See my CV for complete list of presentations
O25)
“Comparing two vowel mergers in Toronto vs. Hong Kong Cantonese in terms of functional load”, Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2024) Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January, 5, 2023
O24)
“AM/P~OM/P merger in Hong Kong vs. Toronto Cantonese: An under-documented homeland sound change in a heritage language context”, New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 51), Queens College - CUNY, New York, NY, October, 13, 2023
O23)
“Cross-linguistic comparisons of high vowels within individual speakers of Toronto Heritage Cantonese”, Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 13), University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, November 11, 2022
O22)
“Cross-linguistic Phonetic Similarity vs. Phonemic Transfer in Toronto Heritage Cantonese High Vowels”, UIC Bilingualism Forum (BilForum), University of Illinois - Chicago, October 28, 2022
O21)
“Is There Cross-linguistic Influence of English /u/ on Toronto Cantonese High Round Vowels?”, Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-6), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, virtual conference, May 27, 2022
O20)
“The pre-nasal allophonic splitting of /ɛ/ in Toronto Heritage Cantonese”, part of the Workshop on VariAsian: Contact and Change in North American Speech Communities, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2021), Virtual Conference, January 9, 2021
O19)
“The om/op ~ am/ap merger in Cantonese: Acoustic evidence of a not quite completed sound change” Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-5), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (hosted as a virtual conference), April 18, 2020
O18)
Naomi Nagy, James Stanford, and Holman Tse. “Tone mergers in spontaneous speech and gaps in the tone inventory” Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-5), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (hosted as a virtual conference), April 18, 2020
O17)
“Functional load, token frequency, and contact-induced change in Toronto Heritage Cantonese vowels” Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2020), New Orleans, LA, January 2, 2020
O16)
“Does standard Chinese mean anything for Cantonese vowel variation?” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 48), University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, October 11, 2019
O15)
“What can diasporic languages teach us about the development of phonological distinctions?: Examples from Somali Chizigula Stops and Toronto Cantonese Vowels” LSA Summer Institute Symposium on Linguistic Research with Diaspora Communities, UC Davis, Davis, CA, June 30, 2019
O14)
“The vowels in 'pig' vs. 'tofu': A contact-induced merger in Toronto Heritage Cantonese?” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 47), New York University, New York, NY, October 21, 2018
O13)
“Heritage Language Maintenance and Phonological Maintenance in Toronto Cantonese Monophthongs? – But They Still Have an 'Accent'!” Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA 2017), Austin, TX, January 8, 2017
O12)
“Contrast Maintenance and Innovation in Toronto Heritage Cantonese High Vowels” Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-3), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, March 12, 2016
O11)
Andrew Peters & Holman Tse “Evaluating the Efficacy of Prosody-lab Aligner for a Study of Vowel Variation in Cantonese” Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-3), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, March 12, 2016
O10)
”The Role of Contact in Expanding Sound Inventories: Evidence from Toronto Heritage Cantonese” 39th Annual Meeting of the the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association (APLA 39 ALPA), Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, November 6, 2015
O9)
”Is Heritage Language Phonology Conservative?: Evidence from Variation and Change in Toronto Heritage Cantonese Vowels” New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 44), Toronto, ON, Canada, October 24, 2015
O8)
"Retroflexion in Somali Bantu Kizigua: Language Shift and a Contact-Induced Explanation to What Looks Like an Internally Motivated Sound Change" Linguistic Society of America Annual Conference, Portland, OR, January 8, 2015
O7)
”Pre-nasalized Retroflexion in Somali Bantu Kizigua: A Typologically Rare Sound Change Facilitated by Historic Contact with Related Languages” 12èmes rencontres du Réseau français de phonologie / 12th Annual Conference of the French Phonology Network (RFP 2014), Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3, Lille, France, July 1, 2014
O6)
Naomi Cui, Minyi Zhu, Vina Law, Holman Tse & Naomi Nagy. "Exploring automated formant analysis for comparative variationist study of Heritage Cantonese and English" Canada Variation and Change (CVC 8), Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, June 1, 2014
O5)
"Evidence from Retroflexion in Kizigua: How Language Maintenance was Possible in the Context of Forced Migration in Pre-Civil War Somalia", Migration and Language Conference, Penn State University, University Park, PA, November 20, 2013
O4)
"Methodological considerations in the study of sociophonetic variation in an underdocumented minority language: Somali Bantu Kizigua as a case study", Jétou 2013, Toulouse, France
Awarded Best Paper Presentation Prize, May 17, 2013
O3)
"The Diachronic Emergence of Post-Nasal Retroflexion in Somali Bantu Kizigua: Internal Motivation or Contact-Induced Change?", Joint Meeting of the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) and the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Mar. 10, 2013
O2)
"Consonant and Tone Interaction in Cantonese",
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Grad Expo,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Awarded Outstanding Presentation Award, Mar. 22, 2012
O1)
"Lexical Tone Effects on Voice Onset Time in Cantonese", Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Mar. 16, 2012
P3)
“Linguistic dominance, use, and proficiency as factors in heritage language sound change” Workshop on Sound Change 5, UC Davis, Davis, CA, June 21, 2019
P2)
“Can Heritage Speakers Innovate Allophonic Splits Due to Contact?” Poster presented for the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Conference, New York City, NY, January 5, 2019
P1)
”Phonetic vs. Phonological Considerations in Inter-generational Vowel Change in Toronto Heritage Cantonese”, Poster for Symposium on Language contact in the mind and in the community: Insights from bilingual phonetics and phonology, Linguistic Society of America, Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., January 8, 2016
M1)
"Kizigua Language Research", Invited Talk for the Pittsburgh Somali Bantu Cultural Celebration, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 21, 2012