Nakamura (jsls-conf@googlegroups.com).