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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 2022.11 to 2023.8. Later, I came to CUHK and became a Junior Research Assistant from 2023.9 to 2024.7 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 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
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
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.
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 to Jiaqi Nie]
Research papers
Research papers
Nie, J. (2021). The effect of emotional content on working memory performance in bilinguals. Bachelor’s thesis, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. [BA thesis]
Nie, J. (2022). The count-mass distinction in Chinese. Master’s thesis, The University of Hong Kong. [MA thesis]
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