Table of contents: Studies in Dialects

 Volume 10. (July 31, 2024)

• Aoi, Hayato: Japanese as a Tone Language: Clark (1987) Revisited
• Harada, Soichiro: The Alternation Between ga and no in Nagasaki-Yaburokishima Dialect: With a Special Focus on Inanimate Subjects
• Hiratsuka, Yusuke: Language Change and Maintenance in Dialect: Focusing on the Sentence-final Particle =tai in the Fukuoka City Dialect
• Takeda, Kōko: Regional Differences in the Use of Honorific Predicates in the Compositions of Elementary and Junior High Students: An Analysis of the Full Eight Volumes of Tsuzurikata Fudoki
• Arai, Saeko: Dialectal Variations of Shimotsukare, a Local Dish in Northern Kanto Region
• Karimata, Shigehisa and Shimabukuro, Yukiko: The Shitearu Construction in the Jana Dialect of Okinawan: With a Special Focus on Its Explanatory Function
• Yasui, Kazue: Dialectal Formalization in Classical Kamigata Rakugo: Comparison of the Magazine ¡ÈKamigata Hanashi¡É and Audio
• Matsumoto, Kazuko, Takada, Mieko Yoshida, Sachi and Okumura, Akiko: Contact-Induced Language Variation in Sakhalin Japanese: Phonetic Transfer from Korean and Russian to a Japanese Colonial Koiné

 Volume 9. (July 31, 2023)

• Igarashi, Yosuke: Quantitative Analysis in Studies of Accents in Japonic Dialects: Breaking Free from the Endless "I hear it/ I don't hear it" Dispute
• Takamaru, Keiichi and Ototake, Hokuto: An Exploratory Survey of Dialects in Minutes of Local Assemblies: A Dialectological Study Using Machine Learning and XAI Technology
• Matsumoto, Kazuko, Takada, Mieko, Okumura, Akiko and Yoshida, Sachi: The Genesis and Evolution of a Japanese Colonial Koiné: Apparent-time Evidence from Sakhalin in the Far East of Russia
• Taniguchi, Joy, Yamagishi, Yuki, Mineo, Kaisei and Sato, Michihiro: Semantic Change in Shizuoka Dialect Mamettai: Using Categorical Data Analysis Method
• Tanaka, Yukari, Maeda, Tadahiko, Hayashi, Naoki and Aizawa, Masao: Macroscopic Changes in Dialect Consciousness in Postwar Japanese Language Society: Regional and Age Group Differences in Speaker Types Based on a Large-Scale Nationwide Survey
• Otsuka, Takashi and Kanno, Michimasa: The Deontic Modal Yōda in the Central Ibaraki Dialect of the Japanese Language

 Volume 8.(July 31, 2022)

• Tomosada, Kenji: Prospects for Researches Concerning Interjections
• Arimoto, Mitsuhiko: The System of Interjections: An Attempt to Continuously Grasp Them
• Kobayashi, Takashi: Regional Differences in the Operation of Interjections: About the Difference between Tohoku and Kinki
• Sawamura, Miyuki: Research Methods and Materials for Interjections
• Tatsuki, Toshihisa: On the Interjection ¡Èwai¡É in the Goshogawara Dialect of Aomori Prefecture
• Konishi, Izumi: Toyama Dialect¡Çs Na(a)n and Namo Interjections in a Narrative Structure: A Case Study on the Pragmatic Functions of Interjections in Discourse
• Matsuda, Mika: Usage of Interjection used as Filler: Study of Oita dialect ¡ÈAnta¡É
• Funaki, Reiko: A Differential Analysis of the Interjection ¡Èmaa¡É in Japanese Dialects
• Kudo, Mako: Morphological Characteristics of Akita Dialect Onomatopoeia: A Method Using Folktales and Dialect Dictionaries
• Inaguma, Shiho: Ga-Type Sentence-Final Particles in the Aichi Nagoya Dialect: Gender and Generational Differences, Usage and Prosody
• Goto, Noriko: Characteristics of Dialect Use in Nursing Care Settings: Use and Shift Between Dialects, Common Language, and Their Mixed Forms

 Volume 7.(July 31, 2021)

• Kubo, Hiromasa: Imperative Expressions in the Ehime Matsuyama Dialect: Relationships Between Forms, Tones, Speech Functions, and Usage Situations

 Volume 6. (August 31, 2020)

• Uwano, Zendo: On the Accent System of Nouns in the Naha City Dialect: Reinterpreted from the Works of Seiwa Oowan
• Mori, Yuta: Renyo-Imperatives in Western Japanese Dialects: Regional Differences and Origins
• Hayashi, Yuka and Celik, Kenan: Finite Uses of the Converb Form in Southern Ryukyuan Miyako Dialects

 Volume 5. (September 30, 2019)

• Karimata, Shigehisa: Influence of Linguistic Contacts and the Differences between Northern and Southern Ryukyuan Languages
• Sato, Takashi: Changes in the Treatment of Dialects Found in the Course of Study of Japanese Language Education
• Sawaki, Motoei: Tokunoshima (Ryukyu) Dialect in Change and Importance of Previous Research
• Sugimura, Takao: Discourse Change in the Funeral Ceremony: 3 Periods Discourses in Oita Prefecture
• Tomosada, Kenji: A Study on Changes in Japanese Interjections and Challenges in Research
• Nakai, Yukihiko: Can Kansai Natives Distinguish Real Kansai-ben from Fake Kansai-ben?
• Hayashi, Naoki: Phonetic Features Affecting the Naturalness of Pitch Accent: Result from a Web-Based Survey
• Muranaka, Toshiko: Derivation and Development of the Phrases Which Have Transformed Sounds in Polite Style of Kansai Dialect
• Yoneda, Masato, Sato, Ryoichi, Mizuno, Yoshimichi, Sato, Kazuyuki, Abe, Takahito and Tsuda, Satoshi: How the Various Meanings of the Standard Japanese Case Marker Particle ¡Èni¡É Expressed in Tsuruoka Dialect: Focusing on the Usages of the Case Marker Particle ¡Èsa¡É
• Sakai, Mika: On the Grammatical Nominalization in Southern Ryukyuan Miyako Language
• Shirata, Rihito: Predicative Wh-Words in the Kamikatetsu Dialect of Kikai, a Northern Ryukyuan Language
• Takagi, Chie, Okano, Kaori, Iwasaki, Shimako, Tanaka, Lidia, Nakane, Ikuko and Maree, Claire: Changes in a Kobe Woman¡Çs Speech Styles across Life Stages: Longitudinal Interviews 1989-2016
• NakagawaNakagawa, Hiroyuki: Usage Change of the Final Particle ¡Èteya¡É of the Ehime-Prefecture Uwajima-City Dialect
• Matsuda, Mika and Yamamoto, Tomomi: A Study of Possibility Expression in Shiiba Dialect in Higashi Usuki-gun, Miyazaki Prefecture: Systems and Dynamics of Possibility Expression in Dialectal Contact Area
• Yokoyama, Akiko and Kagomiya, Takayuki: Experimental Study of Understanding Actual Status of Language Decline: The Case of Ryukyu-Okinoerabu Island

 Volume 4. (September 30, 2018)

• Sekine, Tomoko: Progress in Dialect Geography Using Geographical Information System
• Takagi, Chie: The ¡ÆProlongation¡Ç of the Directive Expressions Formed by the Final Particle =na in the Osaka Dialect
• Takada, Mieko: Methods for Acoustic Analysis of Speech Sounds in Japanese Dialects: Overview and Prospects
• Tanaka, Yukari: ¡ÈDialect Cosplay¡É and ¡ÈVirtual Dialect¡É : New Concepts for Following Linguistic Dynamics of Japanese Society
• Nakai, Seiichi: Acceptance of Vocabulary and Its Social Function: The Spread of the Names of Japanese Amberjack in Specific Growth Stages and Its Background
• Haitani, Kenji: Language Propagation by the Maritime Network: The Mechanism of the Propagation Caused by the Half Land Half Sea Environment
• Hanzawa, Yasushi: Diffusion and Change of ¡ÈhaR¡É in Tohoku District

 Volume 3. (September 30, 2017)

• Onishi, Takuichiro: Dialect Formation Theory: For the Restoration of Geolinguistics
• Kumagai, Yasuo: The Linguistic Atlas of Japan and Linguistic Atlas of Japan Database: Developing the LAJDB for Advancing the Multi-Perspective Analysis of the Atlas
• Fukushima, Chitsuko: Regional Variation and Change of Dialects Shown by Integration and Comparison of Dialectal Distributions
• Kobayashi, Takashi: Formality of Greetings Seen From Discourse: Regional Differences of ¡ÆOhayo¡Ç
• Mitsui, Harumi and Yarimizu, Kanetaka: Factors That Give Rise to Regional Differences in the Language of Metropolitan Youth
• Tsuzome, Naoya: An Attempt at Dialect Study Using a Wide-Area Glottogram: Based on Geolinguistic Surveys from the Western Part of Kinki and Hokuriku to Eastern and Central Parts of Chuugoku
• Li, Jung-min: Changes of Chinese Dialects in Modern Taiwan: A Case Study of the Coastal Towns in the West of Taiwan
• Iwata, Ray: Rethinking the Geo-Linguistic Factors Contributing to Lexical Changes
• Oki, Hiroko: On Declarative Final Particles and Imperative Final Particles in Matsumoto Dialect Analyzed by Speech Discourse Theory
• Sakoguchi, Yukako: The Distribution and Variation of Copula form in the Dialect of Seto Inland Sea
• Shiina, Shoko: Regional Distribution of Praise and Derision in the Lyrics of Japanese Lullabies
• Shiokawa, Nanami: Geographical and Generational Distribution of the Honorific Word sharu: Based on the Research, Nagasaki-Kaido Glottograms
• Koichiro, Hidaka: Looking Back on the Project of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of Dialectological Circle of Japan

 Volume 2. (September 30, 2016)

• Sato, Ryoichi: Looking Back Over 50 Years of Dialectological Circle of Japan
• Hidaka, Mizuho: Research Trends in Dialectology and its Interface with Neighboring Fields
• Inoue, Fumio: Research Trends in Computational Dialectology: Domestic and Abroad Over Half a Century
• Sanada, Shinji: Research Trends in Sociodialectology
• Kibe, Nobuko: Research Trends in Descriptive Dialectology
• Onishi, Takuichiro: Research Trends in Japanese Geolinguistics
• Konishi, Izumi: The Past and Future of Contrastive Dialectology
• Aoki, Hirofumi: Research Trends in the Philological Study of the History of Japanese and its Interface with Dialectology
• Matsumoto, Kazuko: Research Trends in Sociolinguistics and its Interface with Dialectology: A Perspective from Research on Diaspora Contact Varieties of Japanese
• Shimamura, Takanori: Research Trends in Folkloristics and its Interface with Dialectology
• Funaki, Reiko: The Use of Backchannel Expressions in Japanese Dialects
• Fudano, Kazuo: Dialect Education as Citizenship Education: Whom the dialect education is to be provided for?

 Volume 1. (September 30, 2015)

• Ohashi, Junichi: Aspects of Gōyōon in the Tohoku Dialect as Seen from Labial Features: Through a Comparison with Japanese Labial /h/ Sounds
• Konishi, Izumi: On the Final Particle yo of the Toyama-city Dialect
• Arai, Saeko: The Vocabularies for Flour Food in the Dialects in Gunma Prefecture: From the Description of the Words to the Clarification of the Culture
• Nakanishi, Taro: Geographical and Social Research on Linguistic: Using the Example of Greeting Expressions for Linguistic Behavioral Research
• Shimoji, Michinori: Marked Nominative and Split Intransitivity in Ryukyuan
• Imamura, Kahoru: Dialect and its Connection with Medical Care and Social Welfare: A Proposal for Applied Dialectology
• Shiraiwa, Hiroyuki: The Japanese Language and Its Dialects in Foreign Countries: Uses of the Western-Dialect Form by People from Eastern Japan in Japanese Communities in Brazil
• Arimoto, Mitsuhiko: On the Symbiosis Type: For the Te-form Phonological Phenomenon in the Verbs of Kyushu Dialects
• Tsuda, Satoshi: The Meaning of -tor(u)
• Kushibiki, Yukiko: A Dialect Researcher Taking a Picture: Encounter of Dialectology and Pictures
• Noma, Jumpei: Noda in Ishikawa Dialect: The Formation Process of New Forms
• **Long, Daniel: What are Dialects?
• Nikaido, Hitoshi, Kawase, Suguru, Takamaru, Keiichi, Tatsuki, Toshihisa and Matsuda, Kenjiro: On the Use of Minutes of Local Assemblies in Dialectological Studies: The Cases of Semiformal Style and Unnoticeable Dialect
• Niinaga, Yuto and Aoi, Hayato: A Phonetic Description and a Phonological Interpretation of a Unique Coronal Consonant of the Kudaka Dialect in Okinawa