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  • Dr CHAN Wing Shan Angel (PhD, MPhil, BSc)

    • Daily Used Post Title

      Assistant Professor

    • Areas of Scholarship

      Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics

    • Education

      2007 PhD in Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig & University of Leipzig, Germany
      2004 MPhil in Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong
      2000 BSc in Speech & Hearing Sciences, University of Hong Kong

    • Work Experience

      Sep 09 - Date Assistant Professor, Dept of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
      Oct 07 - Aug 09 Postdoctoral Fellow & Manager, Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre, Dept of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Chinese University of Hong Kong

    • Teaching

      • Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Learning (CBS 574)
      • Psycholinguistics (CBS 592)
      • Introduction to Language Learning and Development (CBS 483)
      • Topics in Chinese Grammar (CBS 513)

    • Administrative Duties

      Sep 2010 - Aug 2011 Member, Departmental Learning and Teaching Committee (DLTC)
      July 2010 – June 2012 Appointed Member, Human Subjects Ethics Sub-Committee (HSESC), sub-committee of the University Research Committee

    • Research Output (Selected)

      • CHAN, A., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. The acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese and Mandarin. In E. Kidd (ed). The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, Typology and Function. John Benjamins. 2011. 197:225.
      • CHAN, A., Meints, K., Lieven, E. & Tomasello, M. Young children’s comprehension of English SVO word order revisited: testing the same children in act-out and intermodal preferential looking tasks. Cognitive Development. 2010. 25(1): 30-45.
      • CHAN, A., The Cantonese double object construction with bei2 ‘give’ in bilingual children: the role of input. International Journal of Bilingualism. 2010. 14(1): 65-85.
      • CHAN, A., Lieven, E. & Tomasello. M. Children’s understanding of the agent-patient relations in the transitive construction: cross-linguistic comparisons between Cantonese, German and English. Cognitive Linguistics. 2009.20(2): 267-300.

    • Consultancy Work

      Mar 09 - Mar 14 Honorary Assistant Professor, Dept of Linguistics, HKU
      Sep 09 - present Affiliated Member, Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre, CUHK
      May 09 - present Executive Committee Member, International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)
      May 09 - present Editor, Child Language Bulletin (published twice a year by IASCL)
      2008 - present Reviewer, Applied Linguistics, Applied Psycholinguistics, Developmental Psychology