Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Faculty of Education
The University of Hong Kong
Graduate Students
CHOI, Tsun Man William
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William Choi is a third-year PhD candidate at the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. He received his Bachelor's degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences (First Class Honours) from The University of Hong Kong in 2014. His research interests include suprasegmental speech perception and reading development. His journal publications cover a range of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic areas, including speech perception, bilingual reading comprehension development and reading comprehension difficulties. He is also a qualified speech-language pathologist and reviewer in international peer-reviewed journals.
TSUI, Ka Ying Rachel
Recipient of Philip KH Wong Foundation Postgraduate Fellowship 2015-2016
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Rachel Tsui is a second-year PhD student at the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. She received her BA in Linguistics and Japanese language/literature from University of California, Berkeley, and her MA in Linguistics from The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include infant speech perception and suprasegmental production/perception. During summer 2016, she went to RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan for a research internship. She worked with Professor Reiko Mazuka at the Laboratory for Language Development.
DENG, Qinli
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Deng Qinli is a first-year PhD student supervised by Dr. Shelley Tong. She received her bachelor's and master's degree in Psychology from South China Normal University. The title of her master's thesis is "Non-lexical phonetic radical influences the phonological and semantic processing: An ERP study". Her research interests include reading comprehension and the cognitive processing of sign language. Her PhD research proposal title is "The Neural Mechanisms Underlying Syntactic Processing among Deaf and Hearing Children: An fMRI Study".