教育背景
1973,文學學士，主修英國文學，美國賓夕法尼亞州SwarthmoreCollege
1981,文學碩士，語言學，香港大學
1986,語言學博士，美國加州大學洛杉機分校，
論文題目：漢語量化研究。
教研經驗
1976-77,語言教師，外文系，台灣東海大學
1978-1981,副講師/講師，語言系，香港理工大學(前稱「香港理工學院」)
1982-84,助教，語言學系，美國加州大學洛杉機分校
1984-86,高級講師，語言系，香港城市大學(前稱「香港城市理工學院」)
1987-1995,講師，英文系,香港中文大學
1995-1998,高級講師，英文系,香港中文大學(1989-91,英文系語言學組主任；1995-96,英文研究學部主任)
1990(4至6月)，納菲爾德(Nuffield)研究員，英國約克大學語言科學系。
1994-1995，訪問科學家，美國麻省理工學院，大腦認知科學系。
1999至今，特約教授，香港城市大學
學術職務
1990-至今,「國外語言學」(現稱「當代語言學」)編委，中國社科院。
1994-至今,「東亞語言學學報」JournalofEastAsianLinguistics編委，Kluwer。
1996-至今,「中國語言學報」JournalofChineseLinguistics編委，加州柏克萊。
1996-至今,「國際中國語言學評論」編委，JohnBenjamins
1994-96,國際中國語言學學會理事。
1990-91,香港語言學學會會長。
1986-93,香港語言學學會理事。
1988-89,香港語言學學會司庫。
香港研究基金局撥款支持的研究項目
1991-1994,"粵語兒童語法能力的發展”
1995-96,"粵語情態的獲得"
1996-98,"粵語焦點助詞的獲得”
著作
1982."TheDevelopmentofNegationinaMandarin-speakingChild",LanguageLearningandCommunication1.3:269-281
1985."廣州話元音的音質和長短區別"<方言>7.1:28-38
1986."AcquisitionofQuantificationalScopeinMandarinChinese"PapersandReportsonChildLanguageDevelopment26:57-64
1989."DevelopmentofaMandarin-speakingChild'sComprehensionofWh-Questions",CahiersdeLinguistiqueAsieOrientale18.1:29-62.
1989.(withXuLie-jiongandNgaiYuen-leung)
"上海話ze的邏輯語義特點"，<中國語文>(ChineseLinguistics)211:264-272.
1990.(withXuLie-jiong)
"ScopeAmbiguityandDisambiguityinChinese"Papersfromthe25thChicagoLinguisticSocietyMeeting:PartOne,GeneralSession,451-466.
1991."TheLearnabilityofLocalityConditionsonQuantification",CUHKPapersinLinguisticsvol.3,revisedversionpublishedas(1993).
1991."LinearityasaScopePrincipleforChinese:theevidencefromFirstLanguageAcquisition"inD.NapoliandJ.Kegl(eds)BridgesBetweenPsychologyandLinguistics,Hillsdale,NJ:LawrenceErlbaum,pp.183-206.
1992."TheInadequacyofProcessingHeuristics:evidencefromRelativeClauseAcquisitioninChinese"inT.Lee(ed.)ResearchonChineseLinguisticsinHongKong,pp.47-85.
1993."TheLearnabilityofLocalityConditionsonQuantification",inS.H.Liu,H.H.Ho,T.M.Li,P.K.Chou,andY.M.Fung(ed.)PapersonAnalyticPhilosophyandPhilosophyofLanguage,NewAsiaMonographSeriesNo.10.HongKong:NewAsiaCollege,ChineseUniversityofHongKong.pp.283-309.
1994.(withAliceCheung)
"cantonese-speakingchildren'scomprehensionofwh-questions"inE.Clark(ed)Proceedingsofthe25thStanfordChildLanguageConference.Stanford:CenterfortheStudyofLanguageandInformation.pp.106-117.
1994."粵語「哂」的邏輯特點",SinChowYiu(ed)ProceedingsoftheFirstInternationalConferenceonCantoneseandOtherYueDialects,pp.131-138.HongKong:ModernEducationResearchSociety.
1995."FocusadverbsinChildCantonese",inJ.CamachoandL.Choueiri(eds)ProceedingsoftheSixthNorthAmericanConferenceonChineseLinguistics,vol.2,pp.86-101,LosAngeles:DepartmentofLinguistics,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia.
1995."ThelearningofChinesebyCantonese-speakingpupils",inTseshekKametal(eds)ChineseLanguageEducationforthe21stCentury:aHongKongPerspective.EducationPapers21.FacultyofEducation,UniversityofHongKong.pp.29-38.
1996."TheoreticalissuesinlanguagedevelopmentandChinesechildlanguage"inJamesC-THuangandAudreyLi(eds.)NewHorizonsinChineseLinguistics.Dordrecht:Kluwer.pp.293-356.
1997.(withChin-faLien,BenjaminKT'sou,SamuelHNCheung,andJeromePHHu)"ASurveyof25YearsofMasters'andPhDThesesinTaiwanRelevanttoChineseLanguageandLinguistics",inInternationalReviewofChineseLinguisticsvol.1,no.1,pp.51-88.
1997"ScopeanddistributivityinChildMandarin",inEveClark(ed)Proceedingsofthe28thStanfordChildLanguageResearchForum.Stanford:CenterfortheStudyofLanguageandInformation.pp.173-182.
1998(withColleenWong)"Cancorp-TheHongKongCantoneseChildLanguageCorpus",CahiersdeLinguistiqueAsieOrientalevol.27,no.2,pp211-228.
1999(withWangChuming),“L2AcquisitionofConflationClassesofPrenominalAdjectivalParticiples”,LanguageLearning.vol.48,no.1.
(toappear1999)(withVirginiaYipandChumingWang)"InverseScopeinChinese-EnglishInterlanguage",LinguaPosnaniensis,no.41.
(toappear1999)(withVirginiaYipandChumingWang)"RethinkingIsomorphismasaScopePrincipleforChineseandEnglish",ProceedingsoftheTenthNorthAmericanChineseLinguisticsConference.
(toappear)"FinitenessandnullargumentsinchildCantonese",AFestschriftforProfessorTangTing-chi,SpecialissueofTsinghuaJournalofChineseStudies.(16pp.)
學術論文評審
語言習得LanguageAcquisition(美國)
當代語言學ContemporaryLinguistics(中國)
語用學雜誌JournalofPragmatics(荷蘭)
臨床語音學JournalofClinicalPhonetics(英國)
東亞語言學學報JournalofEastAsianLinguistics(美國)
中國語言學報JournalofChineseLinguistics(美國)
兒童語言學報JournalofChildLanguage(英國)
特邀演講
Invitedspeaker,WorkshoponInterfacesandtheChineseLanguage,July21,1993,OhioStateUniversity
Invitedspeaker,TheSixthNorthAmericanChineseLinguisticsConference,May13-15,1994,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia
Invitedspeaker,10thWorkshoponAsianandOrientalLanguages,CenterforResearchinAsianandOrientalLinguistics,EcoleDesHautesEtudesenSciencesSociales,heldMay16-17,1995
Invitedspeaker,ConferenceonLinguisticsandPsycholinguisticsinEastAsianLanguages,May14-17,1996,UniversityofMaryland.
Invitedspeaker,TheFifthInternationalConferenceonChineseLinguistics,June27-29,1996,NationalTsinghuaUniversity,Hsinchu,Taiwan.
Invitedspeaker,LSAWorkshoponFirstLanguageAcquisitionofEastAsianLanguages,July23,1997,CornellUniversity.
