WANG Feiya

Publications

WANG Feiya
Title:

Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes

Education Background:
BA (Hunan Normal University)
MA (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Research

Second Language Acquisition, Public Speaking, Second Language Writing

PublicationsInfo

Publications:

Dmitrieva, O., Law, W. L., Lin, M., Wang, Y., Conklin, J., & Kentner, A. (2015). Language attitudes and listener-oriented properties in non-native speech. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

 

Other Publications in the Media:

1. Law, W. L. (April 6, 2011). A lesson of “sosad” [Internet language]. Wen Wei Po. Retrieved from: < http://paper.wenweipo.com/2011/04/06/ED1104060036.htm>

2. Law, W. L. (April 27, 2010). Twenty years of learning is not worth five weeks of sojourn {In Chinese}. Wen Wei Po. [a Chinese newspaper]. Retrieved from: <http://paper.wenweipo.com/2010/04/27/ED1004270021.htm>

3. Law, W. L. (June 15, 2010). That's not what I meant! {In Chinese}. Wen Wei Po.  Retrieved from: <http://trans.wenweipo.com/b5/paper.wenweipo.com/2010/06/15/ED1006150011.htm>

4. Law, W. L. (September, 7, 2010). A taste of culture from language use: Clipping in Australian English {In Chinese}. Wen Wei Po. Retrieved from: < http://paper.wenweipo.com/2010/09/07/ED1009070033.htm>

5. Law, W. L. (September 14, 2010). A taste of culture from language use: New lexical entry to English {In Chinese}. Wen Wei Po. Retrieved from: < http://paper.wenweipo.com/2010/09/14/ED1009140017.htm>

6. Law, W. L. (March 16, 2011). Humour and conversation starters in British English {In Chinese}. Wen Wei Po. Retrieved from: < http://paper.wenweipo.com/2011/03/16/ED1103160036.htm>

7. Law, W. L. (March, 23, 2011). Does language shape thoughts or do thoughts shape language? {In Chinese}. Wen Wei Po. Retrieved from: <http://paper.wenweipo.com/2011/03/23/ED1103230038.htm>

8. Law, W. L. (October 26, 2011). Monoculture in TV programs {In Chinese}. Wen Wei Po. Retrieved from: < http://paper.wenweipo.com/2011/10/26/ED1110260018.htm>

 

Scholarly Presentations:

1. Law, W. L. (2017, March)The effects of social and experiential factors on the interactions between the phonetic systems of bilingual speakers. Invited Talk. Department of English, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA.

2. Law, W. L. (2017, January). The relationships between speaker-specific properties, language mode and interactions between phonetic systems in bilingual speakers. Invited Talk. School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

3. Law, W. L. & Francis, A. L. (2016, September). Language attitudes modulate cross-language influence in speech rhythm and tonality in code-switching. Talk presented at Language Contact in Asia and the Pacific 2016, Macau.   

4. Law, W. L., & Francis, A. L. (2016, June). Degree of bilingualism modulates phonetic interaction between L1 and L2 in code-switching. Talk presented at the 8th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, Aarhus, Denmark.

5. Law, W. L. & Francis, A. L. (2015, November). Phonetic divergence in bilingual speakers is modulated by language attitude. Poster presented at the 170th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Jacksonville, FL, USA.

6. Law, W. L. & Francis, A. L. (2015, September). Common Phonetic Space of L1 and L2 Suprasegmentals: The Case of Speech Rhythm and Tonality in Cantonese-English Bilinguals. Talk presented at the 20th meeting of the Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.

7. Dmitrieva, O., Law, W. L., Lin, M., Wang, Y., Conklin, J., & Kentner, A. (2015, August). Language attitudes and listener-oriented properties in non-native speech. Talk presented at the 18thInternational Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

8. Conklin, J., Kentner, A., Law, W. L., Lin, M., Wang, Y., Dmitrieva, O. (2015, May). Audience Design in non-native speech. Poster presented at the 169th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

9. Law, W. L. (2015, April). Quantifying bilingualism: Relating phonetic production to language proficiency and attitudes. Talk presented at 10th Annual Purdue Linguistics Association Student Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.

10. Law, W. L. & Francis, A. L. (2014, October). Acoustic correlates of bilingualism: Relating phonetic production to language experience and attitudes. Poster presented at the 168th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

11. Law, W. L. (2009, December). The Systematicity of Vowel Realizations in Hong Kong English. Talk presented at the 3rd Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics Research Forum, Hong Kong.