2024.11.28

Professor Thomas Hun-tak Lee (Director, Office of University General Education) gave a guest lecture on "Critical thinking and the challenges of AI: Some thoughts from an acquisition researcher".

For details, please see: Download the PDF.

2024.09.01

Professor Pan Haihua (Lab Director) gave a guest lecture at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

For details, please see: 香港中文大學潘海華講席教授專題講座順利舉行.

2024.05.20

Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition

The Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition intends to promote the theoretical study of language and empirical work on language acquisition, with a focus on the languages of East Asia. The two-day event, to be held on June 20-21, 2024 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, includes 14 invited talks to be delivered by fifteen scholars from China (Mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan), Japan, The United Kingdom, and The United States of America.

For details, please see: Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition 2024.

2023.12.01

Linguistic Seminar on “Understanding Early Child Grammar” by Professor Rushen Shi (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Professor Rushen Shi of Université du Québec à Montréal will deliver a linguistics seminar on December 12, 2023. Details are as follows:

Date: 12 December 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Venue: Room 206, Lee Shau Kee Building (LSK206), CUHK

Abstract:

Functional categories are a crucial part of the grammar. These items are missing in children’s early speech, which is dominated by lexical words. This telegraphic characteristic led to the conventional view that grammatical knowledge is absent during the initial years of life, and that children learn functional items late with the help of their knowledge of lexical words. In this talk Professor Rushen Shi will argue for a contrasting account of grammatical acquisition: the prosody-functor bootstrapping model. She will present experimental studies demonstrating that infants begins to acquire functional items and use them to break into early grammar from the first year of life. Her discussion will also concern the power and limit of distributional learning in language acquisition.

About the speaker:

Rushen Shi received her PhD in linguistics from Brown University, USA. She was then awarded the prestigious Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and did her postdoc research in psychology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Subsequently, she was a professor in the School of Audiology & Speech Sciences at UBC. She is now a professor in the Psychology Department and the Institut des Sciences Cognitives at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She is the director of the Groupe de Recherche sur le Langage (Language Research Group; http://www.gr.uqam.ca).

Professor Shi’s research program focuses on early child language, especially the acquisition mechanisms and representations in infants from birth to 2-3 years of age. Based on her research contributions, she won a major award from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI). She has continuously received grants from the Canadian government, including the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

The 2023 Great Bay Area International Symposium on Semantics

2023大灣區語義學國際學術研討會

2023.11.03

The 2023 Great Bay Area International Symposium on Semantics, to be held on November 25-26, 2023 at Shenzhen University, includes invited talks to be delivered by eleven scholars from China (Mainland, Hong Kong) and The United Kingdom.

The Second International Symposium on Formal Approaches to Meaning in Chinese 2023

第二屆漢語形式語義研究國際研討會

2023.05.29

《第二屆漢語形式語義研究國際研討會》是漢語學界強調使用邏輯工具（一階邏輯first-order logic，布爾代數Boolean algebra，格理論lattice theory等） 來分析各種漢語語義現象的國際會議。研討會將為漢語語義研究學者提供一個分享漢語形式語義學最新研究成果的平台，從而（i）批判性地評估當前的 形式語義學理論假設和現有分析框架，（ii）發現現有文獻關於漢語語言學理論分析的局限和不足，以期（iii）提出新的分析和理論，這將進一步推動 形式語義學在中國的理論發展。研討會將涵蓋漢語形式語義學的重要研究課題，包括（但不限於）漢語名詞短語的語義、疑問代詞的語義、內涵性和索引性、 信息結構（主題和焦點表達）、條件句和漢語否定語義表達。

The Initiation Meeting of the Major Project of National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC)

2022年度國家社科基金重大項目開題報告會

2023.05.26

The Initiation Meeting of the Major Project of National Social Science Fund of China will be held on June 20, 2023 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

2022

The 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28)

2022.04.20

The International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) holds an Annual Conference on Chinese linguistics at various institutions in Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia since its establishment in 1992. The event serves as an important occasion for scholars and researchers working on Chinese linguistics across the globe to present original, unpublished research work in all subfields of linguistics on any variety of the Chinese languages or other languages of China.

Due to the pandemic, the 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28), originally planned to be hosted by Zhejiang University in 2020 and held in Hangzhou, has not taken place as scheduled. Subsequently, the Executive Committee of IACL decided that the dates of the 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28) will be moved to May 20-22, 2022, the event to be hosted by The Chinese University of Hong Kong. As the pandemic situation in Hong Kong remains severe, IACL-28 will take place in a completely online manner via Zoom.

February 20, 2017

The First International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-1)

The First International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-1) will be held March 10-12, 2017 at CUHK, jointly organized by the Language Acquisition Laboratory and the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages.

The theme of the ICTEAP-1 centers on language acquisition and the theory of parameters, with Professors Stephen Crain, Maria Teresa Guasti, and Ken Wexler as keynote speakers, and Professors Donna Lardiere and William Snyder as invited speakers for the theme.

Details can be browsed at the conference website: https://cuhk-lal.wixsite.com/icteap1

January 15, 2017

「香港粵語四字格語料庫」：

本語料庫收集了近400個香港粵語四字格成語，透過文字和聲音記錄由本地居民提供的詞條解釋和語用例子。

詳見： http://hkcc.livac.org/intro.php?lang=tc

"The Cantonese 4-syllabic Idiomatic Expressions (QIEs) database":

This database contains about 400 entries of selected Cantonese QIEs with explanations and voice-recorded examples provided by local residents of Hong Kong.

For details, please visit: http://hkcc.livac.org/intro.php?lang=tc