LDL | Department of Linguistics | HKU… 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.
Arthur Lewis Thomspon has published his paper on tones and iconicity in PLoS ONE and our paper on processing multimorphemic words has been published in Cognition!
Thompson, A. L. (2018). Are tones in the expressive lexicon iconic? Evidence from three Chinese languages. PLOS ONE, 13(12). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204270
We organized a public workshop on “Seeing speech: ultrasound imaging in Linguistics” led by Jon Havenhill.
Dr. Jon Havenhill has joined our lab and will contribute with his expertise in articulatory phonetics. Welcome, Jon!
Our previous lab member Katrina Ke Chun Li has started her MA programme in Linguistics at Cambridge university.