DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
| Researcher : Ansaldo U |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Ansaldo U. and Matthews S.J., The origins of Macanese reduplication , In: G. Escure & A. Schwegler, Creoles, Contact and Language Change. John Benjamins, 2004, 1-15. |
| Researcher : Bodomo AB |
| Project Title: | Complex predicates and serial verbs across languages: issues of syntax, semantics, and information structure |
| Investigator(s): | Bodomo AB |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 10/2002 |
| Abstract: |
| To account for the morphological and syntactic properties of various types of complex predicates. A major underlying research issue here is to provide an explanation for how two or more spearate predicates can integrate to form a complex predicate, even under various syntactic alternations; to develop a set of descriptive constraints and a mechanism to show how they interact to fully account for the grammaticality of some types of serial verbs in Dagaare, Twi, Cantonese and other languages, and causative complex predicates in French and Norwegian; to look beyond syntactic and other formal issues in the complex predicate construction and consider how grammatical structure interacts with pragmatics and information structure; to produce several outputs that are significant in the field of syntax and its interfaces with other components of the grammar, with particular reference to pragmatic-information level phenomena. |
| Project Title: | Text and tune: a study of the interrelationship between language and music among the Dagaaba of Ghana, West Africa |
| Investigator(s): | Bodomo AB, Mora M |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Incentive Award for RGC CERG Fundable But Not Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 07/2003 |
| Completion Date: | 08/2004 |
| Abstract: |
| To study the language/music interrelationships, in particular, the interdependency between linguistic tone and melodic contour in tonal languages found in West Africa; to study textual and thematic content of the songs; to study the social, cultural and political function and context of songs performances. |
| Project Title: | Communicating in the age of information technology: new forms of language and their educational implications |
| Investigator(s): | Bodomo AB |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Quality Education Fund |
| Start Date: | 09/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To address the issue of "language standards" through analyzing texts produced by the youth in new information communications technologies (ICT texts); to investigate the plausibility of using ICT and its textual products in language education; to develop an online corpus of ICT texts for language teaching. |
| Project Title: | Ideophones in African and Asian languages |
| Investigator(s): | Bodomo AB |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate the properties of ideophones and issues surrounding this potential word class. |
| Project Title: | Complex predicates and serial verbs from a cross-linguistic perspective: issues of syntax, semantics, and information structure |
| Investigator(s): | Bodomo AB |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Merit Award for RGC CERG Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 01/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| Refer to hard copy |
| Project Title: | Complex predicates and serial verbs from a cross-linguistic perspective: issues of syntax, semantics, and information structure |
| Investigator(s): | Bodomo AB |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
| Start Date: | 01/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate a group of grammatical features that are recurrent in many languages under the collective name of complex predicates; to develope a specific theory explaining the nature of grammatical information structuring in natural languages. |
| Project Title: | An investigation into the grammatical structure of the Zhuang language |
| Investigator(s): | Bodomo AB |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Louis Cha Fund |
| Start Date: | 03/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| The aim of this project is to survey specific aspects of the structure and organization of the Zhuang language, the largest "minority" language in the People's Republic of China (PRC) with about 20 million speakers. It is a Tai-Kadai language spoken mainly in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the PRC. The PI aims to come up with a comprehensive grammar of the Zhuang language, but this present project will focus on the kinship terms in the language. A study of kinship terms in a language is essential not only to the study of the language itself, but also to the understanding of the organization of the Zhuang people, their families and their society. Eventually, other aspects of the language, including the structure of the nominal and verbal phrases, will also be investigated. The role of grammatical fieldwork analysis becomes significant here, as it is only through systematic and well-planned field methods that one will be able to elicit natural Zhuang data from native speakers of the language as they go about their everyday activities. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Bodomo A.B., Binding Relations in Mashan Zhuang: Field Notes from Guangxi, Workshop on Zhuang Language. 2005. |
| Bodomo A.B., Constructing knowledge through online bulletin board discussions, In: C. Howard et al., Encyclopedia of Distance Learning. Idea Group Inc., 2005, pp 386-393. |
| Bodomo A.B., Does Africa exist in Hong Kong people’s world? , 香港人的「世界」沒有非洲?, Oxfam in Action. Hong Kong, Oxfam, 2004, 9. |
| Bodomo A.B., Does Africa exist in Hong Kong people’s world?. , 香港人的世界沒有非洲?, Ming Pao Daily News. 2004. |
| Bodomo A.B., Lam O.S.C. and Yu S.S., Double Object and Serial Verb Benefactive Constructions in Cantonese, Acta Orientalia. 2004, 65: 69-89. |
| Bodomo A.B., Interaction in Web-based learning, In: C. Howard et al., Encyclopedia of Distance Learning . Idea Group Inc., 2005, pp 1130-1139. |
| Bodomo A.B., Joan Bresnan, In: P. Strazny, Encyclopedia of Linguistics . New York, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004, pp 153-155. |
| Bodomo A.B., LING2018 Lexical-Functional Grammar, WebCT Course Design. 2005. |
| Bodomo A.B., LING2041 Language and Information Technology, WebCT Course Design, 2004. |
| Bodomo A.B., LING2050 Grammatical Description, WebCT Course Design, 2004. |
| Bodomo A.B., LING3003 Field Trip, WebCT Course Design, 2005. |
| Bodomo A.B., LING7005 Grammar: Theories and Applications, WebCT Course Design, 2004. |
| Bodomo A.B., Moore and the Gur languages, In: P. Strazny, Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004, pp 708-711. |
| Bodomo A.B., Optimal Corporate Social Responsibility: How Asian Companies can Invest Responsibly but Profitably in Africa, African Studies Group Roundtable. 2005. |
| Bodomo A.B. and Hiraiwa K., Relativization in Dagaare, In: Adams B. Bodomo, Journal of Dagaare Studies. Hong Kong, 2004, 4: 53-75. |
| Bodomo A.B., The Developed World's Responsibility Towards the Developing World: The Case of Hong Kong and Africa, The Corporate Social Responsibility Conference, Ansted University, Penang, Malaysia. 2004. |
| Bodomo A.B., Marfo C.O. and Wong P.M.T., The Linguistic, Cultural and Ethnic Repertoire of Tsim Sha Tsui's Chungking Mansions: A Study in Urban Anthropological Linguistics, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Annual Research Forum. 2004. |
| Bodomo A.B., Vice-Chancellor’s Nomination to attend ASAIHL 2005 (annual seminar of the The Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning) on ‘Applications of Computing and Information Technology in Higher Learning’ on behalf of the University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong. 2005. |
| Lam O.S.C. and Bodomo A.B., A Conceptual Framework for Building the Hong Kong Treebank: A Pilot Study, International Workshop on Human Language Technology. 2004. |
| Researcher : Chan HD |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chan H.D., Li G. and Tan L.H., An fMRI study of neural circuitry of nouns and verbs in early bilinguals’ brain, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2005. |
| Weekes B., Chan H.D., Jin Z., Kwok S.W. and Tan L.H., A functional MRI study of AOA effects on Chinese language processing, 28th International Congress of Psychology. 2004. |
| Weekes B., Chan H.D., Jin Z., Kwok S.W. and Tan L.H., Effects of age limited learning on word recognition in Chinese: Evidence from brain imaging., Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2005. |
| Yang J., Siok W.T., Chan H.D., Chen L., Eden G. and Tan L.H., Development of neural mechanisms for Chinese reading: An fMRI study, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2005. |
| Researcher : Chor OW |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Luke K.K. and Chor O.W., The grammaticalization of FAAN: from verb to discourse particle, The LSHK Annual Research Forum. CUHK, 2004. |
| Luke K.K. and Chor O.W., The grammaticalization of FAAN: from verb to expressive particle, CUHK Seminar. 2005. |
| Researcher : Fu G |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Fu G. and Luke K.K., An integrated approach to Chinese word segmentation, Journal of Chinese Language and Computing. 2004, Vol.13, No. 3: 249-260. |
| Fu G. and Luke K.K., Chinese named entity recognition as known word tagging, Proceedings of the first Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS2004). ACM Press, 2004. |
| Fu G. and Luke K.K., Chinese named entity recognition using lexicalized HMMs, ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter. 2005, Vol.7, No.1: 19-25. |
| Fu G. and Luke K.K., Chinese unknown word identification as known word tagging, Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2004). IEEE Press, 2004, 2612-2617. |
| Fu G. and Luke K.K., Chinese unknown word identification using class-based LM, In: Keh-Yih Su, et al., Lecture Notes in Computer Science (IJCNLP 2004). Springer, 2005, 3248. |
| Xu J., Fu G. and Li H., Grapheme-to-Pinyin for Chinese text-to-speech system, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH 2004 - ICSLP). Jeju Island, Korea, Korea: Sunjin Printing Co., 2004, 1885-1888. |
| Researcher : Hiraiwa K |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Bodomo A.B. and Hiraiwa K., Relativization in Dagaare, In: Adams B. Bodomo, Journal of Dagaare Studies. Hong Kong, 2004, 4: 53-75. |
| Researcher : Kwok SW |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Weekes B., Chan H.D., Jin Z., Kwok S.W. and Tan L.H., A functional MRI study of AOA effects on Chinese language processing, 28th International Congress of Psychology. 2004. |
| Weekes B., Chan H.D., Jin Z., Kwok S.W. and Tan L.H., Effects of age limited learning on word recognition in Chinese: Evidence from brain imaging., Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2005. |
| Researcher : Lam OSC |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Bodomo A.B., Lam O.S.C. and Yu S.S., Double Object and Serial Verb Benefactive Constructions in Cantonese, Acta Orientalia. 2004, 65: 69-89. |
| Lam O.S.C. and Bodomo A.B., A Conceptual Framework for Building the Hong Kong Treebank: A Pilot Study, International Workshop on Human Language Technology. 2004. |
| Lam O.S.C., A Preliminary Survey of Classifiers in Zhuang, Workshop on Zhuang Language. 2005. |
| Lam O.S.C., Aspects of the Cantonese Verb Phrase: Order and Rank, Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2004. |
| Lam O.S.C., HKU Outstanding Research Student Award 2003-2004, 2005. |
| Researcher : Lau FKC |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Luke K.K. and Lau F.K.C., Compressed forms in the speech of university students in Hong Kong, The LSHK Annual Research Forum. CUHK, 2004. |
| Researcher : Lee WS |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Lee W.S., An Acoustic Investigation of the Cantonese Vowels in the Speech of the Adult and Child Speakers, The 149th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America, joint meeting with the Canadian Acoustical Association. USA, The Acoustical Society of America, 2005, 117, No. 4, Pt. 2: 2428-2429. |
| Researcher : Luke KK |
| Project Title: | Linguistic form compression: an investigation of second-order encoding in language |
| Investigator(s): | Luke KK, Bodomo AB, Lee WS, Perry C, Nancarrow OT, Han Y. |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Merit Award for RGC CERG Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 09/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To study: (1) for any linguistic expression, how long is too long, and how should length be measured? (2) What are the motivations (both internal and external to language) for linguistic form compression? (3) What kinds of compression methods are available and what is their distribution across languages and language types? Languages from which data will be collected and analysed include Chinese, Dagaare, English, French, German, Hausa, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Swahili, Twi, and others. |
| Project Title: | Linguistic form compression: an investigation of second-order encoding in language |
| Investigator(s): | Luke KK, Bodomo AB, Lee WS, Perry C, Nancarrow OT, Han Y. |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
| Start Date: | 09/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To study: (1) for any linguistic expression, how long is too long, and how should length be measured? (2) What are the motivations (both internal and external to language) for linguistic form compression? (3) What kinds of compression methods are available and what is their distribution across languages and language types? Languages from which data will be collected and analysed include Chinese, Dagaare, English, French, German, Hausa, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Swahili, Twi, and others. |
| Project Title: | Automatic annotation technologies for Cantonese corpus |
| Investigator(s): | Luke KK, Fu G |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding Programme for Applied Research |
| Start Date: | 10/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To build a large-scale annotated Cantonese corpus and develop relative automatic annotation technologies to support Cantonese studies and applications. |
| Project Title: | 'Elastic Sentences': towards a typology of turn continuations in conversation |
| Investigator(s): | Luke KK |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Merit Award for RGC CERG Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 01/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| Refer to hard copy |
| Project Title: | 'Elastic Sentences': towards a typology of turn continuations in conversation |
| Investigator(s): | Luke KK, Flynn Chang C, Zhang W, Wu D.D.Y., Couper-Kuhlen E., Ono T. |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
| Start Date: | 01/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| To specify the inter-relationships among prosody, syntax, and pragmatics in the production and comprehension of turn continuations in Chinese conversations, and to test, through comparison with other languages, the validity of Couper-Kuhlen, Ono and Vorreiter's cross-linguistic typology of turn continuations. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Fu G. and Luke K.K., An integrated approach to Chinese word segmentation, Journal of Chinese Language and Computing. 2004, Vol.13, No. 3: 249-260. |
| Fu G. and Luke K.K., Chinese named entity recognition as known word tagging, Proceedings of the first Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS2004). ACM Press, 2004. |
| Fu G. and Luke K.K., Chinese named entity recognition using lexicalized HMMs, ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter. 2005, Vol.7, No.1: 19-25. |
| Fu G. and Luke K.K., Chinese unknown word identification as known word tagging, Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2004). IEEE Press, 2004, 2612-2617. |
| Fu G. and Luke K.K., Chinese unknown word identification using class-based LM, In: Keh-Yih Su, et al., Lecture Notes in Computer Science (IJCNLP 2004). Springer, 2005, 3248. |
| Luke K.K. and Lau F.K.C., Compressed forms in the speech of university students in Hong Kong, The LSHK Annual Research Forum. CUHK, 2004. |
| Luke K.K., On the Significance of Grammatical Words in Determining the Genealogical Status of Cantonese, the Roundtable Discussion on the Position of Cantonese among Chinese Dialects. CityU, 2005. |
| Luke K.K., Sociolinguistic re-configuration: Hong Kong before and after 1997, the International Symposium on Bilingualism: Linguistic, Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives. 2005. |
| Luke K.K. and Chor O.W., The grammaticalization of FAAN: from verb to discourse particle, The LSHK Annual Research Forum. CUHK, 2004. |
| Luke K.K. and Chor O.W., The grammaticalization of FAAN: from verb to expressive particle, CUHK Seminar. 2005. |
| Luke K.K., 說延伸句, In: 中國社會科學院語言研究所《中國語文》編輯部編, 慶祝《中國語文》創刊50周年學術論文集, 北京, 商務印書館, 2004, 1: 39-48. |
| Luke K.K., 延伸句的跨語言對比, 語言教學與研究, 北京, 北京語言學院出版社, 2004, 1-9. |
| Luke K.K., 論語法的適應性－廣州話“先”字的個案分析, 特邀演講, 廣州暨南大學, 2004. |
| Researcher : Marfo CO |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Bodomo A.B., Marfo C.O. and Wong P.M.T., The Linguistic, Cultural and Ethnic Repertoire of Tsim Sha Tsui's Chungking Mansions: A Study in Urban Anthropological Linguistics, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Annual Research Forum. 2004. |
| Researcher : Matthews SJ |
| Project Title: | Parsing principles and constituent order in Cantonese: a corpus-based study |
| Investigator(s): | Matthews SJ, Francis EJ, Perry C |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2003 |
| Completion Date: | 10/2004 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate a set of word order patterns instantiated in Cantonese from a novel theoretical perspective, that of Hawkins (1994, 2002), which focuses on how constitutent structure is recognised and assembled in real-time language processing. |
| Project Title: | Parsing principles and constituent order in Cantonese |
| Investigator(s): | Matthews SJ, Francis EJ, Perry C, Yip V. |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
| Start Date: | 10/2004 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate some typologically unusual word order properties of Cantonese from the perspective of the 'performance' theory of Hawkins (1994) and related work. |
| Project Title: | Parsing principles and constituent order in Cantonese |
| Investigator(s): | Matthews SJ |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Merit Award for RGC CERG Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 01/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| Refer to hard copy |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Ansaldo U. and Matthews S.J., The origins of Macanese reduplication , In: G. Escure & A. Schwegler, Creoles, Contact and Language Change. John Benjamins, 2004, 1-15. |
| Matthews S.J., Cantonese grammar in areal perspective, International Workshop on Grammars in Contact. 2005. |
| Matthews S.J. and Yip V., Contact-induced grammaticalization in bilingual development: the case of 'one'-relatives, Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Annual Meeting. 2005. |
| Matthews S.J. and Wong R.K.S., Domain minimization in Cantonese dative constructions, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. 2005. |
| Matthews S.J., Review of Growing up with Tok Pisin: Contact, Creolization and change in Papua New Guinea’s National Language, by Geoff P. Smith., Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 2005, 20: 208-211. |
| Matthews S.J. and Smith G.P.S., Substrate influence as reflected in Chinese and English sources for China Coast Pidgin , Creole structure between substrate and superstrate. 2005. |
| Researcher : Perry C |
| Project Title: | Examining the time-course of the integration of linguistic tone with syntax and semantics |
| Investigator(s): | Perry C, Tan LH, Lee WS, Luke KK, Ziegler J.C. |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Incentive Award for RGC CERG Fundable But Not Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 07/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To identify the time course of syntactic and semantic processing, in relation to tone processing; to examine the underlying representation of spoken words, and whether access to these representations is affected by tone sandhi rules (i.e. rules that change the spoken tone of a word depending on the tones of other words in a sentence. |
| Project Title: | Reading and computational models: A cross-language comparison |
| Investigator(s): | Perry C, Grainger J., Ziegler J.C. |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme - Travel Grants |
| Start Date: | 01/2004 |
| Completion Date: | 09/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| To extend models of reading aloud so that they can deal with the distribution of phonology used in English, French and German reading; to collect behavioral data in French and German; to extend models of reading aloud to see if they can deal with the new data. |
| Researcher : Siok WT |
| Project Title: | Reading development and reading disorders of bilingual children |
| Investigator(s): | Siok WT, Luke KK |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 10/2004 |
| Abstract: |
| To examine the cognitive factors underlining reading success/failure in Chinese-English bilingual children. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Deutsch G.K., Dougherty R.F., Bammer R., Siok W.T., Gabrieli J.D.E. and Wandell B., Children’s reading performance is correlated with white matter structure measured by diffusion tensor imaging. , Cortex. 2005, 41: 353-363. |
| Tan L.H., Siok W.T., Chen L. and Eden G., Functional anatomy of reading development, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2005. |
| Tan L.H., Spinks J.A., Eden G., Perfetti C.A. and Siok W.T., Reading depends on writing, in Chinese., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2005, 102: 8781-8785. |
| Yang J., Siok W.T., Chan H.D., Chen L., Eden G. and Tan L.H., Development of neural mechanisms for Chinese reading: An fMRI study, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2005. |
| Researcher : Tai CP |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Tai C.P., Literacy Practices and Functions of the Zhuang Character Writing System, Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, 2005. |
| Researcher : Tan LH |
| Project Title: | Cognitive and brain processing of the Chinese language |
| Investigator(s): | Tan LH, Yang ES, Shen GG, Perry C, Spinks JA, Yip V., Siok WT, Fox PT |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Central Allocation Vote - Group Research Project |
| Start Date: | 02/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate cognitive processes of Chinese reading and character recognition; to identify functional neuro-anatomical substrates of sub-lexical phonological computation; to determine the brain mechanism underlying Chinese language production. |
| Project Title: | Age of acquisition and language processing: cognitive and brain-mapping studies |
| Investigator(s): | Tan LH, Perry C, Weekes B.S., Li P., Tao S. |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Merit Award for RGC CERG Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 09/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To use age-of-acquisition effects (AoA effects) to investigate how cognitive and neural systems for Chinese language processing are developed. Two important theories that will be tested are the phonological completeness hypothesis and the arbitrary mapping hypothesis. Specially: By examing reading the picture naming in Chinese and comparing the results from Chinese reading with those reported previously from English reading, we will be able to discover how quality representations of lexical items are shaped with learning and practice. The effect of AoA will be further examined by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In particular, identifying the areas that are activated and comparing them with previous research on semantic processing should allow us to evaluate the contribution of AoA to cortical localization of language processing. |
| Project Title: | Age of acquisition and language processing: cognitive and brain-mapping studies |
| Investigator(s): | Tan LH, Perry C, Weekes B.S., Li P., Tao S. |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
| Start Date: | 09/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| To use age-of-acquisition effects (AoA effects) to investigate how cognitive and neural systems for Chinese language processing are developed. Two important theories that will be tested are the phonological completeness hypothesis and the arbitrary mapping hypothesis. Specially: By examing reading the picture naming in Chinese and comparing the results from Chinese reading with those reported previously from English reading, we will be able to discover how quality representations of lexical items are shaped with learning and practice. The effect of AoA will be further examined by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In particular, identifying the areas that are activated and comparing them with previous research on semantic processing should allow us to evaluate the contribution of AoA to cortical localization of language processing. |
| Project Title: | Learning to read in Chinese: Possible intervention strategies implicated by fMRI studies |
| Investigator(s): | Tan LH, Siok WT |
| Department: | Linguistics |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 02/2005 |
| Abstract: |
| Refer to hard copy proposal |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chan H.D., Li G. and Tan L.H., An fMRI study of neural circuitry of nouns and verbs in early bilinguals’ brain, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2005. |
| Leong C.K., Tan L.H., Hau K.T. and Cheng P.W., Learning to read and spell English words by Chinese students, Scientific Studies of Reading. 2005, 9: 63-84. |
| Leong C.K., Cheng P.W. and Tan L.H., The role of sensitivity to rhymes, phonemes and tones in reading English and Chinese pseudowords, Reading and Writing. 2005, 18: 1-26. |
| Perfetti C.A., Liu Y. and Tan L.H., The lexical constituency model: Some implications of research on Chinese for general theories of reading, Psychological Review. 2005, 112: 43-59. |
| Spinks J.A., Zhang X., Fox P.T., Gao J.H. and Tan L.H., More workload on the central executive of working memory, less attention capture by novel visual distractors: Evidence from an fMRI study., NeuroImage. 2004, 23: 517-524. |
| Tan L.H., Associate Editor, Human Brain Mapping. 2005. |
| Tan L.H., Brain processing of nouns and verbs by Chinese-English bilinguals., The 28th International Congress of Psychology. 2004. |
| Tan L.H., Siok W.T., Chen L. and Eden G., Functional anatomy of reading development, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2005. |
| Tan L.H., Invited Lecture, Fudan University Summer Institute of Linguistics, China. 2004. |
| Tan L.H., Invited Lecture, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA. 2004. |
| Tan L.H., Invited Lecture, Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists. 2005. |
| Tan L.H., Invited Lecture, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 2004. |
| Tan L.H., Invited Lecture, International Congress of Psychology. 2004. |
| Tan L.H., Invited Lecture, Sun Yat-Sen University, China . 2004. |
| Tan L.H., Invited Lecture, University of Maryland College Park, USA. 2004. |
| Tan L.H., Member of Editorial Board, Brain and Language. 2005. |
| Tan L.H., Laid A., Li K. and Fox P.T., Neuroanatomical correlates of phonological processing of Chinese characters and alphabetic words: A meta-analysis, Human Brain Mapping. John Wiley and Sons, 2005, 25: 83-91. |
| Tan L.H., Spinks J.A., Eden G., Perfetti C.A. and Siok W.T., Reading depends on writing, in Chinese., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2005, 102: 8781-8785. |
| Tan L.H., The neuroanatomical system underlying Chinese reading and its constraints on second language learning, Hong Kong Journal of Paediatrics. 2005, 10: 131-139. |
| Weekes B., Chan H.D., Jin Z., Kwok S.W. and Tan L.H., A functional MRI study of AOA effects on Chinese language processing, 28th International Congress of Psychology. 2004. |
| Weekes B., Chan H.D., Jin Z., Kwok S.W. and Tan L.H., Effects of age limited learning on word recognition in Chinese: Evidence from brain imaging., Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2005. |
| Wong S.W.H., Spinks J.A. and Tan L.H., Neural substrate underlying CHinese language processing., International Journal of Psychology. 2004, 39: 479. |
| Wong W.H.S., Spinks J.A. and Tan L.H., Neural substrate underlying Chinese language processing, 28th International Congress of Psychology. 2004. |
| Xiao Z., Zhang X., Wang X., Wu R., Hu X., Weng X. and Tan L.H., Differential activity in left inferior frontal gyrus for pseudo and real words: An event-related fMRI study on auditory lexical decision, Human Brain Mapping. 2005, 25: 212–221. |
| Yang J., Siok W.T., Chan H.D., Chen L., Eden G. and Tan L.H., Development of neural mechanisms for Chinese reading: An fMRI study, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2005. |
| Zhang X., Feng J., Fox P.T., Gao J.H. and Tan L.H., Is left inferior frontal gyrus a general mechanism for selection?, NeuroImage. 2004, 23: 596-603. |
| Zhou B., Zhang X., Tan L.H. and Han S., Spatial congruence in working memory: an ERP study, NeuroReport. 2004, 15: 2795-2799. |
| Researcher : Wong PMT |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Bodomo A.B., Marfo C.O. and Wong P.M.T., The Linguistic, Cultural and Ethnic Repertoire of Tsim Sha Tsui's Chungking Mansions: A Study in Urban Anthropological Linguistics, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Annual Research Forum. 2004. |
| Researcher : Wong RKS |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Matthews S.J. and Wong R.K.S., Domain minimization in Cantonese dative constructions, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. 2005. |
| Researcher : Yang J |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Yang J., Siok W.T., Chan H.D., Chen L., Eden G. and Tan L.H., Development of neural mechanisms for Chinese reading: An fMRI study, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. 2005. |
| Researcher : Yu SS |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Bodomo A.B., Lam O.S.C. and Yu S.S., Double Object and Serial Verb Benefactive Constructions in Cantonese, Acta Orientalia. 2004, 65: 69-89. |
| Researcher : Zhang W |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Zhang W., Code-choice in bidialectal interaction: the choice between Putonghua and Cantonese in a radio phone-in program in Shenzhen, Journal of Pragmatics. 2005, 37 (issue 3): 355-374. |
| Researcher : Zhang X |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Spinks J.A., Zhang X., Fox P.T., Gao J.H. and Tan L.H., More workload on the central executive of working memory, less attention capture by novel visual distractors: Evidence from an fMRI study., NeuroImage. 2004, 23: 517-524. |
| Xiao Z., Zhang X., Wang X., Wu R., Hu X., Weng X. and Tan L.H., Differential activity in left inferior frontal gyrus for pseudo and real words: An event-related fMRI study on auditory lexical decision, Human Brain Mapping. 2005, 25: 212–221. |
| Zhang X., Feng J., Fox P.T., Gao J.H. and Tan L.H., Is left inferior frontal gyrus a general mechanism for selection?, NeuroImage. 2004, 23: 596-603. |
| Zhou B., Zhang X., Tan L.H. and Han S., Spatial congruence in working memory: an ERP study, NeuroReport. 2004, 15: 2795-2799. |