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, "Phonetic accommodation and phonetic drift in early sequential bilinguals" (CityU)
• 4 March: Xiaoyu Rayne YU, "Learning sound correspondences during second dialect acquisition" (HKU)
• 18 March: Andus WONG, "Phonological planning in Cantonese-English bilingual speech production" (CityU)
• 25 March (in LI-4409): Niels O. SCHILLER, "Title TBA" (CityU)
• 1 April: Yitian HONG (CUHK)
• 15 April: Yi ZHANG (CityU)
• 29 April: Weijun ZHANG (CUHK)