General Information
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The Linguistics Research Laboratory,
set up in 1985, has grown from a phonetics laboratory into a more general
laboratory which supports linguistics-related teaching and research. It
is administered by the linguistics staff in
the English department at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong. The Laboratory
forms a basis for interdisciplinary collaboration in linguistic research.
The research interests of the Laboratory members cover a wide range of topics including lexicon & morphology, syntax & semantics, phonetics & phonology, first and second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, sign language linguistics, applied linguistics and testing & evaluation. Research projects conducted by members in recent years have investigated argument structure in Chinese, the development of grammatical competence in Cantonese-speaking children, acquisition of English by Cantonese learners, a computer-based corpus of spoken and written English in Hong Kong and Hong Kong companies' attitudes to the English standard of recent employees. On-going projects include a linguistic & psycholinguistic study on the semantic primitives of English, the development of modality in Cantonese-speaking children, Hong Kong students' English interlanguage, evaluating tertiary and in-company business English courses, an English-speaking summer camp and Hong Kong sign language. Many members are affiliated with the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. The Laboratory publishes periodically CUHK Papers in Linguistics which invites CU-affiliated staff and students to contribute their research findings and work in progress. In addition, the Laboratory sponsors linguistics talks and seminars. Research equipment in the Laboratory: The Laboratory houses phonetics equipment and Pentium computers dedicated to speech analysis and the analysis of first and second language corpora.
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