The 4th Variamu workshop will be held at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, on January 6th and 7th, 2015.
Here is the programme:
The First Day (Jan. 6th, 2016) | |||||
8.30-8.45 | Registration | Venue: GH803 | |||
8.45-9.00 | Opening Ceremony | Venue: GH803 | |||
09.00-09.50 | Keynote Speech | William S-Y Wang
Language in Diachrony |
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Themes | Talks | ||||
09.50-10.45 | 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 |
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10.45-11.05 | Tea Break | ||||
11.05-12.00 | From party games to language resources | Laurent Prévot
Quantitative Linguistics of Social Interactions |
Yao Yao
Conversations in Party Games |
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12.00-12.55 | 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 |
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12.55-14.25 | Lunch Break | ||||
14.25-15.20 | Social variations | Julie Abbou
Sounding Like You? What For? Linguistic Accommodation at the Crossroad of Individual Agency, Norms and Social Categories |
Sophia Y. M. Lee
Emotion and Code-switching
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15.20-16.35 | 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 |
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16.35-16.55 | Tea Break | ||||
16.55-17.55 | Internal Discussion on Collaboration Possibilities I | ||||
The Second Day (Jan. 7th, 2016) | |||||
9.00-9.50 | Keynote speech | Noël Nguyen
Studies on phonetic convergence between speakers in interactional speech |
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Themes | Talks | ||||
09.50-10.45 | Chinese as a second language | Marco Cappellini
Telecollaborations and (learner) corpora for French and Chinese as Foreign Languages
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Sun-A Kim
Chinese character learning: Interplay of character types, working memory, and Chinese proficiency |
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10.45-11.05 | Tea Break | ||||
11.05-12.00 | Articulation | Yohann Meynadier
Make Whisper Intelligible: Aerodynamics of Voicing Contrast and Vocal Effort in Whispered Fricatives |
Mantak Leung et. al.
TBC |
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12.00-12.55 | 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 |
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12.55-14.30 | Lunch Break | ||||
14.30-15.25 | 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 |
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15.25-15.35 | Closing Session | ||||
15.35-16.05 | Tea Break | ||||
16.05-18.05 | Internal Discussion on Collaboration Possibilities II |
Cite this blog post
Julie Abbou (2016, January 2). Fourth Variamu Workshop. Variamu. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.58079/v5wy