Workshop on Population Movements, Language Contact in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and Evolutionary Linguistics
Online - all welcome! 8-11 June 2022 : "Population Movements, Language Contact in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and Evolutionary Linguistics" For more information, click here. Co-conveners: Salikoko S. Mufwene, Stephen Matthews, Virginia Yip, and [...]
Congratulations, Lewis!
Our MPhil graduate, Mr. Cheung Ching Yat Lewis, has been offered a PhD scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. He will work with Limor Raviv, an up-and-coming scholar working in the fields [...]
Chaire Internationale 2022 – Kofi Yakpo – Multicausal approaches to language contact
We are happy to announce that Dr. Kofi Yakpo has been invited as a guest professor with the Laboratory of Excellence “Foundations of Language" (Sorbonne & Université Paris Cité, France), and is going to give [...]
MA applications are now open!
Please click here for more details! Application closes on 30 March noon.
A Myriad of Voices – Student Documentary Film on Linguistic Diversity and Vitality in Malaysia
A Film and a Website by the School of Humanities (Department of Linguistics), The University of Hong Kong:A MYRIAD OF VOICES: LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY & VITALITY IN MALAYSIAThe documentary film A Myriad of Voices and the website and [...]
MA application is now open!
You can visit here for more information of our MA programme, or here for application. Application deadline: 30 Mar 2021 noon
New publication in the journal Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Check out a new paper on second language morphological processing by our HKU linguists (Dr. Song, Dr. Do, Dr. Thompson, and Dr. Waegermaekers)! Full text available here. SECOND LANGUAGE USERS EXHIBIT SHALLOW MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSING Abstract [...]
We are hiring!
Come join us!! Assoc/Full Professor Position in Language Diversity and Documentation at HKU! Applications are due soon: 13 June 2020. See the link for details. https://jobs.hku.hk/en/job/500057/professorassociate-professor-in-language-diversity-and-documentation
Welcome, Dr. Song!
We would happy to welcome a new member of staff to our department! Dr. Yoonsang Song’s research explores the syntactic and morphological representation of language, with a particular focus on how language is processed by [...]