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- HHB731e, Hung Hom Bay Campus
- +852 2766 7439
- angel.ws.chan@polyu.edu.hk
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Dr. Angel Chan is Associate Professor and founding member of the Speech Therapy Unit at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her 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). She studies child first and second language acquisition in cross-linguistic and multi-lingual contexts, so far involving Cantonese, Mandarin, English, German, Urdu and Kam. Her interests include cognitive linguistic, typological-functional and processing approaches to the study of language acquisition and disorders, clinical linguistics, and development of language assessment and intervention approaches for children in a Chinese and bilingual context. She is collaborating with researchers from the European COST Action LITMUS (Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings) Bi-SLI initiative to study bilingual ethnic minority children in Hong Kong and China, and her team members have developed language assessment tools for Cantonese, Mandarin, Kam and Urdu. Her research works are published in Journal of Child Language, Frontiers in Psychology (Language Sciences), Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, International Journal of Bilingualism, Cognition, Cognitive Development, and Cognitive Linguistics. She currently serves on the editorial board of First Language.
學歷
- Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
- Master of Philosophy in Linguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Doctor of Philosophy in Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Academic and Professional Experience
- Registered Speech Therapist, Member of Register of Speech Therapists accredited by Department of Health of the HKSAR government
Teaching Areas
- Child Language Development and Disorders
- Clinical Linguistics
- *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, 257, Article 105450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105450
- @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, 254, Article 105425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105425
- *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, 27(2), 157-171. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2024.2326095
- *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, 67(6), 1772-1784. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-22-00397
- *Lai, J., #Chan, A. & Kidd, E. (2023). Relative clause comprehension in Cantonese-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder. PLOS ONE, 18(11), Article e0288021. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288021
#corresponding author; * student author, @ postdoc
- 2026 - 2028
Principal Investigator, Advancing the Identification of Developmental Language Disorder in Mandarin-Cantonese Bilingual Children: a Reference Standard and Novel Assessment Measures. RGC GRF (Project No.15315525) - 2021 - 2023
Principal Investigator, Revisiting Nonword Repetition as a Diagnostic Tool in Cantonese-speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder. RGC GRF (Project No.15609420) - 2018 - 2021
Principal Investigator, Asymmetries in Cantonese Children's Comprehension and Production of Relative Clauses: Structure, Typology and Processing. RGC GRF (Project No. 15607217)
- 2025 - 2028
Co-Principal Investigator, Integrating Machine Learning, Behavioral Analysis and Multimodal Neuroimaging Techniques to Investigate the Comorbidity of Specific Learning Disabilities in Hong Kong. RGC CRF (Project No. C5033-24G)
- A representative for Child Language, TalkBank Advisory Board
- Committee Member, Multilingual and Multicultural Affairs Committee (MMAC), International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP)
- Editorial Board Member, First Language
- Editor, Child Language Bulletin, International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)
- The International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)
- International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP)
- Asia Pacific Society of Speech, Language, and Hearing (APSSLH)
- American Speech–Language–Hearing Association (ASHA)
- Australian Linguistic Society (ALS)
- Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU)
- International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL)
- The Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists (HKAST)
- The Hong Kong Institute of Speech Therapists (HKIST)
