Van Hoey, T., Thompson, A. L., Do, Y., & Dingemanse, M. (2023). Iconicity in Ideophones: Guessing, Memorizing, and Reassessing. Cognitive Science. Accepted open_in_new DOI
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News from the Language Development Lab.
Bingzi presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her work with Youngah reports the findings of an iterative study on the transmission of vowel (dis)harmony.
Yu, Bingzi, & Do, Youngah. (2022). The transmission of vowel (dis)harmony: an iterated learning study. The 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles.
Thomas, Youngah and Arthur’s project with M. Dingemanse has been accepted at 45th Annual conference of the German Linguistic Society, to be held at the University of Cologne.
Do, Youngah, Thompson, Arthur L., Van Hoey, Thomas G. R., & Dingemanse, Mark. (2023, March 8). Iconicity in ideophones: When memory fails, just guess. The 45th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Köln: The University of Cologne. http://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/320988
Arthur, 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.
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CHIDEOD featured on Language Log!
… 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!