Presentations

Talks

2024 Early development in ASL phonology: A longitudinal study of deaf children with hearing parents. The 98 th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA98), New York, NY. January 4–7 (with Diane Lillo-Martin, Deborah Chen Pichler, Elaine Gale) (first author).
2024 Interaction between iconicity and weak drop in Shanghai Sign Language. The 98 th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA98), New York, NY. January 4–7.
2023 Phonological development in ASL-signing children: Pseudosign repetition. The 12th North American Phonology Conference (NAPhCxii), Montreal, Canada. May 12-13 (with Diane Lillo-Martin, Deborah Chen Pichler) (first author).
2023 Weak drop in Shanghai Sign Language: Comparing signers and non-signers. The 41 st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41), Santa Cruz, USA. May 5-7.
2022 L2 signer accent: Phonological development in ASL learners. The 14th Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 14), hybrid (Osaka, Japan/online), September 27-30. (with Kaj Kraus, Diane Lillo-Martin, Deborah Chen Pichler) (second author)
2022 H2 spread in Shanghai Sign Language: Mapping syntax to phonology. Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia XIII (Glow in Asia XIII), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (online), August 4-7.
2022 Phonological development in ASL signing children: Comparing approaches to scoring a pseudosign repetition task. The 4th International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition (ICSLA 4), online, June 23-25. (with Viola Kozak, Deborah Chen Pichler, Diane Lillo-Martin) (second author)
2021 A typology of person agreement in Shanghai Sign Language: Morphophonological accounts. The 9th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL 9), hybrid (Shanghai/online), November 5-7.
2021 Person agreement: An investigation of weak hand classifier verbs in Shanghai Sign Language. The 5 th American International Morphology Meeting (AIMM 5), online, August 26-29.
2021 On weak hand spread in Shanghai Sign Language: Positive and negative evidence. The 57 th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 57), online, May 6-8.
2020 Verbs with weak hand classifier in Chinese Sign Language (Shanghai). The 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 32), Storrs, USA, September 18-20.
2017 A phonological analysis of the weak hand drop in Shanghai Sign Language. The 1th Biennial International Conference on Linguistics, Shanghai, China, June 17-18.
2017 Prosodic phrasing in Shaoxing Chinese. The 7 th UConn Graduate Rountable, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, December 3.
2014 A harmonic serialism analysis of tetrasyllabic (2+2) tone sandhi in Shaoxing Chinese. The 5th International Conference on Phonology and Morphology (ICPM 5), Gwangju, Korea, July 3-5.

Posters

2023 Profile of a family’s bimodal bilingual development. The 47 th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD47). Boston University, MA, USA. November 2–5 (with Deborah Chen Pichler, et al.).
2023 A sketch of contrastive handshapes and their variants in Shanghai Sign Language. Morris Halle@100. MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. September 8–10.
2023 Processing weak drop by signers and non-signers of Shanghai Sign Language. The 10 th Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST 10), hybrid (Bergen, Norway/online), June 27–29.
2022 Weak hand classifier verbs in Shanghai Sign Language: A typology of person agreement. The 14th Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 14), hybrid (Osaka, Japan/online), September 27-30.
2022 What a combined method reveals: H2 spread in Shanghai Sign Language. The 14th Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 14), hybrid (Osaka, Japan/online), September 27-30.
2022 How to be two-handed and one-handed for the same word in Shanghai Sign Language?. UConn 2022 Language Fest, Storrs, USA, April 27.
2022 Combined methods are informative: Weak hand spread in Shanghai Sign Language. The 96 th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 96), hybrid (Washington, DC/online), January 6-9.
2019 Phonological processes in Shanghai Sign Language. 13thConference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 13), Hamburg, Germany, Sep 24-26.
2017 Iconic effects on phonological processes in Shanghai Sign Language. UConn 2017 Language Fest, Storrs, USA, April 29.
2016 Weak drop in Shanghai Sign Language. The 6 th Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST 6), Venice, Italy, September 1-2.
2016 Compounding in Shanghai Sign Language. New England SignFest II, Boston, USA, April 30.