WEE Lian Hee
Professor
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lianhee@hkbu.edu.hk



Qualifications
Ph.D. 2004 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. PhD dissertation. Inter-tier Correspondence Theory. Rutgers Optimality Archive No. 654. 257pp.
B.A. (Honours – First Class) 1998 National University of Singapore. Honors thesis. Particles and Resultative Verb Constructions in Mandarin. National University of Singapore.
Research Interests
Phonology
Phonetics
Optimality Theory
Varieties of Englishes (particularly Singapore and Hong Kong English)
Chinese Languages
Areas of Interest for PhD Supervision
Phonology, Englishes, Chinese languages, Language Contact, Language-Music Interface, Tone, Prosody

Selected Publications
Wee, Lian-Hee (2020) “A Spin to Preserve Contrast: Taiwanese Tone Sandhi.” In Seunghun Lee and Will Bennet (guest eds.) Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus (Special issue), vol. 60, pp.13-29.
Wee, Lian-Hee (2019)?Phonological Tone. Cambridge University Press.
Cheung, Winnie H.Y. and Wee, Lian-Hee (2018) “Principles of the Hong Kong Kitchen Shorthand.” Hong Kong Studies, vol.1, no. 2, pp. 120-142.
Wee, Lian-Hee (2016) “Tone Assignment in Hong Kong English.” Language, vol.92, no.2, pp. e112-132.
Wee, Lian-Hee (2015)?Interactive Phonetics: an audio-visual IPA reference. Hong Kong Baptist University. [Downloadable App]?http://eduapps.hkbu.edu.hk/_tmpweb/ourapps.html.
Creative outputs (2015-2017)
Wee, Lian-Hee (2017) Omnimax: postcolonial waking of the hundred surnames (abridged). In Tammy L.M Ho and Joshua Ip (eds.) Twin Cities: an anthology of twin cinema from Hong Kong and Singapore. (Anthology featured in Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Nov 2017 and the Singapore Writers’ Festival, Nov 2017), p.69.
Wee, Lian-Hee (2016) Revolution without Text Cha: an Asian literary journal, Poetry, September 2016 Issue 33 (Umbrella Movement Section) at http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/2519/579/. Reprinted in special feature Voice & Verse: 10^th anniversary special for Cha (Dec 2017), p.65. [Poetry].
Wee, Lian-Hee (2016) The Spell of the State (to be cast in a hexagram) Cha: an Asian literary journal, Poetry, March 2016 Issue 31 at http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/2340/537/ [Poetry].
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