“Imagining the bilingual other”. Paper presented at the conference for Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: Sociolinguistic Approaches (BIUNED), Madrid, Spain.  10-11 Nov 2022.

“Singlish particles and politeness work in face-threatening speech acts” [with Y.S. Lai]. Paper presented at the American Pragmatics Association Conference (AMPRA-5), Columbia, South Carolina, United States. 4-6 Nov 2022.

“Rac(ing) accents in Singapore”. Paper presented at the 24th Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS24), Ghent, Belgium. 13-16 Jul 2022.

{Invited talk} “Doing Justice to and in the World of Englishes”. Paper presented at the Linguistic Justice Society, KU Leuven, Belgium. 25 Mar 2022.

 {Invited talk} “How did Singlish come about?”. Paper presented at the National Library Board Series on Language in Singapore, Singlish - A badge of Singaporean Identity or an Enduring Virus?. Singapore. 2 Mar 2022.

​“Between race and nationality”. Paper presented at TGIF special panel on ““Who’s in and who’s out”: Language identity and membership in Singapore”. Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University. 29 Oct 2021.

 “The curious case of nomenclatures: Singapore(an) English​”. Paper presented at TGIF seminar, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University. 27 Aug 2021.

 “Herder and the Myth of Multilingualism in Singapore”. Paper presented at the Multilingualism, Migration and the Multilingual City Symposium. [Online – organized by University of Exeter]. 5-6 Jul 2021. 

“Variations in Singlish Words: New borrowings and disused loans”. Paper presented at the 6th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia Pacific (NWAV-AP6). National University of Singapore. 17-20 Feb 2021. [Chair and organiser of special session: “Same same or different? Variation in Singlish”]

"The Homonogenization of Ethnic Differences in Singapore English?: A Consonantal Production Study.” (with K. Kalaivanan and F. Sumartono). Paper presented at the 6th Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia Pacific (NWAV-AP6). National University of Singapore. 17-20 Feb 2021. [Chair and organiser of special session: “Analyzing variation in the sounds of Singapore English”]

 "New borrowings and disused loans in a changing linguistic ecology”. Paper presented at the Conference for Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. University Putra Malaysia Bintulu, Sarawak. 5-8 Feb 2020.

 "Spontaneous Speech Elicitation for Large Speech Corpus in Multilingual Singapore”. Paper to be presented at the Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech Conference (LPSS), Academia Sinica, Taipei Taiwan. 21-22 Nov 2019.

"Spontaneous Speech Elicitation Methods: Comparison within a Large Corpus”. Paper to be presented at the Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences 2019, Seoul National University, South Korea. 15-16 Nov 2019.

"Building the Singapore English National Speech Corpus”. (with J.X. Koh, A. Mislan, K. Khoo, B. Ang, W. Ang, and C. Ng). Paper presented at Interspeech 2019. Graz, Austria. 15-19 Sep 2019. 

"The Homonogenization of Ethnic Differences in Singapore English?: A Consonantal Production and Perception Study.” (with K. Kalaivanan and F. Sumartono). Paper presented at the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2019. Chania, Greece. 27-30 Aug 2019.

"The Construction of ‘Standard English’ in Singapore”. Paper presented at the Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics International Conference (PAAL), Korea University, South Korea. 20-21 Aug 2019.

{Invited talk} “The Illegitimate Tongue: The Birth of Singlish”. Paper presented at the Harvard College in Asia Program 2019 Spring Conference, Singapore Management University, Singapore. 22 Mar 2019.

{Invited talk} “The Myth of Multilingualism in Singapore”. Paper presented at the Yonsei-NTU Symposium, Yonsei University, South Korea. 10 Jan 2019.

 “Linguistic imperialism meets linguistic justice: Coming to terms with new English worlds”. Paper presented at the 20th International Congress for Linguists. Cape Town, South Africa. 2-7 Jul 2018.

{Invited talk} “The Myth of Multilingualism in Singapore”. Paper presented at the Future of Multilingualism workshop. Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies. 28-30 Jun 2018.

{Invited talk} “Is the loss of language vitality a result of linguistic injustice?” Paper presented at the Language Vitality in the World of Englishes workshop. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 15-16 Mar 2018.

“Doing Justice to and in Linguistics​”. Paper presented at TGIF seminar, Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University. 26 Jan 2018.

 {Invited talk} “Multilingualism and the Herderian ideal”. Paper presented at the Language, Nationalism, Nations: Multilingualism Beyond Europe workshop, convened by P. Mishra and Y.Y. Tan. Sponsored by the Fung Global Fellows Network Grant, organized by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), 29-30 Sep 2017

 {Invited talk} “The Management of Multilingualism in Singapore”. Paper presented at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. 8 Aug 2017. 

 {Invited talk} “Managing Diversity”. Paper presented at the Program for Global Education for Innovation and Leadership, University of Tokyo, Japan. 21 Jan 2017.

 “World Englishes for Linguistic Justice”. Paper presented at the International Association for World Englishes Conference. Syracuse University, USA. 28 Jun -2 Jul 2017.

“Juggling two languages: Malay bilinguals’ code-switching patterns in Singapore” (with F. Sumartono). Paper presented at the 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11). Limerick, Ireland, 11-13 Jun 2017.

 {Invited talk} “Managing Multilingualism”. Paper presented at the Institute of Policy Studies Conference on Managing Diversity. Lee Kuan Yew Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore. 5 Aug 2016.

 {Invited talk} “Perception of stress in World Englishes”. Paper presented at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK. 16 Feb 2016.

{Invited talk} “Intelligibility is not a phonetic problem”. Paper presented at the Centre of Global Englishes, University of Southampton, UK. 09 Feb 2016.

 “Stressed about stress?: Rethinking stress in World Englishes”. Paper presented at TGIF seminar, Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University. 27 March 2015.

 {Invited talk} “Illegitimate standards: The construction of ‘Standard English’ in Singapore”. Paper presented at the Workshop on Languages and Authority: The Authority of Standardization. Princeton University, 26-27 Feb 2015. 

{Invited talk} “English as a Mother Tongue for Singaporeans”. Paper presented at the Institute of Policy Studies Conference on Race, Religion, and Language. Lee Kuan Yew Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore. 9 Oct 2014.

 {Invited talk} “Stressed about stress?: Rethinking stress in World Englishes”. Paper presented at the Linguistics Program Seminar, Princeton University. 29 Apr 2014.

 {Invited talk} “Singlish: An Illegitimate Conception?”. Paper presented at the Fung Global Seminar Series, Princeton University. 3 Apr 2014. 

 {Keynote} “The unofficial report on Singapore’s Official English Language Policy”. Paper presented at the International Colloquium on English as an Official Language in Asia. UNIST, South Korea, 15 Nov 2013. 

 “The Americanization of Southeast Asian Englishes?: Evidence from Singapore Engish”. Paper presented at the 2013 International Conference on English Linguistics, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. 3-6 Jul 2013.

“South Korea – A bilingual society? A study of bilingualism through linguistic landscape”.  (with S. Tan). Paper presented at the 9th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB9). Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 10-13 Jun 2013.

{Invited talk} “Stratified by r: the Singaporean story”. Seminar presented at the National Taiwan University, Graduate Institute of Linguistics. Taipei, Taiwan. 20 Mar 2013.

 {Invited talk} “(Un)intelligibility: A phonetic question or is it a matter of attitude?” Paper presented at Linguistics seminar series, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), CNRS – Université Aix-Marseille. Aix-en-Provence, France. 22 Feb 2013.

 “’English is my mother tongue’: the new role of English in Singapore”. Paper presented at the International Association for World Englishes Conference (IAWE). City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. 6-9 Dec 2012.

{Invited talk} “The r-index and social identities”. Paper presented at the Digital Intangible Heritage of Asia Workshop on Multilingualism and Identities. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 26-27 Nov 2012.

 “Computer Assisted Language Learning in Singapore – Modelling Singapore English for pronunciation variation detection” (with Chen, W., Chng E.S. and Li H.). Paper presented at the 15th International CALL Research Conference. Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan.  24-27 May 2012.

“Intelligibility and attitudes: How Singapore English is perceived around the world”. Paper presented at the English in Asia Conference. Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. 9-12 May 2012.

{Invited talk} “Phonetic variants of ethnicity, age, education and socioeconomic status in a multilingual context”. Paper presented at Linguistics seminar series, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), CNRS – Université Aix-Marseille. Aix-en-Provence, France. 02 Dec 2011.

“To r or not to r: a sociophonetic analysis of /ɹ/ in Singapore English”. Paper presented at the 17th International Conference for Phonetic Sciences. Hong Kong. 17-21 Aug 2011. 

“Singapore English as an ELF: Producing a SgE Language Learning Software” (with C. Castelli and Chng E.S.).  Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF4). Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong. 26-28 May 2011.

 “Social correlates of /r/ in Singapore English”. Paper presented at the Sociophonetics at the crossroads of speech variation, processing and communication. Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy. 14-15 Dec 2010. 

-       Presentation at this event is by competition, then invitation. Only two top papers were chosen to give a presentation alongside the other nine speakers at this workshop, and they are internationally renowned socio-phoneticians such as William Labov (Penn), Gillian Sankoff (Penn), and Sarah Hawkins (Cambridge).

 “Age as a factor in accent identification”.  Poster presented at the Sociophonetics at the crossroads of speech variation, processing and communication. Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy. 14-15 Dec 2010.

-       This paper was nominated for the Young Researcher’s Award at this workshop.

“The development of a Singapore English CALL resource”. (with Chen, W., Chng E.S. and Li H.)  Oriental Chapter of Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques. Kathmandu, Nepal.  24-25 Nov 2010.

“Native Perception of Prominence in Singapore English?: Implications for Kachru’s Inner and Outer Circles”.  Paper presented at the 12th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences. The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. 26-27 Jun 2010.

“Eastern Tunes to Western Words: Prosody in Contact Varieties of English”.  Paper presented at the Inaugural Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities. Osaka, Japan. 18-21 Jun 2010.

“Prosodic Prominence in Malay”. Paper presented at the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. University of Zurich, Switzerland. 10-11 Jun 2010.

 “Ghosting Power, Language and the Nation-State: Kelvin Tong’s Men in White” (with I. Goh). Paper presented at the International Conference for Asian Scholars (ICAS6). Daejeon, South Korea.  6-9 Aug 2009.

“The Politics of Language in Contemporary Singapore Cinema”. Paper presented at the Conference on ‘Global Languages, Local Cultures’ (Organised by the American Comparative Literature Association). Harvard University. USA. 26 -29 Mar 2009.
-       I was the Seminar Leader for the panel “Language of Politics/Politics of Language” at the same conference.

“Tonal allocation of Malay loanwords in Teochew” (with Ng BC).  Paper presented at the Loanwords in the Asian Context Workshop. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 9 Mar 2009.

“Borrowed and lost: The story of Malay loanwords in Hokkien and Teochew” (with Ng BC). Paper presented at the Loanwords in the Asian Context Workshop. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 9 Mar 2009.

 “Diversity in accent perception: A cross-generational study of ethnic accent perception in Singapore”. Paper presented at the Language and Diversity Symposium. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 5-6 Mar 2009.

{Invited talk} “A Cyclical Phonological Exercise: Tone Sandhi in Chaozhou”. Seminar paper presented at the Department of English and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University. Hong Kong. 6 Dec 2008.

 “No more ethnic varieties: the Singapore exception to the Dynamic Model”. Paper presented at the International Association for World Englishes Conference (IAWE). City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 1-5 Dec 2008.

“Singapore’s Linguistic Genocide Programme”. Paper presented at the 18th International Congress for Linguists (CIL18). University of Korea, South Korea. 21 -26 Jul 2008.

 {Invited talk} “How David Perceives Prominence: Differences in the Perception of Prominence between Singapore and British speakers”. Paper presented at the National Institute of Education Linguistics Colloquium, Singapore. 28 Jul 2007.

“Borrowed and lost: The story of Malay loanwords in Hokkien and Teochew and what it tells us about the evolving nature of multilingualism in Singapore.” (with Ng BC). Poster presented at 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB6). University of Hamburg, Germany. 30 May -2 Jun 2007. 

“Linguistic Genocide in Singapore”. Seminar presented at the Language and Communication Centre Brown Bag Series, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 24 Aug 2006.

“The Politics of Language in Singapore”. Seminar paper presented at SIM University, Singapore. 22 Mar 2006.

 “The Malayness of the Teochew lexicon”. Paper presented at International Conference of Asian Lexicology (ASIALEX 2005). Singapore. 1-3 Jun 2005.

 “Is the stressed syllable stressed?! Acoustic and perceptual properties of stress in the ethnic varieties of Singapore English”. Paper presented at 8th International Conference on English in Southeast Asia Conference (ESEA). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 8-10 Dec 2003.

“Singapore English Pharmakon: Schizoglossia and Sur-vival”(with I. Goh). Paper presented at International Conference for Asian Scholars (ICAS’03). Singapore. 19-22 Aug 2003. 

“The linguistic landscape of Singapore”. Seminar presented at ‘In the Beginning Series, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 6 Feb 2003.

“Perceptual cues of stress in the ethnic varieties of Singapore English.” Paper presented at 13th World Congress for Applied Linguistics (AILA 2002). Singapore. 16-21 Dec 2002.

“The perception of prominence in the ethnic varieties of Singapore English.” Paper presented at NUS-LUND Linguistics Colloquium. Singapore: National University of Singapore.  29-30 Oct 2002.

“How are we stressed?! Phonetic correlates and stress placement in Singaporean English.”  (with L. Lim). Paper presented at Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference (PTLC2001). London: University College London. April 2001.  

“Acoustic correlates of stress in the ethnic subvarieties of Singapore English.”  Paper presented at the Workshop of Analysis of Varieties of English intonation and prosody (WAVEip). Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. 12-14 Dec 2000.

“Acoustic correlates of stress in the Chinese, Malay and Indian subvarieties of Singapore English.” Seminar presented at Research Scholars Seminar. Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore.  Jul 2000.

“Intonation patterns of the ethnic sub-varieties of Singapore English: A substratist analysis.” Paper presented at Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL 2000) at the 74th Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Chicago, USA. 7-8 Jan 2000.