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Congratulations to Yue Li on a successful dissertation defense
Big congrats to Yue Li for successfully defending her Purdue Linguistics PhD dissertation titled “Animacy in Relative Clause Production and Comprehension for L1 and L2 English Speakers” on June 11, 2026. We are so proud of her! Thanks to the committee: Dr. Alejandro Cuza, Dr. John Sundquist, Dr. Mariko Wei, Dr. Yan Cong. And thanks […]
Wilke scholars win “high distinction” for their research presentation mentored by Dr. Kyle Swanson and Dr. Vanessa Sheu
Undergraduate Wilke scholars Lucia Lamagna, a Degree Plus senior majoring in speech, language, and hearing sciences and Spanish; Sarah Wu, a Degree Plus sophomore majoring in economics and law and society; and Shayna Ramirez, a junior studying anthropology with a minor in linguistics, won a “high distinction” award from Purdue’s Undergraduate Research Expo last fall […]
Purdue Linguistics goes to New Orleans for LSA 2026
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 […]
Congratulations to Dr. Shaohua Fang on joining the Editorial Board of Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL (SALT)
Congratulations to Dr. Shaohua Fang on joining the Editorial Board of Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL (SALT) as an external reviewer specializing in instructional technology and AI in education. SALT is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Applied Linguistics & TESOL Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Founded in 2001 by Dr. ZhaoHong Han, the journal aims to foster scholarly […]
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 […]
Purdue Linguistics Symposium 2025: Exling Highlights
We are excited to share that several of our lab members did a wonderful job presenting their research at the Purdue Linguistics Symposium (PLS) 2025, with their works spreading across language processing, second language acquisition, and psycholinguistics. Dr. Shaohua Fang: “Processing and Interpretation of Double Quantifiers: Evidence from Human and Large Language Models” Jingying Hu: […]
LLLC Colloquium Presentations – Congratulations to Marley and Lauren!
On April 10th, two of our lab undergraduate research assistants presented their research at the Literature, Linguistics, Languages, and Culture (LLLC) Colloquium at Purdue University. Marley Mack (mentored by Yue Li and Dr. Elaine Francis) presented her project titled “Animacy in English Object Relative Clause Structure Choice: A Comparative Study Between L1 and L2.” Her […]
Purdue ExLing Lab at HSP 2025
Our lab members had a great time at the 2025 Human Sentence Processing (HSP) Conference held at the University of Maryland, College Park from March 27-29, 2025. Members of our lab shared their research through poster presentations, contributing to vibrant discussions and networking opportunities. The presenters were: Dr. Shaohua Fang (Ross-Lynn Postdoc researcher) – “L2 […]