CHILL!
Chinese Linguistics in Leiden
Program for Fall 2017
All welcome!
All lectures Wednesdays 15:15-16:30, Wijkplaats 4 /005, unless indicated otherwise
All lectures in English, unless indicated otherwise
27 September 2017
Liu Zenghui (Utrecht): “The development of prosodic focus-marking in early bilinguals’ L2: A study of the Mandarin of Bai-Mandarin bilingual children”
abstract This presentation reports about investigations into the developmental trajectory of prosodic focus-marking in Mandarin produced by Bai-Mandarin bilingual children (age 6-13 yoa), in comparison with that of monolingual Mandarin speaking peers. The research concerns Subject-Verb-Object sentences, which were elicited with varied focus conditions in a semi-spontaneous setting. The results show similarities and differences in the acquisition rate and route in Bai-Mandarin early bilingual children’s L2 and that in monolingual Mandarin-speaking peers’ L1.
28 September 2017
Two PhD defenses in Chinese linguistics (Senaatskamer, Academy building):
10:00 Zou Ting will be defending her dissertation, entitled: “Production and perception of tones by Dutch learners of Mandarin”
13:45 lu Man will be defending her dissertation, entitled: “The morpho-syntax of aspect in Xiāng Chinese”
11 October 2017
Lin Jing (Leiden): “Do speakers really benefit from linguistic markedness in hypothetical reasoning?”
1 November 2017
Joren Pronk (Leiden): “A corpus-based description of kong2 in Taiwanese Southern Mǐn”
23 November 2017 [Thursday!! Location: to be announced]
Rint Sybesma (Leiden): “VO-OV and Voice and little v”
29 November 2017
Liu Min (Leiden): “Processing of tone and intonation in Mandarin”
6 December 2017
Hu Han (Leiden) (title to be announced)
If you have questions, comments, suggestions: write to r.p.e.sybesma@hum.leidenuniv.nl