Peggy Mok 莫碧琪 CUHK phonetics

	Peggy Pik Ki Mok Associate Professor B.A. (CUHK); M.Phil., Ph.D. (Cambridge) Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages Leung Kau Kui Building The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong peggymok --at-- cuhk dot edu dot hk Tel: +852 3943 1768 Fax: +852 2603 7755
	Research Interests CV Papers and Presentations Equipment for research About Me

Research Interests

Basically, experimental phonetics! I am interested in both speech production and perception, particularly with cross-linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives. I investigate both segmental and prosodic properties of speech, but focusing more on prosodic aspects in recent years. Speech acquisition in different contexts is an important theme in my research. Additionally, I am interested in forensic phonetics, and the bilingual mental lexicon. You can see my publications and research projects I supervise for a general idea of my research interests.

The topic of my PhD thesis is 'Influences on vowel-to-vowel coarticulation', which was supervised by Prof. Sarah Hawkins at the University of Cambridge. I was interested in seeing how different factors affect a presumably physical and universal phenomenon. I investigated two quasi-independent types of influences on vowel-to-vowel coarticulation: those stemming from the phonological structure of the language and those stemming more from phonetic or physical considerations. You can find details in my publications.

I supervise research projects in phonetics and psycholinguistics. You can find some representative MA and BA projects here. Postgraduate research students supervised by me:

Donald White	PhD (in progress)	Longitudinal changes in L2 speech patterns
Li Yu Fai	PhD (in progress)	Speech register adaptation by Cantonese adults and children
Chen Shuwen	PhD (in progress)	Articulatory and acoustic features of rhotic sounds in English and Mandarin
Ren Xinran	PhD (in progress)	L3 speech acquisition of Korean by Chinese learners
Zhang Weijun	PhD (in progress)	Voicing contrasts in the Wenzhou dialect
Lan Chen	PhD (in progress)	The acquisition of heritage Cantonese
Zhu Yanjiao	PhD (2020)	Third language acquisition: German speech patterns produced by Cantonese-English bilinguals
Li Xiaolin	MPhil (2020)	The acquisition of Xiamen citation tones and tone sandhi by children
Richard Gananathan	MPhil (2019)	Perceptual learning from production training with ultrasound biofeedback
Li Guo	MPhil (2017)	Effects of prosodic hierarchy on juncture realization and coarticulation in Cantonese
Holly Fung	MPhil (2016)	Phonetic realization of narrow focus in Hong Kong Cantonese and its temporal relationship with point gestures
Jingwen Li	MPhil (2014)	Acquisition of lexical stress in bilingual children: English and Cantonese
Xu Bo	MPhil (2013)	Cross-linguistic perception of intonation by Cantonese and Mandarin listeners
Qin Zhen	MPhil (2012)	The perception of Cantonese tones by speakers of tone and non-tone languages
Zuo Donghui	MPhil (2012)	Formant dynamics of diphthongs in the speech of bilingual identical twins

My CV

Education background

2007	PhD in Linguistics, University of Cambridge
2001	MPhil in Linguistics, University of Cambridge
2000	BA in Chinese Language and Literature (minor in English Language and Literature), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (first class honours)

Research Grants

2020-2021	A phonetic investigation of the voicing contrast and tone in contemporary Wu. RGC GRF, HKD 564,988
2016-2017	Speech patterns of Chinese heritage speakers. CUHK Direct Grant, HKD 80,000
2016-2018	From speech to spelling: Improving Chinese proficiency of non-Chinese speaking students through Cantonese speech learning. Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) Research and Development Projects 2015-16, HKD 1,244,281 (Jyutping teaching materials)
2015-2017	Re-visiting tone acquisition of Cantonese speaking children in Hong Kong. RGC GRF, HKD 622,300
2012-2013	A pilot study of intonation in Hong Kong English. CUHK Direct Grant, HKD 50,000
2011-2012	A pilot study of the Chinese-English bilingual mental lexicon. CUHK Direct Grant, HKD 90,000
2009-2010 2010-2011	Production and perception of juncture characteristics in three varieties of English. CUHK Direct Grant, HKD 100000 and British Academy/ACU Grants for International Collaboration (with Dr. Jane Setter from University of Reading) GBP 4,987
2007-2008	A pilot study of bilingual children acquisition of speech rhythm: Cantonese and English. CUHK Direct Grant, HKD 80,255

Work Experience

2014 - present	Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2008 to 2013	Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2006 - 2007	Instructor, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Teaching

Undergraduate:	Phonetics I (including practical phonetics), Phonetics II, Psycholinguistics
MA:	Linguistics Research, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics
MPhil/PhD:	Topics in Phonetics

Professional Associations

British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP)
The International Phonetic Association (IPA)
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
Chinese Phonetics Association
Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (Communication Officer in 2008-2011, Treasurer in 2012-2013)
Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre

Papers and Presentations

Journal Papers

Yu, A.C.L., Lee, C.W.T., Lan, C. & Mok, P. (revising) A new system of Cantonese tone? Tone perception and production in Hong Kong South Asian Cantonese.
Lee-Kim, S.I., Ren, X. & Mok, P. (revising) Phonological similarity effects in cross-script cognate processing: Evidence from Sino-Korean word processing by Cantonese learners.
Hudson, T., Setter, J. & Mok, P. (submitted) English intonation in storytelling: a comparison of the perception and production of British and Hong Kong English speakers.
Xu, B. & Mok, P. (accepted) Cross-linguistic perception of intonation in low-pass filtered speech by tone language speakers. Journal of Chinese Linguistics.
Zhu, Y. & Mok, P. (2020) Visual recognition of cognates and interlingual homographs in two non-native languages: Evidence from Asian adult trilinguals. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 10: 441-470. [PDF]
Luo, J., Li, V.G. & Mok, P. (2020) The perception of Cantonese vowel length contrast by Mandarin speakers. Language and Speech, 63: 635-650. [PDF]
Mok, P., Li, G.V. & Fung, H.S.H. (2020) Development of phonetic contrasts in Cantonese tone acquisition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63: 95-108. [PDF]
Mok, P., Fung, H.S.H. & Li, V.G. (2019) Assessing the link between perception and production in Cantonese tone acquisition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62: 1243-1257. [PDF]
Mok, P., Li, V.G., Ng, H.T.Y., Li, J.J. & Cheung, H. (2019) Cross-modal association between vowels and colours: a cross-linguistic perspective. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145: 2265-2276. [PDF] copyright belongs to JASA
Wong, S.W. L., Wong, Dealey, J., Leung, V.W.H. & Mok, P. (2019) Production of English connected speech processes: an assessment of Cantonese ESL learners’ difficulties obtaining native-like speech. The Language Learning Journal. [PDF]
Mok, P. & Lee, A. (2018) The acquisition of lexical tones by Cantonese-English bilingual children. Journal of Child Language, 45: 1357-1376. [PDF]
Fung, H.S.H. & Mok, P. (2018) Temporal coordination between focus prosody and pointing gesture in Cantonese. Journal of Phonetics, 71: 113-125. [PDF]
Lee, A. & Mok, P. (2018) Acquisition of Japanese quantity contrasts by L1 Cantonese speakers. Second Language Research, 34: 419-448. [PDF]
Mok, P., Lee, A., Li, J. & Xu, B. (2018) Orthographic effects on the perception and production of L2 Mandarin tones. Speech Communication, 101: 1-10. [PDF]
Gómez, D.M., Mok, P., Ordin, M., Mehler, J. & Nespor, M. (2018) Statistical speech segmentation in tone languages: The role of lexical tones. Language and Speech, 61: 84-96. [PDF]
Wong, S.W.L., Tsui, J.K.Y., Chow, B.W.Y., Leung, V.W.H., Mok, P. & Chung, K.K.H. (2017) Perception of native English reduced forms in adverse environments by Chinese undergraduate students. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46: 1149–1165. [PDF]
Mok, P. & Yu, A.C.L. (2017) The effects of immersion on the bilingual lexicon: Evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 7: 614-636. [PDF]
Wong, S.W.L., Mok, P., Chung, K., Leung, V., Bishop, D. & Chow, B.W.Y. (2017) Perception of native English reduced forms in Chinese learners: Its role in listening comprehension and its phonological correlates. TESOL Quarterly, 51: 7-31. [PDF]
Nixon, J.S., van Rij, J., Mok, P., Baayen, R. H. & Chen, Y. (2016) The temporal dynamics of perceptual uncertainty: eye movement evidence from Cantonese segment and tone perception. Journal of Memory and Language, 90: 103-125. [PDF]
Wang, H., Mok, P. & Meng, H. (2016) Capitalizing on Musical Rhythm for Prosodic Training in Computer-Aided Language Learning. Computer Speech and Language, 37: 67-81. [PDF]
Mok, P., Xu, B. & Zuo, D. (2015) Bilingual speaker identification: Chinese and English. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 22: 57-77. [PDF]
Zuo, D. & Mok, P. (2015) Formant dynamics of bilingual identical twins. Journal of Phonetics, 52:1-12. [PDF]
Setter, J., Mok, P., Low, E.L., Zuo, D. & Tan, A. (2014) Word juncture characteristics in world Englishes: A research report. World Englishes, 33:278-291. [PDF]
Qin, Z. & Mok, P. (2013) Discrimination of Cantonese Tones by Speakers of Tone and Non-tone Languages. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 34. [PDF]
Mok, P., Zuo, D. & Wong, P. (2013) Production and perception of a sound change in progress: tone merging in Hong Kong Cantonese. Language Variation and Change, 25: 341-370. [PDF] copyright belongs to CUP
Mok, P. (2013) Does vowel inventory density affect vowel-to-vowel coarticulation? Language and Speech, 56: 191-209. [PDF]
Mok, P. (2013) Speech rhythm of monolingual and bilingual children at 2;06: Cantonese and English. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16: 693-703. [PDF] copyright belongs to CUP
Mok, P. & Zuo, D. (2012) The separation between music and speech: evidence from the perception of Cantonese tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132: 2711-2720. [PDF] copyright belongs to JASA
Mok, P. (2012) Effects of consonant cluster syllabification on vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in English. Speech Communication, 54: 946-956. [PDF]
Mok, P. (2011) Effects of vowel duration and vowel quality on vowel-to-vowel coarticulation. Language and Speech, 54: 527-545. [PDF]
Mok, P. (2011) The acquisition of speech rhythm by three-year-old bilingual and monolingual children: Cantonese and English. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 14: 458-472. [PDF] copyright belongs to CUP
Mok, P. (2010) Language-specific realizations of syllable structure and vowel-to-vowel coarticulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128: 1346-1356. [PDF] copyright belongs to JASA
Mok, P. (2009) On the syllable-timing of Cantonese and Beijing Mandarin. Chinese Journal of Phonetics, 2: 148-154. [PDF]

Book Chapters

Zhu, Y. & Mok, P. (submitted) The role of prosody across languages. In The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and L2 Speaking.
Lee, A. & Mok, P. (to appear) Lexical tone. In Setter, J. & Knight, R.A. (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lau, C.M. & Mok, P. (2019) Teaching Jyutping to non-Chinese-speaking secondary school students in Hong Kong. In Wakefield, J.C. (ed.) Cantonese as a Second Language: Issues, Experiences and Suggestions for Teaching and Learning, pp. 252-272. London: Routledge.
Mok, P. (2015) Tonal perception, Behavioral studies. Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics (ECLL). Brill Online. [Contents] [Online version]

Conference Papers

Lan, C. & Mok, P. (2020) A preliminary study on Cantonese tone production by young heritage speakers. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, 106-110. Tokyo, Japan. [PDF]
Li, X. & Mok, P. (2020) The acquisition of tone sandhi of the Xiamen dialect. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, 479-483. Tokyo, Japan. [PDF]
Zhang, W. & Mok, P. (2020) A Potential New Sound Change after Tonogenesis: A Preliminary Perceptual Study on the Tonal Contrast of Wenzhou Wu Chinese. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, 499-502. Tokyo, Japan. [PDF]
Mok, P., Leung, C.W., Lan, C. & Yu, A.C.L. (2019) The acquisition of Cantonese vowel length contrast and vowel rounding contrast by South Asian students in Hong Kong. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019). Melbourne. [PDF]
Chen, S. & Mok, P. (2019) Speech production of rhotics in highly proficient bilinguals: acoustic and articulatory measures. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019). Melbourne. [PDF]
Hudson, T., Setter, J. & Mok, P. (2019) Nuclear tones in Hong Kong and British English. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019). Melbourne. [PDF]
Lan, C., Hui, P.L., Xu, W., Mok, P. (2019) Revisiting acoustic markers of sarcasm in Cantonese. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019). Melbourne. [PDF]
Li, V.G. & Mok, P. (2019) /a-a/ and /i-i/ at three junctures in Cantonese. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019). Melbourne. [PDF]
Ren, X. & Mok, P. (2019) The acquisition of Korean prosodic prominence by Cantonese-English bilinguals. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019). Melbourne. [PDF]
White, D. & Mok, P. (2019) L2 speech rhythm and language experience in new immigrants. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019). Melbourne. [PDF]
Zhang, W., Xu, W. & Mok, P. (2019) A Preliminary study on the age variation of the voicing contrast in Wenzhou Wu Chinese. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019). Melbourne. [PDF]
Zhu, Y., Chen, A., Sudhoff, S. & Mok, P. (2019) Third language prosody: Evidence from Cantonese-English-German Trilinguals. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019). Melbourne. [PDF]
Mok, P., Lee, C.W.T. & Yu, A.C.L. (2018) Perception and production of Cantonese tones by South Asians in Hong Kong. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, 458-462. Poznán. [PDF]
Li, G., Li, X., Luo, J. & Mok, P. (2018) L1 and L2 phonetic reduction in quiet and noisy environments. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, 848-852. Poznán. [PDF]
Puga, K., Fuchs, R., Hudson, T., Setter, J. & Mok, P. (2018) The perception-production link in intonation: Evidence from German learners of English. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, 685-689. Poznán. [PDF]
White, D. & Mok, P. (2018) L2 speech rhythm development in new immigrants. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, 838-842. Poznán. [PDF]
Ren, X. & Mok, P. (2018) Tonogenesis in Seoul Korean and L3 production of Korean stops by Cantonese-English bilinguals. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018). Berlin. [PDF]
White, D., Gananathan, R., Mok, P. (2017) Teaching dark /l/ with ultrasound technology. In Proceedings of the 8th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (PSLLT), 155-175. Calgary. [PDF]
Mok, P., Yin, Y., Setter, J. & Nayan, N.M. (2016) Assessing knowledge of English intonation patterns by L2 speakers. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, 543-547. Boston. [PDF]
Lee, A. & Mok, P. (2016) Durational correlates of Japanese phonemic quantity contrasts by Cantonese-speaking L2 learners. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, 597-601. Boston. [PDF]
Li, Y. F. & Mok, P. (2016) Does size matter? A preliminary investigation on the effects of physical size on pitch level in pet-directed speech. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, 1196-1200. Boston. [PDF]
Zhu, Y. & Mok, P. (2016) Intonational phrasing in a third language: The production of German by Cantonese-English bilingual learners. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, 751-755. Boston. [PDF]
White, D., Chan, J., Mok, P., & Lie, P. (2016). Mimic Video: A cinematic method for L2 pronunciation. In Proceedings of the 7th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (PSLLT), 311-331. Dallas. [PDF]
Ren, X. & Mok, P. (2015) Mandarin L2 learners' perception of Korean obstruents in different contexts. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Speech Sciences (ICSS), 101-102. Seoul. [PDF]
Zhu, Y. & Mok, P. (2015) The acquisition of third language German consonant clusters by Cantonese-English bilinguals. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Speech Sciences (ICSS), 173-174. Seoul. [PDF]
Mok, P., Yin, Y., Chen, L. & Cheung, H. (2015) Cross-modal association between colour, vowel and lexical tone in nonsynesthetic populations: Cantonese, Mandarin and English. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Glasgow. [PDF]
Chen, S.W. & Mok, P. (2015) Question intonation in Hong Kong English: Interaction between Cantonese and English. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Glasgow. [PDF]
Gananathan, R.Y., Yin, J. & Mok, P. (2015) Interlanguage influence in cues of narrow focus: a study of Hong Kong English. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Glasgow. [PDF]
Fung, H.S.H. & Mok, P. (2015) A preliminary study of the temporal relationship between prosody and gesture in Hong Kong Cantonese. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Glasgow. [PDF]
Li, G. & Mok, P. (2015) Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit for Mandarin: Is it from shared phonological knowledge or exposure to accented speech? In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Glasgow. [PDF]
Setter, J., Ryder, C. & Mok, P. (2015) Phonology in new varieties of English: Hong Kong English diphthongs. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Glasgow. [PDF]
Dellwo, V., Mok, P. & Mathias, J. (2014) Rhythmic variability between some Asian languages: Results from an automatic analysis of temporal characteristics. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2014, 1708-1711. Singapore. [PDF]
Maurer, D., Mok, P., Friedrichs, D. & Dellwo, V. (2014) Intelligibility of high-pitched vowel sounds in the singing and speaking of a female Cantonese Opera singer. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2014, 2132-2133. Singapore. [PDF]
Mok, P., Fung, H. & Li, J. (2014) A preliminary study on the prosody of broadcast news in Hong Kong Cantonese. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7, 1072-1075. Dublin. [PDF]
Chen, X. & Mok, P. (2014) Rhythmic correspondence between music and speech in English vocal music. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7, 723-727. Dublin. [PDF]
Fung, H. & Mok, P. (2014) Realization of narrow focus in Hong Kong English declaratives: a pilot study. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7, 964-968. Dublin. [PDF]
Li, J. & Mok, P. (2014) The acquisition of English lexical stress by Cantonese-English bilingual children at 2;6 and 3;0. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7, 688-692. Dublin. [PDF]
Xu, B. & Mok, P. (2014) Cross-linguistic perception of Mandarin intonation. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7, 638-642. Dublin. [PDF]
Li, J., Xu, B. & Mok, P. (2014) Effect of orthography on L2 production of Mandarin tones. In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2014), 147-151. Nijmegen. [PDF]
Xu, B., Li, J. & Mok, P. (2014) The effect of orthography on L2 perception. In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2014), 75-78. Nijmegen. [PDF]
Li, G. & Mok, P. (2012) A preliminary study on the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for English-Mandarin bilingual L2 learners. In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), 409-412. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Xu, B., Zuo, D. & Mok, P. (2012) Speaker identity of Cantonese-English bilingual speakers. In Proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST), 61-64. Sydney. [PDF]
Zuo, D. & Mok, P. (2012) (2012) Formant dynamics of bilingual identical twins in non-contemporaneous speech. In Proceedings of the 14th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST), 89-92. Sydney. [PDF]
Mok, P. & Zuo, D. (2012) Effects of tone merging and musical training on Cantonese tone perception. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012, 462-465. Shanghai. [PDF]
Qin, Z. & Mok, P. (2012) The perception of speech and non-speech tones by tone and non-tone language listeners. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012, 366-369. Shanghai. [PDF]
White, D. & Mok, P. (2012) A preliminary investigation of the effects of study tours on L2 speech rhythm. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012, 238-241. Shanghai. [PDF]
Xu, B. & Mok, P. (2012) Cross-linguistic perception of intonation by Mandarin and Cantonese listeners. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012, 99-102. Shanghai. [PDF]
Xu, B. & Mok, P. (2012) Intonation perception of low-pass filtered speech in Mandarin and Cantonese. In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2012). Nanjing. [PDF]
Zuo, D., Chen, Q. & Mok, P. (2012) Does orthography affect L2 tone production and perception? In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2012). Nanjing. [PDF]
Mok, P., Setter, J. & Low, E.L. (2011) The perception of word juncture characteristics in three varieties of English. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 1410-1413. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Mok, P. (2011) Does musical training facilitate lexical tone perception of tone language speakers? In Proceedings of the Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference (PLRT), 37. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Qin, Z. & Mok, P. (2011) Perception of Cantonese tones by Mandarin, English and French speakers. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 1654-1657. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Qin, Z. & Mok, P. (2011) Discrimination of Cantonese tones by Mandarin, English and French speakers. In Proceedings of the Psycholinguistic Representation of Tone Conference (PLRT), 50-53. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Xu, B. & Mok, P. (2011) Final rising and global raising in Cantonese intonation. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 2173-2176. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Zuo, D. & Mok, P. (2011) Formant dynamics of /ua/ in the speech of Mandarin-Shanghainese bilingual identical twins. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 2332-2335. Hong Kong. [PDF]
Mok, P. & Wong, P. (2010) Production and perception of the rising tones in Hong Kong Cantonese. In Proceedings of the 9th Phonetics Conference of China (PCC2010). Tianjin.
Mok, P. & Wong, P. (2010) Production of the merging tones in Hong Kong Cantonese: preliminary data on monosyllables. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010. 100986:1-4. Chicago. [PDF]
Mok, P. & Wong, P. (2010) Perception of the merging tones in Hong Kong Cantonese: preliminary data on monosyllables. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010.100916:1-4. Chicago. [PDF]
Wang, H., Mok, P. & Meng, H. (2010) MusicSpeak: Capitalizing on Musical Rhythm for Prosodic Training in Computer-Aided Language Learning. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Second Language Studies (SLaTE 2010). Toyko, Japan. [PDF]
Mok, P. & Dellwo, V. (2008) Comparing native and non-native speech rhythm using acoustic rhythmic measures: Cantonese, Beijing Mandarin and English. In Proceedings of the 4th Speech Prosody (2008). 423-426. Campinas, Brazil. [PDF]
Mok, P. (2008) On the syllable-timing of Cantonese and Beijing Mandarin. In Proceedings of the 8th Phonetics Conference of China (PCC 2008) and the International Symposium on Phonetic Frontiers (ISPF 2008). Beijing.
Mok, P. (2007) Effects of Syllable Structure on V-to-V Coarticulation (Thai vs English). In Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). 421-424. Saarbruecken, Germany. [PDF]
Mok, P. & Hawkins, S. (2004) Effects of Phonemic vs Allophonic Density and Stress on Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Cantonese and Beijing Mandarin. In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP). 33-36. Hong Kong. [PDF]

Conference Presentations

Li, X. & Mok, P. (2019) The acquisition of Xiamen tone sandhi by children. Hangyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HISPhonCog 2019). Seoul. Poster presentation. [Abstract]
Lan, C. & Mok, P. (2019) Prosodic cues in the perception of Cantonese sarcasm. Hangyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HISPhonCog 2019). Seoul. Poster presentation. [Abstract]
Ren, X. & Mok, P. (2019) Production of Korean accentual phrases by Cantonese-speaking learners. Hangyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HISPhonCog 2019). Seoul. oral presentation. [Abstract]
Zhang, W., Chen, S., Wu. D. & Mok, P. (2018) 吳語溫州話清濁對立的語音學性質初探. The 11th Cross-Strait Symposium on Modern Chinese Language. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Mok, P., Chen, S., Zhang, W. & Wu, D. (2018) A phonetic investigation of the voicing contrast in Wenzhou: A preliminary study. The 1st International Symposium on Frontiers of Chinese Linguistics. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Mok, P., Luo, J. & Cheng, L. (2017) Length and tone contrasts of Cantonese heritage speakers. The 22nd International Conference on Yue Dialetcs. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Luo, J. & Mok, P. (2017) The perception of Cantonese vowel length contrast by Mandarin speakers. The 22nd International Conference on Yue Dialetcs. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Mok, P., Li, G., Luo, J. & Li, X. (2017) Phonetic reduction in clear and Lombard speech. 2017 Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences (SICSS 2017). Seoul. Oral presentation.
Lee-Kim, S.I., Ren, X. & Mok, P. (2017) Phonological similarity effects in cross-script cognate processing: Evidence from Sino-Korean wordprocessing by Cantonese learners. 2017 Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences (SICSS 2017). Seoul. Oral presentation.
Ren, X. & Mok, P. (2017) Acquisition of Korean intonation by native Cantonese speaker. 2017 Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences (SICSS 2017). Seoul. Poster presentation.
Mok, P., Fung, H.S.H. & Wong, M. (2017) The link between production and perception in tone acquisition of Cantonese-speaking children. The 11th International Seminar on Speech Production. Tianjin. Oral presentation.
Lee, A., Li, X. & Mok, P. (2017) Effect of syllable structure on non-word naming latency by Hong Kong learners of Japanese. The 11th International Seminar on Speech Production. Tianjin. Oral presentation.
Mok, P., Fung, H.S.H. & Wong, M. (2017) The link between production and perception in tone acquisition of Cantonese-speaking children. International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2017). Chania. Oral presentation.
Mok, P., Lee, W.T., Fung, H.S.H. & u, A.C.L. (2017) The acquisition of Cantonese vowel length contrast by Urdu and Punjabi speakers. International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (ISMBS 2017). Chania. Poster presentation.
Mok, P., Lee, W.T. & Yu, A.C.L. (2017) The acquisition of Cantonese tones by South Asian students in Hong Kong. The 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB). Limerick. Oral presentation.
Leung, C.W. & Mok, P. (2017) The relationship between accentedness and vowel patterns of bilingual speakers. The 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB). Limerick. Oral presentation.
Luo, J. & Mok, P. (2017) L2 perception of Cantonese vowel length contrasts by Mandarin-Cantonese successive bilinguals. The 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB). Limerick. Oral presentation.
Mok, P., Fung, H. & Wong, M. (2017) Tone production development of Cantonese-speaking children in Hong Kong. The 62th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association (ILA). Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Lam, B.M.H. & Mok, P. (2017) The development of pitch range in Cantonese-speaking children. The 62th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association (ILA). Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Mok, P., Lee, W.T. & Yu, A.C.L. (2017) The acquisition of Cantonese vowel length contrast by students of South Asian origin in Hong Kong. The 62th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association (ILA). Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Mok, P., Lee, W.T. & Yu, A.C.L. (2017) Cantonese tonal acquisition by non-Chinese speaking students in Hong Kong. International Symposium on Chinese in the Maritime Silk Road (Workshop on Chinese Teaching and Learning for Non-Chinese Speaking Students in Hong Kong). Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Lau, C.M. & Mok, P. (2017) 非華語學生粵拼打字錯誤分析. International Symposium on Chinese in the Maritime Silk Road (Workshop on Chinese Teaching and Learning for Non-Chinese Speaking Students in Hong Kong). Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Lau, C.M. & Mok, P. (2017) Teaching Jyutping to non-Chinese speaking secondary school students in Hong Kong. The Seventeenth Workshop on Cantonese (WOC 17). Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Mok, P., Li, G. & Yu, A.C.L. (2017) Catching a distinction before it disappears. The 4th Workshop on Sound Change. Edinburgh. Poster presentation.
Mok, P., Li, G. & Yu, A.C.L. (2017) Cantonese tone change in old speakers. The 21st International Conference on Yue Dialects. Macau. Oral presentation.
Mok, P. & Leung, C.W. (2016) Vowel spaces and formant dynamics of bilingual speakers. The 25th annual conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA-25). York. Oral presentation.
Lee-Kim, S.I., Ren, X., Cheung, M. & Mok, P. (2015) Developmental shift in the bilingual mental lexicon: Evidence from Sino-Korean words. Winter Meeting of the Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea. Seoul. Oral presentation.
Mok, P., Li, G. & Xu, B. (2015) Revisiting Cantonese tone change. The 20th International Conference on Yue Dialects. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Chen, S., Gananathan, R., Ren, X., Zhu, Y., Lee-Kim, S.I. & Mok, P. (2015) Production of English liquids by Mandarin speakers. Ultrafest VII. Hong Kong. Poster presentation.
Lee, A. & Mok, P. (2015) Japanese consonant quantity contrasts by Hong Kong L2 learners: preliminary results. The ICPhS 2015 Satellite Workshop on Geminate Consonants across the World (GemCon 2015). Glasgow. Poster presentation.
Chen, S. & Mok, P. (2015). Interaction of English and Cantonese intonation in Hong Kong English: Data from read and spontaneous speech. The 1st International Conference on Prosodic Studies (ICPS 1). Tianjin. Oral presentation.
Lee, A. & Mok, P. (2015). Japanese phonemic quantity contrasts by Hong Kong L2 learners: Preliminary results. The 1st International Conference on Prosodic Studies (ICPS 1). Tianjin. Oral presentation.
Mok, P. (2015) A thematic session on Prosodic Development of Bilingual Children at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 10) at Rutgers with the following three oral presentations:

Mok, P., Chu, P. & Yip, V. The acquisition of lexical tones by Cantonese-English bilingual children.
Li, J. & Mok, P. Early development of English lexical stress in Cantonese-English bilingual children.
White, D. & Mok, P. Phonetic convergence in the code switching of Cantonese-English bilingual children.

Mok, P., Chen, L., Li, J., Xu, B. & Cheung, H. (2014) Cross modal association between colours and vowels in a tone language. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium (BAAP). Oxford. Oral presentation.
Mok, P., Yu, A., Zuo, D. & Xu, B. (2013) Cross-linguistic priming effects in the Chinese-English bilingual mental lexicon. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB9). Singapore. Oral presentation.
Li, J. & Mok, P. (2013) Acquisition of lexical stress in bilingual children: Cantonese and English. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB9). Singapore. Oral presentation.
Dellwo, V. & Mok, P. (2013) Rhythmic variability in South East Asian Languages: a novel method based on measurements of syllabic amplitude peak points. The 23rd Annual Meeting of The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 2013). Bangkok. Oral presentation. Abstract.
Mok, P. (2012) Merging of lexical tones in Hong Kong Cantonese: production and perception. Moving Forward - International Symposium on Chinese Linguistics and Philology. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Mok, P. (2012) Tone merging in Hong Kong Cantonese. Hong Kong Speech and Hearing Symposium. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Briz Hernandez, I., Qin, Z. & Mok, P. (2012) L3 acquisition of the voicing contrast in Spanish by Cantonese learners. International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Yun, E., Zhang, Y., Zuo, D. & Mok, P. (2012) Effects of orthography on Cantonese learners' pronunciation of Sino-Korean words. International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Zhang, Y. & Mok, P. (2012) Learner corpora of modern languages at CUHK. International Conference on Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Setter, J., Mok, P., Low, E.L. & Zuo, D. (2012) Internal open word juncture features in three varieties of English: perception and production. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium (BAAP). Leeds. Poster presentation.
Mok, P. (2011) Early development of speech rhythm in monolingual and bilingual children. International Child Phonology Conference. York. Oral presentation.
Mok, P. (2011) Rhythmic development of monolingual and bilingual children at 2;06. International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). Montreal. Poster presentation.
Mok, P., Setter, J. & Low, E.L. (2011) Juncture production in Hong Kong, Singapore and British English. Workshop on Coarticulation in New Varieties of English. Hong Kong. Oral presentation. Abstract.
White, D. & Mok, P. (2011) A case study of speech rhythm acquisition in a Cantonese-English bilingual children. International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). Montreal. Poster presentation.
Mok, P. (2009) Acquiring rhythmically different languages at an early age: the case of Cantonese and English. International Symposium on Bilingualism 7. Utrecht. Oral presentation.
Mok, P. & Dellwo, V. (2008) The acquisition of speech rhythm in monolingual and bilingual children. Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
White, D. & Mok, P. (2008) On the development of speech rhythm in a Cantonese-English bilingual child: a case study. Conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Mok, P. & Lee, S.I. (2008) Korean speech rhythm using rhythmic measures. The 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL18). Seoul, Korea. Oral presentation. Abstract.
Mok, P. & Hawkins, S. (2008) Syllabification of the /st/ cluster and vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in English. Laboratory Phonology 11. Wellington, New Zealand. Poster presentation. Abstract.
Mok, P. (2008) Using durational measures with non-native speech rhythm. Workshop on Empirical Approaches to Speech Rhythm (EASR08). UCL, London. Poster presentation.
Mok, P. (2006) Effects of Syllable Structure on Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Cantonese, Thai and English. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium (BAAP). Edinburgh. Oral Presentation.
Mok, P. (2005) Reassessing the Notion of Vowel Phonemes in Cantonese and Mandarin. The 10th International Conference on Yue Dialects. Hong Kong. Oral presentation.
Mok, P. (2005) Temporal Effects on Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Cantonese and Thai. The 11th International Conference on Processing Chinese and Other East Asian Languages (PCOEAL 2005). Hong Kong. Poster presentation.
Mok, P. (2004) Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Cantonese and Beijing Mandarin. British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium (BAAP). Cambridge. (Oral presentation, won the Hugenie Henderson Prize for the best paper from non-members)

Invited Talks

Mok, P. (2020) The acquisition of complex phonological patterns: Xiamen tone sandhi circle. University of Cambridge.
Mok. P. (2020) Acquisition on the margins. Invited discussant. LabPhon 17.
Mok, P. (2019) The acquisition of lexical tone by Cantonese-speaking children. Simon Fraser University.
Mok, P. (2019) Cantonese tone acquisition by simultaneous bilingual children. Simon Fraser University.
Mok, P. (2019) The acquisition of lexical tone by Cantonese-speaking children. University of British Columbia.
Mok, P. (2019) Production of rhotics by Mandarin-English bilingual speakers. National Tsinghua University, Taiwan.
Mok, P. (2019) The acquisition of tones and tone sandhi rules in the Xiamen dialect by children. National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
Mok, P. (2018) The acquisition of prosody by Cantonese-English bilingual children. Symposium on Childhood Bilingualism and Heritage Language Acquisition. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Mok, P. (2016) The acquisition of tones by Cantonese-speaking children. Xi'an International Studies University.
Mok, P. (2016) The acquisition of tones by Cantonese-speaking children. School of Foreign Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Mok, P. (2016) Revisiting Cantonese tone acquisition. Laboratory of Phonetics and Speech Science, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Mok, P. (2015) What can the perception of Cantonese tones tell us about speech and music? Foreign Languages School, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu.
Mok, P. (2015) Tone merging patterns in Hong Kong Cantonese. HKU Tone Conference, University of Hong Kong.
Mok, P. (2012) Do merging and musical training affect the perception of Cantonese tones? Seminars of the Linguistics Department, University of Hong Kong.
Mok, P. (2011) Tone perception and music training. First Psycholinguistics Symposium in China (首屆中國心理語言學研討會). Guangzhou.
Mok, P. (2010) The acquisition of rhythm in bilingual children. Workshop in Bilingualism and Language Acquisition: Distinguished Speakers Lecture Series. Hong Kong.

Equipment for research

In addition to high-quality recording equipment (including sound-treated booths) for production research, articulatory equipment is also available:

EMA (NDI Wave)
Ultrasound (Telemed Echo B 128)
EGG (Glottal Enterprises EG2-PCX2)
OroNasal airflow (Glottal Enterprises DualView)
Subglottal pressure extrapolation (Glottal Enterprises PG20E)

For perception study, we have eye-trackers (both ToBii and EyeLink models) and ERP facilities in the Department.

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About Me

I am 100% Chinese, born, grew up and spent most of my life in Hong Kong. I am married and have two sons.

My body: enjoys good food, listening to hymns, watching musicals, reading, swimming, hiking and travelling. I love dogs.

My mind: appreciates all things beautiful.

My spirit: is committed to Jesus Christ. I have been a Christian since 12.

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