New Empirical Contributions to Cantonese Linguistics and Language Processing

Recent work at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong makes new empirical contributions that support both linguistic and psycholinguistic research on Cantonese. Please join us for five presentations and discussion in this free online micro-workshop.

Using SFUSED Cantonese 1.0 (Simon Fraser University Speech Error Database – Cantonese 1.0)

John Alderete, Professor, Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University

Word and sound frequency in Cantonese: frequency norms from three corpora

Jane Li, Undergraduate Student, Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University

SpiCE: A new open-access corpus of conversational bilingual Speech in Cantonese and English

Khia Johnson, PhD Candidate, Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia

A Cantonese sound change in a Cantonese-English bilingual lexicon 

Rachel Soo, PhD Candidate, Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia

Perception of Cantonese tones by heritage children

Peggy Mok, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sapphine Lan, PhD Candidate, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Molly Babel, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia