Lab members

Principle Investigator



       

Helena Hong Gao, Ph.D.

Director, Bilingual Development Lab | DoC | School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University HSS-03-05, 14 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637332

Email: helenagao@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)67906054
Fax: (+65)67956525
Office: HSS-03-05 
Personal webpage: http://www.hss.ntu.edu.sg/Programmes/Chinese_EN/AboutUs/FullTime-Faculty/Pages/Helena-Hong-GAO.aspx
BD Lab website: http://web.hss.ntu.edu.sg/gaoresearchteam/index.html
Dr. Helena Gao received her Ph.D. in general linguistics from Lund University, Sweden and her post-doc. training in cognitive psychology in the Department of Psychology of the University of Toronto, Canada. She was Research Director of the Cognitive Development Lab/Child Study Centre at the University of Toronto before she joined NTU in 2006. Dr. Gao has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research in lingusitics. Her current research on child language acquisition has been awarded grants by NTU (Tier 1), MCYS (ECRF), and MOE (Tier 2). The Bilingual Development Lab she has established collaborates with colleagues from NTU and other universities. It also hosts visiting scholars and research students who are interested in experimental studies.
Research Interests
  • Language and cognitive development
  • Language acquisition & language teaching    
  • Chinese linguistics
  • Cognitive linguistics
  • Computational linguistics

Co-Principle Investigator


       

Assoc Prof Francis Charles Bond
  Assiciate Professor
  Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies,  School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University
Email: FCBOND@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)65921568
Office: HSS-03-55
Personal webpage: http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/Pages/StaffProfile.aspx?ST_EMAILID=FCBOND


       

Asst Prof Cheong Siew Ann
  Assistant Professor
  Division of Physics & Applied Physics, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
  College of Science, Nanyang Technological University

Email: CHEONGSA@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)65138084
Office: SPMS-PAP-04-03
Personal webpage: http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/Pages/StaffProfile.aspx?ST_EMAILID=CHEONGSA&CategoryDescription=physics


       

Assoc Prof Chew Lock Yue
  Associate Professor
  Division of Physics & Applied Physics, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
  College of Science, Nanyang Technological University

Email: LOCKYUE@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)63162968
Office: SPMS-PAP-04-04
Personal webpage: http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/Pages/StaffProfile.aspx?ST_EMAILID=LOCKYUE


       

Professor Stephen Crain
  Distinguished Professor
  ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Department of Linguistics
  Australian Hearing Hub, Macquarie University, Australia

Email: stephen.crain@mq.edu.au
Phone: (+61)298509434
Personal webpage: http://www.ccd.edu.au/people/profile.php?memberID=55


       

Professor John H. Holland
  Professor
  Computer Science/Engineering/Psychology
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Member of the Board of Trustees and Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute, USA

In memoriam, Professor John Holland 
http://www.santafe.edu/news/item/in-memoriam-john-holland/?from=timeline&isappinstalled=0


       

Assoc Professor Lee Kerry
  Head of Research
  Educational & Cognitive Development Lab, Education Research Office, Psychological Studies
  National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University

Email: kerry.lee@nie.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)62196251
Office: NIE5-B3-25
Personal webpage: http://www.nie.edu.sg/profile/lee-kerry


       

Asst Prof Qu Li
  Assistant Professor
  Division of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences 
  College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University

Email: QULI@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)65141052
office: HSS-04-04
Personal webpage: http://research.ntu.edu.sg/expertise/academicprofile/Pages/StaffProfile.aspx?ST_EMAILID=QULI


       

Professor Twila Tardif
  Professor
  Department of Psychology
  University of Michigan, USA

Email: twila@umich.edu
Phone: (+1)7346154101
Personal webpage: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/ci.tardiftwila_ci.detail


       

Professor Elena Nicoladis
  Professor
  Department of Psychology
  University of Alberta, Canada

Email: elenan@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780)-492-0124
Personal webpage: http://www.ualberta.ca/~elenan/

Research Fellows/Associates


       

Dr. Say Young Kim
Say Young Kim, Ph.D. (University of Maryland, College Park)
Say Young is a research fellow at NTU. His research interests focus on bilingualism, second language processing, and cross-linguistic comparisons using both behavioral and neuroimaging methods. He is currently involved in research projects regarding bilingual children’s language and concept development focusing on Chinese-English Bilingual speakers' acquisition of physical action verbs in BDL lab.

Email: saykim@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65) 6790-5741
Personal webpage: http://portal.hss.ntu.edu.sg/gaoresearchteam/page_SayYoungKim.html


       

Dr. Haoshu Wang
Haoshu Wang, Ph.D. (Nanyang Technological University)
Research projects:
The Semantic Categorization of Throwing Events in English, Chinese and German
The Delineation of Throw Verbs in Chinese: A Behavioural and Perceptive Approach

Email: wa0001hu@ntu.edu.sg
Personal webpage: http://portal.hss.ntu.edu.sg/gaoresearchteam/page_WangHaoShu.html

Current Students


       

Wang Wei, Ph.D. Candidate (2008-present)
  Research Topic:
  A Study of Antonyms in Modern Chinese Within the Framework of Semantics 
  Research Interest:
  Chinese Lexicology; Lexical Semantics.

Email: WANG0462@e.ntu.edu.sg
Personal webpage: http://portal.hss.ntu.edu.sg/gaoresearchteam/page_WangWei.html


       

Choo Yuen, Ph.D. Candidate (2011-present)
  Research Topic:
  A Study of Singapore Mandarin from the Perspective of Dialectal Typology 
  Research Interest:
  Chinese linguistics; Historical linguistics; Language change; Language contact; Linguistic typology.

Email: ychoo1@e.ntu.edu.sg
Personal webpage: http://portal.hss.ntu.edu.sg/gaoresearchteam/page_ChooYuen.html


       

Guo Can, visiting Ph.D. student
  Research Topic:
   Features important for Language Acquisition 
  Research Interest:
  Bilingualism, language acquisition

Email: kfcankf@gmail.com


       

Puah Lynn Dee, MA Student (2014-present)
  Research Topic:
  Lexical Development in Singapore Chinese-English Bilingual Children: A Case Study (0-6 years old) 
  Research Interest:
  Children language acquisition, Second language acquisition, Bilingualism and Creative writing, Learning motivation

Email: puah001@e.ntu.edu.sg / lynndee.puah@sccl.sg
Personal webpage: http://portal.hss.ntu.edu.sg/gaoresearchteam/page_LynnDee.html


       

Wang Mengxi, 4th year undergraduate student
I am interested in bilingual development and language acquisition. Being a part of NTU Bilingual Development Lab, I hope to contribute my effort to improve the learning environment of preschool children.

Email: mwang7@e.ntu.edu.sg


       

Tan Jia Min, 4th year undergraduate student
I am interested in language acquisition. Being a part of NTU Bilingual Development Lab, I hope to be able to contribute to the improvement of the learning environment of preschool children.

Email:jmtan7@e.ntu.edu.sg


       

Goh Se U, 4th year undergraduate student
My interested research topic is language acquisition of bilingual children in Singapore. Being a part of NTU Bilingual Development Lab, I hope to find out more results about language acquisition of bilingual children with the researches done with my fellows.

Email: GOHS0076@e.ntu.edu.sg


       

Chan Guang Yong Gary, 4th year Undergraduate Student
I am interested in the research of bilingual development and translation skills. Being a part of NTU Bilingual Development Lab, I hope to contribute by improving the bilingual skills of Singaporeans today and the future.

Email: gychan1@e.ntu.edu.sg​


       

Sun Jiaxi, 4th year undergraduate student
I am interested in early lexical development and children’s language acquisition.  My URECA research is about Chinese-English Bilingual Children's Learning of Action Verbs in Chinese. Being a member of NTU Bilingual Development Lab, I hope to develop research capability, skill set and it is also a good platform for my future research.

Email: JSUN8@E.NTU.EDU.SG


       

Wang Chenyi, 4th year undergraduate student
I have always been interested in the study of bilingualism and how it is acquired. I hope to contribute more to language acquisition and bilingualism through my research and studies.

Email: cwang009@e.ntu.edu.sg


       

Seah Hui Ting Suzanna, 4th year Undergraduate Student
I am interested to know how and when preschool bilingual children (4-5 years old) start to acquire action verbs.

Email: C120106@e.ntu.edu.sg


       

Wong Evon, 3rd year undergraduate student
I am willing to learn all new things although I am not familiar with them just like language acquisition. Being a part of NTU Bilingual Development Lab, I hope to learn the subtleties of language and contribute my effort to improve the learning environment and process between both children and adult.

Email: C130003@e.ntu.edu.sg


       

Yap Ying Tong, 3rd year undergraduate student
My interest revolves around how children acquire languages and how they may speak and write them with equal proficiency. I hope I would be able to better understand children's learning environment, in addition to contributing as a responsible member of the lab.

Email: yapy0022@e.ntu.edu.sg


       

Sak Hui Er, 3rd year undergraduate student
I am always fascinated by the way language is acquired and used in young children. My current research project is targeted on lexical acquisition in bilingual children.  

Email: sakh0001@e.ntu.edu.sg


       

Kang Sin Joo Brenda, 3rd year undergraduate student
My interest revolves around language acquisition and bilingualism. Being a member of Bilingual Development Lab, I hope to contribute my effort in these areas.

Email: sakh0001@e.ntu.edu.sg


       

Jocelyn Ling Jie Ying, 2nd year undergraduate student

Email: JOCE0009@e.ntu.edu.sg

Supporting Staff


       

Li Meiyan
MA in Psychology (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
I am interested in child development. Language acquisition is a big part of children’s development. Being a part of NTU Bilingual Development Lab, I am able to broaden my knowledge on child language acquisition.

Email: limy@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)67906054
Office: HSS-03-01