Virginia Yip
MIC External Board
Virginia Yip is Professor and Director of the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her BA and PhD in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin from the University of Southern California respectively. Her research interests include bilingualism and multilingualism, second language acquisition, Cantonese and comparative Chinese grammar, psycholinguistics and cognitive science. She is the author of Interlanguage and Learnability (John Benjamins) and co-author of Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar, Basic Cantonese and Intermediate Cantonese (Routledge), and The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact (Cambridge University Press) which received the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award from the Linguistic Society of America in 2009. She serves on the editorial board of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, International Journal of Bilingualism, Second Language Research and Multilingual Education.