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2024/06/25
The manuscript entitled "A decade of language processing research: Which place for linguistic diversity?" is now available online in Glossa Psycholinguistics here!
2024/05/09
The manuscript entitled "It costs to exist: Acceptability judgments of the temporal concord of the auxiliary verbs you and hui in Taiwan Mandarin" is now available online in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research here!
Upcoming presentation(s)
- 2024/12/19: "Grammar and time in contrast: A case for multidisciplinary research", invited talk (onsite and simultaneous online option) at the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2025/05/12-14: "A tale of the lab and the field: An opportunity for Formosan language research", oral presentation at the 5th World Congress of Taiwan Studies (Taiwan in a changing world: Past, present, and future), Taipei, Taiwan
Short bio
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of Academia Sinica, Taiwan. I am working on my own 2-year project entitled “Paving the way for ‘field psycholinguistics’ of Formosan languages: Case studies in Truku Seediq, Bunun and Tsou”, with a grant from the Academia Sinica postdoctoral scholar program.
Previously, I worked on another 2-year postdoctoral project (2022-2024), “On the expression of temporal reference with modal information from a morphosyntactic and psycho-/neuro-linguistic perspective: The case of ‘you (to have) + VP’ in Taiwan Mandarin”, where I examined this grammatical construction in the variety of Mandarin spoken in Taiwan using a wide range of techniques: corpus-driven observations, morphosyntactic/semantic/discursive analyses, behavioral methods (acceptability judgments, self-paced reading), neuroimaging methods (EEG/ERP).
I graduated from the PhD program of the department of English of National Taiwan Normal University (Linguistic track) in June 2022. During my PhD studies, I was also the manager of the Neurolinguistics Lab of National Taiwan Normal University, where I supervized behavioral, ERP and fMRI experiments about a great variety of language-related topics, such as language relativity, classifier processing or conceptual categorization.
Research interests
My research interests combine two disciplines: linguistics and cognitive science (including language processing). My main area of research can be summarized as follows:
- On the linguistic side, I am interested in the syntax and semantics of the expression of time reference from a functional syntax and user-based perspective. Particularly, I aim at understanding how temporal relations are expressed with grammatical markers in tenseless languages, with a focus on Mandarin Chinese (and its variety spoken in Taiwan).
- On the cognitive science side, I have mainly worked in sentence processing using psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic techniques with a focus on the processing of temporality (tense, aspect, mood and modality) in grammar.
I aim at bridging linguistic analyses with their brain processing patterns in order to establish a neurolinguistic and crosslinguistic model of the processing of temporality at the sentence level. Although I have mainly focused on Mandarin Chinese so far, I wish to expand my research to other languages, especially languages which are underrepresented in the language processing domain.
My research interests lie in the following topics (click on the image for more details):
Last update: 2024/11/15