Presentations

Conference Presentations:

2025

1.  Lyu, Jun, Chen, Yunchuan, & Wu, Jingran. Suppression of L1 Japanese Influence in the Acquisition of the Blocking Effect in L2 Chinese. Paper presented at the 25th International Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA 2025) (06/14/25)

2.  Chen, Yunchuan. The comprehension of Japanese OSV sentences by L1 Chinese L2 Japanese learners. Paper presented at the Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PACSLRF) 2025. Shanghai Jiaotong University. (06/01/25)

3. Chen, Yunchuan, & Danzhen, Lujiong. Grammars of Balanced Bilinguals: A Case Study on Tibetan-Chinese Bilinguals' Interpretation of SOV Sentences. Poster presented at the Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PACSLRF) 2025. Shanghai Jiaotong University. (05/31/25)

4. Chen, Yunchuan, & Chavez, J.  Reexamining the interpretation of English definite plurals by L1 Spanish speakers: persistent transfer effects from Spanish. Paper presented at the 2025 Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Boca Raton, Florida. (4/12/2025)

5. Chen, Yunchuan, & Danzhen, Lujiong. The ultimate grammar state of bilinguals: An analysis  of Tibetan-Chinese bilinguals' interpretation of Chinese and Tibetan SOV Sentences. Paper presented at the 2025 Penn Linguistics Conference (4/5/2025)

  6. Lyu, Jun, Chen, Yunchuan, & Kaiser, Elsi. Acquisition of blocking effect in L2 Chinese by  L1 Japanese speakers. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP). University of Maryland (3/29/2025)

2024

1.Chen, Yunchuan. The Interpretation of English Bare Numeral Constructions by Chinese-speaking Learners. Paper presented at the 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 17). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (5/2/2024)

2. Chen, Yunchuan & Hester, Mac.  Scope assignment in Quantifier-Negation sentences in early Korean-Chinese bilinguals’ grammars. Poster presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America. NYC. (1/6/2024) 

2023

1. Arty, Layla & Chen, Yunchuan. Acquisition of the English Plural Form by Native Japanese Speakers. Paper presented at the 23rd International Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA2023), Gakushuin University. (10/14/2023)

2. Chen, Yunchuan & Huan, Tingting. On the role of continuous exposure in heritage speakers’ adolescence: two groups of Chinese-dominant Tibetan heritage speakers in China.  Poster presented at the 14th Heritage Language Research Institute. National Heritage Language Resource Center, UCLA. (6/6/2023)

3. Chen, Yunchuan. L2 acquisition of case markers in Japanese OSV sentences. Paper presented at the 2023 American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Conference, Boston (3/16/2023)

4. Chen, Yunchuan, Yuxuan Hua & Shiting Wang. Optionality in semantic-pragmatic interface of bilingualism? Bare numeral constructions in Tibetan and Chinese bilinguals' grammar. Paper presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America. Denver, Colorado. (1/5/2023) 

5. Okamura, Leah & Chen, Yunchuan. Scope of negation and conjunction in heritage Japanese. Poster presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America. Denver, Colorado. (1/8/2023)

2022

1. Okamura, Leah & Chen, Yunchuan. Scopal interaction of negation and conjunction in English-dominant Japanese heritage speakers' grammar. Paper presented at the 13th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas. University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI. (11/11/2022)

2. Chen, Yunchuan, Mani, Shivam & Liu, Caimiao. L2 acquisition of scope of negation and conjunction in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 47). Boston University, Boston, MA. (11/5/2022)

3. Chen, Yunchuan & Sun, Yixuan. An experimental investigation on subject orientation of the reflexive ziji. Paper presented at the 34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-34). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. (9/24/2022)

4. Chen, Yunchuan, Huan, Tingting & Jiaba, Shigu. Nuosu Yi as a heritage language in China: three types of heritage speakers. Poster presented at the 4th International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages. National Heritage Language Resource Center, UCLA. (6/17/2022)

5. Chen, Yunchuan & Kusupholnand, Thanaporn. An Experimental Study of Scope Assignment in Thai Q-Neg sentences. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS). University of Hawaii at Manoa (05/18/2022)

6. Chen, Yunchuan, Huan, Tingting & Jiaba, Shigu. Scope assignment in Q-Neg sentences in Nuosu Yi and Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics. Chinese University of Hong Kong. (Online, 05/22/2022)

7. Mani, Shivam & Chen, Yunchuan. L2 acquisition of scope of negation and conjunction in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 46th annual Penn Linguistics Conference (Online, 3/19/2022)

8. Shen, Jennifer & Chen, Yunchuan. Simplified grammar in both languages? On scope assignment in Q-Neg sentences in English-dominant heritage Chinese speakers. Paper presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America. Washington DC (1/7/22)

 9. Christensen, Soren & Chen, Yunchuan. Style shifts in Japanese videogame commentary monologues. Poster presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America. Washington DC (1/7/22)

 10. List, Abbey & Chen, Yunchuan. An Experimental Investigation of the Deep Double-o Constraint in Japanese Causatives. Poster presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America. Washington DC (1/7/22)

2021        

1. Liao, Shuaicheng & Chen, Yunchuan. Scope assignment in Q-Neg sentences in English and French-dominant heritage Chinese speakers. Paper presented at the 2nd Heritage Syntax Conference. Utrecht University, Netherlands (Online,    12/17/21)

2. Mani, Shivam & Chen, Yunchuan. Scope of negation and conjunction in L2 Chinese. Paper presented at the 6th Asian Junior Linguists Conference. Sogang University, Seoul, Korea (Online, 12/11/21)

3. Su, Nianpo & Chen, Yunchuan. Scope assignment in doubly embedded relative clauses in L2 Japanese. Poster presented at the 3rd     International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics. National Tsinghua University, Taiwan (Online,  11/20/21)

4. Liu, Caimiao & Chen, Yunchuan. Scope of negation and conjunction/disjunction in Chinese. Poster presented at the 3rd International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics. National Tsinghua University, Taiwan 

     (Online, 11/20/21)

5. List, Abbey & Chen, Yunchuan. Does the deep double-o Constraint truly exist in Japanese causatives? Poster 

 presented at the 3rd International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics. National 

 Tsinghua University, Taiwan (Online, 11/21/21)

6.  Shen, Jennifer & Chen, Yunchuan. Inverse scope reading in Q-Neg sentences in Heritage Chinese. Poster presented at the 12th Workshop on Immigrant Language in the Americas. University of Helsinki (online, 10/9/2021)

7.  Chen, Yunchuan, Kurokawa, Naoko & Saito, Azusa. Challenges and resolutions in teaching online Japanese classes at three different   levels. Talk delivered at the 2021 fall conference of Foreign Language Association of North Carolina, Online (October)

8. Chen, Yunchuan. Unlearning the redundant particle no in Japanese relative clauses.  Paper presented at the 2021 American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Conference, Online (March).

9. Christensen, Soren, & Chen, Yunchuan. Are honorifics polite? A study of honorific usage in videogame  commentary monologues. Paper presented at the 45th annual Penn Linguistics Conference (Online in March)

10. Su, Nianpo & Chen, Yunchuan.  Can the head quantifier phrase reconstruct in doubly embedded Chinese relative clauses? Paper presented at the 45th annual Penn Linguistics Conference (Online in March)

2020    

Chen, Yunchuan. An experimental investigation of reconstruction effects of the head quantifier phrase in Chinese relative clauses. Paper presented at the 32th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32). University of Connecticut (Online in September). 

2019   

Chen, Yunchuan. On the derivation of the head noun phrase in Japanese relative clauses by L1 Chinese learners: evidence from anaphor reconstruction and the interpretation of the universal quantifier zen’in ‘all.’ Paper presented at 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA15). University of Nevada, Reno (March). 

2018      

1. Chen, Yunchuan. The L2 acquisition of Japanese relative clauses by L1 Chinese learners: evidence from the interpretation of the universal quantifier zen'in 'all.' Poster presented at the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD43). Boston University, Boston (November). 

2. Chen, Yunchuan. Pure identity of Chinese anaphors: evidence from Chengdu dialect. Paper presented at the International   Workshop on Syntactic Analyticity and Grammatical Parameters (IWSAGP). Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China (June).   

3. Chen, Yunchuan, & Fukuda, Shin. Is there subject-object asymmetry in acceptability of the resumptive pronoun ta inside Chinese relative clauses? Paper presented at the 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL30). Ohio State University, Ohio (March). 

2017      

1. Chen, Yunchuan, & Fukuda, Shin. An experimental investigation of the reconstruction effects of anaphors in Japanese relative clauses. Poster presented at the 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL). International Christian University, Tokyo (May)

 2. Chen, Yunchuan, & Fukuda, Shin. Unlearning reconstruction in L2 Japanese relative clauses by L1 Chinese learners. Paper presented at the 14th Generative  Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA), University of Southampton, UK (April) 

 3. Chen, Yunchuan. An experimental study of resumptive pronouns in Chinese relative  clauses. Paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-1), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (March)

2016   

1. Chen, Yunchuan, & Jiang, Li. The nominal expressions in Lhasa Tibetan. Paper presented at the 2nd Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL), Indiana University (October) 

2. Chen, Yunchuan. Reconstruction effects of anaphors in Japanese relative clauses.  Poster presented at the Workshop on Experimental Approaches to East Asian Linguistics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii (May)

3. Chen, Yunchuan. Possessive passives in Japanese. Paper presented at the 12th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL), Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut (May)

4. Chen,Yunchuan, & Fukuda.Shin. Two types of possessive passives in Japanese. Poster presented at the 8th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics (FAJL), Mie University (February)

 2015       

1. Chen, Yunchuan. The nominal expressions in Lhasa Tibetan. Paper presented at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (EALL) talk series at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (May)

2. Chen, Yunchuan. Auxiliary selection between le and zhe in Chinese locative inversion sentences and its pedagogical implications. Paper presented at the27th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, UCLA (April)

3. Kim, Hyunwoo, Chen, Yunchuan, & Schwartz, Bonnie D. The interpretation of Japanese floating  numeral quantifiers by Chinese speakers: Structure vs. linearity. Paper presented at the 13th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA), Indiana University (March)

4. Chen, Yunchuan. Auxiliary selection in Chinese locative inversion sentences. Paper presented at the 14th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (February)

2014       

Chen, Yunchuan.  Teaching through Japanese TV drama: a reexamination of the highly contextual related structure te‐morau. Paper presented at the 2014  American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Conference,  Philadelphia (March) 

2013      

 Chen, Yunchuan. Humor production of Chinese e-jokes. Paper presented at the 12th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (February)

2012       

1. Chen, Yunchuan.  The syntactic structure of Japanese possessive passives. Paper presented at the 16th Annual Language, Linguistics and Literature conference, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii (April)   

2. Chen, Yunchuan. Functions of direct reported speech in retelling events in Japanese. Paper presented at the 11th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (February)

2011       

1. Chen, Yunchuan. Laughter in pair work: its role and pedagogical implications for Japanese as a foreign language. Paper presented at Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education (CAJLE) Annual Conference, University of Regina, Saskachuwan (August)

2. Chen, Yunchuan. Modality adjustment in reporting others’ request in Japanese as a second language. Paper presented at Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, California State University, Long Beach (March)