Biography
Dr. Emily Ge is currently Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Metropolitan University. She obtained her MPhil and PhD in Linguistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on language development in typical and atypical populations, including autistic children, bilingual children and second language learners. She has served on 11 research grants (three funded by RGC) as principal investigator or co-investigator. Her work has appeared in top-tier SSCI-indexed journals, including Autism, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Applied Psycholinguistics, and First Language. Dr. Ge is also qualified to administer and code the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule Second Edition (ADOS-2) (a gold-standard instrument for diagnosing autism) for clinical and research reliability.
Teaching Areas & Research Interests
- Childhood Bilingualism
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Second Language Acquisition
- Corpus Linguistics
Academic & Professional Experience
Research Grants
External Grants
2022 - 2023, Principal Investigator. Learner engagement in listening-and-speaking tasks in the face-to-face and the synchronous computer-mediated communication conditions. Faculty Development Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council. HK$655,953 (Project No.: UGC/FDS16/H18/21)
2020 - 2022, Principal Investigator. The impact of bilingual exposure on the language development of Cantonese-speaking children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Faculty Development Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council. HK$659,438 (Project No.: UGC/FDS16/H13/19)
2023 -2025, Co-Investigator. 自閉症譜系障礙兒童在語言加工中的心理表徵實驗研究 [Experimental studies on mental representations during the language processing among children with Autism Spectrum Disorder]. 國家社會科學基金 [National Social Science Fund of China]. CNY$200,000
2020 - 2022, Co-Investigator, Perception and production of the Putonghua tone of non-Chinese-speaking South Asian ethnic minority students in Hong Kong. Faculty Development Scheme, Hong Kong Research Grants Council. HK$575,100. (Project No.: UGC/FDS16/H15/19)
2021 - 2023, Co-Investigator. A corpus-based study of the acquisition of quantifiers. Guangdong Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science, CNY$50,000.
Internal Grants
2023 - 2025, Principal Investigator. The acquisition of restrictive focus in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research and Development Fund, Hong Kong Metropolitan University. HK$199,500 (Project No.: RD/2023/1.9)
2022 - 2023, Principal Investigator. The role of parental input in the language development of Cantonese-English bilingual children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Hong Kong: A corpus study. Research and Development Fund. HK$195,400 (Project No.: RD/2021/02)
2019 - 2020, Principal Investigator. The use of prosody in pragmatic comprehension by Cantonese-speaking children with high-functioning autism. Katie Shu Sui Pui Charitable Trust - Reseach and Publication Fund. HK$97,247 (Project No.: KS2018/2.2)
2023 - 2024, Co-Investigator. Instant message-delivered positive psychotherapy (I-PPT) to promote well-being in caregivers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A mixed methods evaluation of a pilot randomized controlled trial. Research and Development Fund, Hong Kong Metropolitan University. HK$199,538 (Project No.: RD/2023/1.20)
2019 - 2020, Co-Investigator. A pilot study on analyzing HKEAA English argumentative essays for learning and teaching in Hong Kong secodary schools. School Research Grant. HK$60,000.
Selected Publications
Book Chapters
- Sasmar Putri, A., Ge, H., Hart, A., Yip, V., & Chen, A. (2019). The effect of explicit training on comprehension of English focus-to-prosody mapping by Indonesian learners of English. In S. Calhoun., P, Escudero., M, Tabain., & P, Warren (Eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 1937-1941). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
- Ge, H., Chen, A., & Yip, V. (2018). L1 effects on L2 comprehension of focus-to-prosody mapping: A comparison between Cantonese and Dutch learners of English. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018 (pp. 187-191). Poznań, Poland. doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-38.
Journal Articles
- Deng, X., Zheng, X. & Ge, H. (2024). Quantifying events or entities? —A corpus-based study of universal quantifiers in early child English and child-directed speech. First Language. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237231225023
- Ge, H.*, Lee, A., Liu, F., Yuen, H. K., & Yip, V. (2023). Bilingual exposure might enhance L1 development in Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children: Evidence from the production of focus. Autism. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613231207449 (SCI & SSCI; 5-year IF: 6.2)
- Ganga, R., Ge, H., Marijn, S., Yip, V., & Chen, A. (accepted). Prosodic processing in sentences with 'only' in L1 and L2 English. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. (SSCI; 5-year IF: 5.4). Preprint available at Open Science Framework. https://osf.io/5f37s/
- Ge, H.*, Liu, F., Yuen, H. K., Chen, A., & Yip, V. (2022). Comprehension of prosodically and syntactically marked focus in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05770-1 (SSCI; 5-year IF: 5.258)
- Leung, D., Chow, V., & Ge, H. (2022). A learner corpus is born this way: Design, demonstration and direction. Data in Brief, 44, 108527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108527
- Kang, X.* & Ge, H.* (2022). Tracking object-state representations during real-time language comprehension by native and non-native speakers of English. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:819243. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.819243 (SSCI; 5-year impact factor: 3.62)
- Ge, H.*, Mulders, I., Kang, X., Chen, A., & Yip, V. (2021). Processing focus in native and non-native speakers: An eye-tracking study in the visual world paradigm. Applied Psycholinguistics, 42(4), 1057-1088. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716421000230 (SSCI, 5-year impact factor: 2.089).
- Ge, H.*, Chen, A., & Yip, V. (2020). Comprehension of focus-to-accentuation mapping in sentences with only by advanced Cantonese learners and Dutch learners of English. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1-25. doi:10.1017/S0272263120000248 (SSCI, 5-year impact factor: 3.146).
- Lee, C., Ge, H., & Chung, E. (2021). What linguistic features distinguish and predict L2 writing quality? A study of examination scripts written by adolescent Chinese learners of English in Hong Kong. System, 97, 102461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2021.102461 (SSCI, 5-year impact factor: 2.464)
- Ge, H.*, Matthews, S., Cheung, L., & Yip, V. (2017). Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in Cantonese-English bilingual children: The case of right-dislocation. First Language, 37(3), 231-251. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723716687955 (SSCI, 5-year impact factor: 1.483)
- Ge, H.* (2017). A prosodic analysis of adjective reduplication in Ningbo Chinese. Studies in Prosodic Grammar, 2(2), 104-118.
Selected Professional & Community Services
- Ad hoc reviewer for Applied Psycholinguistics, Frontiers in Psychology, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Laboratory Phonology, Lingua, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Studies in Prosodic Grammar
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