She received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and served as an adjunct assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014-2016). Currently, 7 academic papers have been published in SSCI journals , 1 paper has been published in CSSCI journal, and 1 monograph has been published by China Social Science Press. In 2016, in collaboration with Professor Virginia Yip of the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, published a Chinese Mandarin Children's Multimedia Longitudinal Corpus-Tong Corpus on the International Children's Language Research Resource Exchange System (CHILDES).
Selected publications:
1)Deng, X. & Yip, V. (2018). An event-semantic account of spatial modification in the acquisition of Mandarin. Journal of Child Language45(4): 829-857. [SSCI]
2)Deng, X., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (2018). An aspectual account of ba and bei constructions in child Mandarin. First Language 38 (3): 243-262. [SSCI]
3)Deng, X. & Yip, V. (2018). A multimedia corpus of child Mandarin: The Tong corpus. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 46 (1): 69-92. [SSCI]
4)Mai, Z. & Deng, X. (2017). Selective vulnerability and dominant language transfer in the acquisition of the Chinese cleft construction by heritage speakers. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. doi: 10.1075/lab. 16040.mai. [SSCI]
5)Deng, X. & Yip, V. (2016). Cognition and perception in the linguistic encoding of space in child Mandarin. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 44 (2): 287-325. [SSCI]
6)Deng, X. & Yip, V. (2015). The linguistic encoding of space in child Mandarin: A corpus-based study. Linguistics 53(5): 1079-1112. [SSCI]
Courses taught:
Comprehensive English (3), Comprehensive English (4)
Research interests:
Children's language acquisition, Chinese syntax and semantics, corpus linguistics, comparative linguistics and psycholinguistics.
