Selected Talks

Highlights from video-recorded presentations I delivered at international conferences

Translation equivalents aren't special in bilingual vocabulary development: A quantitative model

Here we present a novel approach that models translation equivalent knowledge as a function of bilinguals’ own vocabulary size in each language. Our novel insight is that learning a translation equivalent pair can be described as the joint probability of learning each of the words in the pair.

Nov 6, 2021

The 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development

Bilingual infants learn cognates more rapidly than non-cognates

Our findings revealed that form-similar cognates are produced more readily in bilingual infant vocabulary development than non-cognate translation equivalents: effects are small at younger ages, and grow over time.

Nov 5, 2021

The 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development

A multi-lab study of gaze-following development in monolingual and bilingual infants

Using a multi-lab collaborative approach, we analyzed eye-tracking data and investigated whether language experience could affect the development of gaze-following. Independent of monolingual or bilingual status, early gaze-following development is significantly modulated by age-related changes.

Jul 7, 2020

The 2020 Virtual International Congress of Infant Studies

Other presentations delivered at international and local conferences (Not recorded)

Relation between 12-month-old joint attention skill and later 24-month-old expressive vocabulary size: A cross-cultural comparison study
@ The 2025 Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), Jun, 2025
Does object salience impact 12-month-olds’ object processing during joint attention?
@ The 2024 Japanese Society of Baby Science Conference, Aug, 2024
Does culture shape 12-month-olds’ joint attention skill and object processing skill? An eye-tracking study in Japan and France
@ The 2024 International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) Conference, Jul, 2024
First Language Experience Shapes the Perceptual Integrality of Foreign Tones and Segmental Information: Evidence from Cantonese and English Listeners
@ The 18th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages (ICPEAL-18), Dec, 2023
12-month-olds' object processing through various joint attention social cues
@ The 2023 Japanese Society of Baby Science Conference, Aug, 2023
Caregiver-Child Language Synchrony Across two Bilingual Communities
@ The 2023 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting, Mar, 2023
The effect of language switching on bilingual children’s novel word learning
@ The 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Nov, 2022
Prosodic Reading Predicts Chinese and English Reading Comprehension Development for English-Learning Cantonese Children in Hong Kong @ The 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Jul 15, 2022
Infant’s exposure to language switching in bilingual homes across two communities
@The 2022 International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) Conference, Jul 10, 2022
Cross-language cognate advantage in bilingual infants’ vocabulary acquisition
@ The 2022 International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) Conference, Jul 10, 2022
Children’s exposure to language switching in bilingual homes across two communities
@ The 3rd biennial Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), Jun, 2022
Children’s exposure to language switching in bilingual homes across two communities
@ The 2022 Cognitive Development Society Conference (CDS2022), Apr, 2022
Cross-community differences in bilingual infants’ experience with language switching
@ The 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Nov, 2021
Native Cantonese-learning infants’ discrimination of lexical tones that are similar in pitch onset
@ The 1st Asia-Pacific Babylab Constellation (ABC) Conference, Oct, 2018
Production of Cantonese Sentence-Final Particles: The Complementary Distribution of Final Rising and Global Raising in Cantonese Intonation
@ The 17th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages (ICPEAL), Oct, 2018
Prosodic reading and reading comprehension in Chinese and English among Cantonese-English Bilingual Children: A longitudinal study
@ The 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Jun, 2018
An acoustic study on the effect of the interaction between intonation and lexical tones on the realization of Cantonese sentence-final particles
@ The 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Jun, 2018
Are all lexical tones perceived equally by native infants? The effect of similarity in f0 height and f0 contour on development of native lexical-tone perception in Cantonese infants
@ The 2018 UCL Institute of Education Doctoral Summer Conference, Jun, 2018
Interaction effects between intonation and lexical tones on the realization of Cantonese sentence-final particles: An acoustic study
@ Postgraduate Research Conference, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Dec, 2017
The role of prosody in reading comprehension among Cantonese-English bilingual children: A cross-language investigation
@ Postgraduate Research Conference, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, May, 2017
The role of prosody in reading comprehension among Cantonese-English bilingual children: A cross-language investigation
@ The 1st Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA) Conference, Feb, 2017
A cross-language comparison of intonation patterns in Cantonese and English among Cantonese-English bilingual children
@ The 16th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages (ICPEAL), Dec, 2016
The role of prosody in reading comprehension among Cantonese-English bilingual children: A cross-language investigation
@ The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Jul, 2016
The role of prosodic reading in English comprehension among Cantonese-English bilingual children
@ The 8th International Conference on Speech Prosod, May, 2016