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Ph.D. in Linguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

M.A. in English Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University

B.A. in English Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University

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Member, International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)

Member, International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS)

Post-doctoral Fellow/Lecturer/Research Associate, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

BA Program

BAL421 Doing Research in Applied Linguistics 

BOE 205 English Writing III 

First/second language acquisition and processing

childhood bilingualism

multilingual development

Refereed Articles (* = the one and only corresponding author)​

Zhou, J.*, Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (in press). Bilingual acquisition of Cantonese. In A. Chin, S. Kataoka & B.-C. Kwok (eds.), A Routledge Handbook of Cantonese Linguistics.

Deng, X.*, Wu, Z., & Zhou, J. (2026). The effects of input frequency on the emergence, frequency and syntactic distribution of quantifiers in child English. Lingua, 339, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2026.104186 [SSCI]

Zhou, J.*, Mai, Z., Lau, E., Lum, C., Thian, A., & Yip, V. (2025). Cross- and within-language associations between phonological, lexical, and grammatical domains in Mandarin–English bilingual preschoolers in Singapore. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 68(2), 636-653. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00310 [SSCI]

Mendoza, C., Law, C., Zhou, J., Li, S., & Yip, V. (2025). Using Augmented Reality (AR)-compatible storybooks as input to support Hong Kong trilingual children’s early language learning. Proceeding of the 2^nd International Conference on Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education in Early Childhood (ELLME'24).

Zhou, J.*, Mai, Z., Cai, Q., Liang, Y., & Yip, V. (2022). Reference production in Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers: Linguistic, input, and cognitive factors. Frontiers in Psychology, 13: 897031. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.897031 [SSCI]

Zhou, J.*, & Yip, V. (2021). The post-verbal pronoun KEOI in child Cantonese: A corpus-based study. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 49(2), 379–419. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jcl.2021.0012 [SSCI]

Zhou, J.*, Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2021). Bi-directional cross-linguistic influence in object realization in Cantonese-English bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24(1), 96–110. https://doi.org/10.1017/%20S1366728920000231 [SSCI]

Zhou, J., Ma, A., Chan, P., Li, S., Chen, S., Yip, V., & Wong, P. (2026). Neurodevelopment in Infants with Elevated Risk Profiles within a Resource-Rich Context: A Community-Based Study in Hong Kong. Poster to be presented at the ZERO TO THREE LEARN Conference 2026, OR, Portland, USA, 27-29 October.

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., Li, S., & Chen, S. (2026). An eye-tracking study of L2 anaphoric reference production: The role of visual context, inhibitory control, verbal working memory and language proficiency. Poster presented at the 35^th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA35), Lisbon, Portugal, 24-27 June.

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2025). English sentences are longer but Mandarin sentences are more complex: The development of syntactic complexity in Mandarin-English bilingual preschool children. Paper presented at the 15^th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, June 9 – 13.

Zhou, J., Ma, A., Li, S., Shang, M., Zhang, H., & Yip, V. (2024). Teleassessment and shared-reading support Hong Kong trilingual children’s language learning: An intervention study. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education in Early Childhood (ELLME'24), University of Granada, Granada, Spain, 5-6 September.

Mendoza, C., Law, C., Zhou, J., Li, S., & Yip, V. (2024). Using Augmented Reality (AR)-compatible storybooks as input to support Hong Kong trilingual children’s early language learning. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Early Language Learning and Multilingual Education in Early Childhood (ELLME'24), University of Granada, Granada, Spain, 5-6 September.

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., Cai, Q., & Cheng, R. (2024). Beyond words: Referential gesturing in bilingual and monolingual mother-child dyads and its role in early development. Poster presented at the Child Language Symposium 2024, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 9-11 July.

Cheng, R., Zhou, J., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2024). Lexical tone production in Singaporean Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers: Associations with articulation, vocabulary and grammar? Poster presented at the Child Language Symposium 2024, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 9-11 July.

Zhou, J., Shang, M., Zhang, H., & Yip, V. (2024). Teleassessment of Hong Kong Trilingual Children. Poster presented at the 16th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL16), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-19 July.

Zhang, H., Zhou, J., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2024). Assessment of Mandarin Receptive Vocabulary in Preschool Children Learning Mandarin. Paper presented at the 16th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL16), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-19 July.

Yip, V., Zhou, J., Lau, E., Lum, C., Thian, A., Mai, Z., & Matthews, S. (2023). Assessment of Mandarin and English in Singapore bilingual pre-schoolers: Within- and cross-language relations between phonological, lexical and grammatical domains. Poster presented at the 14^th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 26-30 June.

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., Lum, C., Thian, A., & Yip, V. (2023). Narrative comprehension in Mandarin-English bilingual preschool children in Singapore: Age, receptive vocabulary, and executive function. Paper presented at the 14^th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 26-30 June.

Yip, V., Zhou, J., Lau, E., Lum, C., Thian, A., & Mai, Z. (2023). Within- and cross-language relations between phonological, lexical and grammatical domains in Mandarin-English bilingual preschool children. Paper presented at the 29^th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL29), Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China, 27-29 May.

Zhou, J., Mai, Z., Cai, Q., Liang, Y., & Yip, V. (2022). Reference production in Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers: Linguistic, input, and cognitive factors. Paper presented at the 4^th Bi-SLI Conference (Bi-/multilingualism and Developmental Language Disorder), ZAS, Berlin, Germany, 9-10 May.

Project coordinator, “ROBI project: Community-based holistic service supporting at-risk families with age 0-2 children”. Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust.

Research Collaborator, “The development of syntactic awareness in Mandarin-English bilingual children: An experimental study”. National Social Science Fund of China.

Co-Investigator, “Cantonese-English bilingual children’s reference production: An eye-tracking study”. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Direct Grant.

Co-Investigator, “Developing teleassessment for trilingual children in Hong Kong: Augmented reality enhanced intervention”. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Knowledge Transfer Project Fund.

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Managing Editor of the Hong Kong Editorial Office, Journal of Chinese Linguistics (2018-2023)

Liaison Officer, Journal of Chinese Linguistics (2023-2026)
 

Applied Psycholinguistics

Child Development

Frontiers in Communication

Frontiers in Psychology

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

International Journal of Bilingualism

International Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Journal of Child Language

Journal of Chinese Linguistics

Linguistics and the Human Sciences

Second Language Research