Publications & Manuscripts
Ying, Y. (2024). Exceptives in Mandarin. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14004263 [Collected under NSF-funded projects BCS2116343 and BCS2116344, “Collaborative Research: Variation in Exceptive Structures.”. PIs: Dr. Maria Polinsky & Dr. Eric Potsdam]
Ying, Y., Hacquard, V., Williams, A., & Lidz, J. (2024). Children do not overuse "the" in natural production. Proceedings of the 48th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. https://www.lingref.com/bucld/48/BUCLD48-53.pdf
Ying, Y., Yang, X., & Shi, R. (2022). Toddlers use functional morphemes for backward syntactic categorization. First Language. 42(3). 448-465. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221079137
Ying Y., Yang, X., & Shi, R. (2021). Structures of function words guide Mandarin-learning 19-month-olds in backward syntactic categorization. In Danielle Dionne and Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 805-817). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. https://www.lingref.com/bucld/45/BUCLD45-60.pdf
Ying, Y., Williams, A., Hacquard, V., & Lidz, J. (resubmitted). Overcoming performance issues: Preschoolers know when to use the-expressions. [Manuscript]
Ying, Y. (in preparation). Smooth tones as a natural class: Explaining complex tone sandhi in the Sinitic Wu dialect of Huangyan. [Manuscript]
Talks
Ying, Y., Williams, A., & Lidz, J. (2025). Bootstrapping the-meaning in early experience: Longitudinal study at 14 and 20 months. 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50), Boston.
Ying, Y. (2025). Responding to missing arguments: How 15-month-olds understand wh-questions absent from early input. Conference on Neo-Descriptivism, Macau.
Ying, Y. (2025). Complex tone sandhi types in the Chinese Wu dialect of Huangyan. 2025 LSA Annual Meeting, Pennsylvania.
Ying, Y., Williams, A., Hacquard, V., & Lidz, J. (2024). Overcoming performance issues: Children respect presuppositions of "the"-expressions. 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 49), Boston. Winner of Jean Berko Gleason Award for the top-ranked student presentation. [Abstract]
Ying, Y., Hacquard, V., Williams, A., & Lidz, J. (2023). Children do not overuse "the" in natural production. 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 48), Boston. [Abstract]
Perkins, L., Ying, Y., Williams, A., & Lidz, J. (2021). Object wh-questions with unknown verbs are transitive for 20-month-olds. 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 46), Boston/Online. [Abstract]
Ying, Y. (2019). 中日言語転換—脳の可能性の探検 (Mandarin-Japanese code-switching: Exploring potentials of the brain). Seminar on Sino-Japanese Interlingual Translation, Tsinghua University.
Posters
Ying. Y. (2024). Complex tone sandhi types in the Chinese Wu dialect of Huangyan. Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), Rutgers. [Abstract] [Poster]
Ying, Y., Hacquard, V., Williams, A., & Lidz, J. (2023). Do children overuse "the" phrases? 2023 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), University of Massachusetts, Amherst. [Abstract] [Poster]
Ying, Y., Yang, X., & Shi, R. (2020). Structures of function morphemes guide Mandarin-learning 19-month-olds in backward syntactic categorization. 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD45), Boston/Online. [Abstract] [Poster]