2024/06/25 The manuscript entitled “A decade of language
processing research: Which place for linguistic diversity?” is now
available online in Glossa Psycholinguisticshere!
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 Researchhere!
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
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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):
Temporal reference in (Taiwan) Mandarin: Syntax and semantics, Corpus
and experiments
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<div class="desc"><b>Crosslinguistic language processing: Linguistic and cognitive diversities of the mind</b></div>
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<div class="desc"><b>Applied language processing: Interpreting, and language learning and teaching</b></div>
