Sarah Lee

Contact details:
Herring Hall, Rice University
sarah.lee'at'rice.edu

Hi! I am a graduate student at Rice University. My interests include: usage-based research methods in linguistics, in particular cognitive/functional grammar, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics. I enjoy researching on contact languages, especially those found in Southeast Asia, e.g. Hokkien, Malay/Indonesian, and English varieties in Asia (India, Singapore, Malaysia) and Australia. I also like learning about Southeast Asian, South and East Asian cultures and related issues.

Articles

Lee S. Submitted. The tone system of Penang Hokkien - an acoustic analysis. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society.

Ziegeler D & Lee S. To appear. The ACTION FOR RESULT metonymy in Singaporean and Malaysian English. To appear in Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar (Antonio Barcelona, Klaus-Uwe Panther, Günter Radden and Linda Thornburg, (eds.).

Ziegeler D & Lee S. 2006 Causativity reduction in Singaporean English. English World-Wide 27/3: 265-294

Lee S & Ziegeler D. 2004 Analysing a semantic corpus study across English dialects: searching for paradigmatic parallels. In Corpus Linguistics around the World (Andrew Wilson, Paul Rayson, & Dawn Archer, eds.). [Language and Computers series], 121-140. Amsterdam: Rodopi

Lee S. 2001 Serial verb causative construction in Penang Hokkien: a Southern Min dialect. Masters thesis, University of Sydney. Unpublished.

Some Paper and Poster Presentations

2009. Who speaks Penang Hokkien? Issues when selecting speakers of a shifting contact language. Poster presented at the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation. University of Hawaii, Manoa. March 12-14 2009.

2008. Pan-Chinese culture: its impact on the linguistic identity of Chinese Malaysians. Paper presented at the Nationalism, Culture & Identity: New Boundaries in Asia" conference. Arizona State University. October 11th 2008.

2007. Periphrastic Causatives: Contrast across three dialects. Paper presented at the 2nd Biennal Meeting of the Rice Lingusitics Society. Rice University. 21-22 February 2007.

2006. An acoustic analysis of the tone system of Penang Hokkien. Paper presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia. May 21-22 2008.

2003. Periphrastic Causatives: contrast across three English dialects. Paper presented at the Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics Workshop. Cornell University. May 2-4 2003.

2003. Analysing a semantic corpus study across English dialects: searching for paradigmatic parallels Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2003. 28-31 March 2003.

Teaching Experience

2009 (Fall). TA for LING205 Language and Society Guest lecture: Language and Ethnicity

2007 (Fall). TA for LING 200 Introduction to the Scientific Study of Languages. Guest lecture: Metaphor and language.

2006 (Fall). TA for LING 200 Introduction to the Scientific Study of Languages. Guest lecture: Metaphor and language.

2003 (Feb). Corpus Linguistics. Guest lecture in the Dept of English, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Penang, Malaysia

Education

2006- . PhD in Linguistics. Rice University, USA

2001. Master of Letters in Linguistics (with Merit). University of Sydney, Australia.

1995. Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.