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

• Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware (Newark, DE)

Dissertation: The Time Course of the Subject Advantage in Mandarin: An Experimental and Computational Investigation

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 

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