Elaine Lau
articles
Lau, Elaine. (submitted). The acquisition of relative clauses and noun phrase accessibility: Testing the NPAH in Cantonese.
Cheung, Kin, Ceci Sze Wing Ho, Hilda Tsang, and Elaine Lau. (submitted). Perspectives from Asian community college transfer and native students on social adjustment.
Lau, Elaine. (in revision). Child acquisition of passives: Early in Cantonese, late in Mandarin.
Tanaka, Nozomi, Elaine Lau, and Alan Lap Fai Lee. (accepted). On the universality of the subject preference in the acquisition of relative clauses across languages. First Language.
Yin, Hongbiao, Alan Chi Keung Cheung, Winnie Wing Yi Tam, and Elaine Lau. (2023). Facilitating Hong Kong kindergarten teachers’ perceptions of enactment of play-based learning for whole-child development: The potential of personal and organizational enablers. Early Education and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2023.2298643
Chao, Chih Nuo Grace, Alan Chi Keung Cheung, Elaine Lau, and Angel Nga Man Leung. (2023). Teachers’ perceptions of quality of school leadership and psychological well-being: The mediating roles of work-related meaning in life and optimism in Hong Kong kindergarten teachers. Applied Research in Quality of Life. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-022-10138-9
Yin, Hongbiao, Winnie Wing Yi Tam, and Elaine Lau. (2023). Happy teachers are efficacious and committed, but not vice versa: Unraveling the longitudinal relationships between Hong Kong kindergarten teachers’ psychological well-being, self-efficacy, and commitment. Teaching and Teacher Education, 123, 103997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103997 [PDF]
Yin, Hongbiao, Winnie Wing Yi Tam, and Elaine Lau. (2022). Teachers' affective states, self-efficacy and teacher-child relationships in kindergartens: Integrating the perspectives of social cognitive theory and positive psychology. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 74, 101188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2022.101188 [PDF]
Cheung, Kin, Ceci Sze Wing Ho, Hilda Tsang, and Elaine Lau. (2022). Comparing the learning approaches of transfer students and direct entrants in an Asian higher education context. Sustainability, 14(5), 2523. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052523
Cheung, Alan Chi Keung, Chih Nuo Grace Chao, Elaine Lau, Nga Man Angel Leung and Tsz-Yeung Harold Chui. (2022). Cultivating the psychological well-being of early-childhood education teachers: The importance of quality work life. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 17, 1533–1553. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-021-09959-x [PDF]
Lau, Elaine, and Nozomi Tanaka. (2021). The subject advantage in relative clauses: A review. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 6(1), 34. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1343
Grüter, Theres, Elaine Lau, and Wenyi Ling. (2019). How classifiers facilitate predictive processing in L1 and L2 Chinese: The role of semantic and grammatical cues. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(2), 221-234. [PDF]
Grüter, Theres, Elaine Lau, and Wenyi Ling. (2018). L2 Listeners Rely on the Semantics of Classifiers to Predict. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. [PDF]
Lau, Elaine, and Stephen Matthews. (2018). A new type of relative clause in Cantonese. Current Research in Chinese Linguistics, 97(1), 19 - 29.
Lau, Elaine. (2016). The role of resumptive pronouns in Cantonese relative clause acquisition. First Language, 36(4), 355-382. [PDF]
Lau, Elaine, and Theres Grüter. (2015). Real-time processing of classifier information by L2 speakers of Chinese. In Elizabeth Grillo, and Kyle Jepson (Eds.), BUCLD 39: Proceedings of the 39th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, volume 2, 311 - 323. [PDF]
Lau, Elaine. (2011). Obligatory agent promotes cue validity: Early acquisition of passive in Cantonese. In Nick Danis, Kate Mesh, and Hyunsuk Sung (Eds.), BUCLD 35: Proceedings of the 35th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, volume 2, 382 - 390. [PDF]
Lau, Elaine. (2010). Tone-melody relationship in Cantonese. Working Papers in Linguistics, 41(3). Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. [PDF]
Lau, Elaine. (2008). Language acquisition. In Amy Schafer and Jake Terrell (Eds.), Introduction to the Study of Language Class Reader. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Hung, Cathy O. Y., Elaine Lau, Rohnii Tse, and Monica Pan. (2022). Residential Infants and Toddlers Educare (RITE) Model - A Practical Handbook (嬰幼兒住宿教顧模式應用手冊).
Theses & DISSERtation
Lau, Elaine. (2016). Acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese: a multi-factorial analysis. PhD dissertation, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. [PDF]
Dissertation committee: William O'Grady, Kamil Ud Deen, Stephen Matthews, Theres Grüter, and Li Jiang
Lau Elaine. (2015). The use of classifier information in real-time language processing by native and non-native Chinese speakers. Scholarly Paper, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. [PDF]
Supervisor: Theres Grüter
Lau, Elaine. (2006). The acquisition of relative clauses by Cantonese children: an experimental approach. MPhil thesis, The University of Hong Kong. [PDF]
Supervisor: Stephen Matthews
Lau, Elaine, and Helen Ching Hoi-Lam. (2004).The impact of motion in face recognition. Undergraduate thesis, The University of Hong Kong.
Supervisor: Benise Mak