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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 presentations
- 2024/07/12-14: "Existing in the future depends on who you are and what you do: Acceptability judgments of ‘you (to have) + VP’ in Taiwan Mandarin", oral presentation at the Japanese Society for Language Sciences 25th Annual International Conference, Shizuoka, Japan
- 2024/09/03-04: "Quantitative explorations of regional grammatical variations: The case of you ‘to have’ in Taiwan Mandarin", poster presentation at the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Conference, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2024/09/05-07: "Judging past time reference across languages: A Competition Model perspective", poster presentation at the 30th AMLaP Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
Short bio
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of Academia Sinica, Taiwan. I work on my own project entitled “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”.
I graduated from the PhD program of the department of English of National Taiwan Normal University (Linguistic track). 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 language processing.
- On the linguistic side, I am interested in the syntax and semantics of the expression of TIME from a functional syntax and user-based perspective. Particularly, I aim at understanding how temporal relations are expressed with grammatical markers in Mandarin Chinese (and its variety spoken in Taiwan), which is said to be a tenseless language.
- On the psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic side, I have mainly worked in sentence processing with a focus on the processing of temporality (tense, aspect, 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 conducted my research on Mandarin Chinese, I also 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: 2024/06/25