Guidelines for Proceedings of the Phonetic Society of Japan
Paul Tracy(Forsythe Univ.) Sebastien Bourdais, Graham Rahal(Newman-Haas Univ)
tracy@forsythe.edu, {bourdais,rahal}@newman-haas.edu

1Introduction

This ﬁle contains guidelines for preparing the proceedings paper for the annual convention of the Phonetic
Society of Japan.

2

Instructions for manuscript preparation

2.1

General guidelines

Please adhere to the following guidelines when preparing manuscripts for the proceedings of the convention.
The proceedings will be made available at the time of the convention. Your paper should clearly state yourresearch theme and describe methods and results in detail using supporting materials.
2.2

Speciﬁc instructions• Please submit a camera-ready version of your manuscript. It will be sent directly to the printingofﬁce.
• Figures and tables should be clear and readable. If you are manually pasting ﬁgures or tables in themanuscript, please make sure that they are securely pasted onto the page.
• The manuscript should be on A4 paper, but will be reduced to size B5 for the proceedings.
• For papers written in Japanese, there should be approximately 35 characters per line and 40 lines per
page. For papers in English, there should be approximately 80 characters per line and 40 lines per
page. All papers should be six pages in length or less, including ﬁgures and tables.
• Top, left and right margins: 30 mm (1.2 inches). Bottom margin: 35 mm (1.4 inches). Your
manuscript may not be printed correctly if margins are not set properly.
• Please leave a blank line between the paper title and the author/afﬁliation, and another blank line
below the author/ afﬁliation. Please enclose the afﬁliation in parentheses. Following the afﬁliation,
you may wish to provide contact information (postal and/or e-mail address) of one or more authors.
• Please write page numbers with a pencil at the bottom right-hand corner of each page. The actual
page numbers will be added later.

2.3

LATEX-speciﬁc instructions• To format in-text citations in forms such as “Author (year)”, please use natbib.sty. This style ﬁleis included in most tetex-based packages. If it is not, please install it before using it.
• With natbib.sty, the command “\cite{label}” results in “Pierrehumbert and Beckman(1988)”, while the command “\citep{label}” results in “(Ladd, 1984)”.
• If you use the “Author (year)” format for citations, please also use the psjcite-e.bst style forthe \bibliographystyle command.

3Example

The Phonetic Society of Japan was founded in 1926 under the name Onsei-gaku Kyokai. At the tenthanniversary (1935), its name was changed to Nihon Onsei-gaku Kyokai. Finally, right before its 25thanniversary (1946), it was renamed to its present name Nihon Onsei Gakkai (Phonetic Society of Japan).

Table 1: Mean score and mean reaction time.
Group AGroup B
Group C

Score
128.00298.320-137.204

18Reaction time (Sec.)
1.005
1.224
1.337

Citroen

Peugeot
Subaru16141210864
200246810

1214

Figure 1: Points in 2003 season.

4Conclusion

When the society was ﬁrst established, its purpose was “to study the sounds of the Japanese language andlanguages spoken within Japanese territory” (from article 1 of the regulations of the society). Currently,
the society’s purpose is “to promote the study of sounds in languages, and to foster communication andinteraction among society members” (from article 2 of the regulations of the society).

References
Dauer, R. M. (1983). “Stress-timing and syllable-timing reanalyzed”. Journal of Phonetics, 11, 51–62.
Ladd, R. D. (1984). “English compound stress”. In Gibbon, D. and Richter, H.(eds.), Intonation, Accent
and Rhythm, (pp. 253–266). Berlin: de Gruyeter.
Pierrehumbert, J. B. and Beckman, M. E. (1988). Japanese Tone Structure. Cambridge, Massachusetts:
The MIT Press.