LDL | Department of Linguistics | HKUArthur, May, Ping Hei (Felix) and Youngah’s paper has been accepted by the Mental Lexicon!
Thompson, Arthur L., Chan, May Pik Yu, Yeung, Ping Hei, & Do, Youngah. (2022). Structural markedness and depiction: The case of lower sequential predictability in Cantonese ideophones. The Mental Lexicon.
LDL welcomes three new postgraduate students in this semester: Ivy, Ming and Zhihao. Welcome! They will get involved in several lab projects, including perception and production studies.
Youngah’s General Research Fund (GRF) 2022/2023 project “Learning Biases in L2 Acquisition of Hong Kong Sign Language by Hearing Learners” got funded by the Hong Kong Research Council!
She will work with Karen Emmorey (SDSU), Zed Sehyr (SDSU), and Gabriel Getzie (HKU, Digital Technology Director) on this project.
Youngah, Jon and Samuel recently presented at the 18th Conference on Laboratory Phonology!
Do, Youngah, Havenhill, Johnathan, & Sze, Sui Lung Samuel. (2022). Free variation learning in syntax and in phonology. The 18th Conference on Laboratory Phonology.
… a valuable research tool for access to and analysis of premodern Sinitic binoms.
Prof Victor Mair, UPenn
The Chinese Ideophone Database (CHIDEOD) by Dr Arthur Lewis Thompson and Dr Thomas Van Hoey, postdocs of our department, were featured on Language Log:
Do, Youngah, Thompson, Arthur Lewis, Van Hoey, Thomas, Chik, Wing Cheung Aaron, & Dingemanse, Mark. (2022). Teasing apart the interplay between gesture, sound and meaning of ideophones through transmission and iterated learning. The 13th Iconicity in Language and Literature Conference, Paris: Sorbonne.
This recently published article on Hakka in mainland China involves two of our lab members!
Dr. Arthur Lewis Thompson, a postdoc of our department, was invited by the curators at Center for Heritages Arts & Textiles to discuss two pieces from the Interweaving Poetic Code from the perspective of a linguist who researches visual languages.
All 11 undergraduate students have successfully completed their capstone project!
This semester 11 undergraduate students joined our lab and are involved in the projects we are currently running.