My main research interests are clinical linguistics focusing on autism spectrum disorders, developmental language disorders, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and Chinese linguistics. I have worked on a number of specialized areas, including:
 

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

• Relations between mental 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, Ms. 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 Ms. Tempo Po Yi Tang)

• Developmental steps of 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)

• Understanding 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)

• 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 of 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 of 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

• Autism Science Foundation

• International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA)

• XPRAG.de

• Institute of Neurodiversity

• Global Coalition for Language Rights

Other websites:

• Google Scholar

• ORCiD

• Research Gate

• 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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​Coordinator for Chinese – Autism – Theory at University of Cyprus

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