Research interests

​My research interests lie in:

• Language acquisition (L1 and L2)

• Syntax and Semantics

• Cantonese grammar 

• Language and Cognition

Research topics

My recent research topics include:

• The acquisition of universal A-quantifiers in Cantonese and Mandarin

(in collaboration with Thomas Hun-tak Lee)

• The development of numerical cognition in children

(in collaboration with Charles Yang and Thomas Hun-tak Lee)

• The acquisition of cardinal and ordinal numbers in Cantonese

• Children's knowledge of the interaction between aspect and quantification

(​in collaboration with Thomas Hun-tak Lee)

• The acquisition of non-culminating accomplishments in Cantonese and Mandarin

• The acquisition of interrogatives in Cantonese and Mandarin

• Children's interpretation of quantifier scope in Cantonese and Mandarin

(​in collaboration with Thomas Hun-tak Lee)

• The early grammar of Shanghainese-speaking children

(in collaboration with Jialei Zhu and Thomas Hun-tak Lee)

• Syntactic change in Hong Kong Cantonese

(in collaboration with Thomas Hun-tak Lee)

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