Program for the 3rd Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-3), 12-13 March 2016
All talks are at:
Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Room 120
1501 Neil Ave. Columbus, OH 43201
Note: This event is free and open to the public. To assist us with planning for the event (name tags, program booklets, etc.), please pre-register online here by March 4th, 2016.
March 12th, 2016 – Saturday Morning
Registration & Refreshments
8:00am
Opening Remarks: Professor Etsuyo Yuasa (Director, East Asian Studies Center, Ohio State U)
8:20am
Session A. Tones and Intonation
Chair: Professor Stephen Matthews (U of Hong Kong)
8:30am – 10:00am
- Una Y. Chow & Stephen J. Winters (U of Calgary)
Perception of intonation in Cantonese: native listeners versus exemplar-based model - Zoe Wai-Man Lam, Kathleen Currie Hall & Douglas Pulleyblank (U of British Columbia)
Temporal location of perceptual cues for Cantonese tone identification - Chow Pui Lun (U of Hong Kong)
Headedness and prominence: A study in tone changes in N+N Cantonese noun phrases
Session B. Corpus and Computational Linguistics
Chair: Professor Naomi Nagy (U of Toronto)
10:05am – 11:35am
- Charles Lam (Hang Seng Management College)
Multiple functions of HAVE in Cantonese: a corpus study - Andrew Peters & Holman Tse (York U & U of Pittsburgh)
Evaluating the efficacy of Prosody-lab Aligner for a study of vowel variation in Cantonese - Jackson L. Lee, Litong Chen, & Tsz-Him Tsui (U of Chicago & Ohio State U)
PyCantonese: Developing computational tools for Cantonese linguistics
PLENARY SESSION 1. PROFESSOR VALTER CIOCCA (U of British Columbia)
Chair: Professor Robert Fox (Dept. of Speech & Hearing Science, Ohio State U)
11:50am – 12:50pm
March 12th, 2016 – Saturday Afternoon
PLENARY SESSION 2. PROFESSOR STEPHEN MATTHEWS (U of Hong Kong)
Chair: Professor Udo Will (School of Music, Ohio State U)
1:50pm – 2:50pm
Session C. Cantonese in Contact
Chair: Professor Virginia Yip (Chinese U of Hong Kong)
3:00pm – 4:30pm
- Dana Scott Bourgerie (Brigham Young U)
Notes on Cantonese as spoken in the Cambodia Chinese diaspora - Kay Hoi Yi Wong (Chinese U of Hong Kong)
Contact-induced language change in Hong Kong Written Chinese: A case of baa2- and zoeng1-constructions - Jennifer W. Jay & Marjorie K.M. Chan (U of Alberta & Ohio State U)
Sun Yat-sen’s 1924 speech: Historical background and brief linguistic analysis of the Cantonese audiorecording
Session D. Cantonese in North America
Chair: Professor Dana Bourgerie (Brigham Young U)
4:45pm – 6:15pm
- Genevieve Leung & Melissa Chen (U of San Francisco)
From ear-cleaning to asking how to say I love you: Metalinguistic discussions and positive affective stance on the “Hoisan Phrases 學講台山話” Facebook site - Samuel Lo, Junrui Wu, Elaine Wang, Zahid Daudjee, & Naomi Nagy (U of Toronto)
Use of Heritage Cantonese and Korean classifiers in Toronto - Holman Tse (U of Pittsburgh)
Contrast maintenance and innovation in Toronto Heritage Cantonese high vowels
March 13th, 2016 – Sunday Morning
Session E. Language Attitudes and Variations
Chair: Professor Genevieve Leung (U of San Francisco)
8:30am – 10:00am
- Thomas Hun-tak Lee (Chinese U of Hong Kong)
The status of Cantonese in Hong Kong ― fact and perception - Sha Huan (Ohio State U)
How does the younger generation view their languages? – A case study in Guangdong and Hunan - Yutian Tan & Tsz-Him Tsui (Ohio State U)
Quantifying the lexical affinity among Siyi Yue dialects
PLENARY SESSION 3. PROFESSOR VIRGINIA YIP (Chinese U of Hong Kong)
Chair: Professor Mineharu Nakayama (DEALL, Ohio State U)
10:05am – 11:05am
Session F. Special Panel on Cantonese Pedagogy
Chair: Professor Marjorie Chan (DEALL, Ohio State U)
11:15am – 1:00pm
- Sik Lee Dennig (Stanford U)
The production of aspect markers in narratives by advanced Heritage Cantonese speakers - Raymond Pai (U of British Columbia)
Cantonese as a Foreign Language (CFL) Curriculum design based on learner needs in North America - Matthew Christensen & Dana Scott Bourgerie (Brigham Young U)
Principles for developing Cantonese curriculum and materials — from beginning to advanced - General discussion on the state of Cantonese pedagogy
Closing Remarks: WICL-3 Organizing Committee Chairs (Marjorie Chan, Litong Chen, Yutian Tan & Tsz-Him Tsui)
1:00pm