Peggy Mok 莫碧琪

	Peggy Pik Ki Mok Assistant Professor B.A. (CUHK); M.Phil., Ph.D. (Cambridge) Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages Leung Kau Kui Building The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong peggymok -at- cuhk.edu.hk Tel: +852 3943 1768 Fax: +852 2603 7755
	Research Interests CV Papers and Presentations Conference Organisation About Me

Research Interests

Basically, experimental phonetics! I am interested in both speech production and perception, particularly with cross-linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives. The topic of my PhD thesis is 'Influences on vowel-to-vowel coarticulation', which was supervised by Prof. Sarah Hawkins at the University of Cambridge. I was interested in seeing how different factors affect a presumably physical and universal phenomenon. I investigated two quasi-independent types of influences on vowel-to-vowel coarticulation: those stemming from the phonological structure of the language and those stemming more from phonetic or physical considerations. You can find details in my publications.

After working on segmental features for some years, I have several new areas to explore. Currently the investigation of prosody is topping my list. I investigated the speech rhythm of Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) and English. I also look at how Cantonese-English simultaneous bilingual children acquire speech rhythm. Besides, the investigation of the production and perception of tone mergers in Hong Kong Cantonese is underway. I begin to look at music training and tone perception as a result. I have also started collecting data on Cantonese child-directed speech.

I collaborate with Jane Setter and Ee Ling Low to investigate the production and perception of phonetic cues for juncture boundaries in three varieties of English (British, Hong Kong and Singapore). I collaborate with Prof. Francis Nolan to investigate forensic phonetic speaker identity of Cantonese-English bilingual speakers. I also work with Alan Yu to investigate the bilingual mental lexicon.

I supervise research projects in phonetics. Some of them are closely related to my own research:

Donald White	PhD (in progress)	Longitudinal changes in L2 speech patterns
Zuo Donghui	MPhil (2012)	Formant dynamics of bilingual identical twin speakers
Qin Zhen	MPhil (2012)	Perception of Cantonese tones by naive French, English and Mandarin listeners
Xu Bo	MPhil (in progress)	Boundary tone effects and intonation in Cantonese
Jingwen Li	MPhil (in progress)	Early bilingual acquisition of English word stress
Donald White	MA (2009)	Speech rhythm development of a balanced Cantonese-English bilingual child (won the LSHK Outstanding MA Thesis Award in 2009)
Virginia Chung	MA (2009)	Production and perception of Cantonese tones by non-Chinese speaking students in Hong Kong
Chen Qiuyue	MA (2010)	Production and perception of Mandarin tones by Cantonese-speaking learners
Jason Chan	MA (2011)	Lexical stress patterns in Hong Kong English
Guo Li	MA (2012)	Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit for English-Mandarin bilinguals

My CV

Education background

2007	PhD in Linguistics, University of Cambridge
2001	MPhil in Linguistics, University of Cambridge (1st class)
2000	BA in Chinese Language and Literature (minor in English Language and Literature), Chinese University of Hong Kong (1st class honours)

Research Grants

2007-2008	A pilot study of bilingual children acquisition of speech rhythm: Cantonese and English. CUHK Direct Grant
2009-2010 2010-2011	Production and perception of juncture characteristics in three varieties of English. CUHK Direct Grant, and British Academy/ACU Grants for International Collaboration (with Dr. Jane Setter from University of Reading)
2011-2012	A pilot study of the Chinese-English bilingual mental lexicon. CUHK Direct Grant

Work Experience

Jan 2008 to Present	Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sep - Dec 2007	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2006 - 2007	Instructor, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Teaching

Undergraduate:	Phonetics I & II (including practical phonetics), Psycholinguistics
MA:	Research Methods, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics

Professional Associations

British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP)
The International Phonetic Association (IPA)
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
Chinese Phonetics Association
Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (as the Communication Officer in 2008-2011, and now as the Treasurer)
Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre

Papers and Presentations

Peer-reviewed Journal Papers

Setter, J., Mok, P., Low, E.L. & Zuo, D. (submitted) The perception of word juncture characteristics in three varieties of English.
Mok, P., Wong, P. & Zuo, D. (revising) Production and perception of a sound change in progress: tone merging in Hong Kong Cantonese.
Mok, P. (in press) Speech rhythm of monolingual and bilingual children at 2;06: Cantonese and English. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. [First View]
Mok, P. (in press) Does vowel inventory density affect vowel-to-vowel coarticulation? Language and Speech. [OnlineFirst]
Mok, P. (to appear) Behavioral studies of tonal perception of Chinese. Encyclopedia of Chinese Languages and Linguistics (ECLL).
Mok, P. & Zuo, D. (2012) The separation between music and speech: evidence from the perception of Cantonese tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132: 2711-2720. [PDF] copyright belongs to JASA
Mok, P. (2012) Effects of consonant cluster syllabification on vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in English. Speech Communication, 54: 946-956. [PDF]
Mok, P. (2011) Effects of vowel duration and vowel quality on vowel-to-vowel coarticulation. Language and Speech, 54: 527-545. [PDF]
Mok, P. (2011) The acquisition of speech rhythm by three-year-old bilingual and monolingual children: Cantonese and English. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14: 458-472. [PDF] copyright belongs to CUP
Mok, P. (2010) Language-specific realizations of syllable structure and vowel-to-vowel coarticulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128: 1346-1356. [PDF] copyright belongs to JASA
Mok, P. (2009) On the syllable-timing of Cantonese and Beijing Mandarin. Chinese Journal of Phonetics, 2: 148-154. [PDF]

Peer-reviewed Conference Papers

Li, G. & Mok, P. (2012) A preliminary study on the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for English-Mandarin bilingual L2 learners. In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), 409-412. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Xu, B., Zuo, D. & Mok, P. (2012) Speaker identity of Cantonese-English bilingual speakers. In Proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST), 61-64. Sydney. [PDF]
Zuo, D. & Mok, P. (2012) (2012) Formant dynamics of bilingual identical twins in non-contemporaneous speech. In Proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST), 89-92. Sydney. [PDF]
Mok, P. & Zuo, D. (2012) Effects of tone merging and musical training on Cantonese tone perception. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012, 462-465. Shanghai. [PDF]
Qin, Z. & Mok, P. (2012) The perception of speech and non-speech tones by tone and non-tone language listeners. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012, 366-369. Shanghai. [PDF]
White, D. & Mok, P. (2012) A preliminary investigation of the effects of study tours on L2 speech rhythm. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012, 238-241. Shanghai. [PDF]
Xu, B. & Mok, P. (2012) Cross-linguistic perception of intonation by Mandarin and Cantonese listeners. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012, 99-102. Shanghai. [PDF]
Xu, B. & Mok, P. (2012) Intonation perception of low-pass filtered speech in Mandarin and Cantonese. In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2012). Nanjing. [PDF]
Zuo, D., Chen, Q. & Mok, P. (2012) Does 0rthography affect L2 tone production and perception? In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2012). Nanjing. [PDF]
Mok, P., Setter, J. & Low, E.L. (2011) The perception of word juncture characteristics in three varieties of English. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 1410-1413. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Mok, P. (2011) Does musical training facilitate lexical tone perception of tone language speakers? In Proceedings of the Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference (PLRT), 37. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Qin, Z. & Mok, P. (2011) Perception of Cantonese tones by Mandarin, English and French speakers. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 1654-1657. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Qin, Z. & Mok, P. (2011) Discrimination of Cantonese tones by Mandarin, English and French speakers. In Proceedings of the Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference (PLRT), 50-53. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Xu, B. & Mok, P. (2011) Final rising and global raising in Cantonese intonation. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 2173-2176. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Zuo, D. & Mok, P. (2011) Formant dynamics of /ua/ in the speech of Mandarin-Shanghainese bilingual identical twins. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 2332-2335. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Mok, P. & Wong, P. (2010) Production and perception of the rising tones in Hong Kong Cantonese. In Proceedings of the 9th Phonetics Conference of China (PCC2010). Tianjin.
Mok, P. & Wong, P. (2010) Production of the merging tones in Hong Kong Cantonese: preliminary data on monosyllables. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010. 100986:1-4. Chicago. [PDF]
Mok, P. & Wong, P. (2010) Perception of the merging tones in Hong Kong Cantonese: preliminary data on monosyllables. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010.100916:1-4. Chicago. [PDF]
Wang, H., Mok, P. & Meng, H. (2010) MusicSpeak: Capitalizing on Musical Rhythm for Prosodic Training in Computer-Aided Language Learning. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Second Language Studies (SLaTE 2010). Toyko, Japan. [PDF]
Mok, P. & Dellwo, V. (2008) Comparing native and non-native speech rhythm using acoustic rhythmic measures: Cantonese, Beijing Mandarin and English. In Proceedings of the 4th Speech Prosody (2008). 423-426. Campinas, Brazil. [PDF]
Mok, P. (2008) On the syllable-timing of Cantonese and Beijing Mandarin. In Proceedings of the 8th Phonetics Conference of China (PCC 2008) and the International Symposium on Phonetic Frontiers (ISPF 2008). Beijing.
Mok, P. (2007) Effects of Syllable Structure on V-to-V Coarticulation (Thai vs English). In Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). 421-424. Saarbruecken, Germany. [PDF]
Mok, P. & Hawkins, S. (2004) Effects of Phonemic vs Allophonic Density and Stress on Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Cantonese and Beijing Mandarin. In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP). 33-36. Hong Kong. [PDF]

Conference Presentations

Mok, P. (2012) Merging of lexical tones in Hong Kong Cantonese: production and perception. Moving Forward - International Symposium on Chinese Linguistics and Philology. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Mok, P. (2012) Tone merging in Hong Kong Cantonese. Hong Kong Speech and Hearing Symposium. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Briz Hernandez, I., Qin, Z. & Mok, P. (2012) L3 acquisition of the voicing contrast in Spanish by Cantonese learners. International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Yun, E., Zhang, Y., Zuo, D. & Mok, P. (2012) Effects of orthography on Cantonese learners' pronunciation of Sino-Korean words. International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Zhang, Y. & Mok, P. (2012) Learner corpora of modern languages at CUHK. International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Setter, J., Mok, P., Low, E.L. & Zuo, D. (2012) Internal open word juncture features in three varieties of English: perception and production. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium (BAAP). Leeds. Poster presentation.
Mok, P. (2011) Early development of speech rhythm in monolingual and bilingual children. International Child Phonology Conference. York. Oral presentation.
Mok, P. (2011) Rhythmic development of monolingual and bilingual children at 2;06. International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). Montreal. Poster presentation.
Mok, P., Setter, J. & Low, E.L. (2011) Juncture production in Hong Kong, Singapore and British English. Workshop on Coarticulation in New Varieties of English. Hong Kong. Oral presentation. Abstract.
White, D. & Mok, P. (2011) A case study of speech rhythm acquisition in a Cantonese-English bilingual children. International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). Montreal. Poster presentation.
Mok, P. (2009) Acquiring rhythmically different languages at an early age: the case of Cantonese and English. International Symposium on Bilingualism 7. Utrecht. Oral presentation.
Mok, P. & Dellwo, V. (2008) The acquisition of speech rhythm in monolingual and bilingual children. Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
White, D. & Mok, P. (2008) On the development of speech rhythm in a Cantonese-English bilingual child: a case study. Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Mok, P. & Lee, S.I. (2008) Korean speech rhythm using rhythmic measures. The 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL18). Seoul, Korea. Oral presentation. Abstract.
Mok, P. & Hawkins, S. (2008) Syllabification of the /st/ cluster and vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in English. Laboratory Phonology 11. Wellington, New Zealand. Poster presentation. Abstract.
Mok, P. (2008) Using durational measures with non-native speech rhythm. Workshop on Empirical Approaches to Speech Rhythm (EASR08). UCL, London. Poster presentation.
Mok, P.K.P. (2006) Effects of Syllable Structure on Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Cantonese, Thai and English. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium (BAAP). Edinburgh. Oral Presentation.
Mok, P.K.P. (2005) Reassessing the Notion of Vowel Phonemes in Cantonese and Mandarin. The 10th International Conference on Yue Dialects. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Mok, P.K.P. (2005) Temporal Effects on Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Cantonese and Thai. The 11th International Conference on Processing Chinese and Other East Asian Languages (PCOEAL 2005). Hong Kong. Poster presentation.
Mok, P.K.P. (2004) Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Cantonese and Beijing Mandarin. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium (BAAP). Cambridge. (Oral presentation, won the Hugenie Henderson Prize for the best paper from non-members)

Invited Talks

Mok, P. (2012) Do merging and musical training affect the perception of Cantonese tones? Seminars of the Linguistics Department, University of Hong Kong.
Mok, P. (2011) Tone perception and music training. First Psycholinguistics Symposium in China (首屆中國心理語言學研討會). Guangzhou.
Mok, P. (2010) The acquisition of rhythm in bilingual children. Workshop in Bilingualism and Language Acquisition: Distinguished Speakers Lecture Series. Hong Kong.

Conference organisation

5-8 December 2012 The Eighth International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2012)

15-16 May 2012 International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics

      27-29 May 2012 The Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2012)

        16 August 2011 Workshop on Coarticulation in New Varieties of English

        22-23 August 2011 Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone (PLRT)

About Me

I am 100% Chinese, born, grew up and spent most of my life in Hong Kong. I am married and have a two-year-old son.

My body: enjoys good food, listening to hymns, watching musicals, reading, swimming, hiking and travelling. I love dogs.

My mind: appreciates all things beautiful.

My spirit: is with Jesus Christ. I have been a Christian since 12. I go to this church in Hong Kong.

I am a Board member of the FES in Hong Kong.

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