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Here are the slides of the presentations given to the 4th Variamu Workshop, held on January 7th &#38; 8th, 2016, @ Polyu, HK.Thanks to all the contributors!Keynote speechWilliam S-Y Wang: Language in Diachrony How to compare languages Philippe Blache: Computational Typology: How to Compare Languages from Treebanks Chu-Ren Huang: Endurant vs. Perduant: An Ontological View of How Variations are Linguistically ConventionalizedFrom party games to language resources Laurent Prévot &#38; Yao Yao: Conversations in Party Games. Quantitative Linguistics of Social InteractionsDistributional semantics    Emanuele Chersoni: Dependency-based Modeling of Joint-context in Distributional Similarity Enrico Santus, Qin Lu, Alessandro Lenci, and Chu-Ren Huang: Not All Contexts are Equal: Automatic Detection of Antonyms, Hyponyms, Co-hyponyms, and Synonyms in Distributional Semantic ModelSocial variations       Julie Abbou: "Sounding Like You? What For?" Linguistic Accommodation at the Crossroad of Individual Agency and Social Categories ​Sophia Y. M. Lee: Emotion and Code-switchingDysarthria      Serge Pinto: Dysarthria : Presentation of the French – Portuguese data Vivian Lee，Karen Yiu, Jasmin Sadat, Serge Pinto, Iris Lam and Angel Chan: Speech Characteristics of Cantonese Patients with Parkinson’s Disease Dustin Lau: Phonology-to-Orthography Conversions in Chinese: Evidence from a dysgraphic patientKeynote speechNoël Nguyen: Studies on phonetic convergence between speakers in interactional speechChinese as a second language Marco Cappellini: Telecollaborations and (learner) corpora for French and Chinese as Foreign Languages Sun-A Kim: Chinese character learning: Interplay of character types, working memory, and Chinese proficiencyArticulation    Yohann Meynadier: Make Whisper Intelligible: Aerodynamics of Voicing Contrast and Vocal Effort in Whispered Fricatives Mantak Leung et. al.: TBCRegional variations  James German: Intonational Meaning and Regional Indexing in Corsican French Listeners Angel Chan: Asymmetries in Cantonese Children’s Processing of Relative Clauses: Variations and CompetitionNeuro-imaging study of language differences  Chotiga Pattamadilok: The Influence of Writing System Characteristics on Spoken Language Processing: A comparison between logographic and alphabetic system Caicai Zhang: Neural Impairment of Tone Language Speakers with Congenital Amusia