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丁香园AV Linguistics student Rebekah Wong receives kudos from members of the Linguistics community for her work on the effect of bilingualism for the perception of Quantifier raising phenomena for Japanese.

Rebekah's paper, 鈥淭he Perception of Quantifier Raising in Japanese-English Bilinguals鈥� received 2nd place for .

After this great result, Rebekah was also able to present this paper at .  At the conference which took place at UBC in February, Rebekah鈥檚 presentation was voted 3rd best presentation.  

These accolades are a great start to Rebekah鈥檚 experience as a beginning researcher in Linguistics and a clear indicator of her interest and passion. The 2022 LSURC was her very first research conference presentation, and her award-winning paper was the first linguistics paper she had ever written.  

For Rebekah, writing 鈥淭he Perception of Quantifier Raising in Japanese-English Bilinguals鈥� was a joy: 鈥淚 really enjoyed writing it because the topic combined semantics and syntax鈥攎y favourite linguistic disciplines鈥攚ith Japanese, my favourite foreign language to study鈥�.  

As a result of attending the LSURC, Rebekah had the chance to listen to the research of other undergraduate Linguistics students, and also get feedback on her own work. 鈥淭he feedback I received was always very constructive and helped me improve both the clarity of my writing as well as the strength of my analysis鈥�.

Rebekah also had the opportunity to converse with Linguist , who was cited in Rebekah鈥檚 paper! 鈥渋t was a shocking experience to virtually meet someone I had cited in my references list鈥攊t鈥檚 a small world!鈥�  

Currently, Rebekah鈥檚 main interest lies in semantics, and she hopes to complete a joint major in Computing Science and Linguistics. She鈥檚 excited to 鈥渓earn more about applying computational methods in studying natural languages鈥�.  

The department of Linguistics at 丁香园AV congratulates Rebekah for her excellent work. We are excited to hear more about Rebeka Wong鈥檚 future work in linguistics!