Presentations

Lai, R. K.-Y.. 2024. Why we need asymmetric measures to classify multi-word expressions: The case of Tibetan light verb constructions. Society for Computation in Linguistics, 2024, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2024. Discontinuous constructions in spoken Chinese varieties: Extraction and contrastive covarying collexeme analysis. Society for Computation in Linguistics, 2024, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.

Lai, R. K.-Y., Gabriel Ruiz, M. and Campbell, E. 2024. Demonstratives and discourse coherence in Comachuén P’urhépecha. 2024 Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL26), University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2024. Distinguishing Tibetan light verb constructions from other N-V combinations: An information-theoretic approach. 100th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA24), New York City.

Lai, R. K.-Y. and Jiang, Y. 2024. Beyond anaphora: Backward-oriented similative demonstratives in Central Tibetan and Cantonese conversation. 100th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA24), New York City.

DuBois, J. W., Lai, R. K.-Y. and Brown, C. 2024. Teaching how to analyze natural conversation using a computational visualization tool. 100th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA24).

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2023 From annotation to analysis: Exploring conversational dynamics with rezonateR. The 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 37), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

Lai, R. K.-Y., L. Z. Yin, A. Y. Zhang, Y. Jiang, B. S. Xin and J. Gao. 2023. Turn design, resonance and epistemic stance in the Diamond Sutra: A dialogic constructionist approach. The 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 37), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2023. Constructing intersubjectivity with nonverbal predicates in Central Tibetan conversation. Workshop on Equational predications: Omnipredicativity, non-verbal predications or zero verb constructions, and the diachrony of copulas, University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2023 rezonateR: An R package for analysing coherence in conversation. The 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL) – Marilogue. University of Maribor, Slovenia.

Lai, R. K.-Y., Liu, L., Yan, H. and DuBois J. W. 2023 .From position to function: Exploring word distributionswithin intonation units in American English conversation. The 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL) – Marilogue. University of Maribor, Slovenia.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2023. Si6 gam2 dik1 / ‘di.‘dras red: A contrastive study between Cantonese and Central Tibetan adverbial/predicational similative demonstratives in conversation. The Sixth Forum of Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL-6). The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2023. Denial of non-remote-past change-of-state: The case of Middle Chinese zì. Workshop on ‘already’ markers, iamitives, and related expressions. Online.

Lai, R. K.-Y., Li, Y. and Zhang, S. 2023. Text segmentation similarity revisited: A flexible distance-based approach for multiple boundary types. 6th Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL). University of Masssachussetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2023. (De)constructing paradigmaticity in syntax: An information-theoretic approach. 6th Meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL). University of Masssachussetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2023. Interactional functions of demonstrative DEM-‘dra in Central Tibetan conversation. The 26th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization (LISO). University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.

Du Bois, John W. and Lai, R. K.-Y. 2023. Do words predict intonation units? 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Gordon, M. K., Katsika, A., Chien, S., Jang, J. and Lai, R. K.-Y. 2023. Speech rhythm metrics: a typological survey. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague, Czechia.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2023. Literary Chinese zì as a signal of meaning. 13th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behavior. Columbia University, New York City, NY.

Du Bois, John W. and Lai, R. K.-Y. 2023. Oh! You shall know a word by the prosody it keeps. 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). Denver, CO.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2022. Annotating and analysing coreference and argument structure in spoken Central Tibetan. The International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL) 55. Online.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2021. ”You can keep jūning me; I will keep qīnging you”: Stance, persona, and second-person pronouns in Six Dynasties Chinese intelligentsia. The 33rd meeting of the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-33). Online.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2021. The Cantonese causative-resultative construction as a dynamic subnetwork of constructions. The Fourth Forum of Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL-4). Online.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2021. The polygrammaticalisation network of Early Middle Chinese zì: Linguistic evidence for a grammar-as-cues approach. 12th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science: Linguistic & Cognitive Foundations of Meaning. Online.

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2021. Sources of accessibility: A functional description of two reflexives in Late Archaic and Early Middle Chinese. The 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Online.

Song, Y. and Lai, R. K.-Y. 2020. Syntactic representations encode grammatical functions: evidence from structural priming in Cantonese. AMLaP 2020. Online.

Do, Y.* and Lai, R. K.-Y.* 2019. Measuring phonological distance in a tonal language: an experimental and computational investigation with Cantonese. Presentation given at the second annual meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics. New York City, NY. https://doi.org/10.7275/rz7r-qg29 (Link)

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2018. The two adjective classes in Nar. Presentation given at the The 3rd Asian Junior Linguists conference, 13-14 October, 2018, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (Link)

Lai, R. K.-Y. 2017. Exploring factors behind word order variation in Cantonese complex predicates. Presentation given at the 22nd International Conference on Yue Dialects. Hong Kong Education University, Hong Kong. (Link)

Lai, R. K.-Y. and Lai, J. Y-.K. 2016. Unifying relative clauses and related gapless constructions in Late Archaic Chinese. Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. Hong Kong Education University, Hong Kong.