Academic Staff
- HHB702, Hung Hom Bay Campus
- +852 2766 7705
- yi.weng@polyu.edu.hk
ORCID IDBiography
Dr Weng Yi received her Ph.D. in 2025 from the Department of Language Sciences and Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research focuses on language development and speech perception in children from tonal language backgrounds. Employing both behavioural and neuroimaging approaches, she investigates language processing in typically developing children as well as in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Her work has been published in journals including Child Development, Autism, and the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Her doctoral dissertation received Outstanding Thesis Awards from both the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong and the Faculty of Humanities at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- PhD, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- MA, Peking University
- BA, Sun Yat-Sen University
Research Interests
Selected Publications
- Weng, Y., Rong, Y., & Peng, G. (2024). The development of audiovisual speech perception in Mandarin-speaking children: Evidence from the McGurk paradigm. Child Development, 95(3), 750–765. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14022
- Rong, Y.#, Weng, Y.#, & Peng, G. (accepted). Development of extrinsic normalization of lexical tones in Cantonese-speaking children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 68(12), 5755-5770. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_jslhr-24-00812
- Rong, Y.#, Weng, Y.#, Chen, F.#, & Peng, G. (2023). Categorical perception of Mandarin lexical tones in language-delayed autistic children. Autism, 27(5), 1426–1437. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613221138687 (# denotes co-first authorship)
- Weng, Y., Kong, J. (2023). A study on phonological awareness of Chinese speakers: The example of Cantonese (漢語語音意識研究：以粵方言為例). Essay on Linguistics (語言學論叢), (01), 23–33.
- 2024
趙元任語言實驗之星 - 2025
PolyU FH Distinguished Thesis Award for PhD Students – Merit Prize - 2025
LSHK Outstanding PhD Thesis Award
