Student Supervision

Postgraduate Research Students and Award Recipients

(a) PhD/MPhil Students Supervised as Chief Supervisor

SONG Chuqiao

Automating Assessment of Developmental Language Disorder in Cantonese-Speaking Children Through AI and Machine Learning

To start in Sep 2026

LI Zhuowen

(tentative) Advancing the identification of Developmental Language Disorder in Mandarin-Cantonese bilingual children: a reference standard and novel assessment measures (funded by GRF grant)

Ongoing since Sep 2025

Language Screening, Progress monitoring, and Dual Language Intervention for Multilingual Cantonese-English Junior Elementary School-Aged Children in Hong Kong

Co-supervisors: Trina Spencer (University of Kansas); Douglas Petersen (University of Wyoming)

LEE Lok Yi Flora

Ongoing since Sep 2024

Awardee of Hong Kong Research Grants Council PhD Fellowship, PhD degree awarded in March 2026

ZHU Wanlin

Autobiographical memory and personal narratives in Mandarin-speaking elementary children and adolescents with and without Autism

Co-supervisors: Marleen Westerveld (Griffith University); Carol Westby (Bilingual Multicultural Services)

Ongoing since Sep 2024

Expressing meaning in personal and fictional narratives in Hindi-speaking children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder

SRIVASTAVA Vasundhara

FU Nga Ching

Nonword Repetition in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Revisiting the Case of Cantonese

MPhil degree awarded in 2023

Awardee of Hong Kong Research Grants Council PhD Fellowship, PhD degree awarded in April 2024

Assessing Urdu-Speaking Multilingual Children in Hong Kong and Pakistan: Heritage Language Acquisition and Developmental Language Disorder

HAMDANI

Saboor Zafar

Awardee of Hong Kong Research Grant Council PhD Fellowship, PhD degree awarded in Oct 2022; Research Fellow in Linguistics at the Macquarie University (ranked 126 in QS World University Rankings 2027)

LAI Jane Man Yu

Comprehension and Production of Relative Clauses in Cantonese Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder

YANG Wenchun

PhD degree awarded in Dec 2018; Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University (ranked 296 in QS World University Rankings 2027)

The Acquisition and Processing of Relative Clauses: Experimental Evidence from Mandarin

PhD degree awarded in May 2015; Albert Schweitzer Fellow & Graduate Student in Education at North Carolina Central University (ranked 14 among HBCUs in the nation 2024)

LIU Zhaojing

The Development of Noun Modifying Constructions in Child Mandarin Chinese

(b) Postgraduate Student Research Projects Supervised as Chief Supervisor (MA and MST): N=50