I am Yixuan Yan [˥˩ji˥ɕɥæn ˧˥jæn], a 2nd-year PhD student in Linguistics at UConn. Broadly I am interested in semantics/pragmantics as well as L1 acquisition in Mandarin. Currently I am working on the acquisition of Mandarin alternative questions (under the supervision of William Snyder and Diane C. Lillo-Martin) and counterfactual reasoning in Mandarin (under the supervision of Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann). See more about my projects on Research. 

My CV could be found here (updated to May 2024).


“Do conditionals appear late? Counter-evidence from Mandarin.” Poster at the XVIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL XVI), July 15th - 19th, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

“How do children distribute? –Evidence from Mandarin Chinese.” Talk at the XVIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL XVI), July 15th - 19th, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

“Time and modality in Mandarin counterfactual reasoning.” Talk at the Student Session of the 2024 European Summer School on Logic, Language, Language, and Information (ESSLLI 2024), July 29th - August 9th, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

“A-not-A questions in child Mandarin: Deletion or reduplication?” Talk at the 16th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference (GALA 16), Sep 12th - 14th, NOVA University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.