Keynote Speeches & Invited Colloquium Talks

• Mandarin Third Tone Sandhi: Interfacing Grammar and the Mental Lexicon. Colloquium lecture, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, March 4, 2024.

• Tone sandhi in Standard Chinese: Interfacing grammar and the mental lexicon. Colloquium lecture, East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University Bloomington, September 29, 2023.

• What can Mandarin third tone sandhi tell us about the mental lexicon? Colloquium lecture, Department of Chinese as a Second Language, National Taiwan Normal University, June 7, 2023.

• Attaching relative clauses high or low? Keynote speech given at the International Workshop of Chinese Characters and Reading (中文識字、閱讀理解國際工作坊), National Chung-Cheng University, June 2-3, 2023.

• Syntactic dependency and complexity in translational thinking. Keynote speech at the 23rd National Conference on Linguistics (第23屆全國語言學論文研討會), National Cheng-Chi University, October 28, 2022.

• Processing considerations of translational Chinese treebank. (翻译汉语树库的加工问题). Invited keynote speech at The RUC-IU Workshop on Language and Computation: Cross-lingual Perspectives. (中国人民大学—印第安纳大学合作论坛:语言与计算-跨语言视角). January 21-22, 2022.

• Translational Chinese: Syntactic Complexity and Processing (翻譯式中文的句法與認知). Invited colloquium lecture given at the Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, December 12, 2018.

• Experimental and Typological Approaches to Chinese Linguistics at Indiana University. Invited talk given at 2018 International Forum on Chinese Language and Culture, Indiana University Bloomington, May 7-9, 2018.

• Why is westernized Chinese so damn hard? (西化中文為何艱難？). Chinese Tidings Lecture, Flagship Chinese Program, Indiana University Bloomington, February 2018.

• Processing prenominal relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese: Forms and functions. Invited colloquium lecture given at the Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, October 18, 2017.

• Syntactic complexity and linguistic authenticity of westernized Chinese. Invited colloquium lecture given at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawaii at Manoa, October 17, 2017.

• Head-final (Chinese) relative clause processing: Past, present, and future. Invited guest lecture, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California. March 23, 2015.

• The influence of non-alphabetic phonetic orthography on Mandarin speech perception. Mellon Innovating International Research, Teaching, and Collaboration (MIIRT) 2014 Annual Workshop. Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Indiana University. September 13, 2014.

• Comprehension and Production of Chinese Relative Clauses. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (Bennett Bertenthal), Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University. April 11, 2013.

• Understanding Chinese Relative Clause Processing. Beckman Institute & Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne. April 7, 2011.

• Linguistic Issues in Chinese-English Translations: The Case of Relative Clauses (淺談英漢翻譯的語言問題：以關係子句為例). Chinese Tidings Lecture Series, Indiana University (東風講座). November 11, 2010. (talk given in Chinese with simultaneous translation in English)

• Understanding Relative Clause Processing in Mandarin Chinese. Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. June 11, 2010.

• Thematic Patterns and Comprehending Chinese Relative Clauses in Context. Indiana University Linguistics Colloquium Series, Indiana University. October 16, 2009.

• Thematic Priming and the Comprehension of Chinese Relative Clauses in Context. Southern Taiwan Psycholinguistics Circle, National Cheng-Kung University. June 5, 2009.

• How to Read English Texts. Service Lecture in the Series on Learning Strategies, National Taiwan Normal University. May 4, 2009. ［available as an online e-course at the open courseware of NTNU]

• Introduction to Psycholinguistics for Taiwanese Language Teachers. Service Lecture for the Taiwanese Language Teaching Camp, National Taiwan Normal University. April 4, 2009.

• Garden Path in the Comprehension of Head-Final Relative Clauses. National Chung-Cheng University. October 20, 2008. (Invited by Niina Zhang & James Myers)

• Garden Path in the Comprehension of Head-Final Relative Clauses. Lab of Brain and Language Acquisition, Hiroshima University. July 28, 2008. (Invited by Hiromu Sakai)

• (In)alienable Possessions in Mandarin: Representation and Processing. Graduate Institute of Linguistics, Fu-Jen Catholic University. December 14, 2006.

• Representing and Processing (In)alienable Possessions in Mandarin. Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Cheng-Chi University. December 6, 2006.

• Nouns That Take Arguments: Representing and Processing (In)alienable Possessions in Mandarin. Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. November 28, 2006.

• Universal Subject Preference in Processing Relative Clauses. Language Engineering Lab at Chinese University of Hong Kong. December 9, 2005.

• When the Filler Precedes the Gap: Processing Chinese Possessor Relative Clauses. Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Cheng-Chi University. December 5, 2005.

Conference Presentations (peer-reviewed unless otherwise indicated)

1. Dong, Xiao, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2024). Tone 3 Sandhi Application and Prosodic Structure Interaction in L2 Mandarin Learners. Poster to be presented at the 30th Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP-30), University of Edinburgh, UK, August 31-September 2, 2024. (declined due to inability to make the trip)

2. Liu, Zeping, Xin Chen, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2024). Usefulness of prosodic cues in parsing: Evidence from a novel cross-modal maze task. Poster to be presented at the 2024 Human Sentence Processing Conference, University of Michigan, May 16-18, 2024.

3. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Hai Hu, Aini Li, & Yina Patterson. (2024). Native speakerism and grammaticality judgments: Who owns the linguistic intuitions of Standard Mandarin? Talk given at the 1st Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Collective Symposium. University of Iowa and University of Michigan, April 12, 2024.

4. Dong, Xiao, Fengming Liu, Monica Nesbitt, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2024). Neutral Tone, gender, and place orientation in Beijing: An update on Beijing professionals". Poster to be presented at the 2024 LSA Annual Meeting, January 4-7, 2024.

5. Dong, Xiao, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2023). Productivity and Acoustic Realization of Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi in L2 Learners. Poster to be presented at the MidPhon, Purdue University.

6. Dong, Xiao, Fengming Liu, Monica Nesbitt, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2023). Productivity and nature of Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi in L2 Learners. Talk to be presented at the 51st Annual New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference (NWAV-51), Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), October 13- 15, 2023.

7. Dong, Xiao, Fengming Liu, Monica Nesbitt, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2023). Neutral tone in Beijing: Reexamining the utilization of the neutral tone in Beijing professionals. Talk to be presented at the IU-NTU Symposium on Language, Brain, and Society, Indiana University Bloomington, October 6, 2023. (Invited talk)

8. Liu, Zeping, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2023). Greater prediction error does not lead to better syntactic adaptation: Evidence from Chinese ambiguity resolution. Poster presented at the 29th Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP-29), Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain, August 31-September 2, 2023.

9. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2023). Grammar and cognition:  Processing the Mandarin third tone sandhi. Invited talk given at IU-NTU Research Exchange Meeting. National Taiwan University, June 27, 2023. (Invited talk)

10. Dong, Xiao, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2023). Productivity and nature of Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi in L2 Learners. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America 2023 Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency Denver, Denver, CO, January 5-8, 2023.

11. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, He Zhou, and Hai Hu. (2022). Loading modifiers to the left: Linguistic complexity and processing consequences of head-final structures in translated Chinese. Invited paper presented at the Conference on “Do We Think Differently in Chinese and English?” Princeton University, October 21-23, 2022.

12. Liu, Fengming, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2022). An investigation of classifier-noun agreement in Chinese relative clause attachment. Paper presented at the 34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-34), Indiana University, Bloomington, September 23-25, 2022.

13. Tian, Zuoyu, Xiao Dong, Feier Gao, Haining Wang, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2022). Mandarin tone sandhi realization: Evidence from large speech corpora. Poster presented at the 23rd INTERSPEECH Conference, Incheon, Korea, September 18-22, 2022.

14. Chiang, Tzu-I, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2022). Processing temporo-aspectual congruence in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the 2022 Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP-2022), University of York, York, UK, September 7–9, 2022.

15. Hu, Hai, Aini Li, Yina Patterson, Jiahui Huang, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2022). Examining the replicability of grammaticality judgments in Chinese journal articles: Dialectal influences and sources of variability. Plenary talk presented at the 2022 Human Sentence Processing Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz (online conference), March 24-26, 2022.

16. Liu, Fengming, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2022). The role of classifier-noun agreement in relative clause attachment: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the 2022 Human Sentence Processing Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz (online conference), March 24-26, 2022.

17. Liu, Zeping, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2022). Adaptation effects in sentence ambiguity resolution revisited. Poster presented at the 2022 Human Sentence Processing Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz (online conference), March 24-26, 2022.

18. Liu, Fengming, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2022). The role of classifier-noun agreement in relative clause attachment: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. (汉语中的量词-名词一致和关系从句挂靠 ). Invited paper given at The RUC-IU Workshop on Language and Computation: Cross-lingual Perspectives. (中国人民大学—印第安纳大学合作论坛:语言与计算-跨语言视角). January 21-22, 2022.

19. Liu, Zeping, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2022). Cumulative structural priming in Chinese ambiguity resolution. (汉语消解歧义中的累积结构启动效应). Invited paper given at The RUC-IU Workshop on Language and Computation: Cross-lingual Perspectives. (中国人民大学—印第安纳大学合作论坛:语言与计算-跨语言视角). January 21-22, 2022.

20. Hu, Hai, Aini Li, Jiahui Huang, Yina Ma, & Chien-Jer Charles Lin. (2021). Replicating acceptability judgments from syntax papers in Chinese. Paper presented at the 33rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-33), University of Chicago (online conference), June 24-25, 2021.  

21. 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. Paper presented at the 19th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT). Online Conference.  

22. Lyu, Siqi, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2020). The time course of negation integration in establishing interclausal relations. Poster presented at the Workshop on the Processing of Negation and Polarity (NegPolProcessing 2020), Germany, October 2020.

23. Gao, Feier, Lyu, Siqi, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2020). Processing Mandarin tone 3 sandhi at the morphosyntactic interface. Paper presented at the 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32), University of Connecticut (online conference), September 18-20, 2020.

24. Hu, Hai, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2020). A corpus investigation of the features of translated Chinese. Paper presented at the 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32), University of Connecticut (online conference), September 18-20, 2020.

25. Gao, Feier, Lyu, Siqi, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2020). Morphological effects on the access of Mandarin sandhi syllables. Poster to be presented at LabPhon 17, UBC (virtual online conference), July 15, 2020.

26. Xiong, Yanyu, Newman, Sharlene, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2020). Dropping an argument is easier than filling it: Processing of empty categories in a pro-drop language. Poster presented at The 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 19-21, 2020.

27. Gao, Feier, Lyu, Siqi, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2020). Processing Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi in Reduplications and Lexical Compounds. Paper presented at The 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, January 2-5, 2020.

28.  Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Gao, Feier, & Lyu, Siqi. (2019). Processing phonological alternations at the morphosyntactic interface. Poster presented at the International Brain and Syntax Think Tank, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL., October 11-12, 2019.

29. Hsu, Yuyin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). Lexical effects on processing Chinese doubly quantified sentences. Psycholinguistics in Iceland – Parsing and Prediction (PIPP). June 19-21, 2019.

30. Lin, Yu-Jung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). Orthographic influences on syllable structure perception. Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Midwest Cognitive Science Conference, Ohio State University, May 24-26, 2019.

31. Gao, Feier, Lyu, Siqi, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). Tonal processing in Mandarin reduplication: Morphological and lexical effects. Poster presented at Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2019 (HISPhonCog 2019), Hanyang University, Seoul, May 24-25, 2019.

32. Lyu, Siqi, Tu, Jung-Yueh, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). Topicalization modulates the processing of a new topic in Chinese concession: An eye-tracking study. The 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 29-31, 2019.

33. Lyu, Siqi, Tu, Jung-Yueh, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). Plausibility in Chinese concession and causality: Evidence from self-paced reading and eye-tracking. The 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 29-31, 2019.

34. Lin, Yu-Jung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2018). Representing Chinese syllables. Poster presented at Phonfest 2018, Indiana University Bloomington, June 2, 2018.

35. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Hu, Hai. (2018). Syntactic complexity as a measure of linguistic authenticity in Modern Chinese. Paper presented at the Joint meeting of the 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-26) & the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20), University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 4-6, 2018.

36. Lin, Yu-Jung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2018). The effect of phonetic orthography on vowel detection in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the Joint meeting of the 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-26) & the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20), University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 4-6, 2018.

37. Lyu, Siqi, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2018). Plausibility and topichood in processing Chinese Concessives. Paper presented at the Joint meeting of the 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-26) & the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20), University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 4-6, 2018.

38. Zhang, Yiwen, Hu, Hai, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2018). Nouns and verbs behave differently as fillers: Expectation and interference in constructing long-distance dependencies. The 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of California, Davis CA, March 15-17, 2018.

39. Zhang, Yiwen, Hu, Hai, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2018). Expectations in reading Chinese verbs with ambiguous complement structures. Paper to be presented at the 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-30), Ohio State University, Columbus OH, March 9-11, 2018.

40. Zhang, Yiwen, Hu, Hai, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2017). Processing verbs with ambiguous complement structures. Poster to be presented at the Workshop on East Asian Psycholinguistics: Recent developments, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, October 15, 2017.

41. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2017). Head-modifier relations in Europeanized Chinese: Linguistic authenticity and sentence processing. Paper presented at the 29th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-29), Rutgers University, June 16-18, 2017.

42. Lyu, Siqi, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2017). Concession or contrast: A corpus-based study of suiran 虽然 (‘although’) in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 29th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-29), Rutgers University, June 16-18, 2017.

43. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2016). Demystifying westernized Chinese: Nominalization and its cognitive and pragmatic consequences. Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, November 4-6, 2016. 

44. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2016). Typological and processing origins of aesthetic prescriptivism in language. Talk presented at the 8th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL-8), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, August 8-10, 2016. [invited talk]

45. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2016). Restrictiveness in Chinese relative clauses: A comparison of corpus and experimental data. Poster presented at the Corpus Linguistics Fest 2016, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, June 6-10, 2016. 

46. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2016). Knowing what you hear: The influence of phonetic orthography on perceiving Standard Chinese syllables. Paper presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days (MSLD) and the Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, May 13-14, 2016. 

47. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2015). Focusing on contrast sets: Motivating Mandarin Chinese restrictive relative clauses in comprehension and production. Paper presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, March 19-21, 2015. [abstract] [talk slides]

48. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2015). Working memory and syntactic priming in the comprehension of head-final structures. Poster presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, March 19-21, 2015. [abstract] [poster]

49. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2014). Pinyin, Zhuyin, and the perception of Mandarin vowels. Paper presented at the First Chinese Language Teacher Association (CLTA) International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning, Indiana University Bloomington. October 24-26, 2014. [abstract] [talk slides]

50. Lin, Yu-Jung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2014). The effect of phonetic orthography on vowel detection in Mandarin. Poster presented at the IU College of Arts & Sciences Department of Linguistics 4th Annual Alumni Weekend, Indiana University Bloomington. October 10-11, 2014. [non-refereed project report] [poster]

51. Hsu, Yuyin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2014). Verb types, contexts and quantifier scope interpretation in Mandarin. Paper presented at the Joint 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-26) & the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-22), University of Maryland, May 2-4, 2014. [abstract]

52. Chang, Paul, Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Ahrens, Kathleen. (2014). When frequent senses are not activated: Processing of metaphorical polysemy using a cross-modal lexical priming task. Paper presented at the 7th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 2014), National Taiwan University, May 3-4, 2014.

53. Harding, Jessica, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2014). Attuning to cohesion: English count-syntax, the Mandarin general classifier ge, and wholeness. Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, March 13-15, 2014. [poster]

54. Ning, Li-Hsin, Christiansen, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2014). Processing resumptives in Mandarin relative clauses: An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, March 13-15, 2014. [abstract] [poster]

55. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Jaeger, Lena. (2014). Reading resultative verb compounds in Chinese sentences: An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the 2nd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium (EAPC2). University of Chicago. March 8, 2014. [poster]

56. Ning, Li-Hsin, Christianson, Kiel, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2014). Eye-tracking evidence for the role of linear distance and structural distance in processing resumptives in Mandarin relative clauses. Poster presented at the 2nd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium (EAPC2). University of Chicago. March 8, 2014.

57. Jaeger, Lena, Chen, Zhong, Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Li, Qiang, & Vasishth, Shravan. (2014). The subject-relative advantage in Chinese: Evidence for expectation-based processing. Poster presented at the 2nd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium (EAPC2). University of Chicago. March 8, 2014.

58. Lin, Yu-Jung, Yang, Chung-Lin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2013). Syllable perception and the effect of phonetic orthography in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the 25th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-25), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 21-23, 2013.

59. Lin, Yu-Jung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2013). Perception of Mandarin tones and vowels in Zhuyin users. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 21) at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, June 7-9, 2013.

60. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2013). Effects of syntactic complexity and animacy on the initiation times for head-final relative clauses. Poster presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC, March 21-23, 2013. [poster]

61. Jaeger, Lena, Vasishth, Shravan, Chen, Zhong, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2013). Eyetracking evidence for the subject relative advantage in Mandarin. Poster presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC, March 21-23, 2013.

62. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). Asymmetries in the comprehension and production of Chinese relative clauses. Invited talk given at East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium at Ohio State University, Columbus OH, October 13, 2012. (invited talk)

63. Dabney, Nicole, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). Perception of discourse particle use and speaker identity in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium at Ohio State University, Columbus OH, October 13, 2012.

64. Harding, Jessica, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). The effect of cohesion violations on syntactic individuation. Poster presented at East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium at Ohio State University, Columbus OH, October 13, 2012.

65. Lin, Yu-Jung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). The effect of Mandarin transcription system on phonological awareness. Poster presented at East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium at Ohio State University, Columbus OH, October 13, 2012.

66. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). Restrictiveness and information status of Chinese relative clauses: Evidence from discourse comprehension. Paper presented at Pragmatics Festival at Indiana University, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 19-21, 2012.

67. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). Typological perspectives on relative clause processing: Thematic mapping, case markedness, filler-gap integrations, and their relative timing. Poster presented at the Workshop on the Timing of Grammar: Experimental and Theoretical Considerations in Generative Linguistics in the Old World (Glow 35). University of Potsdam, March 27-31, 2012.

68. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2011). Chinese and English relative clauses: Processing constraints and typological consequences. Paper presented at the 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-23), University of Oregon, Eugene, June 17-19, 2011.

69. Lai, Yu-Da, Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Chen, Chun-Yin Doris. (2011). The timing of syntactic commitment during L2 processing: Evidence from eye movement in reading English relative clauses. Poster presented at the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford University, March 24-26, 2011.

70. Lai, Yu-Da, Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Chen, Chun-Yin Doris. (2010). The roles of animacy and probability in l2 processing: Implications for l2 parsing models. Paper presented at The VI International Conference on Language Acquisition, University of Barcelona, A.E.A.L. (Asociación para el Estudio de la Adquisición del Lenguaje), Spain, September 8-10, 2010.

71. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2010). Down the head-final garden path: Understanding the processing asymmetries of head-final relative clauses. Talk given at Understanding Language: Forty Years Down the Garden Path, Summer Course at the the University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian-Donostia, Basque Country, Spain, June 28-July 1, 2010. (invited lecture)

72. Chen, Yi-Rung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2010). The effect of sense relatedness on lexical ambiguity resolution: Evidence from Chinese verbs. The 12th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-12), Academia Sinica, Taipei, June 19-21, 2010.

73. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2010). Comprehending Chinese relative clauses in context: Thematic patterns and grammatical functions. Paper presented at the Joint 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22) & the 18th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-18), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 20-22, 2010. [awarded the best paper for interdisciplinary studies on Chinese Linguistics from IACL]

74. Lin, Hsin-Ni Vicky, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2010). Perceiving vowels and tones in Mandarin: The effect of literary phonetic systems on phonological Awareness. Paper presented at the Joint 22th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22) & the 18th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-18), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 20-22, 2010.

75. Chang, Paul, Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Ahrens, Kathleen. (2009). Between corpus and cognition: Can frequent metaphorical senses be salient? Paper presented at the Third Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition (CLDC-3), National Taiwan University, Taipei, May 2-3, 2009.

76. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2009). Chinese relative clauses in corpus: Processing considerations. Paper presented at the 2009 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (ALLT), National Taiwan University of Science & Technology (NTUST), Taipei, April 16-18, 2009.

77. Li, Larry, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2009). Mass-count cognition in a classifier language: Evidence from sentence reading and quantity judgments. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UC Davis, March 26–28, 2009.

78. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2009). The nature of dependency and argument-adjunct distinctions in processing. Paper presented at the 6th Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, January 10-11, 2009. (invited talk)

79. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2008). The syntax of possessive arguments in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the Workshop on Argument Realization of the 18th International Congress of Linguistics (ICL18), Korea University, Seoul, Korea, July 21-26, 2008.

80. Ning, Li-Hsin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2008). Resumptives in Mandarin: Syntactic versus processing accounts. Paper presented at the Syntax Session of the 18th International Congress of Linguistics (ICL18), Korea University, Seoul, Korea, July 21-26, 2008.

81. Li, Larry, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2008). Do Chinese nouns count? Syntax, semantics, and classifier cognition. Paper presented at the 11th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL11), Hsin-Chu, National Chiao-Tung University, May 23-25, 2008.

82. Ning, Li-Hsin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2007). Grammatical and processing motivations for resumptives in Mandarin relative clauses. Poster presented at the 12th International Conference on the Processing of East Asia Related Languages (PEARL2007), National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, December 28-29, 2007.

83. Lai, Yu-Da, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2007). Examining the role of interlexical spacing in Chinese sentence processing. Poster presented at the 12th International Conference on the Processing of East Asia Related Languages (PEARL2007), National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, December 28-29, 2007.

84. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2007). The psychological reality of head-final relative clauses. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Relative Clauses, Academia Sinica, Taipei, November 2-3, 2007. (invited talk)

85. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Bever, Thomas G. (2007). Processing head-final relative clauses without garden paths. Paper presented at the International Conference on Processing Head-Final Structures, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, September 21-22, 2007.

86. Ning, Li-Hsin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2007). What are resumptives good for? Poster presented at the International Conference on Processing Head-Final Structures, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, September 21-22, 2007.

87. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Bever, Thomas G. (2007). Processing doubly-embedded head-final relative clauses. Poster presented at Interdisciplinary Approaches to Relative Clauses (REL07), Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, September 13-15, 2007.

88. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2007). Processing (in)alienable possessions at the syntax-semantics interface. Paper presented at the Workshop On Linguistic Interfaces (OnLI), University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, June 1-3, 2007.

89. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Bever, Thomas G. (2007). Syntactic anomaly beyond semantic rescue. Paper presented at the First Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition (CLDC-1), National Taiwan University, Taipei, May 18-19, 2007.

90. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2007). Grammaticality and parsability in sentence processing. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Grammar and Evidence, National Chung-Cheng University, Chiayi, April 13-15, 2007. (invited talk)

91. Fong, Sandiway, Hirose, Yuki, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2006). On preferring displacement: Evidence from possessive relative clauses. Paper presented at the Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics, Moscow State University, Russia, May 22–24, 2006.

92. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Bever, Thomas G. (2006). A universal account of relative-clause processing in typologically diverse languages. Paper presented at the Joint IACL14 and the 10th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics Conference (IsCLL10), (in the special session on Language Diversity), Taipei: Academia Sinica, May 25–29, 2006.

93. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2006). Processing thematic relations between nouns. Paper presented at the 7th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, Hsin-Chu: National Chiao Tung University, May 22–23, 2006.

94. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Bever, Thomas G. (2006). Subject preference in the processing of relative clauses in Chinese. Paper presented at the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, April 28–30, 2006.

95. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, and Bever, Thomas G. (2006). Chinese is no exception: Universal subject preference of relative clause processing. Paper presented at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York City, NY, March 23–25, 2006.

96. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Fong, Sandiway, and Bever, Thomas G. (2006). Efficiency of processing nonlocal dependencies in Chinese possessor relative clauses. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Albuquerque NM, January 5–8, 2006.

97. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Fong, Sandiway, and Bever, Thomas G. (2005). Local dependencies aren’t necessarily easier: Processing possessor relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Processing Chinese and Other East Asian Languages (PCOEAL 2005), Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 9–11, 2005.

98. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Fong, Sandiway, and Bever, Thomas G. (2005). Constructing filler-gap dependencies in Chinese possessor relative clauses. Paper presented at the 19th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC19), Academia Sinica, Taipei, December 1–3, 2005. (Recipient of the International Young Scholar Award)

99. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Fong, Sandiway, and Bever, Thomas G. (2005). Left-edge advantage of gap searching in Chinese possessor relativization. Paper presented at the 2005 Niagara Linguistic Society Conference (NLS-2005), University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, September 30–October 2, 2005.

100. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Fong, Sandiway, and Bever, Thomas G. (2005). Left-edge advantage of gap searching in Chinese possessor relativization. Poster presented at the 2005 Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP-2005), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, September 5–7, 2005.

101. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, and Fong, Sandiway. (2005). Explaining filler-gap facts in Chinese possessor relativization. Poster presented at the Third Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-3), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July 22–23, 2005.

102. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2004). Beyond output correspondence: Tone sandhi in Southern Min reduplication. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2004 Annual Meeting, Boston, January 8–11, 2004.

103. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2003). Aspect and result: Chinese resultative constructions and aspect incorporation. Paper presented at the West Coast Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), The University of Arizona, Tucson, September 26–28, 2003.

104. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2003). Event integration in Mandarin compound verbs. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2003 Annual Meeting, Atlanta GA, January 2–5, 2003.

105. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2002). Nasal endings of Taiwan Mandarin: A production/perception perspective on language change. Paper presented at the 35th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, November 7–9, 2002.