Research Interests:

Bilingual development of Hong Kong children;
Cantonese and comparative Sinitic grammar;
Second language acquisition and grammatical theory.

• Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood
• Workshop on Bilingualism and Language Acquisition:
  Distinguished Speakers Lecture Series

Professional Membership and Service:

• Editorial board: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (published by Cambridge University Press), Second Language Research (published by Sage)
• Member: Linguistic Society of America, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, International Association of Chinese Linguistics
• Senior Centre Fellow and Member of the Advisory Committee, Research Centre into Language Education and Acquisition in Multilingual Societies (RCLEAMS) at the Hong Kong Institute of Education

Recent Media Release:

• An interview featuring the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre in
IASCL - Child Language Bulletin - Vol 29, No 1: June 2009.
• 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.