UChicago Linguistic Research Forum: Program

Day 1: March 17, 2017

Location: Cho Yiu Conference Hall, CUHK

09:00-09:15

Opening Remarks Chair: Alan Yu

Session 1 Chair: Alan Yu
09:15 – 9:55
Typological Differences between Hong Kong Sign Language and American Sign Language
Diane Brentari (University of Chicago) and Gladys Tang (CUHK)
9:55 – 10:25
Robot-based intervention program on gestural training in children with autism
Wing Chee So (CUHK)

Break

Session 2 Chair: Diane Brentari

10:45-11:15
Introducing students to the Chicago Linguistic Landscape
Amy Dahlstrom (University of Chicago)
11:15-11:45
Individual differences in sound change and phonetic variation in Hong Kong Cantonese
Yao Yao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
11:45-12:15
The differences in voice quality between Hong Kong Cantonese and Guangzhou Cantonese
Roxana Fung and Eugene Wong (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Location: Lee Shau Kee Building, CUHK

12:15-2:00
Lunch and Poster Session

Session 3 Chair: Amy Dahlstrom

2:00 – 2:30
Embodying Coarticulation
Bryan Gick (University of British Columbia)
2:30 – 3:00
Talker variability and listener flexibility: The production and perception of Cantonese codas /t, k/
Jonathan Yip (The University of Hong Kong)
3:00 – 3:30
Corpus-based analyses of discourse production of healthy Cantonese-speakers and speakers with aphasia
Sam-Po Law (The University of Hong Kong) and Anthony Pak-Hin Kong (University of Central Florida)

Break

Session 4 Chair: Xiang Ming

4:00 – 4:30
On the lexical representation of allomorphs in Mandarin third tone sandhi
Stephen Politzer-Ahles (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
4:30 -5:00
Cantonese tonal production and perception among South Asian youths in Hong Kong
Peggy Mok (CUHK) and Alan Yu (University of Chicago)
5:00 – 5:30
Talker and listener variability in speech learning
Patrick Wong (CUHK)

7:00pm

Dinner Banquet For All Presenters

 

Day 2: March 18, 2017

Location: Lee Shau Kee Building, CUHK

Session 5 Chair: Chris Kennedy
09:00 – 9:30
Mono-clausal Approach to Dislocation Copying in Cantonese
Lawrence Cheung (CUHK) and Jackie Lai (University of Chicago)
9:30 – 10:00
Split ergativity and embedding: Evidence from Basque
Karlos Arregi (University of Chicago)
10:00 – 10:30
Exhaustivity, Exclusiveness, and the semantics of Mandarin dou
Haihua Pan (CUHK)

Break

Session 6 Chair: Karlos Arregi

11:00 – 11:30
Speculations on the Syntax of Sentence-final Expressions in Chinese
Sze-Wing Tang (CUHK)
11:30-12:00
Case variability in Nubri
Cathryn Donahue (The Hong Kong University)
12:00-12:40
Resolving scalar uncertainty in context
Chris Kennedy and Ming Xiang (University of Chicago)
12:40-1:00
Closing
Lunch for invited guests