{"id":2416,"date":"2005-01-01T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:11:29","slug":"development-of-hong-kong-sign-language-by-deaf-children-rgc-no-cuhk4278-01h","status":"publish","type":"research_project","link":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/research_project\/development-of-hong-kong-sign-language-by-deaf-children-rgc-no-cuhk4278-01h\/","title":{"rendered":"Development of Hong Kong Sign Language by Deaf Children (RGC No. CUHK4278\/01H)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Date: 01\/01\/2001\u00a0&#8211;\u00a001\/01\/2005<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>General summary<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This 4-year project investigates the development of Hong Kong Sign Language by a deaf child in Hong Kong. The research team collected data from a deaf child weekly from the time the child began to learn Hong Kong Sign Language at age 1;9.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/><strong>Aims<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>To establish a corpus for the development of Hong Kong Sign Language by deaf children<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>To facilitate further research on sign language development by deaf children<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Significance<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>It is the first project that investigates sign language development of Asian deaf children<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>The findings lead to a better appreciation of the language development of deaf children for\u00a0both spoken and signed language in the local community<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Activities<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Weekly recordings of a deaf child and his sister are collected for a period of three years<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Transcribing the data with the support of ELAN, a multimedia annotator developed by the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Research Team<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Principal Investigator<\/em><br \/>Professor\u00a0Gladys Tang<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 15px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Research Assistants<\/em><br \/>Ms Brenda Yu<br \/>Ms Anita Yu<br \/>Mr Kenny Chu<br \/>Mr Pippen Wong<br \/>Ms Felix Sze<br \/>Ms Scholastica Lam<br \/>Ms Prudence Lau<br \/>Ms Fion Wong<br \/>Mr Joe Mak<br \/>Ms Cat Fung<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 15px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Output<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Publications<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Tang, G., Lam, S., Sze, F., Lee, J., &amp; Lau, P (2006, November).\u00a0<strong>Acquisition of Verb Agreement in HKSL by Deaf Children.<\/strong>\u00a0Paper presented at The 9th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Tang, G., &amp; Lam, S. (2006, October).\u00a0<strong>Acquiring Verb Types in Hong Kong Sign Language by Deaf Children.<\/strong>\u00a0Paper presented at the 10th Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>An acquisition corpus of Hong Kong Sign Language<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>The corpus contains fully transcribed data of a deaf child (age 1;9 -4;6) in ELAN format.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Postgraduate research<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Lam, S. (2007)\u00a0<strong>Early Phrase Structure in Hong Kong Sign Language: A Case Study<\/strong>. Unpublished Manuscript, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Wong, Y.O. (2007)\u00a0<strong>Development of HKSL Handshapes by a Deaf Child<\/strong>. Unpublished Manuscript, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"template-content-canvas.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"research_category":[41],"class_list":["post-2416","research_project","type-research_project","status-publish","hentry","research_category-completed-projects"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_project\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/research_project"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_project\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4889,"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_project\/2416\/revisions\/4889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"research_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cslds.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_category?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}