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Publications

(a) Work Forthcoming or Under Review or Revisions (* denotes student author, @ postdoc, #corresponding author)

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Collaboration with The Australian National University

  1. @Lai, J., #Chan. A. & Kidd. E. (forthcoming, in preparation). Measuring auditory statistical learning abilities in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder: the Cantonese-adapted statistically induced chunking recall (SICR) task. Applied Psycholinguistics.

  2. With @Lai, J. Polišenská, K., Chiat S. & Kidd. E. (forthcoming, in preparation). Relationship between auditory statistical learning abilities and non-word repetition: evidence from Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder. Order of authorship and target journal TBC.​

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Collaboration with Griffth University

  1. *Srivastavaa, V., Chan, A. & Westerveld, M. F. (forthcoming, in preparation). Autistic Children’s Life Experiences: Insights from Hindi-Speaking Children's Personal Narratives. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

  2. *Srivastavaa, V., Chan, A. & Westerveld, M. F. (forthcoming, in preparation). Narrating Happy and Worried Experiences: Coherence in Personal Stories of Hindi-speaking Children with and without Autism. Target journal TBC.

  3. *Zhu, W.L., Chan, A. Westby, C. & Westerveld, M. F. (forthcoming, in preparation). The development of personal narrative coherence in Mandarin-speaking children and adolescents. Journal of Child Language: Special Issue on Later Language Development.

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Collaboration with City, University of London

  1. *Fu, N.C., #Chan, A., Chen, S, Polišenská, K. & Chiat S. (forthcoming, in preparation). Sub-lexical effects of nonword repetition in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder: CV combination attestedness and neighourhood density. Target journal TBC.

  2. *Hamdani, S., Chan, A., Polišenská, K., Kan, R. & Chiat, S. (forthcoming, in preparation). Non-word repetition as a clinical marker of Developmental Language Disorder in Urdu: evidence from the Urdu LITMUS Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition test (Urdu CL-NWR). Target Journal TBC.

  3. Chan, A., *Li, Z.W., Lai, J., Polišenská, K. & Chiat, S. (forthcoming, in preparation). Nonword Repetition in Cantonese-speaking Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder: A Study on Diagnostic Accuracy and Correlations with Other Measures. Target Journal TBC.

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Collaboration with Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, ZAS), Berlin

  1. @Lai, J., #Chan, A., *Hui, S., *Lee, E., *Kong, C., *Wong, S., Wong, K. & Gagarina, N. (under review). Revisiting the Consensus Features of Vulnerability in Narrative Production of Cantonese-speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

  2. *Srivastava, V., Chan, A. & Gagarina, N. (forthcoming, in preparation). Examining the Oral Inferential Comprehension Skills of Hindi-speaking Children With and Without Autism. Target journal TBC.

  3. *Srivastava, V., Chan, A. & Gagarina, N. (forthcoming, in preparation). Narrative measures differentiating bilingual children with and without Developmental Language Disorder: a review article. Order of authorship and target journal TBC.

 

Collaboration with the European Cost-Action Bilingual-Specific Language Impairment Consortium (Germany, Israel, Poland & UK)

  1. @Lai, J., Chan, A., Mo, M. & Armon-Lotem, S. (forthcoming, in preparation). Sentence Repetition as a Diagnostic Screening Tool for Developmental Language Disorder in Cantonese: Evidence from the Cantonese LITMUS-Sentence Repetition Task. Target journal TBC.

  2. *Hamdani, S. Z., Chan, A., Gagarina, N., Haman, E., Łuniewska, M., & Armon-Lotem, S. (forthcoming, in preparation). Learning Urdu as a minority heritage language: reduced input effects and linguistic vulnerabilities. Target journal TBC.​

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(b)  Journal Articles (#corresponding author; *denotes student author, @ postdoc)

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  1. Chen, S., Zhang, Y. X., Li. M.X., Li, B., Lu, S., Chan, A., Ge, H.Y., Tang, T. & Chen, Z.M. (accepted). Sung-Speech Training Improves Prosodic Focus-Marking in a Non-Dominant Language in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

  2. Polisenska, K., Chiat, S., Szewczyk, J., Antonijevic, S., Blom, E., Boerma, T., Bohnacker, U., Chan, A. et al. (in press). Evaluation of the Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test: Evidence from a large and diverse secondary dataset. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

  3. *Lin, J. Y., Chen, X. C., Huang, X. N., Wong, P., Chan, A., Ullman, M. T. Zhang, C. C. (2025).  Semantic overreliance as a suboptimal compensation for syntactic impairments in children with Developmental Language Disorder. Special issue on “Developmental Language Disorder in Chinese – Status of the Research Landscape and New Frontiers.” Brain and Language. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2025.105571

  4. Chen, S., Zhang, Y. X., *Li, M. X., Li, B., Lu, S., Chan, A., Ge, H. Y., Tang, T. & Chen, Z. M. (2025). Acquisition of Speech Prosody in a Non-native Tone Language by Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06698-4

  5. *Fu, N.C., #Chan, A., Chen, S, Polišenská, K., Kan, R. & Chiat S. (2024). Revisiting nonword repetition as a clinical marker of Developmental Language Disorder: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual L2 Cantonese. Special issue on “Developmental Language Disorder in Chinese – Status of the Research Landscape and New Frontiers.” Brain and Language. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105450 

  6. Yang, W.C., Chan, A., & Gagarina, N. (2024) Remote Online Language Assessment: Eliciting Discourse from Children and Adults. Editorial article on the Research Topic at Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology of Language. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1463182

  7. Chen, S., Zhang, Y., Zhou, F., Chan, A., Li, B., Li, B., Tang, P. Y., Chun, E. & Chen, Z. (2024). Focus-marking in a tonal language: prosodic differences between Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306272

  8. @Lai, J., Chan, A. & Kidd, E. (2024). Production of relative clauses in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder. Special issue on “Developmental Language Disorder in Chinese – Status of the Research Landscape and New Frontiers.”Brain and Language.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105425

  9. *Hamdani, S., #Chan, A., @Kan, R., Chiat, S., Gagarina, N., Haman, E., Łuniewska, M., Polišenská, K., & Armon-Lotem, S. (2024). Identifying Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in multilingual children: A case study tutorial. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.  https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2024.2326095

  10. Wong. A, *Au, C., Chan, A. & Mohammad, M. (2024). A comparison of learning and retention of a syntactic construction between Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder in a priming task. Special issue on “Developmental Language Disorder in Chinese – Status of the Research Landscape and New Frontiers”. Brain and Language.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105404 

  11. *Fu, N.C., Chen, S, Polišenská, K., #Chan, A., Kan, R. & Chiat S. (2024). Nonword Repetition in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Revisiting the Case of Cantonese. ​Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-22-00397

  12. Chen, S., @Wang, B. X., Zhou, F., Liu, J., Xiao, C., Chan, A., Tang, T. (2024). English prosodic focus marking by Cantonese trilingual children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00508

  13. Gagarina, N., Chan, A., & @Yang, W.C. (2024-2022, edited) Remote Online Language Assessment: Eliciting Discourse from Children and Adults. Research Topic at Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology of Language. (featuring 10 published articles, 8 languages, and 29 institutions and 13 countries where the 54 authors are affiliated) https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/21524/remote-online-language-assessment-eliciting-discourse-from-children-and-adults

  14. *Lai, J., Chan, A. & Kidd, E. (2023). Relative clause comprehension in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288021 

  15. *Srivastavaa, V., Chan, A. & Westerveld, M. F. (2023). What do children from India talk about: Personal narratives of typically developing Hindi-speaking children from Uttar Pradesh. Special issue on “Evaluating Children’s Personal Narrative Skills using the Global TALES Protocol: Implications for Practice.” Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. 75 (6): 447–455. https://doi.org/10.1159/000534298  

  16. *Hong, Y.T., Chen, S., Zhou, F., Chan, A. & Tang, T. (2023). Phonetic Entrainment in Human-Robot Interaction: An Investigation of Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology of Language. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1128976/abstract

  17. #Chan, A., Chen, S., *Tse, B., *Hamdani, S., Cheng, K. (2023). Story telling in bilingual Urdu-Cantonese ethnic minority children in Hong Kong: macrostructure and its relation to microstructural linguistic skills. Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology of Language.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.924056

  18. @Yang, W.C., #Chan, A. & Gagarina, N. (2023). Left-behind status and language proficiency predict narrative abilities in the home language of Kam-speaking minority children in China. Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology of Language. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1059895

  19. Brandt, S., Li, H. L., & Chan, A. (2023). What makes a complement false? Looking at the effects of verbal semantics and perspective in Mandarin children’s interpretation of complement clauses and their false-belief understanding. Cognitive Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2021-0108

  20. #Chan, A., Matthews, S., *Tse, N., Chang, F., Kidd, E. (2021). Revisiting subject-object asymmetry in the production of Cantonese relative clauses: evidence from elicited production in three-year-olds. Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology of Language. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.679008

  21. *Yang, W.C., #Chan, A., Chang, F. & Kidd, E. (2020). Four-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's online comprehension of relative clauses. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104103     

  22. Yao, Y., #Chan, A., Fung, R., Wu, W.L., *Leung, N., *Lee, S., & *Luo, J. (2020). Cantonese tone production in pre-school Urdu-Cantonese bilingual minority children. International Journal of Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006919884659  

  23. @Kan R. T-Y., #Chan, A. & Gagarina N. (2020). Investigating Children’s Narrative Abilities in a Chinese and Multilingual Context: Cantonese, Mandarin, Kam and Urdu Adaptations of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology of Language. 11:573780. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.573780

  24. Chen, J.D., Narasimhan, B., Chan, A., *Yang, W.C., & *Yang, S. (2020). Information Structure and Different Preferences for Word Order in Conjoined Noun Phrases in Child and Adult Speech of Mandarin Chinese. Languages. 5(2), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages5020014

  25. #Chan, A., Cheng, K., @Kan, R., Wong, A. M-Y., Fung, R., *Wong, J., *Cheng, T., *Cheung, A., *Yuen, K., *Chui, B., *Lo, J. & Gagarina, N. (2020). The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN): Adding Cantonese to MAIN. ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 64, 23–29. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.553

  26. *Luo, J., *Yang, W.C., #Chan, A., Cheng, K., @Kan, R. & Gagarina, N. (2020). The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN): Adding Mandarin to MAIN. ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 64, 159–162. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.569

  27. *Hamdani, S., @Kan, R., Chan, A. & Gagarina, N. (2020). The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN): Adding Urdu to MAIN. ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 64, 257– 261. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.580

  28. *Yang, W.C., Chan, A. & Gagarina, N. (2020). The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN): Adding Kam to MAIN. ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 64, 147–151. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.64.2020.567

  29. *Tsoi, E, *Yang, W.C., #Chan, A. & Kidd, E. (2019). Mandarin-English speaking bilingual and Mandarin speaking monolingual children’s comprehension of relative clauses. Applied Psycholinguistics. 40 (4), pp. 933-964 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716419000079  

  30. Wang, S-C., Huang, C-R., Yao, Y. & Chan, A. (2019). The effect of morphological structure on semantic transparency ratings. Language and Linguistics. 2:20. pp.225-255 https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00035.wan

  31. #Chan, A., *Yang, W.C., Chang, F. & Kidd, E. (2018). Four-year-old Cantonese-speaking children’s online processing of relative clauses: A permutation analysis. Journal of Child Language. 45(1), pp. 174-203. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000917000198

  32. #Chan, A., Chen, S., Matthews, S. & Yip, V. (2017). Comprehension of subject and object relative clauses in a trilingual acquisition context. Frontiers in Psychology: Psychology of Language. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01641

  33. *Wang, S-C., Huang, C-R., Yao, Y. & Chan, A. (2017). Word Intuition Agreement among Chinese Speakers: A Mechanical Turk-Based Study. Lingua Sinica. Vol. 3. https://linguasinica.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40655-017-0032-5

  34. Pinto, S., Chan, A., Guimarães, I., Rothe-Neves, R. & Sadat, J. (2017). A cross-linguistic perspective to the study of dysarthria in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Phonetics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2017.01.009

  35. Kidd, E., Chan, A. & *Chiu, J. (2015). Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous Cantonese-English bilingual children’s comprehension of relative clauses. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 18 (3), 438–452 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000649

  36. #Chan, A. (2010). The Cantonese double object construction with bei2 ‘give’ in bilingual children: the role of input. International Journal of Bilingualism. 14(1): 65-85. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006909356653

  37. #Chan, A., Meints, K., Lieven, E. & Tomasello, M. (2010). Young children’s comprehension of English SVO word order revisited: testing the same children in act-out and intermodal preferential looking tasks. Cognitive Development. 25(1): 30-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.10.002

  38. #Chan, A., Lieven, E. & Tomasello. M. (2009). Children’s understanding of the agent-patient relations in the transitive construction: cross-linguistic comparisons between Cantonese, German and English. Cognitive Linguistics, 20(2): 267-300.  https://doi.org/10.1515/COGL.2009.015

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(c) Book Chapters (#corresponding author; * student author)

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  1. 陳詠珊 (in press) 第六章：兒童多語言發展的問題與解答。伍可怡（主編）。《淺談全方位兒童語言發展》。香港：香港理工大學出版社。

  2. *#Lai, J., #Chan, A. & Matthews, S. (2023). Beyond relative clauses: The development of noun-modifying clause constructions in Cantonese. In W.F. Han & C. Brebner (eds). Typical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity. (pp. 40-63). UK: Routledge.

  3. Chun, E., Chen, S., Liu, S.L. & Chan, A. (2021). Influence of syntactic complexity on second language prediction. In E. Kaan & T. Grüter. (eds). Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning. John Benjamins. pp.69-89.

  4. *劉兆靜 陳詠珊. (2017) 浅谈物性结构对汉语儿童语言习得的影响：以名词修饰结构为例. 宋作艳、黄居仁 主编《生成词库理论与汉语研究》商务印书馆. *Liu, Z.J. & Chan, A. (2017). How qualia structure influences Mandarin children’s language acquisition: evidence from noun- modifying constructions. In Z.Y. Song & C.R. Huang (eds). Generative Lexicon: Theory and Research on Mandarin Chinese. Beijing: Commercial Press.

  5. Rowland, C., Claire, N. & Chan, A. (2014). Competition all the way down: How children learn word order cues to sentence meaning. In B. MacWhinney, A. Malchukov & E. A. Moravcsik (eds). Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage. Oxford University Press. pp.127-143.

  6. #Chan, A., Matthews, S. & Yip, V. (2011). The acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese and Mandarin. In E. Kidd (ed). The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, Typology and Function. John Benjamins. pp.197:225.

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(d) Refereed Conference Presentations in Recent Three Years (all are international major conferences, *student author, @postdoc)

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  1. *Lee, F., Chan, A., Petersen, D. & Spencer, T. (2025).  A new language screening and progress monitoring tool for Cantonese-speaking school-aged children: Initial reliability and validity evidence for the Cantonese Narrative Language Measures – Listening (NLM-Listening) Subtest. The Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) 2025 National Conference. Adelaide Convention Centre. 13-15 June 2025.

  2. Wong, E., Wong, M., Chan, A., Velleman, S. (2024). A 20-Item Caregiver Speech-Language Screening for Cantonese Preschool Children: Preliminary Validity and Reliability. 2024 ASHA Convention. 5-7 December 2024, Seattle, Washington, USA.

  3. Chan, A., @Lai, J. & Mo, M. (2024). Sentence Repetition as a Diagnostic Screening Tool for Developmental Language Disorder in Cantonese: Evidence from the Cantonese LITMUS-Sentence Repetition Task. The Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference 2024 (ALS2024). 26-29 Nov, 2024. Australian National University, Australia.

  4. Chen, X.C., *Lin, J.Y., Chan, A., Ullman, M.T., Wong, M.N. & Zhang, C.C. (2024). Reduced White Matter Integrity in Cantonese-Speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Preliminary Evidence Supporting the Procedural Circuit Deficit Hypothesis. The Society for the Neurobiology of Language 16th Annual Meeting (SNL2024), Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Australia, 24-26 Oct, 2024.  

  5. Polišenská, K., Chan, A., Kapalková, S., Chiat S., Chen, S., *Fu, N.C., *Hamdani, S., Janíková, M., Kan, R., & Zubáková, M. (2024). Crosslinguistic nonword repetition: Evidence across diverse language communities. Paper presented at Child Language Symposium 2024 (CLS2024). 9-11 July 2024. Newcastle University. UK.

  6. *Hamdani, S., Chan, A., Polišenská, K., Kan, R. & Chiat, S. (2024). Nonword repetition in Urdu-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Poster presented at The International Association for the Study of Child Language Congress (IASCL 2024). July 15-19, 2024. Prague, Czech Republic.

  7. *Srivastavaa, V., Chan, A. & Westerveld, M. F. (2024). What topics do Hindi-speaking children, with and without Autism, talk about in their personal narratives. Poster presented at The International Association for the Study of Child Language Congress (IASCL 2024). July 15-19, 2024. Prague, Czech Republic.

  8. *Srivastavaa, V., Chan, A. & Westerveld, M. F. (2024). Topics of personal narratives of Hindi-speaking children with and without Autism. Rapid impact talk presented at The Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) 2024 National Conference. Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. 26-29 May 2024.

  9. @Lai, J., Chan, A., *Hui, S., *Lee, E., *Kong, C., *Wong, S., Wong, K. & Gagarina, N. (2023). Narrative production in trilingual L1 Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder: New evidence from Cantonese MAIN. The Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference 2023 (ALS2023). The University of Sydney, 29 Nov – 1 Dec, 2023.

  10. *Lai, J., Chan, A. & Kidd, E. (2023). Profiling the production of relative clauses in trilingual L1 Cantonese children with Developmental Language Disorder. The 32nd World Congress of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP). Auckland. 20-24 August, 2023.

  11. *Srivastava, V., Chan, A. & Gagarina, M. (2023). Narrative abilities of bilingual children with typical development and bilingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD): a systematic review. The 32nd World Congress of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP). Auckland. 20-24 August, 2023.

  12. *Lai, J., Chan, A. & Kidd, E. (2023). Production of relative clauses in trilingual L1 Cantonese children with and without Developmental Language Disorder. International Symposium on Bilingualism 14 (ISB 14). Macquarie University. Sydney. 26-30 June, 2023.

  13. Yang, W.C., Chan, A. & Gagarina, N. (2023). Narrative production in home language of left-behind Kam-Mandarin-speaking bilinguals in China. International Symposium on Bilingualism 14 (ISB 14). Macquarie University. Sydney. 26-30 June, 2023.

  14. *Srivastava, V., Chan, A. & Gagarina, M. (2023). A comparison of narrative abilities between bilingual children with typical development and bilingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD): A systematic review. International Symposium on Bilingualism 14 (ISB 14). Macquarie University. Sydney. 26-30 June, 2023.

  15. *Fu, N.C., Chen, S, Polišenská, K., Chan, A., Kan, R. & Chiat S. (2023). Nonword Repetition in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Revisiting the Case of Cantonese. (2023). The Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) 2023 National Conference. Hotel Grand Chancellor Hobart. 21-24 May, 2023.

  16. *Hamdani, S., Chan, A., Gagarina, N., Haman, E., Łuniewska, M. & Armon-Lotem, S. (2022). Learning Urdu as A Minority Heritage Language: Reduced Input Effects and Linguistic Vulnerabilities. The Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference 2022 (ALS2022). The University of Melbourne. 30 Nov – 2 Dec 2022. 

  17. *Lai, J. Chan, A. & Kidd, E. (2022). Comprehension of Relative Clauses in Cantonese-speaking Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference 2022 (ALS2022). The University of Melbourne. 30 Nov – 2 Dec 2022. 

  18. *Lai, J., Chan, A. & Matthews S. (2022). Beyond relative clauses in English and Indo-European languages: A corpus study of noun-modifying clause constructions in Cantonese-speaking children’s naturalistic speech. The Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) Seventh Biennial Colloquium, The University of Melbourne, 28-30 Nov 2022.

  19. *Au, C., Wong, A., & Chan, A. (2022). Implicit Learning of Relative Clauses in School-aged Cantonese speaking Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). International DLD Research Conference 2022. 19-21 Sep 2022. Virtual conference.

  20. *Hamdani, S., Chan, A., Kan, R., Chiat, S., Gagarina, N., Haman, E., Łuniewska, M., Polišenská, K., & Armon-Lotem, S. (2022). Identifying Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in bilingual children during the pandemic: examining the potential of remote online assessments. The Speech Pathology Australia (SPA) 2022 National Conference. Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. 22-25 May 2022.

  21. *Fu, N.C., Chen, S, Polišenská, K., Chan, A., Kan, R. & Chiat S. (2022). Nonword Repetition in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Revisiting the Case of Cantonese. Poster presented at the 4th Bi-SLI Bi/multilingualism and Specific Language Impairment (Developmental Language Disorder) 2022 conference. Hybrid (Berlin, Zoom), 9 and 10 May 2022. https://linktr.ee/Bi_SLI **(acceptance rate: 25% for oral presentations, and 38% for posters)**

  22. Polišenská, K., Chiat, S., Szewczyk, J., Antonijevic-Elliott, S., Blom, E., Boerma, T., Bohnacker, U., Butcher, M., Calleja Tabone, N., Chan, A., Chondrogianni, V., Fitzmaurice, Y., Fu, N.C., Gatt, D., Grech, H., Haddad, R., Hamann, C., Hinnerichs, J., Holzinger, D., Jezek, M., Judge-Clayden, F., Kapalková, S., Kunnari, S., Mayer-Crittenden, C., O’Malley, M.P., Öberg, L., Oudgenoeg-Paz, O., Polatidou, A., Schwob, S., Shiyun, M., Skoruppa, K., Solveig, C., van den Berghe, R., Verhagen, J., White, M. (2022). Is the Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Test valid crosslinguistically? Evidence from performance in different language groups and countries. Paper presented at the 4th Bi-SLI Bi/multilingualism and Specific Language Impairment (Developmental Language Disorder) 2022 conference. Hybrid (Berlin, Zoom), 9 and 10 May 2022. https://linktr.ee/Bi_SLI **(acceptance rate: 25% for oral presentations, and 38% for posters)**

  23. *Hamdani, S., @Kan, R., Chan, A., Gagarina, N. & Armon-Lotem, S. (2021). Narrative and Morphosyntactic Competence in Bilingual Urdu-Speaking Children in Hong Kong and Pakistan: First Language Attrition and Incomplete Acquisition. The 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 46). Boston. 4-7 Nov 2021. Virtual Conference. Acceptance Rate: 44% out of 427 abstracts received.

  24. *Lai, J., Chan, A. & Matthews, S. (2021). A Corpus Study of Relative and Noun-modifying Clause Constructions in Cantonese-speaking Children’s Naturalistic Speech. The International Association for the Study of Child Language Conference (IASCL 2021). July 15-23, 2021. Virtual Conference.

  25. *Hamdani, S., @Kan, R., Chan, A., Chiat, S., Gagarina, N., Haman, E., Łuniewska, M., Polišenská, K., & Armon-Lotem, S. (2021). Identifying bilingual Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) using online testing: evidence from bilingual Urdu-Cantonese children. The International Association for the Study of Child Language Conference (IASCL 2021). July 15-23, 2021. Virtual Conference.

  26. @Yang, W.C., Chan, A. & Gagarina, N. (2021). Narrative comprehension abilities in ‘left-behind’ ethnic minority children in China: Evidence from Kam-Mandarin bilinguals. The 13th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB13). University of Warsaw, Poland. July 10-14 2021. Virtual Conference.

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(e) Invited Conference/Symposium Presentations or Talks in Recent Five Years (*student author, @postdoc)

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  1. Chan, A. & Westby, C. (2025, keynote speaker). Cultural Influences on Personal Narrative Development: Implications for Speech-Language Pathologists Working with Children and Adolescents with Communication Disorders.. Global TALES Network Symposium: Advancing Global Knowledge in Personal Narratives to Bridge the Research-to-Practice Gap in Speech-Language Pathology. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Canada. September 11, 2025.

  2. Chan, A. & Lee, F. (2025, invited speaker). Three Long-standing Needs in Supporting Bilingual Children with (D)LD in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists. June 27, 2025.

  3. Chan, A. (2025, keynote speaker). Supporting bilingual children with Developmental Language Disorder: Identification and Intervention. Symposium on Language Acquisition in Diverse Contexts: From Bilingualism to Multilingualism. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 17-18 Jan 2025. 

  4. *Hamdani, S., @Kan, R., Chan, A. & Gagarina, N. (2021). Summarizing experience: Identifying bilingual DLD using online testing. Conference on LITMUS-MAIN: Online elicitation of narrative texts: Summarizing experience and making plans. Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin. Virtual Conference.  25-27 Jan 2021.

  5. Chan, A. (2020). Some reflections on complex syntax and narrative abilities in Cantonese-speaking children: where are we? 2020 Forum on School-based Speech Therapy Services. Education and Manpower Bureau, Hong Kong. 10 July 2020.​

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