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Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre

Phone: (852) 2696 1995
Fax: (852) 2603 7865
Email: cbrc@cuhk.edu.hk

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Dept of Linguistics and Modern Languages
Rm 216, Teaching Complex at Western Campus
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT,
Hong Kong SAR

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April 11, 2009

Welcome

Our research is supported by parents, kindergartens and schools in the local community. If you are in charge of a local nursery/playgroup/kindergarten/primary school, or you are a parent or a guardian, and would like your children to take part in our projects, you are very welcome to contact us. Thank you!


CBRC Headlines

An interview with Virginia Yip in IASCL Child Language Bulletin

Topics: bilingual first language acquisition, child second language acquisition, and the acquisition of Chinese in bilingual and multilingual contexts

Welcome to the team

Sunny Park is going to join CBRC as honorary research assistant from mid May till mid June 2009. Sunny is currently a PhD student in Linguistics at Purdue University. During her stay at CBRC, she will be involved in the research project on “Hong Kong Children’s English Competence”. Welcome, Sunny!


International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB7),
July 8 – 11, 2009

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Members of CBRC will present our work at the 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB7) in Utrecht, the Netherlands from July 8 - 11, 2009.


CUHK Research Excellence Award 2006-2007

Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2009

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"The Linguistic Society of America announces the 2009 recipient of the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award. The winning book is chosen by a three- member committee from among works submitted to the LSA for consideration. The award will be presented at the LSA's business meeting on January 9, 2009 in San Francisco, California.

The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact, by Virginia Yip (CBRC Centre Director, CUHK) and Stephen Matthews (Centre Co-Director, HKU), presents interesting new data and insightful analyses of bilingual development.... read more


Feedback on “Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood” (BAEC)

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Here are some written comments received from presenters and participants on BAEC:

"The Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood was in many respects a ‘breakthrough event’ for linguistics in Asia. It was the first-ever conference in this part of the world on bilingualism—a long-over due event...."read more


BAEC Photos

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If you could not make it or you were there and would like to recall what had happened, more news and photos about BAEC are now online.

Visit Conference Homepage now to download the final program and program book. Day 1 and Day 2 Conference photos are available at Picasa album. Don't miss it!


Recent Publication/Media Release

Speaking in Tongues - The Parents' Journal

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Prof. Virginia Yip, CBRC Director, was interviewed by the Parents’ Journal on the topic of raising multilingual children.

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