Patrick Chu, PhD

Invited presentation

  1. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2018) Informing Chinese handwriting pedagogy through the use of eye-tracking technique: A cognitive load perspective. In Explore how technology helps children with autism seminar, Macau Autism Association, Macau, April 6.

Conference presentations

A. Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit

  1. Patrick Chun Kau Chu & Marcus Taft. (2011). How Cantonese listeners process Mandarin tones: Implications for the second-language phonological lexicon. Paper presented at the International Symposium of Bilingualism (ISB), Oslo, 15-18 June.  [PPT]
  2. Patrick Chun Kau Chu & Marcus Taft. (2010). The Mental Representation of L2 Phonological Lexicons: Implications from the Recognition and Production of Mandarin Words by Cantonese and Mandarin speakers. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK), Hong Kong, December 4. [PPT]
  3. Patrick Chun Kau Chu & Marcus Taft. (2010). Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit and the Mental Representation of Second Language Speech Sounds. Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS), Beijing, 17-20, August. [Poster]
  4. Patrick Chun Kau Chu & Marcus Taft. (2010). The role of relative word frequency in interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit. Paper presented at the 37th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC), Melbourne, 8-10, April. [PPT]

B. Second language speech perception / word recognition

  1. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2012). Towards a Model of Second Language Word Production and Recognition in Mandarin. Poster presented at the International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics, Hong Kong, 15-16 May. [Poster]
  2. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2011). Towards a Model of Second Language Word Production and Recognition in Mandarin. Paper presented at the Young Scholar Award Competition in the International Conference on Chinese Language Learning and Teaching in the Digital Age (CLTDA), Hong Kong, 25-27 November. [PPT]
  3. Patrick Chun Kau Chu & Marcus Taft. (2011). The influence of the L1 lexical system on the processing of tones in L2. Paper presented at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Hong Kong , 17-21 August. [PPT]
  4. Patrick Chun Kau Chu & Marcus Taft. (2011). Regularity and Congruency effect in Cantonese speakers’ phonological knowledge of Mandarin words. Paper presented at the 38th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC), Auckland, 28-30 April. [PPT]
  5. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2009). Do first-language phonemic categories play a role in the perception of second-language phonemic contrasts? A look from the perception of Cantonese by Mandarin speakers. Poster presented at the 2nd Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Special Workshop on Speech: Cross-Language Speech Perception and Variations in Linguistic Experience, Portland, May 22-23. [Poster]
  6. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2008). Positive and Negative Transfers in the Pronunciation Learning of Japanese Onyomi Kanji by Native Cantonese Speakers. Paper presented at the 8th International Symposium on Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies: Multiculturalism and Japanese Language Education/ Japanese Studies in Asia and Oceania, Hong Kong, China, November 8-9. [PPT]
  7. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2007). The Perception of Cantonese Codas by Native Speakers of Cantonese and Mandarin. Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on the Processing of East Asia Related Languages (PEARL), National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, December 28-29. [PPT]
  8. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2007). The Pronunciation Learning Strategy of the Japanese onyomi kanji words by native Cantonese speakers: a look from the Cantonese coda. Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK), Hong Kong, December 8-9. [PPT]

C. Neuroscience

  1. Manson Cheuk-Man Fong, Patrick Chun Kau Chu, Nga Yan Hui & William Shi-Yuan Wang (2016). Interaction between two automatic inhibitory processes—An ERP study on Go/NoGo flanker paradigm. Poster presented at BrainConnects 2016. Taichung, Taiwan, September 23-25.
  2. Manson Cheuk-Man Fong, Yifan Zou, Chu, Patrick Chun Kau Chu & William Shi-Yuan Wang (2016). Do FN400 potentials index conceptual priming during old/new judgment? Paper presented at the 8th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics. Bloomington, US, August 8-10.

D. Linguistics

  1. Patrick Chun Kau Chu & Marcus Taft. (2011). Are there six or nine tones in Cantonese? Paper presented at the Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference (PLRT), Hong Kong, 22-23 August. [PPT]
  2. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2008). Onset, Rhyme and Coda Corresponding Rules of the Sino-Korean Characters between Cantonese and Korean. Paper presented at the 5th Postgraduate Research Forum on Linguistics (PRFL), Hong Kong, China, March 15–16. [PPT]
  3. Patrick Chun Kau Chu, & Fay Wong. (2008). The Acquisition of Cantonese Container Classifiers by Native Cantonese Children. Poster presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Science, Moscow, Russia, June 20-25. [Poster]
  4. Patrick Chun Kau Chu, & Fay Wong. (2007). A Semantic Study of Container Classifiers in Cantonese. Poster presentation at the 12th International Conference on the Processing of East Asia Related Languages (PEARL), National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, December 28-29. [Poster]
  5. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2007). Rules and Constraints of the Code-mixing patterns in Hong Kong Cantonese. Paper presented at the First International Free Linguistics Conference, Sydney, Australia, October 6-7. [PPT]

E. Bilingual tone acquisition

  1. Peggy Mok, Patrick Chu, & Virginia Yip. (2015). The acquisition of lexical tones by Cantonese-English bilingual children. Paper presentation at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism, New Jersey, United States, May 20-24.
  2. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2008). The Acquisition of Cantonese Tones in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children. Paper presented at the Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood, Hong Kong, China, December 11-12. [PPT]
  3. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2008). Tonal Development in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children. Poster presentation at the 11th International Congress For the Study Of Child Language (IASCL), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July 28 – August 1.  [PPT]
  4. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2007). Tonal Development in a Cantonese-English bilingual child. Paper presented at the Second Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Newcastle, United Kingdom, June 25. [PPT]
  5. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2006). Tonal Development in Cantonese-English bilingual children: A case study. Poster presentation at the Conference on Language Acquisition in the Chinese Context (LACC), Hong Kong, China, December 15-16. [Poster]

F. Special Education

  1. Patrick Chun Kau Chu, Vicky Tsang, Sam Sam. (2018). Social information processing study on children with autism using eye-tracker. Paper submitted to the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Inclusive Education, Taipei, June 8-9

G. Aspectual Asymmetry in the Human Mind 

  1. Foong Ha Yap, Patrick Chun Kau Chu, Steven Matthews, Ping Li, & Yasuhiro Shirai. (2009). Aspectual asymmetries in the human mind: A perceptual symbols account. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL), Paris, July 2-4. 
  2. Foong Ha Yap, Emily Sze-Man Yiu, Patrick Chun Kau Chu, Yumi Inoue, Yasuhiro Shirai & Steven Matthews. (2008). Interaction of Lexical and Grammatical (and Frequency) in Verb Processing. Poster presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Science, Moscow, Russia, June 20-25. 
  3. Foong Ha Yap, Stella Wing-Man Kwan, Emily Sze-Man Yiu, Patrick Chun Kau Chu, Stella Fay Wong, Yasuhiro Shirai, & Steven Matthews. (2006). Aspectual asymmetries in East Asian languages. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality (Chronos 7), Antwerp, September 18-22. 
  4. Foong Ha Yap, Stella Wing-Man Kwan, Emily Sze-Man Yiu, Patrick Chun Kau Chu, & Stella Fay Wong, (2006). Assessing aspectual asymmetries in human language processing. Poster presentation at the International Speech and Communication Association (ISCA) Tutorial and Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, Athens, Greece, August 28-30.
  5. Foong Ha Yap, Stella Wing-Man Kwan, Patrick Chun Kau Chu, Emily Sze-Man Yiu, Stella Fay Wong, Steven Matthews, & Shirai, Y. (2006). Aspectual asymmetries in the mental representation of events: Significance of lexical aspect. Poster presentation at the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), Vancouver, Canada, July 26-29. [Poster]
  6. Foong Ha Yap, Stella Wing-Man Kwan, Patrick Chun Kau Chu, Emily Sze-Man Yiu, Stella Fay Wong, & Seongha Rhee. (2006). The interaction of lexical and grammatical aspect on language processing. Paper presented at the 2006 Linguistic Society of Korea Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL), Seoul, Korea, July 24-26. [PPT]
  7. Foong Ha Yap, Patrick Chun Kau Chu., Stella Wong, Emily Yiu, Steven Matthews, & Yasuhiro Shirai. (2005). Aspectual asymmetry in Cantonese: Does inherent verb aspect matter? Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Processing Chinese and Other East Asian Languages (PCOEAL), Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 9-11. [PPT]

Other presentation

  1. Patrick Chun Kau Chu. (2011). Interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit: Implications for the L2 phonological representation. Talk presented at the Language Comprehension Department lab meeting, Max Planck institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 5 July.