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 [...]
Congratulations to HKU Iinguistics graduates Sharon Lee and Szeto Pui-Yiu on their Outstanding Thesis Awards from the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
Outstanding Thesis Award 2019 (MA category) - "Focus Prosody in Cantonese - The Case of Verb-copying Constructions" by Sharon Tsoi Lam Lee Outstanding Thesis Award 2019 (Ph.D. category) - "Typological Variation Across Sinitic Languages: Contact [...]
HKU-led study tracks 17 languages and finds all languages convey information at similar rates, regardless of whether they are spoken faster or slower
Dr. Christophe Coupe has recently published a paper titled "Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: comparable information rates across the human communicative niche" in Science Advances (https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw2594). His findings have been reported by several media including Mingpao, Economist, [...]
Experiential learning classes in Archaeology open to all Faculty of Arts students!
Experiential learning classes in Archaeology open to all Faculty of Arts students! For more information, please follow this link.
Thank you to everyone for making AJL3 such a success last weekend!
More AJL3 photos could be downloaded here.