Elaine Lau
Aloha!
Updates:
(08.2026) Research in China & Hong Kong
I am all grateful to all the angels in my team, running in full power, to make the research trips this year a huge success! Big big thanks to you!
Zhangping, Canossa, Ruoxi, Qiongwen, Mohan, Lefan, Songjun, Xinyue, Jane, Lillian, Candy
and now off to next station - data transcription and analysis!
present
Head, Graduate Research Office
Tung Wah College
Adjunct Professor
Department of Linguistics
PAST
Head, Research Office
Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education
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
education
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
[TWC] elainelau at twc dot edu dot hk
[CUHK] elaine at cuhk dot edu dot hk