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The 4th Variamu workshop will be held at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, on January 6th and 7th, 2015.Here is the programme:The First Day (Jan. 6th, 2016)8.30-8.45RegistrationVenue: GH8038.45-9.00Opening CeremonyVenue: GH80309.00-09.50Keynote SpeechWilliam S-Y WangLanguage in Diachrony&#160;ThemesTalks09.50-10.45How to compare languagesPhilippe BlacheComputational Typology: How to Compare Languages from TreebanksChu-Ren Huang Endurant vs. Perduant: An Ontological View of How Variations are Linguistically Conventionalized10.45-11.05Tea Break11.05-12.00From party games to language resourcesLaurent PrévotQuantitative Linguistics of Social InteractionsYao YaoConversations in Party Games12.00-12.55Distributional semanticsEmanuele ChersoniDependency-based Modeling of Joint-context in Distributional SimilarityEnrico Santus, Qin Lu, Alessandro Lenci, and Chu-Ren HuangNot All Contexts are Equal: Automatic Detection of Antonyms, Hyponyms, Co-hyponyms, and Synonyms in Distributional Semantic Model12.55-14.25Lunch Break14.25-15.20Social variationsJulie AbbouSounding Like You? What For? Linguistic Accommodation at the Crossroad of Individual Agency, Norms and Social Categories​ Sophia Y. M. LeeEmotion and Code-switching&#160;15.20-16.35DysarthriaSerge Pinto Dysarthria : Presentation of the French - Portuguese dataVivian Lee，Karen Yiu, Jasmin Sadat, Serge Pinto, Iris Lam and Angel ChanSpeech Characteristics of Cantonese Patients with Parkinson’s DiseaseDustin Lau Phonology-to-Orthography Conversions in Chinese:Evidence from a dysgraphic patient16.35-16.55Tea Break16.55-17.55Internal Discussion on Collaboration Possibilities IThe Second Day (Jan. 7th, 2016)9.00-9.50Keynote speechNoël NguyenStudies on phonetic convergence between speakers in interactional speech&#160;ThemesTalks09.50-10.45Chinese as a second languageMarco CappelliniTelecollaborations and (learner) corpora for French and Chinese as Foreign Languages Sun-A KimChinese character learning: Interplay of character types, working memory, and Chinese proficiency10.45-11.05Tea Break11.05-12.00ArticulationYohann MeynadierMake Whisper Intelligible: Aerodynamics of Voicing Contrast and Vocal Effort in Whispered FricativesMantak Leung et. al.TBC12.00-12.55Regional variationsJames GermanIntonational Meaning and Regional Indexing in Corsican French ListenersAngel ChanAsymmetries in Cantonese Children’s Processing of Relative Clauses: Variations and Competition12.55-14.30Lunch Break 14.30-15.25Neuro-imaging study of language differencesChotiga PattamadilokThe Influence of Writing System Characteristics on Spoken Language Processing: A comparison between logographic and alphabetic systemCaicai ZhangNeural Impairment of Tone Language Speakers with Congenital Amusia15.25-15.35Closing Session15.35-16.05Tea Break16.05-18.05Internal Discussion on Collaboration Possibilities II