Welcome to the Speech, Language and Cognition Laboratory in School of English, HKU! We are a team of linguists with research interests in phonetics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive approaches to second language acquisition. Our lab has an EyeLink 1000 Plus eye tracker and a collection of software and hardware for audio recording and computer-based behavioural experiments. For any queries, please contact Dr. Ricky Chan at rickykwc@hku.hk.

People

Academic Staff

Ricky Chan

Amanda Cheung

Janny Leung

Research Assistants

Eason Shum (Experimental phonetics)

Current Postgraduate Students

Yufei Niu (L2 tone learning)

Jiaxuan Shi (psycholinguistics)

Past Members

Bruce Wang (Forensic phonetics)

Adas Li (Forensic phonetics)

Dave Cayado (Thesis title: Activation of Non-current Language in Bilinguals Facilitates the Implicit Learning of Novel Form-Meaning Connections)

Scarlett Hao (Thesis title: The Psycholinguistic Reality of Generative Theories and Construction Grammar in Language Processing)

Caroline Huang (Thesis title: ‘Is the Overt Pronoun Constraint Learnable?)

Alision Lam (Thesis title: Implicit Learning of Tonal Rules in Thai as a Second Language)

Jane Xia (Thesis title: Categorization and L2 Vocabulary Learning - A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective)

Location

Room 8.64, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU