The 33rd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference - August 7

Aug 7, 2026   All Day
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Main Conference Talks: Lincoln Hall Room 1092 | Poster Sessions: LCLB Atrium & Lucy Ellis Lounge | Conference Banquet: Illini Union Room AB)
Conference/Workshop
Sponsor
Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Department of Linguistics, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Second Language Acquisition & Teacher Education (SLATE), School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS), Center for Advanced Study (CAS), Illinois International Programs (IIP), European Union Center, Russian, East European, & Eurasian Center, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Philosophy, School of Information Sciences, and The Grainger College of Engineering
Cost
Free for UIUC Students and Faculty | $60 Fee for Visiting Students | $140 Fee for Visiting Faculty | *Visit the Registration Page for Discount Information*
Registration
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E-Mail
jkconference33@gmail.com
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The 33rd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from August 7 to August 9, with a pre-conference workshop/tutorial planned for August 6, 2026.

Visit the Official JK33 Website to view the latest schedule and presentation materials.

Friday, August 7, 2026

Lincoln Hall Room 1092

8:00-8:45 a.m. Registration / Coffee

8:45-9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks

James Yoon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Tania Ionin, Linguistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Shao Dan, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Misumi Sadler, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

9:00-10:00 a.m. Plenary Speaker
Comparative Syntax of Reduced Questions in Japanese and Chakhar Mongolian
Daiko Takahashi, Tohoku University
Introduction: James Yoon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Session 1: Syntax / Semantics (Formal)
Chair: Martine Gallardo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

10:05-10:35 a.m.
Extending High Applicatives: Causative and Passive in Korean and Japanese
Takashi Kayashima, Prefectural University of Kumamot

10:35-11:05 a.m.
Aktionsart Preverbs in Pre-Modern Japanese: A Minimalist Study
Kazune Sato, University of Oxford

11:05-11:35 a.m.
Clause Size Variation in Japanese Nominalization
Kyoko Oga, Hokkaido University of Education

11:35 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
On the Epistemic Use of the Japanese Adverb mazu
Yuto Hirayama, Kansai Gaidai University

12:05-1:40 p.m. Lunch on Your Own

1:40-2:40 p.m. Plenary Speaker
Dialect (Still) Matters: Linguistic Daily Life in Ehime, Japan
Jae DiBello Takeuchi, Indiana University Bloomington
Introduction: Misumi Sadler, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2:40-2:50 p.m. Break

2:50-4:20 p.m. Poster Session 1 (LCLB Atrium & Lucy Ellis Lounge)

4:20-4:30 p.m. Break

Session 2: Phonetics / Phonology
Chair: Steven Guo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

4:30-5:00 p.m.
Acoustic Characteristics of Word-initial Obstruents (Stops and Affricates) in Yanbian Korean: An Experimental Phonetic Study
Qin Xu, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

5:00-5:30 p.m.
Aerodynamic Lenition and a Typologically Rare Neutralization of /dz/ and /d/ in Wakayama Japanese
Yuki-Shige Tamura, Tsukasa Yoshinaga, and Kosuke Matsuura, The University of Osaka

5:30-6:00 p.m.
A Sociophonetic Study of Tones on Jeju Island
Moira Saltzman, California State University Northridge

LCLB Atrium & Lucy Ellis Lounge (Poster Session 1)

A Korean Sign Language (KSL) Exemplar Effect: High Frequency Korean Source Morphemes Block Systemic Place Name Initialization in KSL Place Names
 Johnny George, Meiji University

Japanese Discourse Particle Ya as New Strongest Evidence Marker
Daiki Matsumoto, Kanazawa Seiryo University

Anaphoric Anchoring Approach to Japanese Utterance Honorific Marking
Keita Ishii, Tokyo University of Agriculture

Ways to Encode Event Plurality: The Case of Pluractionality in Korean Sign Language (KSL) and Korean
Youngju Choi, Chosun University; Seongha Rhee, Maidol University and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

From Male-Exclusive to Gender-Neutral: The Early Destabilization of Hegemonic Masculinity in the Use of Anata in the 1950s-60s Japanese Popular Songs
Yasue Kodama, Nanzan University

Understanding Conversational Implicatures in Korean: Comparison between Humans and LLMs Interpretations
Daeun Kang, Purdue University

Same but Different: The Incremental Interpretation of Embedded Topic-Marked Subjects in Korean
Ashley Hee-Yeon Kim, Satoshi Tomioka, and Rebecca Tollan, University of Delaware

The Development of Quantity-Lexicon Mapping in Japanese Vague Quantifier Expressions
Ayaka Sugawara, Waseda University; Aoi Kosugi, Sophia University

Cleft Constructions in Child Japanese Revisited
Hiroyuki Shimada, Hokuriku University

Unagi-Sentences Revisited: Context-Dependent Copular Sentences in Korean
Masashi Harada, Williams College

Interpretive Variation in Japanese Dative Subject Constructions: The Locus of Characterization
Taichi Saigo, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

The Korean-less Korean Wave: English Domestication of Korean Translation
Lawrence Collins, California State University Fullerto

Parallelism between Japanese and Ainu Nominalizations
Taika Nagano, The University of Osaka; Kanta Tateno, University of Connecticut

A Doxastic Entertainment Analysis of Sentence-Ending Auxiliary Siph-ta*
Hajime Mori, New York University

Towards a More Pragmatic Account of the Subject Honorific Marker -si-*
Changwoo Yu, Sena Yang, and Yoolim Kim, Carleton College; Carolyn Anderson, Wellesley College

Multidimensional Phonetic Realization of Expressive Length in Korean*
Jinho Lee and Yujin Hur, Seoul National University

 *: Alternate Oral Presentation


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