35.1554, Media: Hong Kong PolyU Presents Lifetime Achievement Award to Two Distinguished Linguists at Inaugural Yuen Ren Chao Prize in Language Sciences

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Date: 17-May-2024
From: Eric Friginal [eric.friginal at polyu.edu.hk]
Subject: Hong Kong PolyU Presents Lifetime Achievement Award to Two Distinguished Linguists at Inaugural Yuen Ren Chao Prize in Language Sciences


The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is privileged to announce
that Prof. Peter HAGOORT, Director of the Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics, and Prof. William Shiyuan WANG, Chair Professor of
Language and Cognitive Sciences of PolyU, are bestowed the Lifetime
Achievement Award at the inaugural Yuen Ren Chao Prize in Language
Sciences (Chao Prize). The Prize Presentation Ceremony was held on 10
May 2024.

The Chao Prize, initiated and hosted by the PolyU Faculty of
Humanities, is named after the late Professor Yuen Ren Chao who is
widely regarded as the father of modern Chinese language studies. It
is an international award that honours scholars and researchers who
have made distinguished contributions to language sciences.

Addressing the Ceremony, Dr LAM Tai-fai, PolyU Council Chairman, said,
“The Faculty of Humanities strives to follow the same
interdisciplinary approach of Prof. Chao, by bringing together
language, communication, history, culture and technology to advance
understanding and foster innovation. PolyU fully supports this award,
as it aligns with our motto ‘To learn and to apply, for the benefit of
mankind’, by promoting excellence in language sciences research and
its practical applications for the betterment of society. More
broadly, this Prize represents our commitment to deepening cultural
understanding for the benefit of the wider community.”

On behalf of the University, Prof. LI Ping, Dean of the PolyU Faculty
of Humanities, expressed gratitude to the Chao family for giving PolyU
permission to establish the Prize in Prof. Chao name, and also to the
Patron of the Prize, Shenzhen iRead Foundation, for its generous
donation to support the Prize. Through the Chao Prize, the Faculty is
poised to bring together renowned scholars in the field of language
sciences from around the world and become a hub in language sciences
research.

While the iRead Foundation is dedicated to promoting children’s
reading, Ms LI Wen, iRead Foundation Founder and Executive Board
Chair, applauded the social value of the Chao Prize. She remarked,
“Language serves as a vital tool for children to communicate, exchange
ideas and acquire knowledge. By scientifically studying language, we
can better understand how language development helps children’s mental
and physical growth, as well as the patterns of language acquisition.
This, in turn, enables us to provide children with better educational
resources for reading and support them in cultivating good reading
habits.”

Both the Laureates are esteemed scholars of language sciences. Their
research findings have brought major breakthroughs and far-reaching
impacts to the field.

Prof. Peter Hagoort receives the Yuen Ren Chao Prize in Language
Sciences (Lifetime Achievement Award) for his distinguished
contributions to the interdisciplinary studies in cognitive
neuroscience and the understanding of human language processing in the
brain. He applied neuroimaging techniques to investigate the language
system and its impairments as in aphasia, dyslexia and autism. He is
the Founding Director of the Donders Institute, Centre for Cognitive
Neuroimaging and Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at Radboud
University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He is also an elected member of
the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia
Europaea, and the US National Academy of Sciences.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics
                     Neurolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




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