Journal Articles (Students are underlined)

• Chia-Hsuan Liao & Ellen Lau. (2023). ERP sensitivity to subcategorization violations in second language learners. Second Language Research, 02676583231199426. [Online Access]

• Chia-Hsuan Liao, Ellen Lau, & Wing-Yee Chow. (2022). Towards a processing model for argument-verb computations in online sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 126, 104350. [Online Access]

• Nick Huang, Aaron White, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard, & Jeffrey Lidz. (2022). Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax. Language Acquisition, 29(1), 27-53. [Online Access]

• Chia-Hsuan Liao & Ellen Lau. (2020). Enough time to get results? An ERP investigation of prediction with complex events. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(9), 1162-1182. [Online Access]

• William Matchin, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Phoebe Gaston, & Ellen Lau. (2019). Same words, different structures: An fMRI investigation of argument relations and the angular gyrus. Neuropsychologia, 125, 116-128. [Online Access]

• Nick Huang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard, & Jeffrey Lidz. (2018). Learning attitude verb meanings in a morphologically-poor language. Proceedings of the 42nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) (Vol. 42, p. 359). [Online Access]

• Ellen Lau & Chia-Hsuan Liao. (2017). Linguistic structure across time: ERP responses to coordinated and uncoordinated noun phrases. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33(5), 633-647. [Online Access]

• Chia-Hsuan Liao & Shiao-hui Chan. (2016). Direction matters: Event-related brain potentials reflect extra processing costs in switching from the dominant to the less dominant language. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 40, 79-97. [Online Access]

• Liao C-H. (In prep.) Role of animacy hierarchy in computing thematic relations during online sentence comprehension.

• Cheng C-F, Hsieh F-F, & Liao C-H. (In prep.) Not all tone sandhis are processed equally: Tone 3 and Yi sandhi in Taiwanese Mandarin.

• Chen Y-H, & Liao C-H. (In prep.) The Influence of Language Modes on imbalanced Bilingual Speakers’ Speech Categorical Perception: Insights from Mandarin-Taiwanese Bilingual Speakers.

Conference Presentations (Students are underlined)

• Hong-Yi Wang & Tzong-Hong Jonah Lin. (March, 2025). When a Wh-in-Situ Behaves Like a Parasitic Gap. Poster presented at The 47th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 47). Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen, Germany.

• Hong-Yi Wang. (January, 2025). Parasitic Wh-in-Situ Crosslinguistically. Oral presentation given at The 1st SNU Linguistics Symposium (SLS 1). Seoul, Korea.

• Yun-Chiao Fang & Chia-Hsuan Liao. (December, 2024). On the Mental Representation of Derived Words and Subordinate Compounds in Mandarin. Oral presentation given at The 9th Asian Junior Linguistics Conference (AJL9). Tokyo, Japan.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao & Jia-Ying Tsai. (October, 2024). When "Mary divorce John" becomes acceptable: An ERP investigation on the trend of transitivization in Mandarin. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2024). Brisbane, Australia.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao. (October, 2024). When "Mary Broke up John" Becomes Acceptable: An ERP Investigation on the Trend of Transitivization in Mandarin. Invited talk given at the 15th Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics (FOSS-15). Taipei, Taiwan.

• Hong-Yi Wang & Tzong-Hong Jonah Lin. (October, 2024). A Visible Parasitic Gap. Poster presented at the 15th Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics (FOSS-15). Taipei, Taiwan.

• Hsin-Ju Wu, I-Ta Chris Hsieh, & Chia-Hsuan Liao. (May, 2024). Instead of Hamburger, how about eating restaurant? The Processing of Canonical and Non-Canonical Arguments in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2024). Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

• Hong-Yi Wang, Wei-Cheng Peng, Yu-Min Wang, & Chun-Chieh Hsu. (November, 2023). Effects of Prosodic Cues and Animacy in Mandarin Relative Clause Attachment. Oral presentation given at The 8th Asian Junior Linguistics Conference (AJL8). Singapore, Singapore.

• Yu-Hao Chen & Chia-Hsuan Liao. (August, 2023). The influence of language modes on heritage speakers’ speech categorical perception: Insights from Mandarin-Taiwanese bilingual speakers. Poster presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 29 (AMLaP 29). San Sebastián, Spain.

• Jia-Ying Tsai & Chia-Hsuan Liao. (August, 2023). Slow impact of structural cue on argument-verb computations in Mandarin. Oral presentation given at The Forth International Conference on Theoretical East Asia Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-4). Seoul, Korea.

• Yi-Hsin Chen & Chia-Hsuan Liao. (August, 2023). Role of Syntax and Semantics in Online Sentence Comprehension: A Cross-Modal Priming Study. Poster presented at The Forth International Conference on Theoretical East Asia Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-4). Seoul, Korea.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao & Jia-Ying Tsai. (March, 2023). When "Mary broke up John" becomes acceptable: On the trend of transitivization in Mandarin. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2023). Pittsburg, PA, USA.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao & Hsiang-Ching Chiu. (October, 2022). The role of animacy in computing thematic relations during online sentence comprehension. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2022), Philadelphia, PA, USA.

• Chih-Chao Chang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, & Yu-An Lu. (October, 2022). Neural correlates of phonotactic context effect in speech categorization. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2022), Philadelphia, PA, USA. 

• Hsiang-Ching Chiu, & Chia-Hsuan Liao. (March, 2022). Same surface structure, different thematic relations: Comprehension of (a)typical thematic relations in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2022). Santa Cruz, CA, USA, Virtual presentation.

• Chia-Fang Cheng, Feng-Fan Hsieh, & Chia-Hsuan Liao. (March, 2022). Distinctive patterns of producing tone sandhi in Mandarin: Insights from picture-word interference paradigm. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2022). Santa Cruz, CA, USA, Virtual presentation.

• Hsiang-Ching Chiu, & Chia-Hsuan Liao. (November, 2021). Comprehension of atypical thematic relations in Mandarin Chinese: A self-paced reading study. Poster presented at The Third International Conference on Theoretical East Asia Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-3). Hsinchu, Taiwan, Virtual presentation.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao, & Ellen Lau. (October, 2020). On the L2 insensitivity to subcategorization violations. Poster presented at the 12th annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2020). Virtual presentation.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao, & Ellen Lau. (March, 2020). “Listen my story”: ERP sensitivity to argument structure violations in L2. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2020). Amherst, MA, USA, Virtual presentation.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao, Wing Yee Chow, & Ellen Lau. (October, 2019). The time course of computing verb-argument relations in sentence comprehension: evidence from the N400. Poster presented at the International Brain and Syntax Think Tank. Evanston, IL, USA.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao,  Wing Yee Chow, & Ellen Lau. (August, 2019). Bag of words precedes bag of arguments: The time course of computing argument identity in sentence comprehension. Poster presented at the 11th annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL 2019). Helsinki, Finland.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao,  Macie McKtrick & Maria Polinsky. (August, 2019). Where do code-switching constraints apply? An ERP study of code-switching in Mandarin-Taiwanese sentences. Poster presented at the 11th annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL 2019). Helsinki, Finland.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao & Ellen Lau. (March, 2019). Computing complex events and beyond: ERP data on prediction with complex verbs. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2019). Boulder, CO, USA.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao & Ellen Lau. (March, 2018). Extra time to get results? ERP data on complex predicates in Mandarin. Poster presented at the 31th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2018). Davis, CA, USA.

• Nick Huang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard & Jeff Lidz. (November, 2017). Selection properties of Mandarin attitude verbs and consequences for syntactic bootstrapping. Talk given at SelectionFest. Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany.

• Phoebe Gaston, Chia-Hsuan Liao, William Matchin, & Ellen Lau. (November, 2017). Investigating task-modulated syntactic prediction with MEG. Poster presented at the 9th annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL 2017). Baltimore, MD, USA.

• Nick Huang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard & Jeff Lidz. (November, 2017). Learning attitude verb meanings in a morphosyntactically-poor language via syntactic bootstrapping. Talk given at the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA, USA.

• Ellen Lau & Chia-Hsuan Liao. (April, 2017). Neural indices of active structure maintenance: ERP evidence from noun phrase coordination. Poster presented at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2017). Cambridge, MA, USA.

• William Matchin, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Phoebe Gaston, & Ellen Lau. (March, 2017). An fMRI investigation of argument structure and syntactic selection. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2017 Annual meeting (CNS 2017). San Francisco, CA, USA.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao & Shiao-Hui Chan. (March, 2017). Comprehension of code-mixed sentences in bilingual elders: An event-related potentials (ERP) study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2017 Annual meeting (CNS 2017). San Francisco, CA, USA.

• Nick Huang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Hacquard Valentine, & Lidz Jeff. (October, 2016). Syntactic bootstrapping with minimal morphosyntactic cues: Learning Mandarin Chinese attitude verb meanings. Poster presented at the 6th Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM 6). New York, USA.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao & Shiao-Hui Chan. (May, 2014). Unexpected ending in sentence processing: An ERP study. Research abstract presented at the 7th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 2014). Taipei, Taiwan.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao & Shiao-Hui Chan. (April, 2014). Switching into a non-dominant language is harder: An ERP study of simultaneous bilinguals. Poster presented at the 21st Anniversary meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2014). Boston, MA, USA.

• Shiao-Hui Chan, Li-Chuan Ku, Chih-Jen Liu & Chia-Hsuan Liao. (October, 2013). A cow needs a head but a horse does not: An MEG study on Mandarin classifiers. Research abstract presented at the 7th East Asia Symposium on Superconductive Electronics (EASSE). National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Shiao-Hui Chan, Chia-Hsuan Liao, & Li-Chuan Ku. (April, 2013). Headless cows are hard to process: an ERP study of Mandarin classifiers. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2013). San Francisco, CA, USA.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao. (August, 2012). On the acquisition of Chinese third tone sandhi in second language learners. Paper presented at 2012 Student Workshop on East Asian Linguistics (SWEAL). National Tsinghua University, Taiwan. 

• Chia-Hsuan Liao. (May, 2012). Perception and production of Chinese third tone sandhi in second language learners. Proceedings of the 13th National Conference on Linguistics (NCL). Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao. (May, 2012). On the emergence of General Taiwanese Accent: A perspective from Optimality Theory. Proceedings of the 13th National Conference on Linguistics (NCL). Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao & Shiao-Hui Chan. (March, 2012). Code-mixing and language use: The asymmetrical processing cost in understanding switched sentences. Poster presented at the 2012 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT). Washington, D.C., USA.

• Chia-Hsuan Liao & Shiao-Hui Chan. (September, 2011). The asymmetrical processing cost of code-mixing in Mandarin-Taiwanese bilinguals. Proceedings of the 2011 National Conference on Linguistics (NCL). National Sun Yat Sen University, Taiwan.