Education
PhD in General Linguistics
Master of Arts in Linguistics
Bachelor of Arts in English & German Linguistics
Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) in Accountancy
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin & Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
2023.07–Pres.
2023.07–Pres.
- Dissertation: “Code-Switching within an Integrated Competence: Analysis across different typologies of languages”
- Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Artemis Alexiadou, Dr. Imke Driemel, Prof. Dr. Terje Lohndal
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2020.10–2022.11
2020.10–2022.11
- Cumulative Grade: 1.2
- Thesis: “Periphrastic Causatives in Cantonese: The Case of ‘Zing’ Causative”
- Research Focus: Specific indefinites in Cantonese, Language policy of Cantonese in Hong Kong
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin & Siegen Universität
2017.10–2020.11
2017.10–2020.11
- Cumulative Grade: 1.5
- Thesis: “Mixing verb use in the language mixing variety Cantonese-English in Hong Kong”
- Research Focus: Cantonese heritage speakers in Germany and their production of Sentence Final Particles
City University of Hong Kong
2012.09–2015.07
2012.09–2015.07
- CGPA: 3.57 (German equivalent: 1.6)
Research and Professional Experience
Lab Manager of LeibnizDream Project
Student Research Assistant
Voluntary Research Assistant
Research Intern
Leibniz-Zentrum der Allgemein Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
2023.08–2024.10
2023.08–2024.10
- Supervised research assistants
- Prepared studies and managed data collection processes
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2021.06–2023.05
2021.06–2023.05
- Conducted corpus searches and data collection from CHILDES
- Designed experiments using Ibex
- Analyzed data on grammar variations and double exponence
Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) project
Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
2021.01–2023.09
Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
2021.01–2023.09
- Transcribed Cantonese children data in CLAN formats
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2019.02–2019.05
2019.02–2019.05
- Developed research project examining English verb usage in Cantonese discourse
- Conducted literature review and data collection
- Performed analysis of linguistic patterns
Awards and Funding
Elsa-Neumann Scholarship
Das Landes Berlin (NaFöG)
2023.07–Pres.
2023.07–Pres.
- For doctoral researchers at 4 Berlin universities to prepare a doctoral thesis
Skills
Computational
Languages
- LaTeX
- R
- PCIbex farm
- CLAN
- MS Office
- Photoshop (basic)
- Cantonese (native)
- English (Proficient)
- Mandarin (Proficient)
- German (CEFR C1)
- Japanese (CEFR B2)
- Spanish (CEFR B1)