The ExLing lab was well represented at the recent Linguistic Society of America 2026 meeting in New Orleans, where lab members gave three talks and a poster.
- “Eye-Tracking Evidence on L2 Scope Interpretation: An Approximate Replication” Shaohua Fang, Jingying Hu, and Elaine Francis (presented by Shaohua and Jingying)
- “Animacy Effects in Production and Comprehension of English Object Relative Clauses” Yue Li and Elaine Francis (presented by Yue)
- “Can LLMs Read Between the Scopes? A Cross-Linguistic Study of Quantifier-Negation Interpretations” Shaohua Fang, Yue Li, and Yan Cong (presented by Shaohua and Yue)
- “What Moderates the Congruency Effect in Collocational Processing? Evidence from English-Speaking Learners of Chinese” Xiaolong Lu, Shaohua Fang, Xiaoyu Liu (presented by Shaohua)
Also at this meeting Prof. Ronnie Wilbur was honored as a new LSA Fellow for her groundbreaking research in sign language linguistics and her advocacy work for deaf education. Congratulations Ronnie!
Other Purdue Linguistics colleagues and recent alumni also gave several presentations in New Orleans on topics including interrogatives in an emerging sign language (Hatam Tamimi and Ronnie Wilbur), Mandarin-English code-switching (Yi-Fang Cheng), Africatown English (Leah Nodar), and focus prominence in ASL (Serpil Karabüklü). It was great to meet up with these colleagues and also our former lab member Yongjia Deng, who is now a PhD student at UW Madison.
