Linguistics
Professor TANG Wai Lan Gladys, Professor
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Prof.
Gladys Tang received her doctorate degree in applied linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Her research interests
are language acquisition and language pedagogy. Her interest in sign language research also took her to embark on a series of research projects
in recent years on the linguistics of Hong Kong Sign Language, the acquisition of sign language and the development of deaf literacy by deaf children.
She has published on second language acquisition, second language pedagogy, sign linguistics, sign language acquisition and deaf education. She
served as Treasurer and President of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong from 1996-2000. She is Director of The Centre for Sign Linguistics
and Deaf Studies, Programme Director of Diploma Programme in Teaching English as a Second Language, member of the Advisory Committee of the
Hong Kong Association of the Deaf, and member of the Task Force on Review of Assessment Process for Hearing-impaired Children, Hong Kong Education
and Manpower Bureau.
Professor YIP Choy Yin Virginia,
Professor
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Prof.
Virginia Yip received her undergraduate training in linguistics at the
University of Texas at Austin and her doctorate degree from the University
of Southern California. Her research interests include bilingual acquisition,
second language acquisition, Cantonese, Chaozhou and comparative Sinitic
grammar, psycholinguistics and cognitive science. She is the author
of Interlanguage and Learnability: from Chinese to English (Benjamins)
and co-author of a series of works on Cantonese grammar published by
Routledge: Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (which has been translated
into Japanese), Basic Cantonese and Intermediate Cantonese. She and
her team have created the Hong Kong Bilingual Child Language Corpus,
the first longitudinal bilingual corpus in which Cantonese is represented
along with English, and the largest multimedia bilingual corpus in the
Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) based at Carnegie Mellon
University.
Professor Lee Hun-tak Thomas,
Professor
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Prof. Thomas Hun-tak Lee received his PhD in Linguistics from UCLA. His research interests lie in language acquisition
and syntax/semantics, with particular reference to the first language acquisition of Cantonese and Mandarin. His
publications have focussed on children's understanding and use of logical structures, and their implications for
language and cognitive development. Along with other colleagues based in Hong Kong Polytechnic University and
University of Hong Kong, Prof Lee developed the Hong Kong Cantonese Child Language Corpus (CANCORP).
He is on the editorial board of Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Syntax,
Contemporary Linguistics, Foreign Language Teaching and Research and Modern Foreign Languages.
Professor GU Yang, Professor
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Prof. Gu Yang received her doctoral degree in linguistics from Cornell University,
USA. Her research interests include theory of generative grammar; formal
syntax; interfaces of syntax and morphology, and syntax and lexical
semantics. In recent years, she has also worked on Tibeto-Burmese comparative
linguistics, with a particular focus on the Jingpo language. Her publications
contain over 40 items including one edited book, two co-authored books,
and a large number of journal articles and book chapters. She served
as President and Vice-President of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
from 1996-99, and is currently serving as Vice-Executive Secretary for
the International Association of Chinese Linguistics. She is also on
the editorial boards of Journal of Modern Foreign Languages and Journal
of Contemporary Linguistics.
Professor JIANG-KING Ping, Associate Professor
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Prof. Jiang-King Ping received her doctorate degree in linguistics from the
University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include
theoretical phonology, prosodic morphology, and linguistic applications
in information technology. For the past five years, she has been building
"An Online Bilingual Database of Chinese Dialects", the first
and largest database of its kind. She has published over 40 research
outputs, including a single-authored book, journal articles, book chapters,
and conference papers. Prof. Jiang is currently the Vice-President of
the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, and serves on the editorial boards
of Journal of Chinese Linguistics and Language Science and Technology
Monograph Series.
Professor YAP Foong Ha, Assistant Professor
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Prof. Yap Foong Ha received her doctorate degree in Applied Linguistics from
the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include
discourse analysis; grammaticalization; language contact and language
change; cognitive neurolinguistics and language acquisition. Currently
she is involved in research projects that trace the polysemy networks
and grammaticalization pathways of Chinese morphemes; she is at the
same time coordinating a research project that explores ways of simulating—via
neural networks, genetic programmeming, etc. —various aspects
and stages of language change. She is also currently engaged in research
on tense-aspect from an acquisition and mental perception perspective.
Her publications cover areas in grammaticalization phenomena, language
use in context, and language acquisition from a connectionist perspective.
Professor Mok Pik Ki Peggy, Assistant Professor
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Prof. Peggy Mok received her B.A. in Chinese with first honour from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and her MPhil
and PhD in linguistics from the University of Cambridge in England. Her
research interest is experimental phonetics, especially with a cross-linguistic perspective. She is interested in
both speech production and perception. She is
currently working on several research projects:
speech rhythm of Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Korean and English;
acquisition of speech rhythm by bilingual children; production and
perception of tone mergers in Cantonese and speaker-specific
characteristics of Cantonese identical twins. She is currently the
Communication Officer of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong.
Professor Cheung Chi Hang Candice, Assistant Professor
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Prof. Candice Chi-Hang
Cheung received her doctorate degree in linguistics from the
Professor Donovan Grose, Assistant Professor
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Prof Donovan Grose received his B.A. in linguistics from Western Washington University and his M.A. and Ph.D degrees from Purdue University. His research interests focus on several areas in the grammars of sign languages, including the morpho-syntax of tense, aspect and event structure, phonology and the morphology-phonology interface in signed languages. His current research projects include an analysis of the visibility of lexical semantics and event structures in the surface forms of predicates in American and Hong Kong sign languages. He is also involved in research investigating the development of literacy and spoken and sign language development in deaf students co-enrolled in an experimental bilingual program in classrooms at the kindergarten and primary levels in Hong Kong. This research is made possible by generous support from The Hong Kong Jockey Club.
Modern Languages
Mr. FUNG Tong Tsiu Philip, Senior Instructor
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Mr. Philip Fung graduated in French Studies from the Université
de Lille III, (France), and received his B.A. and M.A. in Sciences du
Language, and his D.E.A. degree in Linguistique, Sémiotique,
Communication at the Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon
(France). He is co-author of the series of radio French courses Bonjour
Hong Kong I & II, author and translator of several articles on linguistics,
foreign language acquisition, and painting. He has a wide range of interests
in French Studies, Theory of the Culiolian School of Enunciation Linguistics
(Linguistique d’Enonciation), phonetics, syntax and aspectual-temporal
markers in the modern French language system.
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Mr. Ulrich Hermann WANNAGAT, Senior Instructor
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Mr. Ulrich Wannagat graduated from Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum (Germany)
and received his Magister degree (M.A.) in German Literature and Linguistics,
History and Educational Sciences . As a lecturer at the University
of Birmingham (UK), he taught courses on German language, and German
modern history and culture. While teaching in China (Xian and Beijing),
he was mainly responsible for curriculum design and teachers’
training. In addition to a number of publications on German as a foreign
language, he is also co-author of the course book Praxis Deutsch—German
for Professional Purposes. His research focuses on German language
acquisition and sociolinguistics. He joined the university in 1994.
Ms. Christèle JOLY, Instructor
Ms.
Christèle Joly received her Master’s degrees in German
and French at University Paris III—Nouvelle Sorbonne in France.
She then concentrated on Foreign Language Acquisition and French as
a foreign language and taught French in Austria, Thailand (Alliance
Francçaise), and Malaysia. She joined the Department in October
2001.
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Ms. LE Xuan-Thu, Instructor
Ms.
Xuan-Thu Le received her Master's degree in Comparative Literature at
University Paris VII Denis Diderot in France. The following year, she
passed the Agregation de Lettres Modernes, a selective examination for
the recruitment of teachers in French Literature. She had taught French
Language and Literature in Paris for four years before joining the Department
in 2002.
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Ms. Annette FROMEL, Instructor
Ms. Annette Fromel obtained her first Masters in Translation with English as her major and Chinese as her minor
from the School of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies of the University of Mainz in Germersheim, Germany.
Having attended a teacher training course at the Goethe Institut in 1999, she has subsequently taught at the Goethe
Institut HK and at HKU SPACE. She is currently pursuing her second Masters degree in Applied Linguistics. At the
moment she is working on her dissertation on language arts in the German classroom.
She joined CUHK in 2003 as a part-time instructor and has been working full-time since 2004.
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Mr. Francesco VENTICALDI, Instructor
Mr. Francesco Venticaldi received his Master's degrees in Modern Languages and Literatures at the University
of Bari in Italy. He got then his teaching qualification for Italian and German as foreign languages and taught
both of them at schools, universities and to adults in different countries: Italy, Germany, Australia and
mainland China. He was engaged in activities for multicultural and international students exchanges as well. He
is happy to join our Department starting from Term I 2006.
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Mr. Nicolas Arriaga Agrelo, Instructor
Mr. Nicolas Arriaga Agrelo studied Philology at the University of La Laguna (Spain). Before joining CUHK, he taught Spanish and Second Language Acquisition at City University of Hong Kong. He has also lectured at the Spanish Departments of Capital Normal University and Beijing Foreign Studies University (China). In Spain he taught Foreign Languages Didactics at the University of La Laguna (Spain). His interests focus on Second Language Acquisition and more specifically on the acquisition of Spanish by Chinese students (Mandarin and Cantonese native-speakers). He is presently working on the cross-linguistic influence of L1 (Chinese) and L2 (English) in the acquisition of Spanish as third language for his Ph.D. dissertation.
Part-Time Language Instructors
French Studies
Ms. DE MARICOURT Joelle
Ms. DECAZES Aude Evelyne
Mr. GALIN Serge Yves Andre
Mrs. KUNEGEL LEE Hyon Sou
Mr. POKOJSKI Bernard Joseph
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German Studies
Ms. KRALL Yvonne
Mr. LEE Wilson
Mrs. NG SHAM Cecilia Yee
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Italian Studies
Mr. SFRISO Massimo
Mr. TESSARIOL Ulisse
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Spanish Studies
Ms. ALIAS MARTINEZ Ana
Ms. CORREA DIAZ Ana Maria
Mr. MORALES VENEGAS Salvador
Ms. ROBISCO MARTIN Gemma
Mr. RUBIO FERNANDEZ Antonio
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