Peggy Mok

Professor Peggy Mok is a prominent academic in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where she also serves as Associate Dean (Student Affairs) within the Faculty of Arts. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has dedicated her career to experimental phonetics, focusing on speech production/perception, prosody, bilingualism, and forensic phonetics.

Education:

• PhD in Linguistics, University of Cambridge
• MPhil in Linguistics, University of Cambridge
• BA in Chinese Language and Literature (First Class Honours), CUHK

Research Interests: Experimental phonetics with emphasis on cross-linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives. Key areas include prosodic properties of speech, speech acquisition, forensic phonetics, and bilingual mental lexicon. Her work explores vowel-to-vowel coarticulation, tone sandhi, and L2/L3 speech acquisition.

Grants & Awards:

• 2024-2026: HKD 1.4M Grant (RGC) for studying human-AI speech interaction
• 2020-2022: HKD 564,988 for Wu Chinese phonetic research
• 2017-2018: SCOLAR Grant (HKD 1.2M) for Cantonese literacy projects

Advising & Labs: Supervised over 20 graduate students in phonetics and psycholinguistics. Active in the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre. Editor for journals like Phonetica and Journal of Phonetics.