Theses completed in the Department of Linguistics (1997-present)
supervised by Dr. S. Matthews (as principal supervisor)
Ph.D.
CHAN Yin Wa, Alice. (1997). Semantic
interpretation and ambiguity in Chinese serial verb constructions.
CHEN Ee San. (2002).'You
play with me, then I friend you': development of conditional constructions
in Chinese-English bilingual preschool children in Singapore.
M.Phil.
TSANG Wai Lan (1997). Variation
in the use of the particle ge in Hong Kong Cantonese.
LEUNG Yan Kit, Ingrid (1998). The
acquisition of French as a third language in Hong Kong -- Interlanguage
and typology.
LEUNG Wing Pik, Bella (2000). The
acquisition of linguistic politeness phenomena in Hong Kong bilingual children.
LEUNG Tsz Cheung (2001). An
optimality-theoretic approach to Cantonese/English code switching.
CHAN Yin Fung, Betty (2001). Towards
an interactive view of third language acquisition: the case of the German
Vorfeld.
SZETO Lok Yee, Cecilia (2002). Between
dialect and language: aspects of intelligibility and identity in Sinitic
and Romance.
LI Kin Ling, Michelle (2002). Cantonese
causative constructions: iconicity, grammaticalization and semantic structures.
KWAN Wing Man, Stella (2005). On the word order
of locative prepositional phrases in Cantonese: processing, iconicity and
grammar.*
(* winner of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
Best MPhil Thesis Award, 2005)
YIU Sze Man, Emily (2005). Language mixing and
grammatical development in a Cantonese-English balanced bilingual child.
LAI Yee King, Regine (2006). Language mixing
in an English-Cantonese bilingual child with uneven development.
LAU, Elaine (2006). The acquisition of relative
clauses by Cantonese children: an experimental approach.
CHEUNG Ki Shun, Antonio (2006). Processing factors
in language comprehension and production: the case of Cantonese dative
constructions.*
(* winner of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
Best MPhil lThesis Award, 2006)
B.Cog. Sci.
MUNG Kai Yin, Erica (1999). A
quantitative investigation on language dominance and transfer in bilingual
children.
YEUNG Yuet Ying, Louisa (2000). An
experimental study on sentence parsing: topicalization in Cantonese.
KWAN Suk Mei, Fiona (2000). Parsing and processing
of sentences with pretransitive constrcution in Cantonese
HO Shuk Kwan, Samantha (2003). Syntactic transfer
in Cantonese-English bilingual development: a corpus-based study of phrasal
verbs.
CHEUNG Ki Shun, Antonio (2004). On the role
of weight in constituent order in Cantonese: an experimental study of double
object constructions.
MAK Ching Sum, Ophelia (2004). Language development
in autistic children: null subjects, pronominal use and role reversal.
KWOK, Randy (2004). Cantonese-English code-mixing
in early bilingual development.
LEE Nim Yan, Naomi (2005). Interlanguage phonology
in a Chaoyang speaker of Cantonese.
LEUNG Shuk Ching, Fiona (2005). Syntactic transfer
in Cantonese-English bilingual development: a corpus-based study on prepositional
phrases in Cantonese.
CHUNG Tak Chuen, Michael (2006). Code-mixing
and syntactic transfer in child bilingualism.
CHOI Wing Yung, Ritty and CHAN Ching Yi (2006). The
study of pragmatic effects on processing topicalization in Cantonese.
WONG Kwok Leung, Alfred (2006). Topicalized versus
canonical word order in Cantonese: a production study.
LIU Yu Hong, Simon (2006). An experimental study
of verb-doubling and domain minimization in Cantonese.