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Welcoming our new PhD student, Sara Ok
We are excited to welcome a new PhD student to the lab, Sara Ok. Sara completed her bachelor’s degree in English and master’s degree in linguistics from Konkuk University in South Korea. Her master’s thesis, directed by Prof. Upyong Hong, examined how L1 and L2 speakers of English process complex relative clauses in real time, […]
Congratulations to Jingying Hu on winning the Paula Menyuk Travel Award!
Congratulations to Jingying Hu on winning the Paula Menyuk Travel Award! This travel award of $400 recognizes the top student abstract submissions to the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), to be held on November 6-9, 2025. Jingying will be presenting a first-authored poster titled, “Integrative and predictive mechanisms in L2 processing of temporal information: […]
Congratulations to Shaohua Fang on his Early Career research grant!
Congratulations to Dr. Shaohua Fang on winning a $10,000 Language Learning Early Career Research Grant to support his project “Task Design Features and L2 Learners’ Truth-Value Judgments”! During the 2025-26 academic year, Shaohua will conduct four experiments to examine how certain design features of truth-value judgment tasks— modality, context format, language, and context content—affect adult […]
Vanessa Sheu successfully defends her dissertation
On December 6, 2024, Vanessa Sheu successfully defended her dissertation “Plausibility, prediction, and Mandarin garden-paths: online aural cue use in L1, L2, and heritage speakers”. She got interesting and challenging questions from the committee – Elaine Francis, Daniel Olson, Charles Lin, and Alejandro Cuza – and from other audience members. Later that evening, we celebrated […]
Welcome, Dr. Shaohua Fang!
We are excited to welcome Dr. Shaohua Fang to Purdue! He arrived in May 2024 and is already involved in several projects with our lab members. Dr. Fang is a Ross-Lynn Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2023. Prior to this, he […]
ExLing presentations in Spring 2023
It was a busy Spring 2023 for ExLing Lab members! In March, the whole lab group took a road trip to Urbana Illinois, where Vanessa Sheu and Jingying Hu presented papers at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS15). The theme of the conference was Interdisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism. We enjoyed […]
Double congratulations to Josh Weirick!
Josh Weirick successfully defended his dissertation “Language background and the realization of the information structure constraints on English dative constructions: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual speakers” on May 21, 2021. In other excellent news, Josh will start a new postdoctoral position in the Aphasia Lab in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at […]
CUNY 2020 virtual conference
Because of the covid-19 pandemic, CUNY 2020 (March 19-21) could not be held as planned in Amherst, Massachusetts. However, the organizers went to heroic efforts and quickly moved the CUNY 2020 conference online. Links to the talks and posters are available for anyone to view in the OSF repository. Our lab members got to participate […]
Welcome, Vanessa!
As the Fall 2019 semester begins in earnest, we are excited to welcome PhD. student Vanessa Sheu to the ExLing Lab. Vanessa is excited to join the Exling Lab this fall. She received her B.A in Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan and her M.A. in TESOL at Teachers College, Columbia University. As a […]
March 2019 Conferences
Lab members were busy presenting at three conferences in March 2019. Carol Chun Zheng, Josh Weirick, and Elaine Francis presented a talk at the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference in Atlanta and a poster at the CUNY sentence processing conference in Boulder, CO reporting on their project, “Effects of frequency and simplicity in L2 […]