Publications

 Journal Articles (Peer-reviewed)

Leung, C. D., Chow, M. V., & Ge, H. (2024). Compiling data for investigating language use in classroom discourse : A corpus-driven method. MethodsX, 13(November), 103048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2024.103048

Qiu, X., Ge, H. & Cai, J. (2024). An exploratory study on second language learner engagement in different types of interactive tasks in video-chat and text-chat communication. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2024-0096 (SSCI; 5-year IF: 1.4; JCR ranking: Q2). 

Ge, H.*, Lee, A., Liu, F., Yuen, H. K., & Yip, V. (2024). Bilingual exposure might enhance L1 development in Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children: Evidence from the production of focus. Autism, 28(7), 1795-1808. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613231207449 (SCI & SSCI; 5-year IF: 6.2; JCR ranking: Q1) 

Ganga, R., Ge, H., Marijn, S., Yip, V., & Chen, A. (2024). Prosodic processing in sentences with ‘only’ in L1 and L2 English.  Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 46(2):478-503. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263124000019 (SSCI; 5-year IF: 5.4; JCR ranking: Q1). 

Deng, X., Zheng, X. & Ge, H. (2024). Quantifying events or entities? —A corpus-based study of universal quantifiers in early child English and child-directed speech. First Language, 44(2), 191-213.  https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237231225023  (SSCI; 5-year IF: 1.9; JCR ranking: Q2)

Ge, H.*, Liu, F., Yuen, H. K., Chen, A., & Yip, V. (2023). Comprehension of prosodically and syntactically marked focus in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53, 1255–1268.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05770-1 (SSCI; 5-year IF: 4.5; JCR ranking: Q1)

Leung, D., Chow, V., & Ge, H. (2022). A learner corpus is born this way: Design, demonstration and direction. Data in Brief, 44, 108527.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108527 

Kang, X.* & Ge, H.* (2022). Tracking object-state representations during real-time language comprehension by native and non-native speakers of English. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:819243. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.819243 (SSCI; 5-year IF: 3.62; JCR ranking: Q2)    

Ge, H.*, Mulders, I., Kang, X., Chen, A., & Yip, V. (2021). Processing focus in native and non-native speakers of English: An eye-tracking study in the visual world paradigm. Applied Psycholinguistics, 42(4), 1057-1088. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716421000230 (SSCI; 5-year IF: 2.1; JCR ranking: Q1). 

Lee, C., Ge, H., & Chung, E. (2021). What linguistic features distinguish and predict L2 writing quality? A study of examination scripts written by adolescent Chinese learners of English in Hong Kong. System, 97, 102461.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2021.102461 (SSCI; 5-year IF: 6; JCR ranking: Q1)

Ge, H.*, Chen, A., & Yip, V. (2021).  Comprehension of focus-to-accentuation mapping in sentences with only by advanced Cantonese learners and Dutch learners of English. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 43(1), 25-49. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263120000248 (SSCI; 5-year IF: 5.4; JCR ranking: Q1)

Ge, H.* (2017). A prosodic analysis of adjective reduplication in Ningbo Chinese. Studies in Prosodic Grammar, 2(2), 104-118. 

Ge, H.*, Matthews, S., Cheung, L., & Yip, V. (2017). Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in Cantonese-English bilingual children: The case of right-dislocation. First Language, 37(3), 231-251. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723716687955 (SSCI; 5-year IF: 1.9; JCR ranking: Q2).

Proceedings (Peer-reviewed)

Chen, A., & Ge, H. (2024). L2 comprehension of focus-to-prosody mapping by Mandarin learners of English. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, 116-120, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-24 

Ge, H., & Zhao, Q. (2021). Input effects in bilingual development: The case of syntactic complexity in Cantonese-English bilingual children’s English. Virtual IASCL 2021 (organizers J. Parish-Morris, A. Iglesias, R. Paul), July 15-23, 2021. In V. C. M. Gathercole (Ed.), eProceedingsIASCL2021.weebly.com, P264.

Sasmar Putri, A., Ge, H., Hart, A., Yip, V., & Chen, A. (2019). The effect of explicit training on comprehension of English focus-to-prosody mapping by Indonesian learners of English. In S. Calhoun., P, Escudero., M, Tabain., & P, Warren (Eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 1937-1941). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. 

Ge, H., Chen, A., & Yip, V. (2018). L1 effects on L2 comprehension of focus-to-prosody mapping: A comparison between Cantonese and Dutch learners of English. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018 (pp. 187-191). Poznań, Poland. doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-38.  

Conference Presentations

Ge, H., Lee, A., Yuen, H. K., Liu, F., & Yip, V. (2024, July). Production of prosodic focus in Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children. The 16th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL-16), Prague, Czech Republic. 

Zhang, Y., Chen, S., Li, M., Li, B., Lv, S., Chan, A., Ge, H., & Tang, T. (2024, July). Mandarin prosodic focus marking by Cantonese trilingual children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Child Language Symposium 2024, Newcastle, United Kingdom. 

Ge, H., Lee, A., Yuen, H. K., Liu, F., & Yip, V. (2024, May). Bilingualism effects on the production of prosodic focus: Evidence from school-age Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children. The International Society of Autism Research 2024 Annual Meeting (INSAR 2024), Melbourne, Australia. 

Ge, H., Yuen, H. K., & Yip, V. (2023, December). Bilingual exposure does not impede Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children’s receptive vocabulary in L1 Cantonese. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Professing Aisa 2024 (AMLaP-Asia), Hong Kong. 

Ge, H., Lee, A., Yuen, H. K., Liu, F., & Yip, V. (2023, June). Bilingual exposure enhances focus production in Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children’s L1 Cantonese. The 14th International Symposium of Bilingualism, Sydney, Australia.

Ge, H., Chen, A., Chen, A., & Yip, V. (2023, June). Language transfer in L3 comprehension of focus-to-prosody mapping by Cantonese/Teochew-Mandarin bilingual learners of English. The 14th International Symposium of Bilingualism, Sydney, Australia.

Deng, X., Zheng, X., & Ge, H. (2023, May). Quantifying events or entities? —A corpus based study of universal quantifiers in early child English and child-directed speech. The 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Macau.

Qiu, X., & Ge, H. (2023, March). ESL learner engagement in interactive oral tasks: The influence of pre-task planning and intentional reasoning. The Second Hawaii International Conference on English Language and Literature Studies (HICELLS 2023). University of Hawaii, USA.

Chen, A., & Ge, H. (2022, December). Perception of focus-induced accentuation in advanced and intermediate Mandarin learners of English. International Congress on English Language Education and Applied Linguistics (ICELEAL2022). The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

Ge, H. & Chen, A. (2022, October). Comprehension of focus-to-prosody mapping by Mandarin learners of English. Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2022. University of Edinburg, Edinburg, UK.

Ge, H., Liu, F., Yuen, H. K., & Yip, V. (2022, May). The use of syntactic and prosodic cues in the comprehension of focus in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. The 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Hong Kong. 

Ge, H., A. Lee, & Yuen, H. K. (2022, May). The production of focus by Cantonese-English bilingual children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Bi/multilingualism and Specific Language Impairment (Developmental Language Disorder) Conference, Berlin, Germany. 

Yuen, H. K. & Ge, H. (2021, November). The elicitation of focus in online testing of Cantonese-speaking children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Methods of Online Discourse Elicitation Conference, Berlin, Germany. 

Ge, H., Liu, F., Yuen, H. K., & Yip, V. (2021, July). How do Cantonese-English bilingual children with Autism Spectrum Disorder comprehend focus? The 13th International Symposium of Bilingualism, Poland. 

Leung, D., Chow, V., & Ge, H. (2021, July). A learner corpus is born this way: Design, Demonstration and Direction. The International Conference on Technology-enhanced Language Learning and Teaching & Corpus-based Language Learning and Teaching, Hong Kong SAR, China. 

Ge, H. & Zhao, Q. (2021, July). Input effects in bilingual development: The case of syntactic complexity in Cantonese-English bilingual children’s English. Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) Conference, Philadelphia, USA. 

Ge, H. & Yuen, H.K. (2020, November). Syntax or prosody? Comprehension of focus by Cantonese-speaking children and adults. The 24th International Conference on Yue Dialects, Macau SAR, China. 

Ge, H., Chung, E., & Lee, C. (2019, December). An exploratory study on the lexical and syntactic complexity of Hong Kong English learners’ essays in a public examination. The 20th English in Southeast Asia Conference, Singapore. 

Chung, E., Lee, C., & Ge, H. (2019, December). Metadiscourse in second language writing: A study of problem-solution essays written by adolescent Chinese learners of English in Hong Kong. The 25th International Conference on Teaching, Education and Learning, Sydney, Australia.  

Sasmar Putri, A., Ge, H., Hart, A., Yip, V., & Chen, A. (2019, August). The effect of explicit training on comprehension of English focus-to-prosody mapping by Indonesian learners of English. The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia.

Ge, H., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (2019, June). Cantonese heritage speakers’ online processing of English: Evidence from eye movements in the visual world paradigm. The 12th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Edmonton, Canada. 

Ganga, R., Ge, H., Marijn, S., Yip, V., & Chen, A. (2019, June). Processing prosodic information in sentences with “only” in a second language. The 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference, Lecce, Italy.

Ganga, R., Ge, H., Marijn, S., Yip, V., & Chen, A. (2019, May). Neural Prosodic processing in sentences with “only” in L1 and L2 English: An ERP study. The Special Session on Neuro-Cognitive Aspects of Prosody, Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HisPhonCog 2019), Seoul, South Korea. 

Ganga, R., Ge, H., Marijn, S., Yip, V., & Chen, A. (2019, April). Non-native processing of contrastive focus in English sentences with “only”. International Workshop on the L1 and L2 acquisition of Information Structure, KU Leuven, Belgium. 

Ge, H. (2018, October). L1 influence on L2 comprehension: Implications for L2 teaching of prosody. International Conference on Bilingual Learning and Teaching, Hong Kong SAR, China.

Ge, H., Chen, A., & Yip, V. (2018, June) L1 Effects on L2 comprehension of focus-to-prosody mapping: A comparison between Cantonese and Dutch learners of English. The 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Pozna, Poland. 

Ganga, R., Ge, H., Marijn, S., Yip, V. & Chen, A. (2017, November). Processing sentences with “only” in a second language: Evidence from ERPs. The 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, U.S.A. 

Ge, H., & Yip, V. (2017, September). How Cantonese-English bilingual adults use prosody to interpret focus in English: Evidence from eye movement in the visual world paradigm. The 11th International Conference on Cognitive Science, Taipei. 

Ge, H., Kang, X., Mai, Z., Lam, H., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (2017, June). Association of prosodic focal information with only in L1 and L2: Evidence from eye movement in the visual world paradigm. Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference, Menorca, Spain.

Ge, H., Kang, X., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2017, June). How Cantonese-speaking adults use prosody to interpret focus in L2 English: Evidence from eye movement in the visual world paradigm. The 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Limerick, Ireland.

Ge, H. (2015, December). The acquisition of right-dislocation in Cantonese-English bilingual children. The International Symposium on Psycholinguistics of Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism, Shenzhen, China.

Ge, H. (2015, November). A Prosodic Analysis of Adjective Reduplication in Ningbo Chinese. The 2nd International Conference on Chinese Prosodic Grammar, Hong Kong SAR, China. 

Ge, H., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (2015, August). The acquisition of right-dislocation in Cantonese-English bilingual children. The 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Seoul, South Korea. 

Ge, H., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (2015, July). Cross-linguistic influence in Cantonese-English bilingual children: the case of right-dislocation. Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Chicago, U.S.A. 

Ge, H., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (2015, May). Cross-linguistic influence in Cantonese-English bilingual children: the case of right-dislocation. The 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism, New Brunswick, U.S.A.

Ge, H., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (2015, April). The acquisition of right-dislocation in Cantonese-English bilingual children. The 27th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Los Angeles, U.S.A. 

Ge, H., Cheung, L., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (2013, June). Cross-linguistic influence in Cantonese-English bilingual children: the case of English right-dislocation. The 9th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Singapore.

Ge, H., Cheung, L., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (2013, March). Prosodic features of right-dislocation in child Cantonese. The 13th Workshop on Cantonese, Hong Kong SAR, China.

Ge, H., Cheung, L., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (2012, May). Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics: The case of right dislocation in Cantonese-English bilingual children. The International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics, Hong Kong SAR, China.

Invited Talks

Ge, H. (2023, October). Can autistic children match their typically developing peers? The case of focus comprehension and production. Linguistics Seminars, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

Ge, H. (2022, December). Comprehension of prosodically and syntactically marked focus in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. East China Normal University, China.

Ge, H. (2022, May). 自閉症譜系障礙科普, 澳城大大健康科普系列講座. City University of Macau, Macau, China. 

Ge, H. (2021, February). Comprehension of focus by Cantonese-speaking children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Centre for Autism, The University of Reading, U.K. 

Ge, H. (2020, August). Comprehension of focus in Cantonese: Comparison between children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and typically developing children. RiBILT Research Seminars, The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. 

Ge, H. (2020, January). Are interface structures always problematic in L2 acquisition? Evidence from the processing of focus in advanced L2 learners of English. Department Seminar, Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. 

Ge, H. (2019, October). Processing focus in L1 and L2 speakers of English: A visual world eye-tracking study. Special Phonological Undertaking for Fun Session. Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China. 

Ge, H. (2018, December). Processing of prosodic focal information in a second language: Evidence from eye movement in the visual world paradigm. GDUFS Symposium on Language Acquisition and Language Therapy. Guangzhou, China. 

Ge, H.  (2017, April). How Cantonese-speaking adults use prosody to interpret focus in L2 English: Evidence from eye movement in the visual world paradigm. Experimental Linguistics Talk Utrecht (ELiTU), Utrecht University, The Netherlands. 

Open Datasets

Leung, C. H. D., Chow, M. Y. V., & Ge, H. (2022). The Chinese and English Learner Language Corpus (CELL Corpus). Mendeley Data, V2, doi: 10.17632/gs4ppd7sz3.2

Ge, H., Mulders, I., Kang, X., Chen, A., & Yip, V. (2022, September 27). Experimental materials for the study entitled “Processing focus in native and non-native speakers of English: An eye-tracking study in the visual world paradigm”. Retrieved from osf.io/k23b4