Cognitive Language Processing
(Note: Student co-authors are underlined; * indicates the corresponding author)
Kong, Deran, and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2024. Inalienability facilitates the integration of non-local possessor-possessum relationships: Evidence from eye-tracking data of Mandarin Chinese relative clauses. The 2024 SSSR annual conference to be held July 11th-13th in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jap, Bernard, Yu-Yin Hsu, Lavinia Salicchi, and Yuxi Li. 2024. What’s in a Name? Electrophysiological Differences in Processing Proper Nouns in Mandarin Chinese. The 8th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex 2024) co-located with LREC-Coling 2024. 20 May 2024, Torino, Italy.
Jap, Bernard, and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2024. Does verb bias modulate thematic role assignment? The 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), May 16 to 18th, 2024, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Jap, Bernard, Yu-Yin Hsu, and Stephen Politzer-Ahles. 2024. Processing of wh-questions in Standard Indonesian: Evidence from ERPs. The 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), May 16 to 18th, 2024, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Kong, Deran, and Yu-Yin Hsu*. 2023. Processing Covert Dependency: An Eye-tracking Study of Scope Interpretations of Embedded Wh-questions in Mandarin. PLoS ONE e0285873. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285873
Chen, Bingxian, and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2023. A Structural Priming Study of the Information Function of the Chinese Ba Construction. Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2023, 19-20 May 2023, Singapore.
Li, Junlin, Bo Peng, Yu-Yin Hsu, and Emmanuele Chersoni. 2023. Comparing and Predicting Eye-tracking Data in Mandarin and Cantonese. The 10th Workshop on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects (VarDial 2023), May 5th, 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Kong, Deran, Sun-A Kim, and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2023. Native and non-native processing of Mandarin relative clauses with brief contexts. The 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2023), the University of Pittsburgh, USA, March 11, 2023.
Kong, Deran and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2022. (In)Alienable Possession in Mandarin Relative Clauses. The 7th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex 2022). 20 November 2022, Taipei, Taiwan.
Jap, Bernard A. J.*, Yu-Yin Hsu, and Stephen Politzer-Ahles. 2022. Neural Correlates of Thematic Role Assignment for Passives in Standard Indonesian. PLoS ONE 17(8): e0272207. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272207
Kong, Deran and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2022. Understanding Mandarin Embedded Wh-Questions: Influences from the Matrix Verbs .34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACL-34). 24-25 September 2022, Bloomington, Indiana.
Hsu, Yu-Yin, Anqi Xu, and Yutong Chen. 2022. Perceiving focus: A study on Cantonese and Mandarin speakers’ processing Mandarin prosody. 34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-34). 24-25 September 2022, Bloomington, Indiana.
Xingcheng Ma, Dechao Li, Jie-Li Tsai, Yu-Yin Hsu. 2022. An eye-tracking based investigation into on-line reading during Chinese-English sight translation — Effect of word order asymmetry. Translation & Interpreting: The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research 14:1. 66-83.
何睿, 許又尹, 韓天翊. 2021. 主题还是焦点?香港粤语处置式前置宾语的语义特性初探 [Topic or focus? The semantic characteristics of preposed object in the disposal structure in Hong Kong Cantonese]. The 22nd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2021), Nanjing, China, May 15-16, 2021.
Ma, Tsun Ming, Yu-Yin Hsu, Daria Tack, and Tianyi Han. 2021. Mandarin Sentence-Initial and Sentence-Internal Foci’s Activation of Alternatives: A Semantic Priming Study. The 22nd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2021), Nanjing, China, May 15-16, 2021.
Pan, Zhu, and Yu-Yin Hsu*. 2021. Effects of Lexical Spatial-Temporal Metaphors on Mandarin and Cantonese Speakers’ Temporal Conceptualizations. In: Liu M., Kit C., Su Q. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12278. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81197-6_73
Ma, Xingcheng*, Dechao Li, and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2021. Exploring the impact of word order asymmetry on cognitive load during Chinese-English sight translation: Evidence from eye movement data. Target. International Journal of Translation Studies. https://doi.org/10.1075/target.19052.ma]
Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2019. Associations between focus constructions and levels of exhaustivity: An experimental investigation of Chinese. PLoS ONE 14(10): e0223502. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223502
Politzer-Ahles, Stephen, Katrina Connell, Yu-Yin Hsu, Lei Pan. 2019. Mandarin third tone sandhi may be incompletely neutralizing in perception as well as production. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 3847-3851). ISBN 978-0-646-80069-1
Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Katrina Connell and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2018. Mandarin third-tone sandhi is incompletely neutralizing in perception as well as production: Evidence from visual world eye-tracking. Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HisPhonCog 2018). Seoul, Korea, May 18-19 2018.
Hsu, Yu-Yin and Chien-Jer Charles Lin. 2019. Lexical effects on processing Chinese doubly quantified sentences. Psycholinguistics in Iceland-Parsing and Prediction (PIPP2019), 19-20 June 2019, Veröld, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Tu, Jung-Yueh, Fan Yang, and Yu-Yin Hsu. (accepted) Effects of morphological awareness and orthographic consistency on word recognition in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from eye-tracking data. The 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-15) Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, August 6-11, 2019.
Lin, Yu-Jung, and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2018. Whether and How Mandarin Sandhied Tone 3 and Underlying Tone 2 Differ. Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, p376-384.
Hsu, Yu-Yin, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, & Katrina Connell. 2018. Native speakers’ incomplete neutralization of third tone sandhi during Mandarin word processing: an eye-tracking study. The 24th Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing: Using "big data" web-based corpora for research and teaching, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, June 8-9, 2018.
Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2017. Lexical Effects on Processing Doubly Quantified Sentences in Chinese. The 23rd Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing jointly organized with The Fifth International Workshop on the Linguistics of Ba, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, December 15-17, 2017.
Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2017. Alternatives and Focus: Distribution of Chinese Relative Clauses Revisited. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 22
Hsu, Yu-Yin and Chien-Jer Charles Lin. 2016. Lexical Effects on Quantifier Scope Processing in Chinese. The 8th Annual Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL-8), Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, August 8th-10th 2016.
Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2015. 汉语关系从句的焦点与限定功能[Focus and Restrictiveness of Relative Clauses in Chinese]. 第五届现代汉语句法语义前沿学术研讨会,北京大學,北京,2015年12月12-13日.
Hsu, Yu-Yin and Chien-Jer Charles Lin. 2014. Verb Types, Contexts and Quantifier Scope Interpretation in Mandarin. The 22nd Annual International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 22) and the 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-26). University of Maryland, College Park, May 2-4, 2014.