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Service

Departmental & Institutional Service

  • Chairperson, Departmental Health, Safety and Environmental Committee (DHSEC), 09/2019–01/2021

  • 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)

  • Admission officer for BA (Hons) in Language and Speech Sciences (05/2018–01/2021)

  • Member of the Programme Planning Committee for the BA (Hons) Programme in Language and Speech Sciences (BALSS), 07/2015–02/2016

  • Panel member, interview panel for non-JUPAS applicants for Normal Year 1 admission in the Faculty of Humanities, 03/2015

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Academic & Professional Service

  • Member of editorial board. Language, Technology, and Social Media (07/2025-present)

  • Member of editorial board. Frontiers in Psychology (08/2019-07/2023)

  • Member of editorial board. Frontiers in Communication (08/2019-07/2023)

  • 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)

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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

  • A book chapter in (2021) LITMUS in Action: Comparative Studies across Europe, ed. Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes Grohmann. John Benjamins.

  • 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

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For conferences

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  • The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2027 Annual Meeting, 18–21 May 2027.

  • 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, 3–6 January 2019

  • 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 organising 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

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