Current Team Members
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Quentin Zhen QIN 秦震 Ph.D.Principal Investigator
[email protected]; CV Personal website ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6117-7809 Quentin is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also Associate Director of Center for Chinese Linguistics and a faculty associate of Center for Aging Science, HKUST. He got his Ph.D degree in Linguistics from the Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas. Prior to joining the faculty at HKUST, he worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Center for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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Susu LAI 賴素素 (BA: Hunan U; MA:HKU)Susu graduated from the University of Hong Kong with an MA degree in Linguistics. She has a strong interest in psycholinguistics, specifically understanding how individuals acquire and process the prosodic features of a second language. In her previous research project, she explored implicit learning of lexical stress in second language acquisition. She is currently involved in an EEG study on L2 learners' consolidation of Cantonese tones during daytime naps.
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Jeremy, Yin To CHUI 徐彥韜 (BA: CUHK; MA: PolyU; MPhil: UST)Jeremy graduated with an MA degree in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from HK PolyU. He is interested in speech perception as well as the cognitive and computational mechanisms behind perceptual learning. Currently, he is working on whether, and to what extent, younger and older adults make statistical inferences (e.g. distributional information, word-referent co-occurrences) in the implicit perceptual learning L2 lexical tone categories. His previous MPhil project studied the statistical learning of Mandarin lexical tones and how individual differences played a role in learning. Jeremy’s Ph.D study is funded by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship.
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Yuqi WANG 王宇琪 (BA: Tianjin U)Yuqi graduated from Tianjin University with a BA Degree in English. She is interested in tone perception and the bilingual effect on cognition. She is now working on how the individual bilingual experiences influence the attentional control ability in a Forced Attention Dichotic Listening Task of Cantonese Tones. Her past project studied how social factors influence the pronunciation of Chinese mainland singers when singing.
Yuqi's MPhil study was funded by Humanities Postgraduate Research Grant. |
Kangdi LIU 劉康迪 (BA: NENU; MA: Nankai)Kangdi graduated from Nankai University with a master's degree in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. She is interested in phonetics and psycholinguistics, especially focusing on Chinese tones. Her past project studied tone variation and change in the Chinese dialects/languages. At present, she is working on the beneficial effect of prior knowledge on older adults’ memory consolidation in nonnative tone learning.
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Past Members and Alumni
· Yuxin ZHU (MGCS Research Assistant, 2021-2022)
· Martin,Yu Ting LEE (RPG Research Assistant, 2021) · Minzhi GONG (Research Assistant, 2020) · Weijie TAN (Research Assistant, 2019) |
Opportunity
If you’re interested in joining our research team as an RA or Post-doc, please send your CV, together with writing samples or research proposal, to the P.I. at [email protected] . We will NOT respond to your email if you don't attach writing samples or proposals.
- Priority of opportunity will be given to those with a strong background in psycholinguistics or who work on memory consolidation and/or aging in tone learning.
- We are NOT interested in applicants whose research is language pedagogy-oriented.