2025-26 Semester B schedule

Here is the Semester B meeting schedule for the CityU Phorum. Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings take place on Wednesdays, 11am-12pm, in LI-5405 (Room 5405, 5/F, Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Academic Building on the CityU campus at 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong). If you are a non-CityU affiliate who would like to attend, please email Prof. Chang in advance to arrange visitor access to campus.

• 21 January (in LI-4409): Yao YAO (PolyU), "Gender biases shape artificial word learning even with robot‑like voices"
• 4 February: Yijing HE (CityU), "Prosodic effect on initial coronal nasal /n/ and post-nasal vowel nasalization in Beijing Mandarin"
• 11 February: Yannes HO (CityU), "Prosodic variations of Cantonese vowel acoustics and articulations"
• 25 February (in LI-4409): Charles B. CHANG (CityU), "Phonetic accommodation and phonetic drift in early sequential bilinguals"
• 4 March: Xiaoyu Rayne YU (HKU), "Learning sound correspondences during second dialect acquisition"
• 18 March: Andus WONG (CityU), "Phonological planning in Cantonese-English bilingual speech production"
• 25 March (in LI-4409): Niels O. SCHILLER (CityU), "The role of orthography in speech production"
• 1 April: Yitian HONG (CUHK), "Phonetic accommodation of Cantonese merging tones towards AI and human talkers"
• 15 April: Yi ZHANG (CityU), "A pilot study of the mental representation of Changsha Plastic Mandarin"
• 29 April: Weijun ZHANG (CUHK), "Interaction between tones and segments in sound change: Evidence from Wenzhou Wu Chinese"