Events

🔥 The 19th Linguistics Salon Is Here! 🔥📍 2026 Linguistics Salon: Language as a Multifaceted Prism – Perspectives on Mind, Sound, and Society 📍 The theme of this year’s salon, “Language as a Multifaceted Prism: Perspectives on Mind, Sound, and Society,” centers on linguistics and explores how language shapes thought, how sound is perceived and interpreted, and how language reflects interaction and meaning in society.From cognition and phonetics to fieldwork and digital media, the salon offers a series of inspiring talks. We are honored to invite the following distinguished speakers […]

Title： Sibilant systems in contact: Language variation among Cantonese-English bilinguals in Hong Kong Speaker：Dr. Jonathan Havenhill (The University of Hong Kong) Time：9/12(Fri.) 12:10 – 13:10 Place：人社二館207教室 Abstract: In this talk, I present new articulatory and acoustic data addressing language acquisition, contact, and change among Cantonese-English bilinguals in Hong Kong. The focus is on the production of the Cantonese sibilants /s, ts, tsʰ/ and the English sibilants /s, ʃ, tʃ, dʒ/. Descriptive work has suggested that Cantonese /s, ts, tsʰ/ exhibit vowel-conditioned and interspeaker variability, with experimental studies finding gradient rather than categorical […]

Title：“What it means to ‘uptalk’ in Hong Kong English” Speaker：Dr. Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Time：10/03(Fri.) 12:00 – 13:00 Venue：人社二館207教室 Registration: https://forms.gle/J9mwmg6UBxZEd9Le8 Abstract: Research primarily in Western contexts shows that High Rising Terminals (HRTs) or “uptalk” conveys various social meanings beyond its “essentialized” feminine meanings (Lakoff 1973), such as politeness and casualness, and can signal solidarity or construct social personas (Britain 1992; Kiesling 2005). Despite this understanding, studies on uptalk’s meanings in non-Western contexts like Hong Kong are scarce,  with existing research suggesting that rising tones might […]

Title: Multidimensional Merging Mechanism and Labeling Algorithm under the Simplest SchemeSpeaker: Professor Pan Junnan (PAN Victor Junnan), Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong KongDate & Time: May 23 (Fri), 1:00 PM – 2:30 PMLocation: Online Lecture

Title：“Tonal Frontiers: Reconciling descriptive linguistic fieldwork with modern computational analyses” Speaker：Dr. Kellen Parker van Dam (Universität Passau, DE) Time：5/29(Thu.) 10:00 – 12:00 Place：HB 207教室 Dear friends and colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming talk of the NYCU Phon Brown Bag Series: 5/29 10am-12pm Dr. Kellen Parker van Dam (Universität Passau, DE) “Tonal Frontiers: Reconciling descriptive linguistic fieldwork with modern computational analyses” Abstract: A considerable amount of work has been conducted in recent years relying on large data corpora for the purposes of answering some of the unknowns in linguistics. […]

Title：“When Experimental Results go beyond Corpus Trend Extrapolation: Russian Homophony Avodiace” Speaker：Dr. Andrei Munteanu (McGill University, Canada) Time：6/10(Tue.) 10:00 – 12:00 Place：人社二館207教室 Dear friends and colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming talk of the NYCU Phon Brown Bag Series: 6/10 10:00am-12:00pm  Dr. Andrei Munteanu (McGill University, Canada) “When Experimental Results go beyond Corpus Trend Extrapolation: Russian Homophony Avodiace” Registration link: https://forms.gle/SapUbUS5kH75T4e5AAbstract: I argue for the importance of experimental evidence in phonology through a case study of homophony avoidance in Russian nominals. Corpus data shows that, while the genitive singular morpheme […]

Title: The Material Voice of Late-Medieval Envoys
Time: 10/17 (Tue.) 15:30-17:00
Location: The conference will be held online.

Title: Medieval Horror, Epistemic Fear, and the Cloud of Unknowing

Time: 9/27 (Wed.) 15:00

Venue: HC402

Friday, Oct. 14, 2022
Room 201, HC Building,
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Time: 5/25 (Wed) 13:30-15:00