Hello! I am a 4th-year Ph.D. student in Linguistics at UConn. My research focuses on natural language semantics, pragmatics, and their acquisition by children. I combine theoretical and experimental methods in my research to investigate how linguistically encoded meanings and their compositional details are reflected in children's developmental trajectory. My current work primarily deals with questions, disjunctions, attitudes, modality, counterfactuals, and formal and experimental techniques applicable to natural language semantics/pragmatics.  

Prior to UConn, I received my M.A. degree in Linguistics from CUHK, and completed my master's thesis on distributivity in child Mandarin under the supervision of Dr. Margaret Lei. 

"When ‘yes’ means ‘no’: A universal truth-default of answering system in child Mandarin." 

Poster at the 51st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 51), Nov. 5th – 8th, Boston University, USA. [poster]

“Attitudes meet disjunctions in child Mandarin: Early sensitivity to semantic type constraints." 

Invited talk at Child Language Development Lab, TBD (Fall '26), Yale University, New Haven, USA. 

Invited talk at Acquisition/Rescursion Group, Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC), TBD (Fall '26), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. (virtual)

“Presupposition of AltQs revisited: The view from child language." 

Talk at (biennial) Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 4 (ELM 4), June 10th –12th, University of Pennsylvania, USA. [slides]