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Membership
FoCaL: Forum on Cantonese Linguistics
LSHK: The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
IACL: International Association of Chinese Linguistics
LSA: Linguistic Society of America
Cantonese Corpus
only for those accessible online, for a full list see Wong Tak-sum’s page
- Adult corpus
| Year | Corpus | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 2020? | CantoMap (The Cantonese MapTask corpus) | Winterstein, Tang & Lai (2020) |
| 2017 | MYCanCor (Malaysia Cantonese Corpus) (not available yet) | Liesenfeld (2017) |
| 2016 | UD Cantonese HK | |
| 2012 | PolyU Corpus of Spoken Chinese: Cantonese | |
| 2010 | 广州话口语有声语料库 (Cantonese Spoken Corpus with Audio) | |
| 1997-1998 | HKCanCor (Hong Kong Cantonese Corpus), see also PyCantonese | Luke & Wong (2015) |
| unknown | CantoneseWaC |
- Child (bilingual) corpus CHILDES
| Year | Corpus | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-2018 | Leo Corpus (Mandarin-English-Cantonese) | |
| 2010s | Bilingual Child Heritage Chinese Corpus (Chinese-English) | |
| 2000s | The Hong Kong Bilingual Child Language Corpus, or here (Cantonese-English) | |
| 2000s | Paidologos Corpus: Cantonese | |
| 1990s | HKU-70 Corpus | |
| 1990s | CANCORP (Hong Kong Cantonese Child Language Corpus), or here | Lee et al. (1996) |
| 1985 | Guthrie Bilingual Corpus [Chinese-English] |
- Diachronic corpus
| Year | Corpus | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s~1970s | The Corpus of Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Cantonese (Phase 1&2) | |
| 1870s~1930s | Early Cantonese Tagged Database | |
| 1860s~1920s | The Early Cantonese Bible Database | |
| 1860s~1920s | Database of Early Chinese Dialects (Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin, Hokkien, Wu) | |
| 1860s~1890s | Database of the 19th Century (1865- 1894) Cantonese Christian Writings | |
| 1820s~1920s | Early Cantonese Colloquial Texts: A Database |
- Database
| Year | Corpus | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Cantonese Wordnet, or here | Sio & da Costa (2019) |
| 2020 | Cifu | Lai & Winterstein (2020) |
| 2010s | Cantonese 4-word Idiomatic Expressions Excerpts and Audio Recording Database | |
| 2012 | English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese | |
| 2001 | A Comparative Database of Modern Chinese and Cantonese | |
| 1910s~1990s | 粵音資料集叢 (A Database of Literature on Cantonese Phonology) |
Cantonese linguists
a self-serving handy list of online profiles; please remind me if I’ve missed any
| Affiliation | Linguist | Specialization (not exhaustive) |
|---|---|---|
| HKU | Robert S. BAUER | phonology |
| UCLA | Ariel CHAN | heritage languages, bilingualism |
| HKUST | Ka-wing CHAN | syntax & semantics |
| OSU | Marjorie K. M. CHAN | phonetics & phonology, dialectology |
| UPenn | May Pik Yu CHAN | phonetics & phonology, music & language |
| CUHK | Song Hing CHANG | dialectology, phonology |
| UMich | Lauretta S. P. CHENG | sociophonetics, heritage languages |
| LEI | Lisa L.-S. CHENG | syntax & its interfaces |
| Siu-Pong CHENG | syntax | |
| UCY | Candice Chi-Hang CHEUNG | clinical linguistics, syntax |
| EdUHK | Hin Tat CHEUNG | acquisition, language disorders |
| CUHK | Hung-nin Samuel CHEUNG | historical linguistics, dialectology |
| HKPolyU SPEED | Kwan-hin CHEUNG | Cantonese Opera, tone-melody interface |
| CUHK | Lawrence Yam-leung CHEUNG | syntax, corpus linguistics |
| EdUHK | Andy C. CHIN | typology, sociolinguistics |
| HKBU | Winnie CHOR | cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis |
| UBC | Una CHOW | phonetics |
| Hokudai | Yurie HARA | semantics & pragmatics, phonology |
| SYSU | Jiaying HUANG | syntax, psycholinguistics |
| TMU | Maki IIDA | grammaticalization, SFPs |
| EdUHK | Shin KATAOKA | historcial linguistics |
| CUHK | Bit-Chee KWOK | dialectology, historical linguistics |
| CityUHK | Jackie Yan-Ki LAI | syntax, morphology |
| CUHK | Regine LAI | phonology |
| UCSB | Ryan Ka Yau LAI | computational linguistics |
| EdUHK | Yik-Po LAI | typology, grammaticalization |
| HSUHK | Charles LAM | syntax & semantics |
| OUHK | Cherry Chit-Yu LAM | comparative syntax |
| UOM | Chit Fung (Lawrence) LAM | syntax, bilingualism |
| UMass | Suet-Ying LAM | syntax processing, psycholinguistics |
| UBC | Zoe LAM | phonology, heritage languages |
| EdUHK | Chaak-ming LAU | NLP, lexicography, phonology |
| OSU | Gary Ka Fai LAW | sociolinguistics |
| UCSC | Jess H. K. LAW | semantics & pragmatics |
| EdUHK | Albert LEE | phonetics, L2 acquisition |
| BU | Chris Ka Chun LEE | phonetics & phonology |
| CUHK, TNU | Hun-tak Thomas LEE | acquisition, syntax & semantics |
| Jackson L. LEE | computational linguistics, phonology | |
| UPenn | Jonathan Him Nok LEE | prosody, bilingualism, clinical ling. |
| CityUHK | John LEE | computational linguistics |
| UOH | Man Ki Theodora LEE | syntax & semantics |
| UConn | Margaret Chui Yi LEE | semantics, acquisition |
| HKMU | Po Lun Peppina LEE | semantics |
| CityUHK | Tommy Tsz-Ming LEE | syntax & semantics |
| HKMU | Wai Sum LEE | phonetics & phonology |
| CUHK | Margaret LEI | acquisition, syntax & semantics |
| U of T | Justin LEUNG | heritage languages, syntax |
| UAEU | Tommi LEUNG | syntax, phonology |
| UBC | Roger Yu-Hsiang LO | phonetics & phonology, heritage languages |
| NTU | Kang-kwong LUKE | conversation analysis |
| CityUHK | Suen Caesar LUN | sociolinguistics |
| CityUHK | Ziyin MAI | L2 acquisition, bilingualism |
| HKU | Stephen MATTHEWS | typology, bilingualism |
| CUHK | Peggy Pik Ki MOK | phonetics |
| GDUFS | Dingxu SHI | syntax & semantics |
| UP | Joanna Ut-Seong SIO | syntax & semantics |
| UBC | Rachel SOO | phonetics, heritage languages |
| LEI | Matthew SUNG | dialectology |
| LEI | Rint SYBESMA | syntax |
| CUHK | Kin Man Carmen TANG | syntax processing, music & language |
| CUHK | Sze-Wing TANG | comparative syntax |
| CUHK | Kwok Wai TING | historical phonology |
| VTCHK | Man Shan TONG | syntax-phonology interface |
| UCSD | Crono Ming San TSE | syntax & semantics |
| Ronin | Keith TSE | syntax, variation |
| CityUHK, HKUST | Benjamin K. TSOU | variation, computational linguistics |
| HKBU | John C. WAKEFIELD | sociolinguistics, syntax |
| CUHK | Patrick C.M. WONG | neurolinguistics |
| HKPolyU | Tak-sum WONG | historical phonology, computational linguistics |
| HSUHK | Yiu Kwan WONG | historical phonology |
| Shue Yan | Yike YANG | phonetics, acquisition |
| CUHK(SZ) | Foong Ha YAP | language change, typology |
| GU | Ping Hei YEUNG | phonetics, language change |
| UCL | Moira YIP | phonology |
| CUHK | Virginia YIP | bilingualism, acquisition |
| UW | Anne YUE-HASHIMOTO | grammar & phonology, typology |
| HKPolyU | Caicai ZHANG | neurolinguistics, phonetics & phonology |
| EdUHK | Ling ZHANG | phonetics & phonology |