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About me
About me
Hello! My name is NIE Jiaqi, Nicole. I am a PhD student (2024-) supervised by Prof. Maggie Ziyin Mai at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
Before starting my PhD journey, I served as a Research Assistant at the lab of Prof. Mai at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) from November 2022 to August 2023. Later, I came to CUHK and became a Junior Research Assistant from September 2023 to July 2024 at the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre (CBRC), continuing to work with Prof. Mai on several government-funded projects on early trilingualism and bilingualism nurtured by Hong Kong mothers and helpers. I have completed my Master of Arts in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and my Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) in Guangzhou, China.
My research interests are in language acquisition, language processing, and bilingualism. I was born and raised in Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province. I am trilingual, speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. I am also a beginner in French and German.
Outside of research, I enjoy listening to music, reading fiction, and doing all kinds of sports.
Contact: jiaqi.nie@link.cuhk.edu.hk
Research
Research
Publications
Publications
Zhou, J.*, Pang, H. K. V., Nie, J., Mai, Z. (under review). Language proficiency moderates cross- and within-language associations in narrative abilities among bilingual children.
Mai, Z.*, Wong, P. C. M., Matthews, S., Yip, V., Liao, H., Nie, J., & Chen, Y. (2025). Zhuang-Mandarin bilingual children in rural China and the role of grandparental input in early bilingualism. PLoS One 20(6): e0326671. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326671
Conference presentations
Conference presentations
Nie, J. & Mai, Z. (2025). Child-directed L2 input: the roles of caretaker L2 proficiency and perceived child L2 grammatical complexity. Paper presented at the Doctoral Workshop of the 34th conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA34), 25-28 June 2025, UiT the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway. [Junior Researcher LAB Award]
Mai, Z., Liang, Y., Cai, Q., Chan, Y., Nie, J. and Cheng, R. (2023). Caretaker proficiency and input quality in L2 English: bilingual mothers, helpers, and 3-year-olds in Hong Kong. 14th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Nie, J. and Lin, J. (2023). The effect of emotional content and language on working memory. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.
Research papers
Research papers
Nie, J. (2022). The count-mass distinction in Chinese. Master’s thesis, The University of Hong Kong. [MA thesis]
Nie, J. (2021). The effect of emotional content on working memory performance in bilinguals. Bachelor’s thesis, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. [BA thesis]
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