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Department of Linguistics 語言學系

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Contact Person

Name & Title Area of Expertise Tel no. / Email / Language
Professor Tan, L.H.
譚力海
Professor (教授)
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive neuroscience of language
  • Human cognition
  • Uses neuroimaging (e.g. functional magnetic resonance imaging) and cognitive approaches to investigate how the brain reads and produces Chinese and English
Tel: 2241 5871
Fax: 2546 4943
Written: English, Chinese (英文、中文)
Spoken: English, Putonghua (英語、普通話)
 
Dr Ansaldo, Umberto
Associate Professor (副教授)
  • Contact linguistics
  • Linguistic diversity
  • Linguistics theories
  • Evolution of language
Tel: 2859 2872
Fax: 2546 4943
Written: English, Italian, German, Swedish (英文、意大利文、德文、瑞典文)
Spoken: English, Mandarin, German, Swedish, Italian, French (英語、國語、德語、瑞典語、意大利語、法語)
 
Dr Bodomo, A.
Associate Professor (副教授)
  • Theoretical linguistics, mainly syntax and semantics (and their interfaces)
  • Cognitive science
  • Human language technology (mainly IT-based language learning)
  • African studies (particularly Africa-China relations)
Tel: 2857 8285
Fax: 2546 4943
Written: English, French, Norwegian, Dagaare (英文、法文、挪威文、非洲達加里文)
Spoken: English, French, Norwegian, Dagaare, Akan (英語、法語、挪威語、非洲達加里語、非洲阿肯語)
 
Dr Matthews, Stephen
Associate Professor (副教授)
  • Language typology
  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Cantonese and Chaozhou dialect
  • Bilingualism and language contact
Tel: 2859 2752
Fax: 2546 4943
Written: English (英文)
Spoken: English, Cantonese, French, German (英語、粵語、法語、德語)
 
Dr Ding, Picus Sizhi
丁思志
Assistant Professor (助理教授)
  • Descriptive linguistics
  • Typological phonology of tone languages
  • Language maintenance and linguistic ecology
  • Semantic change and grammaticalization
Tel: 2859 2753
Fax: 2546 4943
Written: English, Chinese, Cantonese (英文、中文、粵語)
Spoken: English, Cantonese, Putonghua, Prinmi, Southern Min (英語、粵語、普通話、普米語、閩南語)
 
Dr Siok, Wai Ting
蕭慧婷
Assistant Professor (助理教授)
  • Psycholinguistics, language development, bilingualism, cognitive neuroscience of language, and human cognition
  • Neuroanatomical organization of human learning and language skills by brain imaging
  • Neural basis of developmental dyslexia
Tel: 2859 2771
Fax: 2546 4943
Written: English, Chinese (英文、中文)
Spoken: English, Cantonese, Putonghua (英語、粵語、普通話)
 
Dr Zayts, Olga A.
Research Assistant Professor (助理教授(研究))
  • Semantics, interactional pragmatics / sociolinguistics
Tel: 2987 2762
Fax: 2546 4943
Written: English, Russia, German (英文、俄文、德文)
Spoken: English, Russia, German (英語、俄語、德語)
 
Last updated on 13/12/2011, by Department of Linguistics