Here are the slides of the presentations given to the 4th Variamu Workshop, held on January 7th & 8th, 2016, @ Polyu, HK.
Thanks to all the contributors!
Keynote speech
William S-Y Wang: Language in Diachrony
How to compare languages
- Philippe Blache: Computational Typology: How to Compare Languages from Treebanks
- Chu-Ren Huang: Endurant vs. Perduant: An Ontological View of How Variations are Linguistically Conventionalized
From party games to language resources
- Laurent Prévot & Yao Yao: Conversations in Party Games. Quantitative Linguistics of Social Interactions
Distributional semantics
- Emanuele Chersoni: Dependency-based Modeling of Joint-context in Distributional Similarity
- Enrico Santus, Qin Lu, Alessandro Lenci, and Chu-Ren Huang: Not All Contexts are Equal: Automatic Detection of Antonyms, Hyponyms, Co-hyponyms, and Synonyms in Distributional Semantic Model
Social variations
- Julie Abbou: “Sounding Like You? What For?” Linguistic Accommodation at the Crossroad of Individual Agency and Social Categories
- Sophia Y. M. Lee: Emotion and Code-switching
Dysarthria
- Serge Pinto: Dysarthria : Presentation of the French – Portuguese data
- Vivian Lee,Karen Yiu, Jasmin Sadat, Serge Pinto, Iris Lam and Angel Chan: Speech Characteristics of Cantonese Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
- Dustin Lau: Phonology-to-Orthography Conversions in Chinese: Evidence from a dysgraphic patient
Keynote speech
Noël Nguyen: Studies on phonetic convergence between speakers in interactional speech
Chinese as a second language
- Marco Cappellini: Telecollaborations and (learner) corpora for French and Chinese as Foreign Languages
- Sun-A Kim: Chinese character learning: Interplay of character types, working memory, and Chinese proficiency
Articulation
- Yohann Meynadier: Make Whisper Intelligible: Aerodynamics of Voicing Contrast and Vocal Effort in Whispered Fricatives
- Mantak Leung et. al.: TBC
Regional variations
- James German: Intonational Meaning and Regional Indexing in Corsican French Listeners
- Angel Chan: Asymmetries in Cantonese Children’s Processing of Relative Clauses: Variations and Competition
Neuro-imaging study of language differences
- Chotiga Pattamadilok: The Influence of Writing System Characteristics on Spoken Language Processing: A comparison between logographic and alphabetic system
- Caicai Zhang: Neural Impairment of Tone Language Speakers with Congenital Amusia