Stephen Matthews
Students supervised by Stephen Matthews as the principal supervisor:
Ph.D.
M.Phil.
- TSANG Wai Lan (1997). Variation in the use of the particle ge in Hong Kong Cantonese.
- LEUNG Yan Kit, Ingrid (1998). The acquisition of French as a third language in Hong Kong -- Interlanguage and typology.
- LEUNG Wing Pik, Bella (2000). The acquisition of linguistic politeness phenomena in Hong Kong bilingual children.
- LEUNG Tsz Cheung (2001). An optimality-theoretic approach to Cantonese/English code switching.
- CHAN Yin Fung, Betty (2001). Towards an interactive view of third language acquisition: the case of the German Vorfeld.
- SZETO Lok Yee, Cecilia (2002). Between dialect and language: aspects of intelligibility and identity in Sinitic and Romance.
- LI Kin Ling, Michelle (2002). Cantonese causative constructions: iconicity, grammaticalization and semantic structures.
- KWAN Wing Man, Stella (2005). On the word order of locative prepositional phrases in Cantonese: processing, iconicity and grammar.*
(* winner of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Best MPhil Thesis Award, 2005)
- YIU Sze Man, Emily (2005). Language mixing and grammatical development in a Cantonese-English balanced bilingual child.
- LAI Yee King, Regine (2006). Language mixing in an English-Cantonese bilingual child with uneven development.
- LAU, Elaine (2006). The acquisition of relative clauses by Cantonese children: an experimental approach.
- CHEUNG Ki Shun, Antonio (2006). Processing factors in language comprehension and production: the case of Cantonese dative constructions.*
(* winner of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Best MPhil Thesis Award, 2006)
- CHAN Ming Kei, Kevin. (2007). The perception and production of lexical stress by Cantonese speakers of English.*
(* winner of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Best MPhil Thesis Award, 2008)
- CHING Hoi Lam, Helen. (2008). The advantages of topicalization: An experimental study of sentence processing in Cantonese.
- TSE Ping Ping. (2008). Homophone effects in Cantonese-English bilinguals.
- CHOI Wing Yung, Ritty. (2010). Processing of topicalized sentences in Cantonese.
B.Cog.Sci.
- MUNG Kai Yin, Erica (1999). A quantitative investigation on language dominance and transfer in bilingual children.
- YEUNG Yuet Ying, Louisa (2000). An experimental study on sentence parsing: topicalization in Cantonese.
- KWAN Suk Mei, Fiona (2000). Parsing and processing of sentences with pretransitive constrcution in Cantonese.
- HO Shuk Kwan, Samantha (2003). Syntactic transfer in Cantonese-English bilingual development: a corpus-based study of phrasal verbs.
- CHEUNG Ki Shun, Antonio (2004). On the role of weight in constituent order in Cantonese: an experimental study of double object constructions.
- MAK Ching Sum, Ophelia (2004). Language development in autistic children: null subjects, pronominal use and role reversal.
- KWOK, Randy (2004). Cantonese-English code-mixing in early bilingual development.
- LEE Nim Yan, Naomi (2005). Interlanguage phonology in a Chaoyang speaker of Cantonese.
- LEUNG Shuk Ching, Fiona (2005). Syntactic transfer in Cantonese-English bilingual development: a corpus-based study on prepositional phrases in Cantonese.
- CHUNG Tak Chuen, Michael (2006). Code-mixing and syntactic transfer in child bilingualism.
- CHOI Wing Yung, Ritty and CHAN Ching Yi (2006). The study of pragmatic effects on processing topicalization in Cantonese.
- WONG Kwok Leung, Alfred (2006). Topicalized versus canonical word order in Cantonese: a production study.
- LIU Yu Hong, Simon (2006). An experimental study of verb-doubling and domain minimization in Cantonese.
B.A. (Cantab), M.A., Ph.D. (Southern Calif.)
Associate Professor
School of Humanities (Linguistics)
M124, Main Building,
The University of Hong Kong,
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.
Tel: 2859-2752 Fax: 2546-4943
Email: matthews at hku dot hk