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 […]
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 […]
Yue Li Presents at 2024 Gorilla Grants Webinar
On November 21, 2024, lab member Yue Li participated as a panelist in the 2024 Gorilla Grants for Psychology Research and Teaching Webinar, hosted by the Gorilla Experiment Builder team and Sage Publishing. Yue shared her experience as a recipient of the 2023 Gorilla and Prolific Research Grants, discussing her project and how the grant […]
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 […]