Academic Staff
Dr Wing-li WU (胡永利)
Senior Lecturer
- HHB731c, Hung Hom Bay Campus
- +852 2766 5636
- wing-li.wu@polyu.edu.hk
SCOPUS IDBiography
Dr Wing Li WU is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language Science and Technology, where he has worked since 2012. He holds a PhD in Phonetics from University College London (UCL) and his research centres on Cantonese phonetics and the interaction between tone and intonation, with a particular focus on Cantonese prosody and sentence-final particles, alongside broader interests in general and Cantonese linguistics. He teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including foundational linguistics and phonetics subjects.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- PhD in Phonetics, University College London
- MA in Phonetics, University College London
- MPhil in Phonetics, The University of Hong Kong
- BA in Linguistics, The University of Hong Kong
Teaching Areas
- Phonetics
- General Linguistics
Research Interests
Selected Publications
- Kan, J., Chu, K., Wu, W.-L., Tang, J., Ng, C., Tang, D., & Yu, J. (2024, November 16–17). Cantonese adaptation of the LMH test for monitoring listening [Conference session]. CUHK ENT Conference 2024, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
- Yao, Y., Chan, A., Fung, R., Wu, W. L., Leung, N., Lee, S., & Luo, J. (2020). Cantonese tone production in pre-school Urdu–Cantonese bilingual minority children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 24(4), 767-782. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006919884659
- Wu, W.-L. (2017). 歐德理《廣東方言詞典》的體例和19世紀中期的粵方言音系 [Eitel’s Chinese Dictionary in the Cantonese Dialect and the phonology of 19th century Cantonese]. Culture Journal, 77, 199–206.
- Xu, Y., Lee, A., Wu, W.-L., Liu, X., & Birkholz, P. (2013). Human vocal attractiveness as signaled by body size projection. PLoS ONE, 8(4), Article e62397. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062397
- Wu, W.-L., & Xu, Y. (2010). Prosodic focus in Hong Kong Cantonese without post-focus compression. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody. Chicago, USA.
- Wu, W.-L. (2009). Sentence-final particles in Hong Kong Cantonese: Are they tonal or intonational? In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009), 2291-2294. Brighton, UK.
