Name: Wai Sum, Lee Room: MB 105D
Post: Assistant Professor
Email: wsleeba@hkucc.hku.hk
Phone 2859 2753
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Research Interest:
Phonetics, experimental phonetics and phonology
Historical linguistics, historical phonology
Chinese dialects
Language in culture and society
Current Research Projects:
A prosodic investigation of syllable reduplication in Beijing Mandarin, Shanghai, and Cantonese
Normalization of the tones in Beijing Mandarin and Cantonese
An articulatory study of the 'er-hua' rimes in Beijing Mandarin
An articulatory study of the vocalic sounds in Beijing Mandarin and Cantonese (with Prof. Eric Zee, City University of Hong Kong)

Cantonese Phonetics and Phonology (with Prof. Eric Zee, City University of Hong Kong)

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate Courses

LING 2027 Phonology:An Introduction to the Study of Sound Systems
LING 2031 Phonological Theory
LING 2010 Language and Dialect

LING 1002 Language.com: Language in the Contemporary World

  • Topics on ˇ§Speech Analysisˇ¨ and ˇ§Speech Recognitionˇ¨

Postgraduate Courses

LING 7001 Sound and Meaning

LING 6001 Research Methods in Linguistics

  • Topics on "IPA Symbols and Transcription", "Acoustics Phonetics and Methods of Speech Analysis"
 
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