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Program

December 12, 2009
The Hong Kong Institute of Education
(Preliminary Program version 12.05)

Morning | Afternoon | Abstracts


8:30-9:00 Registration (Outside B4-LP-04)
9:00-9:10 Welcoming and Presentation of Outstanding Thesis Award (B4-LP-04
(Building B4, Lower Podium, Room 4)
9:10-9:30 MA Awardee Report (B4-LP-04)
Donald Timothy WHITE
Speech Rhythm Development in a Balanced Cantonese-English Child
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
9:30-9:50 MPhil Awardee Report (B4-LP-04)
Aijun HUANG
Count-mass distinction and the acquisition of classifiers in Mandarin-speaking Children
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
9:50-10:50 Keynote Speech (B4-LP-04)
Prof. Christopher KENNEDY
Severing the Degree Argument from the Adjective
The University of Chicago
(Chair: Thomas Hun-tak LEE)
10:50-11:00
BREAK
  Parallel Session 1a (B4-LP-12)
Chair: Dingxu SHI
11:00-11:30 Candice CHEUNG
On the nature of wh-fronting in Cantonese
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11:30-12:00 Qingwen ZHANG, Sze-Wing TANG & Joanna SIO
Classifier Reduplication and Distributivity in Kaijian Dialect
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University & Hong Kong Baptist University
12:00-12:30 Chuansheng HE
Double binding and the semantic interpretations of bare nouns in Chinese
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Parallel Session 1b (B4-LP-10)
Chair: Haihua PAN
11:00-11:30 Marco CABOARA
The particle ye 也in the Guodian and Shanghai Museum manuscripts
University of Washington
11:30-12:00 Haoze LI
VP Ellipsis and Cartography of Modal Verbs
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
12:00-12:30 范曉蕾
從漢語方言的多義情態詞看"能性"情態概念的語義關聯
香港科技大學
  Parallel Session 1c (B4-LP-09)
Chair: Angel CHAN
11:00-11:30 Xiangjun DENG
The Acquisition of the Resultative Verb Compound in Mandarin
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11:30-12:00 Wen ZHANG
The Interpretation of Verb+le and Resultative Verb Compounds By Mandarin-speaking Children
Hong Kong Shue Yan College, City University of Hong Kong, Hong The Chinese University of Hong Kong
12:00-12:30 Yueyuan HUANG & Suying YANG
Linguistic and rhetorical features in L2 Chinese essays of Japanese speakers
Hong Kong Baptist University
  Parallel Session 1d (B4-LP-08)
Chair: Kwan-hin CHEUNG
11:00-11:30 Lianhee WEE
If Tones Had Weights
Hong Kong Baptist University
11:30-12:00 Robert Bo XU
An experimental investigation into the high-rising tone change in Cantonese
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
12:00-12:30 Peggy MOK & Peggy WONG
Merging tones in Hong Kong Cantonese
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
12:30-2:00
LUNCH
(Tim Luk Palace (Block E, 1st Floor)
2:00-3:00 LSHK Annual General Meeting (AGM) (B4-LP-04)
  Parallel Session 2a (B4-LP-12)
Chair: Yang GU
3:00-3:30 石定栩
非謂形容詞的詞類地位
香港理工大學
3:30-4:00 饒宏泉
複合趨向補語和賓語語序難題的再思考
華中師範大學 / 香港浸會大學
4:00-4:30 何元建
現代漢語中間句的句法結構
香港中文大學
  Parallel Session 2b (B4-LP-10)
Chair: Foong-ha YAP
3:00-3:30 Ritty CHOI
Pragmatic Effects and Processing Cost in Cantonese Topicalization
The University of Hong Kong
3:30-4:00 Wingman KWAN
The processing of Chinese coverb sentences
The University of Hong Kong
4:00-4:30 Feng-hsi LIU & Yao YAO
Predicting the Variation of the Ditransitive Construction in Chinese
University of Arizona & University of California, Berkeley
  Parallel Session 2c (B4-LP-09)
Chair: Andy CHIN
3:00-3:30 Chung-Pui TAI
Tangut Group IX Initials Revisited
Leiden University / The University of Hong Kong
3:30-4:00 Qun LI
The acquisition of Mandarin Stops by L2 Japanese learners: a VOT study
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
4:00-4:30 張凌
來母細音字在一些方言中變讀舌尖齒塞音的音理初探
香港理工大學
  Parallel Session 2d (B4-LP-08)
Chair: Cathy WONG
3:00-3:30 May CHAN
Consonantal mergers in Cantonese revisited
University of Oxford
3:30-4:00 Zhen QIN
The Production and Perception of French initial stops by Wu and Mandarin Speakers
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
4:00-4:30 Tak-sum WONG
A Hypothesis on the Mechanism behind
the Lateralization of the Alveolar Nasal-Initial in Hong Kong Cantonese
City University of Hong Kong
4:30-4:50
BREAK
(Outside B4-LP-04)
  Parallel Session 3a (B4-LP-12)
Chair: Carine YIU
4:50-5:20 Hongyong LIU
On the Chinese "Causative-Passive" Construction
South China Normal University
5:20-5:50 Jing YANG
Light Verb Construction and Psych Nouns in Mandarin Chinese
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
5:50-6:20 Lawrence CHEUNG
Manifesting the Nuclear Stress Rule in Cantonese
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Parallel Session 3b (B4-LP-10)
Chair: Peppina LEE
4:50-5:20 Yurie HARA & Sanae TAMURA
TwoWays to Nominalize Predicates in Japanese
City University of Hong Kong & Kyoto University
5:20-5:50 Reijirou SHIBASAKI
From head-marking to dependent-marking in the history of English personal pronouns: A case of degrammaticalization?
Okinawa International University
  Parallel Session 3c (B4-LP-08)
Chair: Ping JIANG
4:50-5:20 Monica CHENG
Phonological Correlates:
Structural Versus Non-Structural Ambiguity
Hong Kong Baptist University
5:20-5:50
Yao YAO
Are we self-centered or altruistic speakers: evidence from phonological neighborhood density
University of California, Berkeley