Big Congrats to Dr. Song!
Big congratulations to Dr. Yoonsang Song, who has received an Early Career Award from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong: https://www.ugc.edu.hk/....../award/award20221107.html Dr. Song's project is a neurolinguistic investigation of second language learners' morphological processing. [...]
MA admission application is now open!
Please click here for more details! Application closes on 30 March 2023 noon.
Information Day!
Today is Information Day! Our booth will be located at LG07-LG10. If you have a chance, please visit us!
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 [...]
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 [...]