Welcome toWe are based in the Division of Humanities at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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News and Events
▪ 12/04/2024 Our team member Yuqi WANG was awarded the prestigious Hong Kong PhD Fellowship. Congrats!
▪ 10/04/2024 Our new article about L2/L3 tone perception was published in Second Language Research.
▪ 19/03/2024 An interview featuring our sleep and language learning research was published in Hong Kong Wen Wei Po
▪ 01/03/2024 Three studies led by students were accepted to the 186th ASA meeting (Ottawa) and the ASA (HK).
▪ 18/11/2023 Keep an eye on our team's work presented at TAI 2023 in Singapore and AMLap Asia 2023 in Hong Kong.
▪ 03/10/2023 Our team member Yuqi WANG received Dr. Charles Chan Postgraduate Scholarship 2023/24 for her academic achievement.
▪ 01/09/2023 Welcome to our new member Kangdi LIU (RPG) and Susu LAI (RA)! And farewell to our team alum Ruofan.
▪ 07/08/2023 Our research team have two papers (ID: 157 and 499) presented at the ICPhS 2023 in Prague. Please stop by!
▪ 01/07/2023 Our project about tone learning and memory will be funded by Early Career Scheme, Research Grants Council (Hong Kong).
▪ 23/05/2023 Jeremy and Ruofan were awarded the prestigious Hong Kong PhD Fellowship for PhD studies. Congrats!
▪ 09/05/2023 Yuqi's paper was accepted for oral presentation to the FoCaL-6 in Hong Kong.
▪ 24/03/2023 Our paper was accepted to the HISPhonCog 2023 in Seoul, Korea.
▪ 01/02/2023 We are looking for a Research Assistant/Post-doctoral Fellow. Please apply here. The deadline is 28 Feb, 2023.
▪ 01/01/2023 Our eye-tracking project collaborating with Dr. Jingwei Zhang will be funded by the Multiple-Year Research Grant, Macau.
▪ 15/10/2022 Our team member Jeremy Chui (RPG) received Dr. Charles Chan Postgraduate Scholarship 2022/23.
▪ 01/10/2022 Our project about sleep and mental health was funded by Sustainable Smart Campus as a Living Lab Project.
▪ 01/09/2022 Our project about ageing and language learning was funded by HKUST IEMS Research Grants.
▪ 01/09/2022 Welcome to two new members Ruofan WU (RA) and Yuqi WANG (RPG)! And farewell to our team alum Rui Jin.
We are interested in...
- Second-language learning of speech prosody
It is well established that the first language (L1) is claimed to be responsible for second-language learners’ (in)ability to process sounds in a new language. However, the conditions under which the L1 facilitates or inhibits the learning of new sounds have yet to be understood. Adopting phonetic and psycholinguistic approaches,our research focuses on how lexical tones (Mandarin tones: /pā/ ‘eight’ T1, /pá/ ‘to pull out’ T2, /pǎ/ ‘to hold’ T3, /pà/ ‘father’ T4) and lexical stress (English stress: DEsert vs.deSSERT) are processed by adult second-language learners who speak different languages as L1.
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- Sleep-dependent consolidation of lexical tones
Recent evidence shows that sleep plays a crucial role in transforming newly acquired linguistic knowledge into long-term memory. Given unique characteristics of lexical tones (e.g., high talker-variability of pitch), there is still a vast unexplored area in sleep-mediated memory consolidation of tone learning. By combining behavioral experiments and brain imaging technologies (e.g., EEG), we are dedicated to exploring the relationship between sleep and tone learning, providing memory-based insights for cross-language and cross-age learning of lexical tones.
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- Aging, cognitive, and language learning
Our research is concerned with the well-being of the aging population. Older adults are facing the challenges of age-related dysfunction in language learning and cognition (e.g., memory and attention). Indeed, recent projects have aimed at investigating older adults’ decline in lexical tone learning and the possible relationship with cognitive ability. We also attempt to find evidence that multilingual language experiences (including learning a new language) can mitigate cognitive decline and promote healthy aging.
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Contact us!
Email: [email protected] Location: Room G005, Cheng Yu Tung Building, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong |