Name | Program | Thesis Title | Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
KUANG Hang | PHD | E-type Anaphora in Mandarin Chinese | Prof. Haihua PAN | 2026 |
LI Tianshu | PHD | Reflexive Belief, Reflexive Situation and Semantics of Mandarin Reflexives: Towards a Universal Interpretation of Reflexivity in Human Languages | Prof. Haihua PAN | 2026 |
WANG Jiahong | PHD | Morpho-syntax of Egophoricity in Golog Tibetan | Prof. Lawrence CHEUNG | 2026 |
XU Zebo | PHD | Neurocognitive Processes in Chinese Character Handwriting and Character Amnesia | Prof. Garry CAI | 2026 |
ZHANG Wenyi | PHD | Modelling Interlocutor Linguistic Competence in Linguistic Prediction and Updating: A Visual World Approach | Prof. Garry CAI | 2026 |
ZHU Zhiqiang | PHD | The Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese /r/-/l/ by Japanese Speakers | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2026 |
HONG Xuancu | PHD | Co-speech Deictic Gestures in Early Lexical Acquisition | Prof. Patrick WONG | 2025 |
LAN Chen | PHD | Speech Acquisition of Cantonese by Young Heritage Speakers | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2025 |
LI Chunzi | PHD | Complexity Bias in Phonotactic Learning | Prof. Regine LAI | 2025 |
ZHAO Wenjing | PHD | Language Processing in Cantonese and Hong Kong Sign Language Bimodal Bilinguals | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2025 |
XIA Xue | PHD | Event Definiteness, Temporal Interpretations and Exhaustivity Inference: A Study on Mandarin Shi-de Construction | Prof. Haihua PAN | 2025 |
LIU Zhenting | PHD | Development of Tone Cues in Tone Language Learning Infants | Prof. Regine LAI | 2025 |
DUAN Xufeng | PHD | The Neurocognitive Mechanism of Character Amnesia in Chinese Handwriting | Prof. Garry CAI | 2025 |
WU Hanlin | PHD | Language Comprehension in Speaker Contexts | Prof. Garry CAI | 2025 |
ENDO Eita | PHD | Doubling in Japanese Sign Language | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2024 |
HASLETT David Andrew | PHD | The Role of Similar-sounding Words in Representing Meanings | Prof. Garry CAI | 2024 |
DUNN III Max Shaw | PHD | The Role of Automatic and Interlocutor Modelling Mechanisms in Linguistic Alignment: Comparisons Between Human-Computer and Human-Human Interaction | Prof. Garry CAI | 2024 |
ZHANG Weijun | PHD | Interaction Between Tones and Segments in Wenzhou Wu Chinese: Articulation, Perception and Sound Change | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2024 |
SHANG Mengyao | PHD | Acquisition of Mandarin Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions across Monolingual and Bilingual Contexts | Prof. Virginia YIP | 2024 |
NG Kathleen Teresa | PHD | Examining the Effects of Bilingualism on Executive Functions of Adult Cantonese-Mandarin Bilinguals in Hong Kong | Prof. Virginia YIP | 2024 |
TANG Xuepei | PHD | Syntactic Development in Mandarin-speaking Children: Evidence from Abstract Structural Priming and Lexical Effect | Prof. Patrick WONG | 2024 |
LI Jieqiong | PHD | Bimodal Bilingual Acquisition of Nominal Expressions in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) and Cantonese | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2023 |
KOENDERS Emily Anna Jantien | PHD | The Count-Mass Distinction in Hong Kong Sign Language | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2023 |
REN Xinren | PHD | Third Language Vowel Production and Perception: L3 Korean by Learners with L1 Cantonese and L2 English | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2022 |
| LI Yu Fai | PHD | Manifestation of Cantonese Lexical Tones in Speech Registers | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2022 |
| XU Shimeng | PHD | Emmory Systems Modulate Crosslinguistic Influence on Third Language Morphosyntactic Acquisition | Prof. Patrick WONG | 2022 |
| FENG Ye | PHD | Talker Adaption in Infant Lexical Tone Perception | Prof. Patrick WONG | 2021 |
| LAU Cindy Wan Yee | PHD | Leftward Focus Association : A Study of Cantonese sin and dou | Prof. Lawrence CHEUNG | 2021 |
| REN Qianqian | PHD | Licensing and Interpreting Wh-Elements In-situ in Mandarin Chinese | Prof. Haihua PAN | 2021 |
| WHITE Donald Timothy | PHD | A Longitudinal Study of Second-Language Speech Patterns After Immigration | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2021 |
| XUE Bo | PHD | Elements of Exhaustivity: Exhaustivenness, Exclusivess and Reasoning | Prof. Haihua PAN | 2021 |
| CHEN Shuwen | PHD | Production and Perception of English Rhotic Sounds by Mandarin-English Bilinguals | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2020 |
| HE Jia | PHD | Classifier Realization in Hong Kong Sign Language, Beijing Sign Language and Tianjin Sign Language | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2020 |
| LI Qun | PHD | Scalar Implicatures in Mandarin-speaking Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2020 |
| WANG Luchang | PHD | The Pitch Modifications of Lexical Tones in Cantonese Infant-directed Speech: The Influence from Intonational Factors and Their Associations with Infant Language Development | Prof. Patrick WONG & Prof. Regine LAI (Co-Supervisor) | 2020 |
| ZHU Yanjiao | PHD | Third Language Acquisition : German Speech Patterns Produced by Cantonese-English Bilinguals | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2020 |
| LAU Chung Yin Joseph | PHD | The Neural Manifestation of Phonological Relationships: Implications for Neuro-Phonological Grammar and Theory | Prof. Patrick WONG | 2019 |
| LU Yaqiao | PHD | The Acquisition of Unaccusativity in Mandarin Chinese | Prof. Thomas LEE | 2019 |
| WONG Hin Yee | PHD | The Acquisition of English Verb Particle Constructions and Chinese Directional Verb Complement Constructions in Bilingual Children | Prof. Virginia YIP | 2019 |
| CHEN Aishu | PHD | Morphosyntax-Prosody Interactions in Fuzhou Chinese | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2018 |
| GE Haoyan | PHD | The Processing of Focus in Cantonese-speaking Second Language Learners of English | Prof. Virginia YIP | 2018 |
| MAGGU Akshay Raj | PHD | Complexity Promotes Changes in Phonological Patterns: Evidence from Behavioral and Neurophysiological Measures | Prof. Patrick WONG | 2018 |
| SHI Xinyuan | PHD | Interaction Between Prosody and Syntax in Domain Formation of Suzhou Tone Sandhi | Prof. Patrick WONG | 2018 |
| ZHOU Jiangling | PHD | Object Realization in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children | Prof. Virginia YIP | 2018 |
| LEI Ka Yan Margaret | PHD | The Acquisition of A-quantification in Cantonese | Prof. Thomas LEE | 2017 |
| DENG Xiangjun | PHD | Space, Events and Language Acquisition in Mandarin | Prof. Virginia YIP | 2014 |
| ZHANG Caicai | PHD | Perceptual Normalization of Inter-and Intra-talker Variations in Tone Categorization | Prof. William WANG | 2014 |
| GUO Jie | PHD | Form and Meaning: Chinese Adjectives and Comparative Constructions | Prof. Gu YANG | 2012 |
| LAU Sin Yee Prudence | PHD | Serial Verb Constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2012 |
| LAM Wai Sze | PHD | Early Phrase Structure in Hong Kong Sign Language: A Case Study | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2009 |
| LIU Hongyong | PHD | The Structure of Complex Nominals: Classifiers, Possessives and Relatives | Prof. Gu YANG | 2007 |
| Name | Program | Thesis Title | Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAI Jianyue | MPHIL | Misinterpretation of Semantically Implausible Sentences | Prof. Garry CAI | 2021 |
| KUANG Hang | MPHIL | The Interpretation of the Why-adverbial zenme and Its Acquisition by Mandarin-speaking Children | Prof. Thomas LEE | 2020 |
| LAM Hannah Bou-Lai | MPHIL | Bilingual Acquisition of Determiner Systems in English and Cantonese | Prof. Virginia YIP | 2020 |
| LAM Nga Yee Margaret | MPHIL | Mirativity in Cantonese: Surprise Ascription through Mirative Adverbs | Prof. Lawrence CHEUNG | 2020 |
| LI Tianshu | MPHIL | Incomplete Perfectivity and its Acquisition in Mandarin Chinese | Prof. Thomas LEE | 2020 |
| LI Xiaolin | MPHIL | The Acquisition of Xiamen Citation Tones and Tone Sandhi by Children | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2020 |
| WEI Xiao | MPHIL | Phonological Parameters and Their Effects on Phonological Variation in Hong Kong Sign Language | Prof. Felix SZE | 2020 |
| GANANATHAN Richard Yohann | MPHIL | Perceptual Learning from Production Training with Ultrasound Biofeedback | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2019 |
| HE Meifang | MPHIL | The Role of Word Length in Determining the Chinese Syntactic Structure | Prof. Haihua PAN | 2019 |
| LI Jiayu | MPHIL | A Study on the Interaction Between Negation and Universally Quantified Objects in Mandarin Chinese | Prof. Haihua PAN | 2019 |
| WONG Hok Yuen Oscar | MPHIL | Wh-doublets in Cantonese | Prof. Lawrence CHEUNG | 2018 |
| WANG Xiao | MPHIL | Cantonese Spoken Word Retention : From Perceptual Units to Sublexical Regularities | Prof. Gloria ZHANG | 2017 |
| CHEN Yiyuan | MPHIL | The Dislocation Copying Construction in Spoken Mandarin | Prof. Lawrence CHEUNG | 2016 |
| FUNG Sze Ho Holly | MPHIL | Phonetic Realization of Narrow Focus in Hong Kong Cantonese and its Temporal Relationship with Pointing Gesture | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2016 |
| LAI Yan Ki | MPHIL | The Structure of the Comparative in Cantonese: A Light Verb Approach | Prof. Lawrence CHEUNG | 2015 |
| LI Guo | MPHIL | Prosodically Constrained Wh-Expressions and Syntax in Archaic Chinese | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2015 |
| LI Qun | MPHIL | Acquistion of Chinese Passives by Deaf leaners | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2015 |
| SZETO Pui Yiu | MPHIL | The Emergence of Perfective Apsect in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children: Development and Language Contact | Prof. Virginia YIP | 2015 |
| GE Haoyan | MPHIL | The Acquisition of Right-Dislocation in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children | Prof. Virginia YIP | 2014 |
| KWAN Chung Yin | MPHIL | The Grammar of Placemen in Cantonese-English Bilingual Speakers: Heritage Speakers, Émigré Speakers, and Hong Kong Bilinguals | Prof. Virginia YIP | 2014 |
| LAW Hoi Ki Jess | MPHIL | Parasitic Gaps in Mandarin | Prof. Candice CHEUNG | 2014 |
| LI Jingwen | MPHIL | Acquisition of Lexical Stress in Bilingual Children: English and Cantonese | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2014 |
| SHI Xinyuan | MPHIL | Tone Sandhi of Prosodic Word in Suzhou Chinese | Prof. JIANG Ping | 2013 |
| SHUM Ka Yee | MPHIL | Lexical Development in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children | Prof. Virginia YIP | 2013 |
| XU Bo | MPHIL | Cross-linguistic Perception of Intonation by Cantonese and Mandarin Listeners | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2013 |
| YANG Jing | MPHIL | Mandarin Derived Nominals with Agrument Structure | Prof. GU Yang | 2013 |
| FUNG Hiu Man Cat | MPHIL | Code-blending in Early Hong Kong Sign Language: A Case Study | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2012 |
| LI Mingxing | MPHIL | A Perceptual Study of Mandarin Apical Vowels and Sibilants | Prof. JIANG Ping & Prof. Peggy MOK | 2012 |
| MAK Ka Leong | MPHIL | Movement Classes and Feature Organization in Hong Kong Sign Language | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2012 |
| QIN Zhen | MPHIL | The Perception of Cantonese Tones by Speakers of Tone and Non-tone Languages | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2012 |
| WANG Ruijing | MPHIL | Investigating Linguistic Relativity Through Classifier Effect | Prof. William WANG | 2012 |
| YIU Kun Man | MPHIL | Acquisition of Cantonese Passive bei2 Constructions by Deaf Children | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2012 |
| ZUO Donghui | MPHIL | Formant Dynamics of Diphthongs in the Speech of Bilingual Identical Twins | Prof. Peggy MOK | 2012 |
| CHEN Hui | MPHIL | The Acquisition of Vowel Length in Cantonese | Prof. Thomas LEE | 2011 |
| HE Jia | MPHIL | Instrumental Classifier Predicates in Tianjin Sign Language | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2011 |
| LI Haoze | MPHIL | Focus Intervention Effects in Mandarin | Prof. Candice CHEUNG | 2011 |
| TSE Ming San Crono | MPHIL | A Study of Specificity in Cantonese | Prof. Thomas LEE | 2011 |
| ZU Xin | MPHIL | An Investigation of the Structure of CP and DP in Jingpo | Prof. GU Yang | 2011 |
| DENG Xiangjun | MPHIL | The Acquisition of Resultative Verb Coumpound in Madarin Chinese | Prof. Thomas LEE | 2010 |
| WONG Hin Yee | MPHIL | The Acquisition of Verb Particle Construction in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children | Prof. Virginia YIP | 2010 |
| HUANG Aijun | MPHIL | Count-mass Distinction and the Acquisition of Classifiers in Mandarin-speaking Children | Prof. Thomas LEE | 2009 |
| PENG Yaya | MPHIL | Segmental Phonology of Xuzhou Mandarin | Prof. JIANG Ping | 2009 |
| TAM Su San | MPHIL | Phonotactic Constraints in Four Southern Min Dialects | Prof. JIANG Ping | 2009 |
| TSAI Ya Ching | MPHIL | Ambiguities in Chinese and Italian and their Resolution by Prosody | Prof. Thomas LEE | 2009 |
| HARRISON Alissa May | MPHIL | Intonation-lexical Tone Transfer in the Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin | Prof. JIANG Ping | 2008 |
| WONG Yuet On | MPHIL | Acquisition of Handshape in Hong Kong Sign Language : A Case Study | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2008 |
| GU Chenjie | MPHIL | The Acquisition of Dative Constructions in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children | Prof. Virginia YIP | 2007 |
| LAM Wai Man | MPHIL | Syllable Contraction in Cantonese Connected A-not-A Constructions:An Optimality Account | Prof. JIANG PING | 2007 |
| LEI Ka Yan Margaret | MPHIL | Tone Discrimination in Infants Acquiring a Tonal Language | Prof. Thomas LEE | 2007 |
| WONG Ying Wai | MPHIL | Production and Perception of Tones in Cantonese Continuous Speech | Prof. Thomas LEE | 2007 |
| LEE Yin Fai | MPHIL | Negation in Hong Kong Sign Language | Prof. Gladys TANG | 2006 |
