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In particular, it focuses on Professor Taniguchi\u2019s fieldwork in Ikawa, a remote mountain community in northern Shizuoka Prefecture, and presents the various revitalization activities she has carried out in collaboration with local residents.\n\nJoy Taniguchi (Ph.D., The University of Tokyo) is a professor in the faculty of informatics at Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology and a collaborating researcher on a joint project at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). A sociolinguist, she leads efforts to document, preserve, and revitalize the endangered dialect of Ikawa, a mountain community in northern Shizuoka Prefecture. She also conducts large-scale surveys of language variation and change across Shizuoka.\n\nThis talk is cosponsored by the Department of Linguistics: https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/linguistics. \n\n*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. 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