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Our finalized program is now available in PDF.

Our workshop will take place at Hagerty Hall (1775 College Rd, Columbus, OH 43210).

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Abstracts

March 16, 2012:

Session 1A: Morphophonology
Hagerty Hall 046, 9:00am-10:30am

  1. Picus Ding (U. of Hong Kong):
    Utterance-final particles with grammaticalized intonation
    in Cantonese
  2. Tsz-Him Tsui (Ohio State U.):
    Adapting stop-liquid clusters into Cantonese
  3. Zheng-Sheng Zhang (San Diego State U.):
    Morpho-phonological variation in Cantonese

Session 1B: Sound change in progress
Hagerty Hall 050, 9:00am-10:30am

  1. Litong Chen (Ohio State U.):
    On sandhi of zero-onset in New Guangzhou Cantonese
  2. Roxana Suk-Yee Fung (Hong Kong Poly U.):
    The tonal space change of Hong Kong Cantonese and its implications in tone merger
  3. May Chan (U. of Oxford):
    Innovative sound changes in Hong Kong Cantonese:
    The case of syllable-final consonant alveolarisation

Keynote speaker: Alan C. L. Yu (U. of Chicago)
Hagerty Hall 046, 10:45am-11:45am

Determinants of Cantonese syllable wellformedness

Session 2A: Sociolinguistics (Overseas communities)
Hagerty Hall 046, 1:00pm-2:30pm

  1. Naomi Nagy, Tiffany Chung, & Josephine Tong (U. of Toronto):
    Classifier variation and change in Toronto Heritage Cantonese
  2. Dana Scott Bourgerie (Brigham Young U.):
    Hakka-Cantonese dialect contact in the Chinese diaspora: Notes on the Tahitian Chinese community
  3. Genevieve Yuek-Ling Leung (U. of Pennsylvania):
    Hoisan-wa reclaimed: Chinese American language maintenance in contemporary sociolinguistics perspective

Session 2B: Sociolinguistics (Hong Kong & Guangzhou)
Hagerty Hall 050, 1:00pm-2:30pm

  1. Cathy Wong & Roxana Suk-Yee Fung (Hong Kong Poly U.):
    The "ins and outs" of English loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese
  2. Ka Yu Tsang (Ohio State U.):
    Puns and nicknames of political figures in Hong Kong:
    A linguistic humor study
  3. Jing Yan (The Columbus Academy):
    Regional identity, language attitude, and writing Cantonese as everyday lifestyle in Guangzhou (Canton City)

Session 3A: Tones
Hagerty Hall 046, 2:45pm-4:45pm

  1. Seth Wiener & Tsz-Him Tsui (Ohio State U.):
    The psychoacoustics and production of Yue lexical tones
    by Wu and Minnan speakers
  2. Jackson L. Lee (U. of Chicago):
    The representation of contour tones in Cantonese
  3. Holman Tse (U. of Pittsburgh):
    Lexical tone effects on voice onset time in Cantonese
  4. Kwan Hin Cheung (Hong Kong Poly U.):
    The mechanism of tone-melody match for tone preservation in Cantonese songs

Session 3B: Syntax
Hagerty Hall 050, 2:45pm-4:45pm

  1. Carine Yuk-Man Yiu (Hong Kong U. of Science & Technology):
    Reconstructing early Chinese dialectal grammar:
    A study of directional verbs in Cantonese
  2. Chak-Lam Colum Yip (U. of Washington):
    On the syntax of classifier reduplication in Cantonese
    and Mandarin
  3. Chi-Fung Lam (Ca' Foscari U. of Venice):
    The cartography of motion events in Cantonese, Mandarin and English
  4. Yutian Tan (Ohio State U.):
    Analysis of the inflected -k coda of personal pronouns
    in the Xinhui dialect

Keynote speaker: Anne Oi-Kan Yue (U. of Washington)
Hagerty Hall 046, 5:00pm-6:00pm

An integrated approach to research on languages and dialects:
Yue language as an example



March 17, 2012

Keynote speaker: Benjamin Ka-Yin T'sou
(H.K. Institute of Education)
Hagerty Hall 046, 9:30am-10:30am

Yue-Cantonese and language contact:
Some recalcitrant and incipient linguistic variations

Corpora & technology workshop
Hagerty Hall 046, 10:40am-1:00pm

  1. Andy Chin (H.K. Institute of Eduucation):
    A transcribed spoken corpus of mid-20th century Cantonese
  2. Anthony Pak Hing Kong (U. of Central Florida):
    Cantonese Chinese Corpus of Oral Narratives (CANON) with morphological tagging
  3. Roxana Suk-Yee Fung (Hong Kong Poly U.):
    Hong Kong Cantonse Adult Language Corpus (HKCAC)
  4. Carine Yuk-Man Yiu (H.K. U. of Science and Technology):
    Early Cantonese Tagged Database
  5. Benjamin T'sou (H.K. Institute of Eduucation):
    Hobson's Cantonese dialogues
  6. Marjorie K.M. Chan (Ohio State U.):
    Using Praat for Cantonese ToBI (C_ToBI) annotation and Akustyk as add-on to Praat for language variation studies of Cantonese vowels