Postgraduate Programme

Master of Arts (MA) programme in Linguistics

Master of Arts (MA) programme in Linguistics
Research Papers (since 2004)

YearNameResearch Paper TopicAward
2025-26WANG YitingRational Language Comprehension: How people’s knowledge related to a proper name modulates language processing-
2025-26YU Kam YingAnalysing the Naturalness of Collocations in Chinese EFL Learners: Corpus-based study with GenAI-
2025-26LING YifanStructural cues update discourse-guided question interpretation in Mandarin sentence comprehension-
2025-26YANG ShantingWhat Drives Children’s Expression of the Inner World? Linguistic and Cognitive Predictors of Internal State Term Use in Cantonese-Speaking Children’s Narratives-
2025-26YAN JinComprehension and Processing of Metaphor by Chinese-speaking Learners of English-
2025-26ZANG YunhaoOmission of Numeral and Classifier in Mandarin-
2025-26WANG XinyueTolerance of Ambiguity and Online Sentence Processing in Mandarin Relative Clauses-
2025-26WU YixuanContact-Induced Grammaticalization of already as a Perfective Marker: Evidence from Mandarin-English Bilingual Children-
2024-25LI XuanlinThe Effect of Suprasegmental Phonetic Features in Mandarin Speech-to-Song Illusion: A Behavioral and EEG study-
2024-25CHEN XinwenThe Influence of Former Music Training and Dual-Tone Language Experience on Tonal Language Speakers’ Non-native Tone Perception-
2024-25SUN YingshuoThe influence of intonation on the perception of Mandarin tones: ERP evidence from L1 and L2 Mandarin Speakers-
2024-25WANG ZhengyaoA Comparative Study of Grammaticality Judgments by Humans and Large Language Models: Evaluating Hong Kong Cantonese Sentences with the verb "bei2" ('give')-
2024-25LIU TzuyuThe impact of classifier-noun agreement on missing NP illusion in double centre-embedding-
2024-25SUN Xinyu“What if” in Two Languages: Exploring Cross-Linguistic Influences on Counterfactual Conditional Reading and Inferences Between Chinese and English-
2024-25ZHONG GuanghaoA Comparative Analysis of Mandarin d?u-V and Cantonese V-saai3 --- A Nanosyntax Perspective-
2024-25LIU ZhanA Comparative Study of Vowel Length Contrast Production by Cantonese-English and Mandarin-English Bilinguals-
2024-25WONG Chun ManPhonetic Transfer in Hong Kong Cantonese-Mandarin Bilinguals During Language Switching: Evidence From Lexical Tone-
2024-25ZHAO YifanL1-Chinese L2-English Bilinguals’ Processing of English Topic Sentences: An Eye-Tracking Study-
2024-25GONG HaoEffects of contextual and morphological cues in L2 lexical inferencing: A hybrid study-
2024-25JU TianqiThe acquisition of new phonetic contrasts in L2 and L3: A production study on Chinese dialectal speakers-
2024-25QIN ZhouyuanThe Structure and Derivation of Post-nominal Relative Clause in Spoken Mandarin and Cantonese-
2022-23Ai, BoteThe Consonant Changes in Ezhou Dialect Under the Influence of Putonghua-
2022-23BHAROTO, Adhi KusumoBasic color signs in Indonesia Sign Langauge (Bisindo)-
2022-23CHENG, Man WaiA case study on the acquisition of (non-)existential predicates in Cantonese and HKSL by a deaf bimodal bilingual child-
2022-23CUI, QiA Phonological Analysis of Syllable Contraction in Pingdingshan Dialect-
2022-23GAN, RuyiInfluence of The Use of VOT and Onset F0 by Mandarin and Korean Speakers on The Acquisition of Spanish Plosive Contrasts-
2022-23GURUNG,  SushilaWh-Questions in Bhutanese Sign Language-
2022-23HONG, DanleiNon-native perception of Chaoshan tones by sequential bilingual Cantonese-Mandarin speakers and monolingual Mandarin speakers-
2022-23Hung, Wan SunnyAcquisition of Pitch Accent for Japanese Compound Words by Hong Kong Cantonese speakers-
2022-23JIN, XinwenNon-native Tone Perception by Native Speakers of Cantonese and Shanghainese-
2022-23MO, YingxiA corpus-based investigation on the acquisition of English verbal inflectional morphemes by Cantonese-English bilingual children and heritage Cantonese children-
2022-23SEN, KrishneerA Cross-Linguistic Study on the Negation in Fiji Sign Language (FJSL)-
2022-23TAWAKETINI , INISE MariaNominal Order of the Noun Phrase in Fiji Sign Language-
2022-23WANG, HaoliangNarrative Features of Cantonese-speaking Children with Autism: A Computational Approach-
2022-23WANG, YanThe Syntax of the Mandarin Num-Cl P Num-Cl Constructions-
2022-23WANG, KaidiAcquisition of Tone Differentiated contrasts in Cantonese Learning Infants-
2022-23WANG, LeyaoCantonese-English code-mixing in written language: A study of social media language use in Hong Kong-
2022-23XIANG, MeiyuThe Home Language Environment and Early Language Development in Rural and Urban China-
2022-23XIAO, BeiChatGPT for Foreign Language Learning-
2022-23YANG, ShuangA clitic doubling construction with kotshən/ko in Chongqing dialect-
2022-23ZHANG, YifengSyntactic Structure and Semantic Interpretation of Constructions on Gradable Adjectives in Mandarin-
2022-23ZHANG, FengyanThe Comparison of Sentence-Final Particles between Mandarin and Jin Dialect-
2022-23ZHOU, YangcenIdentifying Grammatical Properties of Infix tɕ‘iÉ™u  in Chongqing Dialect-
2022-23ZHOU, HenanThe Interaction Between Tone and Intonation of Yes-no Questions in Tangshan Mandarin Dialect-
2021-22JIANG, YueThe Influence of Background Languages and Music Lesson Experience on the Acquisition of L3 Phonology-
2021-22LIU, XinyueAn Analysis of the Medial [i] in the Jin Dialect Spoken in the Donghe District of Baotou-
2021-22LUI, Wai WaImplicit Learning of Korean Obstruent Nasalization Rule and Stress Regularities -
2021-22MENG, HanzhangOn Notional Passives with Resultative Verb Compounds in Mandarin Chinese -
2021-22SHEN, ChenyuanAcoustic Characteristics of Mandarin-English Bilingual Speakers’ L3-Korean Syllable-final /l/: the Role of L1, L2, and L3 Proficiency-
2021-22SUN, JiayingProsodic Encoding of Focus and Interrogative Meaning in Nanjing Dialect-
2021-22WANG, YuningCross-scripts Abstract Radical Identities: A Priming study on Chinese Character Recognition-