Teaching Areas
- Child development
- Human learning processes
- Cognitive Psychology
Research Interests
- Cognitive Science
- Psycholinguistics
- Educational Psychology
- Educational Technology and human-computer interaction
- Computational modeling
Recent and Ongoing Research Projects
- Spoken word recognition (collaborated with Pennsylvania State University, USA)
- Monolingual and bilingual sentence processing (collaborated with Pennsylvania State University, USA)
- Probabilistic phonotactics and bilingual speech segmentation (collaborated with Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen , the Netherlands)
- Lexical database for Spoken Cantonese (collaborated with University of Richmond, USA)
- Development of e-learning platforms
- Multi-media approaches of learning
Selected Refereed Journal Papers
- Yip, M. C. W. (2008). Lexical and sentential priming of ambiguous words. Psychologia, 51 , 197-206.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2008). Inhibitory Processes of Chinese S poken word recognition. Proceedings of Interspeech’2008, 2873-2876.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2007). Differences between high and low academic achieving University students in learning and study strategies: A Hong Kong study. Educational Psychology , 27, 597-606 .
- Yip, M. C. W. (2007). Processing of segmental and tonal information of Chinese syllables . Perceptual and Motor Skills, 105, 405-410.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2007). Spoken word recognition of Chinese homophones: A further investigation. Proceedings of Interspeech’2007, 362-365.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2006). The role of positional probability in the segmentation of Cantonese speech. Proceedings of ICSLP’ 2006, 865-868.
- Zhang, Y., Wu, N., & Yip, M. C. W. (2006). Lexical ambiguity resolution in Chinese sentence processing. In P. Li, L. H. Tan, E. Bates, & O. J. L. Tzeng. (eds.), Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol. 1: Chinese). pp. 268-278. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Yip, M. C. W. & Chung, O. L. L. (2005). Relationship of study strategies and academic performance in different learning phases of higher education in Hong Kong . Educational Research and Evaluation, 11, 61-70.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2004). Interference effects of Possible-Word constraints (PWC) in Cantonese speech segmentation. Psychologia, 47, 169-177.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2004). Using WebCT to teach courses online. British Journal of Educational Technology, 35, 497-501.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2004). Possible-Word constraints in Cantonese speech segmentation. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 33, 165-173.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2003). Doing experiments on the WWW? British Journal of Educational Technology, 34, 99-101.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2002). Presentation effects on arithmetic problem solving. Psychologia, 45, 90-97.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2002). Access to homophonic meanings during spoken language comprehension: Effects of context and neighborhood density. Proceedings of ICSLP’2002, 1665-1668.
- Li, P., Shu, H., Yip, M. C. W., Zhang, Y., & Tang, Y. (2002). Lexical ambiguity in sentence processing: Evidence from Chinese. In Mineharu Nakayma (Ed.), Sentence Processing in East Asian Languages. pp. 111-129. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
- Yip, M. C. W. & Chung, O. L. L. (2002). Relation of study strategies to the academic performance of Hong Kong University students. Psychological Reports, 90, 338-340.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2001). Phonological priming in Cantonese spoken-word processing. Psychologia, 44, 223-229.
- Chen, H-C. & Yip, M. C. W. (2001). Processing syllabic and sub-syllabic information in Cantonese. Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies, 2, 199-210.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2001). A preliminary study of subjective frequency estimates of spoken-words in Cantonese. Psychological Reports, 88, 1253-1258.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2000). Recognition of spoken words in continuous speech: Effects of transitional probability. Proceedings of the ICSLP'2000, 758-761.
- Yip, M. C. W. (2000). Spoken word recognition of Chinese homophones: The role of context and tone neighbors. Psychologia, 43, 135-143.
- Yip, M. C. W., Leung, P. Y. & Chen, H-C. (1998). Phonological similarity effects on Cantonese spoken-word processing. Proceedings of the ICSLP’1998, 2139-2142.
- Chen, H-C., Yip, M. C. W., & Wong, S. Y. (1998). Segmental and tonal processing in Cantonese. Proceedings of the ICSLP’1998, 2135-2138.
- Li, P., & Yip, M. C. W. (1998). Context effects and the processing of spoken homophones. Reading and Writing, 10, 223-243. (reprinted in C.K. Leong and K. Tamaoka (Eds.), Cognitive Processing of the Chinese and the Japanese Languages, pp. 69-89, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.)
- Li, P., & Yip, M. C. W. (1996). Lexical Ambiguity and context effects in spoken word recognition: Evidence from Chinese. In G. Cottrell. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 228-232. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Selected Conference Papers
- Yip, M. C. W. Inhibitory Processes of Chinese S poken word recognition. Paper presented at the Interspeech’2008, Brisbane, Australia, September, 2008.
- Yip, M. C. W. Spoken word recognition of Chinese homophones: A further investigation. Paper presented at the Interspeech 2007 Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, August, 2007.
- Yip, M. C. W. The role of positional probability in the segmentation of Cantonese speech. Paper presented at the Ninth International Conference on Spoken language processing, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, September, 2006.
- Yip, M. C. W. Cognitive Arithmetic: Effects of numerical surface form and equation presentation format . Poster presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada, July, 2006.
- Yip, M. C. W. What is the role of tone in phonological-similarity effect? Poster presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, July, 2005.
- Yip, M. C. W. What is similar in phonological-similarity effect? Poster presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, U.S.A., August, 2004.
- Yip, M. C. W. The p ossible-word constraints in Cantonese speech segmentation. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, U.S.A., July, 2003.
- Yip, M. C. W. Access to homophonic meanings during spoken language comprehension: Effects of context and neighborhood density. Paper presented at the Seventh Internation al Conference on Spoken language processing, Denver, Colorado, September, 2002.
- Yip, M. C. W. A computerized lexical database of Cantonese. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Virginia, U.S.A., August, 2002.
- Yip, M. C. W. Odd-Even effect in multiplication revisited: The role of equation presentation format. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, August, 2001.
- Yip, M. C. W. Recognition of Spoken words in continuous speech: Effects of transitional probability. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Spoken language processing, Beijing, China, October, 2000.
- Yip, M. C. W. Sequential probability as a segmentation cue for Cantonese. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, U.S.A., August, 2000.
- Chen, H-C. & Yip, M. C. W. Processing Syllabic and Sub-syllabic information in Cantonese. Paper presented at the XXVII International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden, July, 2000.
- Yip, M. C. W., Song, H., & Chen, H-C. Cognitive processing of speech: The case of Chinese. Paper presented at the International Language in Education Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, December, 1999.
- Yip, M. C. W., Leung, P. Y. & Chen, H-C. Phonological similarity effect on Cantonese spoken-word processing. Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Spoken language processing, Sydney, Australia, November, 1998.
- Chen, H-C., Yip, M. C. W., & Wong, S. Y. Segmental and tonal processing in Cantonese. Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Spoken language processing, Sydney, Australia, November, 1998.
- Chen, H-C., Yip, M. C. W., & Wong, S. Y. Spoken word processing in Cantonese. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Chinese Psychology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December, 1997.
- Yip, M. C. W. & Li, P. Processing homophones interactively: Evidence from Chinese. Paper presented at the International Symposium of Cognitive Processes in Chinese language, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, August, 1997.
- Li, P. & Yip, M. C. W. Spoken word recognition of homophones in Chinese. Poster presented at the 37th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, U.S.A., November, 1996.
- Li, P. & Yip, M. C. W. Lexical Ambiguity and context effects in spoken word recognition: Evidence from Chinese. Paper presented at the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, San Diego, U.S.A., July, 1996.
Community & Professional Services
- Reviewer for the following journal articles; conference papers; Dissertation and thesis:
- British Journal of Developmental Psychology; British Journal of Educational Technology; Cognition; Contemporary Educational Psychology; International Journal of Innovation and Learning; Journal of Computer-Assisted Learning; Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies; Language & Cognitive Processes; Perceptual and Motor Skills; Psychologia; Psychological Reports; Studies in Higher Education
- The 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, 2006
- The 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville , 2007
- The 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington D.C. , 2008
- The Second European Cognitive Science Conference, Greece, 2007
- MPhil. thesis external examiner, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, 2007
- Ph.D. dissertation reviewer, Health Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2008
