Multilingualism and language variation in Shanghai and Ningbo
(Standard) Language Ideology and Regional Putonghua in Chinese Social Media: A View from Weibo (open access; in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development): DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2020.1814310
'Variation in the Production and Perception of Regional Putonghua in Ningbo, China', 11th UK Language Variation and Change, London, UK, Sept 2019: poster (pdf)
'Language standards and attitudes in multilingual China: A case study of Ningbo', CALA, Siem Reap, Cambodia, Jan 2019: slides (pdf)
‘Attitudes towards Regional Putonghua in Ningbo and Shanghai’, In the Shadow of the Standard Workshop, Nottingham, UK, Sept 2018: slides (pdf)
PhD project: Social identity in Beijing
Final version of my thesis 'Language Variation and Social Identity in Beijing': here (pdf)
'Social Meaning, Style, and Language Variation in Beijing', New Ways of Analyzing Variation 46 (NWAV46), Madison, WI, USA, Nov 2017: slides (pdf)
'Stylistic Diversity and Language Variation in Beijing', 11th UK Language Variation and Change (UKLVC), Cardiff, UK, Aug 2017: poster (pdf)
'Gender, Mobility and Language Variation in Beijing', International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 9, Malaga, Spain, June 2017: slides (pdf)
'Social Meaning and Salience: Chinese Speakers’ Attitudes towards Beijing Mandarin Variation', Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Murcia, Spain, June 2016: slides (pdf)
'Sociolinguistic salience and social meaning: Beijingers' perception of variation in Beijing Mandarin', Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Processing, Blacksburg, VA, USA, Apr 2016: slides (pdf)
Ohio State University Institute for Chinese Studies talk: flyer (pdf); slides (pdf)
Perception of Neutral Tone variation
Zhao, H. (2019). Social meaning in the perception of neutral tone variation in Putonghua. Asia Pacific Language Variation, 4(2), 161-196. https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.18003.zha
'Social Meaning and Variation in Perception: Beijingers' Attitudes towards Beijing Mandarin', Language Standardization and Linguistic Variation in Asia from Sociolinguistic Perspectives, Ningbo, China, Dec 2017: slides (pdf)
'Rethinking the Standard: A language attitude survey on neutral tone variation in Modern Standard Chinese', Sociolinguistics Symposium 20, Jyvaskyla, Finland, June 2014: slides (pdf)
'Rethinking the standard: A language attitude survey on neutral tone variation in Modern Standard Chinese', International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse 3, London, UK, June 2014: slides (pdf)
'The changed and the unchanged: A language attitude survey on neutral tone variation in Modern Standard Chinese', NWAV Asia Pacific 3, Wellington, New Zealand, May 2014: slides (pdf)
'The changed and the unchanged: A language attitude survey on neutral tone variation in Modern Standard Chinese', CSLS Winter School on Language in Social Context, Kandersteg, Switzerland, Jan 2014: slides (pdf)
The media and the Paralympics
The representation of disabled athletes in the Chinese and UK press during Beijing 2008: A comparison (2013): article (pdf)
L1 Attrition and Bilingualism
A case of extreme phonetic attrition in the German rhotic. (2018). In Wright, C., E. Piske, T., Young-Scholten, M.& (Eds.) Mind Matters in SLA. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. (pdf available from QMOPAL: L1Attrition_2014)
ELAN Transcribing Workshop
I ran a workshop on the basics of using ELAN to transcribe linguistic data in 2015 and 2017, and the handout can be downloaded here: ELAN handout