Elaine Lau
Biographic Data
| ID | 6508494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Lau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Lau |
| SIGNATURE | LAU E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5801-6705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The acquisition of relative clauses and noun phrase accessibility
The Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NAPH) posits a subject advantage in extraction from relative clauses and other constructions – a claim supported by numerous cross-linguistic language acquisition studies. However, Chinese languages differ from the majority of the languages hitherto studied in having SVO (head-initial) word order and prenominal relative clauses, a typologically peculiar combination that provides the opportunity to tease ap…
Facilitating Hong Kong Kindergarten Teachers’ Perceptions of Enactment of Play-Based Learning for Whole-Child Development
While play-based learning is important for a high quality early education, only when teachers are confident and competent in enacting play-based learning in their everyday practice are expected benefits of play-based learning for whole-child development realized. A sample of 592 early childhood educators who assumed different job titles in Hong Kong kindergartens participated in this study. This study investigated the roles of these educators’ pe…
On the universality of the subject preference in the acquisition of relative clauses across languages
Subject relative clauses (RCs) have been shown to be acquired earlier, comprehended more accurately, and produced more easily than object RCs by children. While this subject preference is often claimed to be a universal tendency, it has largely been investigated piecemeal and with low-powered experiments. To address these issues, this meta-analysis follows an established and rigorous scientific method to test the generalizability of the subject p…
Examining the relationships between teachers’ affective states, self-efficacy, and teacher-child relationships in kindergartens
Happy teachers are efficacious and committed, but not vice versa
The subject advantage in relative clauses
The question of whether there exists a universal subject preference in relativization has stimulated research in a wide range of languages and across different domains, yielding an extensive body of literature in relative clause acquisition and processing. In this article, we aim at consolidating the efforts of existing research in order to inform further exploration of the universality of the subject preference with a comprehensive analysis of r…
The role of resumptive pronouns in Cantonese relative clause acquisition
Resumptive pronouns are often regarded as a last-resort strategy for rescuing illicit long-distance dependencies. Previous work has demonstrated a facilitative role for resumptive pronouns in production as well as in comprehension, though not a grammatical option in the languages. This study examined whether the same pattern is found in Cantonese, a language that allows resumption as a legitimate relativization strategy. Young Cantonese monolingu…
The role of resumptive pronouns in Cantonese relative clause acquisition
Resumptive pronouns are often regarded as a last-resort strategy for rescuing illicit long-distance dependencies. Previous work has demonstrated a facilitative role for resumptive pronouns in production as well as in comprehension, though not a grammatical option in the languages. This study examined whether the same pattern is found in Cantonese, a language that allows resumption as a legitimate relativization strategy. Young Cantonese monolingu…
The subject advantage in relative clauses
The question of whether there exists a universal subject preference in relativization has stimulated research in a wide range of languages and across different domains, yielding an extensive body of literature in relative clause acquisition and processing. In this article, we aim at consolidating the efforts of existing research in order to inform further exploration of the universality of the subject preference with a comprehensive analysis of r…
Examining the relationships between teachers’ affective states, self-efficacy, and teacher-child relationships in kindergartens
Happy teachers are efficacious and committed, but not vice versa
Facilitating Hong Kong Kindergarten Teachers’ Perceptions of Enactment of Play-Based Learning for Whole-Child Development
While play-based learning is important for a high quality early education, only when teachers are confident and competent in enacting play-based learning in their everyday practice are expected benefits of play-based learning for whole-child development realized. A sample of 592 early childhood educators who assumed different job titles in Hong Kong kindergartens participated in this study. This study investigated the roles of these educators’ pe…
On the universality of the subject preference in the acquisition of relative clauses across languages
Subject relative clauses (RCs) have been shown to be acquired earlier, comprehended more accurately, and produced more easily than object RCs by children. While this subject preference is often claimed to be a universal tendency, it has largely been investigated piecemeal and with low-powered experiments. To address these issues, this meta-analysis follows an established and rigorous scientific method to test the generalizability of the subject p…
The acquisition of relative clauses and noun phrase accessibility
The Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NAPH) posits a subject advantage in extraction from relative clauses and other constructions – a claim supported by numerous cross-linguistic language acquisition studies. However, Chinese languages differ from the majority of the languages hitherto studied in having SVO (head-initial) word order and prenominal relative clauses, a typologically peculiar combination that provides the opportunity to tease ap…
Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Relative clause (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Cognition (2 works)