| Biography |
Dr. Helena Gao received her doctoral training in linguistics from Lund University, Sweden and post-doctoral training in cognitive psychology from the University of Toronto, Canada. Before she joined NTU in August, 2006, she was the research director in the Cognitive Development Lab/Child Study Centre at the University of Toronto. She has also held teaching appointments at the University of Toronto, Lund University, Taiwan Fu-Jen Catholic University, and Shenyang Jianzhu University. Dr. Gao’s research interests are in the fields of linguistics and psychology. The courses she has taught in recent years include Linguistics, Culture and Translation, Translation Theory and Practice, Chinese Lexicology, Language and Society, Contrastive Linguistics, Chinese Linguistics, Human Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, Introduction to Cognitive Science, etc. |
| Courses Taught in Recent Years |
Linguistics, Culture and Translation, Chinese Lexicology, Language and Society, Contrastive Linguistics, Introduction to Chinese Language, Human Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, Introduction to Cognitive Sciences, and Translation Theory and Practice. |
| Selected Publications |
Selected books and book chapters:
Zelazo, P. D., & Gao, H. H. (2009). Development and consciousness. In Bayne, T., Cleeremans, A., & Wilken, P. (Eds.), Oxford Companion to Consciousness. pp. 227-229. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gao, H. H. & Zelazo, P. D. (2008). Language and development of consciousness: degrees of disembodiment. In W. F. Overton, U. Mueller, & J. Newman (Eds.), Developmental Perspectives on Embodiment and Consciousness. pp. 225-246. Mahwah, NJ: Erbaum.
Zelazo, P. D., Gao, H. H., & Todd, R. (2007). Development of consciousness. In P. D. Zelazo, M. Moscovitch, & E. Thompson (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. pp. 405-434. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Gao, H. (2001). The physical foundation of the patterning of physical action verbs: A study of Chinese verbs. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press.
Gao, H. (1996). College English reading comprehension. Tianjing University Press.
Selected published papers in journals and conference proceedings:
Gao, H. H. (2010). A Study of Swedish Speakers’ Learning of Chinese Noun Classifiers. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 33(2), 197-229. (A journal of Cambridge University Press)
Gao, H. (2010). Computational Lexicography: A Feature-based Approach in Designing an E-dictionary of Chinese Classifiers. Proceedings of the 2nd SIGLEX endorsed COLING Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon- COLING 2010. pp. 56-65. (E-copy available upon request)
Gao, H. H., & Ouyang, S. (2009). A Feature-Based Algorithmic E-learning Tool for Learning Near-synonyms in Chinese. Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching. 585-596. Crane Publishing Co. LTD. 003-0951, ISBN 978-986-147-307-9. (E-copy available upon request)
Ni, W., & Gao, H. H. (2009). Application of Cognitive Strategies to Chinese Noun Classifier E-learning, In Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova and Sander Wubben (Eds.), Selected Papers From The Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8 2009). pp. 305-309. ISBN/EAN978-90-74029-34-6. (E-copy available upon request)
Ouyang, S, Gao, H. H., & Koh, S. N. (2009). Developing a Computer-facilitated Tool for Acquiring Near-synonyms in Chinese and English. In Harry Bunt, Volha Petukhova and Sander Wubben (Eds.), Selected Papers From The Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8 2009). pp. 316-319. ISBN/EAN978-90-74029-34-6. (E-copy available upon request)
Gao, H. H. (2008). A Cognitive Semantic Account of the Sentence Construction of the Hand Action Verb Na in Mandarin Chinese, Proceedings of The 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science 2008, pp. 382-385. SIGMA Press Inc. ISBN/EAN978-90-74029-34-6. (E-copy available upon request)
Gao, H. H., & Holland, H. J. (2008) Agent-Based Models of Levels of Consciousness. SFI Working Papers. DOI: SFI-WP 08-12-048, Santa Fe Institute. U.S. A. (E-copy available upon request)
Gao, H. H. (2007). Cognitive constraints on the combinability of physical action VV compounds in Chinese. In Proceedings of Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2007, Hong Kong). pp. 186-192.(E-copy available upon request).
Lin, Y. & Gao, H. H. (2007). The cognitive difference between normal college students and hearing-impaired students in processing the characters, phonetics, and semantics of Chinese lexicons. In Proceedings of Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop CLSW2007 (Hong Kong). pp. 180-186. (E-copy available upon request).
高虹 Gao, H. H. (2006). 基因變異與語言非典型發展 Genetic mutation and atypical language development. 应用心理研究第29期 第15-21页. Research in Applied Psychology, 29. pp. 15-21. (E-copy available upon request).
Sigurd, B., Lastow, B., Gao, H., & Eeg-Olofsson, M. (2005). Machine translation of marine forecasts, quarterly company reports and recipes between Swedish, English, Malay and Chinese. Working Papers 51, pp. 187-198. Lund University Press. (E-copy available upon request).
Gao, H. & Cheng, C-C. (2003). Verbs of contact by impact in English and their equivalents in Mandarin Chinese. Language and Linguistics 4.3:485-508 (E-copy available upon request).
Gao, H. (2002). Language contact - misunderstanding, confusion and conflicts. Intercultural Communication Studies. Vol. XI, No. 3, 107-114(E-copy available upon request).
Gao, H. (2001). When the "learned system" is activated. Working Papers 48, 41-54. Lund University Press(E-copy available upon request).
Gao, H. (2001). Notions of motion and contact for physical contact verbs. In A. Holmer, Å. Viberg, & J-O.Svantesson (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. Vol.2. 193-209. Lund University Press(E-copy available upon request).
Gao, H. (2001). Features of speech acts in making a request in Chinese. Working Papers 47, pp. 73-86. Lund University Press(E-copy available upon request).
Sigurd, B. & Gao, H. (1999). Outline of a computerized Chinese grammar enabling English and Swedish translation. Working Papers 47, 181-199. Lund University Press(E-copy available upon request).
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