Projects

General Research Fund 2018–2019

Project Title: Relations between theory of mind, mental state terms, and presuppositions in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders
Principal Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Co-Investigators: Heeju Hwang (HKU), Man Tak Leung (PolyU), and Tempo Po Yi Tang (PolyU)

Departmental General Research Fund 2019-2021

Project Title: Relations between mental terms and theory of mind in Mandarin-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders
Principal Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Co-Investigators: Shasha An (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies), Man Tak Leung (PolyU), Gang Peng (PolyU), Tempo Po Yi Tang (PolyU), and Luodi Yu (South China Normal University)

Departmental General Research Fund 2018-2020

Project Title: The sequence of steps in theory of mind development for Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder
Principal Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Co-Investigators: Heeju Hwang (HKU) and Man Tak Leung (PolyU)

Central Research Grant 2018-2019

Project Title: Comprehension of figurative language in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders
Principal Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Co-Investigators: Heeju Hwang (HKU) and Man Tak Leung (PolyU)

Central Research Grant 2017-2018

Project Title: Development of mental state verbs and presuppositions in Cantonese-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorders
Principal Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Co-Investigators: Richard K. Larson (Stony Brook University), Man Tak Leung (PolyU), and Stephen Politzer-Ahles (PolyU)

Dean's Reserve 2015–2016

Project Title: On 'make'-causatives in Mandarin and English
Principal Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Co-Investigator: Richard K. Larson (Stony Brook University)

Direct Grant for Research 2012-2013

Project Title: On the noun phrase structure of Cantonese, Mandarin and Taiwanese
Principal Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Co-Investigators: Feng-Fan Hsieh and Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (National Tsing Hua University)

Direct Grant for Research 2010-2011

Project Title: A pilot study of the cartography of the low IP area in Mandarin and Cantonese
Principal Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Co-Investigator: Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (National Tsing Hua University)

Direct Grant for Research 2008-2009

Project Title: A pilot study of wh-fronting in Mandarin and Cantonese
Principal Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Co-Investigator: Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (National Tsing Hua University)

Other research projects

Principal Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung

Project Title: On inner and outer modifiers in Cantonese and Mandarin (2012-2013)

Principal Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Co-Investigator: Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (National Tsing Hua University)

Project Title: Identificational Focus and the cartography of wh-adjuncts in Mandarin and Cantonese (2010-2011)

Principal Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Co-Investigator: Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (National Tsing Hua University)

Principal Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung
Co-Investigator: Jean-Roger Vergnaud (University of Southern California)

General Research Fund 2017–2018, University Grants Committee

Project Title: Asymmetries in Cantonese children’s comprehension and production of relative clauses: Structure, typology and processing
Principal Investigator: Wing-Shan Angel Chan
Co-Investigators: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung and Stephen Matthews

CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute – Start-up Support Scheme for Shenzhen Research Institute 2013–2015

Project Title: Bilingualism and Comparative Linguistics: Bridging Theory and Practice
Principal Investigator: Virginia Yip
Co-Investigator: Candice Chi-Hang Cheung

Private Donations

Project Title: Research fund for formal syntax: On the nature of syntax-information structure interface