Broad: Semantics • Pragmatics • Experimental linguistics • L1 acquisition • Logic of lanaguge • Language philosophy.

Narrow: Questions • Conditionals • Modality • Attitudes • Implicatures

Yan, Yixuan, (on-going). Mandarin Children’s Alternative Questions. First Generals Paper, University of Connecticut. (Supervised by William Snyder) 

Yan, Yixuan, (2020). Distributivity in Child and Adult Mandarin. M.A. Thesis, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (Supervised by Margaret Lei) 

Yan, Yixuan, (to appear). Time and Modality in Mandarin Counterfactual Reasoning. In Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2024 Student Session, 35th European Summer School in Logic, Language & Information.

Yan, Yixuan, (2024). 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.

Yan, Yixuan, (2024). 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.

Yan, Yixuan, (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. (*funded by IASCL Travel Award)

Yan, Yixuan, (2024). 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. (*funded by IASCL Travel Award)

Yan, Yixuan, (2020). Distributivity in child Mandarin. Talk at the 2020 Annual Research Forum of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK ARF2020), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 11-12, Hong Kong. [Microtalk slides presented on UConn Open House Mar 2023]

Yan, Yixuan, (2023). How do children distribute? - Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Talk at UMass Acqui-Lab, Sep 14, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.

Yan, Yixuan, (2024). The role of relative tense in Mandarin counterfactual reasoning. Talk at the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS). Feb 10th. Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

Yan, Yixuan, (2023). A or not A? That is a question! Talk at UConn Acqui-Lab, Nov 28th, University of Connecticut, CT, USA.

Yan, Yixuan, (2023). Do conditionals appear Late? Counter-Evidence from Mandarin. Talk at UConn Ling-Lunch, Oct 31st, University of Connecticut, CT, USA.

Yan, Yixuan, (2023). How do children distribute? Talk at UConn Open House Microtalk, Mar 3rd, University of Connecticut, CT, USA.

Yan, Yixuan, (2022). Distributivity in children: A comparison between English and Mandarin Chinese. Talk at UConn Acqui-Lab, Dec 1st, University of Connecticut, CT, USA.