Angel Chan
Angel Chan received her PhD in Psycholinguistics from the University of Leipzig under the supervision of Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello and Bernard Comrie at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Angel obtained her MPhil in Linguistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and BSc in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of Hong Kong, where she also obtained her clinical qualifications as a speech and language therapist.
After finishing her PhD, Angel served as Postdoctoral Fellow and Manager of the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, directed by Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is also Honorary Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Hong Kong, and is still an affiliated member of the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Angel studies child first and second language acquisition in cross-linguistic and multilingual contexts, involving Cantonese, Mandarin, English and German. In particular, she has been involved in a number of projects looking at how children process transitive constructions, ditransitive constructions, relative clauses and noun modifying constructions. Her interests also include cognitive linguistics, child language impairments, and the development of speech and language assessment tools for Hong Kong children's L2 English and L2 Mandarin.