I am currently a Senior Lecturer of Speech Pathology at Federation University Australia. I am the Master of Speech Pathology Program Coordinator. I also have full academic status at Flinders University. I have been involved in theoretical syntactic research as well as typical and atypical syntactic-semantic development studies for 20 years. My first PhD was in theoretical syntax, and the second PhD in Speech-Language Pathology studied L1 multidialectal learners’ L2 acquisition at the syntax-semantics interface and its implication on separating language disorders from language differences in cultural and linguistic diverse (CALD) contexts. I was a post-doctoral research fellow in syntax in Hong Kong and a visiting professor in corpus linguistics in Canada. I am familiar with mixed-method research. I have published four research books, one in syntactic typology and the others in second language lexical and syntactic acquisition. A new book on Typical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity is contracted by Routledge to publish in 2023. I have authored/co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles in syntax, corpus linguistics, second language acquisition and speech-language pathology. I also co-authored a vignette in the CRAN Project (R) and a spoken corpus in Wu. I have presented in Australia, Canada, the US, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the West Indies and Mainland China on topics of syntax and corpus linguistics in their interface with typical and atypical multilingual development.
Keywords: Speech-Language Pathology, Language development, Language Disorder, Second Language Acquisition, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics
"Grammar, I hate" or "I grammar hate"?: L1 and L2 word order differences and bilingual DLD assessment
Aphasia rehabilitation when speech pathologists and clients do not share the same language: a scoping review
Bidialectal CALD learners of English: Implications on bilingual language disorders and differential diagnosis
Introduction
L1-L2 congruency as a criterion to identify collocations based on contrastive analysis
Typical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
Co-designing a framework for the adaptation of aphasia therapy for diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds
IELTS Writing band scores 5.5–7.5: Grammatical error rates, stakeholder perceptions, and risk
Mandarin DP1-he-DP2 in the Subject Position
Optimising social conditions to improve autonomy in communication and care for ethnic minority residents in nursing homes: A meta-synthesis of qualitative research
Source text pre-editing versus target text post-editing in using Google Translate to provide health services to culturally and linguistically diverse clients
Syntactic Hierarchy of the Typical Comparative Construction in Shanghainese
Challenges and opportunities for the multicultural aged care workforce: A systematic review and meta-synthesis
First Language Bidialectism in Second Language Interface Acquisition: Difference and Disorder
Universal Grammar and the Initial State of Second Language Learning : Evidence of Chinese Multidialectal Children’s Acquisition of English at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Why can’t “I English speak”? Multidialectal Chinese children learning English as a second language – Implications on language disorder diagnosis and assessment
Designatum and Syntactic Position of Sentence Final Pronoun and Its Impact on Sentence Force
A tentative analysis of the problem-based learning model in college English teaching in China
Do double negation structures yield single negation interpretations in Mandarin Chinese? Some comments on Li et al. (2018)
Pragmatic Properties of Chinese Conjunctive Empty Verb Sentences
Syntax, I hate or I syntax hate? The role of L1 bidialectism in L2 syntax-semantics acquisition — An implication to bilingual DLD assessment
Topic marking in a Shanghainese corpus: From observation to prediction
Redefining Chinese L1 in SLP: Considerations for the assessment of Chinese bilingual/bidialectal language skills
The Semantic Subset Principle and Second Language Acquisition
Topic and left periphery in shanghainese
First Language Bidialectism and Associative Learning in Second Language Acquisition
The Evolution of ɦi23kã34 (‘he says’) in Shanghainese
The Evolution of Pi23kã34 ('he says') in Shanghainese
A Typological Study of the Word Order of Time Nominals and Time Quantifiers in Chinese
Grammaticalization of copula - process and tendency
The evolution of a topic marker in Wu (Chinese) dialects
Topical Approach and Parsing Framework to the Shi Syntax-Semantics Mismatched Structure in Chinese
Word Order Typology: Topic and Topic Marker Structure
Contextual Effect in SLA: A case Study of Polysemy and Metaphor
Discourse Analysis in EFL Learning-A Case Study
Three Types of Atypical Topic and the Function of Their Markers
Topic Marker, Clausal Modal Particle and Sentence Final Particle
A Pragmatic Analysis of “Luck Talk” in Shanghai Dialect
Contextual Effects on the Acquisition of the Metaphorical Uses of Functional Words and Its Implications on Second Language Teaching and Learning
Co-references of the Interrogatives in Coordinating Wh-questions
Distinguishing Multi-purpose and Sole-purpose Topics
Syntax-Semantics Mismatched Structure and the Topical Analysis
Topic, Focus and Focal Topic
A Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English Inversive Sentences---From the Perspective of Translation
A Topical Analysis of Surface Unaccusative Structures
A Topical Analysis of the Syntax-Semantics Mismatched Structure with ‘Shi’ in Shanghai Wu
A Topical Analysis of Typical Double Object Construction