Professor in Linguistics, served as co-director of the 2015 LSA Summer Linguistics Institute and was named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. He received a grant from the Standing Committee of Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) of Hong Kong for “From speech to spelling: Improving Chinese proficiency of non-Chinese speaking students through Cantonese Speech Learning,” and a grant from the Social and Humanities Research Council for “Heritage Languages speakers in Toronto: What do they tell sociolinguists?”