Check out my LSA proceedings paper on Malaysian English!
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Ping Hei Yeung 楊秉羲
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Ping Hei Yeung 楊秉羲
@pinghei
語言學研究生 Linguistics PhD student @Georgetown
Washington, DC Katılım Temmuz 2021
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I updated my srt-to-praat Python script so you can now batch process all SRT files in a directory at once!
Check out my GitHub page: github.com/yeungpinghei/s…
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Follow this tutorial if you’re a linguist and you want to save yourself from hours of manual transcription! Click the link below to learn more about using automatic speech recognition to transcribe linguistic data.
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Check out my new Python script that helps you convert .srt subtitle files to Praat .TextGrid files! More information on my GitHub page:
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Many of us are having bugs with the latest version of Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA) and we can't get it running. Does anyone of you have similar issues? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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@thocpodcast Well Cantonese is definitely at risk in most of Cantonese-speaking areas in Guangdong. Many kids stopped speaking it and speak Mandarin only. I was in 廣州南站 and almost none of the staff could speak Cantonese. If that doesn’t count as at risk I don’t know what counts.
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Of all the Chinese topolects outside of Mandarin, Cantonese is definitely the least at-risk.
Also, all HK public announcements are tri-lingual - Mandarin, English, Cantonese.
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@csundita I think 啲 and 些 function a bit differently. In Cantonese you can say 啲書 but in Mandarin 些書 is ungrammatical. Like Mandarin 一些書, you can say 一啲書 in Cantonese for “some books”, but it has a different meaning from 啲書 “the books”.
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@pinghei I've studied more Mandarin and a little of Cantonese. Isn't 啲 like Mandarin 些 in this case? I also am aware of 啲 having a sort of specifier function
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I love the classifier 啲 di1 in Cantonese. It can mean plural like 啲書 The books but you also use it for uncountable nouns like 啲水 the water 啲火 the fire. I don’t think there’s any equivalent in Mandarin.
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I also love how the grammar of classifiers of Cantonese works very differently from Mandarin! 我本書 my book 本書好有趣 The book is interesting I'd like to think of the latter as akin to a definite article, but Wu/Bodomo (2009) argue that it's not...
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I presented my new project at #NWAV51 which is about incorporating theories of both SLA and World Englishes in the study of Outer Circle English varieties like Hong Kong English. Thank you all for your valuable feedback!
yeungpinghei.com/2023/10/16/pos…
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ok question for grad students out there: how do y’all have time to teach, read for classes, read for research, collect data, complete program milestones, attend dept working groups/talks AND be a human/friend/pet parent/partner, go to the gym, make good food, go on long walks ??
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Not gonna QT earlier posts that started the controversy. Thread. Also, we native speakers don't learn classical/modern CH. We just learn Chinese. We learn bits of wenyan starting at age 6, Tang poems & Confucian quotes. Wenyan also appears daily in "modern" usage. Can't divide
Lei Gong@gonglei89
Some thoughts on today’s uproar over Classic Chinese. 1) Classical Chinese comprehension in China varies in same way comprehension for Shakespeare or older English text varies with English speakers. This doesn’t mean Classical Chinese sounds like gibberish to native speakers.
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I'm thrilled to announce that this fall, I will join @NYCU_official as an assistant professor of phonetics ☺️. Thanks so much to everyone who have supported me in various ways throughout my job hunting journey! Super excited!!
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@jecondraysbak @ian_joo_korea @yeongdaehyong People can identify with more than one language at the same time…….
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@ian_joo_korea @yeongdaehyong @pinghei The social construction of language varieties go beyond ethnolinguistic identities. Are you really denying the existence of PH English because most Filipinos don’t consider it as a native language? English is the majority language in Singapore, but they have their own variety too
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Philippine English is real English. It is a variety of the English language that exists in the Philippines.
There is such a thing as World Englishes. “Standard” American and British Englishes are now adapting, albeit slowly, terms from other English varieties.
Dax@daxlucas
I don't know which Filipino needs to hear this but 'kidnap' does not refer specifically to abductions perpetrated on children ('kid'). As such, 'carnap' is a totally local invention. Not real English. 😜
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@ian_joo_korea @yeongdaehyong @jecondraysbak Hm in your opinion how would you characterise the speakers of English in the Philippines instead? Are they learners that failed to learn the correct meaning of the word ‘kidnap’?
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@ian_joo_korea @yeongdaehyong @jecondraysbak Not necessarily. By turning the coloniser’s language into their own, it can also be a form of rebellion against colonialism. It can be quite important for multiethnic post-colonial societies that lacked a unified language and national identity.
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