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Resources & research.
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Language tools and people
Chaak-Ming Lau · chaak.net ↗
Researcher profile, projects, and publications.
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Language conservation projects and learning resources.
Selected research
These publications offer background on Hakka and language shift in Hong Kong. Some publisher pages provide an abstract rather than free full text.
- A dialect murders another dialect: the case of Hakka in Hong Kong ↗Lau Chun Fat · 2005International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 173, 23–35
- Rapid large scale intra-nationality language shift in Hong Kong 1949–1974 ↗So D. W. C. and Lau C. F. · 2013Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 41(1), 21–51
- A comparison of “old-style” and “new-style” of the general Hakka accent as spoken by the “indigenous inhabitants” of Hong Kong ↗Lau Chun Fat · 2000PhD dissertation, Hong Kong Polytechnic University