Ivan Fong, MA Student
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Focus of research
Cantonese tone merger is my main focus but I dabble in other stuff once in a while as well (e.g., BiPhon model, Korean A-not-A Questions).
Interests
Sound change; language transfer; Cantonese; Japanese; Korean; prosody; tones; pitch-accent
Education
2020 Diploma in Linguistics (D.L.I.N) at University of British Columbia
2017 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Combined Major in Science - (Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Life Sciences) at University of British Columbia
About
I have been an MA student here under Prof. Yue Wang and her Language and Brain Lab since 2022. I鈥檓 interested in the prosody of multiple East Asian languages. I鈥檓 currently investigating how Cantonese tone mergers might adapt their speech sounds when having a conversation with non-mergers.
Before I discovered my love for and career in linguistics, I completed my B.Sc at UBC. I then graduated with a Diploma in Linguistics at UBC in 2020. During my studies there, I worked as a Research Assistant at Prof. Molly Babel鈥檚 Speech in Context Lab, mainly for Khia Johnson.
Publications
Fong. I., Wong. E., Wang. F., Chan. K., Fung, A., Johnson-Dhillon. T., Trasolini. J., Behne. D.M., Jongman. A., Sereno. J.A., Tupper. P., Wang. Y. (2024, May). Phonetic adaptation in conversation: The case of Cantonese tone merging. Poster presentation at the joint 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and 2024 Acoustics Week in Canada conference (AWC2024), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K. Ehret., L. Bosman., Babayode, A., N. Chan., I. Fong., N. Harris., A. Hewton., D. Reid., R. Wong., M. Taboada. (2023). Podcasts as an emerging register of computer-mediated communication. In Review at Register Studies.
Fong, I., Song. M.Y. (2024, October). The supposed presuppositionality of Korean A-not-A Questions. Accepted poster presentation at the 31st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK31), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Williamson, S., Babayode-Lawal, A. A., Bosman, L., Chan, N., Cho, S., Fong, I., & Holubowsky, K. (2023). Japanese/Korean Linguistics: Volume 30. CSLI Publications.
Babayode, A., L. Bosman, N. Chan, K. Ehret, I. Fong, N. Harris, A. Hewton, D. Reid, M. Taboada, R. Wong (2023) Structural linguistic characteristics of podcasts as an emerging register of computer-mediated communication. Poster presentation at the International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2023), Mannheim, Germany. September 14-15, 2023.
Fong, I., To. Samuel., (2023, February). Reversing a Cantonese tone-merger through conversation tasks. Oral presentation at the 7th Annual Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (LSURC 2023), University of British Columbia, Vancouver. BC. Canada
Johnson, K. A., Babel, M., Fong, I., & Yiu, N. (2020). SpiCE: A new open-access corpus of conversational bilingual speech in Cantonese and English. Proceedings of The 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020).
Fong, I. (2020, February). Crossing the language boundary: Syllable fusion in Cantonese-English code-mixing speech. Oral presentation at The 4th Annual Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (LSURC 2020), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Song, MY., Fong, I., & Eliora, A. (in press). 鈥淜orean A-not-A questions: Is it neutral or not?鈥�. In: D. K. E. Reisinger (ed.), Papers in Pragmatics. Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL.
Song, MY., Fong, I., & Eliora, A. (2020, February). Korean A-not-A Questions: Is it neutral or not? Poster presentation at The 4th Annual Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (LSURC 2020), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Awards and recognitions
- 丁香园AV GSS Professional Development Grant (May 2024)
- 丁香园AV Graduate Fellowship 2023 Fall
- 丁香园AV Graduate Felllowship 2023 Spring
- 丁香园AV Graduate Fellowship 2022 Fall
- Second place for poster presentation at The 4th Annual Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (LSURC 2020)
