MA Research Papers (since 2004)

Year Name Research Paper Topic Award
2004-05
CHAN, Wing Man
Acquisition of the English article system by Hong Kong students
2004-05
CHENG, Lai Chun Jane
A study of the acquisition of English Conditionals by Chinese ESL learners
2004-05
CHIU, Mei Yee Carey
Acquisition of English Relative Clause among Hong Kong Chinese Medium Instruction Secondary School
2004-05
CHOW, Chun Yi Jenny
Diglossia in printed magazines for primary students: implications for “reading to learn”
2004-05
DO, Wai Ming Eva
The Acquisition of English Concessive Structures By Cantonese Speaking ESL Learners
2004-05
HE, Jia
A Systematic Study of the Degree Adverb ‘ beir ’ in Tianjin Dialect
2004-05
HUANG, Kwan Joan
Semantic Extensions of ZHE
2004-05
HUO, Siliang
Grammatical Performance in Simultaneous Interpretation : An Error Analysis
2004-05
KO, Yuen Man
The Acquisition of English Spatial Prepositions by ESL Learners
2004-05
KWOK, Yin Hing Daisy
New discourse as an emergent register? A study of an Internet forum in Hong Kong
2004-05
LAM, Hon Ming David
Question Strategies in the Documentary Film “Fahrenheit 9/11”
2004-05
LAM, Chi Lok Andix
The Acquisition of Ergative Constructions Among Hong Kong ESL Students
2004-05
LEUNG, Man Rita
The Learning of out in English by ESL Cantonese Learners
2004-05
LIU, Yue
An Analysis on Use of Terms of Address in Mainland China from a Synchronic Perspective
2004-05
LUK, Sau Ling Anne
The Use of Cantonese Slang by Teenagers in Hong Kong
2004-05
SUN, Jing
A study on " you(有)+ VP " structure in Mandarin Chinese
2004-05
SUN, Tingting
Questioning Chinese Ministers - Questioning and answering patterns in Chinese official press conferences
2004-05
TAM, Yuet Kuen
A study of the Thinking Process of Lexical Inferencing by Groups of Different Vocabulary Levels
2004-05
TO, Mei
Talk About【po】,【p‘o】,【mo】,【fo】Again
2004-05
WANG, Yun
A Study on the Organization of Repair in Mandarin Chinese Conversation
2004-05
WONG, Wai Kuen Wiking
Acquisition of English [] sound : A Study of Primary Six Students in Hong Kong
2004-05
WONG, Pui San Bessie
Phonetic Study in the Pronunciation of English Dental Fricatives [T] and [ð] among Hong Kong ESL Learners
2005-06
CHEUNG, Wai Ting
粵劇「官話」的入聲研究
2005-06
CHIU, Kik Ling
An analysis of Hong Kong native Cantonese Form Three students’ problems in English pronunciation
2005-06
FAN, Xiaoqian
A Preliminary Exploration of Headless Relative Clauses in Chinese
2005-06
LAI, Chung Yee
Analysis of Cantonese Presuppositions in Slimming Advertisements
2005-06
LAM, Chi Fung
A comparison between the Cantonese aspect markers gan and haidou
2005-06
LEUNG, Ming Ming Grace
The Patterns of English Word Stress by Hong Kong ESL Learners
2005-06
MI, Di
L2 Acquisition of Preposition Stranding and Pied-Piping by Chinese Learners of English
LSHK The Best Thesis Award
2005-06
WONG, Kwong Tat
Secondary Language Vocabulary Learning
2005-06
YIP, Sin Mei
The Gender Differences in Linguistic Features of Dyadic Synchronous Computer-mediated Communication
2005-06 KWOK, Wai Ying A Study of Cantonese Informative Sentence-Final Particles aa3, laa3, wo3 and bo3  
2005-06 LAM, Oi Man The Typology of Classifiers  
2005-06 LAM, Yuk Ping Victoria A lexical development of Cantonese-English bilingual child  
2005-06 LEE, Man Yi Similarities and differences between "no matter" and "whether" in Cantonese and English  
2005-06 TSANG, Chiu Man The Processing of Code-mixing of Chinese and English on Internet Forum: A Hong Kong Case Study  
2006-07
BIN, Juan
A Study of  Suffixation in Tianjin Dialect
2006-07
CHENG, Mingming
Acquisition of Control Structures in Infinitival Clauses among Chinese Learners of English
2006-07
CHU, Ming Hing Patrick
Discourse of Compromise
2006-07
GROVES, Julie May
A comparison of the attitudes of Hong Kongers and Mainland Chinese towards the status of Cantonese: Language or Dialect – or Topolect?
2006-07
HAU, Chi Kuk
A Study on Acoustic Characteristics of Cantonese Gay Speech and Perceived Sexual Orientations
2006-07
LAM, Tsz Kwan Charles
Syntax of Particle Verbs in German
2006-07
LI, Helin
An Analysis of Temporal Adverb Ou’er (occasionally)
2006-07
SIU, Wai Yan Rebecca
Mouth Gestures in Hong Kong Sign Languages (HKSL): A Preliminary Study
2006-07
WONG, Yat Yu
Acquisition of Japanese Passives by Cantonese Speakers in Hong Kong
2006-07
ZHANG, Xiaorong
Resumptive Pronouns in the Acquisition of English Relative Clauses by Chinese EFL Learners
2006-07
ZU, Xin
Remarks on the Constituency and Derivation of Comparative Constructions in Mandarin Chinese
2007-08
CHAN, Sze Man
The Acquisition of Cantonese Sentence-final Particles by Native Mandarin Speakers
2007-08
HO, Chi Man
Body Leans in Hong Kong Sign Language: Marking of Contrast
2007-08
HU, Yangbo
An investigation into BA(把) Construction in Guanzhong Dialect
2007-08
LING, Jin Chun
On the Grammatical Function and Status of ‘da33’, ‘doŋ33’ and ‘haŋ33’ in Shaoxing Dialect
2007-08
SUN, Xin
A Study of Juncture in Mandarin Chinese
2007-08
ZHANG, Jie
溫州方言詞”顯”的語法﹒語義研究
2007-08
ZHU, Xiaohan
Stress Patterns in Chinese ESL
2008-09
CHING, Sau Yin Queenie
Code-switching of Cantonese-English in Hong Kong Magazine Feature Articles
2008-09
CHUNG, Lai Ming Virginia
Perception and Production of Cantonese Tones by Thai and Filipino Students in Hong Kong Secondary School
2008-09
LI, Haoze
Reflexive Binding in VP Ellipsis and Interpretation of Chains
2008-09
QIN, Zhen
The Production and Perception of French initial stops by Wu and Mandarin Speakers
2008-09
WHITE, Donald 
Speech Rhythm Development in a Balanced Cantonese-English Child
LSHK (Linguistics Society of Hong Kong) Outstanding Thesis Award
2008-09
XU, Bo
An Experimental Investigation into the F0 High-Rising Tone Change in Cantonese
2008-09
YEN, Miao-ju
Code-mixing among Hong Kong Trilingual Teenagers
2008-09
YEUNG, Shuk Lai Ivy
Journalistic Neutrality and Political Stances in Hong Kong Chinese Newspapers
2008-09
YIN, Wanchen
Influence of Pinyin on Phonemic Awareness Chinese Adults
2008-09
YUK, Ka Wai Margaret
Transliteration of English Geographical Names in Hong Kong Cantonese and Mandarin: A Comparative Study
2009-10
CAI, Xiaochun
Sentence-Medial Particles in Shantou Dialect
LSHK (Linguistics Society of Hong Kong) Outstanding Thesis Award
2009-10
GAN, Deng
Syllabification of English intervocalic Consonant by Chinese English Learners
2009-10
GUO, Juan
The Experiential Construction in Mandarin Chinese
2009-10
KOON, Ying Yan
Modification Statragies Employed by Secondary 4 & 5 Cantonese ESL Speakers in Prononcing English Consonant Clusters
2009-10
SIU, Suk Fun
What errors do Hong Kong secondary school students make in English article system?
2009-10
TSANG, Wai Ting Louis
Second Language Acquisition of German Syllable-final Ct Consonant Clusters by Hong Kong Cantonese Learners of German
2009-10
ZHANG, Xiaoyao
Acquisition of English Word Stress Patterns by Mandarin EFL Learners in Formal Instruction Environment
2010-11
CHAN, Siu Chuen
Revisiting Lexical Stress in Hong Kong English (HKE) from a 3rd Perspective: Analogy
2010-11
CHAN, Yu Hong
Perception and production of Korean alveolar fricatives /sh/ and /s*/ in Cantonese speakers
2010-11
KUNG, Wan Ki
The Modal of Obligation and Necessity "Must" in Hong Kong English 
2010-11
LAM, Yuk Chau
Production of Nominal Compounds by Cantonese-speaking Deaf Children
2010-11
LEE, Shu Mei Helen
Negative Polar Questions in Hong Kong Sign Language
2010-11
LI, Minyi
"Geilivable": A New Online Form of Code-mixing
2010-11
LI, Yu Fai
Inferring an Ironist's Intention: The Relationship between Second-order ToM Understanding and Intonation in Cantonese-speaking Childern
2010-11
MA, Li
A Study of Causative Ba-variant of Verb-copying Construction in Mandarin Chinese
2010-11
TAM, Kit Ying
Acquisition of Cantonese Relative Clause by Deaf and Hard of Hearing (D/HH) Childern in Hong Kong
2010-11
WEI, Yu
The Authenticity of Oral Exercises in CSL Textbooks
2011-12
ISMA, Silva Tenrisara Pertiwi
Comparative study of Jakarta sign language and Yogyakarta sign langauge
2011-12
LAI, Hau Yee 
The Acquisition of Cantonese bei2 "give" Dative Constructions by Monolingual and Cantonese-Mandarin Bilingual Children in Hong Kong
2011-12
LI, Guo
Interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for bilinguals
2011-12
NG, Tsz Him
Facebook communication in Hong Kong: an evolved ICQ interaction in bilingualism
2011-12
SHAO, Hui
Language transfer in Chinese learners' acquisition of English reflexives
2011-12
SZETO, Pui Yiu
A Comparative Study on the Use of Qishi (其實) in Hong Kong Chinese and Mainland Chinese
2012-13 CHEN, Xi The Rhythmic Correspondence between Music and Words of Speech in Vocal Music—English Songs as Samples  
2012-13 CHENG, Hiu Lin A Study of the Perception and Production of Neutral Tone in Mandarin of Hong Kong Cantonese Speakers  
2012-13 CHEUNG, Wing Sze Cantonese-English Bilinguals' L2 Metaphor Comprehension  
2012-13 LI, Jia Relative Constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language  
2012-13 PAN, Ziyi A Preliminary Study of Deaf Children’s Acquisition in Handshape and Phonetic Features of Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL)  
2012-13 PANG, Wai Yin Third Language Acquisition of Null and Overt Pronouns in Italian by Cantonese-English Bilinguals  
2012-13 SHENG, Yixuan How Hong Kong Sign Language Affects Hearing Learners' Gestures  
2012-13 SUWIRYO, Adhika Irlang  Mouth Movement Patterns in Jakarta and Yogyakarta Sign Language: A Preliminary Study  
2012-13 TANG, Man Do Bilinguals Give Authentic Productions of German Vowels? - A Comparative Study on Cantonese and Mandarin Speakers  
2012-13 WANG, Jun Production of Sentence Stress in English: Comparing Mandarin/ English, Hong Kong Cantonese/English and Guangdong Cantonese/English Bilinguals  
2012-13 WEI, Xiao Signs of Sexual Behavior in Hong Kong Sign Language  
2012-13 YU, Shing Cantonese Tone Categorization, Perception and Production of Children with Moderate to Profound Degree of Hearing Loss  
2012-13
ZHAO, Wenjing A Study on the Production and Perception of English Emotional Prosody by Mandarin-English Bilingual Adults
2013-14 CAO, Xu Comparative Study of Prosody in Native Adult, Early Learner and Late Learner of Hong Kong Sign Language  
2013-14 CHAN, Hiu Tung Production and Perception of Hong Kong Native Cantonese High-rising - Low-rising Tone Mergers and Non-mergers  
2013-14 CHEN, Shuwen Mental Representation of Emotional Words in the Chinese English Bilingual Lexicon
LSHK (Linguistics Society of Hong Kong) Outstanding Thesis Award
2013-14 CHEUNG, Lai Shan The Acquisition of Spatial Device in Cantonese by Deaf/hard-of-hearing Children in Hong Kong  
2013-14 LAM, Kin Wah Semantics of Cantonese verbal particle faan (翻): The non-resumptive use  
2013-14 LAU, Chung Yin Joseph  Towards a Hierarchical Phonological Processing Hypothesis: A Preliminary Event-Related Potential Study on Pre-attentive versus Attentive Processing of Cantonese Vowel Allophony  
2013-14 LIU, Jiaxi The Ditransitive Constructions in the Changsha Dialect  
2013-14 LUK, San Hei Kenny Lexically-driven Perceptual Learning in Speech by Mandarin Listeners  
2013-14 SHU, Yizhou Talker Normalization, N400 effect and predictability: An Event-related Potential (ERP) Studies on Mandarin Lexical Tone Perception  
2013-14 WANG, Qiushi L2 Acquisition of Chinese Pyschological Verbs by English Speaker Learners  
2013-14 YIN, Yanjun Content Effect in the Perception of Lexical Tones in Mandarin: An EFR Study  
2013-14 YU, Bun Historical Documentation of the HK Sign Language Used in Canossa School for the Deaf/Caritas Magdalene School  
2013-14 ZHANG, Xiaoqian How Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) Express Spatial Concepts  
2013-14 ZHONG, Jing L1 Transfer Induced by Homophonous Morphemes: A Study of the Acquisition of Cantonese Perfective Aspect Marker zo2 by Mandarin Speaking Learners  
2013-14 ZHOU, Xing Overpassivization of English Unaccusatives Verbs by Chinese Learners  
2014-15 CHAN, Ying Yan The acquisition of bei2 'give'-constructions in Cantonese by adult Mandarin English bilinguals  
2014-15 ENDO, Eita Relative clauses in Japanese Sign Language  
2014-15 KWAN, Man Ho A preliminary study on the interpretation of mathematical discourse  
2014-15 LAM, Wai On A clausal ellipsis account of Cantonese right dislocation  
2014-15 LI, Tianshu Study of syntax, semantics and context of Chinese imperfective structure ZAI+V+ZHE  
2014-15 LYU, Lu The acquisition of progressive aspect in Cantonese-English bilingual children  
2014-15 REN, Xinran A study on Mandarin L2 learners acquiring Korean initial obstruents in different contexts  
2014-15 SHIMOTANI, Natsuko Head nod as a prosodic cue in Japanese Sign Language and its use by native signers and non-native interpreters  
2014-15 TIAN, Zijia How feedback and individual difference in memory capacity affect second language vocabulary acquisition  
2014-15 WANG, Ting Tracking object-state representation in online language comprehension: Does linguistic structure matter?  
2014-15 WONG, Yee Ping Difference in comprehensibility of spontaneous and read speech of Japanese  
2014-15 YAM, On Kit The study of signed-and-spoken language contact phenomenon: How railway station names are expressed in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL)  
2014-15 ZHANG, Kaile Normalization of lexical tones and non-linguistic pitches: different mechanisms are employed  
2014-15 ZHANG, Yijin A descriptive analysis of verb-reduplication patterns in Ningbo dialect  
2014-15 ZHENG, Qianwen Investigation of English <th> Production in Mandarin and Cantonese Speakers from Mainland China and Hong Kong  
2015-16 DENG, Xizi A Study of Tone Sandhi Pattern in Leshan Dialect  
2015-16 LAU, Yan Ping Helena A Corpus-based Study on Near-Synonymous Manner Adverbs in Mandarin Chinese  
2015-16 LEE, Ka Chun Old Category in a New Position: Processing Bare Cantonese Classifier in the Subject Position by Mandarin-Cantonese Late Bilinguals  
2015-16 LI, Wan Yee Scarlet The Relation of Working Memory, Declarative Memory and Procedural Memory as Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition  
2015-16 WU, Yuqi The Acquisition of Cantonese Sentence-final Particles by a Mandarin-speaking Child: from Monolingual to Bilingual  
2015-16 ZHAO, Qiwei A Study of How Post-focus Compression (PFC) is Realized by Mandarin-Cantonese Bilinguals  
2016-17 BURGHARDT, Rens Elia Peeking Beyond the Revised Hierarchical Model: Do Hearing Adults Use Spoken Language Lexicon When Learning Sign Language?  
2016-17 CHAN, Shu Laam Analysis on Separable Non-Verb-Object Compounds in Cantonese  
2016-17 CHEUNG, Pui Yu A Comparative Study of the Semantics of Spatial Locatives on, in and at in Hong Kong English and Hai (喺) in Cantonese  
2016-17 HE, Chang The Lexical and Metalinguistic Development of a Trilingual Child: a Corpus-Based Study  
2016-17 HUANG, Lu The Tone-Melody Mapping in Chaozhou Music  
2016-17 LI Jiayu Mandarin-speaking Children's Interpretation of Object Quantified Noun Phrases in Negative Sentences  
2016-17 TSOI, Sin Yan Cantonese-speaking children's acquisition of antonyms: A study of committedness  
2016-17 WU, Jiawei Acquisition of Long-distance BEI-constructions for Mandarin-speaking Children  
2016-17 XU, Shimeng Exploring Morphosyntactic Transfer in Third Language Acquisition: The Role of Typological Closeness and The Underlying Neural Constitution  
2016-17 ZHANG, Feng Chinese Preschool Children's Comprehension of Modifier-head Compound  
2016-17 ZHANG, Weijun An Experimental Study on Contemporary  Variation of Wenzhou Wu Tones  
2016-17 ZONG, Wenqing Influence of Bilingualism and Socioeconomic Status on Brainstem Encoding of Lexical Tones  
2017-18 CHAN, Kai Lai From Disfluency to Interjective Hesitator: A Direct Observation on Conversations Between Hong Kong Sign Language Signers  
2017-18 FAN, Xiaoqing A Corpus-Based Study on Prosodic Linking by Chinese Majors of English  
2017-18 HE, Jiayu How Dialect Experience and Extents of Bilingualism Affect Chinese Children's Phonological Awareness  
2017-18 HONG, Yitian Language Shift in a Chaozhou-Speaking Family Across Three Generations  
2017-18 HUI, Shunyu On Distinction Among Beijing Dialect VP+dele 得了, VP+haole 好了 and VP+suanle算了  
2017-18 KEAT, Sokly Word Oders in Cambodian Sign Language: Grammar of Late L1 Learners and Late Acquisition of L1  
2017-18 MA, Shuya Acquisition of Lexical Aspect in Chinese by Hong Kong Deaf Children  
2017-18 MUT, Tsz Ching Syntactic Choices of L1 Cantonese-L2 English-L3 Korean Speakers: Backward Influence on Prepositional Object Construction (POC) or Double Object Construction (DOC) in L2 English  
2017-18 SHANG, Mengyao Acquisition and Development of the Resultative Verb Compound in Heritage Mandarin Chinese  
2017-18 SHEN, Senyao The Acquisition of Noun Phrases as Objects in Mandarin ------ A Corpus-based Study of Heritage Chinese Children  
2017-18 YANG, Yujing On the Study of Chinese Double-false Counterfactual Conditionals  
2017-18 ZENG, Jun A Survey on Sentence-Final Particles of Hukeng  
2017-18 ZHANG, Weiwei Polar Questions with "a" in Shanghainese  
2017-18 ZHAO, Mingwei Processing Tonal Information in Mandarin Chinese Visual Word Recognition: Evidence from the Lexical Decision Task  
2018-19 CHEW, Kai Mun A Study of Referring Expressions in Malaysian Sign Language/Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia (BIM)  
2018-19 DU, Yuqiao Investigation into the Degree Modification on Mandarin Complex Adjectives and the Little a Hypothesis  
2018-19 GE, Xiaotong Cost of switching Between Eastern Min and Mandarin  
2018-19 GONG, Minzhi Backward Influence of Foreign Language English on Native Language Chinese - the Interpretation of an Overt Subject Pronoun  
2018-19 HASLETT, David Wordform as a Motiviation for Semantic Change  
2018-19 HUANG, Yanyan Reverse Transfer from L3 French to L2 English Possessive Constructions among L1 Mandarin Speakers  
2018-19 LIN, Zeming Acoustic and Perceptual Bases of Judgements of Mandarin-speaking Males’ Orientation  
2018-19 MAN, Ho Yin Incident Collocation Learning: Effects of Collocational Knowledge or Semantic Knowledge  
2018-19 SUN, Yao Mouth Gesture Categorization in Hong Kong Sign Language  
2018-19 TAN, Weijie The Syntactic and Prosodic Approaches and the Influence of Word Frequency, Syllable Weight and Stress on Mandarin Clausal Tone Sandhi  
2018-19 WANG, Jiahong Mirativity in Golog Tibetan  
2018-19 XIONG, Yixuan Lexical Frequency and the Entering Tone Merging in the Nanchang Dialect  
2018-19 YAN, Miaocai A Study of the x-ren Structure in Pinging Dialect  
2018-19 ZHANG, Anqi The Acquisition of Prosodic Cues in HKSL by a Deaf Child: A Case Study  
2018-19 ZHAO, Shengnan Corpus Study of Chinese Heritage Children: Acquisition of Directional Verb Complements in Mandarin Used for Motion Events  
2018-19 ZHU, Zhiqiang The Production of Chinese /r/ Sounds by Advanced L1 Japanese Learners of Chinese and Japanese-Chinese Simultaneous Bilinguals  
2018-19 KAN, Ka Ho The Acquisition of Verb-Particle Constructions and Directional Verb Complements in Bilingual Children and Heritage Chinese Children  
2019-20 DUAN XUFENG Is there Sensorimotor Simulation of Linguistic Meaning? Evidence from Chinese  
2019-20 HAN Tianyi How do People Re-interpret Implausible Sentences? Evidence from Structural Priming in Chinese  
2019-20 HO Ka Yiu Investigation on Phonological Cues of Word Classes in Cantonese  
2019-20 LEI Wan Locative Constructions between Deaf Fluent Signers and Hearing L2 Signers in Macao – A Comparison  
2019-20 LYU Danqian Lexicalization Patterns in Motion Event Expressions by
Chinese-English Bilingual Children
 
2019-20 WIJAYA Laura Lesmana Pointing Signs in Jakarta Sign Language  
2019-20 XU WENWEI On the Voicing Contrast and Phonation Types in Kunshan Wu  
2019-20 YANAI Yuya Hearing Students’ Language Attitude towards Hong Kong Sign Language and Deaf People in the Secondary Bimodal Bilingual Co-enrollment Program  
2019-20 YE Qingyu The Relationship between Phonological Awareness, Morphological Awareness, Listening Vocabulary and Listening Comprehension in English Second Language Adult Learners  
2019-20 YE Shiyun The Syntactic Structure of Demonstrative Noun Phrases in Tonglu Wu Dialect  
2019-20 YIN Jiayi Tones and Tone Sandhi in the Eastern Urban Shijiazhuang Dialect  
2019-20 ZHANG Lan Interlanguage Pragmatics: An Investigation of Pragmatic Transfer in the Speech Act of Refusal by Chinese EFL Learners  
2019-20 ZHANG Yuwei The Use of Classifiers by Mandarin Heritage Language Children: A Corpus-based Study  
2019-20 ZHENG Minghao Contraints of Tones, Vowels and Consonants in Cantonese