RESEARCH THESES
Research theses completed at LAL
| Year | Name | Title | Type of Work | Institution | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Ren Qianqian | Licensing and Interpreting Wh-Elements In-situ in Mandarin Chinese | Doctoral dissertation | Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. Haihua Pan |
| 2021 | Xue Bo | Elements of Exhaustivity: Exhaustivenness, Exclusivess and Reasoning | Doctoral dissertation | Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. Haihua Pan |
| 2020 | Kuang Hang | The Interpretation of the Why-adverbial zenme and its Acquisition by Mandarin-speaking Children | MPhil thesis | Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. Thomas Hun-tak Lee |
| 2020 | Li Tianshu | Incomplete Perfectivity and its Acquisition in Mandarin Chinese | MPhil thesis | Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. Thomas Hun-tak Lee |
| 2019 | He Meifang | The Role of Word Length in Determining the Chinese Syntactic Structure | MPhil thesis | Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. Haihua Pan |
| 2019 | Li Jiayu | A Study on the Interaction Between Negation and Universally Quantified Objects in Mandarin Chinese | MPhil thesis | Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. Haihua Pan |
| 2019 | Lu Yaqiao | The Acquisition of Unaccusativity in Mandarin Chinese | Doctoral dissertation | Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. Thomas Hun-tak Lee |
| 2017 | Lei Ka Yan Margaret | The acquisition of A-quantification in Cantonese (The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong 2017 Outstanding PhD Thesis Award) | Doctoral dissertation | Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. Thomas Hun-tak Lee |
| 2012 | Tse Ming San Crono | A study of specificity in Cantonese | MPhil thesis | Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. Thomas Hun-tak Lee |
| 2010 | Chen Hui | The acquisition of vowel length in Cantonese | MPhil thesis | Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. Thomas Hun-tak Lee |
| 2010 | Deng Xiangjun | The acquisition of the resultative verb compound in Mandarin Chinese (Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Outstanding MPhil thesis award, 2010) | MPhil thesis | Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. Thomas Hun-tak Lee |
| 2010 | Zeng Tao | The nature of word spurt Early lexical and semantic development of Mandarin-speaking Children | Doctoral dissertation | Guangdong University of Foreign Studies | Prof. Thomas Hun-tak Lee and Prof. Chuming Wang |
| 2010 | Li Jieqiong | An experimental study of basic word order acquisition in Mandarin-speaking children | MA thesis | Hunan University | Prof. Thomas Hun-tak Lee |
| 2009 | Huang Aijun | Count-mass distinction and the acquisition of classifiers in Mandarin-speaking children (Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Outstanding Mphil thesis award, 2009) | MPhil thesis | Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. Thomas Hun-tak Lee |
| 2009 | 宋剛 | 普通話兒童早期動詞習得：範疇、論元結構與句法線索 | Doctoral dissertation | Beijing Language and Culture University | Prof. Li Fang |
| 2007 | Lei Margaret Ka Yan | Tone discrimination in infants acquiring a tonal language | MPhil thesis | Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. Thomas Hun-tak Lee |
| 2006 | Lee Ching Man Barbara | Patterns of vowel and pitch productions at the babbling stage of Hong Kong infants | MPhil thesis | City University of Hong Kong | Prof. Thomas Hun-tak Lee |