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
Members of CBRC will present our work at the 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB7) in Utrecht, the Netherlands from July 8 - 11, 2009.
- Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual and multilingual contexts
Yip, Virginia and Stephen Matthews - Acquiring rhythmically different languages at an early age: the case of Cantonese and English
Mok Peggy - The acquisition of verb particle construction in bilingual Cantonese-English children
Wong Hin Yee Hinny - Early Cantonese tonal characteristics in a Cantonese-English bilingual child
Shum Ka Yee Kelly
CUHK Research Excellence Award 2006-2007
Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2009
"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)
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
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
Prof. Virginia Yip, CBRC Director, was interviewed by the Parents’ Journal on the topic of raising multilingual children.
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