| [2006 |[2005 | 2004] |
2006
| Date | Presenter | Title | Type | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Dec | Wong Ying Wai | Tone Categorization by SOM | Proposal | |
| Francis Wong | On Friedemann Pulvermüller and "motor theory" of speech perception |
Review | ||
| Susan Shuai | Opposite patterns of hemisphere dominance for early auditory processing of lexical tones and consonants | Review | ||
| Bong Au | A study on perception and production of rising tone merger in Hong Kong Cantonese | Proposal | ||
| Zheng Hongying | Proposal for Cantonese level tone perception by French | Proposal | ||
| 15 Dec | Bong Au | coming soon | ||
| Gong Tao | The inevitable change of language shown in the simulation | |||
| Susan Shuai | coming soon | |||
| 08 Dec | Susan Shuai | Broca's area and the dichotic listening on lexical tone | ||
| Raymond Ng | Cantonese lexical tone analysis using the framework of tone recognition | |||
| 01 Dec | James MINETT | a - On the Emergence of Linguistic Categories | ||
| James MINETT | b - Some Thoughts on Tonal Coarticulation | |||
| 24 Nov | Prof. Osamu Fujimura | Graphic structure of Chinese Characters | ||
| 23 Nov | Prof. Osamu Fujimura | Speech prosody in the C/D model | ||
| 17 Nov | Alice H.D. CHAN | Neural mechanisms underlying the processing of semantic ambiguity | ||
| ZHENG Hongying and Susan SHUAI |
Tone Perception: Hemispheric Lateralization and Categorical Perception | |||
| 10 Nov | James MINETT | Coming soon | ||
| ZHENG Hongying and Susan SHUAI |
Coming soon | |||
| 03 Nov | Francis WONG | BBS paper of van der Velde's | ||
| GONG Tao | Some flowcharts of computational model of language evolution | |||
| 27 Oct | GONG Tao and ZHENG Hongying |
On van Gompel et al. 2006. The activation of inappropriate analyses in garden-path sentences: Evidence from structural priming | Review | |
| DENG Xiao-Hua | Some materials on "Genetic Evidence for an East Asian Origin of Domestic Dogs" (from Science, 22 Nov 2002) | |||
| 20 Oct | Margaret LEI | Tone Discrimination in Infants Acquiring a Tonal Language | ||
| 13 Oct | Prof. Masayoshi SHIBATANI | Form and Function in Functional Linguistics | ||
| 11 Oct | Prof. Masayoshi SHIBATANI | The Form and the Grammaticalization Patterns of Complex Predicate Constructions | ||
| 06 Oct | Raymond NG | Tone Modeling Using HMM and Preliminary Analysis for Cantonese Tone 5 Syllables | ||
| Francis WONG and SHUAI Lan |
Discussion on Auditory Semantic Networks for Words and Natural Sounds Part1 | Part2] | Review | ||
| 29 Sep | Zheng Hongying | Categorical Perception | ||
| Shuai Lan | Hemisphere Lateralization | |||
| 28 Sep | Francis Wong | Connectionist modelling of language acquisition | ||
| 22 Sep | Wong Ying Wai | Speech perception review | ||
| 15 Sep | Francis Wong | On the garden path of relative clauses | ||
| 08 Sep | Wong Ying Wai | On Luc Steels' review of Galantucci 2005 | ||
| Raymond Ng | ICSLP2006 poster | |||
| 01 Sep | Zheng Hongying | Reaction time - a case study and experiment design | ||
| 25 Aug | Shuai Lan | Dichotic listening on lexical tones | ||
| 18 Aug | Prof. Chow King-Lau | Tutorial on Language and Genes | ||
| 11 Aug | Francis Wong | Trips report of July 2006 's - CSSS and IJCNN | ||
| Gong Tao | Review on WCCI 2006 | |||
| 28 Jul | ||||
| James W. Minett | Modeling language competition and language death | |||
| 27 Jul | James W. Minett | Modeling the phylogenetic emergence of language | ||
| 26 Jul | James W. Minett | a) Language
acquisition & evolution: case studies b) Modeling the ontogenetic emergence of language |
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| 24 Jul 25 Jul |
William S-Y. Wang | a)The emergence
and evolution of language b) Bibliography |
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| 21 Jul | Cherry Yum | Analysis of Yunnan Fieldwork Data | ||
| Zheng Hongying | MiniJudge | |||
| Shuai Lan | Dichotic listening experiment design | |||
| 07 Jul | Gong Tao | CEC 2006 paper presentation rehearsal (2nd. Edit.) | ||
| Francis Wong | IJCNN 2006 paper presentation rehearsal (2nd. Edit.) | |||
| Zheng Hongying | Statistical analysis on perception experiment | |||
| 30 Jun | Gong Tao | CEC 2006 paper presentation rehearsal | ||
| Francis Wong | IJCNN 2006 paper presentation rehearsal | |||
| Shuai Lan | Validation of dichotic listening | |||
| 23 Jun | Gong Tao | Model modification, quantitative analysis on parameters and popularity | ||
| Francis Wong | The extra hidden layer | |||
| Shuai Lan | Hemisphere lateralization | |||
| 16 Jun | Raymond Ng | Parameter extraction for the command-response model | ||
| Shuai Lan | About the hearing test | |||
| 09 Jun | Raymond Ng | LDC introduction | ||
| Zheng Hongying | DMDX introduction | |||
| Shuai Lan | Relating mirror neurons with language | |||
| 02 Jun | James W. Minett | The evolution of cooperation on social networks | ||
| Francis Wong | Language processing by songbirds, monkeys, humans and simple recurrent network under the formal language framework | |||
| 26 May | Prof. Mu Jihong | Yunnan and its languages | ||
| Mr. Yang Haichao | The Nanzhou culture | |||
| 19 May | ||||
| Shuai Lan | Review of Fisher & Marcus?paper | |||
| Raymond Ng | Physiology of laryngeal structures | |||
| 16 May | Gong Tao | Social effects on language emergence | ||
| James W. Minett | Modeling language competition and language death | |||
| Francis Wong | Modelling language processing with simple recurrent network | |||
| 12 May | Prof. Vittorio Loreto | (Coming soon) | ||
| Dr. Ciro Cattuto | (Coming soon) | |||
| James W. Minett | An introduction to the analysis of Chinese syllable networks | |||
| 05 May | Gong Tao | Report on EVOLANG (continued) | ||
| Gong Tao | Discussion of de Pauw | |||
| Francis Wong | Neural networks and processing relative clauses | |||
| 28 Apr | Gong Tao | Report on EVOLANG | ||
| James W. Minett | Report on EVOLANG | |||
| Zheng Hongying | More on Categorical perception | |||
| 21 Apr | (Coming soon) | |||
| 07 Apr | Gong Tao | Another dry run for EVOLANG presentation | ||
| James W. Minett | Another dry run for EVOLANG presentation | |||
| Shuai Lan | Dichotic experiment on Cantonese tones | |||
| 31 Mar | Gong Tao | Dry run for EVOLANG presentation | ||
| James W. Minett | Dry run for EVOLANG presentation | |||
| Peng Gang | Vowel balloons | |||
| 24 Mar | Dr. Wang Feng | (Coming) | ||
| 17 Mar | Susan Shuai | Data analysis on last experiment and New experiment Design | ||
| Zheng Hongying | Conflicting information on the onset of the target syllable | |||
| 10 Mar | Prof. Dr. George van Driem | (Coming soon ) | ||
| James W. Minett | A preliminary report on language competition in Yunnan | |||
| James W. Minett | Syllable networks in Chinese: modeling | |||
| Peng Gang | Syllable networks in Chinese: theory | |||
| 03 Mar | Raymond Ng | |||
| Francis Wong | Combinatorial productivity again | |||
| Wong Ying Wai | ||||
| 24 Feb | Raymond Ng | Study of Cantonese intonation | ||
| Susan Shuai | Hemisphere lateralization of speech perception | |||
| Zheng Hongying | Proposal for modeling the evolution of tonal system | |||
| 17 Feb | Prof. Benjamin T'sou | (Coming soon ) | ||
| James W. Minett | Still more on the emergence of word order | |||
| 10 Feb | Gong Tao | |||
| Wong Ying Wai | An experimental study of the emergence of human communication systems - review of "An experimental study of the emergence of human communication systems" by B. Galantucci (part 2) | |||
| Susan Shuai | Commonalities between language and music, and implications for their evolution | |||
| 27 Jan | Gong Tao | |||
| Wong Ying Wai | ||||
| 20 Jan | James W. Minett | Towards a model for the ontogenetic emergence of disyllabic words in Chinese | ||
| Peng Gang | Syllable networks in Chinese | |||
| Francis Wong | More on SRNs and the acquisition of language | |||
| 13 Jan | Thomas Lee | Report on the Emergence of Linguistic Abilities 2005 Conference, held in Lyon, France, December 2005 | ||
| James W. Minett | A brief review of fieldwork on the language competition in Yunnan Click here to visit survey webpage) | |||
| 06 Jan | Raymond Ng | Analysis of phrase commands in command response model | ||
| Raymond Ng | Tutorial on data statistics on Microsoft Excel | |||
| Zheng Hongying | Context position effects on Cantonese level tones | |||
| 05 Jan | James W. Minett | Research on language evolution at LEL | ||
| Peng Gang | Research on speech at LEL |
2005
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2005/12/30 | James W. Minett | Review of "On the power-law distribution of language family sizes" by Sren Wichmann |
| Francis Wong | Follow up study of van der Velde et al (2004, Connection Science) | |
| 2005/12/23 | James W. Minett | More on the emergence of word order |
| Susan Shuai | Context effects in spoken language perception | |
| 2005/12/16 | Margaret Lei | Cantonese tone discrimination in Hong Kong infants |
| Wong Ying Wai | Contextual variations and pitch targets in Cantonese | |
| 2005/12/09 | Charles Lin | Invited seminar: Universal subject preference in processing relative clauses |
| Dr. Paul Vogt | Invited seminar: On the acquisition and evolution of compositional languages [additional presentation also available] | |
| 2005/12/02 | Prof. Yan Hong | Invited seminar |
| Gong Tao | Some thoughts on cultural transmission - Review of papers by Paul Vogt and Henry Brighton et al. | |
| Francis Wong | On the special issue of Connection Science | |
| 2005/11/25 | Peng Gang | Vowel balloons |
| Susan Shuai | Replication of the noise chimaeras test | |
| 2005/11/18 | Zheng Hongying | Psychophysical pitch biases and tone perception |
| Gong Tao | Basic word order universals - Review of "Basic word order: functional principles" by Russell S. Tomlin | |
| 2005/11/11 | Susan Shuai | On the Hilbert Transformation |
| Raymond Ng | Reports to Tseng Chiu-yu's Seminar on Ripples, Waves & Tides | |
| 2005/11/4 | Francis Wong | Brief review of Lupyan and Christiansen (2002) |
| Lei Ka Yan | On infants' tone perception | |
| 2005/10/28 | Wong Ying Wai | The effect of lexical status on Cantonese tone perception |
| Susan Shuai | Fast changing and slow changing signals in the two hemispheres | |
| 2005/10/21 | Raymond Ng | |
| Zheng Hongying | A brief introduction to behavioral study on memory | |
| 2005/10/20 | Gong Tao | Qualifying examination preview |
| Francis Wong | Qualifying examination - Connectionist model for the emergence of syntactic categories | |
| 2005/10/07 | James W. Minett | Submission to EVOLANG6: the emergence of word order |
| Francis Wong | Submission to EVOLANG6: the acquisition of syntactic categories by a simple recurrent network | |
| 2005/09/30 | Gong Tao | Review of construction grammar |
| Susan Shuai | Dichotic listening some initial preparation | |
| Zheng Hongying | Experimental design | |
| 2005/09/23 | Au Ching-Pong | Ph.D. thesis defense preview |
| Francis Wong | On Hebbian learning | |
| 2005/09/16 | Gong Tao | Report of Edinburgh and Oxford trip |
| Raymond Ng | An introduction to Hiroya Fujisakis Command Response Model and its application in Cantonese phrase analysis | |
| 2005/09/09 | Susan Shuai | Mirror neurons and infant imitation |
| Zheng Hongying | Experiments to investigate variables affecting degree of categorical perception | |
| 2005/09/02 | James W. Minett | A preliminary, formal analysis of the impact of bilingual teaching on language maintenance |
| Francis Wong | ||
| 2005/08/29 | Lei Ka Yan | |
| Ma Mao-peng | ||
| Wong Ying Wai | The target approximation model | |
| 2005/08/22 | Susan Shuai | Oscillation networks: exploring the function of the brain |
| Zheng Hongying | An introduction to selection of statistics tests for psychology experiments | |
| 2005/08/16 | Gong Tao |
Mutual influence of semantics and syntax during language emergence |
| Peng Gang | Speech production | |
| 2005/08/08 | Charles Chen | Japonic as a mixed language: contact induced change and Sprachbund theory |
| James W. Minett | Introduction to probability and statistics | |
| 2005/08/02 | Gong Tao | Progress report: Mutual influence of semantics and syntax during language emergence |
| James W. Minett | More on recent developments in research on language competition | |
| Susan Shuai | Review of "The evolution of imitation and mirror neurons in adaptive agents" by Elhanan Borenstein & Eytan Ruppin | |
| 2005/07/26 | Gong Tao | Program demo: Mutual influence of semantics and syntax during language emergence |
| Peng Gang | Hilbert Transform | |
| 2005/07/19 | James W. Minett | Recent developments in research on language competition |
| 2005/07/12 | Raymond Ng | A simple guide to the LDC Treebank |
| Francis Wong | Evaluating categorization done by recurrent neural networks | |
| 2005/07/05 | Gong Tao | Review of "Language evolution and population dynamics" by Kosmas Kosmidis et al. |
| Zheng Hongying | Categorical perception | |
| 2005/06/28 | Raymond Ng | Automatic semantic analysis of Cantonese discourse with ontology technology |
| 2005/06/21 | Peng Gang | Support vector machines: an introduction |
| 2005/06/14 | James W. Minett | Hunan Trip |
| 2005/06/07 | James W. Minett | Cross-serial dependency rule induction |
| 2005/05/31 | Raymond Ng | Prosody in sign language: review of "A prosodic model of sign language phonology" by Diane Brentari |
| 2005/05/24 | Peng Gang | Structural equation modeling |
| 2005/05/14 | James W. Minett | Modeling language evolution |
| Peng Gang | Toward understanding speech: methods and tools of speech perception | |
| 2005/05/10 | Zheng Hongying | Categorical or continuous? Experimental study on perception of Cantonese level tones |
| 2005/04/19 | Gong Tao | Semantics-syntax co-influence on linguistic knowledge |
| James W. Minett | Report on Acuo's visit | |
| James W. Minett | Overview of the LEL group | |
| Francis Wong | Modeling ontogenetic emergence of language with connectionist models | |
| 2005/04/12 | Gong Tao | Research review: computational simulation of language emergence (in Chinese) |
| Francis Wong | On the ontogenetic emergence of language and artificial neural networks | |
| 2005/03/29 | James W. Minett | Overview of models for coevolution of lexicon and syntax |
| 2005/03/22 | Zheng Hongying | Experiment on Cantonese tone perception |
| 2005/03/15 | James W. Minett | A review of the literature on the FOXP2 gene |
| 2005/03/08 | Gong Tao | Research proposal: coevolution process during language emergence |
| Francis Wong | Syntactic development | |
| 2005/03/01 | Peng Gang | Tone charts: Mandarin vs. Cantonese |
| 2005/02/15 | Gong Tao | Research review: computational simulation of language emergence |
| Francis Wong | Modeling language processing with neural networks | |
| 2005/02/08 | Peng Gang | Speech processing: human vs. machine |
| Zheng Hongying | Better use of tone information to improve ASR systems in conditions of noise | |
| 2005/02/01 | Gong Tao | The emergence of syntactic categories based on local, temporary information |
| 2005/01/13 | Gong Tao | Several thoughts about current language emergence hypotheses |
| 2005/01/11 | Francis Wong | Syntactic complexity |
| Zheng Hongying | How tone affects performance of ASR systems for Mandarin in noisy environments |
2004
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2004/12/14 | James W. Minett | A brief overview of compression-based approaches to genetic classification |
| James W. Minett | A summary of a draft by Ma Hongbin | |
| 2004/12/07 | Gong Tao | Review of understanding linguistic evolution by visualizing the emergence of topographic mappings" by Henry Brighton and Simon Kirby/td> |
| 2004/11/16 | Gong Tao | Modification of current model |
| 2004/11/11 | Gong Tao | Artificial life research and presentation skills: Report on ALIFE 9 |
| 2004/11/09 | Gong Tao | Comment
on "Coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language" by Luc Steels & Tony Belpaeme |
| 2004/11/02 | James W. Minett | Discussion of "Language birth & death" by Salikoko Mufwene |
| 2004/09/16 | James W. Minett | Framework for the extended model for coevolution of lexicon and syntax |
| James W. Minett | Bits and pieces on modeling perspective and syntax |