Past Events

Dialogue @ RCLCN - The Evolution of Human Beings and Language

[Dialogue @ RCLCN] The Evolution of Human Beings and Language Talk 1: The Evolution of Brain and Cognition Keynote Speaker: Prof. P. Thomas Schoenemann Talk 2: Vowel Emergence Based on Vocal Tract Evolution Keynote Speaker: Prof. KONG Jiangping Discussant: Prof. William S-Y. WANG (Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Context and POS in action: A comparative study of Chinese homonym disambiguation in human and language models

Context and POS in action: A comparative study of Chinese homonym disambiguation in human and language models Speaker: Dr. Xie Chenwei (Research Associate Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Date: 7 November 2025 (Saturday) Time: 10:30 - 12:00

A delegation from the Institute of Linguistics, CASS (中国社会科学院语言研究所)

A delegation from the Institute of Linguistics, CASS (中国社会科学院语言研究所) Date: 11 June 2025 (Wednesday) Time: 14:30 - 16:00 (Hong Kong time (GMT +8)) Venue: HHB502 (Round-table casual discussion), PolyU

The impact of L2 proficiency on the time course of morphological activation: an incremental primed lexical decision study

The impact of L2 proficiency on the time course of morphological activation: an incremental primed lexical decision study Speaker: Miss HU Longyun (PhD Student Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Distinguishing Cerebellum Violation and Automatic Processing in Artificial Language Learning

Distinguishing Cerebellum Violation and Automatic Processing in Artificial Language Learning Speaker: Miss LIU Zhuoya (PhD Student Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Date: 7 June 2025 (Saturday) Time: 11:30 - 12:00, 15:30-16:30 Venue: Poster Session at UBSN Conference 2025, Room Z208, Block Z, PolyU HK

Distinguishing Cerebellum Violation and Automatic Processing in Artificial Language Learning

Human vs. LLM Chinese Homonym Disambiguation: Contextual, Syntactic, and Developmental Influences Across the Lifespan Speaker: Dr XIE Chenwei (Research Associate Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Date: 29 May 2025 (Thursday)

Variation in real-time lexical tone processing: A psycholinguistic perspective

Variation in real-time lexical tone processing: A psycholinguistic perspective Speaker: Dr ZHANG Caicai (Associate Professor Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Abstract: Variation is ubiquitous in human speech. A speech sound has different acoustic realizations when produced by different speakers or surrounded by different speech sounds, posing a challenge for fast and consistent speech perception in the listener’s brain. Beyond acoustic variation, there are systematic phonological alternations, where the context-specific phonological form must be selected in a super-fast manner prior to articulation in the speaker’s mind. However, how variation is accommodated in speech perception or planned in

Joint Postgraduate Student Symposium on Language, Culture and Cognition (JPSS2025)

Joint Postgraduate Student Symposium on Language, Culture and Cognition (JPSS2025) Speaker: Mr Wang Wenbo & Miss Hu Longyun (PhD Student Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Overview: The Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University is pleased to announce the Joint Postgraduate Student Symposium on Language, Culture and Cognition (JPSS2025). The symposium provides an inter-institutional forum for postgraduate research students from the Asia Pacific Region and beyond to present their research, exchange ideas, and share

ISBI 2025 - The influence of handedness on white matter microstructure: Investigation of quantitative anisotropy based on the Human Connectome Project

[ISBI 2025] The influence of handedness on white matter microstructure: Investigation of quantitative anisotropy based on the Human Connectome Project Speaker: Miss NG Sheung Wa Xavreila (Research Assistant Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Date: 17 April 2025 (Thursday) Time: 13:30 - 14:30 (Houston, Texas, United States time (UTC -5))

ISBI 2025 - Predicting intelligence profile and brain age with single- and dual-channel CNNs: a study based on Human Connectome Projects

[ISBI 2025] Predicting intelligence profile and brain age with single- and dual-channel CNNs: a study based on Human Connectome Projects Speaker: Dr FONG Cheuk Man Manson (Research Assistant Professor Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Date: 16 April 2025 (Thursday)