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Biography

Dr. Lai is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Languages at Hong Kong Metropolitan University. Prior to joining HKMU, he was a Post-doctoral Fellow at The Education University of Hong Kong, appointed under the RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme. His areas of expertise include Cantonese linguistics, Chinese dialectology, and digital humanities. He is the co-founder and current Director of the Cantonese Read-Aloud Test. His public digital humanities project on Cantonese was honoured in the Digital Humanities Awards 2024. In 2022, he was named “Li Fang-Kuei Society Young Scholar” by the Li Fang-Kuei Society for Chinese Linguistics.

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

• Lau, Chaak Ming*, Raymond Pai, Kwan Hin Cheung, Bun Ching Chow, Yik-Po Lai, Cindy Wan Yee Lau, Roy Shing Yu, Hugo Wing-Yu Tam, Mei-ying Ki, Vienna Hoi Yung Lam, Edward Yu, and Sik-Lee Dennig (co-first-authors). 2024. “Developing a CEFR-aligned Test in Hong Kong: Cantonese Oral Proficiency Examination (COPE).” In Buckeye East Asian Linguistics, vol. 9, edited by Paul Ueda, and Marjorie K.M. Chan, 70–82. Columbus: The Ohio State University Libraries. https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/105419
• 黎奕葆、錢志安. 2018.〈粵語的動詞後綴「着」〉[The Verbal Suffix -Zoek6 in Cantonese]. In《漢語與漢藏語前沿研究──丁邦新先生八秩壽慶論文集》[Frontiers in the Study of Sinitic and Sino-Tibetan Languages: Festschrift in Honor of Professor Ting Pang-Hsin on His 80th Birthday], edited by Zhongmin Chen, Hung-Nin Samuel Cheung, Dah-An Ho, Jingtao Sun, and Yuk-man Carine Yiu, 697–707. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press (China).

Journal Articles

• 黎奕葆*、祁美瑩、劉擇明、李梓明、黃錦鵬、黃學轅、葉家煇. 2025.〈線上問答遊戲「廣東話達人挑戰」：遊戲化科普與眾包式數據收集〉[Online Quiz Game “Cantonese Master Challenge”: Gamifying Linguistics Popularization and Crowdsourced Data Collection].《數位典藏與數位人文》[Journal of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities] 15: 85–124. https://doi.org/10.6853/DADH.202504_(15).0003
• Lai, Yik-Po*, and Hin Tat Cheung. 2024. “DOLD: A Digital Platform for Conducting Online Language Experiments and Surveys.” International Journal of Digital Humanities 6 (2): 105–121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-024-00085-2
• 黎奕葆*. 2023.〈漢語等比句的大規模方言比較研究〉[A Large-Scale Comparative Dialectal Study of Chinese Equative Constructions].《中國語言學集刊》[Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics] 16 (1): 77–107. https://doi.org/10.30184/BCL.202306_16(1).0006
• 粵音朗讀試工作組 (Cantonese Read-Aloud Test Work Group). 2023.〈粵語音系變異認受性分層及其理據〉[Public Acceptability of Cantonese Phonological Variations: Ranking and Rationale].《中國語文通訊》[Current Research in Chinese Linguistics] 102 (1): 19–35. https://doi.org/10.29499/CrCL.202301_102(1).0002
• 黎奕葆*. 2022.〈粵語多功能介詞「同」的對象介詞功能探源──歷史材料的定性與定量分析〉[The Development of the Goal Function of the Cantonese Multifunctional Preposition Tung4 (同): A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Historical Materials].《語言學論叢》[Essays on Linguistics] (2): 79–91. http://ccj.pku.edu.cn/article/info?aid=519796289699909
• 黎奕葆*. 2021.〈粵語等比句類型的歷時考察〉[A Diachronic Typological Study of Equative Constructions in Cantonese].《中國語文通訊》[Current Research in Chinese Linguistics] 100 (1): 55–67. https://doi.org/10.29499/CrCL.202101_100(1).0005
• Lai, Yik-Po*. 2020. “Multiple Functions of the Cantonese 'Wait' Verb Dang2 and Their Historical Development.” Studies in Language 44 (4): 917–963. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.19011.lai
• 黎奕葆*. 2019.〈類型學視角下的粵語等比句〉[Cantonese Equative Constructions in Typological Perspective].《東亞語言學報》[Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale] 48 (1): 61–85. https://doi.org/10.1163/19606028-04801002
• 黎奕葆*. 2015.〈香港粵語雙音節狀貌後綴的音韻特色〉[Phonology of Disyllabic Ideophonic Suffix in Hong Kong Cantonese].《語言暨語言學》[Language and Linguistics] 16 (5): 691–729. https://doi.org/10.1177/1606822X15583254

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