External Funding

2026-2027  General Research Fund #16600425, Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong, “Younger and older adults’ attentional control in their dichotic listening of Cantonese tones: the role of bilingual experience.”, HKD 516,000, role: PI.

2025-2027  General Research Fund #15601024, Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong, “The effects of auditory cueing during sleep on generalized phonetic learning: the case of non-native lexical tone learning”, HKD 860,380, role: Co-I (PI: Dr. Caicai Zhang).

2024-2025  Early Career Scheme #26600623, Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong, “Adult second-language learners’ consolidation of Cantonese tones during daytime naps: the role of prior knowledge”, HKD 630,000, role: PI.

2024-2025  National Science Foundation Research Grant (BCS-2016750), “Enhancing the perception and recognition of spoken words in a second language: A cue-weighting approach.”, USD 449,961, role: Co-I (PI: Dr. Annie Tremblay).

2023-2024  Multiple-Year Research Grant - General Research Grant (MYRG-GRG), Macau, “Linking production and perception of coarticulated tones: tone merging in Cantonese.”, MOP 170,000, role: Co-PI (Primary PI: Dr. Jingwei Zhang).

2019-2021  The Language Learning Early Career Research Grant (Wiley-Blackwell Publishers), “The effect of overnight consolidation on the generalization across talkers – a case study on Cantonese tones.”, USD 10,000, role: PI.

2016-2018  National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (BCS-1627554), “How native Chinese listeners and second-language Chinese learners process tones in word recognition: an eye-tracking study.”, USD 17,901, role: Co-PI (Student PI; PI: Dr. Annie Tremblay).