• Ph.D. 2004 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. PhD dissertation. Inter-tier Correspondence Theory. Rutgers Optimality Archive No. 654. 257pp.
• B.A. (Honours – First Class) 1998 National University of Singapore. Honors thesis. Particles and Resultative Verb Constructions in Mandarin. National University of Singapore.

• Phonology
• Phonetics
• Optimality Theory
• Varieties of Englishes (particularly Singapore and Hong Kong English)
• Chinese Languages

Areas of Interest for PhD Supervision

Wee, Lian-Hee (2020) “A Spin to Preserve Contrast: Taiwanese Tone Sandhi.” In Seunghun Lee and Will Bennet (guest eds.) Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus (Special issue), vol. 60, pp.13-29.

Wee, Lian-Hee (2019) Phonological Tone. Cambridge University Press.

Cheung, Winnie H.Y. and Wee, Lian-Hee (2018) “Principles of the Hong Kong Kitchen Shorthand.” Hong Kong Studies, vol.1, no. 2, pp. 120-142.

Wee, Lian-Hee (2016) “Tone Assignment in Hong Kong English.” Language, vol.92, no.2, pp. e112-132.

Wee, Lian-Hee (2015) Interactive Phonetics: an audio-visual IPA reference. Hong Kong Baptist University. [Downloadable App] http://eduapps.hkbu.edu.hk/_tmpweb/ourapps.html.

Creative outputs (2015-2017)

Wee, Lian-Hee (2017) Omnimax: postcolonial waking of the hundred surnames (abridged). In Tammy L.M Ho and Joshua Ip (eds.) Twin Cities: an anthology of twin cinema from Hong Kong and Singapore. (Anthology featured in Hong Kong International Literary Festival, Nov 2017 and the Singapore Writers’ Festival, Nov 2017), p.69.

Wee, Lian-Hee (2016) Revolution without Text Cha: an Asian literary journal, Poetry, September 2016 Issue 33 (Umbrella Movement Section) at http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/2519/579/. Reprinted in special feature Voice & Verse: 10^th anniversary special for Cha (Dec 2017), p.65. [Poetry].

Wee, Lian-Hee (2016) The Spell of the State (to be cast in a hexagram) Cha: an Asian literary journal, Poetry, March 2016 Issue 31 at http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/2340/537/ [Poetry].