My main research interests span clinical linguistics and theoretical linguistics, particularly syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and Chinese linguistics. I am interested in the relationships among linguistic structure, meaning, language use, and cognition, and my research draws on both clinical and cross-linguistic data. I have worked on a number of specialized areas, including:

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• Clinical Linguistics and Autism Spectrum Disorders

  • Grammatical analysis of Cantonese samples (in collaboration with Dr. Anita Mei-Yin Wong)

  • Relations between mental state terms and theory of mind in Mandarin-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders (in collaboration with Dr. Shasha An, Dr. Man Tak Leung, Dr. Tempo Po Yi Tang, and Dr. Luodi Yu)

  • Relations between theory of mind, mental state terms, and presuppositions in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders (in collaboration with Dr. Heeju Hwang, Dr. Man Tak Leung, and Dr. Tempo Po Yi Tang)

  • Developmental steps in theory of mind in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders (in collaboration with Prof. Stephanie Durrleman, Dr. Heeju Hwang and Dr. Man Tak Leung)

  • Comprehension of figurative language in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders (in collaboration with Dr. Heeju Hwang and Dr. Man Tak Leung)

  • Development of mental state verbs and presuppositions in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders (in collaboration with Prof. Richard K. Larson, Dr. Heeju Hwang, Dr. Man Tak Leung, and Dr. Stephen Politzer-Ahles)

• Syntax, Semantics, and Chinese Linguistics

  • The syntax and semantics of nominal modification structures and attributive markers in Sinitic and Iranian languages (in collaboration with Prof. Richard K. Larson) 

  • The syntax and semantics of psychological predicates and ‘make’ causatives in Mandarin and English (in collaboration with Prof. Richard K. Larson)

  • Focus intervention effects in single and multiple wh-questions in Mandarin

  • Nominal modification and noun phrase structure in Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese Southern Min (in collaboration with Prof. Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai and Dr. Feng-Fan Hsieh)

  • Topic and focus structures in Mandarin and Cantonese and their implications for the syntax-information structure interface (in collaboration with Prof. Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai)

  • The syntax and semantics of bare conditionals in Mandarin and correlatives in Indo-Aryan languages

  • Attributive adjectival modification in Mandarin

  • Noun phrase structure in Jingpo

Professional membership: 

• Founding member of Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience (RCLCN)

• Full member for International Society for Autism Research (INSAR)

• Linguistic Society of America

• Linguistic Society of Hong Kong

• International Association of Chinese Linguistics

• International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA)

• XPRAG.de

• Institute of Neurodiversity

Other websites:

• Google Scholar

• ORCiD

• ResearchGate

• Scopus

• Loop Profile

張志恒
Candice Chi-Hang Cheung

B.A. (HKU); M.Phil. (CUHK); M.A., Ph.D. (USC)

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Guest Researcher with the focus on Autism Spectrum Disorders and Biolinguistics

Institut für Slavistik

Universität Potsdam

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