Lian-Hee Wee
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lian-Hee Wee is involved.
Title
2023 Review of Lee (2023): Kongish: Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect Babel 69:3, pp. 421–424 | Review
2022 Melodic-prosodic duality of the syllable: An application to Chinese The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese, Wee, Lian-Hee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang (eds.), pp. 82–115 | Article
Implicit in all current theories of the syllable is some assumption of the internal configuration. Prevalent among these are the onset-rime (OR) and the moraic (μ) models, both supported by rather different types of evidence. The OR model favors an interpretation where constituency is exhaustive… read more
2022 Preface The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese, Wee, Lian-Hee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang (eds.), pp. 1–3 | Introduction
2016 代表属性: 发音人的选择和语料有效性 [Parameters of representativeness: Subject selection and data integrity] International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3:1, pp. 160–174 | Article
As an empirical study, linguistic investigations rely heavily on the selection of suitable subject speakers as representatives of a language community, which in turn underline the necessity of determining representativeness. Through explicit description of the parameters that define a target… read more
2014 Review of Agnihotri & Singh (2013): Indian English: Towards a New Paradigm Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry, Lahti, Katherine, Rusty Barrett and Anthony K. Webster (eds.), pp. 515–519 | Review
2014 Casual speech elision and tone sandhi in Tianjin trisyllabic sequences International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1:1, pp. 71–95 | Article
In the Tianjin dialect, casual utterance of familiar trisyllabic sequences often induces deletion of phonological segments so that for a trisyllabic string, the non-final syllables would merge into a single syllable. This elide-and-merge process interacts with the rich Tianjin tone sandhi system to… read more
2010 Review of Abbas & Dervin (2009): Digital Technologies of the Self Pragmatics and Society 1:1, pp. 173–177 | Review