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Research Supported by the Lab Facilities
HKBU phonology lab has provided support in the following research projects with equipment and technology:
Postgraduate research projects at HKBU
Wang Tingyu (2025). The perception of vowel and lexical tone in quiet and noise by Mandarin-speaking vocalists. MA thesis, HKBU.
TSANG, Pui Yiu Yoyo (2024) Cross-Linguistic Lexical Access in Bilingual Speakers. MPhil thesis, Hong Kong Baptist University.
LIU, Pauline Bolin (2023) The Perceptual Distinctiveness of the [n-l] Contrasts in Different Vowel and Tonal Contexts. MA (Language Studies) thesis, Hong Kong Baptist University.
ZHAO, Kay Kaixin (2020) The Use of Melisma in Zuoquan Folk Songs. MA (Language Studies) thesis, Hong Kong Baptist University.
TAM, Olivia Nga Wing (2020) Expletive Epenthesis in Hong Kong Cantonese. MA (Language Studies) thesis, Hong Kong Baptist University.
LI, Yuting (2019) Early Cantonese Transliteration as the Phonological Basis for Modern Hong Kong English. PhD dissertation, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Kumar, Srinivas Sampath (2016) Mora-Constituent Interface Model of the Syllable. PhD dissertation, Hong Kong Baptist University.
QIN, Chuan (2016) Tethering Effect as an Explanation for the bottleneck in Second Language Acquisition. PhD dissertation, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Undergraduate research projects at HKBU
CHAN Hoi Man, Hazel (2026). The Impact of Bilingualism on Categorical Perception of Cantonese Speech in the Aged Population. Honors Project, HKBU.
KAM Wan Hei, Hadley (2026). Perception of Human-produced Code-Switching and AI Code-Switching in Bilingual Individuals. Honors Project, HKBU.
LEUNG Kwan Yin Kobe (2026). McGurk Effect on Syllable-final Consonants in Different Vowel Contexts in Cantonese. Honors Project, HKBU.
CHEUNG Wing Kei, Winky (2024) The Production of /n/ and /l/ By Cantonese-English Bilinguals. Honours Project, HKBU.
HUANG Yee Man, Lesley (2024) The Production and Perception of English Tense and Lax Vowels by Hong Kong Cantonese-English Bilinguals. Honours Project, HKBU.
WONG Hok Yu, Yoko (2024) The Pronunciation of Interdental Fricatives by Cantonese L2 English Speakers. Honours Project, HKBU.
WONG, Sophia Hoi Lam. (2024) The Influence of Multilingualism on Cognitive Ability. Honours Project, HKBU.
CHONG, Michael Yat Tsun. (2023) Good Speech Intonation Characteristics. Honours Project, HKBU.
LAU, Suet Ying Tiffany (2023) Hong Kong English Speakers' Attitude Towards British vs. American Accents and Their Production of English Vowels. Honours Project, HKBU.
YEUNG, Chung Philip (2023) Perception of English Coda Voicing by Hong Kong L2 English Listeners. Honours Project, HKBU.
CHU, Ching Shan Bianca (2022) Effectiveness of Imitating Singing in the Acquisition of Japanese Prosody. Honours Project, Hong Kong Baptist University.
KWOK, Wing Valerie. (2022). The Influence of Genre and Gender On the Use of Code-mixing in Workplace Communication. Honours Project, HKBU.
LEE, Chak Fu Jack. (2022). An Experimental Study of Hongkongers' Attitude towards British vs. American Accents in Different Contexts. Honours Project, HKBU.
WU, Man Yan Evelyn (2022) Understanding French English Prosody through Emotional Variation. Honours Project, Hong Kong Baptist University.
CHEUNG, Chi Wing Billy. (2021). Sensitivity to Pitch Accent in Japanese by Hong Kong Speakers. Honours Project, HKBU.
LALWANI, Sneha. (2021). An Experimental Study on Language Choice in Indian Advertisements: Hindi, Hinglish and English. Honours Project, HKBU.
LAM, Tsoi Ying Sandy. (2021). An Experimental Study of Trolling and its Responses on Social Media. Honours Project, HKBU.
LI, Tin Chun Rachel. (2021). Mismatched Language Code and Locus of Attention in Fashion Advertising. Honours Project, HKBU.
MO, Ka Lun. (2021). Interchangeability of Alveolar and Velar Nasal Codas in Hong Kong Cantonese. Honours Project, HKBU.
NG, I Maan Stephanie. (2021). Testing the Syllable Structure of Hong Kong English through Perceptual Experiment. Honours Project, HKBU.
SHENG, Yijun Aliver. (2021). An Experimental Study on Moral Abduction and Negative Expression in Chinese Parent-Children Communication. Honours Project, HKBU.
TO, Wai Huen Ann. (2021). The Influence of L1 Phonotactics on the Perception of Consonants: A Case Study on Cantonese Listeners. Honours Project, HKBU.
CHAN, Pak Yin Marco. (2020). The Processing of Structural Ambiguity: An Experimental Study of Cantonese-English Bilingual Speakers. Honours Project, HKBU.
HO, Yuk Ying Cammi. (2020). Hong Kong Bilingual Children’s Acquisition of Conjunction: An Experimental Study on Causality and Concession. Honours Project, HKBU.
HU, Jingxuan Kristina. (2020). Mandarin and Cantonese Learners’ Production of Voicing Contrast in English Coda Stops. Honours Project, HKBU.
TSANG, Pui Yiu Yoyo. (2020). Cross-script Phonological Priming: An Experimental Study on Cantonese-English Bilinguals. Honours Project, HKBU.
TSANG, Wing Yan Christa. (2020). Perception of English Fricative Contrasts by Hong Kong Cantonese ESL Learners. Honours Project, HKBU.
CHAN, Lok Yung Michelle. (2019). Gender and Language Structure Preferences: An Experimental Study on Hongkongers. Honours Project, HKBU.
HO, Tsui Ying May. (2019). Adaptation of French Consonants by Hong Kong Learners
NG, Chun Yin Mathew. (2019). Cantonese Expletive Infixation in English Words. Honours Project, HKBU.
TAM, Wing Ki Shirley. (2019). The Use of Sounds in Brand Names: A Perceptual Study of Hong Kong Listeners. Honours Project, HKBU.
TSE, Mei Yiu Maggie. (2019). The Use of Hedges and Emoticons in Instant Messages: An Experimental Study of Power and Gender. Honours Project, HKBU.
TUT, So Sum Krystelle. (2019). Politeness Strategies in the Communication of Online Support Groups: An Experimental Study. Honours Project, HKBU.
CHEUNG, Che Cheung. (2018). Impact of Intra-city Movement on the Weitou Dialect. Honours Project, HKBU.
TAM, Nga Wing Olivia. (2018). Hong Kong Cantonese Rhyme Phonotactics: Phonological Bases of L1 Transference in Hong Kong People's Acquisition of English. Honours Project, HKBU.
FUNG, Hiu Yan Evangeline. (2017). Interrogative Intonation and Lexical Tones in Hong Kong English. Honours Project, HKBU.
LAM, Benjamin Tak Shun. (2017). Phonetic Interpretation of Vowel Letters by Hong Kong English Speakers. Honours Project, HKBU.
TAM, Kwok Ho Adrian. (2017). F0 Profiles of Pro-American Youngsters in Hong Kong. Honours Project, HKBU.
WAN, Ka Yu Kellia. (2017). Hong Kong English Speakers' Phonetic Interpretation of Word Stress. Honours Project, HKBU.
CHEN, Yuan Wei Alsac. (2016). Strategies on Dealing with Onset Consonant clusters in Hong Kong English. Honours Project, HKBU.
KWONG, Po Yi. (2016). Intonation-Final Boundary Tones in Hong Kong English. Honours Project, HKBU.
LUI, Ling Isabelle. (2016). Correlation Between Female Pitch Characteristics and Attractiveness of Conversational Partners. Honours Project, HKBU.
LO, Wing Sze Anna. (2015). Impact of Lexical Prosody on Word Identification by Hong Kong English Users. Honours Project, HKBU.
YIP, Chin Wai Vivian. (2015). A Study of Perceptual Similarity of Syllable-Initial Consonants Through Puns in Hong Kong Jokes. Honours Project, HKBU.
NG, Ka Leung. (2014). A Study of Segmental Features of Hong Kong English Pronunciation. Honours Project, HKBU.
Staff research projects
Hong Kong Baptist University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences' Digital Humanities Pilot Grant. A Multimodal Online Archive of Speech Sounds in Endangered Chinese Dialects. Amount HK$250,000 (UD$31,900). May 1, 2026 – April 30, 2028. PI: Dr. Mingxing Li.
Hong Kong University Grants Committee's General Research Fund (GRF). [Project No. 12613224], "Who is speaking? An investigation on talker's voice perception in older adults", 2025 – 2026. HK$583,647. PI: Dr. Jing Shao; Co-I: Dr. Guan Jingjing.
Hong Kong Government, Health Bureau, Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF). "Build Machine Learning Models to Predict Suicide Risks and Examine the Feasibility of Using Just-in-time Adaptive Interventions for Suicide Prevention". 2025 – 2026. HK$500,000. PI: Dr. Zhou Shuo; Co-I: Dr. Jing Shao.
Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China 國家自然科學基金重點項目[Project No. U23B2018]. "Active Mental Health Assessment Based on Multimodal Physiological and Behavioral Characterization Learning". 2024 – 2027. CNY¥2,530,000. PI: Prof. Wang Lan; Co-I: Dr. Jing Shao.
Hong Kong Baptist University, Faculty of Arts' Research Impact Fund. "Hearing rehabilitation for Cantonese-speaking older adults with age-related hearing loss: a pilot study". September. 2022 – September. 2023. HK$50,000. 2022 – 2023. PI: Dr. Jing Shao.
National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC, Project No. 11904381]. "Will explicit learning reshape the behavioural and brain responses in amusia? An intervention study on congenital amusia". Jan. 2020 – Dec. 2022. CNY¥270,000 (HK$300,000). PI: Dr. Jing Shao.
Teaching Development Grants, Hong Kong Baptist University. "Scientific instruments in the linguistics laboratory: training students to bring technology into linguistic study". March. 2023 – August. 2024. HK$159,648. PI: Dr. Jing Shao, Co-I: Dr. Mingxing Li.
National Key R&D Program of China 中國科技部重點研發項目 [Project No. 2020YFC2004101]. "Developing a rehabilitation training program for individuals with voice and speech disorders". 2020 – 2023. CNY¥2,870,000. PI: Prof. Wang Lan; Co-I: Dr. Jing Shao.
Hong Kong University Grants Committee's General Research Fund (GRF) [12608324]. The Effects of Phonological Status on Phonetic Variation: The Acoustic and Articulatory Properties of Sibilants Across Chinese Dialects. HK$544,016 (US$69,000). Aug 1, 2024 – July 31, 2027. PI: Mingxing Li.
Hong Kong Baptist University The Initiation Grant for Faculty Niche Research Areas [RC-FNRA-IG/23-24/ARTS/01]. The Effect of Age-Related Hearing Loss on Speech and Music Perception in Cantonese-Speaking Older Adults: Combined Evidence from Behavioral and EEG Experiments. HK$810,000 (US$102,900). Sept 1, 2024 – Aug 31, 2026. PI: Dr. Jing Shao; Co-I: Dr. Mingxing Li.
The Chinese-English Integration Program. University Grants Committee’s Research Matching Grant Scheme (RMGS). Shanghai Xinjia Education and Technology Company, 2 Sep 2019 – 2021, RMB¥200,000. PI: Lian-Hee Wee.
The Oral English Improvement Program. University Grants Committee’s Research Matching Grant Scheme (RMGS). Suzhou Neo-Alliance Education and Technology Company, 18 Sep 2019 – 2021, RMB¥200,000. PI: Lian-Hee Wee.
Perceptual Basis of Language Typology: An Experimental Study of Syllable-final Consonants. Hong Kong Baptist University, Faculty Research Grant (FRG) Category II [FRG2/17-18/076]. HK$149,360. 1 Aug 2018 – 31 Oct 2021. PI: Mingxing Li.
Illuminating the Structure of Syllables through Experimentation Using the Play Language (Verlan), General Research Fund. 15 Nov 2012-15 Apr 2015, HKD$386,313.00. PI: Lian-Hee Wee, Co-I: Liang Yuan (Shenzhen Univ.)
Tonal Adaptations of Chinese with Vietnamese and Thai (《中文与越南语、泰语间的音译词声调互借机制实验研究》). The National Social Science Foundation of China (国家社会科学基金项目) [Project Code 18XYY024], Jul 2018–2021, RMB¥200,000. PI: QIN Chuan (Guangxi University) , Co-Is: Qin Pu, Wei Lihua, and Lin Zhiliang (all Guangxi University) and Lian-Hee Wee (HKBU).
Chinese English Learners’ Accent Intelligibility Core and Its Visualization Applications. The National Social Science Fund of China (国家社会科学基金项目) [Project Code 18BYY215]. 21 June 2018 – 31 Dec 2021. RMB¥200,000. PI: Dr. Hu Chen, Zhejiang Gongshang Univ. with Mingxing Li as a Co-I.
The Influence of L1 Phonotactics on the Recognition of L2 Sounds: Cantonese Listeners’ Perception of English Vowels. University Grants Committee’s Research Matching Grant Scheme (RMGS). HK$10,000 (US$1,290). 1 Jan 2020 – 31 Dec 2021. PI: Mingxing Li
A Typological and Experimental Study of Apical Vowels in Jianghuai Mandarin. Anhui Philosophy and Social Science Grant. 2019.. CNY¥20,000. (PI: Prof. Huifang Kong, Anhui Jianzhu University, with Mingxing Li as a Co-I.
Research outputs supported
Zhu, Jiaqiang, Xinran Xie, Jing Shao, & Caicai Zhang. (2026). Bilingualism and musicianship selectively facilitate non-native tone perception: Tone type and syllable variability matter. Second Language Research, 02676583261426782. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583261426782
Xu, Min, Jing Shao, & Hongwei Ding (2026). Viseme identification ability and its effect on audiovisual consonant perception in Mandarin-speaking younger and older Adults. Speech Communication. 103376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2026.103376
Zhu, Jiaqiang, & Jing Shao (2026). Perceptual adaptation of lexical tones is degraded but can be improved with lengthened stimulus duration in musically tone-deaf individuals. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00502
Zhu, Jiaqiang, Min Xu, & Jing Shao (2026). Individuals with congenital amusia show degraded performance in a tonal nonword repetition task. Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.11.017
Liu, Pauline Bolin, & Mingxing Li (2026). The interaction of tonotactics, lexicality, and psychoacoustics in evaluating perceptual distinctiveness. Speech Prosody 2026, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, May 26–29, 2026.
Li, Mingxing, & Pauline Bolin Liu (2026). The typology and perception of unreleased coda stop contrasts in high vs. low vowels. Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2026 (HISPhonCog 2026), Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, May 22–23, 2026.
KWAN Ho Lam, Corinne (2026). Tonal bilingualism and cognitive aging: Preserving Cantonese tone perception in elderly speakers. PolyU-CALLS 2026: PolyU Undergraduate Conference on Applied Linguistics and Language Studies. Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 28 March 2026. [Supervisor: Prof. Jing Shao] [Best Non-ENGL Presentation Award].
Zhou, Yongjie, Jian Gong, Jing Shao, Nan Yan, Linlin Meng, Kongliang He, Ying Shen, Qian Wei, Chunyan Zhang, Xuan Lei, Yuehua Cao & Yanni Wang (2025). Symptom network between problematic smartphone use and poor sleep quality in adolescents with depression. BMC psychiatry, 25(1), 482.
Wang, Yingyang, Min Xu, Jing Shao, Jiaqiang Zhu, Yike Yang, Nan Yan, Lan Wang, Yongjie Zhou. (2025). Vocal emotion perception in Mandarin-speaking older adults with hearing loss. Speech Communication, 169(10320), 4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2025.103204
Wang, Yingyang, Min Xu, & Jing Shao (2025). How aging and age-related hearing loss affect the recognition of emotion in whispered speech. Language and Speech, 00238309251315835. DOI: 10.1177/00238309251315835
Cheung, Winky Wing Kei, Pauline Bolin Liu, & Mingxing Li (2025). Cantonese-English bilinguals’ production of /n/ and /l/ in their two languages. The 28th International Conference on Yue Dialects, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao, China, October 27–28, 2025.
Li, Mingxing & Pauline Bolin Liu (2025). The phonetic properties of sibilant place contrasts in three Chinese dialects. 2025 National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC 2025), Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China, October 16–19, 2025.
Liu, Pauline Bolin & Mingxing Li (2025). The phonetics of tonal contrast in apical vowel: A case study of Meihua dialect. 2025 National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC 2025), Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China, October 16–19, 2025.
Liu, Pauline Bolin & Mingxing Li (2025). Phonotactics and lexical effect in evaluating perceptual distinctiveness. Phonetics 2025 Hong Kong. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR. Sept. 17–19, 2025.
Liu, Pauline Bolin & Mingxing Li (2025) The influence of L1 phonotactics on the evaluation of perceptual distinctiveness of sound pairs. Presented on The First International Conference on Experimental Linguistics. Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. June 6-8, 2025.
Liu, Pauline Bolin, & Mingxing Li. (2024). The perceptual distinctiveness of the [n-l] contrast in different vowel and tonal contexts. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), Express Letters 4 (11), 115202. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034196
Liu, Pauline Bolin & Mingxing Li (2024). The influence of tones on the typology and perception of consonantal contrasts. Presented on The 15th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL-15). Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan. July 13-14, 2024.
Liu, Pauline Bolin & Mingxing Li (2024). Phonological typology and perceptual distinctiveness of the [n-l] contrast in different vowel and tonal contexts. Presented on The 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19). Hanyang University, Seoul, June 27-29, 2024.
To, Wai Huen Ann & Mingxing Li (2024). The influence of L1 segment-tone combinations on the identification of sounds. Presented on The 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19). Hanyang University, Seoul, June 27-29, 2024.
Zhang, Liang, Jiaqiang Zhu, Jing Shao, Caicai Zhang. (2024). The combined effects of bilingualism and musicianship on listeners’ perception of non-native lexical tones. Speech Communication, 165, 103147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2024.103147
Boquan Liu, Grace Hao, Ying Cui, Faguang Jin, Mingjun Ji, Jianfeng Wu, Jack Jiang, Jing Shao, Hengxin Liu. (2023). Introduction of Voice Type Component (VTC) as an effective acoustic voice analysis method in teleevaluation. Journal of Voice. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2023.07.005
Zhu, Jiaqiang, Jing Shao, Caicai Zhang, Fei Chen, & Seth Wiener. (2023). Statistical information affects spoken word recognition of tone languages in stutterers: Evidence from an auditory-perceptual gating study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(9), 3382-3398. DOI: 10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00123
Zhu, Jiaqiang, Xiaoxiang Chen, Fei Chen, Caicai Zhang, Jing Shao, & Seth Wiener. (2023). Tone deafness in music does not preclude distributional learning of nonnative tonal languages in individuals with congenital amusia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-17. DOI: 10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00572
Zhu, Jiaqiang, Xiaoxiang Chen, Fei Chen, Caicai Zhang, Jing Shao, & Seth Wiener. (2023). Distributional learning of musical pitch despite tone deafness in individuals with congenital amusia. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(5), 3117-3117. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0019472
Xu, Min, Jing Shao, Boquan Liu, Lan Wang, Hongwei Ding, & Yang Zhang. (2023). Aging-related decline in phonated and whispered speech perception not compensated for by increased duration and intensity: Evidence from Mandarin-speaking adult listeners. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(2), 735-749. DOI: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00158Wee, Lian-Hee, & Mingxing Li. (2023). Complexity in the Phonology of Tone. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086707
Li, Mingxing, & Jie Zhang. (2023). The interplay between psychoacoustic perception and L1-specific perception in evaluating the distinctiveness of sound pairs. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), EL 3 (4), 045201–045207. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017771
Ng, Stephanie, Mingxing Li, & Yoyo Pui Yiu Tsang. (2023). The influence of phonotactics on Cantonese-English bilinguals' perception of sound sequences. Chinese Journal of Phonetics, 19(3), 200-208.
Tam, Shirley Wing Ki, Ann Wai Huen To, Mingxing Li, & Yoyo Pui Yiu Tsang. (2023). Perceived attractiveness of brand names and the use of consonants. Experimental Linguistics, 12(4), 40-46.
To, Wai Huen Ann & Mingxing Li. (2023). The influence of tone on the identification of Cantonese onset stops. Annual Research Forum of The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (ARF-2023), City University of Hong Kong, Dec 2, 2023.
Liu, Bolin Pauline & Mingxing Li. (2023). Perceptual distinctiveness of [n-l] contrasts in different vowel and tonal contexts. Annual Research Forum of The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (ARF-2023), City University of Hong Kong, Dec 2, 2023.
Shao, Jing, Mehdi Bakhtiar, & Caicai Zhang. (2022). Impaired categorical perception of speech sounds under the backward masking condition in adults who stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(7), 2554-2570. DOI: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00276
Xu, Min, Jing Shao, Hongwei Ding, Wang, Lan. (2022). The effect of aging on identification of Mandarin consonants in normal and whisper registers. Frontiers in Psychology. 4888. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.962242
Han, Zhuozhuo Fay, & Mingxing Li. (2022). The use of lia 倆 and sa 仨 as 'numeral + classifier' in Mandarin. Annual Research Forum of The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (ARF-2022), Hong Kong Baptist University, Dec 3, 2022.
Li, Mingxing. (2021). The effects of L1 phonotactics on Cantonese-English bilinguals' identification of L2 sounds. The 25th International Conference on Yue Dialects. Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance for Chinese and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dec 18–19, 2021.
TO, Ann Wai Huen. (2021). The Effects of Imitation and Focus Triggers on the Acquisition of Post-Focus Compression: A Case Study of Cantonese Speakers on English. MSc thesis, University College London (UCL).
Tam, Shirley Wing Ki, & Mingxing Li. (2018). Attractiveness of sounds in brand names: a perceptual study on Cantonese listeners. Annual Research Forum of The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (ARF-2018), City University of Hong Kong, Dec 1, 2018.
LI, Mingxing & Annie TREMBLAY. (2015). L1 Phonotactics also influence the identification of L2 vowels: Cantonese listeners’ perception of [i]-[ɪ] in English. The 20th Meeting of the Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference (MidPhon20), Indiana University, Sept 11–13, 2015.