Service

Departmental & Institutional Service

• Academic advisor for BA (Hons) in Language and Speech Sciences (09/2018-01/2021)

• Programme Leader of BA (Hons) in Language and Speech Sciences (09/2018-05/2019)

• Member of Undergraduate Programme Committee (09/2018-05/2019)

• Enrollment officer for BA (Hons) in Language and Speech Sciences (09/2018-05/2019)

 

Academic & Professional Service

• Member of editorial board. Frontiers in Psychology (08/2019-present)

• Member of editorial board. Frontiers in Communication (08/2019-present)

• Member of editorial board. SCIREA Journal of Education (04/2019-present)

• Editor-in-chief. International Journal of Humanity and Social Sciences, 2011-2018.

• Executive committee member of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (2010-12)

 

Reviewer

For journals and monographs

• Applied Psycholinguistics

• Cahiers de Linguistique – Asie Orientale

• Canadian Journal of Linguistics

• Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

• Concentric

• Corpus Pragmatics

• Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

• Journal of East Asian Linguistics

• Journal of Linguistics

• Journal of Semantics

• Language and Linguistics

• Lingua

• Lingua Sinica

• Linguistics

• Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

• SKY Journal of Linguistics

• Studies in Chinese Linguistics

• Taiwan Journal of Linguistics

• Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and Typological Perspectives (2011) edited by Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta, and Janick Wrona published by Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins

 

For conferences

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• The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2024 Annual Meeting

• The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting

• The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2020 Annual Meeting

• The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America

  • — Sheraton New York Times Square, 2020

• Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 29

  • — Linguistics Department, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019

• The 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 32) 

  • — The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2018

• Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 28

  • — Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2018

• The LSHK Outstanding Student Paper Award on Cantonese Linguistics

  • — The 22nd International Conference on Yue Dialects, The Education University of Hong Kong, 2017

• The 11th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-11)

  • — The Institute of Linguistics at Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2017

• Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 27

  • — Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, 2017

• The 20th International Conference on Yue Dialects

  • — The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015

• Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 25

  • — Stanford University, 2015

• The 45th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 45)

  • — Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014

• Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 24

  • — Department of Linguistics at the New York University, 2014

• The 88th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America

  •  — Minneapolis Hilton, Minneapolis, 2014.

• The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America

  • — Boston, Boston Marriott Copley Place, 2013

• The 20th Annual Conference of the IACL

  • — The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2012

• Symposium on Word Order in Chinese

  • —The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012

• The 7th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-7)

  • — Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, 2012

• The 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America

  •  — Portland, Oregon, 2012

• The 16th International Conference on Yue Dialects

  • — The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2011

• The 5th International Conference on Formal Linguistics

  • — Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, 2011

• Symposium on the Attributive Particle in Chinese Dialects (漢語方言定語助詞研討會)

  • — The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011

• The 6th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-6)

  • — Peking University, Beijing, China, 2010

• The Outstanding Thesis Awards of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, 2010

• The 6th Postgraduate Research Forum, LSHK, 2009

• The Outstanding Thesis Awards of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, 2008

 

 Conference/Workshop/Forum organizing committee

• The 20th Annual Conference of the IACL (IACL-20) (Session Chairperson)

  • —The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Aug 29-31, 2012

• International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics

  • — The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 15-16, 2012

• International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics (Session Chairperson)

  • — The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 15-16, 2012

• The 14th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics

  • —  Xi’an International Studies University, Xi’an, China, May 11-13, 2012

• The 5th International Conference on Formal Linguistics

  • — Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Dec 10-12, 2011

• The 2010 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Dec 4, 2010

• The 2010 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Dec 4, 2010 (Session Chairperson)

• Eighth LSHK Workshop on Cantonese (WOC 2009) (Co-organizer)

  • — The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Mar 28, 2009

• Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood. (Session Chairperson)

  • — Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages. Dec 11-12, 2008