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Law, Sam Po , BA (Boston College); MA & Ph.D (Boston University)

Associate Professor

Sam-Po Law was trained in psychology and linguistics. Upon completion of her dissertation, she received a post-doctoral fellowship in neurolinguistics. She then worked as a Research Assistant Professor in Taiwan. She returned to Hong Kong in 1993, and taught in other local universities before joining this Division in 1998.

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A test battery for Chinese aphasia(click for download)

 

Research/Clinical Interests

Her research interests in Chinese language disorders include acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia, lexical and sentence processing deficits, and language rehabilitation of individuals with aphasia.

 

Recent Publications

Law, S.-P., & Leung, M.-T. (2000). Structural representations of characters in Chinese writing: Evidence from a case of acquired dysgraphia. Psychologia, 43(1), 67-83.

Law, S.-P., & Leung, M.-T. (2000). Sentence processing deficits in two Cantonese aphasic patients. Brain and Language, 72(3), 310-342.

Law, S.-P. (2000). Structural prominence hypothesis and Chinese aphasic sentence comprehension. Brain and Language. 74(2), 260-268.

Law, S.-P., Fung, R., & Bauer, R. (2001). Perception and production of Cantonese consonant endings. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing, 6(3), 179-195.

Law, S.-P., & Or, B. (2001). A case study of acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia in Cantonese: Evidence for non-semantic pathways for reading and writing Chinese. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 18(8), 729-748.

Law, S.-P. (2001). A quantitative analysis of Cantonese aphasic production. Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies, 2(2), 211-237.

Leung, M.-T., & Law, S.-P. (2001). HKCAC: The Hong Kong Cantonese adult language corpus. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 6(2), 135-158.

Law, S.-P., & Cheng, M.-Y. (2002). Production of grammatical morphemes in Cantonese aphasia. Aphasiology, 16(7), 693-714.

Law, S.-P. (2004). A morphological analysis of object naming and reading errors by a Cantonese dyslexic patient. Language and Cognitive Processes, 19, 473-501.

Law, S.-P. (2004). Writing errors of a Cantonese dysgraphic patient and their theoretical implications. Neurocase, 10, 132-140.

Law, S.-P. (2004). Impairment to phonological processes in a Cantonese-speaking brain-damaged patient. Aphasiology, 18, 373-388.

Kong, A. P.-H., & Law, S.-P. (2004). A Cantonese linguistic communication measure for evaluating aphasic narrative production: normative and preliminary aphasic data. Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, 2, 124-146.

Leung, M.-T., Law, S.-P., & Fung, R. (2004). Type and token frequencies of phonological units in Hong Kong Cantonese. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36, 500-505.

Law, S.-P., & Wong, R. (2005). A model-driven treatment of a Cantonese-speaking dyslexic patient with impairment to the semantic and non-semantic pathways. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22(1), 95-110.


Law, S.-P., Wong, W., & Chiu, K. M.-Y. (2005). Preserved reading aloud with semantic deficits: Evidence for a lexical non-semantic route for reading Chinese. Neurocase, 11(3), 167-175.

Law, S.-P., Yeung, O., Wong, W., & Chiu, K. M.-Y. (2005). Processing of semantic radicals in writing Chinese characters: Data from a Chinese dysgraphic patient. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22(7), 885-903.

Law, S.-P., Wong, W., & Chiu, K. M.-Y. (2005). Whole-word phonological representations of disyllabic words in the Chinese lexicon: Data from acquired dyslexia. Behavioural Neurology, 16, 169-177.

Law, S.-P., Wong, W., Sung, F., & Hon, J. (2006). A study of semantic treatment of three Chinese anomic patients. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 16, 601-609.

Law, S.-P., Wong, W., Kong, A. (2006). Direct access from meaning to orthography in Chinese: A case study of superior written to oral naming. Aphasiology, 20, 565-578.

Law, S.-P., Yeung, O., & Chiu, K. (2008). Treatment for anomia in Chinese using an ortho-phonological cueing method. Aphasiology, 22, 139-163.

Wong, W., & Law, S.-P. (2008). The role of semantic short-term memory in verbal recall: Cross-linguistic evidence from two Chinese aphasic individuals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 900-917.

Law, S.-P., Wong, W., Yeung, O., & Weekes, B. S. (2008). The effect of age-of-acquisition on reading aloud in Chinese dyslexia. Neurocase, 14, 276-289.

Law, S.-P., Weekes, B. S., Yeung, O., & Chiu, K. (in press). Age of acquisition effects on picture naming in Chinese anomia. In S.-P. Law, B. S. Weekes, & A. Wong (Eds.), Language disorders in speakers of Chinese. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Law, S.-P., Wong, W., & Wong, E. (in press). A semantic treatment for Cantonese anomic speakers: Implications for the relationship between impairment and therapy. In S.-P. Law, B. S. Weekes, & A. Wong (Eds.), Language disorders in speakers of Chinese. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Kong, A. P.-K., & Law, S.-P. (in press). Cantonese Linguistic Communication Measure (CLCM): A clinical tool for assessing aphasic narrative production. In S.-P. Law, B. S. Weekes, & A. Wong (Eds.), Language disorders in speakers of Chinese. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Wong, W., & Law, S.-P. (in press). The effect of semantic integrity of words with preserved lexico-phonological representation on verbal recall. In S.-P. Law, B. S. Weekes, & A. Wong (Eds.), Language disorders in speakers of Chinese. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Law, S.-P., Weekes, B. S., & Wong, A. (in press). Language disorders in speakers of Chinese. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Law, S.-P., Weekes, B. S., Wong, W., & Chiu, K. (in press). Reading aloud pseudo-characters by individuals with acquired dyslexia: Evidence for lexically-mediated processes in reading Chinese. Language and Cognitive Processes.

Yeung, O., Law, S.-P., & Yau, M. (in press).Treatment generalization and executive control processes: Preliminary data from Chinese anomic individuals. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.


Conference papers

Law, S.-P., & Winsy, W. (2008, October). Naming pseudo-characters by Cantonese dyslexic individuals with different reading abilities: Evidence for lexical-mediation hypothesis. Poster presentation at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Turku, Finland. Brain and Language.

Yeung, O., & Law, S.-P. (2008, July). Relationship between anomia treatment outcomes and executive functions. Poster presentation at the 13th International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Law, S.-P., Yeung, O., & Wong, W. (2008, June). Age-of-acquisition effects on reading aloud in Chinese. Poster presentation at the 12th Meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, Istanbul, Turkey.

Law, S.-P., Yeung, O., Winsy, W., & Weekes, B. S. (2007, October). Age-of- acquisition effects on reading aloud in two Chinese dyslexic individuals. Poster presentation at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Washington DC, USA. Brain and Language, 103, 107-108.

Law, S.-P., Yeung, O., & Chiu, K. (2007, September). An ortho-phonological cueing treatment for anomia in Chinese. Poster presentation at the 21st Anniversary Conference of the British Aphasiology Society, Edinburgh, Scotland.


Supervised theses

Kong, A. P.-K. A Cantonese linguistic communication measure for evaluating aphasic narrative production. PhD Dissertation at the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, the University of Hong Kong. Completed in September 2006.

Wong, W.-S. Semantic short-term memory and immediate serial verbal recall as a function of semantic integrity and lexicality. MPhil Thesis at the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, the University of Hong Kong. Completed in September 2007.

Yeung, O. The influence of cognitive abilities in outcomes of an ortho-phonological cueing treatment for anomia in Chinese. MPhil Thesis at the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, the University of Hong Kong. To be completed in December 2008.

Funded Research Projects
 

Completed projects

“An ortho-phonological cuing treatment for Cantonese brain-damaged individuals with word-finding difficulties” (Research Grant Council, PI)

 

“Pseudo-character naming by normal and brain-injured dyslexic individuals” (Small Project Funding Programme at HKU, PI)

 

“The loci of age of acquisition effects in Chinese word processing” (CRCG Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research at HKU, PI)

 

“Semantic feature analysis and contextual priming approaches to treatment of anomic patients with and without semantic impairment” (Simon K.Y. Lee Research Fund in Linguistic at HKU, PI)

 

“Cantonese normative data on action naming” (Faculty Research Fund at HKU, PI)

 

“Category naming and visual cognitive task in Cantonese- and English-speaking aphasic individuals with and without attentional competition” (Small Project Funding Programme at HKU, PI)

 

“Lexical processing in Chinese with Cantonese-speaking acquired dyslexic and dysgraphic patients” (Research Grant Council, PI)

 

“A linguistic communication measure of Cantonese aphasic narrative production” (CRCG Seed Funding for Basic Research at HKU, PI)

 
Current projects

“Processing Chinese nouns and verbs: A behavioral and fMRI study” (Research Grant Council, PI)

 

“Development of verbal and nonverbal inhibitory control tasks for Chinese adult speakers” (CRCG Seed Funding for Basic Research, PI)

 

“The writing development of primary school students and an improved way of marking writing-to-dictation exercises" (Quality Education Fund, Key Member)

 

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