Journal Publication

Chen, H. C., & Yow, W. Q. Variability in the Effects of Bilingualism on Task Switching of Cognitively Healthy and Cognitively Impaired Older Bilinguals. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2, 1165388.

Chen, H.C., Szendroi, K., Crain, S., Höhle, B. (2019) Understanding Prosodic Focus Marking in Mandarin Chinese: Data from Children and Adults. Journal of Psycholinguistics.

Yow, W. Q., Chen, H. C., Lokanathan, T., Achenbach, A., & Blessing, L. (2020). A Novel Touch-Screen, Dual-Language Intervention Program for Older Adults. Innovation in Aging, 4(Suppl 1), 559.

Book Publication

Chen, H. C. (2022). Acquisition of focus – in a cross-linguistic perspective

Chen, H. C. (2013). The English It-cleft and the Chinese It-cleft construction- A corpus-based study

Symposium

Yow, W. Q., Chen, H.C., Lokanathan, T. (2021) The Dual-Language Intervention Semantic Computerized Program (DISC) assisted to maintain local switch costs in mild cognitive impaired older adults Symposium at Gerontological Society of America, Online and in person at Phoenix. 

Yow, W. Q., Chen, H.C., Lokanathan, T. (2020) A Novel Touch-screen Dual-language Intervention Program for Older Adults. Presentation given at the Aging and Gaming: The Science and Promise of Technology-Based Leisure Activities and Interventions Symposium at Gerontological Society of America, Online.

Yow, W. Q., Lokanathan, T., Chen, H.C. (2020) Elder-friendly multi-modal touch-screen platform measures for bilingual cognitive interventions. Presentation given at the Aging for Asians Symposium at Gerontological Society of America, Online.

Conference Presentation

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2018) Understanding Prosodic and Syntactic Focus by Mandarin and German Five-year-olds: Evidence from Eye-tracking Studies. Presentation given at 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, USA. 

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2018) The Role of Prosodic and Syntactic Focus in Mandarin: Evidence from Three to Five-year-olds. Presentation given at Asian- Pacific BabyLab Constellation Conference 2018, Singapore. 

Chen, H.C., (2016) Information structure of the Mandarin It-cleft construction shi…(de). Presentation given at International non-prototypical cleft construction conference, Leuven, Belgium. 

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2016) Comprehension of the focus structures- A cross-linguistics perspective study. Presentation given at Multilingual Sydney Workshop, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2015) Prosody perception and realization in Mandarin Chinese: Data from children and adults. Presentation given at Workshop on Prosodic Development, Cambridge, England. 

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2015) Prosody perception and realization in Mandarin Chinese. Presentation given at Milanguage Spring School of Language, Milan, Italy 

Poster Presentation

Chen, H.C., Aine Ito (2023) Does prediction enhance language comprehension? Poster will be presented at AMLaP conference, San Sebastian, Spain

Quin, Y.W, Chen, H.C., Lokanathan, T. (2019) Improvement in fine motor control in dementia elderly from a computerized touchscreen training program. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting, Austin, USA

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2017) Comprehension of prosodic and syntactic focus marking in Mandarin Chinese- Data from children and adults. Poster session presented at Processing prosody across languages, varieties, and nativeness, Tübingen, Germany. 

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2017) Comprehension of focus structures in Mandarin Chinese- an eye-tracking study with 5-year-old children. Poster session presented at 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France.

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2016) Comprehension of focus structures in cross linguistics perspectives. Poster session presented at ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Annual Workshop, Sydney, Australia.

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2016) Acquisition of focus structures in Mandarin Chinese. Poster session presented at 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Florida, USA.  

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2016) Acquisition of focus structures in Mandarin Chinese. Poster session presented at 34th European Workshop on Cognitive Science, Bressanone, Italy.

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2015) Prosody perception and realization in Mandarin Chinese- Data from Adults and Children. Poster session presented at ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Annual Workshop, Sydney, Australia.

Chen, H.C. (2014) The information structure of the Chinese It-cleft construction shi…(de). Poster session presented at 4th Central European Conference in Linguistics for Postgraduate Students, Lublin, Poland.

Invited Presentation

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2017) Comprehension of the sentence with the focus particle ‘only’ interacting with phonological representation in Mandarin Chinese- an eye-tracking study. Colloquium at Language Acquisition Group, Macquarie University, Australia.

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2016) Acquisition of the focus structures in Mandarin Chinese. Colloquium at SLAM/Speech and Language Group at Western Sydney University, Australia. 

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2016) Design of the study with the focus particle ‘only’ in Mandarin Chinese. Colloquium at Language Acquisition Group, Macquarie University, Australia.

Chen, H.C. (2014) Information structure of the Chinese It-clefts- shi…(de). Presentation given at Language Acquisition Colloquium, University of Potsdam, Germany.

Chen, H.C. (2012) Chinese cleft constructions- a corpus based study, Presentation given at Current methods in Linguistics Research, University of Tübingen, Germany.

Research Presentation

Chen, H.C. (2017) Communication cues in language acquisition at the 3 Minutes Thesis Competition, IDEALAB winter school, Macquarie, Sydney, Australia.  

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2017) Comprehension of prosodic and syntactic focus marking in Mandarin Chinese, Colloquium at the IDEALAB winter school, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2016) Acquisition of information structure in a cross-linguistic perspective, Colloquium at the IDEALAB winter school, Rovereto, Italy.

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2015) Acquisition of information structure in Mandarin Chinese, Colloquium at the IDEALAB summer school, Potsdam, Germany.

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2015) Acquisition of information structure. Colloquium at the IDEALAB winter school, Rovereto, Italy.

Chen, H.C., Crain, S. Höhle, B. (2014) Acquisition of information Structure, Colloquium at the IDEALAB summer school, Potsdam, Germany.

Science communication presentation

Chen, H.C. (2021) Learning and brain. Speech at Chinese High School Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia. 

Chen, H.C. (2020) Bilingual intervention training program with the Art Club, Taipei, Taiwan. 

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