Graduate Students

Tingyu HUANG

PhD Candidate (Full-time)

Thesis (working) title: N/A

Tingyu is currently working on phonetics, phonology and language acquisition. She is investigating learning biases in phonological acquisition and L2 learning effects on L1 phonology.

Supervisor: Dr. Youngah Do

Co-supervisor: Prof Stephen Matthews

Email: huangty@hku.hk

Arthur Lewis THOMPSON

PhD Candidate (Full-time)

Thesis (working) title: N/A

Arthur is currently working to account for phonological iconicity through imitative gestures produced during articulation of mimetic sounds. The goal of his research is to explain why “universals” in sound symbolism are universal and why sound symbolic utterances are intelligible cross-linguistically. Aside from linguistic iconicity and sound symbolism, Arthur’s interests are in phonology, language acquisition, morphology, language documentation, Chinese languages, and sign language. He is on the editorial team for LECT – HKU’s working papers in linguistics and language sciences.

Supervisor: Dr. Youngah Do

Co-supervisor: Prof Stephen Matthews

Pui Yiu SZETO

PhD Candidate (Full-time)

Thesis (working) title: Language contact, language evolution, grammaticalization

Supervisor: Prof Umberto Ansaldo

Co-supervisor: Prof Stephen Matthews

Email: szetopy@hku.hk

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Lang QIN

PhD Candidate (Full-time)

Thesis (working) title: Phonology, L1 Acquisition, Computational Linguistics

Supervisor: Dr. W.T. Siok

Co-supervisor: Prof Stephen Matthews, Prof AC Tang

Email: qinlang@hku.hk

Soyeon PARK

PhD Candidate (Full-time)

Thesis (working) title: Reading development in dyslexia: focus on non-alphabetic writing system

Supervisor: Dr. W.T. Siok

Co-supervisor: Prof Umberto Ansaldo

Email: u3002827@hku.hk

Wah Man Mary MEAU

PhD Candidate (Part-time)

Thesis (working) title: Cognitive factors and reading

Supervisor: Dr. WT Siok

Co-supervisor: Prof. Umberto Ansaldo

Siu Ling TAM

PhD Candidate (Part-time)

Thesis (working) title: Language in Hong Kong Children with Autistic Disorders

Supervisor: Prof Stephen Matthews

Co-supervisor: Dr. WT Siok

LIAO Hanbo

PhD Candidate (Full-time)

Thesis (working) title: N/A

Hanbo is currently working on the study of Kam-Tai substratum in Southern Sinitic languages, especially Cantonese and Pinghua. The goal of his research is to account for the formation of the synthesis of Southern Sinitic languages. In addition to his current topic, Hanbo’s field of study includes Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics, Grammar, and Typology. The languages he is interested in are the Tai-Katai, Southern Sinitic, Austroneasian, and Japonic languages.

Supervisor: Dr. Donohue Cathryn Jane

Co-supervisor: Prof. Stephen Matthews

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