Language Acquisition Group

Key objectives

• To investigate cross-language consonants production and perception, first and second language sentence perception in noise by adults, as well as the relationship between speech production and perception.
• To examine roles of discourse markers in spoken discourse; to compare across languages prosodic and textual features of discourse markers; and to study the effects of such features in cross-language acquisition.

Group Members

Director:

Dr. LI Bin

Core members:

Dr. CHAN Yuet Hung Cecilia
Dr. OH Sunyoung
Dr. ZHANG Wei

Research Staff:

Miss CAO, Wenling
Miss SHAO Shuai
Mr. WANG Huapeng

Research students

LAN, Yizhou (Supervisor: Dr. OH)
LEE, Tsz Hin Daniel (Supervisor: Dr. CHAN)
PENG Xin (Supervisor: Dr. ZHANG)
SHAO Jing (Supervisor: Dr. LI)

Alumni

LI Ruya (Dr. CHAN)
WANG Nan (Dr. Zhang)
YUEN, Yin Shan (Dr. Zhang)
ZENG Li (Dr. CHAN)

Affiliated members

Chauncey Chu, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida (USA) and advior to Business Chinese Research Center, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Ratree Wayland, Associate Professor, Linguistics Program, University of Florida (USA)