April 23, 2025
DEALL Buckeyes at WICL-7 held at BYU (April 2025)
The Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL) is a biennial conference series that was inaugurated at OSU in Spring 2012, as the only conference series in the Western Hemisphere that focuses specifically on Cantonese linguistics. WICL-7, held at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, on 11-12 April 2025 (postponed from Autumn 2024). It was hosted by two DEALL alumni, Professor Dana Scott Bourgerie (Ph.D., 1990) and Professor Matthew Christensen (Ph.D., 1994), both of whose Ph.D. dissertation was advised by Professor James H-Y. Tai.
Two current DEALL grad students, Paul Ueda and Ka Fai (Gary) Law, together with Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan ("Ma Laoshi"), attended WICL-7. (Group Photo - L-R: Ka Fai (Gary) Law, Dana Bourgerie, Marjorie Chan, Matthew Christensen, and Paul Ueda)
Two current DEALL grad students, Paul Ueda and Ka Fai (Gary) Law, together with Professor Marjorie K.M. Chan ("Ma Laoshi"), attended WICL-7. (Group Photo - L-R: Ka Fai (Gary) Law, Dana Bourgerie, Marjorie Chan, Matthew Christensen, and Paul Ueda)
Current and past DEALLers presented at WICL-7:
Dana Bourgerie (Brigham Young University)
“An Outline of Contemporary Vietnamese Cantonese”
“An Outline of Contemporary Vietnamese Cantonese”
Marjorie K.M. Chan (The Ohio State University)
“Poetry of the Chinese Immigrants from the Pearl River Delta on Angel Island (1910-1940): A Preliminary Linguistic Study”
“Poetry of the Chinese Immigrants from the Pearl River Delta on Angel Island (1910-1940): A Preliminary Linguistic Study”
Matthew Christensen (Brigham Young University)
Chair and panelist in a Special Panel on Cantonese Pedagogy
(Note: Invited to participate in this special panel is current DEALLer, Ka Fai (Gary) Law, a BYU alumnus who researches in Cantonese linguistics and has taught Cantonese at both BYU and OSU.)
Chair and panelist in a Special Panel on Cantonese Pedagogy
(Note: Invited to participate in this special panel is current DEALLer, Ka Fai (Gary) Law, a BYU alumnus who researches in Cantonese linguistics and has taught Cantonese at both BYU and OSU.)
Ka Fai (Gary) Law (The Ohio State University)
“The perception of Sentence-final particles in different Cantonese speakers: a pilot study”
Paul Ueda (The Ohio State University), Ka Fai Law (The Ohio State University ), Justin Leung (University of Toronto), and Marjorie K.M. Chan, (The Ohio State University)
“Harnessing Generative Artificial Intelligence to Study Cantonese Linguistic Variation”
“The perception of Sentence-final particles in different Cantonese speakers: a pilot study”
Paul Ueda (The Ohio State University), Ka Fai Law (The Ohio State University ), Justin Leung (University of Toronto), and Marjorie K.M. Chan, (The Ohio State University)
“Harnessing Generative Artificial Intelligence to Study Cantonese Linguistic Variation”
WICL-8 will be back on schedule, to be hosted in June 2026 at Professor Chan's alma mater, the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. WICL-8 will be hosted by Dr. Raymond Pai. Watch for Call for Papers!
