Spring 2024 marked a period of remarkable achievement for our lab members.
Vanessa has been actively presenting findings from her PhD research at several prestigious conferences, such as the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), the American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference (AAAL), and the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). Her work explores semantic competition, syntactic complexity, and passivization in Mandarin relative clauses, as well as the aural processing of Mandarin garden-path sentences by L1, L2, and heritage speakers. An article based on her work on aural processing is forthcoming in the BUCLD 48 Proceedings volume.
Yue has made significant progress in her doctoral studies. Her research focuses on exploring the influence of animacy on the production of English object relative clauses by L1 and L2 speakers. In April, she successfully defended her two preliminary projects employing elicited production tasks and Large Language Models, respectively. The findings of her research were presented at two notable conferences: the 2nd Conference on Theory and Practice of Bilingualism and the Purdue Linguistics Symposium. Yue will, in addition, be presenting a poster at the upcoming International Workshop on Language Production (IWoLP) in Marseille, France.
Yongjia has concluded her undergraduate journey with remarkable accomplishments. In the 2024 Spring Undergraduate Conference, she presented a talk titled “Short Verb Movement in Gan Hakka.” Furthermore, she was honored as the Outstanding Senior from both the Department of Linguistics and the School of Interdisciplinary Studies. Looking ahead, she will start in the PhD program in Language Sciences at the University of Wisconsin this fall.
