• 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 (2022) Tonal processes conditioned by morphosyntax. In Chu-ren Huang, Yen-Hwei Lin and I-Hsuan Chen (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, (Chapter 15), pp. 313-335.

Liang Yuan and Lian-Hee Wee (2022) Melodic-Prosodic Duality of the Syllable: an Application to Chinese. Language and Linguistics (special issue on The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese), vol.23.1:82-115.

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

Wee, Lian-Hee (2019) A Prosodic Essence Conjecture. In Hongming Zhang and Youyong Qian (eds.) Prosodic Studies: Challenges and Prospects. Routledge, pp. 141-158 (Chapter 5).

Wee, Lian-Hee (2019) Hong Kong Food Runes. In World Literature Today, Spring issue, pp.65-67.

Ng, Kum-Hoon and Lian-Hee Wee (2018) Chiaroscuro of the Uncanny: an unknown side of Old Master Q. In Jason S. Polley, Vinton W.K. Poon and Lian-Hee Wee (eds.) Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong: Angles on a Coherent Imaginary. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 211-234 (Chapter 12).