Chien-Jer Charles Lin

Associate Professor

Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Department of Linguistics (adjunct), Cognitive Science Program (adjunct)

Indiana University Bloomington

Email           chiclin@indiana.edu

Address        355 North Eagleson Avenue, Bloomington IN 47405

Lab URL      https://sites.google.com/view/language-and-cognition/home

Personal URL  https://sites.google.com/view/chienjerlin/home

ResearchGate   https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chien-Jer-Lin (for links to articles)

Education

2006  Ph.D.      Joint Ph.D. in Linguistics and Anthropology, The University of Arizona

                         (Advisors: Thomas G. Bever and Jane H. Hill)

2004  M.A.      Linguistics, The University of Arizona

Certification & Summer Schools

Indiana University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership Certification Program (Spring 2024 Cohort)

The Second Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology, University of Potsdam (2018)

Linguistic Society of America Summer Institutes: University of California, Santa Barbara (2001), Michigan State University (2003)

Editorial Board

Frontiers in Psychology: The Psychology of Language Division

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

NTU Journal of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

Administrative Appointments

2024-2028        James and Noriko Gines Department Chair

                         Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

                         Indiana University Bloomington

2018-2023        Director of Graduate Studies

                         Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

                         Indiana University Bloomington

Fall 2018          Interim Chair

                         Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

                         Indiana University Bloomington

2016-2017        Director of Graduate Studies

                         Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

                         Indiana University Bloomington

2016              Interim Director, Flagship Chinese Institute

                      Indiana University Bloomington

2013-2014        Director of Undergraduate Studies

                         Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

                         Indiana University Bloomington

Awards, Honors, & Distinctive Fellowship

05/2022 Uehara Distinguished Service Award, Indiana University

05/2016 Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University

05/2010 Best Paper in Interdisciplinary Studies of Chinese Linguistics, The International Association of Chinese Linguistics

12/2005 International Young Scholar Award, The 19th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC19)

08/2001 Fulbright-Hayes Program for Scholarly Exchange (Fulbright scholar) 08/2001-07/2003

Publications                                                                         

Edited Volume

Alessia Cherici, Bihua Chen, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (eds.) (2023). Proceedings of the 34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington. (https://sites.google.com/view/naccl-34/proceedings)

Journal Articles

1. Liu, Fengming & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2024). Relative clause attachments in Mandarin Chinese: Insights from classifier-noun agreement. Frontiers in Language Sciences: Psycholinguistics. doi: 10.3389/flang.2024.1438323

2. Gao, Feier, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2024). Incorporating frequency effects in the lexical access for Mandarin tone 3 sandhi. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309241260062

3. Lyu, Siqi, Jung-Yueh Tu, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2024). Structural position affects topic transition: An eye-tracking study. Language and Linguistics, 25(1), 56–79. https://benjamins.com/catalog/lali.00149.lyu

4. Gao, Feier, Siqi Lyu, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2021). Processing Mandarin tone 3 sandhi at the morphosyntactic interface: Reduplication and lexical compounds. Frontiers in Psychology. 12: 713665. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.713665

5. Lyu, Siqi, Jung-Yueh Tu, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2020). Processing plausibility in concessive and causal relations: Evidence from self-paced reading and eye-tracking. Discourse Processes 57, 320-342. DOI: 10.1080/0163853X.2019.1680089

6. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2018). Subject prominence and processing filler-gap dependencies in prenominal relative clauses: The comprehension of possessive relative clauses and adjunct relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese. Language 94, 758-797.

7. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2015). Thematic orders and the comprehension of subject-extracted relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese. Frontiers in Psychology 6:1255. (Published under special issue on Encoding and Navigating Linguistic Representations in Memory eds. Claudia Felser, Colin Phillips, and Matthew Wagers) (doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01255.)

8. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Yi-Rung Chen. (2015). Exhaustive semantic activation for reading ambiguous verbs in Chinese sentences. Lingua Sinica 1:7. (doi:10.​1186/​s40655-015-0008-2)

9. Chang, Yuchun, Chien-Jer Charles Lin, & Kathleen Ahrens. (2015). Conventionalization of lexical meanings and the role of metaphoricity: Processing of metaphorical polysemy using a cross-modal lexical priming task. Language and Linguistics 16, 587-614. (doi:10.1177/1606822X15583240)

10.   Jäger, Lena, Zhong Chen, Qiang Li, Chien-Jer Charles Lin, & Shravan Vasishth. (2015). The subject-relative advantage in Chinese: Evidence for expectation-based processing. Journal of Memory and Language 79-80, 97-120. (doi:10.1016/j.jml.2014.10.005)

11.   Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2014). Effect of thematic order on the comprehension of Chinese relative clauses. Lingua 140, 180-206. (doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2013.12.003)

12.   Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Ahrens, Kathleen. (2010). Ambiguity advantage revisited: Two meanings are better than one when accessing Chinese Nouns. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 39, 1-19. (doi:10.1007/s10936-009-9120-8)

13. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2008). The processing foundation of head-final relative clauses. Language and Linguistics 9, 813-38. 

Proceedings of Peer-Reviewed Conferences

1. Liu, Fengming, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2023). Decoding Relative Clause Attachment Preferences: A Comprehensive Review and Recent Insights. Proceedings of the 34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-34), Indiana University, Bloomington.

2. Tian, Zuoyu, Xiao Dong, Feier Gao, Haining Wang, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2022). Mandarin tone sandhi realization: Evidence from large speech corpora. Proceedings of the 23rd INTERSPEECH Conference. (ISCA Speech Archive: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/pdfs/interspeech_2022/tian22e_interspeech.pdf)

3. Hu, Hai, Yanting Li, Yina Patterson, Zuoyu Tian, Yiwen Zhang, He Zhou, Sandra Kübler, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2020). Building a literary treebank for translation studies in Chinese. Proceedings of 19th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT). pp.18-31. (Association for Computational Linguistics Anthology: https://aclanthology.org/2020.tlt-1.2/)

4. Lin, Yu-Jung, Chung-Lin Yang, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2013). The effect of phonetic orthography on the perception of Mandarin syllables. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(5): 4072. doi:10.1121/1.4830870. (published abstract)

5. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2011). Chinese and English relative clauses: Processing constraints and typological consequences. In Zhuo Jing-Schmidt (ed.) Proceedings of the 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-23), Volume 1 (pp. 191-199). University of Oregon, Eugene. [online access: http://chinalinks.osu.edu/naccl/naccl-23/proceedings/NACCL-23_1_13.pdf ]

6. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2010). Comprehending Chinese relative clauses in context: Thematic patterns and grammatical functions. In L. E. Clements and C.-M. L. Liu (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22) and the 18th International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-18): Volume 1 (pp. 413-428). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. [online access: http://naccl.osu.edu/sites/naccl.osu.edu/files/29%20lin.pdf]

7.     Lin, Hsin-Ni Vicky, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2010). Perceiving vowels and tones in Mandarin: The effect of literary phonetic systems on phonological awareness. In L. E. Clements and C.-M. L. Liu (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22) and the 18th International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-18): Volume 1 (pp. 429-437). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. [online access: http://naccl.osu.edu/sites/naccl.osu.edu/files/30%20lin-lin.pdf]

8.     Chen, Yi-Rung, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2010). The effect of sense relatedness on lexical ambiguity resolution: Evidence from Chinese verbs. Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-12) (pp. 347-366). Taipei: Academia Sinica.

9. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Thomas G. Bever. (2006). Subject preference in the processing of relative clauses in Chinese. In Donald Baumer, David Montero, and Michael Scanlon (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 254-260). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

10.   Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Sandiway Fong, & Thomas G. Bever. (2005). Constructing filler-gap dependencies in Chinese possessor relative clauses. Proceedings of the 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation. Taipei: Academia Sinica. (recipient of the Young Scholar Award).

11.   Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2004). Aspect is result: Mandarin resultative constructions and aspect incorporation. In Benjamin V. Tucker (ed.), Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2003 (pp. 437-464). Fresno: California State University Press.

Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

1.     Liu, Zeping, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (in press). Grammar in syntactic adaptations of Chinese: The state of the art. In Shou-hsin Teng, Li-ping Chang, & Te-hsin Liu (eds.) Handbook of Chinese Language Learning and Technology. (Springer).

2. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, and Hai Hu. (2023). Linking comprehension and production: Frequency distribution of Chinese relative clauses in the Sinica Treebank. In Chu-Ren Huang, Shukai Hsieh, & Peng Jin (eds.) Chinese Language Resources: Data Collection, Linguistic Analysis, Annotation and Language Processing (pp. 419-442). Springer, Cham, Switzerland.

3. Yao, Yao, Zhiguo Xie, Chien-Jer Charles Lin, & Chu-Ren Huang. (2022). Grammatical acceptability in Mandarin Chinese. In Chu-Ren Huang, Yen-Hwei Lin, I-Hsuan Chen, & Yu-Yin Hsu (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics (pp. 669-706). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

4. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2021). Psycholinguistics. In James Stanlaw (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. John Wiley & Sons. (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786093.iela0328)

5. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). Chinese psycholinguistics: A typological overview. In Chu-Ren Huang, Barbara Meisterernst, & Zhuo Jing-Schmidt (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics (pp. 773-785). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge/Francis & Taylor.   

6. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). The psycholinguistics of Chinese discourse processing. In Chris Shei (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis (pp. 265-279). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group.   

7. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2016). Sentence processing: Relative clauses. In C.-T. James Huang, James Myers, & Rint Sybesma (eds.) Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Brill.   

8. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2013). Thematic templates and the comprehension of relative clauses. In Montserrat Sanz, Itziar Laka, & Michael K. Tanenhaus (eds.) Language Down the Garden Path: The Cognitive and Biological Basis of Linguistic Structures (pp. 141-148). Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

9. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). Distinguishing grammatical and processing explanations of syntactic acceptability. In James Myers (ed.) In Search of Grammar: Experimental and Corpus-Based Studies (pp.119-137). Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 48. Academia Sinica, Taipei.  

10.   Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2011). Processing (in)alienable possessions at the syntax-semantics interface. In Raffaella Folli, & Christiane Ulbrich (eds.) Interfaces in Linguistics: New Research Perspectives (pp.351-367). New York: Oxford University Press.

11.   Lin, Chien-Jer Charles & Thomas G Bever. (2011). Garden path in the processing of head-final relative clauses. In Hiroko Yamashita, Jerry Packard, & Yuki Hirose (eds.) Processing and Producing Head-final Structures (pp. 277-297). New York, NY: Springer.

12.   Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Kathleen Ahrens. (2005). How many meanings does a word have? Meaning estimation in Chinese and English. In James W. Minett & William S-Y. Wang (eds.) Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence: Essays in Evolutionary Linguistics (pp. 437-464). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.

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