My research interest is to understand how language is acquired and attrited over time and the relation between language and brain. In my PhD project, an online eye-tracking method was used to explore how children acquire focus in a cross-linguistical perspective.
Chen Hui Ching
I am a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of English, Linguistics, and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore. Together with Prof. Aine Ito, I am working on the Language Prediction Project. Our research goal is to understand whether enhancing prediction would help L1/L2 speakers to process languages. The current project has been pre-registered, and you can find the information here: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/JQUNS and https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DSA6J.
I obtained my PhD in Psycholinguistics from the International Doctorate in Experimental Approaches to Language and Brain (IDEALAB) program, which was funded by the European Union. I studied at the University of Potsdam in Germany, the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, the University of Toronto in Canada, Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, and Macquarie University in Australia. I also have an MA in Linguistics from the University of Tübingen in Germany.
My research interests include understanding how human beings acquire language across the lifespan and across different language groups, as well as how language ability interacts with other cognitive abilities. I use offline as well as online measures in my research. In the past, I have studied typical development children (Mandarin-, English-, and German-speaking children) and cognitively impaired and cognitively healthy older adults.
Feel free to contact me for any questions: [email protected]. For more information about the Bilingualims and Language Processing Lab leading by Prof. Aine Ito, you can visit the website: https://aineito.github.io/lab.html.