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• Bernard A.J. Jap, Yu-Yin Hsu, Stephen Politzer-Ahles. 2024. Are cleft sentence structures more difficult to process? Neuroscience Letters, Volume 843, 138029, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2024.138029.

• Britton, J., Cong, Y., Hsu, Y., Chersoni, E., & Blache, P. (2024). On the influence of discourse connectives on the predictions of humans and language models. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18, 1363120. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1363120. 

• Ting, Jen and Yu-Yin Hsu. (Eds.) 2024. Linguistic Interfaces in East-Asian Languages: A Festschrift in Honor of Yoshihisa Kitagawa. (1 ed.) (Studies in East Asian Linguistics). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4445-1

• Tang, Li and Yu-Yin Hsu*. 2024. 重慶方言句末語氣詞的意義功能及結構 Functions and Syntax of Sentence-Final Particles in Chongqing Dialect. Language and Linguistics 25:3.

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2023. Modal raising and focus marking in Chinese. Journal of Linguistics 60.

• Cao, Siyi, Yu-Yin Hsu, and Anqi Xu. 2024. Morphosyntax and prosody interaction: A perceptual study of Chinese classifiers. The 12th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL- 12), Roma Tre University, September 19-20, 2024.

• 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.

• Zhou, He, Yu-Yin Hsu, and Emmanuele Chersoni. 2024. Evaluating Chinese Noun Compound Interpretation in Natural Language Inference. The 25th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, 31 May-2 June 2024, Xiamen, China

• Li, Yuxi, and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2024. Semantic analysis of Chinese gapless pre-nominal clauses based on transformer model. The International Symposium on Language Sciences (ISLS): Interdisciplinary Research and the Legacy of Yuen Ren Chao, 10 to 11 May 2024, at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

• Chen, Bingxian, and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2024. A Structural Priming Study of the Information Function of the Chinese Ba Construction. Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2023, 19-20 May 2023, Singapore. 

• Ye, Yaoru, and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2024. 认知动词的断言性高低的认知判定研究——以“认为、以为、觉得、考虑、想”为例 Native Speakers’ Judgment of the Epistemic Evidentiality of Synonym Verbs of “Think” in Mandarin: A Corpus-based Study of Renwei, Yiwei, Juede, Kaolü, and Xiang. CLSW 2023, 19-20 May 2023, Singapore. 

• Zhao, Xinlan, Yu-Yin Hsu, and Chu-Ren Huang. 2024. Classifiers of Mandarin Alphabetical Words with Character-alphabet Structure. CLSW 2023, 19-20 May 2023, Singapore. 

• Deran Kong, 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

• 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.

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2022. The case without Case in Chinese: Issues and Alternative Approaches. Chapter 23 in The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics.

• 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

• Huang, Chu-Ren, Yen-Hwei Lin, I-Hsuan Chen, & Yu-Yin Hsu (Eds). 2022. The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics.

• Ma, Tsun Ming, Yu-Yin Hsu, Daria Tack, and Tianyi Han. 2022. Activation of Alternatives by Mandarin Sentence-Initial and Sentence-Internal Foci: A Semantic Priming Study. In: Dong, M., Gu, Y., Hong, JF. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13249. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_20

• 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.

• Peng, Bo, Emmauele Chersoni, Yu-Yin Hsu, and Chu-Ren Huang. 2022. Discovering Financial Hypernyms by Prompting Masked Language Models. 24 Jun 2022, Proceedings of the 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2022). 

• Joo, Ian, and Yu-Yin Hsu, and Emmanuele Chersoni. 2022. Iconic bias in Italian spatial demonstratives. Australian Journal of Linguistics 42:1 

• 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.

• 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 

• Tempo Po Yi Tang, Yu-Yin Hsu, Dustin Kai Yan Lao, Man Tak Leung. 2021. Interaction between form and content in the acquisition of temporal expressions among Mandarin-speaking children. The 18th biennial conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA), Glasgow, Scotland. 23rd-25th June 2021.

• W.-I. Cho, E. Chersoni, Y.-Y. Hsu, C.-R. Huang. 2021. Modeling the influence of verb aspect on the activation of typical event locations with BERT. The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Findings of ACL 2021.

• 朱易安, 許又尹. 2021. Searching for linguistic areas in East Asia: A preliminary analysis. 第五届语言类型学国际学术研讨会 , 2021年7月13-16日, 广西南宁市, 广西民族大学 . 

• 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] In: Dong, M., Gu, Y., Hong, JF. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13249. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06703-7_20. The 22nd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW 2021), Nanjing, China, May 15-16, 2021.

• Hsu, Yu-Yin*, and Jun Chen. 2021. Deriving Various Affected Subjects in Bei-Passives. 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_24 

• Hsu, Yu-Yin*, and Yang Liu. 2020. SOV 母語對普通話的習得影響：從拉𧙖語關聯詞結構看拉𧙖族學生學習普通話的現況 [Impacts of SOV Grammar on the Acquisition of Mandarin: A Survey of Yunnan Lahu Students’ Use of Mandarin Conjunctions]. 華語文教學研究 [Journal of Chinese Language Teaching]  17.4: 41-70 

• Hsu, Yu-Yin*, and Anqi Xu. 2020. Interaction of prosody and syntax-semantics in Mandarin wh-indeterminates. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148, EL119; doi: 10.1121/10.0001676 

• Hsu, Yu-Yin* and Tao Wang. 2020. From Modern to Ancient Chinese: A corpus approach to beneficiary structure. In: Jia-Fei Hong, Yangsen Zhang and Pengyuan Liu (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38189-9_73. [

• Hsu, Yu-Yin* and Ka Keung Leon Lee. 2020. Similarities and Differences of Dou in Mandarin and Cantonese. Pp. 77-89. In: Su Q., Zhan W. (eds) From Minimal Contrast to Meaning Construct. Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics, vol 9. Springer, Singapore. 

• 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;
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• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2019. Information structure in Chinese discourse. In Chris Shei (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis, pp.130-144. Taylor & Francis/Routledge, UK. ISBN-10: 0415789796, ISBN-13: 978-0415789790 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315213705

• Zanon, Ksenia and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2019. Focus movement and association with 'only' in Russian and Chinese. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 49), Pp.333-342. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (5-7 October, 2018).

• Ka Keung Leon Lee, and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2019. Functional and lexical uses of ‘dou’ in Mandarin and Cantonese. The 27th annual conference of international association of Chinese linguistics (IACL-27), Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, 10-12 May, 2019.

• Hsu, Yu-Yin and Teng Qu. 2019. V-gei Double Object Construction and Extra Argument in Mandarin. The 33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC-33). Pp. 76-84. 

• Ka Keung Leon Lee, and Yu-Yin Hsu. 2018. A non-unified account to Cantonese ‘dou’. The Linguistics Society of Hong Kong Annual Research Forum 2018 (LSHK-ARF-2018), City University of Hong Kong, 1 December, 2018.

• 汤丽、許又尹. 2018/2019. 重庆方言句末语气词句法结构分析[Syntax of Sentence Final Particles in Chongqing Dialect]. Proceedings of the 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-30). 2019. Volume 2. Edited by Yuhong Zhu, Skylor E. Gomes, Junyu Ruan, Qian Wang, Seo-Jin Yang, Jinwei Ye, Wei Zhou. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University. Pages 370-386. 

• Mu, Tong, and Yu-Yin Hsu*. 2018. A Survey of the Compatibility of Laizhe with the MARVS Model of Event Types. In: Hong JF., Su Q., Wu JS. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11173, pp.321-333. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_27 [Ei Compendex, Scopus]

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. (accepted) From prosodic organization to syntax: Unit phrase in Mandarin revisit. The 42nd GLOW conference (Generative Linguistics in the Old World), University of Oslo, 7-11 May, 2019.

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2018. Nominal-Internal Topic and Focus in Japanese and Mandarin. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics.

• 許又尹、王涛. 2018. 古今汉语动宾为动式的特性 -- 以《左传》、《孟子》的统计分析为例. 第七届汉语语法南粤论坛，华侨大学，福建省厦门，中国，23-26 November, 2018.

• 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. 2017. 现代汉语领属结构与指示性同位结构[Possessors and indexed appositive in Modern Chinese], 第九届现代汉语语法国际研讨会 [The 9th International Conference on Contemporary Chinese Grammar (ICCCG9)], Seoul, Korea, October 23-26, 2017.

• Hsu, Yu-Yin and Jen Ting. 2016. A Monoclausal Analysis of Chinese Modals: Functional Category at TP. The 24nd Annual International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 24), Beijing Language and Culture University, July 17th-20th, 2016.

  • • • Hsu, Yu-Yin and Jen Ting. (2008) Chinese Modals as Functional Categories. The 8th International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality. The University of Texas, Austin, October 2-5.

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2016. Sentence-Initial Modals as Focus Operators at CP in Chinese. Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2015. A Unified Account to Measure Words in Mandarin. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 21 : Iss. 1 , Article 14. Available at: https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol21/iss1/14

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2014. Revisit the Intervention Effects: CP and TP Foci 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.

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2014. The Unit Phrase in Mandarin. Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (Vol. 40) Special Session on the Syntax-Phonology Interface, Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley.

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2014. Nominal Internal and External Topic-Focus: Evidence from Mandarin. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 20 : Iss. 1 , Article 17.  Available at: https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol20/iss1/17

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. (2008/2014) Sentence-internal Topic and Focus in Chinese. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 8-10, 2008 (Vol. 34) General Session and Parasession on Information Structure, Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley.

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2013. The Interaction of Information Structure and Syntactic Representation in Chinese. PhD diss., Indiana University.

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2012. Two Functional Projections in the Medial Domain in Chinese. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 38.1, p93-136.

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2008. Two Functional Projections in the Medial Domain in Chinese. The 11th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-11). National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, May 23-25. 

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2008. Sentence-internal Topic and Focus in Chinese. The 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20). Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April 25-27. 

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2009. Possessor Extraction in Mandarin Chinese. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 15 : Iss. 1 , Article 12. Available at: https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol15/iss1/12

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2008. Sentence-internal Topic and Focus in Chinese. The 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 34). University of California, Berkeley, February 8-10. 

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2007. Internal Topic and Focus: on the So-called Verb-duplicated Construction. The 3rd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax and Information Structure (WPSI 3). Indiana University, Bloomington, September 14-15. 

• Hsu, Yu-Yin and Jen Ting. 2006. On the Possessive Multiple Nominative Construction in Mandarin Chinese. The 14th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-14). Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, May 25-28. 

• Hsu, Yu-Yin. 2005. The Syntactic Structure and Pedagogical Grammar of Modals in Mandarin Chinese. MA Thesis, National Taiwan Normal University.