Research

Conference Proceedings

Fang, S., & Yuan, F. (2021). Mandarin Chinese aspects: Their representation and processing. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, University of Athens, Greece. [PDF]

Yuan, F. (2014). Derivation of topic structures in English and Chinese. Proceedings of the 16th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar.

Conference and workshop Presentations

L2 processing of local and long-distance classifier-noun agreement. The 32nd European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) Conference, University of Birmingham, UK. 30 August-2 September 2023 (First author, collaborated work with Professor Boping Yuan).

Forwards- and backwards-looking classifier-noun agreement in the L2 processing of Chinese (Outstanding doctoral students’ paper award). The Sun Yat-Sen University Conference on Bilingualism, China. 9-11 June 2023 (First author, collaborated work with Professor Boping Yuan).

Similarity-based interference in processing Chinese negative polarity items. The 34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-34), Indiana University, Bloomington, 23-25 September 2022 (First author, collaborated work with Shaohua Fang).

Constraints of lexical and grammatical aspect on event representations in Mandarin. 12th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, University of Athens, Greece, 11-13 October 2021 (Second author, collaborated work with Shaohua Fang).

Processing two Chinese negative polarity items. Linguistic Illusions in Sentence Processing, University of Konstanz, Germany, 13-14 September 2021 (First author, collaborated work with Shaohua Fang).