ICS Conference: 3rd Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-3)

The Ohio State University Institute for Chinese Studies presents the 3rd Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics.

The 3rd Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-3) will take place on March 12 and 13, 2016, at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. WICL-3 focuses on new advances in Cantonese Linguistics, including innovations in methodologies, tools, and/or computing software. Topics include new approaches and research on language variation within the Cantonese (or “Yue”) subgroup of the Chinese language family, language contact phenomena, etc.

Please see our call for papers page for information on abstract submission. The conference organizing committee is considering a teleconferencing presentation session. Scholars with difficulties in travelling to the conference are encouraged to submit an abstract.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

• Professor Stephen Matthews
  Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR)
• Professor Valter Ciocca
  School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)

Organizing committee:

Faculty chair:
Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan - Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, OSU

Graduate student chairs:
Litong Chen - Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, OSU
Yutian Tan - Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, OSU

Organizing committee members:
Professor Zhiguo Xie - Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, OSU
Qian Wang - Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, OSU
Yuhan Lin - Department of Linguistics, OSU
Tsz-Him Tsui - Department of Linguistics, OSU

WICL-3 is supported by the following OSU sponsors:

East Asian Studies Center
Institute for Chinese Studies
Graduate Association of Chinese Linguistics (GACL)

OSU co-sponsors:
Department of Linguistics
Department of Speech and Hearing Science
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

…. more to be added …

This event is sponsored in part by the Jerome G. Dare Fund and a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant for The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.Center.