News
About us
People
Research
Reports and Publications
Corpora
Seminars
Workshops
Links
Contact us
Reports and Publications

Research reports and publications

Research theses completed at LAL

Conference presentations

 


 

Research reports and publications

Early grammatical development:


   
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Zhuang Wu. In press. The acquisition of nominal structure, word order and referentiality in Chinese: Corpus and experimental findings on the numeral phrase. To appear in Interface in Grammar, eds. Jianhua Hu and Haihua Pan. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. In press. Acquiring distinctions in nominal and verbal domains: Differentiating universal quantification from completive aspect in child Cantonese. To appear in Proceedings of the 7th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America Conference (GALANA-7). Language Acquisition and Linguistic Disorders. John Benjamins.
 
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 Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2017. Early knowledge of the interaction between aspect and quantification: Evidence from child Cantonese. In BUCLD 41: Proceedings of the 41st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, edited by Maria LaMendola and Jennifer Scott, 424-435. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [PDF]
 
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.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Zhuang Wu. 2013. The scope of bare nouns and numeral phrases: An experimental study of child Mandarin. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, ed. Yukio Otsu, 137-158. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-Tak. 2012. Quantificational structures in three-year-old Chinese-speaking children. In Plurality and classifiers across languages of China, ed. Dan Xu, 243-282. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.  
Lee, Thomas Hun-Tak. 2010. Nominal structure in early child Mandarin. In Chinese matters: From grammar to first and second language acquisition, eds. Chris Wilder and Tor Åfarli. Trondheim, Norway: Tapir Academic Press. pp. 75-109.
李行德,2009,粵語兒童對粵語結構分析的啟示。《粵語跨學科研究:第十三屆國際粵方言研討會論文集》, 1-21 頁。錢志安、郭必之、李寶倫、鄒嘉彥主編。香港: 香港城市大學語言資訊科學研究中心。[Lee, Thomas Hun-Tak. 2009. What Cantonese-speaking children can tell us about the structure of Cantonese. In Multidisciplinary approaches to Cantonese: Papers from the 13th International Conference on Cantonese and Yue dialects, eds. A. Chin, B. Kwok, P. Lee and B. Tsou. Hong Kong: Language Information Sciences Research Center, City University of Hong Kong. ]
   
李行德 ,2009 ,從語言學理論的角度研究語言獲得。《南開語言學刋》2009年第1期(總第13期),129-139頁。[Lee, Thomas Hun-Tak. 2009. Studying language acquisition from the perspective of linguistic theory. Nankai Linguistics 2009(1), 129-139]  
   
Huang, Aijun, & Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2009. Quantification and individuation in the acquisition of Chinese classifiers. In Proceedings of the Tenth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, ed. Yukio Otsu. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.  
   
曾濤,2009,兒童早期詞滙發展中的詞滙飛躍現象。《當代語言學》第11卷2009年第1期,56-68頁。[Zeng, Tao. 2009. Word spurt in children's early lexical development. Contemporary Linguistics 2009(1), 56-68.]  
   
李行德 ,2008 ,漢語兒童對數量名詞短語轄域關係的認識。《當代語言學理論和漢語研究》沈陽、馮勝利主編,169-191 頁。北京:商務。[Lee, Thomas Hun-tak.  2008. Mandarin-speaking children’s knowledge of the scope of quantified noun phrase, In Contemporary linguistic theory and the study of Chinese, eds. Yang Shen and Shengli Feng. Beijing: Commercial Press, pp. 169-191.   
   
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak.  2008. Children’s sensitivity to the clause-boundedness constraint on quantification. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Cognitive Science. Seoul: The Korean Society for Cognitive Science.  
   
Fan, Li. 2007. 普通話中否定詞的兒童早期獲得. 《現代外語》2007(2), 144-154. [Early child language acquisition of negative words in Mandarin Chinese. Modern Foreign Languages 2007(2), 144-154.]  
   
Xiao, Ling, Cai, Xin, & Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2006. The development of the verb category and verb argument structures before two years of age. In Proceedings of the Seventh Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, ed. Yukio Otsu. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.  
Early speech and early phonology:  
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan. 2007. Discrimination of level tones in Cantonese-learning infants. In Proceedings of the XV th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1313-1316.  
   

Yang, Jie, & Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2006. Lexical variation and rime-tone correlation in early tonal acquisition: A longitudinal study of Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language, eds. Agnes Belotel-Grenie & Michel Grenie. La Rochelle, France.

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 & Michel Grenie. La Rochelle, France.

 
   
Language assessment instruments:   
Tsou, B. K., Lee, H. T., Tung, C. S., Man, Y. H., Chan, A., To, C., Cheung, P., Ng, A., & Chan Y. (2006, March). Hong Kong Cantonese Oral Language Assessment Scale (HKCOLAS).  City University of Hong Kong & Department of Health.   
   
Tsou, B. K., Lee, H. T., Tung, C. S., Cheung, P., Ng, A., To, C., Man, Y., Chan, A., & Chan, Y. (2006, March). Hong Kong Cantonese Articulation Test.  Hong Kong (HKCAT).  City University of Hong Kong & Department of Health.  
   
Language processing:  

Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2006. A note on garden-path sentences in Chinese. In Linguistic studies in Chinese and neighboring languages: Festschrift in honor of Professor Pang-hsin Ting on his seventieth birthday, eds. Dah-an Ho, Samuel Cheung, Wuyun Pan, and Fuxiang Wu. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, pp. 491-518.

Top

 
   
Research theses completed at LAL  
 
Lei, Ka Yan Margaret. 2017. The acquisition of A-quantification in Cantonese. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong. [The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong 2017 Outstanding PhD Thesis Award]  
 
Tse, Ming San Crono. 2012. A study of specificity in Cantonese. MPhil thesis, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong.  
Chen, Hui. 2010. The acquisition of vowel length in Cantonese. MPhil thesis, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong.  
Deng, Xiangjun. 2010. The acquisition of the resultative verb compound in Mandarin Chinese. MPhil thesis, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong. [Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Outstanding MPhil thesis award, 2010]  
   
Zeng, Tao. 2010. The nature of word spurt – Early lexical and semantic development of Mandarin-speaking Children. Doctoral dissertation, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. [Supervised by Thomas Hun-tak Lee and Chuming Wang]   
   
Li, Jieqiong. 2010. An experimental study of basic word order acquisition in Mandarin-speaking children. MA thesis, Hunan University. [Supervised by Thomas Hun-tak Lee]  
   
Huang, Aijun.  2009. Count-mass distinction and the acquisition of classifiers in Mandarin-speaking children. MPhil thesis, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong. [Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Outstanding Mphil thesis award, 2009]  
   
宋剛,2009,普通話兒童早期動詞習得:範疇、論元結構與句法線索。 北京語言大學博士論文。[Song, Gang. 2009. Mandarin early verb acquisition: Category, argument structure, and syntactic cues. Doctoral dissertation, Beijing Language and Culture University.  Supervised by FANG Li]  
   
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan. 2007. Tone discrimination in infants acquiring a tonal language. MPhil thesis, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong.   
   

Lee, Ching Man Barbara. 2006. Patterns of vowel and pitch productions at the babbling stage of Hong Kong infants. MPhil thesis, City University of Hong Kong. [Supervised by Thomas Hun-tak Lee]

Top

 
   
Conference presentations  
2018  | 2017  |  2016  | 2015  |  2014  | 2013  | 2012  | 2011  |  2010  |  2009  |  20082007  |  2006
 
2018
 
Zhu, Jialei, Thomas Hun-tak Lee and Margaret Lei. 2018. 上海話兒童的句法獲得 [The acquisition of syntax by Shanghainese-speaking children]. Invited lecture given at the Young Linguists Salon, Department of Chinese, Fudan University, June 13, Shanghai, China.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Hang Kuang. 2018. The interpretation of zenme: Alternative to a cartographic account. Invited talk given at the 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-26) and the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20), May 4-6, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
 
Lu, Yaqiao and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2018. Acquiring the unaccusative vs. unergative distinction in Mandarin Chinese: Children's knowledge of the quantifier-stranding structure. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-26) and the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20), May 4-6, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
 
Zhu, Jialei and Margaret Lei. 2018. Code-mixing in Shanghainese-speaking two-year-olds. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-26) and the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20), May 4-6, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Yaqiao Lu. 2018. Unaccusativity in Chinese: Semantic analysis and experimental findings. Keynote lecture given at the Symposium on Developmental Linguistics, April 21-22, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Yaqiao Lu, and Waltraud Paul. 2018. Existential and locative constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at Workshop on Existential Constructions, March 1-3, Rome.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Yaqiao Lu, and Waltraud Paul. 2018. Unergative verbs in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at International Workshop on "Unergative Predicates: Architecture and Variation", January 18-19, Bilbao, Spain.
 
2017
 
Lei, Margaret. 2017. Children’s knowledge of domain restriction: The case of dōu (‘all’) in Mandarin Chinese. Poster (paper alternate) presented at the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-42), November 3-5, Boston University, USA.
 
Lu, Yaqiao and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2017. The semantic basis of unaccusativity in Chinese. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-25), June 25-27, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
 
Zhu, Jialei, Thomas Hun-tak Lee and Margaret Lei. 2017. The early grammar of Shanghainese-speaking children: Observations on word order. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-25), June 25-27, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan. 2017. Aspect and quantification in child Cantonese: The referential effects of verbal affixes in children’s production. Poster presented at the First International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics, March 10-12, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
 
Lu, Yaqiao. 2017. Unaccusative and unergative verbs in child Mandarin: Revisiting the A-Chain Delay Hypothesis (ACDH). Poster presented at the First International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics, March 10-12, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
 
2016
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2016. Cantonese suffix saai3 as a generalized distributivity operator: Arguments for an event-based approach. Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Formal Linguistics, December 3-4, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
 
Kuang, Hang. 2016. Mandarin-speaking children’s interpretation of the wh-adverbial zenme. Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Formal Linguistics, December 3-4, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2016. Early knowledge of the interaction between aspect and quantification: Evidence from child Cantonese. Paper presented at the 41th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-41), November 4-6, Boston University, USA.
 
Li, Tianshu. 2016. A study of the syntax, semantics and context of use of the Chinese imperfective structure zai-V-zhe. Paper presented at the 16th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics (ICCL-16), October 28-30, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
 
Lu, Yaqiao and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2016. Intransitive verbs in child Mandarin: Acquiring the unaccusative vs. unergative distinction. Paper presented at the 16th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics (ICCL-16), October 28-30, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2016. Acquiring distinctions in nominal and verbal domains: Differentiating universal quantification from completive aspect in child Cantonese. Paper presented at the 7th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America Conference (GALANA-7), September 8-10, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2016. Scope and isomorphism in Chinese: Connecting child language and linguistic theory. Keynote lecture given at the 24th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-24), July 17-19, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.
 
Lu, Yaqiao and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2016. Intransitive verbs in child Mandarin: Acquiring the unaccusative vs. unergative distinction. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-24), July 17-19, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.
 
Wuyun, Saina and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2016. Indirect passives in Chinese: An acquisition study. Paper presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-24), July 17-19, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2016. An experimental study on a syntactic change in progress in Cantonese: The relationship between language change and language acquisition. Paper presented at the Fourth Meeting of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Asia-Pacific conference (NWAV-AP4), April 22-24, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2016. The status of Cantonese in Hong Kong: Fact and Perception. Invited lecture given at the Third Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-3), The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
 
 
2015
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2015. Differentiating universal quantification from perfectivity: Cantonese-speaking children’s command of the affixal quantifier saai3. Paper presented at the Workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification, October 16-17, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2015. An experimental study on an ongoing syntactic change in Hong Kong Cantonese: Nominalizer insertion in sortal-classifier contexts. Paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-9), September 24-26, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
 
Yang, Yu’an and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2015. Acquisition of verb argument structure in Mandarin: Against the verb island hypothesis. Paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-9), September 24-26, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2015. The referential status of numeral phrases in Chinese. Invited lecture given at the Workshop on Interface Studies, 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-23), Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2015. The acquisition of quantifier domain restriction by Cantonese-speaking children: The case of the universal quantifier verb suffix. Invited lecture given at the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-23), August 26-28, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2015. The acquisition of Chinese: Why Universal Grammar is necessary. Keynote lecture given at the 2015 International Conference on Language Form and Function, March 27-29, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2015. Scope (dis)ambiguity in Chinese datives: The view from language acquisition. Invited lecture given at the East Asian Language Acquisition Workshop, held in conjunction with the 2015 International Conference on Language Form and Function, March 27, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
 
2014
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2014. Domain selection in the acquisition of Cantonese universal A-quantifiers. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Formal Linguistics in conjunction with the International Conference on Language Acquisition, Language Disorder and Language Assessment, November 8-9, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2014. Scope (dis)ambiguity in Chinese datives: The view from language acquisition. Invited lecture given at the 2014 Korean Society for Language and Information Workshop on Meaning and Cognition, June 20, Seoul National University, Korea.
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2014. Scope interaction of universal A-quantifiers and negation: An experimental study on Cantonese-speaking children. Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-22) and the 26th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-26), May 2-4, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2014. Nominalizer insertion in Hong Kong Cantonese: Is it a real syntactic change?. Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-22) and the 26th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-26), May 2-4, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
 
2013
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2013. Ge3-insertion in Hong Kong Cantonese: The view from de-insertion in Mandarin. Paper presented at the 18th International Conference on Yue Dialects, December 7-8, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2013. The acquisition of quantificational structures by Chinese-speaking children. Invited lecture given at the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2013. Scope (dis)ambiguity in prepositional and double object datives in Chinese: An experimental study. Keynote lecture given at the International Symposium on Quantification in Chinese: Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition, November 13-15, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2013. Chinese children's interpretation of scope in prepositional datives. Paper presented at the 8th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-8), September 26-28, EHESS, Paris, France.
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2013. Scope interpretation of the dative construction by adult Mandarin speakers. Paper presented at the 25th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-25), June 21-23, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2013. Children’s early comprehension of the universal quantifier affix saai3 in Cantonese. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-21), June 7-9, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2013. The semantic properties of saai3 in quantifying nominals and predicates: How it differs from aspectual and phase markers. Paper presented at the Thirteenth Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-13), March 16, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
 
 
2012
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2012. Children’s comprehension of the direction of quantification of the A-quantifier saai3 in Cantonese. Paper presented at the CUHK-Nankai Workshop on Language Documentation and Language Acquisition, August 21-22, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
 
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2012. Children¡¦s knowledge of the mapping between nominal structure and specificity in Mandarin. Invited lecture given at the 203rd Research Forum of the Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.
 
 
2011
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2011. Acquisition of the postverbal universal quantifier affix in Cantonese. Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistic (EACL-7), September 13-15, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
 
 
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Zhuang Wu. 2011. The Mapping of (in)definiteness and specificity to word order in Chinese: An exploration through child Mandarin. Invited lecture given at International Joint Symposium on the Interfaces of Grammar, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China.
 
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2011. Cantonese-speaking children’s comprehension of deictic locatives. Poster presented at the 12th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), July 19-23, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
 
Chen, Hui and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2011. Acquisition of vowel length in Cantonese-speaking children. Poster presented at the 12thInternational Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), July 19-23, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada.

Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Zhuang Wu. 2011. A corpus-based analysis of the subject specificity constraint in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 19), Jun 11-13, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2011. Longitudinal child Cantonese corpora: An update. Invited paper presented at the Roundtable conference on linguistic corpus and corpus linguistics in the Chinese context, Research Center on Linguistics and Language Information Sciences, May 6-8, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2011. Acquisition of the postverbal universal quantifier affix in Cantonese. Paper presented at the 36th Colloquium, Centre for Linguistics, Nanzan University, March 5, Japan.
 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2011. Logical structures in early child language. Paper presented at Good Practice Lecture Series, Department of British and American Studies, Nanzan University, March 4, Japan.    
 
2010
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2010. The realization of logical scope in child language. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Tianjin Social Science Association, October 10, Tianjin Normal University, China.

Lee, Thomas Hun-tak 2010. The acquisition of word order in a topic-prominent language: Corpus findings and experimental investigation. Invited paper presented at the Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 24), November 4-7, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
 

 
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2010. Negation and scope marking in early child Mandarin. Paper presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL18), May 20-22, Harvard University.  
   
Chen Hui and T. H.-T. Lee. 2010. Acquisition of vowel length in Cantonese-speaking children: Experimental findings. Paper presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL18), May 20-22, Harvard University.      
   
2009
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak (with Fan Li). 2009. The grammar of negation in Mandarin-speaking toddlers Keynote paper presented at Mandarin-Fest, MacQuarie University, November 16-18, Australia.
 
   
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2009. The acquisition of word order and argument structure in Chinese. Keynote paper presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, July 2-4, 2009, CRLAO, EHESS, Paris.   
   
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2009. Quantification in Chinese: The perspective from child language. Paper presented at the Workshop on Quantification and Number, Plurality, and Person in the Languages of Asia,  July 5,2 009, CRLAO, EHESS, Paris.          
   
Zeng, Tao and Lee, Thomas Hun-tak.  2009. Overextension and basic-level words in the early lexical/semantic development of a Mandarin-speaking child. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, July 2-4, Paris, France.  
   
Chen, Hui, & Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2009. Cantonese-speaking children’s perception of vowel length: Preliminary experimental findings. Poster presented at the Workshop on Child Phonology 2009, June 8-9, The University of Texas at Austin.   
   
2008
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2008. Rethinking scope ambiguity and disambiguity in Chinese. Keynote paper presented at the 7th Pan-Asiatic Conference in Language & Linguistics, December 5-6, Guangdong Foreign Studies University. 
 
   
Fan, Li. 2008. The child early acquisition of postverbal modality in Mandarin. [普通話中動詞後情態的早期獲得]. Paper presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, , May 29 - June 2, Peking University, Beijing, China.  
   
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2007. The acquisition of syntactic categories in Chinese: Issues of bootstrapping and productivity. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Grammar and Evidence, April 13-15, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.  
   
Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2007. Nominal structure in Child Mandarin and Child Cantonese. Paper presented at the International Symposium of the Consortium for Linguistics, December 15-17, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.   
   
2007
Chen, Feiyan, & Lee, Thomas Hun-tak. 2007. The development of voicing in Mandarin: A longitudinal case study. Paper presented at the Workshop on Early Child Phonology, August 16-17, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 
 
   
2006
Lei, Margaret Ka-yan. 2006. Tone discrimination in infants acquiring a tonal language. Paper presented at the XV th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, June 20-22, Kyoto, Japan.  
 
   

Liao, Hui, Lee, Thomas Hun-tak, Huang, Aijun, & Zeng, Tao.  2006. The gesture-speech combinations of Mandarin-speaking children around the onset of the two-word stage. Paper presented at the XV th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, June 20-22, Kyoto, Japan.    

Top

 

 

\uFEFF
  Privacy statement | Disclaimer  
\u00A92010 Language Acquisition Laboratory, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Powered by Dhost Interactive.