List of Conference Papers (No.55-No.76)

Translated by Daniel LONG and Wayne Patrick LAWRENCE

No.55 (October 23, 1992) at Oita University (Oita Cultural Hall)

• Shigemi YAMATO: Phonetic Variation in "low-initial accent" words: The Case of Takarada -town, Anan City, Tokushima Prefecture
• Kenji YOSHIDA: Geographical Distribution of the Eastern Saitama Prefecture Accent
• Sawako TANAKA: The Spread of shinken in the O^ita Dialect
• Rei IWATA: Linguistic Geography Research on the Han Chinese Dialect: Outline and Results of the PHD (Project on Han Dialects)
• Kenji TAKAHASHI: A Synonym Index
• Takesi SHIBATA, Mie INOKUCHI: Dialect Divisions of the Itoigawa Region: Based on the Network Method
• [Lecture] Wolfgang VIERECK: Computer Developed Linguistic Atlas of England (CLAE): Preliminary considerations on Volume 2

No.56 (May 21, 1993) at Ritsumeikan University

• Taira SAITO^: On the Linguistic Survey of Watarai-Gun, Mie Prefecture
• Takashi SATO^: Characteristic of the Spread of New Dialect Forms in the North-western Kanto^ region
• Masato YONEDA: The Survey of Language Standardization in Tsuruoka-city: Comparing Three Surveys Conducted at Approximately Twenty Year Intervals
• Ryo^ichi SATO^, Tami KOGAWA, Noriko UCHIDA, Mizuho TAKAHARA: Age and Situational Differences in Regional Language: From a Survey of Mikawa-town, Higashi Tagawa-country, Yamagata Prefecture
• Taketo KIKUCHI: The Development of the Edo Period Sendai Dialect Collection Hamaogi
• Yukio TACHIBANA: Transcription of Ko^be Dialect Discourse Materials and the Creation of a Word-Phrase Index
• Yukari TANAKA: The usage of and impression given by the "Tobihane Intonation" (New Rising Intonation in Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
• Nobuko KIBE, Daisuke KUMIKI: On the Question Intonation in the Kagoshima City Dialect
• Kazue AKINAGA: Hearing fuku (low high pitch contour) as fuku (high low pitch contour): Dialect Differences in Perception and Shift of Accent Nuclei

No.57 (October 29, 1993) at Hokkaido University

• Keiichi MURAKAMI: Regional Language Innovation Led by Younger Speakers: From a Sociolinguistic Survey of the Hichiku Dialect Region
• Masato NAKAMURA: The Dynamics of Fukuoka City Accent: Focusing on Middle-aged Speakers
• Kan SASAKI: Voice Alteration Phenomenon and Syllables in the Mitsukaido Dialect of Ibaraki Prefecture: The Voice-alteration Phenomenon in Stops
• Yasuo KUMAGAI: Dialect Divisions based on Type III Quantificational Theory and The Network Method: A reanalysis of the Network Method of Inoue FUMIO's "Quantificational Dialect Divisions based on Grammatical Phenomena"
• Hisayuki MINO: Language Usage among Younger Speakers in Hokkaido: Focusing on terms for "ticklish" and "tickle"
• Masao AIZAWA: One Aspect of the Retention of the Velar Nasal in Sapporo

No.58 (June 3, 1994) at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

• Tomiko MIKOSHIBA: On the Word Forms Tagged as "Dialect" in Japanese Dictionaries
• Jiro^ NAGASE, Takashi OKA, Rieko IKEDA: On the Relationships between Language Attitudes and Personality, and Knowledge and Usage of Jargon
• Ko^ichiro HIDAKA: A Typology of Types of Language Change: Focusing on the Oita Dialect
• Masaru INOUE: A Semantic Analysis of the Sentence-final Particle ze in the Tonami Dialect of Toyama Prefecture
• Hiromi HATANAKA: A Method of Conversational Development in the Himi Dialect of Toyama Prefecture
• Hiroshi BAMBA: Dialect Words for the Striped beakfish (Oplegnathus fasciatus) on the Noto Peninsula: Semantic Shift and Word-form Change
• Kaori HARA: On the so-called Shiri-agari (rising terminal) Intonation and the Shiri-agari Prosody of Northern Kanto
• Kazuo KATO^, Tomoko HAYASHI: The Dynamics of the Eastern and Western Accentual Systems on the Toyama-Niigata Border
• Yoshio MASE, Hiroe KOHASHI, Yukari TAKEDA, Yasue NAKATO^: The Dynamics of Accent in the Hiroshima City Dialect

No.59 (October 28, 1994) at Yamaguchi University

• Kenji HAITANI: Generational Differences and Semantic Change in Verbs indicating Contact in the Hiroshima Prefecture Dialect
• Michiko HORI: The State of the Auxiliary mai in the Oita Prefecture Dialect
• Kan SASAKI, Daniela Caluianu: nga and no in the Mitsukaido Dialect
• Reiko TAKAHASHI: Research on the "Spoken Language Survey" of the Meiji Period
• Akihiro OKAJIMA: The Popular History of Standard and Common Japanese: A Follow-up on Tales of Overcoming Dialect Differences through yo^kyoku (chanted accompaniment to Noh)
• Shu^ichi MATSUNAGA:, On Prosodic Change in Miyakonojo^: A Consideration Based on the Pitch Contours of Predominantly Younger Speakers' Speech
• Seiji SHIMIZU: Changes and Distribution of the Accent of 2-Mora Nouns in the Nanyo Region of Ehime

No.60 (May 26, 1995) at Ryukoku University

• Takashi KOBAYASHI: Geographical Distribution of the Tendency for Verbs to Change to the Consonant-stem Conjugation
• Eisaku SATO^: The Possibility of Accent Surveys based on Phonological Questionnaires: Things We cannot See only from Actual Pronunciations
• Nobuko KIBE, Ichiro^ O^TA, Sachiko NAKAJIMA: A New Trend in the Dialect of Kagoshima City
• Yoshinobu HIKOSAKA: The Japanese of Japanese-Canadians in Vancouver and Environs: Focusing on Dialectal Aspects
• Symposium: Between Linguistic Geography and Sociolinguistics
  • Takesi SHIBATA: Aim of the Symposium
  • Fumio INOUE: From Linguistic Geography to Socio-psychological Linguistics
  • Masataka JINNOUCHI: A Sociolinguistic Geography Informed by Sociolinguistics
  • Kenji TAKAHASHI: Macro and Micro Research
  • Takuichiro^ O^NISHI: Folkloric Things, Customary Things, and Ethnic Things

No.61 (October 20, 1995) at Niigata University

• Hiromi KAMEDA: Pattern Classification of the Intonation of Speakers of Dialects lacking Word Accent Differentiation: From a Multi-speaker Read-aloud Survey in the So^ma Region of Fukushima Prefecture
• Yukari TANAKA, Kenji YOSHIDA: Community Divisions based on Pronunciation, and the strength of Sound Conditions: The Velar Nasal in Younger Speakers in Western Yamanashi Prefecture
• Hirofumi SAKIMURA, Yukiko HIRANO: Pitch contours of Particles and Auxiliaries in the Dialect of Misumi Town, Kagoshima Prefecture
• Yoshio MASE, Yukari TAKEDA, Yasue NAKATO^: Characteristics of Hiroshima City Accentuation and Generational Differences: Based on A Dictionary of Tone-accent on Words in the Hiroshima City Dialect
• Noriko YOSHIDA : A Structural Analysis of the Auxiliary to^ in the Yamanashi Dialect
• Sachiyo TSUBOUCHI: Semantic Functions and Usage of the Final Particles bai and tai in the Hakata Dialect of Fukuoka City
• Akiko ISHIKAWA: On the Nominative Particles in the Naha Dialect of Ryukyuan: Diachronic Analysis and Contrast with Modern Japanese
• Mitsunari NAKAMA The Pronunciation of Japanese /w/ in Proto-Japanese
• Yukio NOGUCHI: Aspects of Imperative Expression: The Case of the Nishisakaya Dialect of Shirone City, Niigata Prefecture
• Tadao HO^JO^: Retrospection and Inquiry: The Dialect of My Home

No.62 (May 17, 1996) at Tokyo Metropolitan University

• Izumi KONISHI: Transformation and Distribution of dea, da, ja, and ya in the Toyama Prefecture Dialect
• Hiroshi BAMBA: Terms for "Father, Mother" in the Noto Peninsula: Decline in Honorific Level and Semantic Change
• Hideki SASAKI: The Birthplace of Linguistic Geography is Darwin's "The Origin of Species"
• Hisayuki MINO, Yasuo SUGA: Language Usage among Younger Speakers in Hokkaido: Centering on Usage of "Terms of Degree"
• Yu^ji MORO: Participation Structure of Classroom Discourse and the Linguistic Diversity Created by Dialect and Standard Japanese
• Ko^ko TAKEDA: Semantic and Syntactic Characteristics of the Form -saru in the Morioka City Dialect of Iwate Prefecture
• Harutsugu YAMAURA Switching of Voiced and Voiceless Consonants in the Kesen Language

No.63 (October 18, 1996) at Ehime University

• Makoto HAMANAKA: On the Distribution of the "Exclamatory" Expression sa in the Hichiku Dialect
• Akira MATSUNAGA: Ryu^kyu^an Dialect Volitional Forms in Classical Texts
• Junji NISHIO: Correlations between Situation Contact Attitudes and Language Forms and Tone of Voice Choices
• Shiyun HU: On "Research into Basic Vocabulary in the Northern Chinese Dialects"
• Yasuo KUMAGAI: Data Visualization and Measurement of Likeness Levels between Survey Points in the Third Volume of LAJ (Linguistic Atlas of Japan) Using the Network Method
• Takehiko KANDORI, Shinji FUKUSHIMA: Interlocutor Perceptions and the Forms of Honorific Expressions: Characteristics of Young Adult Female Speakers in the Hiroshima City Area
• Yukihiro YAMAGUCHI: Single-Type Accent as a Special Trait of the Kita County Dialect of Ehime Prefecture

No.64 (May 23, 1997) at Osaka City University

• Akie ASO^: A Sociolinguistic examination of Honorific Form ittatta in the Takaoka Dialect of Toyama Prefecture: Neo-dialect at the Level of Construction Awareness
• Miho TAKIGAWA: The System of Imperative Expressions in the Gosei Region of Toyama
• Ko^ichi SHINOZAKI, Takashi KOBAYASHI: Regional and Generational Differences in Greetings used in Shopping
• Chieko MAEDA: An Analysis of and Tentative Theory about the Special Accent System of Kamo County, Shizuoka Prefecture
• Eiji AKIYAMA: Tendencies in the Accent of Matsuyama Dialect
• Hiroshi TAHARA: The State of "Specialist Accent" in the Central Kinki Region: Its Relationship with Generational and Gender Differences and Degree of Knowledge
• Madoka HATANO: The Speech of Tokyo University Students: Examining Language Change due to Moving and through "Home Region Speech" and "Tokyo Speech"
• Jun'ichi O^HASHI: Historical Development and Actual Pronunciations of /ki/ in the To^hoku Dialect
• Kikuo MAEKAWA, Yasuo YOSHIOKA: The Relationship between Prosodic Factors and Lexical Factors Affecting the Politeness of Utterances: Intonation and Final Particles in the Kumamoto Dialect

No.65 (October 17, 1997) at Yamagata University (Yugakukan)

• Ai O^TOMO: Research on the Single Type Accent of Southern Miyagi Prefecture
• Shino TAKEUCHI: Generational and Conditional Differences in Intonational Variety and the Validity of the "Card Method Random Utterance" Survey for Researching Dialects lacking Word Accent Differentiation
• Hideki KAWAUCHI: Tendencies in the Accentuation of the Sano City Area of Tochigi Prefecture: Focusing on a Comparison of the Older and Younger Generations
• Jun YAMAZAKI: Characteristics of Converted and Compound Noun Accent and the Noun Accent Systems of Dialects lacking Word Accent Differentiation in Adjectives and Verbs: Using Toyama City Dialect as the Object of Study
• Mayumi MATSUO: On the Oral Tradition Nature of the Accentuation of Ko^wakamai
• Akiko MATSUMORI: A reexamination of the Ways in which 2 Mora Ruibetsu (key words for accent forms) Words Merge in Ryu^kyu^
• Yoshio MASE: The Development of Linguistic Folklore Geography: Focusing on Dialect and Folkloric Materials for "Sty" and "Tenosynovitis"

No.66 (May 29, 1998) at Shirayuri College

• Gen TAMAKAKE: On the Grammatical Usage of the Expression be^ in the Sendai Dialect
• Hiroyuki NAITO^: "Treatment Expression" Characteristics of the Causative Expression saseru: Using Kita-Ibaraki City Dialect as the Object of Study
• Shinsuke KISHIE, Takashi SHII: On the Difference in Usage of Request Expressions in the Miyazaki Dialect
• Masaru INOUE: Semantic Analysis of the Final Particle ja in the Tonami Dialect of Toyama Prefecture
• Izumi KONISHI: On the Phonetic Quality of the Specifier dea
• Ken YEO: Correlations among Principal Factors relating to the Ability to Accept and Integrate with the Accentuation of New Places of Residence: Data from Migrants to Tokyo and Surrounding Prefectures
• Yasuo KUMAGAI: Overlaying Information regarding Topography/Population Distribution and Indications of Degrees of Similarity between Survey Points using the Network of Volume 3 of the LAJ (Linguistic Atlas of Japan)
• Buichi FUKUZAWA On the Suffix -na: The Likes of kino^na 'yesterday', asanasana 'mornings', shina 'while'

No.67 (October 16, 1998) at Kyushu University

• Chika MARUYAMA: Changes in Authoritative Structure Accompanying the Increasing Mobility of Regional Communities Seen in Language Standardization in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
• Kengo HANAOKA, Ai HIYAMA: Geographical and Age Differences in the Dialects of the Area between Hiroshima City and Matsue City: From a Glottogram survey of Aki, Bingo and Izumo
• Ken NAKAMOTO: Language Change Trends in the Phonological Systems of the Ryukyuan Dialects: Focusing on a Generational Survey of the Ou (Okinawa) and Kurima (Miyako) Dialects
• Hiroko NISHIMURA: Changes in Dialect Consciousness in the Amami Islands and their Historical Background
• Sachiyo TSUBOUCHI: The Function and Usage of the Particle kusa in the Hakata Dialect of Fukuoka City
• Chie TAKAGI: Actual Usage of Negative Endings in the Kansai Dialect of Younger Speakers: Using Data from Casual Situation Discourse
• Sei'ichi NAKAI: Early Modern Nara Dialect as Seen from the Book Nara Prefecture Folklore
• Yoshinobu HIKOSAKA: Searching for the Origin of the Merger of Conjugation Types in Western Japan
• Harutsugu YAMAURA: The 10th Year of untseha (strange use of "yes/no"): The Revenge of the Kesen Language

No.68 (May 28, 1999) at Doshisha University

• Tomoko MATSUDA: The Relationship between the Ryukyuan Dialects and Western Japanese Dialects as Observed in the Particle te Attached to Verb Stems
• Reiko FUNAKI: Changes in the Usage of the Dialectal Auxiliary be: A Theory based on Contrasts
• Kayako TSUJI: The Framework of haru Honorifics as seen in the Discourse of Kyoto City Dialect (Female) Speakers
• Makoto HAMANAKA: Similarities and Differences in Emphatic sa Forms and ka-ending Adjective Sentences: Focusing on an Actual Usage Report of Takeo City, Saga Prefecture
• Kan SASAKI: The syntax of optative structures: The case of the Mitsukaido^ dialect
• Masato NAKAMURA The Kagoshima Dialect in the Late Edo Period
• Hiroshi BAMBA: Ainokaze and Kudarinokaze on the Noto Peninsula

No.69 (October 29, 1999) at Aichi Prefectural University

• Reimi NISHIO: On the Sentence-final Particle wai in the Matsuyama Dialect
• Kanetaka YARIMIZU: Geographical and Demographic Differences in Young People's Speech in Tokyo and Environs: From a Questionnaire of Junior High School Students in Southern Saitama Prefecture
• Nobuko YAMADA: Style Shift to the Tokyo Accent among Ibaraki Dialect Speakers
• Akiko MATSUMORI: The Number of Accentual Classes in Proto-Ryukyuan: Towards the development of a Word List Survey Form for the Ryukyus
• Rikako MAEDA: Dialect Acquisition Consciousness among Non-native Speakers of Japanese living in Dialect-centered Communities: Acquisition Attitudes, Usage Attitudes and their Background Factors
• Megumi KUKITA: The Actual State of Struggle between the Owari and Mikawa Dialects at Aichi University of Education
• Chieko UENO: Implication and Explicitness in the expression ra^ in the Ko^chi Prefecture Dialect
• Yoshio MASE, Kiyoko WATANABE, Chizuko SHIMIZU, Harue NAKATO^: The Status of Common Japanese and the State of the Velar Nasal in Modern Japanese
• [Symposium] Katsuo O^HASHI, Mariko KUNO, Minoru SHIBATA, Ko^ichiro HIDAKA, Yasuo YOSHIOKA (chair): The Dialect Discourse Materials Recording Project: Proposals for the NHK Furusato Nihon no Kotoba Project

No.70 (May 26, 2000) at Senshu University

• Kazuyuki IIJIMA: Another Look at the Accent of Eastern Saitama Prefecture: Using 1 through 3 mora nouns in the Kuki-type Accent System
• Yoshimitsu OZAKI: Situational Variation in the Use of Dialectal Phones: From a survey of Tsurukoka City, Yamagata Prefecture
• Shinsuke KISHIE, Yu^ko ISHIDA: On the Formation of the Tokushima Accent as seen in the Tokushima Prefecture Accent Atlas
• Miyoko SUGITO^: On the p-sound (Continued): Characteristics of the h-series Consonants in Japanese and Various Regions of the Ryukyuan Archipelago
• Takahito ABE: Describing the "Standard Language" of a dialect speaker: Looking at a Speaker of the Tsugaru Dialect of Aomori Prefecture
• Mizuho HIDAKA: Geographical Distribution and the Process of Grammaticalization: Changes in and Distribution of the Object Particles koto and toko
• Eisaku SATO^: Contact Points between Dialect Research and Modern Literature Research: Looking at the Corrections made in TAKAHAMA Kyoshi's Handwritten manuscript of Bocchan
• Toshihiro YAMADA: On the Usage of ha to Express Topicality or Focus in the Hokuriku Dialects
• [Lecture] Ichiro^ O^SHIMA: Looking Back on Japanese Dialectology and the Dialectological Circle of Japan
• Symposium: Japanese Dialectology Entering the New Century: The Path Travelled and Guiding Principles
  • Takuichiro^ O^NISHI: "Dialectology" as an Academic Pursuit
  • Katsumi SHIBUYA: The Faults and Accomplishments of Dialectology
  • Nobuko KIBE: Developments in Dialectology 1: The Course of Comparative Dialectology
• Kazuo KATO^: Developments in Dialectology 2: The Path of Linguistic Geography
• Sei'ichi NAKAI: Dialect Research and Related Sciences: Focusing on the Relationship with Folklore Studies
• Takashi KOBAYASHI: Perspectives on Dialectology and Dialects

No.71 (October 27, 2000) at Yasuda Women's University

• Taro^ ISHIKUBO: Research on the Characters Used in Family Names in Southern Kyu^shu^
• Yukiko SATO^: On the Polysemy of ikinari in the Sendai City Dialect
• Seiji SHIMIZU: Regional Differences in the Announcements made on "One-man" buses
• Sugae KONDO^: On nigatte: A Marker for a Malefactor in the Oga Dialect of Akita Prefecture
• Kazuhiro HARA: On the Principles for Dialectal Verb Conjugation Forms to Remain in the Speech of High School Students in Hiroshima Prefecture
• Se Rang KIM: Sentence Final Treatment Expressions in the Dialect Life of Niigata City: Focusing on Questioning Forms in Request Expressions
• Ko^ji SAITO^, Yurie NARA, Ping PU, Takahiro ITO^, The Ferris University Regional Language Survey Group: Influences of the Dialect acquired in the Language Formation Period and the Typology of Discourse Development in the use of Common Japanese

No.72 (May 18, 2001) at Konan University

• Ko^ji TAMAI, Sachi YOSHIDA, Misaki KONISHI: Standard Language and Dialect Situated in Consciousness.
• Yoshiyuki ASAHI: The Change in Language Consciousness Viewed from Perceptual Dialect Maps of Japan.
• Masayuki FUJINO: Patterns of Language Change in Hokkaido^
• Maki MIYANAGA, Kenjiro^ MATSUDA: The Distribution of Allophones for /g/ in Takasago City, Hyo^go Prefecture
• Tomomi MURAKAMI: On the yoru-form attached to adjectives: The case of Matsubashi-town Shimomashiki County, Kumamoto Prefecture
• Yoshiko TAKEDA: Generational Differences in the Pitch Contours of Osaka Dialect Speakers: Generational Changes in Accent and Phrasal Pitch Contours
• Yukihiro YAMAGUCHI, Hitomi NAGURA: An Analysis of the Declining Pitch Contour of the Ibuki-jima Dialect
• Osamu MATSUMOTO: The Rivival of nan-de: From To^kaido^ Yotsuya Kaidan to Beautiful Life
• Tomoko UENO: From shimo^ta to yamatta: Changes in Exclamations of Disappointment in the Ko^chi Dialect

No.73 (October 19, 2001) at Fukui University

• Masahito HONDA: Parallel Glottograms: Comparison of the To^hoku Honsen and the Jo^ban-sen
• Yukihiro SAKAMOTO: On the Verb Conjugation System of the Tsugaru Dialect
• Shigemi YAMATO: Changes in Pitch Contour Class: The Case of the Kaminaka Dialect of Fukui Prefecture
• Kenji YOSHIDA: The Influence of Word's Familiarity of Nouns on the Standardization of Accent: From a Survey of Bimoraic Nouns of Senboku-cho^, Senboku County, Akita Prefecture
• Motoei SAWAKI, Chitsuko FUKUSHIMA, Yumi NAKAJIMA, Takahiro OKAMURA: On the Possibility of Dialect Research using a Dialect Corpus: For the Compilation of The 2000 Sentence Dictionary of the Tokunoshima Dialect
• Harutsugu YAMAURA: Compiling The Great Dictionary of the Kesen Language
• [Lecture] Irenilde Pereira dos Santos: Linguistic geography: Its development in the 20th century and its prospect in the 21st century

No.74 (May 17, 2002) at Tokyo Metropolitan University

• Rika O^ki: Geographical Research on Terms used for the Particle wo
• Masami SAITO^: An Attempt to Display the Dialect Distribution of the Older Generation and the Middle-aged Age Group on One Linguistic Map
• Junji YAMABE: The Usage of the Auxiliary Verb oku in the Daily Language Life of Okayama City and Environs: Suika-wa hietoka (!) n-to, oishuu-nee-yo
• Kayo ICHIOKA: The Usage of the Volition/speculation Expression -zu in the Misakubo Dialect of Shizuoka Prefecture
• Akemi MINEDA: The Usage and Intonation of the Sentence-final Particle jan in Eastern Aichi Prefecture
• Nobuhiro TANAKA: The Accentuation of the Rikuchu^ Miyako Dialect: Its Actual State and its System
• Shin ABE: The Noun Accentuation of an Area of Dialect Contact: Born-and-bred Residents of and Migrants to Chichijima of the Ogasawara Island Group
• Shinsuke KISHIE, Nobuko KIBE, Shu^ichi MATSUNAGA, Shinji FUKUSHIMA: An Attempt to Develop and Compile a Phonetic Linguistic Atlas of the Soutern Kyu^shu^ Region

No.75 (November 8, 2002) at Tokushima University

• Jiyeong Kim: Linguistic Performance of First Generation Koreans living in Japan of negative Expressions
• Yuechen CHIEN: Dialect Features Observed in the Japanese remaining in Taiwan: Focusing on the Existential Verb oru and the Negative -n
• Ko^ji YASUOKA: Ko^chi Dialect -ni ka^ran
• Shu^ichi MATSUNAGA: On the Distribution of the Traditional Dialects Phones and Vocabulary in Shiiba-Village in Miyazaki Prefecture, and its Environs
• Taku'ichiro^ O^NISHI: The History of the Agreement between koso and the Realis Form in Dialects

No.76 (May 16, 2003) at Osaka Prefecture University

• Emiko ISHII: Socio-Linguistic Geographical Research into the Vocabulary and Grammar of the Region where the Eastern and Western Japanese Dialects meet on the Japan Sea Side of Japan
• Mami MURATA: The Sentence-final Particles waa, ga and zi in the Miyazaki Dialect
• Jongae Geum: How Discourse is Developed in the Sendai Dialect: Viewed from Discourse Markers used in Explanatory Contexts
• Junji YAMABE: Three Auxiliary Verbs Expressing Progressive Aspect in the Okayama Dialect: -yo^ru, -toru, and -toku
• Sugae KONDO^: Expressions of Surprise in the Akita Dialect: doden-suru and tamageru
• Fumiko IKEDA: Compound Noun Accentuation in the Iki Katsumoto Dialect: A Proposed Compound Rule for Nouns where the Final Component is Monomoraic
• Hiroshi TAHARA: On the Awareness of the Distinction in Usage of Dialect and Common Japanese in the Kinki Region: A Proposal for a Dialect-centered Society
• Hiroko TAKAGI, Fumio WATANABE: Regional Common Language seen in a Linguistic Survey of Yamagata Prefecture by Region: Through the Development of Educational Materials for Resident Foreigners
• Tetsuo NITTA: Long Segments in Adjective Stems Observed in Dialects
• Shigemi YAMATO: Various Changes in the Contrasts of the High-beginning/Low-beginning Pitch Classes of the Younger Generation of the Kansai Region
• Ken YEO: Characteristics of a Speaker using the Accent System of Three Dialects: The case of a Resident of O^saka Originally from a Tarui-type Accent Area
• Shin KAWAKAMI: Accent Patterns, Intonation Patterns