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Marjorie K.M. Chan Presentations

CURRENT ACADEMIC YEAR

• "Utterance-final jek 唧 in male and female speech in the Hong Kong Cantonese Adult Corpus (HKCAC)." The 24th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-23) (第二十四届 北美漢語語言學會議), 8-10 June 2012. Co-organized by the University of California at Davis and the University of San Francisco; NACCL-24 will be held from June 8-10, 2012 on the campus of the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, CA. NACCL-24 website: naccl-24.ucdavis.edu/.
• "Tech tools for Cantonese linguistic research: Using Praat for Cantonese ToBI (C_ToBI) annotation and Akustyk as add-on to Praat for language variation studies of Cantonese vowels." Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL), 16-17 March 2012, The Ohio State University.

  Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL) is organized by OSU graduate students Tsz-Him Tsui (Linguistics; WICL Organizing Committee co-chair), Litong Chen (DEALL), and Yutian Tan (DEALL), and faculty members Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan (DEALL; WICL Organizing Committee co-chair) and Professor Zhiguo Xie (DEALL). This workshop is, to the best of our knowledge, the first linguistic event to be held in North America that is devoted solely to Cantonese linguistics.

  WICL event received funding from a three-year grant that was awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences to the Innovation Group, a subgroup of the Buckeye Language Network (BLN), for the Study of Language Variation (SoLV). The three-year, SoLV workshop series is also supported by resources from the Departments of Speech and Hearing Science, Linguistics, Psychology and the School of Teaching and Learning at Ohio State. WICL is co-sponsored by The Ohio State University's Graduate Association of Chinese Linguistics (GACL), Institute for Chinese Studies, East Asian Studies Center, Arts and Humanities (College of Arts and Sciences), Council on Student Affairs, Department of Linguistics, and Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures>. The WICL organizers aim to publish a workshop proceedings volume, potentially as an inaugural volume of the GACL e-working papers in Chinese linguistics.

• "Working with text corpora: Character encodings and digital standards." 2012 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. 5-8 January 2012, Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, Portland, Oregon. Panel: Tech Tools: Increasing Technology Training in the Curriculum of Graduate Students in Linguistics; panel (plus poster session) organized by Professor Laurel Smith Stvan (University of Texas at Arlington) and sponsored by the LSA Technology Advisory Committee (TAC). [Note: The two events, panel and poster session, will take place on Sunday, 8 January 2012.]
• "Rhyming, timing and tempo: Some humour strategies in Cantonese operas and early Cantopop songs." (An invited keynote speaker.) The 16th International Conference on Yue Dialects (第16屆國際粵方言研討會). 15-16 December 2011, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Organized by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the PolyU-PKU Research Centre on Chinese Linguistics.
• "Exploring early Cantonese grammar: Some interrogatives and interrogative constructions in the Huajian Ji (花箋記)" (Invited presenter.) Workshop on Early Cantonese Grammar. 14 December 2011, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Kowloon, Hong Kong. Organized by the Center for Chinese Linguistics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

PREVIOUS ACADEMIC YEARS

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (1978- ): Regional, National & International

(Some conference papers that had been revised and published are web-accessible from my publications webpage.)

1. "The Huajian Ji (花箋記) and early 18th century Cantonese." The 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-23) (第二十三届 北美漢語語言學會議), 17-19 June 2011, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. (Also a member of the NACCL-23 Scientific Committee, and will be introducing one of the keynote speakers, Prof. Agnes He, SUNY Stony Brook.) Conference website: NACCL-23 - U. of Oregon.
2. "Audio-visual training in intonational production and CFL learners’ intonational development." (in absentia, with first author, Chunsheng Yang, conference presenter and panel chair.) The organizer (and original chair) of the panel: Tone and Intonation: Acoustic Analyses and CFL Teaching Strategies. 2010 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), 19-21 November 2010, Boston, MA.
3. "The Huajian Ji (花箋記): Glimpses into early 18th century vernacular written Cantonese." The 2010 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, hosted by The Ohio State University's East Asian Studies Center, 1-3 October 2010, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
4. "'Love you to the bone' and other songs: Humour and rusheng (入聲) rhymes in early Cantopop." (Panel: Humour in Chinese Life and Letters: Politics, Language and Media). The 22nd International Society for Humor Studies Conference (第22届國際幽默研究學會大會), organized by The International Society For Humor Studies (ISHS). 24-27 June 2010, City University of Hong Kong, Kownloon, Hong Kong. [2010 ISHS Program (pdf)]
5. "Rhyming across -p, -t, -k: 'Love you to the bone' and other Cantopop songs." IACL-18 Academic Advisory Committee member and presenter. The 18th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-18), in conjunction with the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22). Joint meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) and the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL). 20-22 May 2010, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

6. "Timing devices and humor in Fengge Enchou Weiliaoqing (鳳閣恩仇未了情)." The 2010 CHINOPERL Annual Conference. March 25, 2010. Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, PA.
       [The CHINese Oral and PERorming Literature (CHINOPERL) conferences are held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). The 2010 AAS meeting (25-28 March 2010) was held at the Mariott Downtown, Philadelphia, PA.]

7. "How do CFL learners perceive Mandarin tones and intonation?" [in absentia, with first author, Chunsheng Yang, the conference presenter] (Revised title: "Production and perception of Mandarin intonation by American learners.") 2009 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) 20-22 November 2009, San Diego, CA.

8. "Rusheng rhymes and the pragmatics of prosody in Cantonese." The 17th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-17). 2-4 July 2009. Centre de Recherches Linguistique sur l'Asie Orientale, Paris, France.

9. "Rhyming, tempo, and humor in Cantonese operatic songs." The 2009 CHINOPERL Annual Conference. 26 March 2009, Chicago, Illinois. (This year's conference celebrates the 40th anniversary of CHINOPERL.)
       [The CHINese Oral and PERorming Literature (CHINOPERL) conferences are held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). The 2009 AAS meeting (26-29 March 2009) was held at the Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.]

10. "The Princess in Distress: A linguistic study of humour in a Hong Kong Cantonese opera." Invited speaker. The 13th International Conference on Cantonese and Yue Dialects (第十三屆 國際粵方言研討會). 18-20 December 2008. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
11. "Vernacular Cantonese vocabulary with upper register nasals and laterals: A diachronic study of lexical and orthographic changes." Invited speaker. International Symposium on Dialects in South-East China: Diachronic Change and Language Contact (歷時演變與語言接觸：中國東南方言國際研討會). 15-17 December 2008. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong. [Preliminary Program - pdf file; opens in a new tab]

12. "The Princess in Distress: A linguistic study of a Cantonese comedy." Invited speaker. The Second International Symposium on Chinese Regional Culture and Language. 7-8 August 2008. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. [The symposium is organized by former students of Professor Emerita Margaret Mian Yan to honor her dedication to the promotion of Chinese language, linguistics, and culture over the past four decades.]

13. "Prosody of humor in Cantonese opera." The 16th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-16). 30 May - 2 June 2008. Peking University, Beijing, China.

    

14. "Modality effects revisited: Iconicity in Chinese Sign Language." (with Wang Xu). The 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20). [The conference celebrates the 20th anniversary of NACCL at its birthplace at OSU.) 25-27 April 2008, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Papers published in the Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20) as full-text PDF files, have now been moved to the new, dedicated NACCL website.]

15. "An undergraduate linguistics course for Chinese-language learners." 2007 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. 16-18 November 2007, San Antonio, TX.

16. "Early 19th century Cantonese as reflected in the Yue Ou 粵謳 (Cantonese Love Songs)." The 15th IACL & The 19th NACCL Joint Conference (2007). Joint conference of the 15th International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-15) and the 19th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-19). 25-27 May 2007, Columbia University, New York City, New York.

17. "Early Cantonese love songs: Zhao Ziyong's (招子庸) Yue Ou (粵謳)." CHINOPERL 2007 Annual Conference. 22 March 2007, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Maine Room, Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA. [The Chinese Oral and Performing Literature (CHINOPERL) conferences are held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). The 2007 AAS meeting is held on 22-25 March 2007, at Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts.]

18. "Language attitudes toward Vernacular Written Cantonese in Guangzhou (Canton), China: National language policy and regional language maintenance." (with Jing Yan). The 2007 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 4-7 January 2007, Anaheim, California.

19. "Liu Yi Chuan Shu (柳毅傳書): A Cantonese Opera, Its Language, Script Versions, and Stage Performances." The 39th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL-39), 15-17 September 2006, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

20. "The Judge Goes to Pieces (審死官): Humor and utterance particles in a Cantonese opera." The 18th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-18), 23-25 June 2006, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.

21. "Technology and the Chinese Language Program at Ohio State University." Invited speaker. The Fourth International Conference and Workshops on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching (TLCT4), 5-7 May 2006, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

22. "On teaching traditional Chinese opera in Chinese culture courses." Panel 218, Integrating Content and Skills: Curricula and Resources, sponsored by CLTA and chaired by Yen-hui Audrey Li (University of Southern California), Association for Asian Studies (AAS). 6-9 April 2006, San Francisco, California. [This presentation focuses on incorporation of traditional Chinese opera as a topic in Chinese culture courses and an analysis of students' reaction papers on their viewing of a Chinese opera of their choice.]

23. "Teaching Chinese opera in an East Asian languages and literatures department." 2005 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. 18-20 November 2005, Baltimore, Maryland. [This presentation focuses on the offering of an introductory course on Chinese opera to graduate and upper-level undergraduate students.]

24. "Cantonese opera and the growth and spread of Vernacular Written Cantonese in the twentieth century." The 17th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-17), 24-26 June 2005, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California.

25. "Liu Yi and the Dragon Princess: A Cantonese opera adaptation of a Yuan drama." CHINOPERL 2005 Annual Conference. 31 March 2005, Hyatt Regency, Chicago, Illinois. The 2005 CHINOPERL Annual Conference Program was dedicated to the memory of Professor James I. Crump. [The Chinese Oral and Performing Literature (CHINOPERL) conferences are held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). The 2005 AAS meeting (31 March - 2 April 2005) was held in Chicago, Illinois.]

26. Intonation in language varieties - AM (Autosegmental-Metrical) approaches. Satellite meeting of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 3-9 August 2003, Barcelona. Hosted by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Cantonese, Mandarin, and Taiwanese ToBI Workshop. [Collaborators from North America and Asia: Mary E. Beckman, Marjorie K.M. Chan, Shui Duen Chan, Yiya Chen, Deborah Davison, Janice Fon, Suk Yee Roxana Fung, Tsan Huang, Jinyun Ke, Ok Joo Lee, Wai Sum Lee, Juan Liu, Ching Han Vicky Man, Ho-Hsien Pan, Shu-hui Peng, Jing Yan, Sin Ping Cathy Wong, and Wai Yi Peggy Wong.]

27. "Chinese computing and concordancing." Poster Session. Humanities Technology Advisory Committee (HTAC) 2003 Spring Colloquium: Humanities Computing in the 21st Century. College of Humanities, The Ohio State University. Friday, 2 May 2003, 9:00 am - 2:30 pm.

28. "Concordancers, concordances, and Chinese language teaching." 2001 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. 15-18 November 2001. Washington, DC. Panel: Concordance, Research and Pedagogy. (See: Chan, Marjorie K.M. 2002. "Concordancers and concordances: Tools for Chinese language teaching and research" (PDF, 1.03 MB, revised version with color illustrations), Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 37.2 (2002):1-58.)

29. "Intonation and sentence-final particles in Chinese: A preliminary investigation." The 32nd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL XXXII). University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. 28-31 October 1999. (Conference Program in RTF format (for PCs and Macs).)

30. "A Pan-Mandarin ToBI". Presented by Shu-hui Peng, Marjorie K.M. Chan, Chiu-yu Tseng, Ok Joo Lee, Tsan Huang, Fu-chiang Chou, and Mary E. Beckman. ICPhS1999 Satellite Meeting: Workshop on "Intonation:models and ToBI labeling", held in conjunction with the Fourteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, CA. 1-7 August 1999.

31. "Cantonese". Presented by Wai Yi Peggy Wong, Marjorie K.M. Chan, and Mary E. Beckman. ICPhS1999 Satellite Meeting: Workshop on "Intonation:models and ToBI labeling", held in conjunction with the Fourteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, CA. 1-7 August 1999.

32. "Gender, society, and the Chinese language." Invited keynote speaker. The 11th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-11). Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 18-20 June 1999.

33. "Sentence-final particles in Cantonese: A gender-linked survey and study." The 11th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-11). Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 18-20 June 1999.

34. "Speech analysis software for aural-visual feedback in learning Cantonese tones." Panel: Cantonese Pedagogy and Materials. 1998 Chinese Language Teachers Association Annual Meeting. 20-22 November 1998. Chicago Hilton and Towers, Chicago, Illinois. (See Program Schedule.)

35. "Sentence particles je and jek in Cantonese and their distribution across gender and sentence types." Fifth Berkeley Women and Language Conference. (Conference Schedule.) Organized by the Berkeley Woman and Language Group (BWLG). U.C. Berkeley, CA. 24-26 April 1998.

36. "Some issues and perspectives on gender differences in the Chinese language." Invited speaker. Fifth Y.R. Chao Center Symposium on Chinese Linguistics. Hosted by the Yuen Ren Chao Center for Chinese Linguistics. U.C. Berkeley, CA. 21-22 March 1998.

37. "Maintaining a 'ChinaLinks' website for teaching and research: a faculty's perspective." Panel: Information Technology and Library Services on Chinese Area Studies. 26 March 1998. 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Organization: Committee on Chinese Materials, Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL). Held in conjunction with the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C. 26-29 March 1998.

38. "Harnessing computer technology and the WWW for teaching advanced reading in Chinese" (with Shunde Jin). 1997 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA). Nashville, Tennessee. Panel: Use of WWW for Chinese Language Teaching and Learning (Chair: Wenze Hu, Harvard Univ.) Other panelists: Wenze Hu (Chair), and Tianwei Xie. See Preliminary Program. 20-23 November 1997.

39. "Gender-marked speech and the Chinese language: A preliminary report." Invited speaker. The 9th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-9). U. of Victoria, Victoria, Canada. 2-4 May 1997.

40. "Gender-marked speech and sentence-final particles in Cantonese." (Focus on the je/jek particles.) The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Chicago, Illinois. Panel: New Research on Language and Gender in Chinese and Japanese. Other panelists: Hideko Abe (Chair), and Catherine S. Farris. Discussants: Haruko Minegishi Cook and Timothy Light. 13-16 March 1997.

41. "The World Wide Web and Chinese language teaching." (with Shunde Jin). 1996 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 22-24 November 1996.

42. "Iconic motivation and sound symbolism in the Chinese language." Invited speaker. Fifth International Conference on Chinese Languages (ICCL-5). Organized by the International Association of Chinese Linguistics. Hosted by Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. 27-29 June 1996.

43. "Some thoughts on the typology of sound symbolism and the Chinese language." Invited speaker. The 8th Eighth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-8). Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois. 17-19 May 1996.

44. "Students' tone production and audio-visual feedback." 1995 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. Anaheim, California. 18-20 November 1995.

45. "Sound symbolism and the Chinese language." Fourth International Conference on Chinese Linguistics (ICCL-4) and the Seventh North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-7), held jointly. University of Wisconsin, Madison. 27-30 June 1995.

46. "Sound symbolism and water sizes: A preliminary Fuzhou study." Invited speaker. Second Symposium of the Chao Yuan Ren Center for Chinese Linguistics. Institute of East Asian Studies, U.C. Berkeley, California. 18-19 March 1995.

47. "From nouns to verbs: verbalization in Chinese dialects and East Asian languages." (with James Tai). Invited speaker. The Sixth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-6), University of Southern California, L.A. 13-15 May 1994.

48. "Denominal verbalization: category shift in modern Cantonese" Fourth International Conference on Cantonese and Other Yue Dialects, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong. 17-19 December 1993.

49. "Language-music interaction: comparison of Mandarin and Cantonese lyrics for 'Yelaixiang'." The North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-4), U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 8-10 May 1992.

50. "Zhongshan Chinese and a mid-eighteenth century Sino-Portuguese glossary." 1992 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 9-12 January 1992.

51. "Linguistic stress and melody interface in Cantonese songs." The Third North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-3). ('NACCL' replaced 'NECCL'.) Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 3-5 May 1991.

52. "Singing in Mandarin Chinese: language and music interface." 1990-1991 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Chicago, Illinois. 3-6 January 1991.

53. "Tone, stress and melody interaction in Mandarin songs." 1990 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. Nashville, Tennessee. 17-19 November 1990.

54. "The non-correlation of post-oralization and vowel height: evidence from Chinese dialects and a search for explanations." Invited speaker. Second Northeast Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NECCL-2). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 4-6 May 1990.

55. "Contour-tone spreading and tone sandhi in Danyang." The First Northeast Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NECCL-1). The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 5-7 May 1989.

56. "The status of lexical tones in singing." 1989 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. Boston, Massachusetts. 17-19 November 1989.

57. "Fuzhou glottal stop: floating segment or correlation of close contact?" 1989 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Washington, D.C. 27-30 December 1989.

58. "An autosegmental analysis of Danyang tone sandhi: some historical and theoretical issues." Invited speaker. International Conference on Wu Dialects. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 12-14 December 1988.

59. "Acoustic analysis of the diphthongs in Shanghai, Cantonese and Mandarin." Invited speaker. (co-authored with Hongmo Ren, absent) International Conference on Wu Dialects. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 12-14 December 1988.

60. "Syntactic errors in second year Chinese students' compositions." (with James Tai.) 1988 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. Monterey, California. 18-20 November 1988.

61. "Post-stopped nasals in Chinese: an areal study." XXth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 21-23 August 1987.

62. "Post-stopped nasals: an acoustic investigation." (co-authored with Hongmo Ren, absent) 113th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Indianapolis, Indiana. 11-15 May 1987.

63. "Tone and melody in Cantonese." Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, California. 14-16 February 1987.

64. "Wuxi tone sandhi: from last to first syllable dominance." (co-authored with Hongmo Ren, absent.) XIXth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Ohio State Univ., Columbus, Ohio. September 1986.

65. "On the status of 'basic' tones." Chinese Linguistics Workshop, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. May 1986.

66. "On the final glottal stop in Fuzhou." First Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference. University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. October 1985.

67. "Word-formation in Mandarin: a preliminary sketch." Western Conference on Linguistics. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. October 1984.

68. "The Chinese in North America: a preliminary sketch." XVIIth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. U. of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. September 1984.

69. "Stress and vowel quality changes in the Fuzhou Chinese dialect." Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association. U. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 30 May - 2 June 1983.

70. "Lexical diffusion: the Shuangfeng case revisited." XVth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Beijing University and the Linguistic Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China. August 1982.

71. "Lexical diffusion and some Chinese case studies re-analyzed." Western Conference on Linguistics. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. October 1981.

72. "Initial consonant clusters in Old Chinese: some lexical evidence from the Zhong-shan dialect." XIIIth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. October 1980.

73. "Temporal reference in Mandarin Chinese: an analytical-semantic approach to the study of the morphemes le, zai, zhe and ne." XIth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. October 1978.

74. "A semantic study of time and aspect in Mandarin Chinese." 1978 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Asian Studies. University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada. May 1978.

    

PRESENTATIONS (1986- ) AS INVITED SPEAKER/DISCUSSANT AT COLLOQUIA, WORKSHOPS, ETC.

1. "Chinese linguistics: The sound system of Modern Standard Chinese and pedagogical aspects." Part of the Professional Development for Chinese Language Teachers Workshop. Friday, 3 December 2010, from 9:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., in 145 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.. The teachers workshop is sponsored by the K-12 Chinese Flagship Program at The Ohio State University. (The Chinese linguistics component of the workshop will be from 9:45 - 11:30 a.m.) [CEU certificate: Seven contact hours]
2. "'Love you to the bone' and other songs: Rhyming, tempo and humor in early Cantopop." Invited lecture, the Institute for Chinese Studies 2009-2010 Lecture Series, China in Global Contexts. The lecture series is co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center, as part of EASC's 40th anniversary celebration. Friday, 12 March 2010, 1:30-3:00 p.m. 045 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, The Ohio State University.

3. "Cultural content through CFL and English-taught classes: Using Chinese operas and operatic films." 25 April 2009. Keynote speaker at the 2009 Workshop for Teachers of Chinese, organized by the Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University.

4. "Orthographic changes since the mid-19th century: A case study of written Cantonese." 27 February 2009. Invited presentation organized by the Graduate Students of East Asian Languages and Literatures (GREALL), Ohio State University.

5. "Humour and performed discourse: Issues and case studies from Cantonese opera." (Invited lecture) 12 December 2008. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.

6. "Prosody of humor: Some issues and case studies from Cantonese opera." Invited speaker. 29 May 2008. Remin University, Beijing, China.

7. "Prosodic cues and humor: An exploration of two Cantonese operas." Graduate Association of Chinese Linguistics (GACL) Colloquium talk. 22 May 2008. Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

8. Discussant on panel, "The task- and content-based Chinese curriculum at the Defense Language Institute", chaired by Ying Liu (Defense Language Institute). Presentations by faculty members at the Defence Language Institute: "Basic Chinese Course Design and Development - Principles and Methodologies" (Tsengtseng Chang and Lin Xie); "Basic Chinese Course Design and Development - Tasks and Activities" (Xiaoqi Wu); and "The Task- and Content-based Digital Curriculum for Learners of Chinese at Intermediate/Advanced Levels" (Dian Huang and Ying Liu). Session 4.2 at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA), Held in conjunction with the 2006 annual meeting of American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), 17-19 November 2006, Nashville, Tennessee.

9. "A preliminary linguistic study of humour in post-WWII Cantonese operas: Glimpses from audio- and video-recordings, films, and karaoke" and "Explorations in technology and learner-centered teaching of Chinese linguistics courses." Invited speaker. 12-13 October 2006. Linguistics Colloquium Series, Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

10. "The Chinese Language." Guest lecture for Linguistics 170 (The Basics of Learning a Language), taught by Dr. Julie McGory, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University. 5 October 2006, 191 Mendenhall Laboratory, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

11. Panel 1: Linguistics. Discussant and Moderator. 2003 Midwest Conference on Asian History and Culture (MCAHC). The Ohio State University, 16-17 May 2003.

12. "Chinese concordancing." Presentater and hands-on-instructions at Workshop Three: Concordancing and Text Analysis. 11-13 April 2003. Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.

13. "Cantonese syllable onsets and the mid-18th century Sino-Portuguese glossary in the Aomen Jilue's (Records of Macao)." Presentation for the Language Relatedness Group. 20 March 2002. 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. 209 Central Classroom Building, OSU.

14. "Preliminary report of research on Cantonese sentence-final particles and pragmatics of intonational meaning." Co-presented with Prof. Mary Beckman and grad student Peggy Wong (Dept. of Linguistics), at the 5 November 1998 Pragmaticats (weekly) meeting. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Phonetics Lab, Oxley Hall).

15. "Sentence-final particles in Cantonese: The case of je and jek as gender-marked Speech." OSU Linguistics Speakers Series: Spring 1997, Department of Linguistics. (See abstract.) 18 April 18 1997.

16. "On sound symbolism and the Chinese language." Hosted by the The Yuen Ren Society, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 9 January 1997.

17. "Word lists and online dictionaries." Topic chosen for invited presentation and discussion at the Chinese Online Reading Assistant Project. U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Project Director: Professor Chin-chuan Cheng; under the auspices of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). 12-13 October 1996.

18. "On issues in Chinese phonetics and phonology." Lecture series at the Summer Institute on Modern Linguistics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, third week of the Institute (22-26 July 1996).

19. "On some sound symbolic phenomena in the Chinese language." People's University, Beijing, China. 17 July 1996.

20. "Sound symbolism and the Chinese language." National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. 21 June 1996.

21. "The non-correlation of post-oralization and vowel height: Evidence from Chinese dialects." Chinese Linguistics Forum. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. 30 April 1988.

22. "On the post-denasalization in languages without an oral/nasal vowel contrast." Linguistics Colloquium, Ohio State University. 16 November 1987.

23. "Post-stopped nasals in Chinese." University of California, Berkeley, California. 10 September 1987.

24. "Tone and melody interaction: A study of six modern Cantonese songs." California State University, Fresno, California. 16 April 1987.

25. "Tone and melody interaction: A study of six modern Cantonese songs." Ohio State University. 5 March 1987.

26. "On the interaction between tone and vowel quality." and "Fuzhou tones: historical development and synchronic ramifications." Cornell U., Ithaca, New York. March 1986.

27. "Chinese dialects in America." Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. November 1986. Los Angeles, California.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP/FORUM ORGANIZER OR ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBER, ETC. (2010- )

• The 19th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-19), 11-13 June 2011. Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Member of the IACL-19 Academic Advisory Committee. Conference website: IACL-19.

• ICS Graduate Forum: New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics Research. 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., 20 May 2011, The Ohio State University. 388 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH. Organizer of the inaugural event of the new ICS Graduate Forum series, as part of this year's Work of Culture series hosted by the Institute for Chinese Studies (East Asian Studies Center, OSU). Co-sponsored by the Graduate Association of Chinese Linguistics (GACL).
• The 6th International Conference and Workshops on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21st Century (TCLT6) - 第六届 国际汉语电脑教学研讨会. Organized by the TCLT Committee and sponsored by Hamilton College and The Ohio State University. 12-14 June 2010, The Columbus Renaissance Hotel and Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Member of the TCLT6 Organizing Committee and one of the program panel chairs (plus serving as a last-minute substitute in chairing a second panel). [TCLT6 Program (pdf)]

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