Professor
B.A., M.A. (Texas), M.A., Ph.D. (Southern Calif.)
3/F., Fung King Hey Building,
Main Campus,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Tel: 2609-7019 Fax: 2603-7755
vcymatthews@cuhk.edu.hk
Bilingual development of Hong Kong children; Cantonese and comparative Sinitic grammar; Second language acquisition and grammatical theory.
Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood![]()
Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre![]()
Research Frontiers: Newsletter of Research Grants Council of
Hong Kong
(in English/
traditional
Chinese character 繁體/
simplified
Chinese character 简体)
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Media Relations
Article in The University of Hong Kong's BULLETIN
Article in Hong Kong Economic Times (香港經濟日報), 4 September 2006
Research Excellence Award 2006-2007
| Yip, V. & S. Matthews. 2007. The
Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. [book
website] |
| Yip, V. & S. Matthews. 2001. Intermediate Cantonese: a Grammar and Workbook. London: Routledge. (eBook is available) See online review by Blaine Erickson |
| Yip, V. & S. Matthews. 2000. Basic Cantonese: a Grammar and Workbook. London: Routledge. (eBook is available) See review by Fang Yew-Jin (2001). Asian Studies Review 25.3.379-381. |
| Yip, V. 1995. Interlanguage and Learnability: from Chinese to English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. |
| Reviews of Yip (1995) include the following: Yuan Boping (1997)Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 19.4:513-514. Wolfgang Kuhlwein (1999) International Review of Applied Linguistics in LanguageTeaching 37.4:321-327. |
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| Matthews, S & V. Yip. 1994. Cantonese:
a Comprehensive Grammar. London: Routledge. (eBook is available) |
| The
Japanese translation of Cantonese: a Comprehensive Grammar by
Matthews and Yip(London: Routledge1994) |
| Reviews of Matthews and Yip (1994) include the following : Samuel H-N. Cheung (1996) International Review of Chinese Linguistics Vol.1.1:129-133 Alain Peyraube (1996) International Review of chinese Linguistics Vol. 1.1.: 126-128 [in French] Hugh Baker (1996) School of Oriental and African Studies Bulletin pp. 182-184. Gisela Bruche-Schulz (1996) Cahiers de Lingusitique-Asie Orientale 25:135-157. JeroenWiedenhof (1996) Glot International Vol.2.3:19. Marjorie Chan (1998) Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association Vol.33.3:97-106. (online review by Marjorie Chan) |
| Yip, V. and S. Matthews. 2007. Relative Clauses in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children: Typological Challenges and Processing Motivations. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 29: 277-300 | |
| Yip, V. and S. Matthews. 2006. Assessing language dominance in bilingual acquisition: a case for mean length utterance differentials. Language Assessment Quarterly. 3(2), 97–116 | |
| Matthews, S., Xu H-L. and V. Yip. 2005. Passive and unaccusative in the Jieyang dialect of Chaozhou. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 14: 267-298. | |
| Yip, V. and S. Matthews. 2005. Dual input and learnability: null objects in Cantonese-English bilingual children. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, ed. James Cohen, Kara T. McAlister, Kellie Rolstad, and Jeff MacSwan, 2421-2431. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. | |
| Gu Y. and V. Yip. 2004. On the Cantonese resultative predicate V-can. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 30.2.35-67. | |
| Yip, V. 2006. Early bilingual acquisition in the Chinese context. In Li P., L-H .Tan, E. Bates & O. Tzeng. (eds.) Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol.1). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 148-162. | |
| Chan, A.H.D., Liu, H.L., Yip, V., Fox, P.T., Gao, J.H., & Tan, L.H. 2004. Neural systems for word meaning modulated by semantic ambiguity. NeuroImage, 22, 1128-1133. | |
| Yip, V. 2004. 粵英雙語兒童早期的語法發展《當代語言學》第一期,
1-18 頁. “Early syntactic development in Cantonese-English bilingual children” Contemporary Linguistics 6.1.1-18. |
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| Matthews,
S. & V. Yip. 2002. "Relative Clauses in Early Bilingual Development:
Transfer and Universals," in A. Giacalone (ed.), Typology and Second
Language Acquisition. Mouton de Gruyter. See online review of the book by Malcolm Finney |
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| Matthews, S.& V. Yip. 2001. "The Structure and Stratification of Relative Clauses in Contemporary Cantonese," in H. Chappell (ed.), Sinitic Grammar:Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 266-281. | |
| Yip, V. & S. Matthews. 2000."Syntactic Transfer in a Cantonese-English Bilingual Child" Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 3.3.193-208 | |
| Yip, V. & G. Tang. 1998. "Acquisition of English Reflexive Binding by Cantonese Learners: testing the positive transfer hypothesis," in M-L. Beck (ed.), Morphology and its Interfaces in Second Language Knowledge. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. | |
| Matthews, S & V. Yip. 1998. "Verb-copying Constructions in
Cantonese," in B. T'sou (ed.), Studia Linguistica Serica. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong. |
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| Yip, V. & S. Matthews. 1995. "I-Interlanguage and typology,"
in L. Eubank et al (eds.), The Current State of Interlanguage. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. |
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| Yip, V. 1994. "Consciousness-raising and Learnability," in T.Odlin (ed.),Perspectives on Pedagogical Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| Yip, V. 2007. The logical problem of bilingual acquisition. Keynote speech to be given at the International Symposium of Bilingualism (ISB6), University of Hamburg, Germany. May 30- June 2. |
| Yip, V. 2004. "Bilingual Child Language Acquisition." Keynote speech delivered at the First National Symposium on Second Language Acquisition at the Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, 5-6 January . (handout available) |
| Yip, V. 2002. "Early Syntactic Development in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children." (available in Chinese and English)Keynote speech delivered at the 9th International Symposium on Contemporary Linguistics in China, Beijing Foreign Studies University, PRC. |
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| Childhood Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition in Hong Kong Children: 2005-2006,
RGC Ref. No. CUHK4692/05H PI: Virginia Yip(CUHK) Co-I: Stephen Matthews(HKU), Yasuhiro Shirai(Cornell University). |
| Parsing Principles and Constituent Order
in Cantonese : 2004-2006, RGC Ref. No. 7258/04H PI: Stephen Matthews(HKU) Co-I: Elaine Francis (Purdue), Conrad Perry(HKU) and V. Yip (CUHK). |
| Cognitive and Brain Processing of the Chinese
Language, RGC Central Allocation: 2003-2006 PI: Li-Hai Tan (HKU) Co-I: C. Perry (HKU), J. Spinks (HKU), G. Shen (UT San Antonio), V. Yip (CUHK) & P. Fox (UT San Antonio). |
| Multimedia Perspectives On Bilingual Development, 2002-05 | |
| PI:V. Yip Co-I: S. Matthews | |
| Universals and Specifics in Reading Development: Speed of Processing, Phonological Awareness, Morphological Awareness, and Home Literacy Environment, 2001-03 | |
| PI: Catherine McBride (CUHK) Co-Investigators: Hua Shu (Beijing Normal University), Richard K.Wagner (Florida State University) and V.Yip | |
| A Cantonese-English Bilingual Child Language Corpus, 1997-2000 | |
| PI: V.Yip, Co-I: S.Matthews (HKU) | |
| The Min Dialect of Chaozhou and Comparative Chinese Grammar, 1996-98 | |
| PI: S. Matthews (HKU),Co-I: V. Yip | |
| The Development of Bilingual Competence in Hong Kong Children | |
| PI: S.Matthews(HKU),Co-I: V. Yip & Huang Yue-Yuan (HKBU) | |
| The Development of Grammatical Competence in the Formal ESL Learning Environment 1992-94 | |
| PI: V.Yip, Co-I: G.Tang | |
| Studies in the Comparative Grammar of English and Cantonese,1992-96 | |
| PI: S. Matthews(HKU),Co-I: V.Yip |
| Language Differentiation in Bilingual Acquisition 2003-2004 (CUHK Direct Grant) |
| Syntactic Categories in Early Bilingual Development 2002-2003 (CUHK Direct Grant) | |
| Education Towards Biliteracy and Trilingualism: An Internet Support
Project funded by Quality Education Fund Principal investigator: Kwan Tze-wan (Department of Philosophy, CUHK) Co-I:Virginia Yip (Department of MLC, CUHK),Chiang Ying Ho (Department of Chinese Language and Literature) |
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| Cyber Discourse: A Linguistic Study on Chat Room Language 2000-2001(CUHK Direct Grant) | |
| Minority Languages in Yunnan 2000-2001(CUHK Direct Grant) |