LEI Margaret Ka Yan

Margaret Ka-yan LEI

BEng, PGDP, MA, MPhil (CUHK)

Email: margaret@cuhk.edu.hk

Phone: 3943-1702

 

Research area:

Language acquisition; Syntax and semantics

 

Dissertation topic:

Studies on the acquisition of A-quantification in Cantonese

 

Research reports and publications (selected):

Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2015. Scope (dis)ambiguity in Chinese datives: The view from language acquisition. Invited lecture given at the East Asian Language Acquisition Workshop, held in conjunction with the 2015 International Conference on Language Form and Function, March 27, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2014. Domain selection in the acquisition of Cantonese universal A-quantifiers. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL-6), November 8-9, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2014. Scope (dis)ambiguity in Chinese datives: The view from language acquisition. In Proceedings of the 2014 Korean Society for Language and Information Workshop on Meaning and Cognition, June 20, Seoul National University, Korea.

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2014. Scope interaction of universal A-quantifiers and negation: An experimental study on Cantonese-speaking children. Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-22) and the 26th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-26), May 2-4, University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.

Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2014. Nominalizer insertion in Hong Kong Cantonese: Is it a real syntactic change? Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-22) and the 26th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-26), May 2-4, University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.

Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2013. Ge3-insertion in Hong Kong Cantonese: The view from de-insertion in Mandarin. Paper presented at the 18th International Conference on Yue Dialects, December 7-8, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.

Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2013. Scope (dis)ambiguity in prepositional and double object datives in Chinese: An experimental study. Keynote speech given at the International Symposium on Quantification in Chinese: Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition, November 13-15, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China.

Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2013. Chinese children's interpretation of scope in prepositional datives. Paper presented at the 8th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistic (EACL-8), September 26-28, EHESS, Paris, France.

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2013. Scope interpretation of the dative construction by adult Mandarin speakers. Paper presented at the 25th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-25), June 21-23, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2013. Children's early comprehension of the universal quantifier affix saai3 in Cantonese. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-21), June 7-9, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2013. The semantic properties of saai3 in quantifying nominals and predicates: How it differs from aspectual and phase marker. Paper presented at the Thirteenth Workshop on Cantonese (WOC-13), March 16, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2012. Children's comprehension of the direction of quantification of the A-quantifier saai3 in Cantonese. Paper presented at the CUHK-Nankai Workshop on Language Documentation and Language Acquisition, August 21-22, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2011. Acquisition of the postverbal universal quantifier affix in Cantonese. Paper presented at the 7th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-7), September 13-15, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy.

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan and Thomas Hun-tak Lee. 2011. Cantonese-speaking children's comprehension of deictic locatives. Poster presented at the 12th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL-12), July 19-23, Université du Québec à Montréal , Montreal, Canada.

Lee, Thomas Hun-tak and Margaret Ka-yan Lei. 2011. Acquisition of the postverbal universal quantifier affix in Cantonese. Invited lecture given at the 36th Colloquium, March 5, Centre for Linguistics, Nanzan University, Japan.

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan, Thomas Hun-tak Lee, Joey Li, Josie Li, and Jessie Poon. 2009. Orthographic representation and transcription of code-mixing in the HKCELA corpus. Paper presented at the Workshop on Milestones in the First Language Acquisition of Chinese, December 28-29, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan. 2007. Discrimination of level tones in Cantonese-learning infants. In Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-16) , Saarbrücken, Germany, 1313-1316.

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan. 2006. Tone discrimination in infants acquiring a tonal language. Paper presented at the 15th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS-15), June 19-23, Kyoto, Japan.

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan. 2006. A phonetic study on the acquisition of Cantonese tones. Paper presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL-2), April 27-29, Université de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France.

Lei, Margaret Ka-yan. 2006. The discrimination of Cantonese tones in infants. Paper presented at the 4th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-4), January 20-22, Budapest, Hungary.