Dr. Margaret Lei received her B.Eng. (Hons) in Information Engineering and Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology, and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining the Department, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lab Manager at the Language Acquisition Laboratory (LAL), CUHK and a part-time lecturer at the Division of Humanities, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests lie in first and second language acquisition, semantics, syntax, and the development of numerical cognition, with particular reference to Cantonese and Mandarin. Her current research projects include the acquisition of A-quantifiers, cardinal and ordinal numbers, quantifier scope, and completive aspect in Cantonese and Mandarin, the role of language acquisition in the development of numerical cognition, the early grammar of Shanghainese-speaking children, and syntactic change in Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Language acquisition (L1 and L2)
• Syntax and Semantics
• Cantonese grammar
• Language and Cognition

• LING1000 Invitation to Linguistics
• LING2007 Linguistic Argumentation I
• LING2008 Linguistic Argumentation II
• LING3201 First Language Acquisition
• LING5103A/LING5103B Foundations in Language Acquisition
• LING5802 Research Practicum
• SLPA5403 Language Acquisition for Speech-Language-Pathology
• UGED1924 Invitation to Linguistics