Publications

Below are my publications. Private fulltexts of journal articles are available in my ResearchGate.


Refereed Journal Articles

  • Tang, T.P.Y., Lau, D.K.Y., & Leung, M.T. (2023). Corpus of Mandarin Child Language: A preliminary study on the acquisition of semantic content categories in Mandarin-speaking preschoolers. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1234525. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1234525

  • Lau, D.K.Y., Tang, T.P.Y., Wong, C.C.Y., Yau, T.S.K., & Lam, I.C.H. (2023). Systematic language input improved productions of elaborated verb phrases of Cantonese-speaking children with language difficulties. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. doi:10.1080/02699206.2022.2157330

  • Kong, A.P.H., Lau, D.K.Y., & Lai, D.H.Y. (2023). Measuring pragmatic competence of discourse output among Chinese-speaking individuals with traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment, 24(3), 660-678. doi: 10.1017/BrImp.2022.36

  • Yum, Y.N., Su, I.F., & Lau, D.K.Y. (2022). Hong Kong Chinese character psycholinguistic norms: ratings of 4376 single Chinese characters on semantic radical transparency, age-of-acquisition, familiarity, imageability, and concreteness. Behavior Research Methods. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-022-01928-y

  • Lau, D.K.Y., Liang, Y., Nguyen, H.A. (2022). Measuring Orthographic Knowledge of L2 Chinese Learners in Vietnam Using a Handwriting Task – A Preliminary Report. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:784019. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.784019.

  • Momenian, M., Lau, D.K.Y., & Bakhtiar, M. (2022). Developing psycholinguistic norms for action pictures in Cantonese. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, doi: 10.1080/23279095.2022.2037596

  • Lau, D.K.Y., Kong, A.P.H., Chan, M.S.W. (2021). Sentence types and complexity of spontaneous discourse productions by Cantonese-speakers with traumatic brain injury– a preliminary report. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2021.1984582

  • Zhang, Y., Pattamadilok, C., Lau, D.K.Y., Bakhtiar,M., Yim, L.-Y., Leung, K.-Y., & Zhang, C. (2021). Early Auditory Event-Related Potentials Are Modulated by Alphabetic Literacy Skills in Logographic Chinese Readers. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:663166. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.663166

  • Kong, A.P.H., Lau, D.K.Y., & Chai, V.N.Y. (2021). Communication and Social Inactivity During COVID-19 Lockdown in Hong Kong: Psychosocial Implications to Individuals With Aphasia, Their Primary Caretakers, and Healthy Adults. ASHA Perspectives, 6(4), 964-967. doi.org/10.1044/2021_PERSP-21-00002

  • Li, S.P.D., Law, S.P., Lau, D.K.Y., & Rapp, B. (2020). Functional orthographic units in Chinese character reading: Are there abstract radical identities? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-020-01828-2

  • Lau, D.K.Y. (2020). The dual route account of writing-to-dictation in Chinese: a short report. Language and Speech, DOI: 10.1177/0023830920967696

  • Lau, D.K.Y. (2020). Orthographic and phonological processing in Chinese character copying – a preliminary report. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2122. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02122

  • Leung, C., Lai, C., Lau, D.K.Y., Leung, S. & Pin, T.W. (2020). The effectiveness of the Poly Kids program for parents of children with developmental disabilities: a single-blind randomized waitlist controlled trial. Journal of Child Health Care, 24(4), 560-576.

  • Lau, D.K.Y. (2020). Validation of constituent logographemes and radicals in Chinese characters using handwriting data. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 305-316. DOI: 10.3758/s13428-019-01227-z

  • Lau, D.K.-Y., & Yuen, C.T. (2019). Representations of grapho-motor patterns unique to Chinese character writing: evidence from a patient with mirror writing. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 33(10-11), 1031-1049. DOI: 10.1080/02699206.2019.1602788

  • Tam, M.H.C. & Lau, D.K.Y. (2019). Modified semantic feature analysis for anomia: a single case study. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 33(10-11), 949-964. DOI: 10.1080/02699206.2019.1594382

  • Kong, A.P.H., Lau, D.K.Y., Cheng, C.Y.Y. (2020). Analysing coherence of oral discourse among Cantonese speakers in Mainland China with traumatic brain injury and cerebrovascular accident. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22(1), 37-47.DOI: 10.1080/17549507.2019.1581256

  • Lau, D.K.Y. (2019). Grain size units of Chinese handwriting: development and disorder. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 33(9), 869-884. DOI:10.1080/02699206.2019.1584723

  • Lau, D.K.Y. & Ma, K.H.-W. (2018). A Phonetic Radical Account of the Phonology-to-Orthography Consistency Effect on Writing Chinese Characters: Evidence from a Chinese Dysgraphic Patient. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 35(4), 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2018.1510387.

  • Lau, D.K.Y., Liang, Y., & Leung, M.T. (2017). Relations between awareness of morphosyntactic structures in Chinese compound words and reading abilities: A short report. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 31(7-9), 631-641

  • Lau, D.K.Y., Leung, M.T., Liang, Y. & Lo, J. (2015). Predicting the naming of regular-, irregular- and non-phonetic compounds in Chinese. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 29 (8-10), 776-792.

  • Yum, Y.N., Law, S.-P., Kwan, N.M. Lau, D.K.Y., Su, I.-F. & Shum,S.K. (2015). Electrophysiological evidence of sublexical phonological access in character processing by L2 Chinese learners of L1 alphabetic scripts. Cognitive Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 16(2), 339-352. DOI: 10.3758/s13415-015-0394-z.

  • Yum, Y-N., Law, S.P., Su, I., Lau, D.K.Y.,& Mo, K.N. (2014). An ERP study of effects of regularity and consistency in delayed naming and lexicality judgment in a logographic writing system. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:315.

  • Su, I., Lau, D.K.Y., Zhang, Z. & Law, S.P. (2011). Deficits in processing characters in Chinese developmental dyslexia: preliminary results from event-related potentials and time frequency analyses. International Journal of Linguistics, 3, 1:E11.

  • Lau, D.K.Y., Leung, M.T., Cheung, H., Lui, M., & Tse, A.W.C. (2011). The development of morphemic processing in reading Chinese compound words. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, 14(1), 13-22.

  • Leung, M.T., Lui, H.M., Law, S.P., Fung, R.S.Y., & Lau, D.K.Y. (2011). Feedback consistency effect on writing-to-dictation task in Chinese. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, 14(1), 61-71.

    • Refereed Book Chapters

  • Lau, D.K.Y. (2023). Chinese Spelling - Evidence from Pen Tablets. In Y.Ye, T.Inoue, U.Maurer, & C.McBride (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Visual-motor Skills, Handwriting, and Spelling: Theory, Research, and Practice (1 Ed., pp.429-445). Routledge.

  • Kong, A.P.H., Lau, D.K.Y., & Chai, V.N.Y. (2022). Psychological effects of COVID-19 on adults with aphasia and their caregivers: 6-month consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns in Hong Kong. In L. Cummings (Ed.), COVID-19 and Speech-Language Pathology (pp.199-220). Routledge.

  • Liang, Y., Lau, D.K.Y., & Leung, M.T. (2015). 拼音知识与汉字命名的关系. In北京大學中國語言學研究中心《語言學論叢》編委會. (Ed.). 语言学论丛. 商務印書局, 北京, pp.1-10.

  • Lau, D.K.Y., & Leung, M.T. (2014). Relationship between morphological awareness and Chinese reading development. In K.K.H. Chung, K.C.P. Yuen, & D.M.McInerney (Eds). Understanding developmental disorders of auditory processing, language and literacy across languages (pp.229-247). N.C.: Information Age Publishing, Inc.

    • Refereed Conference Proceedings

  • Lau, D.K.-Y. (2021). Modeling writing-to-dictation in Chinese. Paper presented in the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

  • Fung, A., Kong, A.P.H., & Lau, D.K.-Y. (2021). A pilot normative study for photographs of celebrities in Hong Kong. Paper presented in the Academy of Aphasia 59th Annual Meeting.

  • Leung, O.H.Y., Hung, E., & Lau, D.K.-Y., (2021). Modified Semantic Feature Analysis for the Anomia and Dysgraphia: a Case Study in Chinese. Paper presented in the Academy of Aphasia 59th Annual Meeting.

  • Lai, H.Y., Kong, A.P.H., & Lau, D.K.-Y. (2021). Measuring pragmatic competence of discourse output among Chinese-speaking individuals with traumatic brain injury. Paper presented in the Academy of Aphasia 59th Annual Meeting.

  • Chum, Y.K.S., Chum, T.H.D., Lee, K.N.M., & Lau, D.K.Y. (2020). Effects of Central Processing on Chinese Children’s Handwriting: Evidence from Delayed Copying. Paper presented in the 18th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Glasgow, Scotland. Jun 2021.

  • Ho, H.Y.L., & Lau, D.K.Y. (2020). Predicting writing-to-dictation in Chinese. Paper presented in the 18th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Glasgow, Scotland. Jun 2021.

  • Kong, A.P.H., Lau, D.K.Y., & Chan, M.S.W. (2020). Measuring sentence types and complexity of spontaneous discourse productions by Cantonese-speakers with Traumatic Brain Injury. Paper presented in the 18th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Glasgow, Scotland. Jun 2021.

  • Ng, A.W.Y. & Lau, D.K.Y. (2020). Phonological processing during Chinese character copying. Paper presented in the 18th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Glasgow, Scotland. Jun 2021.

  • Hung, E.M.H., Yeung, O.H.Y., & Lau, D.K.Y. (2020). Modified Semantic Feature Analysis: Evidence from a Patient with Anomia Resulted from Traumatic Brain Injury. Paper presented in the 18th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Glasgow, Scotland. Jun 2021.

  • Tang, T.P.Y., Lau, D.K.Y., Hsu, Y.Y., & Leung, M.T. (2020). Investigating form and content produced by Mandarin-speaking children using morphologically and semantically annotated database: A preliminary report. Paper presented in the 18th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Glasgow, Scotland. Jun 2021.

  • Tang, T.P.Y., Lau, D.K.Y., Hsu, Y.Y., & Wong, S.W.Y. (2020). Variety of temporal devices acquired by Mandarin-speaking children aged 2-4 year old. Paper presented in the 18th International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference, Glasgow, Scotland. Jun 2021.

  • Kong, A. P. H., Lau, D. K.-Y., Chai, V. N.-Y., Chan, K. P.-Y., & Sum, K. H.-T. (2020, October 18–20). Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychosocial well-being among people with aphasia. Paper presented at the Academy of Aphasia 58th Annual Meeting, Online, United States.

  • Lau, D.K.Y., Su, I.-F., & Yum, C.Y.-N. (2019). The Canto-Lexicon Project. Abstract accepted in the 57th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Macau.

  • Yan, C.C.H., & Lau, D.K.Y. (2019). Functional writing Units of Chinese: evidence from handwriting data. Abstract accepted in the 57th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Macau.

  • Yeung, O.H.Y., Lau, D.K.Y., & Tam, M.H.C. (2019). Modified semantic feature analysis for anomia: a case study in Chinese. Abstract accepted in the 57th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Macau.

  • Wong, P.T.Y., & Lau, D.K.Y. (2019). Phonology is accessed during Chinese character copying. Abstract accepted in the 57th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Macau.

  • Lam, I.M-Y., Kong, A.P-H. and Lau, D.K-Y. (2018). Sensitivity of macrostructural measures in story narratives to severity of traumatic brain injury among Cantonese speakers in Mainland China. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2018.228.00045

  • Cheung, N.F-H., Kong, A.P-H. and Lau, D.K-Y. (2018). A comprehensive and integrated clinical rating for storytelling produced by individuals with traumatic brain injury: A preliminary report. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2018.228.00024

  • Hui, O-K., Kong, A.P-H. and Lau, D.K-Y. (2018). A preliminary report of effects of psycholinguistic variables on open-class word production in discourse among Cantonese speakers with traumatic brain injury and controls. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2018.228.00042

  • Chan, M.S-W., Kong, A.P-H. and Lau, D.K-Y. (2017). Measuring sentence types and complexity of spontaneous discourse productions by Cantonese-speakers with traumatic brain injury in Guangzhou: A pilot study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2017.223.00084

  • Cheng, C. Kong, A.P-H. and Lau, D.K-Y. (2017). A comparison of coherence in oral discourse between Cantonese speakers in Mainland China with cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and traumatic brain injury (TBI): A pilot study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2017.223.00089

  • Chu, S.K.-W. and Lau, D.K-Y. (2017). Logographeme Boundedness Effect on the Choice of Writing Units of Different Grain Size – A Developmental Study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2017.223.00066

  • Chung, D.G.-Y. and Lau, D.K-Y. (2017). Effects of word and character frequency on Chinese character writing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2017.223.00054

  • Lam, R.K.-Y., and Lau, D.K-Y. (2017). Phonology-to-Orthography Consistency Effect in Chinese Character Writing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2017.223.00064

  • Tong, F.T-L., Kong, A.P-H. and Lau, D.K.Y. (2017). Cohesion in oral discourse among speakers with aphasia induced by closed head traumatic brain injury (TBI) and cerebrovascular accident (CVA): Preliminary Data. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2017.223.00098

  • Yuen, C.T., and Lau, D.K-Y. (2017). The use of radicals as processing units in writing Chinese: evidence from a patient who performed mirror-writing after stroke. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2017.223.00067

  • Chow, W., Kong, A.P-H. and Lau, D.K-Y. (2016). An investigation of global and local coherence of spontaneous personal versus descriptive narratives in native Chinese speakers with traumatic brain injury: Preliminary data. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00018

  • Gao, G., Kong, A.P-H., and Lau, D.K-Y. (2016). Production of main concepts by Mandarin-speakers with traumatic brain injury in China: A pilot study. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00005

  • Lau, D.K-Y., Ha, W.W-T., and Law, A.H-S. (2016). Functional processing units in writing Chinese – A developmental study. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00008

  • Ma, K.H-W. and Lau, D.K-Y. (2016). Phonology-to-orthography consistency at sublexical level in Chinese writing. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00044

  • Mok, K.Y-H., Kong, A.P-H. and Lau, D.K-Y. (2016). Cohesion in oral discourse of Mandarin-speaking adults with traumatic brain injury: Report of pilot data on story telling. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00047

  • Ngai, K.C-S., Kong, A.P-H. and Lau, D.K-Y. (2016). A preliminary report of the narrative abilities and verb production among Mandarin-speaking individuals with traumatic brain injury. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00003

  • Yeung, H.H-C. and Lau, D.K-Y. (2016). Separate processes of semantic radicals and phonetic radicals in Chinese character writing: evidence from a Chinese dysgraphic patient. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00010

  • Lau, D.K.Y., Kong, A.P.H., & Wilson, M. (2014). Regular-, irregular-, and pseudo-character processing in Chinese: the regularity effect in normal adult readers. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1.

  • Su, I., Lau, D.K.Y., & Law, S.P. (2013). Neural correlates of normal reading development and reading disorders in Chinese: Preliminary findings from Event-related potentials. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 94, 187-188.