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Language Acquisition Group
Key objectives
  • To set up a language acquisition studio and a discourse analysis studio for collecting, editing and analyzing speech and discourse data (audio and video) for first and second language research purposes.
  • To investigate cross-language consonants production and perception, first and second language sentence perception in noise by adults, as well as the relationship between speech production and perception.
  • To examine roles of discourse markers in spoken discourse; to compare across languages prosodic and textual features of discourse markers; and to study the effects of such features in cross-language acquisition.
Members
Director:
Dr. LI Bin
Core members:
Dr. CHAN Yuet Hung Cecilia
Dr. OH Sunyoung
Dr. ZHANG Wei
Full-time research assistants:
ZHANG Caicai
YUEN Jasmine
SUEN Carmen
Research students
WANG Nan (Supervisor: Dr. ZHANG)
ZENG Li (Supervisor: Dr. CHAN)
LI Ruya (Supervisor: Dr. CHAN)
Affiliated members
Chauncey Chu, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida (USA) and advior to Business Chinese Research Center, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Ratree Wayland, Associate Professor, Linguistics Program, University of Florida (USA)

Last updated: 4 November 2009