T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre

Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (CrCL)

Catalogues and Articles

Volume 99 Number 1 (January 2020)

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Special Topic: The 22nd International Conference on Yue Dialects

1	Foreword (in Chinese)
	Andy C. Chin, Shin Kataoka and Hin-Tat Cheung

Keynote Speeches

3	“West End Speech”: The Sound of Urbanity of Canton and Hong Kong That Expanded to Shanghai (in Chinese)
	May Bo Ching

11	From “Ding¹Dong¹” to “Ding⁴Ling¹Dong⁴Long⁴”: Reflections on Yue – Cantonese Quadra-syllabic Expressions
	Benjamin K. Tsou

Parallel Sessions

21	The Reconstruction of Proto-Yue Vowel System: An Improvement of Huang’s System (2009)
	Giorgio (Georg) Orlandi

37	Innovations on Fenyun Cuoyao: Textual History and Phonological Reconstruction (in Chinese)
	R. Y. H. Sham

73	Analysis of the Pronunciations, Formative Methods of Phrases and Syntax of Medical Communicative Language in the Canton Dialect Noted by John Glasgow Kerr (in Chinese)
	Ling Yann Wong

101	Poster and Photos

105	The Special Pronunciation for the Character “Waan1” in Hong Kong Place Names (in Chinese)
	Chaak-Ming Lau and Sze-Wing Tang

117	The Diversity and Multilayered-ness of Derivational Morphology in Cantonese (in Chinese)
	Hsiufang Yang

137	Defending the Notion of Defocus in Cantonese
	Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee

153	Three Discontinuous Constructions of Cantonese Verbal Suffix Can (in Chinese)
	Ka-Fai Yip

171	Is Cantonese Less Useful Than English? An Investigation of Language Attitudes in the Guangdong Province of China (in Chinese)
	Xing Fang

195	Hong Kong Cantonese and Taiwanese Southern Min Written Language Trends Since the Mid-1990s (in Chinese)
	Masayuki Yoshikawa