| Prof Luke Kang Kwong Kapathy
Associate Dean (Research), College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
Email: KKLUKE@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)65922410
Office: HSS-06-16A |
| Education |
- PhD University of York 1988
- MPhil University of York 1981
- BA(Hons) University of Hong Kong 1978
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| Biography |
Professor Luke's research and teaching expertise spans a wide range of topics from Phonology and Syntax to Sociolinguistics, Computational Linguistics and Neurolinguistics. In spite of their apparent diversity, these topics can all be traced back to a common theme and Prof Luke’s passion -- the interface between language structure and language function. Among other areas, Professor Luke has researched into the complicated ways in which prosody and word order variation in different languages are employed to serve cognitive and social functions. His ground-breaking work on the neuro-cognitive processing of syntax and semantics in Chinese and English bilinguals has achieved international recognition.
Professor Luke received his Ph.D. on a Commonwealth Scholarship from the University of York, U.K. in 1988. A firm believer in the importance of using new techniques and innovative methodologies to crack old puzzles, Professor Luke’s research is characterized by a high degree of interdisciplinarity. He has a close working relationship with specialists in such diverse fields as Psychology, Sociology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Natural Language Processing in many parts of the world. Prof Luke also brings with him his vast experience in administration. Among other high positions he has held, he was Founding Head of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong from 1997 to 2005. |
| Research Interests |
| Interaction between tone and intonation; Prosody in Conversational Interaction; Conversation Analysis; English and Chinese grammar; Chinese Linguistics; History and structure of Cantonese; Language and Cognitive Neuroscience; Corpus Linguistics; Natural Language Processing |
| Research Grant |
- CoHASS Incentive Scheme (2012-)
- NTU Internal Funding - New Initiative Funding - New Silk Road (2011-)
- Start Up Grant (2010-)
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| Current Projects |
- Intercultural Communication in China International Business Settings
- Multilingual and Multicultural Competence
- The Signalling of Turn Closures and Their Re-opening in Naturally Occurring Conversations
| Selected Publications | - Sandra A.Thompson, Tsuyoshi Ono and Kang Kwong Luke. (2012). Cross-linguistic, multi-modal, and grammaticization perspectives on turn continuation in conversation. Taylor and Francis.
- Stadler-Norman, S. and Luke, K.K. (2011). (2011, October ). Interactional Practices in Chinese-Western Business Communication. Paper presented at 76th Annual Convention of the Association for, Montreal, Canada.
- S Zhao, K K Luke, S N Koh, and Y Zhang. (2010). Proceedings, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Annual Summit and Conference: Computer-Aided Evaluation of Intonation for Languange Learning Based on Prosodic Unit Segmentation. Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Annual Summit and Conference.
- Luke, K. K. (2010, December ). 语调与助词. Paper presented at 第15届国际粤方言研讨会, 澳门理工学院.
- Marquez Reiter, R. & Luke, K. K. (2010). Telephone conversation openings across languages, culturesPragmatics across languages and cultures..
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