Journal Articles

Zhou, J.*, Mai, Z., Lau, E., Lum, C., Thian, A-L., & Yip, V. (2025). Cross- and within-language associations between phonological, lexical, and grammatical domains in Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers in Singapore. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 68(2), 636-653. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00310

Zhou, J.*, Mai, Z., Cai, Q., Liang, Y., & Yip, V. (2022). Reference production in Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers: Linguistic, input, and cognitive factors. Frontiers in Psychology, 13: 897031. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.897031

Zhou, J.*, & Yip, V. (2021). The post-verbal pronoun KEOI in child Cantonese: A corpus-based study. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 49(2), 379-419.

Zhou, J.*, Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2021, published online 2020). Bi-directional cross-linguistic influence in object realization in Cantonese-English bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24(1), 96–110. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S1366728920000231

Refereed Conference Presentations

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2025). English sentences are longer but Mandarin sentences are more complex: The development of syntactic complexity in Mandarin-English bilingual preschool children. Paper to be presented at the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, 9–13 June. 

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., Li, S., & Yip, V. (2024). Syntactic complexity of oral narratives in Mandarin-English bilingual preschool children in Singapore: Age, language exposure and vocabulary. Paper accepted by the 30th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-30), Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, 25-27 May.

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., Cai, Q., & Cheng, R. (2024). Beyond words: Referential gesturing in bilingual and monolingual mother-child dyads and its role in early development. Poster presented at the Child Language Symposium 2024, Newcastle University, Newcastle, England, 9-11 July.

Pang, V., Zhou, J., Nie, J., & Mai, Z. (2024). Narrative macrostructure profiles of Cantonese-English bilingual children and contributing factors. Paper accepted by the Child Language Symposium 2024, Newcastle University, Newcastle, England, 9-11 July.

Cheng, R., Zhou, J., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2024). Lexical tone production in Singaporean Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers: Associations with articulation, vocabulary and grammar? Poster presented at the Child Language Symposium 2024, Newcastle University, Newcastle, England, 9-11 July.

Zhou, J., Ma, A., Li, S., Shang, M., Zhang, H., & Yip, V. (2024). Teleassessment and shared-reading support Hong Kong trilingual children’s language learning: An intervention study. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education in Early Childhood (ELLME'24), University of Granada, Granada, Spain, 5-6 September.

Mendoza, C., Law, C., Zhou, J., Li, S., & Yip, V. (2024). Using Augmented Reality (AR)-compatible storybooks as input to support Hong Kong trilingual children’s early language learning. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education in Early Childhood (ELLME'24), University of Granada, Granada, Spain, 5-6 September.

Zhou, J., Shang, M., Zhang, H., & Yip, V. (2024). Teleassessment of Hong Kong Trilingual Children. Poster presented at the 16th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL16), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-19 July.

Zhang, H., Zhou, J., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2024). Assessment of Mandarin Receptive Vocabulary in Preschool Children Learning Mandarin. Paper presented at the 16th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL16), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-19 July.

Yip, V., Zhou, J., Lau, E., Lum, C., Thian, A., Mai, Z., & Matthews, S. (2023). Assessment of Mandarin and English in Singapore bilingual pre-schoolers: Within- and cross-language relations between phonological, lexical and grammatical domains. Poster presented at the 14th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 26-30 June.

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., Lum, C., Thian, A., & Yip, V. (2023). Narrative comprehension in Mandarin-English bilingual preschool children in Singapore: Age, receptive vocabulary, and executive function. Paper presented at the 14th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 26-30 June.

Yip, V., Zhou, J., Lau, E., Lum, C., Thian, A., & Mai, Z. (2023). Within- and cross-language relations between phonological, lexical and grammatical domains in Mandarin-English bilingual preschool children. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-29), Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China, 27-29 May. 

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., Cai, Q., Liang, Y., & Yip, V. (2022). Reference production in Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers: Linguistic, input, and cognitive factors. Paper presented at the 4th Bi-SLI (Bi-/multilingualism and Developmental Language Disorder), ZAS, Berlin, Germany, 9-10 May.

Zhou, J., & Szeto, P. (2020). On the post-verbal KEOI in Cantonese and other Yue dialects. Paper presented at the 24th International Conference on Yue Dialects, University of Macau, Macau, 13-14 November.

Mai, Z., Zhou, J., & Yip, V. (2019). Sentence-final particle ne in child heritage Mandarin (2;00-3;05). Paper presented at the 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, US, 7-10 November. 

Zhou, J., & Yip, V. (2019). Cross-linguistic influence in the interpretation of lexically unrealized objects by Cantonese-English bilingual children. Poster presented at the 14th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference (GALA 14). University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, 12-14 September.

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2017). Cantonese-English bilingual children's interpretation of omitted objects: An experimental study. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Science. GIS NTU Convention Centre, Taipei, Taiwan, 1-3 September.

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2017). Object realization in Cantonese-English bilingual children. Poster presentation at the 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language. University Lyon 2, France, 17-21 July.

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2017). The interpretation of null objects by Cantonese-English bilingual children: An experimental study. Paper presented at the 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11). University of Limerick, Ireland, 11-15 June.

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2016). A corpus study of post-verbal keoi in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children. Paper presented at the 28th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL28). Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA, 5-8 May.

Zhou, J. (2015). Object realization in Cantonese-English bilingual Children. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Psycholinguistics of Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism. Shenzhen, China, 19 December.

Zhou, J. (2015). Cong yunlü de jiaodu kan yueyu de fei changgui binyu jiegou [Noncanonical object constructions in Cantonese: A prosodic perspective]. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Chinese Prosodic Grammar. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 7-8 November.

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., & Yip, V.  (2015).  Null objects in Cantonese-English bilingual children. Paper presented at the 23rd annual conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL), Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, 26-28 August.

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2015). Object omission in Cantonese-English bilingual children. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium of Bilingualism, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, 20-24 May.

Zhou, J. (2014). Null objects in Cantonese-English bilingual children’s early production. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Formal Linguistics in conjunction with International Conference on Language Acquisition, Language Disorder and Language Assessment (ICFL-2014), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 8-9 November.

Invited Talks

Zhou, J. (2024). Assessment of bilingual and trilingual children using face-to-face and teleassessment methods. Symposium on Languages in China: Language Typology and Acquisition. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 11 March.

Guest Talks/Lectures

Zhou, J. (2016-2020). Topics in object realization in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children. LING6920 Topics in Language Acquisition, LING5205/5202 Topics in Bilingualism, Dept. of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Zhou, J. (2015). Generative Approaches: Ultimate Attainment. LING3204 Second Language Acquisition, Dept. of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Theses

Zhou, J. (2018). Object Realization in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children. PhD dissertation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Zhou, J. (2013). Exploring First Language Activation in Second Language Lexical Processing: Evidence from Translation Equivalent Frequency Effect. M. A. Thesis, Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Professional Service

• Managing editor (2018-2023)

     Journal of Chinese Linguistics

• Manuscript reviewer

     International Journal of Bilingualism

     Second Language Research

     International Journal of Chinese Linguistics

    Linguistics and the Human Sciences

    Frontiers in Communication

    International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

    Journal of Chinese Linguistics

   Frontiers in Psychology

• Conference abstract reviewer

     International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)

     Bi-SLI 2022 - Bi-/multilingualism and Developmental Language Disorder

Certificate Training

• Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule Second Edition (ADOS-2) and Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) Clinical Reliability (2023)     

• Child Language Development DREAM Standardized Assessment & Treatment System Certificate (2017, 2021) 

Research Skills Training

• Python Courses, Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research (CLEAR), CUHK (2018)

     Highlighted courses: basics of programming, database & web programming

• Summer Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Taiwan (2014)

     Highlighted courses: Introduction to eye-tracking, fMRI, EEG and ERPs, MEG, tDCS and TMS