Rate My Professor Ricky Chan

Professor Ricky Chan is an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. He earned a BA&BEd in English Language Education with First Class Honours and an MPhil in Psycholinguistics from the University of Hong Kong. He subsequently obtained an MPhil with distinction and a PhD in Forensic Phonetics from the University of Cambridge. Chan is also a Fellow of Advance HE, United Kingdom.

As a phonetician and psycholinguist, Professor Chan utilizes experimental and statistical methods to explore experimental phonetics, forensic speaker comparison, implicit language learning, second language speech learning, psycholinguistics, and cognitive approaches to second language acquisition. He directs the Speech, Language and Cognition Laboratory and serves as principal investigator for a project funded by the HKU University Research Committee Post-doctoral Fellow Scheme (HKD 567,000). His research outputs have been published in prominent journals such as Forensic Science International, Speech Communication, Language Learning, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Key publications include "Constraints on Implicit Learning of Grammatical Form-Function Mappings" (2012), "Implicit Learning of L2 Word Stress Rules" (2014), "Implicit Knowledge of Lexical Stress Rules: Evidence from Artificial Language Learning" (2018, Applied Psycholinguistics), "Why are lexical tones difficult to learn? Insights from the incidental learning of tone-segment connections" (2020, Language Learning), "Evidential value of voice quality acoustics in forensic voice comparison" (2023), "Do long-term acoustic-phonetic features and mel-frequency cepstral coefficients improve automatic speaker recognition?" (2024), and "Modeling Lexical Tones for Speaker Discrimination" (2024). Chan teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses including CCGL9038 Global Englishes, ENGL1051 English sounds, ENGL1061 Psycholinguistics and language acquisition, ENGL2158 Language processing and learning, ENGL2166 English phonetics, ENGL3041 Senior colloquium in English studies, and ENGL7102 Global Englishes. His scholarship advances knowledge in forensic phonetics, voice comparison, and second language pedagogy.