Experimental
Malay relative clause acquisition - In collaboration with Kamil Deen, Nozomi Tanaka and William O'Grady
In this project, I employed picture description and selection tasks to investigate how Malay speaking children acquire the relative clause in their first language. Data collection complete and currently being written up.
Perception of non-native English - Advised by Amy Schafer
This project investigates how differences in the voice onset time of an unfamiliar non-native English variety affects the speech perception of native speakers of American English. Implemented through a forced choice identification task and currently in the data collection phase.
Descriptive
Cantonese relative clause description - Advised by Li Jiang
In this project, we first investigate which noun phrases (in terms of what syntactic position and semantic role) can be relativized. We then explore what the possible syntactic structures of relative clauses in Cantonese are and how they are derived.