The Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum 7 (BEAL Forum 7) provides a platform primarily for students to articulate and exchange ideas on their research findings with forum participants. It is a one-day event with keynote lectures and students’ presentation sessions. While the BEAL Forums aim mainly at graduate students, recent graduates and upper-level undergraduate students are also welcomed to submit an abstract. This year, the forum will be held in a hybrid format. Presenters can opt for an on-site presentation at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, or for a remote Zoom session.

In addition to keynote speeches and regular breakout talks, this year’s BEAL Forum will feature a special session dedicated to Professor Mineharu “JJ” Nakayama of The Ohio State University, celebrating his distinguished contributions to Japanese linguistics. His extensive research — encompassing first and second language acquisition, language processing, syntax, and more — has significantly advanced the field of Japanese linguistics and cross-linguistic research. Beyond his pioneering scholarship, Professor Nakayama has been a steadfast mentor to many graduate students and an exemplary champion for emerging researchers, notably through his role in spearheading and organizing the BEAL Forum since 2014. Presentations in this honorary session will focus on topics related to Professor Nakayama’s areas of expertise.

The BEAL Forum is an excellent opportunity to present one’s research in a public arena and to receive comments individually. The forum is intended to showcase regional research activities in East Asian linguistics. While the event is free and open to the public, online pre-registration isrequired in order to obtain the Zoom links.  

TWO KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Keynote Speaker 1: Professor Sayaka Abe, Middlebury College
. Lecture title: “Making Sense of Causal and Subjective Meaning in Japanese: A Cognitive and Historical Linguistic Perspective”

Keynote Speaker 2: Professor Seth Wiener, Carnegie Mellon University
. Lecture title: “Dumplings, Sleep, and Research”

SPECIAL PANEL: The Ideologies of AI: Prompting and Performance in East Asian Languages

Presenter 1: Dr. Paul Ueda, Indiana University
. Title: “Language Hierarchies: Language Choice and Audience in Taiwan”

Presenter 2: Professor Jae DiBello Takeuchi, Indiana University
. Title: AI Language Tasks: Successes, Failures, and Stereotypes in a Low-resource Japanese Dialect”

Discussion: “Approaching AI as an Object of Sociolinguistic Inquiry”

SPECIAL SESSION: Special Session in Honor of Professor Mineharu Nakayama

Contact Information

BEAL Forum Website: https://u.osu.edu/beal/beal-forum/
BEAL Forum 7 Email: <bealforum7@gmail.com>

Organizers

BEAL Forum 7 Organizing Committee
Faculty Co-Chairs: Zhiguo Xie, Marjorie K.M. Chan & Etsuyo Yuasa
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Keitaro Mitsuhashi & Linjun Yao
Committee Members:  Akiko Kashiwagi-Wood, Xuan Y, Ka Fai (Gary) Law, Miki Arakaki, David Dai, Lizzy Feng, Yuyang Han, Allen Liu, Lu Liu, Qingke Sun, Ruofan Wang, Xiao (Sean) Zeng, and Huiyi Zhang

Abstract Reviewers tba

Sponsors

OSU Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, East Asian Studies Center,
Department of Linguistics, Graduate Association of Chinese Linguistics, and Graduate
Students of East Asian Languages and Literatures, with additional support from the James H-Y. Tai Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Fund.