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  1. A missing piece of the reading comprehension puzzle: The roles of cognitive and linguistic skills in Filipino–English bilingual children.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, November 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Shelley Tong

  2. The Primacy of Prosody in Bilingual Reading Comprehension: Uncovering Morpholexical Pathways in First-Language Chinese and Phonolexical Pathways in Second-Language English

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Shelley Tong, Kembell Lentejas

  3. Speech Prosody and Reading Comprehension in Chinese–English Bilingual Children: The Mediating Role of Syntactic Awareness

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Shelley Tong

  4. Theory of Mind as a Mediator of Reading Comprehension Differences between Chinese School-Age Children with Autism and Typically Developing Peers

    Article • Scientific Studies of Reading, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Shelley Tong, Joanne Arciuli, Wing Yan Ruby Wong

  5. From Cantonese Lexical Tone Awareness to Second Language English Vocabulary: Cross-Language Mediation by Segmental Phonological Awareness

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Shelley Tong

  6. Bidirectional Cross-Linguistic Association of Phonological Skills and Reading Comprehension: Evidence From Hong Kong Chinese-English Bilingual Readers

    Article • Journal of Learning Disabilities, May 2019, SAGE Publications

    Shelley Tong

  7. Quantity Matters: Children With Dyslexia Are Impaired in a Small, but Not Large, Number of Exposures During Implicit Repeated Sequence Learning

    Article • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, November 2017, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Shelley Tong

  8. Toward a Graded Psycholexical Space Mapping Model: Sublexical and Lexical Representations in Chinese Character Reading Development

    Article • Journal of Learning Disabilities, July 2017, SAGE Publications

    Shelley Tong

  9. Beyond Auditory Sensory Processing Deficits: Lexical Tone Perception Deficits in Chinese Children With Developmental Dyslexia

    Article • Journal of Learning Disabilities, June 2017, SAGE Publications

    Shelley Tong

  10. Cues for Lexical Tone Perception in Children: Acoustic Correlates and Phonetic Context Effects

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Shelley Tong