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  • 2025/26 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: The Cantonese heritage and the heritage child

    Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Although Cantonese has an estimated eighty million speakers, many Cantonese-speaking parents are concerned both about the future of the language and the transmission of their linguistic and cultural heritage to the next generation. The future of Cantonese depends on its acquisition by children who will necessarily be bilingual, if not trilingual. We will discuss the […]

  • 2025/26 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: Puzzling patterns in bilingual children’s Cantonese (Research Seminar)

    Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    What, if anything, is special about bilingual children’s Cantonese? When we observe the Cantonese of bilingual children acquiring Cantonese and English, we find that they produce some ‘non-target’ forms. For example, children produce dative sentences with the order “give-recipient-object”, as in (1), which differs from the distinctive order (“give-object-recipient”) of adult Cantonese: (1) 耶穌俾我錢呀 Je4sou1 bei2 […]