CIEL-14 Programme at Glance
03 August 2023 (Thursday)			04 August 2023 (Friday)		05 August 2023 (Saturday)
Time		Session	Time	Session	Time	Session
08:30-08:50		Opening Ceremony
08:50-09:40		Keynote 1	08:30-09:20	Keynote 3	08:30-09:20	Keynote 5
09:40-10:30		Keynote 2	09:20-10:10	Keynote 4	09:20-10:10	Keynote 6
10:30-10:50		Tea Break	10:10-10:30	Tea Break	10:10-10:30	Tea Break
10:50-11:00		Group Photo
11:00-12:40		Invited Session 1 (4 talks)	10:30-12:35	Invited Session 2 (5 talks)	10:30-12:35	Invited Session 3 (5 talks)
12:40-14:00		Lunch Break	12:40-14:00	Lunch Break	12:40-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-15:45		Oral Session 1 (7 talks)	14:00-15:45	Oral Session 3 (7 talks)	14:00-16:00	Oral Session 4 (8 talks)
					16:00-16:20	Closing Ceremony
15:45-16:00		Tea Break	15:45-16:00	Tea Break
16:00-17:45		Oral Session 2 (7 talks)	15:45-17:15	Poster Session
			17:30-21:00	Conference Banquet
The venues: Senate Room (M1603, Li Ka Shing Tower 李嘉诚楼located at the centre of PolyU campus) for all conference sessions A solemn reminder: No food or drink is allowed in the Senate Room Reception Area (M1607, just outside of M1603) for all tea breaks, and the distribution of lunchbox meals QR504 and QR513 for eating lunch (tables and chairs are provided)

Please note that the program is subject to change.

Only presenting authors are shown. For full list please click on the titles to see the abstracts.

3 August 2023 (Thursday) – Day 1 (morning sessions)

Time	Session	Speaker	Title	Chair
08:30-08:50	Opening Ceremony	Ping LI (Dean of FH)	Welcome Message	Min Ney WONG
		Wai Ting SIOK (Head of CBS)	Welcome Speech
		Gang PENG (Chair of CIEL-14)	General Logistics
08:50–10:30	Keynote Session 1	William Shiyuan WANG	Cognitive Neuroscience as a Fourth Window on Language Evolution	Zhongwei SHEN
		Salikoko MUFWENE	Language Vitality: Understudied in Evolutionary Linguistics
10:30-10:50	Tea Break
10:50-11:00	Group Photo
11:00-12:40	Session	Speaker	Title	Chair
	Invited Session 1	Zhongwei SHEN	Understanding the Qieyun Rhymes	Qibin RAN
		Ik-sang EOM	Some Linguistic Questions on Genetic and Phylogenetic Studies of East Asian Languages
		Feng WANG	Tea in Hmong-Mien Languages and the Language Ecology
		Fei CHEN	Phonetic Realizations of Metrical Structure in Tone Languages: Evidence from Chinese Dialects
12:40-14:00	Lunch Break (Lunch box will be provided)

3 August 2023 (Thursday) – Day 1 (afternoon sessions)

Time	Session	Speaker	Title	Chair
14:00-15:45	Oral Session 1	Jinfang SHI	When Congruency Meets Metaphor: Does Congruency Processing Facilitation for L2 Learners Extend to Metaphoric Collocations?	Roza HUI
		Rosy Yicheng RONG	The Development of Lexical Tone Normalization Lags behind: Evidence from Hong Kong Cantonese-speaking Children
		Manson FONG	Contributions of Corticostriatal and Corticocerebellar Loops to Language—from Speculation to Hypothesis
		Kaile ZHANG	The Advantage of Music Training in Accommodating Speech Variabilities
		Matthew King-Hang MA	Six-year Longitudinal Changes of EEG Spectral Characteristics of a Healthy Older Individual
		Szeching SIN	A Perceptual Study on Unreleased Stop Codas in Cantonese: Duration and Transition
		Ian JOO	The syllable in Spoken, Sign, Written, and Visual Languages
15:45-16:00	Tea Break
16:00-17:45	Oral Session 2	Speaker	Title	Chair
		Juan LIU	调型变异与声调循环演变假说 — 基于山东方言降升调变异实验结果的讨论	In Fat LO
		Yao LI	“者”从名词化标记到类词缀的历史演变——兼从“词汇化”与“日语汉字词”两个视角考察
		Nankai WU	汉语方言同音字汇的计量比较模型
		Yao YAO	音乐经验对汉语学龄前儿童语音范畴感知的影响：一项纵向研究
		Quansheng XIA	The Grammatical Class of Verbs That Function as the Heads of ‘N+V’ Noun Phrases in Mandarin: Behavioral and ERP Evidence
		Yao LU	A Cross-Language Perceptual Study on Mandarin Tones by Ethnic Speakers in China
		Jie YANG	A Quantitative Study of the Broadcasting Keynote Based on Physiological and Acoustic Features

4 August 2023 (Friday) – Day 2 (morning sessions)

Time	Session	Speaker	Title	Chair
08:30 – 10:10	Keynote Session 2	Lihai TAN	Neural Bases of Language: A Comparative study of Chinese and English	Fei CHEN
		Ping LI	Digital Language Learning (DLL): Technology, Data, and the Brain
10:10-10:30	Tea Break
10:30-12:35	Session	Speaker	Title	Chair
	Invited Session 2	Menghan ZHANG	Tonogenesis as a Complementary Mechanism in the Structural Evolution of Sino-Tibetan Languages	Feng WANG
		Jun GAO	Phonological Representation and Phonetic Realization of Two Consecutive Neutral Tones in Mandarin-Speaking Children
		Jiangping KONG	論音位系統和注音系統：以漢語為例
		Xiujuan SHI	普通话鼻音韵尾动态变化的影响因素再分析
		Qibin RAN	气候因素对语言演化形成的影响——以湿度与声调、温度与响度为例
12:35-14:00	Lunch Break (Lunch box will be provided)

4 August 2023 (Friday) – Day 2 (afternoon sessions)

Time	Session	Speaker	Title	Chair
14:00-15:45	Oral Session 3	Coupe CHRISTOPHE	What Does Recent Progress in Neural Language Modeling Suggest about the Evolution of Language?	Matthew King Hang MA
		Min Ney WONG	Reading and Listening Comprehension in Cantonese Speakers with Right Hemisphere Damage
		Xunan HUANG	How COVID-19 Affects Child Language Development, Gross and Fine Motor Skills, Adaptive Development, and Social Skills
		Chigchi BAI	An Ergativity-Driven Change of Adjectival Past Participles in the History of English
		Ran TAO	Neural Representation of Lexical Tones in Cantonese
		In Fat LO	方言詈詞中出現的“音節首對轉”研究
		Jingfen ZHANG	韵律视角下佛山九江方言形容词的重叠规律
15:45-16:00	Tea Break
15:45-17:15	Poster Session	List of presenters and titles is attached as an Appendix		Ran TAO, Kaile ZHANG (Chairs)
17:30-21:30	Conference Banquet (Ju Yin House Seafood Restaurant (聚贤楼) on campus) Address: 4/F, Communal Building of PolyU (香港理工大学文康楼4楼)

5 August 2023 (Saturday) – Day 3 (morning sessions)

Time	Session	Speaker	Title	Chair
08:30 – 10:10	Keynote Session 3	Nicholas EVANS	Catching 7000 Arrows in Flight: How Fragile Linguistic Diversity Informs the Study of Language Evolution	William Shiyuan WANG
		David BRADLEY	Contact, Climate Change and the Dispersal of Proto-Sino-Tibetan
10:10-10:30	Tea Break
10:30-12:35	Session	Speaker	Title	Chair
	Invited Session 3	Jie XU	语言特区对语言规则的突破及其限度	Chenwei XIE
		Shengli FENG	韵律语体语法的生物原理
		Atsok YESHE VODSAL	从轻声、变调到诗歌格律：统一的音系学解释的可能
		Feng SHI	从赵元任连续性方法论到王士元词汇扩散原理
		Nan YAN	脑卒中后构音障碍的脑网络连接-行为-声学之间的关联性分析：以小脑和基底节环路损伤为例
12:35-14:00	Lunch Break (Lunch box will be provided)

5 August 2023 (Saturday) – Day 3 (afternoon sessions)

Time	Session	Speaker	Title	Chair
14:00-15:45	Oral Session 4	Yanmei SHAO	沂南方言齿间塞擦音的演变与形成	Manson FONG
		Dan YUAN	Fundamental Frequency Splits in Qidong Xiang Chinese
		Shihan FENG	The Multi-functionality and Grammatical Evolution of the “DO” Verbs in Pingwu Baima Language
		Chenwei XIE	Aging Effects on the Language Abilities of the Oldest Old
		Yi WENG	The Development of Audiovisual Speech Perception is Subject to Cultural Background: Evidence from Cantonese-speaking Children
		Yanyuan YE	Tonal Initial Curvature Affects Fine-grained Lexical Tone Perception of Mandarin but not Cantonese
		Chen KUANG	Unveiling Acoustic Markers of Cognitive Decline: Automatic Detection of Putative Mild Cognitive Impairment from Speech in Mandarin-Speaking Elders
15:45-16:15	Closing Ceremony	Speaker	Title	Chair
		Gang PENG	Closing Remarks	Rosy Yicheng RONG
		Fei CHEN	Invitation to the next CIEL-15

Appendix: List of poster presenters and titles

Presenter	Title
Shanshan CHENG	Which Comes First, Noun Classifiers or Numeral Classifiers?——The Typological Status and Evolutionary Direction of Classifiers in Bai Language
Jiao DU	The Comprehension of Passives in Mandarin-speaking Children with DLD and Children with HFA-LI
Jia GOU	Dialect Formation and Evolution: A Comprehensive Review
Xi HUANG	A Mirative Conditional Developing in Nanning Mandarin: A Case Study of a New-born Language
Yongqing LI	Semantic Plausibility is a Determinant Element of the Semantic P600: An ERP Evidence from the Inverted resultative Construction in Chinese
Jiayu LIANG	Music Experience Enhances Categorical Perception of English Vowels in Mandarin Speakers
Weizhe QIU	Comprehension of Ditransitive Constructions in Mandarin-speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder
Yuqin SHU	The Influence of Native Tonal Background on The Categorical Perception and Word Recognition of Lexical Tones in Chinese as L2
Shijing ZHANG	The Role of Creative Imitation in L2 Learning
Min ZHU	Effects of Musicality and Executive Function on Speech Auditory-Motor Synchronization in Mandarin-Speaking Individuals
Tianyi ZHU	A Corpus-based Study of Conceptual Metaphors on “Warm” and “Cold” from a Perspective of Cognitive Semantics
Yumei ZHU	Diachronic Genre-Based Investigation into Rhetorical Categories and Linguistic Resources in the Discussion Sections of Communication Research Articles
Kunming CAI	再议早期粤语中文献中的变调现象
Shuangying CHEN	庐江方言助词“之”
Ziru CHEN	瑞安方言韵母合并的产出研究
Runyu DING	普通话阴平、上声强调焦点的音高感知研究
Juan JIANG	类型学视野下汉语否定词的“否定-存现循环”演化研究
Xuan KANG	语素之间的“组合概率”影响词汇加工——一项对NN、VN和AN偏正式复合名词的对比研究
Bingqing LIU	古漢語“也”的隱沒與消亡——以出土秦楚文獻材料為例
Wumin MAO	基于音高线索的普通话阳平、去声强调焦点感知研究
Jing QI	基于字词计量的汉语语言使用能力探究
Yaqin WANG	过去8000年以来阿尔泰地区诸语言演化与人群迁徙照应关系

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