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Lei, Margaret and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2026 (to appear). Development of universal quantification in Cantonese-speaking children. A Routledge Handbook of Cantonese Linguistics, edited by Andy Chin, Shin Kataoka, Bit-chee Kwok. 

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Murasugi, Keiko and Margaret Lei. 2026 (to appear). On the acquisition of syntactic structure: Evidence from Japanese and Chinese. Nanzan Academia. 

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Lei, Margaret. 2022. 零至三歲幼兒的語言能力發展 [The development of language competence in toddlers aged between zero and three]. Featured interview at the parental magazine 《Super Parents學前&親子》.

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Li, Tianshu and Margaret Lei. 2022. 國際中國語言學學會第28 屆年會(IACL-28)會議報告 [Conference report on The 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28)]. Contemporary Linguistics 24(3): 349.

 

Lei, Margaret. 2019. The acquisition of cardinal and ordinal numbers in Cantonese. In Proceedings of the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development, edited by Megan M. Brown and Brady Dailey, 350-359. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [link]

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Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2019. Acquiring distinctions in nominal and verbal domains: Differentiating universal quantification from completive aspect in child Cantonese. In Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research. Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, edited by Tania Ionin and Matthew Rispoli, 159-183. Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 63. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi:10.1075/lald.63.09lei. [link]

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Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2018. Differentiating universal quantification from perfectivity: Cantonese-speaking children’s command of the affixal quantifier saai3. In Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification, edited by Katalin É. Kiss and Tamás Zétényi, 57-82. Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91566-1_4. [PDF] 

 

Lei, Margaret. 2018. Children’s knowledge of domain restriction: The case of dōu (‘all’) in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development, edited by Anne B. Bertolini and Maxwell J. Kaplan, 441-450. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [PDF]

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Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2017. Early knowledge of the interaction between aspect and quantification: Evidence from child Cantonese. In Proceedings of the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development, edited by Maria LaMendola and Jennifer Scott, 424-435. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [PDF]

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Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2014. Scope (dis)ambiguity in Chinese datives: The view from language acquisition. In Proceedings of the 2014 Korean Society for Language and Information Workshop on Meaning and Cognition. Seoul: Seoul National University.

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Lei, Margaret Ka-yan. 2007. Discrimination of level tones in Cantonese-learning infants. In Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1313-1316. Saarbrücken, Germany. [PDF]

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Lei, Margaret Ka-yan. 2006. A phonetic study on the acquisition of Cantonese tone. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language, eds. Agnes Belotel-Grenie and Michel Grenie, 83-86. La Rochelle, France. [PDF]

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Lei, Margaret Ka-yan. 2017. The acquisition of A-quantification in Cantonese. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. [link]

[Supervisor: Professor Thomas Hun-tak Lee]

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-- The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong 2017 Outstanding PhD Thesis Award

 

​Lei, Margaret Ka-yan. 2007. Tone discrimination in infants acquiring a tonal language. MPhil thesis, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

[Supervisor: Professor Thomas Hun-tak Lee]

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