Research

Publications

Xu, Y. & Runner, J. (under review). Long distance binding option for the Mandarin Chinese reflexive taziji. [preprint]

Chen, Z., Xu, Y. & Xie, Z. (2020). Assessing introspective linguistic judgments quantitatively: the case of The Syntax of Chinese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-020-09210-y. [link]

Huang, X., Lin, D., Yang, Y., Xu, Y., Chen, Q., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2020). Effects of character and word contextual diversity in Chinese beginning readers. Scientific Studies of Reading. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2020.1768258 [link]

Xu, Y. & Runner, J. (2019). Memory Retrieval in Reflexives Processing: Evidence against the Local Search Hypothesis. Working Papers in the Language Sciences at the University of Rochester vol. 7. [link]

Presentations

Talks

Xu, Y., Ringhoff, N., Coons, R., Fluellen, L., Eisen, C. & Runner, J. T. (2020). Immediate effects of non-structural constraints in anaphor resolution: evidence from visual world eye-tracking. Talk presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, LA.

Xu, Y., Runner, J. T., and Tanenhaus, M. K. (2019). Gender effects on gender neutral anaphor resolution. Talk presented at the 2nd International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics, Beijing, China.

Xu, Y., Xie, M., Chen, Q., and Tanenhaus, M. K. (2018). Time-course of orthographic effects in Chinese spoken word recognition. Talk presented at the 8th China International Conference on Eye Movements, Nanjing, China.

Xu, Y., Tian, Y., Runner, J. T., and Tanenhaus, M. K. (2018). Gender effects on gender ambiguous anaphor resolution. Talk presented at the 8th China International Conference on Eye Movements, Nanjing, China. (Best Paper Award)

Posters

Xu, Y. & Runner, J. T. (2020). Syntactic and semantic structure in VP ellipsis and VP anaphora processing. Poster presented at the 33rdCUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Amherst, MA

Chen, Z., Xu, Y. & Xie, Z. (2020). Assessing the reliability of informal acceptability judgments in Chinese syntax. Poster presented at the 33rdCUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Amherst, MA

Xu, Y., Runner, J. T., and Tanenhaus, M. K. (2019). Gender Effects on Gender Neutral Reflexives Resolution. Poster presented at the 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO.

Xu, Y., Ringhoff, N., Coons, R., Fluellen, L., Eisen, C., & Runner, J. T. (2019). Sensitivity to Gender Cues during Anaphor Resolution: Evidence from Visual World Eye-tracking. Poster presented at the 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO.

Xu, Y., Eisen, C., Fluellen, L., Zhou, Y., Ringhoff, N., Coons, R., & Runner, J. T. (2019). Gender Bias in Picture Noun Phrase Reflexive Resolution. Poster presented at the 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO.

Xu, Y. , Eisen, C., Zhou, Y & Runner, J. (2019). Gender Bias in Picture Noun Phrase Reflexive Resolution. Poster presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, NY. [Link]

Xu, Y., Tian, Y., Runner, J. T., and Tanenhaus, M. K. (2018a). Gender effects on gender ambiguous anaphor resolution. Poster presented at the 31st CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.

Xu, Y., Xie, M., Chen, Q., and Tanenhaus, M. K. (2018b). Time-course of orthographic effects in Chinese spoken word recognition. Poster presented at the 31st CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, CA.

Xu, Y. & Runner, J. (2017).Sensitivity to gender information in anaphor resolution: the case of Mandarin Chinese.Poster presented at the 1st International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics, Hong Kong.

Xu, Y. & Runner, J. (2016). Memory retrieval in reflexives processing: Evidence against the local search hypothesis. Poster presented at the 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Gainesville, FL.

Xu, Y. & Runner, J. (2016). Locality effects in long-distance reflexive retrieval: the case of Mandarin Chinese ziji. Poster presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, D.C. [Link]

Unpublished Manuscripts

Xu, Y . (2014). A preliminary study of Chinese students’ cognitive process of understanding English active and passive sentences. – Outstanding Bachelor’s Degree Thesis of Hubei Province in 2013.

Xu, Y. (Unpublished manuscript). Exploring the effects of internet rumors and the rumor refutation process on Chinese college students’ implicit attitudes: a BIAT study (in Chinese).