{"id":5791,"date":"2012-05-11T11:12:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/?post_type=conference&#038;p=5791"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:16:14","slug":"participation-at-the-14th-international-conference-on-contemporary-linguistics-in-china","status":"publish","type":"conference","link":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/conference\/participation-at-the-14th-international-conference-on-contemporary-linguistics-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Participation at the 14th International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Date: 11\/05\/2012&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;13\/05\/2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Conference on Contemporary Linguistics is one of the major linguistic conferences held in every two years in mainland China. This year, Xian International Studies University, took the role of organizing the conference with the support of the editorial committees of the journals Contemporary Linguistics and Foreign Language Education and Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers at the Centre presented 6 papers in this conference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Spoken language development by deaf children<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Production of nominal compound by Cantonese-speaking deaf children&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Oral language development of Deaf and hard-of-hearing children in the Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Programme&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Assessing the Chinese grammatical knowledge of deaf and hearing children in the Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf 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