Amy Wing‐mei Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Wing‐mei Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy Wing‐mei |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG A W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Regional variability and ethnic identity
Coding for Demographic Categories in the Creation of Legacy Corpora
A set of shared coding conventions for speaker ethnicity is necessary for open-source data sharing and cross-study compatibility between linguistic corpora. However, ethnicity, like many other aspects of speaker identity, is continually negotiated and reproduced in discourse, and therefore a challenge to code representatively. This paper discusses some of the challenges facing researchers who want to use, create, or contribute to existing corpora…
New York City English and second generation Chinese Americans
Although Chinese Americans set up Chinese heritage language schools as early as 1848 to preserve the heritage language and to promote a sense of ethnic identity among their American-born children (Chao, 1997), there is strong evidence that language shift to English is taking place rather rapidly within the Chinese communities across the U.S. Data from the 2006 ACS show that while only 34.1 percent of first generation (i.e. foreign-born) Chinese A…
Regional variability and ethnic identity
Coding for Demographic Categories in the Creation of Legacy Corpora
A set of shared coding conventions for speaker ethnicity is necessary for open-source data sharing and cross-study compatibility between linguistic corpora. However, ethnicity, like many other aspects of speaker identity, is continually negotiated and reproduced in discourse, and therefore a challenge to code representatively. This paper discusses some of the challenges facing researchers who want to use, create, or contribute to existing corpora…
New York City English and second generation Chinese Americans
Although Chinese Americans set up Chinese heritage language schools as early as 1848 to preserve the heritage language and to promote a sense of ethnic identity among their American-born children (Chao, 1997), there is strong evidence that language shift to English is taking place rather rapidly within the Chinese communities across the U.S. Data from the 2006 ACS show that while only 34.1 percent of first generation (i.e. foreign-born) Chinese A…
Regional variability and ethnic identity
Coding for Demographic Categories in the Creation of Legacy Corpora
A set of shared coding conventions for speaker ethnicity is necessary for open-source data sharing and cross-study compatibility between linguistic corpora. However, ethnicity, like many other aspects of speaker identity, is continually negotiated and reproduced in discourse, and therefore a challenge to code representatively. This paper discusses some of the challenges facing researchers who want to use, create, or contribute to existing corpora…
Anthropology (3 works) · Ethnic group (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Chinese americans (2 works) · History (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Social science (2 works)