Research

*Be surprised whether: question-to-cleft reduction

2021.10-PRES

Advisor & Collaborator: Prof. Yimei Xiang

Committee member: Prof. Simon Charlow, Prof. Michael Glanzberg

Second Qualifying Paper

Modelling Mandarin rhotacization with Recursive Schemes

2021.10-PRES

Advisor: Prof. Adam Jardine

Developed from term paper of Phonology Seminar, 2021 FA

Bridging anaphora in Chinese (BRANCH)

2021.2-PRES

Advisor & Collaborator: Prof. Dorothy Ahn

Developed from term paper of Semantics Seminar, 2021 SP

Funded by Meaning Across Languages (MAL) Lab

Do Mandarin nouns and classifiers individuate? Experimental evidence from a quantity judgment task

2020.7-2021.9

Advisor & Collaborator: Prof. Kristen Syrett

Committee member: Prof. Yimei Xiang, Prof. Dorothy Ahn

First Qualifying Paper

Developed from term paper of Acquisition Seminar, 2019 FA

Funded by Laboratory for Developmental Language Studies

Tones and Melodies of Tuwuli Nouns

2020.1-2020.5

Advisor: Prof. Adam Jardine

Developed from term paper of Phonology II, 2020 SP

‘Alternatives’ and Semantic Content: Formal Representation of Polar Questions and Alternative Questions

2018.5-2019.6

Advisor: Prof. Yuan Shen (Fudan University)

BA Thesis; funded by Fudan Wangdao Research Project