Elaine Lau
Aloha!
Updates:
(22.03.2023)
This Friday (March 24 morning @ Mountain Time), I am joining Özge Günay & Duygu Özge, Jacky Chan et al., and Charles C.-J. Lin at SRCD 2023 Biennial Meeting to talk about how speakers use morphosyntactic and discourse cues in language processing. Come join us in Salt Lake City! (Mar 24, 8:30am 251F).
Özge Günay & Duygu Özge: Children's processing of causal and concessive connectors
Elaine Lau: How adults and children produce relative clauses when animacy and thematic role expectations clash
Jacky Chan et al.: Putting lexical cues into discourse context: A corpus study of relative clauses in child-directed and child speech
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
elaine at cuhk dot edu dot hk