The Faculty of Humanities, in collaboration with the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies and the Department of English and Communication, organised the International Symposium on Language Sciences (ISLS): Interdisciplinary Research and the Legacy of Yuen Ren Chao from 10 May to 11 May 2024. The Symposium attracted about 180 participants from 14 countries and regions, including Hong Kong, India, Japan, Macau, Mainland China, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Netherlands, the Philippines, the UK, and the USA. Renowned scholars (in alphabetical order of surname) Prof. Cui Xiliang (Beijing Language and Culture University), Prof. Luke Kang Kwong Kapathy (Nanyang Technological University), Prof. Sun Chaofen (Stanford University) and Prof. Ovid Jyh-Lang Tzeng (Academia Sinica) were invited as keynote speakers. The Symposium featured nearly 20 panels of parallel presentations and poster sessions, as well as six invited presentations covering a wide range of topics in language sciences. Paying tribute to the remarkable contributions of Prof. Yuen Ren Chao, there was also a session dedicated to discussing Prof. Chao’s contribution to linguistics and language sciences. The two 2024 Chao Prize Laureates, Prof. Peter Hagoort and Prof. William Shiyuan Wang gave their Chao Prize Lectures at the Symposium. The Symposium not only fostered the exploration of novel concepts and the sharing of research findings in the fields of linguistics and language sciences, but also inspired future generations of linguists and language science researchers to continue advancing these fields. Prior to the Symposium, a related Young Scholar Forum on Language Neuroscience was also held by the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies.
