Departmental Seminar Series
1st & 2nd Semesters, 2007-2008

(Unless otherwise stated, the seminars are scheduled on Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. in room MB104)

Date Speaker Title
24 Sept, 2007 (Mon) 12:30 pm

Dr. Picus S. Ding, Macao Polytechnic Institute

Linguistic Fieldwork in China
27 Sept, 2007 (Thu) 2:30 pm Dr. Keith J. Holyoak, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles Analogy in the Mind and Brain

6 Dec, 2007

(Thu) 4:30 pm

Prof. Paul Kay, Linguistics Department, University of California at Berkeley
Lateral Whorf: Language influences color perception in the right visual field

10 Dec, 2007

(Mon) 6:00 pm

Prof. Paul Drew, University of York, UK
A comparative study of requesting in different social and institutional settings: or, why callers to the emergency services don¡¦t ask ¡§I was wondering if¡K

22 Jan, 2008

(Tue) 5:00 pm

Prof. Genevieve Escure, Evidentiality in a contact language: Garifuna
31 Jan, 2008 (Thu) 5:00pm Dr. Patrick C. M. Wong Effects of Long- and Short-Term Auditory Experiences on the Auditory Pathway: Speech, Voice, and Music

1 Feb, 2008

(Fri) 3:30 pm

Ms Vessela Dimitrova, MPhil candidate,
Prosodic production and omprehension by two trilingual children

22 Apr, 2008

(Tue) 5:00 pm

Umberto Ansaldo, University of Amsterdam
The Malays of Sri Lanka: linguistic ecology and language evolution

28 Apr, 2008
(KKLG101) 5:00 pm

Prof. Carlos Gussenhoven,
Radboud University Nijmegen and Queen Mary, University of London
Tone contrast maintenance driving phonological change in intonation grammars
20 May, 2008 (M136) 5:00 pm Prof. Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp
On acquisitive modals
27 May, 2008 (M136) 5:00 pm Dr. Barbara Meisterernst,
Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
and
University of Ghent, Belgium
Modal verbs in Han period Chinese:
The syntax and semantics of¥ike and¥i¥Hke yi

25 Jun, 2008 (M104A) 3:30 pm

Yuxiu Hu, M.Phil Candidate, The University Hong Kong, School of Humanities, Department of Linguistics,

Research Seminar on An empirical study on L1 influence on the acquisition of L2
23 Jul, 2008
(M104A)
10:30 am
Dr. Daniel Z. Kadar, Research Fellow, Department of Oriental Studies, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Politeness in Historical China: A Case Study of Interactions within a Chinese Intellectual Community
20 Aug, 2008 (M107) 10:30 am

Fu Guohong,
Professor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Heilongjiang University; Honorary Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong

Chinese lexical analysis as morpheme-based chunking
     
     
 
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