Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Yuhan Zhang & Kathryn Davidson. (In press). Interpreting referential noun phrases in belief reports – the de re/de dicto competition. Glossa Psycholinguistics. [manuscript]

2. Yuhan Zhang, Rachel Ryskin, & Edward Gibson. (2023). A noisy-channel approach to the depth-charge illusion. Cognition, 232. [Publisher's version] [data & code]

3. Yihong Gao & Yuhan Zhang. (2019). Associative Group Analysis on the psychological meaning of “suicide” – Evidence from Chinese students in five geographically different colleges (in Chinese). Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages, 1. [Publisher's version]

4. Yihong Gao & Yuhan Zhang. (2017). Psychological meanings of “suicide” for Chinese college Students: A semantic differential study (in Chinese). Discourse Studies Forum, 4, 32-52. [Publisher's version]

Conference Proceedings

1. Yuhan Zhang, Edward Gibson & Forrest Davis. (2023). Can language models be tricked by language illusions? Easier with syntax, harder with semantics. The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL). [preprint]

2. Masoud Jasbi, Natalia Bermudez, Yuhan Zhang, Reka Siro & Kathryn Davidson. (2023). Crosslinguistic consistency in the interpretation of logical connectives: The case of English, Hungarian, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45. [Paper]

3. Zidi Xiu, Kai-Chen Cheng, David Q. Sun, Jiannan Lu, Hadas Kotek, Yuhan Zhang, Paul McCarthy, Christopher Klein, Stephen Pulman & Jason D. Williams. (2023). Feedback Effect in User Interaction with Intelligent Assistants: Delayed Engagement, Adaption and Drop-out.  Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (pp. 145-158). [Publisher's version]

4. Yuhan Zhang, Wenqi Chen, Ruihan Zhang, & Xiajie Zhang. (2022). Representing affect information in word embeddings. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10583

5. Yuhan Zhang & Kathryn Davidson. (2021). De re interpretation in belief reports – An experimental investigation. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 1, 310-321. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.1.4874

6. Yuhan Zhang. (2021). Partial dependency of vowel reduction on stress shift – Evidence from English -ion nominalization. Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Meetings on Phonology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v9i0.4938

Conference Presentations

2023

• Yuhan Zhang, Edward Gibson & Forrest Davis. Can language models be tricked by language illusions? Easier with syntax, harder with semantics. The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Singapore. December 6-7. Talk.

• Yuhan Zhang, Carina Kauf & Edward Gibson. A noisy-channel explanation of comparative illusion. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, San Sebastian, Spain. September 2 – 4. Plenary talk.

• Masoud Jasbi, Natalia Bermudez, Yuhan Zhang, Reka Siro & Kathryn Davidson. Crosslinguistic consistency in the interpretation of logical connectives: The case of English, Hungarian, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia. July 26 – 29. Poster.

• Masoud Jasbi, Natalia Bermudez, Yuhan Zhang, Reka Siro & Kathryn Davidson. Crosslinguistic interpretation of logical connectives -- Negation, conjunction, and disjunction in English, Hungarian, and Mandarin Chinese. The 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Pittsburgh, PA. March 9 – 11. Poster.

• Yuhan Zhang, Jiarui Li. & Lin Bian. Pronoun use reflects gender bias against different occupations. The 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Pittsburgh, PA. March 9 – 11. Poster.

2022

• Yuhan Zhang & Kathryn Davidson. Competing de dicto terms reduce de re acceptability. The 3rd Joint Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Milan, Italy. July 19 – 22. Plenary talk.

• Yuhan Zhang, Wenqi Chen, Ruihan Zhang, & Xiajie Zhang. Affect encoding in word embeddings. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 2, Philadelphia, PA. May 18 – 20. Short talk.

• Yuhan Zhang & Kathryn Davidson. Competing de dicto terms reduce de re acceptability. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), 58, University of Chicago, Il. April 21 – 24. Plenary talk.

2021

• Yuhan Zhang, Rachel Ryskin & Edward Gibson. A noisy-channel explanation for depth-charge illusions. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Université de Paris, France. September 2 – 4. Online. Plenary talk.

• Yuhan Zhang, Giuseppe Ricciardi & Kathryn Davidson. How many response options in a TVJT? It depends. The 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Philadelphia, PA. March 4 – 6. Short talk.

2020

• Yuhan Zhang. Partial dependency of vowel reduction on stress shift – Evidence from English -tion nominalization. The 2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology, UC Santa Cruz, CA. Poster.

• Yuhan Zhang & Kathryn Davidson. De re interpretation in belief report – An experimental investigation. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning Conference (ELM), Philadelphia, PA. Poster.

• Yuhan Zhang. Stress shift is proportional and vowel reduction is not deterministic -- a corpus case study of English -tion nominalization. Linguistic Society of America 2020 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Poster.

2019

• Yuhan Zhang & Peng Zhou. Prediction or processing burden: Online processing of classifier and noun-noun compound in Mandarin. The 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, CO. Poster.

• Yuhan Zhang & Peng Zhou. Prediction or processing burden: Online processing of classifier and noun-noun compound in Mandarin. The 2nd International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics, Beijing, China. Poster.

Other Talks

• Zhang, Y. & Davidson, K. (2019). De re interpretation in belief report – An experimental investigation. Language & Cognition Workshop (LangCog), Harvard University. November 19.

• Zhang, Y., & P., Zhou. (2019). Online processing of Mandarin classifier and noun-noun compound. ECO-5, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. February, 9.