Patrick Chu, PhD
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, University of New South Wales, Australia (2009-2013)
(Thesis: Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit: Implications for a Model of Second Language Word Production and Recognition
Supervisor: Prof. Marcus Taft)
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1st class) (2002-2006)
(Minor in Business Administration and Japanese Studies)
(Thesis: The Perception of Cantonese Codas by Native Speakers of Cantonese and Mandarin
Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Lee).
(Thesis: Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit: Implications for a Model of Second Language Word Production and Recognition
Supervisor: Prof. Marcus Taft)
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1st class) (2002-2006)
(Minor in Business Administration and Japanese Studies)
(Thesis: The Perception of Cantonese Codas by Native Speakers of Cantonese and Mandarin
Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Lee).
Research interests
- Phonetics and psycholinguistics
- Cantonese tone
- L1 and L2 Spoken word recognition (Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Malay/ Indonesian and English)
- Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit
- Second language phonology and accent perception and adaptation
- Speech production and perception in infants and adults
- Phonological acquisition in monolingual and bilingual children
- Music cognition
- Digital humanities
- Entrepreneurship, Belt and Road initiative and big data analysis
Study trips
- Visiting student at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 7/2011)
- Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) summer school (Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 6/2008)
- Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Linguistics summer institute (Stanford University, USA, 7/2007)
- LOT summer school (University of Leuven, Belgium, 6/2007)
- Summer English Language and Culture Programme (Queens’ University, Canada, 7-8/2005)
- Summer Japanese Language and Culture Programme (Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan, 7-8/2004)
- One semester academic exchange programme (Ewha Womans University, South Korea, 3-7/2004)
- Summer Korean Language and Culture Programme (Kyung Hee University, South Korea, 8/2003)
Languages
Chinese (Cantonese) : Native
Chinese (Mandarin) : Intermediate
English : Advanced (IELTS (Academic) 7.5 achieved in April 2008)
Japanese : Intermediate (Pass in Japanese Proficiency Test Level 2 in December 2005)
Korean : Upper-Intermediate
Thai : Lower-intermediate
Vietnamese : Lower-intermediate
Malay/ Bahasa Indonesian : Lower-intermediate
Last updated: 9/5/2018
Chinese (Mandarin) : Intermediate
English : Advanced (IELTS (Academic) 7.5 achieved in April 2008)
Japanese : Intermediate (Pass in Japanese Proficiency Test Level 2 in December 2005)
Korean : Upper-Intermediate
Thai : Lower-intermediate
Vietnamese : Lower-intermediate
Malay/ Bahasa Indonesian : Lower-intermediate
Last updated: 9/5/2018