Elaine Lau
Aloha!
Updates:
(01.02.2024)
Our new paper from the RC series is finally published online! This has been such a fun collaboration with my two great buddies from CogSc (Alan) and UH (Nozomi), and a new twist of my type of research - meta-analysis!
Tanaka, Nozomi, Elaine Lau, & Alan Lee. (2024). On the universality of the subject preference in the acquisition of relative clauses across languages. First Language, OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237241226734
We did a meta-analysis and pulled all studies on child comprehension of relative clauses to see whether there is a universal subject preference across languages. This work has took us a long time and lots of efforts, but the hard work pays off.
Hope you find it interesting and useful. :)
present
Head, Research Office
Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education
Adjunct Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Honorary Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
PAST
Research Associate
Centre for University & School Partnership (CUSP)
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Postdoctoral Fellow
CUHK Jockey Club AI for the Future Project
Faculty of Engineering
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Postdoctoral Fellow
Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre
University of Cambridge - Chinese University of Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for Bilingualism
PhD in Linguistics
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Advanced Graduate Certificate in Second Language Studies
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
MPhil in Linguistics
University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Cognitive Science
University of Hong Kong
Research interests
Psycholinguistics
Language Acquisition (L1, L2, multilingual, heritage language)
Language Processing (comprehension vs. production)
Syntax
Chinese (including Cantonese, and Mandarin Chinese)
contact
[YCCECE] elaine.lau at yccece dot edu dot hk
[CUHK] elaine at cuhk dot edu dot hk