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 a lot of good food during the conference. Here we are at the conference dinner in the Illini Union and at Shawarma Joint.
Vanessa’s talk was about her PhD research on processing of garden-path sentences by L1, L2 and heritage speakers of Mandarin.
Jingying’s talk was about her research on L2 acquisition of the perfective marker -le in Mandarin, in collaboration with her former advisor, Prof. Zhao Yang.
In April, Yongjia Deng presented a paper at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference, based on her work with Vanessa on animacy effects in Mandarin relative clause production.
Also in April, Yue Li presented a paper at the virtual Purdue Linguistics Symposium 2023. Yue’s talk was on her research on adolescent L2 English learners’ comprehension of subject and object relative clauses, in collaboration with her former advisor, Prof. Gao Yuan.
At the same virtual conference, Elaine gave a plenary talk on resumptive pronouns in relative clauses.
Please check our presentation page for details of the recent presentations.