CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2023
Dec 1-3
A two-stage processing of linguistic focus: an eye-tracking study on the processing of discourse focus in Mandarin Chinese
Ren, Qianqian, Chin-Lung Yang, and Haihua Pan
Paper presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Asia 2023, Hong Kong
Dec 1-3
Reflexive reference resolution in Mandarin: An eye-tracking study
Shi, Ganquan, Chin-Lung Yang, and Haihua Pan
Paper presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Asia 2023, Hong Kong
Nov 23
粵語外來詞的興衰 [Rise and decline of loanwords in Cantonese]
Lei, Margaret
Invited talk given at New Asia College’s Cantonese Evening, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Nov 20-21
Revisiting ma-questions in Chinese
Ren, Qianqian
Paper presented at the 9th Seminar on Frontiers of Modern Chinese Syntax and Semantics, Macau.
Nov 20-21
Interpreting Mandarin AABB adjectives
Xue, Bo
Paper presented at the 9th Seminar on Frontiers of Modern Chinese Syntax and Semantics, Macau
Nov 3-5
Feature reassembly in L2 acquisition of quantification
Lei, Margaret
Poster presented at the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-48), Boston University, USA
Oct 31-Nov 3
「2023年跨學科時代語言研究的理論與方法」系列講座之句法語義系列講座
潘海華
Lecture series given at Beijing Language and Culture University
- 形式語義學與漢語語法研究
- 也談”自指”和”轉指”
- 爲什麼漢語“都”是關聯方向敏感的全稱量化詞？
- 從准空缺句的視覺看”他是一個日本女人”的句法性質
Oct 28-29
試論 「名動包含」說的理據及其存在的問題
潘海華
《第十屆形式語言學國際研討會》特邀演講，清華大學
Oct 26
修飾語量化中的相對量化與絕對量化－探析「常常」和「往往」的語義
潘海華
《文學院學術捭闔名家講壇》特邀演講，東北師範大學文學院
Oct 13-15
Lexical effects in the change of Cantonese neutral question forms
Lei, Margaret and Ivy Kwan
Poster presented at the 51st Annual New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV-51), Queens College, City University of New York, New York, USA
Oct 10
形式語義學可以為漢語研究做點什麼？
潘海華
《杭州師範大學外國語學院宏學大講堂》特邀演講，杭州師範大學外國語學院
Oct 9
修飾語量化中的相對量化與絕對量化－探析「常常」和「往往」的語義
潘海華
《西溪語言學論壇（十四）》特邀演講，浙江大學文學院、國家語言文字推廣基地
Sept 21-22
A question-based semantics of Mandarin epistemic indefinite mǒu
Xue, Bo
Paper presented at Workshop on the Semantics of Indefinites, Paris
Aug 12-13
論「名動包含」說的理據及其存在的問題
潘海華
《第五屆「走向新描寫主義」論壇》主旨演講，中國社會科學院語言研究所《當代語言學》、西北大學文學院
Aug 12-13
Structuring attitude reports: From intensions to hyperintensions
Xue, Bo
Paper presented at 新描寫主義論壇，西北大學 （西安）
Jun 20-21
Donkey sentences in Chinese: In defense of the null hypothesis
Kuang, Hang and Haihua Pan
Paper presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese, Hong Kong
Jun 20-21
Event definiteness and the temporal interpretation of shi-de clefts in Mandarin Chinese
Xia, Xue
Paper presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese, Hong Kong
Jun 20-21
Mandarin mǒu at the syntax-semantics interface
Xue, Bo
Paper presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese, Hong Kong
Jun 20-21
Wh-relatives as wh-interrogatives in Mandarin Chinese: Dynamicity, interrogativity and intensionality
Ren, Qianqian
Paper presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese, Hong Kong
May 27-29
Donkey sentences in Chinese: In defense of the null hypothesis
Pan, Haihua and Hang Kuang
Keynote lecture given at The 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics organized by Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau
May 27-29
The two constructions represented by ‘pronoun ziji’: does Mandarin have complex reflexives?
Li, Tianshu
Paper presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-29), Macau
May 27-29
An analysis of the temporal properties of de in shi-de focus construction
Xia, Xue
Paper presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-29), Macau
Apr 7
把字句的論元結構及生成研究
潘海華
《荊楚語學大講壇第13期》特邀演講，華中科技大學人文學院、華中科技大學國家語言文字推廣基地
Apr 6-10
華中師範大學外國語學院海外語言學名師論壇
潘海華
Lecture series given at Central China Normal University
1. 試論 「名動包含」說的理據及其存在的問題
2. 修飾語量化中的相對量化與絕對量化－探析「常常」和「往往」的語義
3. 無空位定語從句 (Gapless Relative Clause)真的是名詞的賓語從句嗎？
4. 從準空缺的視角看漢語的特殊「是」字句
5. 爲什麼漢語「都」是關聯方向敏感的全稱量化詞？
Apr 6
形式語意學與漢語的語法研究
潘海華
《華大語學論壇》特邀演講，華中師範大學語言研究所
Apr
題元層級、致使層級與漢語動結式的解釋
潘海華
《桂子山人文論壇》特邀演講，華中師範大學
Mar 29
穿粵新詞舊語 [Crossing old and new Cantonese]
Lei, Margaret
Invited talk given at New Asia College’s Cantonese Evening, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mar 9-11
The processing of classifier-noun agreement in Chinese: an eye-tracking study
Xia, Xue, Chin-Lung Yang, and Haihua Pan
Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP) 2023, Pittsburgh, United States
Jan 5-8
Learning language-specific features in second language acquisition
Lei, Margaret
Poster presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2023), Denver, Colorado, USA (virtual presentation)
2022
Dec 17
形式語義學與漢語的語法研究
潘海華
《第三屆中國語言學嶺南書院》特邀演講，粵港澳高校中文聯盟
Dec 14-16
Variation in the syntactic change of Cantonese neutral questions
Kwan, Ivy and Margaret Lei
Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation – Asia Pacific 7, Chulalongkom University, Bangkok, Thailand
Oct 28
Disambiguating ji in Mandarin: Insights from child language
Huang, Zhixian and Margaret Lei
Paper presented at the Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum 5 (BEAL Forum 5), The Ohio State University, USA, virtual meeting
Sept 16-17
The comprehension of interrogatives by Shanghainese-speaking children: A study on native language acquisition in a dialectal region
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Margaret Lei, and Jialei Zhu
Paper presented at the Second Wu Colloquium, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, virtual meeting
Jun 28
如何區分無空位定語從句和名詞的賓語從句？
潘海華
《華中師範大學外國語學院研究生學術周語言學系列學術報告》特邀演講，華中師範大學外國語學院
May 20-22
Severing free choice inferences from exhaustivity: Free choice (FC) inferences as common cause reasoning and the distribution of Mandarin FC inferences in intensional contexts
Xue, Bo
Paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28), Hong Kong
May 20-22
漢語全稱量化詞的語義映射規則
Zhang, Lei and Haihua Pan
Paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28), Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Apr 1-4
Revisiting Chinese Donkey Sentences
Pan, Haihua and Hang Kuang
Keynote lecture given at The Third Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning “Dynamics in Logic and Language” organized by Tsinghua University – University of Amsterdam Joint Research Centre for Logic, China
2021
Dec
Remarks on Gapless Relative Clauses and Complement Clauses
Pan, Haihua
Invited lecture given at the Research Seminar, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Nov 20-21
The comprehension of interrogatives by Shanghainese-speaking children: Competing grammars in acquisition
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Margaret Lei, and Jialei Zhu
Invited lecture given at the Third International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-3), National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, virtual meeting
Nov 20-21
Encountering and integrating discourse focus in different sentence positions: An eye-tracking reading study on Mandarin Chinese
Ren, Qianqian, Chin-Lung Yang, and Haihua Pan
Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-3), National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Nov 20-22
Revisiting ma-questions in Chinese
Ren, Qianqian
Paper presented at at the 9th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Hong Kong
Nov 5
Remarks on Gapless Relative Clauses and Complement Clauses
Pan, Haihua
Invited lecture given at the 9th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Chinese Association of Formal Linguistics
Jul 15-25
Acquisition of event culmination in the Chinese languages
Lei, Margaret
Poster presented at the 15th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL-15), virtual meeting
May 7-9
The interaction between perfectivity and boundedness: evidence from child Mandarin
Li, Tianshu and Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Poster presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA-9), online
Apr 7-9
Different paths to quantifier and numeral acquisition
Lei, Margaret
Poster presented at the 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (SRCD 2021), virtual meeting
2020
Dec 25
Is Chinese Really an Accusative Language?
潘海華
《海外語言學名師論壇》主旨演講，華中師範大學外國語學院
Dec 23
漢語真的是賓格語言嗎？
潘海華
《華東師範大學人文與社會科學研究院》特邀演講
Dec 11-12
現代漢語 A-not-A 問句中的 “A” 及其與問句形式的關係
Tan, Hui
Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum (ARF) of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, virtual meeting
Dec 11-12
An experimental investigation on domain restriction of the adverb sin1 in Cantonese
Tong, Suet Hin and Margaret Lei
Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum (ARF) of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, virtual meeting
Dec 15
再談「的」字結構及「的」的語義功能
潘海華
《文學院品牌講座》主旨演講，山東大學文學院
Dec 5
海話兒童的問句獲得研究
李行德、李嘉欣、朱佳蕾
《天津市語言學會2020年學術年會》特邀演講，南開大學
Oct
A two-stage processing of linguistic focus: An eye-tracking study on the processing of discourse focus in Mandarin Chinese
Ren, Qianqian, Chin-Lung Yang, and Haihua Pan
Paper presented at the 2nd AMLaP Asia, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jun 6
粵語兒童的早期語序 [Word order in early child Cantonese]
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Lei
Paper presented at the 20th Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-20), Hong Kong Baptist University, virtual meeting
May 28-30
修飾性「每」的加合性語義及相關句子的允准成分
潘海華
Paper presented at the 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2020) , City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2018
Jun 13
上海話兒童的句法獲得 [The acquisition of syntax by Shanghainese-speaking children]
Zhu, Jialei, Thomas Hun-tak Lee, Margaret Lei
Invited lecture given at the Young Linguists Salon, Department of Chinese, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
May 4-6
The interpretation of zenme: Alternative to a cartographic account
Thomas Hun-tak Lee, Hang Kuang
Invited talk given at the 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-26) and the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
May 4-6
Thomas Hun-tak Lee, Lu, Yaqiao
Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-26) and the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
May 4-6
Zhu, Jialei, Margaret Lei
Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-26) and the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Mar 1-3
Unergative verbs in Mandarin Chinese
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Yaqiao Lu, Waltraud Paul
Poster presented at International Workshop on “Unergative Predicates: Architecture and Variation”, Bilbao, Spain
Apr 21-22
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Yaqiao Lu
Keynote lecture given at the Symposium on Developmental Linguistics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2017
Nov 3-5
Lei, Margaret
Poster (paper alternate) presented at the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-42), Boston University, USA.
Jun 25-27
Lu, Yaqiao, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-25), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Jun 25-27
The early grammar of Shanghainese-speaking children: Observations on word order
Zhu, Jialei, Thomas Hun-tak Lee, Margaret Lei
Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-25), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Jun 25-27
The early grammar of Shanghainese-speaking children: Observations on word order
Zhu, Jialei, Thomas Hun-tak Lee, Margaret Lei
Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-25), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Mar 10-12
Aspect and quantification in child Cantonese: The referential effects of verbal affixes in children’s production
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan
Poster presented at the First International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Mar 10-12
Unaccusative and unergative verbs in child Mandarin: Revisiting the A-Chain Delay Hypothesis (ACDH)
Lu, Yaqiao
Poster presented at the First International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
2016
Dec 3-4
Cantonese suffix saai3 as a generalized distributivity operator: Arguments for an event-based approach
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Dec 3-4
Mandarin-speaking children’s interpretation of the wh-adverbial zenme
Kuang, Hang
Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Nov 4-6
Early knowledge of the interaction between aspect and quantification: Evidence from child Cantonese
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the 41th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-41), Boston University, USA.
Oct 28-30
A study of the syntax, semantics and context of use of the Chinese imperfective structure zai-V-zhe
Li, Tianshu
Paper presented at the 16th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics (ICCL-16), Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Sep 8-10
Acquiring distinctions in nominal and verbal domains: Differentiating universal quantification from completive aspect in child Cantonese
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the 7th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America Conference (GALANA-7), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Jul 17-19
Scope and isomorphism in Chinese: Connecting child language and linguistic theory
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Keynote lecture given at the 24th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-24), Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.
Jul 17-19
Intransitive verbs in child Mandarin: Acquiring the unaccusative vs. unergative distinction
Lu, Yaqiao, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Poster presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-24), Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.
Jul 17-19
Indirect passives in Chinese: An acquisition study
Wuyun, Saina, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-24), Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.
Apr 22-24
An experimental study on a syntactic change in progress in Cantonese: The relationship between language change and language acquisition
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the Fourth Meeting of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Asia-Pacific conference (NWAV-AP4), National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan.
Mar 12-13
The status of Cantonese in Hong Kong: Fact and Perception
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Invited lecture given at the Third Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-3), The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
2015
Oct 16-17
Differentiating universal quantification from perfectivity: Cantonese-speaking children’s command of the affixal quantifier saai3
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the Workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
Sep 24-26
An experimental study on an ongoing syntactic change in Hong Kong Cantonese: Nominalizer insertion in sortal-classifier contexts
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Margaret Ka-yan Lei
Paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-9), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Sep 24-26
Acquisition of verb argument structure in Mandarin: Against the verb island hypothesis
Yang, Yu’an, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-9), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Aug 26-28
The referential status of numeral phrases in Chinese
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Invited lecture given at the Workshop on Interface Studies, 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-23), Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
Aug 26-28
The acquisition of quantifier domain restriction by Cantonese-speaking children: The case of the universal quantifier verb suffix
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Invited lecture given at the Workshop on Interface Studies, 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-23), Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
Mar 27-29
The acquisition of Chinese: Why Universal Grammar is necessary
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Invited lecture given at the East Asian Language Acquisition Workshop, held in conjunction with the 2015 International Conference on Language Form and Function, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Mar 27
Scope (dis)ambiguity in Chinese datives: The view from language acquisition
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Margaret Ka-yan Lei
Invited lecture given at the East Asian Language Acquisition Workshop, held in conjunction with the 2015 International Conference on Language Form and Function, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
2014
Nov 8-9
Domain selection in the acquisition of Cantonese universal A-quantifiers
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Formal Linguistics in conjunction with the International Conference on Language Acquisition, Language Disorder and Language Assessment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Jun 20
Scope (dis)ambiguity in Chinese datives: The view from language acquisition
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Margaret Ka-yan Lei
Invited lecture given at the 2014 Korean Society for Language and Information Workshop on Meaning and Cognition, Seoul National University, Korea.
May 2-4
Scope interaction of universal A-quantifiers and negation: An experimental study on Cantonese-speaking children
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-22) and the 26th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-26), University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
May 2-4
Nominalizer insertion in Hong Kong Cantonese: Is it a real syntactic change?
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Margaret Ka-yan Lei
Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-22) and the 26th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-26), University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
2013
Dec 7-8
Ge3-insertion in Hong Kong Cantonese: The view from de-insertion in Mandarin
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Margaret Ka-yan Lei
Paper presented at the 18th International Conference on Yue Dialects, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
Date
The acquisition of quantificational structures by Chinese-speaking children
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Invited lecture given at the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Nov 13-15
Scope (dis)ambiguity in prepositional and double object datives in Chinese: An experimental study.
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Margaret Ka-yan Lei
Keynote lecture given at the International Symposium on Quantification in Chinese: Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China.
Sep 26-28
Chinese children’s interpretation of scope in prepositional datives
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Margaret Ka-yan Lei
Paper presented at the 8th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-8), EHESS, Paris, France.
Jun 21-23
Scope interpretation of the dative construction by adult Mandarin speakers
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the 25th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-25), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Jun 7-9
Children’s early comprehension of the universal quantifier affix saai3 in Cantonese
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-21), National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Mar 16
The semantic properties of saai3 in quantifying nominals and predicates: How it differs from aspectual and phase markers
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the Thirteenth Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-13), Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
2012
Aug 21-22
hildren’s comprehension of the direction of quantification of the A-quantifier saai3 in Cantonese
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the CUHK-Nankai Workshop on Language Documentation and Language Acquisition, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Date
Children’s knowledge of the mapping between nominal structure and specificity in Mandarin
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Invited lecture given at the 203rd Research Forum of the Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.
2011
Sep 13-15
Acquisition of the postverbal universal quantifier affix in Cantonese
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Margaret Ka-yan Lei
Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistic (EACL-7), Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
Date
The Mapping of (in)definiteness and specificity to word order in Chinese: An exploration through child Mandarin
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Zhuang Wu
Invited lecture given at International Joint Symposium on the Interfaces of Grammar, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China.
Jul 19-23
Cantonese-speaking children’s comprehension of deictic locatives
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Poster presented at the 12th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
Jul 19-23
Acquisition of vowel length in Cantonese-speaking children
Chen, Hui, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Poster presented at the 12thInternational Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
Jun 11-13
A corpus-based analysis of the subject specificity constraint in Mandarin Chinese
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Zhuang Wu
Paper presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 19), Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
May 6-8
Longitudinal child Cantonese corpora: An update
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Invited paper presented at the Roundtable conference on linguistic corpus and corpus linguistics in the Chinese context, Research Center on Linguistics and Language Information Sciences, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.
Mar 5
Acquisition of the postverbal universal quantifier affix in Cantonese
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Margaret Ka-yan Lei
Paper presented at the 36th Colloquium, Centre for Linguistics, Nanzan University, Japan.
Mar 4
Logical structures in early child language
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Paper presented at Good Practice Lecture Series, Department of British and American Studies, Nanzan University, Japan.
2010
Oct 10
The realization of logical scope in child language
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Tianjin Social Science Association, Tianjin Normal University, China.
Nov 4-7
The acquisition of word order in a topic-prominent language: Corpus findings and experimental investigation
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Invited paper presented at the Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 24), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
May 20-22
Negation and scope marking in early child Mandarin
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Paper presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL18), Harvard University.
May 20-22
Acquisition of vowel length in Cantonese-speaking children: Experimental findings
Chen Hui, Thomas Hun-tak Lee
Paper presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL18), Harvard University.
2009
Nov 16-18
The grammar of negation in Mandarin-speaking toddlers
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak (with Fan Li)
Keynote paper presented at Mandarin-Fest, MacQuarie University, Australia.
Jul 5
Quantification in Chinese: The perspective from child language
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Paper presented at the Workshop on Quantification and Number, Plurality, and Person in the Languages of Asia, CRLAO, EHESS, Paris.
Jul 2-4
The acquisition of word order and argument structure in Chinese
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Keynote paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, CRLAO, EHESS, Paris.
Jul 2-4
Overextension and basic-level words in the early lexical/semantic development of a Mandarin-speaking child
Zeng, Tao, Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Paper presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Paris, France.
Jun 8-9
Cantonese-speaking children’s perception of vowel length: Preliminary experimental findings
Chen, Hui, Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Poster presented at the Workshop on Child Phonology 2009, The University of Texas at Austin.
2008
Dec 5-6
Rethinking scope ambiguity and disambiguity in Chinese
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Keynote paper presented at the 7th Pan-Asiatic Conference in Language & Linguistics, Guangdong Foreign Studies University.
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Jun 2
[普通話中動詞後情態的早期獲得]
Fan, Li
Paper presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Peking University, Beijing, China.
2007
Dec 15-17
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Paper presented at the International Symposium of the Consortium for Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Aug 16-17
The development of voicing in Mandarin: A longitudinal case study
Chen, Feiyan, Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Paper presented at the Workshop on Early Child Phonology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Apr 13-15
The acquisition of syntactic categories in Chinese: Issues of bootstrapping and productivity
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak
Paper presented at the International Workshop on Grammar and Evidence, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.
2006
Jun 20-22
Tone discrimination in infants acquiring a tonal language
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan
Paper presented at the XV th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto, Japan
Jun 20-22
The gesture-speech combinations of Mandarin-speaking children around the onset of the two-word stage
Liao, Hui, Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Huang, Aijun, Zeng, Tao
Paper presented at the XV th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto, Japan