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Dr. Candice Chi-Hang Cheung

Guest Researcher with the Focus on Autism Spectrum Disorders and Biolinguistics

Coordinator for Chinese – Autism – Theory at University of Cyprus

Candice Chi-Hang Cheung’s research interests are clinical linguistics focusing on autism spectrum disorders, developmental language disorders, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and Chinese linguistics.

Candice Chi-Hang Cheung serves as member of editorial board of Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Communication and reviewer for Applied Psycholinguistics, Autism, Cahiers de Linguistique – Asie Orientale, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Concentric, Corpus Pragmatics, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Semantics, Language and Linguistics, Lingua, Lingua Sinica, Linguistics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, SKY Journal of Linguistics, Studies in Chinese Linguistics, Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, and Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and Typological Perspectives (2011) edited by Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta, and Janick Wrona published by Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins

She is the founding member of Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience (RCLCN) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, full member of International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), life member of Linguistic Society of America (LSA, University of Chicago/Washington D.C.),  life member of Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (HKSAR, China), life member of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (California, US), member of Autism Science Foundation (New York, US),  member of International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA) (UK), member of XPRAG.de (Germany), member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US), member of American Psychological Association (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US), member of Institute Of Neurodiversity ION Global Members, and member of Global Coalition for Language Rights.

 

Education and Academic Qualifications

  • 2003–2008 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California (Thesis: “Wh-fronting in Chinese”)
  • 2003–2005 M.A. in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
  • 2001–2003 M.Phil. in Linguistics, Department of Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Thesis: “An Investigation of the Jingpo Nominal Structure)
  • 1998–2001 B.A. (1st class honors), Faculty of Arts, University of Hong Kong (major: English and Linguistics)
     

Professional Assignments

  • Coordinator for Chinese – Autism – Theory, CAT Lab, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus (since June 2022)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (August 2017 – January 2021)
  • Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (August 2015 – July 2017)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (August 2014 – July 2015)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Modern Language, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (August 2008 – July 2014)
     

Scholarships

  • Departmental Reward Scheme 2016, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Departmental Reward Scheme 2015, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Humanities Fellowship, Faculty of Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013
  • Bloch Fellowship Alternate, Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2005
  • International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) Fellowship 2004
  • College Strategic Theme Research Assistantship, University of Southern California 2004-05
  • College Strategic Theme Summer Fellowship, University of Southern California 2004
  • College Strategic Theme Fellowship, University of Southern California 2003-04 
     

Publications

Published papers

Journal papers

  1.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang, Yicheng Rong, and Stephanie Durrlemann. (2022) Steps in theory-of-mind development in Hong Kong Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism. Journal of Cognition and Development 23(5): 732–750.
  2.   Chen, Fei, Candice Chi-Hang Cheung, and Gang Peng. (2022) Linguistic tone and non-linguistic pitch imitation in children with autism spectrum disorders: A cross-linguistic investigation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 52: 2325–2343.
  3.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang, Yicheng Rong, Fei Chen, Man Tak Leung, and Tempo Po Yi Tang. (2020) Comprehension of presupposition triggers in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 34(4): 388-406.
  4.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang, Yicheng Rong, Fei Chen, Si Chen, Man Tak Leung, Tempo Po Yi Tang, and Gang Peng. (2020) Comprehension of literal statements and similes in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 34(4): 312-326. 
  5.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang and Richard K. Larson. (2018) 'Make' causatives in English and Mandarin. Lingua Sinica 4(4). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40655-018-0036-9
  6.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Heeju Hwang, Ronald Lung Yat Chui, Man Tak Leung, and Tempo Po Yi Tang. (2017) Comprehension of presuppositions in school-age Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 31(7-9): 557-572.
  7.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2016) 漢語定語從句修飾專有名詞的語義分析 [A semantic analysis of relative clauses modifying proper names in Mandarin].《現代語言學》[Modern Linguistics] 4(4): 207-214.
  8.   Li, Haoze and Candice Chi-Hang Cheung. (2015) Focus intervention effects in Mandarin multiple wh-questions. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 24(4): 361-382.
  9.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang and Haoze Li. (2015) 普通話和粵語的內、外修飾語 [Inner and outer modifiers in Mandarin and Cantonese].《語言科學》[Linguistic Sciences], Vol. 14, No. 5: 449-458.
  10. Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang and Richard K. Larson. (2015) Psych verbs in English and Mandarin. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33(1): 127-189.
  11. Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2014) Wh-fronting and the left periphery in Mandarin. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 23(4): 393-431.
  12. Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2013) 從製圖理論探索漢語話題與焦點的分佈 [On the distribution of Topics and Foci in Mandarin: A cartographic solution].《現代外語》[Modern Foreign Languages], Vol. 36, No. 1: 10-17.
  13. Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2012) Adjectival modification in Mandarin: Evidence for the adjunction analysis. Studies in Chinese Linguistics, Vol. 33, No. 1: 41-62.
  14. Li, Haoze and Candice Chi-Hang Cheung. (2012) 漢語焦點干涉效應的句法分析 [The syntactic analysis of focus intervention effects in Mandarin].《語言科學》[Linguistic Sciences], Vol. 11, No. 2: 113-125. Also reprinted in《語言文字學》[Linguistics and Philology] (中國人民大學書報資料中心 [Information Center for Social Sciences, RUC]), 2012, Vol. 7: 25-36.
  15. Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2012) 漢語前置疑問代詞問句的焦點性質 [The focus nature of wh-fronting constructions in Mandarin].《漢語學報》[Hanyu Xuebao (Chinese Linguistics)], Vol. 38, No. 2: 25-34.
  16. Cheung, Chi Hang and Wai Hoo Au-Yeung. (2009) 引言.《中國語文研究》[Studies in Chinese Linguistics], Series no. 28, Number 2: i-ii. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.

​ Book chapters

  1.   Wong, Anita Mei-Yin, Candice Chi-Hang Cheung, Jessica Man-Wai Lo, and Emily Ka-Hei Wan (2022) Grammatical Analysis of Cantonese Samples. In Understanding Development and Disorder in Cantonese using Language Sample Analysis, pp. 19–64. New York: Routledge.
  2.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2016) Chinese: Parts of speech. In Sin-Wai Chan, ed., The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language, pp. 242-294. New York: Routledge.
  3.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2015) On the fine structure of the left periphery: The positions of topic and focus in Cantonese. In Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai, ed., The Cartography of Chinese Syntax: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 11 (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax), pp. 75-130. New York: Oxford University Press.
  4.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2003) An investigation of the noun phrase structure of Kachin. In Dai Qingxia and Gu Yang, eds., Modern Linguistic Theory and Minority Languages in China, pp. 149-169. Beijing: Minzu Chubanshe.

​ Monograph

  1.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2016) Parts of Speech in Mandarin: The State of the Art. Springer.

​ Dissertations

  1.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2008) Wh-fronting in Chinese. Doctoral dissertation. University of Southern California.
  2.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2004) An Investigation of the Jingpo Nominal Structure. MPhil thesis. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Conference & working papers

  1.   Rong, Yicheng, Hui Chang, and Candice Chi-Hang Cheung. (2018) Topic-comment constructions in L1-Chinese learners'  English. In Stephan Politzer-Ahles, Yu-Yin Hsu, Chu-Ren Huang, and Yao Yao, eds., Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 32), 567-576. Hong Kong: Association for Computational Linguistics.   
  2.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2007) Move or not move? A case study of wh-conditionals in Mandarin. In Emily Elfner and Martin Walkow eds., Proceedings of the 37th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 37), Vol. 1, 153-164. Amherst: GLSA.
  3.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2007) The syntax and semantics of bare conditionals in Chinese. In E-Puig Waldmüller, ed., Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, 150-164. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
  4.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2007) On the noun phrase structure of Jingpo. In Michael A. Shepherd, ed., USC Working Papers in Linguistics 3, 32-56. Los Angeles: University of Southern California.
  5.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2006) Some speculations on the noun phrase structure of Jingpo. In Michal Temkin Martínez, Asier Alcázar, and Roberto Mayoral Hernández, eds., Proceedings of the 33rd Western Conference on Linguistics, Vol. 16, 38-51. Fresno: Department of Linguistics, California State University.
  6.   Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2004) The status of plural morphemes in classifier languages: An investigation of the plural morphemes in Jingpo. In Feng-Hsi Liu, ed., Proceedings of the 16th North American conference on Chinese linguistics, 48-63. Iowa City: University of Iowa.

 

Invited talks

  1. Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2019) Comprehension of presuppositions in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders. Invited talk given at the Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience (RCLCN) Research Seminar, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Apr 17, 2019.
  2. Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2010) What is linguistics? Invited talk given at the Rotary Club of Hong Kong City North, Hong Kong, Aug 24, 2010.
  3. Cheung, Candice Chi-Hang. (2009) On wh-fronting in Mandarin: A cartographic solution. Invited talk given in the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and College of Foreign Languages at Hunan University, China, Oct 30, 2009.

 

Interviews

Why children with autism have communication difficulties? March 2019 PolyU Milestones.