13 FHM Newsletter ． 人文學院通訊 Department & Centre Highlights Besides those teaching activities, the department also offers a thriving and supportive research environment and stimulating atmosphere to exchange scholarly ideas, with conferences and seminars being organised on a regular basis. This past year was quite productive with ten seminars and sharing sessions organised since August 2014. Four were given by our colleagues (Dr. Rebecca Chen, Professor Cheung Hin Tat, Professor David Li, Dr. Wang Lixun, Dr. Xie Qin, Dr. Regine Lai and Dr. Grégoire Winterstein) and six were given by academics from other institutions: Dr. Hsu Ching-Fen from the Huafan University of Taiwan, Professor Chen Hao-Jan, Howard from the National Taiwan Normal University, Professor Stephen Matthews of the University of Hong Kong and Dr. Yurie Hara from the City University of Hong Kong. The topics covered ranged over a wide array of subjects: psycholinguistics, language education, the use of modern technologies for language learning as well as formal pragmatics and translation studies. These events have been invaluable occasions to share works with colleagues and receive precious feedback and comments. Finally, we encourage readers to contact us for any suggestion or matter related to the department. We hope everyone has an enjoyable summer. Academic Activities Date Seminar Title Speaker 26/8/2014 LML Research Projects Sharing Dr. Rebecca Chen Professor Cheung Hin Tat Professor David Li Dr. Wang Lixun Dr. Xie Qin 10/11/2014 Central Coherence in People with Williams Syndrome: Evidence from Verbal and Nonverbal Domains in Behavioral and Brain Levels Dr. Hsu Ching-Fen (Huafan University of Taiwan) 19/11/2014 Variations on Bayesian Approaches to Argumentation Dr. Grégoire Winterstein 28/11/2014 Domain Specificity in Learning Phonology Dr. Lai Yee King, Regine 10/12/2014 Beyond Myths of Invisibility: the Journey to Translators’ Job-related Happiness Dr. Liu Fung Ming, Christy 13/1/2015 華語語料庫在第二語教學上的應用 陳浩然教授 國立臺灣師範大學） 14/1/2015 Trends in Computer-assisted Language Learning Professor Chen Hao-Jan, Howard (National Taiwan Normal University) 15/1/2015 臺灣華語教學的最新動態 陳浩然教授 國立臺灣師範大學） 13/2/2015 Transfer and Anti-transfer in third Language Acquisition Professor Stephen Matthews (The University of Hong Kong) 18/3/2015 Semantics of Cantonese Questions and Unconditionals- A Suppositional Inquisitive Approach Dr. Yurie Hara (City University of Hong Kong) Dr. Grégoire Winterstein received his BA in linguistics from Université de Rouen and MA from Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7. Dr. Winterstein was awarded his PhD in formal linguistics from Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 for his dissertation on the probabilistic dimension of argumentative markers in discourse. His research interests mainly lie in formal semantics and pragmatics. His chief topic of study deals with the notion of argumentation and the way some linguistic items and structures affect how arguments are interpreted and evaluated. He is especially interested in Bayesian models of human cognition and the way they can be applied to natural language interpretation. Regine received her BA and MPhil in Linguistics from the University of Hong Kong. She completed her PhD study in the University of Delaware and went on to the University of Maryland for her post-doctoral training. Her research mainly addresses how humans learn their first language by examining through the artificial language learning paradigm to investigate whether there are specific, unconscious learning strategies employed by humans for sound patterns in language that are distinct from other general cognitive learning mechanisms. For more information about LML, please visit http://www.ied.edu.hk/lml. New Staff
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