Speech, Language and Cognition Laboratory

Welcome to the Speech, Language and Cognition Laboratory in School of English, HKU! We are a team of linguists specializing in phonetics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive approaches to second language acquisition. Our lab is equipped with an EyeLink 1000 Plus eye tracker, along with a range of software and hardware for audio recording and computer-based behavioral experiments. For any inquiries, please contact Prof. Ricky Chan at rickykwc@hku.hk.

Academic Staff

• Ricky Chan
• Amanda Cheung
• Mr Isaac Lee

Current Postgraduate Students

• Yufei Niu (Phonetic cue weighting in L2 tone perception and production)
• Jiaxuan Shi (Explicit and incidental learning of morphophonological patterns)

Past Research Staff

• Adas Li (Experimental phonetics)
• Eason Shum (Experimental phonetics)
• Bruce Wang (Forensic phonetics)
• Donald Ward (Psycholinguistics)
• Vanessa Wong (Psycholinguistics)

Past Postgraduate Students

• Dave Cayado (Thesis title: Activation of non-current language in bilinguals facilitates the implicit learning of novel form-meaning connections)
• Scarlett Hao (Thesis title: The psycholinguistic reality of generative theories and construction grammar in language processing)
• Caroline Huang (Thesis title: Is the overt pronoun constraint learnable?)
• Alision Lam (Thesis title: Implicit learning of tonal rules in Thai as a second language)
• Jane Xia (Thesis title: Categorization and L2 vocabulary learning – a cognitive linguistic perspective)