Hello! I'm Xiaoyi Tang (汤潇奕 ). I am a graduating Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware, advised by Rebecca Tollan and Michael Wilson. Previously, I obtained my M.S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, primarily working with Nelson Flores. I’m interested in using experimental methods and computational tools to explore the cross-linguistic syntactic phenomena.
Broad: Psycholinguistics; Experimental approaches to syntax and semantics; Behavioral and computational study of sentence processing; Computational linguistics/ NLP
Narrow: Filler-gap dependency constructions: relative clauses, wh-questions; Referential Pronoun resolution; Language and cognition; morphosyntax
April 7, 2025- I’ve successfully defended my dissertation, “The Time Course of the Subject Advantage in Mandarin: An Experimental and Computational Investigation.”!
March 27-29, 2025- I had the opportunity to share my poster, "Do nominal modifiers affect bias towards topics? Pronoun interpretation in Mandarin", at 38th Conference of Human Sentence Processing (HSP) in College Park, MD, March 27-29.
Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware (Newark, DE)
Committee: Rebecca Tollan (Chair), Michael Wilson, Satoshi Tomioka, Li Sheng
M.S.Ed., Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
B.A., Translation and Interpreting, Central China Normal University (Wuhan, China)
Thesis: A Sociophonetic Study on Word-final Consonant Clusters of Regular Past Tense Verbs- the (-t, d) Deletion
Non-degree education
Exchange, Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong
Exchange, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
✉️ xtang@udel.edu
📍 Department of Linguistics & Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, 15 Orchard Road, Ewing Hall, Room 417, Newark, DE