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Associate Professor
THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
About
I am an Associate Professor and a founding member at the Speech Therapy Unit, a member of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University – Peking University Research Centre on Chinese Linguistics, and a member of the Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. My training includes Speech Therapy (BSc, University of Hong Kong), Linguistics (MPhil, Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Psycholinguistics (PhD, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany). My interests include cognitive linguistic, typological-functional and processing approaches to the study of language acquisition and disorders, clinical linguistics, developing language assessment and intervention approaches for children in a Chinese and multilingual context, promoting child language research on Chinese languages, and the use of technology (e.g. AI and robotics) to enhance support for children with communication disorders and for speech therapists. I am collaborating with researchers from the European biSLI community and the Global TALES consortium to study multilingual children in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Pakistan, and India, and my team members have adapted some language assessment tools from the COST Action LITMUS (Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings) initiative and the Global TALES consortium into Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Kam and Urdu.
Research Interests
Typical and atypical language development, language disorders in children with special education needs, childhood bi-/multi-lingualism, developing language assessment and intervention approaches for children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, clinical linguistics, promoting research on the acquisition of Chinese languages, the use of technology (e.g. AI and robotics) to enhance support for children with communication disorders and for speech therapists
Qualifications
PhD, Developmental Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig & University of Leipzig, Germany
MPhil, Linguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
BSc, Speech & Hearing Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
Registered Speech Therapist, Member of Register of Speech Therapists accredited by Department of Health of the HKSAR government
Research Affiliations
Since 2023
Member, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Peking University Joint Research Centre for Language, Brain, and Applications
Since Aug 2017
Since Sep 2009
Affiliated Member, Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre, Chinese University of Hong Kong
(852) 2766 7439
Room EF740, Speech Therapy Unit, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hunghom, Hong Kong
Contact
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