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About me

I’m a final year graduate student at the Department of Linguistics at University of Connecticut. I defended my Ph.D dissertation titled “Information Structure of the Clause-final Position in Hong Kong Sign Language” in May 2025.

I specialize in theoretical linguistic research in syntax and the syntax-semantics/prosody interfaces, with a focus on sign languages (asking the question “How is the mechanism of human language faculty reflected in sign languages?”). I am particularly interested in the information structure of sign languages and bimodal bilingualism, I also worked on a few sociolinguistic topics related to Deaf communities. My research has mainly focused on Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) and American Sign Language (ASL).

I am a lab member of the UConn Sign Linguistics & Language Acquisition Lab. I am currently involved in the Family ASL project (ASL-IPSyn and Vocabulary development by deaf children) and the CODA project (code-blending by adult CODAs). I used to work at the Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where I started my journey of doing sign language research.

Before pursuing a Ph.D at UConn, I received my first master in Chinese Linguistics and Language Acquisition at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and my second research master in Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.