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Perception, recognition and encoding of Cantonese sound change variants. Linguistics Outside the Classroom Colloquium. University of British Columbia. March 31, 2023.
Language dominance and order of acquisition affects auditory translation priming in heritage speakers. Colloquium at UBC School of Audiology and Speech Sciences. February 9, 2022.
A Cantonese sound change in a Cantonese-English bilingual lexicon. New empirical contributions to Cantonese linguistics and language processing. February 28, 2021.
Does learning Chinese in Canada affect how you hear tones? Linguistics Outside the Classroom Colloquium. University of British Columbia. August 2, 2019.
Perception of Cantonese Tone. Toronto Language Tapestry: Exploring Heritage Languages. University of Toronto: April 28, 2017. (w/ P.J Monahan)
LexTALE_CT: An Auditory Vocabulary-Based Test for Speakers of Cantonese . 27th International Conference on Yue Dialects. November 30-December 1, 2023. (w/ M. Babel, V. Jiang, E. Huynh)
Perception, recognition, and encoding of Cantonese sound change variants. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague Congress Centre, Czech Republic. August 7-11, 2023. (w/ M. Babel)
Perception, recognition, and encoding of Cantonese sound change variants. Bilingualism and Multilingualism Conference. University of British Columbia Okanagan. May 14-16, 2023.
Perception, recognition, and encoding of Cantonese sound change variants. Language Sciences Graduate and Post-Doctoral Research Day. University of British Columbia. May 12, 2023.
The prioritization of consonants, vowels, and tone in Cantonese word recognition. 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Hyatt Regency Seattle, Washington. November 29-December 3, 2021. (w/ F. Fung & M. Babel)
Stimulus onset asynchrony effects on perceptual learning. 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Hyatt Regency Seattle, Washington. November 29-December 3, 2021. (w/ M. Babel)
Language dominance affects auditory translation priming in heritage speakers. 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Hyatt Regency Seattle, Washington. November 29-December 3, 2021. (w/ P.J. Monahan).
Cross-linguistic influence in spontaneous bilingual speech: Examining language dominance and usage patterns on the Cantonese n-l merger in Cantonese-English bilinguals. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV49). The University of Texas Austin. October 19-24, 2021. (w/ T. Lee, K.A. Johnson, & M. Babel)
Sound change in spontaneous bilingual speech: A corpus study on the Cantonese n-l merger in Cantonese-English bilinguals. Interspeech 2021. Brno, Czech Republic. August 30-September 3. (w/ K.A. Johnson & M. Babel)
A Cantonese sound change in a Cantonese-English bilingual lexicon. International Symposium on Bilingualism ISB13. July 9-14, 2021. (w/ M. Babel)
Dominance versus age of acquisition: Auditory translation priming in heritage Cantonese listeners. 33rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. June 24-25, 2021. Hosted virtually by the University of Chicago. (w/ P.J. Monahan)
A Cantonese sound change in a Cantonese-English bilingual lexicon. 37th Annual Northwest Linguistics Conference. May 14-16, 2021. (w/ M. Babel)
Towards an understanding of tone category variability in Cantonese. Acoustics Virtually Everywhere: 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. December 7-11, 2020. (w/ M. Babel)
Recognition & representation of Cantonese sound change variants in the lexicon. 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. November 19-22, 2020. (w/ M. Babel)
Recognition & representation of Cantonese sound change variants in the lexicon. Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL) 2022. Vancouver.
Lexical competition affects Cantonese tone mergers in word recognition. 17th Conference of the Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon17). University of British Columbia. July 6-8, 2020. (w/ M. Babel)
Lexical bias in second language sibilant perception: The role of language proficiency and phonotactic context. 17th Conference of the Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon17). University of British Columbia. July 6-8, 2020. (w/ P.J. Monahan)
A perceptual perspective on Cantonese tonal mergers-in-progress using lexical categorization. 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. The Hotel del Coronado, San Diego, California. December 2-6, 2019. (w/ M. Babel)
Cantonese “lazy consonant” phonological changes in progress: Evidence from word recognition in heritage and homeland speakers. Northwest Phon{etics;ology} Conference (NoWPhon). University of Calgary. September 21, 2019.
Cantonese “lazy consonant” phonological changes in progress: Evidence from word recognition in heritage & homeland speakers. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association. University of British Columbia. June 1-3, 2019.
Visual gender biases in English stop voicing perception. 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Victoria Conference Centre. November 6, 2018.
Lexical phonological representations of tone in Cantonese heritage and native speakers. Summer Phonology Forum 2018. University of Toronto. August 2, 2018.
Lexical phonological representations of tone in Cantonese heritage and native speakers. 16th Conference of the Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon16). Universidade de Lisboa. June 19-22, 2018.
Encoding lexical tone in memory: Resolving acquisition and perception asymmetries in Cantonese heritage speakers. 58th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Vancouver Convention Centre West. November 9-12, 2017.
Phonemic perception and lexical access: Evidence for speech factor levels in Cantonese heritage speakers. 2017 CRC-Sponsored Summer Phonology/Phonetics Workshop. University of Toronto. August 15, 2017. (w/ P.J. Monahan)
Language Exposure Modulates the Role of Tone in Perception and Long-Term Memory: Evidence from Cantonese Native and Heritage Speakers. 43rd Annual Berkeley Linguistics Society. University of California, Berkeley: February 3-5, 2017.
The effect of lexical stress on the phonetic realization of voicing contrast in Tagalog: Native and heritage comparison. 2015 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association. University of Ottawa: May 30 - June 1, 2015.