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Publications
Ying, Y., Williams, A., Hacquard, V., & Lidz, J. (accepted with modifications). Overcoming performance issues: Preschoolers know when to use the-expressions. Language Acquisition. [Manuscript]
Perkins, L., Ying, Y., Williams, A., & Lidz, J. (2026). Representation of non-local syntactic dependencies feed verb learning in infancy. Developmental Science, 29(4), e70207. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70207
Ying, Y. (2025). Complex tone sandhi types in the Sinitic Wu dialect of Huangyan. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5935
Ying, Y. (2024). Exceptives in Mandarin. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14004263
Ying, Y., Hacquard, V., Williams, A., & Lidz, J. (2024). Children do not overuse "the" in natural production. Proceedings of the 48th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
https://www.lingref.com/bucld/48/BUCLD48-53.pdf
Ying, Y., Yang, X., & Shi, R. (2022). Toddlers use functional morphemes for backward syntactic categorization. First Language. 42(3). 448-465.
https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221079137
Ying Y., Yang, X., & Shi, R. (2021). Structures of function words guide Mandarin-learning 19-month-olds in backward syntactic categorization. In Danielle Dionne and Lee-Ann Vidal Covas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 805-817). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
https://www.lingref.com/bucld/45/BUCLD45-60.pdf
Papers to be submitted
Ying, Y., Williams, A., & Lidz, J. (to be submitted). Local transitivity guides 15-month-olds in understanding with-questions. [Manuscript]
Ying, Y., Hacquard, V., Williams, A., & Lidz, J. (to be submitted). Learning the-expressions from experience: Evidence from toddlers at 14 and 20 months. [Manuscript]
Ying, Y. (to be submitted). Smooth tones as a natural class: Explaining complex tone sandhi in the Sinitic Wu dialect of Huangyan.
Books to be published
Guasti, M. T. (2017). Language acquisition: The growth of grammar (Yang, X., Ying, Y., et al., Trans). (Chapter 11 "Bilingualism and Early L2", translated to Mandarin)
Talks
Ying, Y., Williams, A., & Lidz, J. (2025). Bootstrapping the-meaning in early experience: Longitudinal study at 14 and 20 months. 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50), Boston.
Ying, Y. (2025). Responding to missing arguments: How 15-month-olds understand wh-questions absent from early input. Conference on Neo-Descriptivism, Macau.
Ying, Y. (2025). Complex tone sandhi types in the Chinese Wu dialect of Huangyan. 2025 LSA Annual Meeting, Pennsylvania.
Ying, Y., Williams, A., Hacquard, V., & Lidz, J. (2024). Overcoming performance issues: Children respect presuppositions of "the"-expressions. 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 49), Boston. Winner of Jean Berko Gleason Award for the top-ranked student presentation. [Abstract]
Ying, Y., Hacquard, V., Williams, A., & Lidz, J. (2023). Children do not overuse "the" in natural production. 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 48), Boston. [Abstract]
Perkins, L., Ying, Y., Williams, A., & Lidz, J. (2021). Object wh-questions with unknown verbs are transitive for 20-month-olds. 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 46), Boston/Online. [Abstract]
Ying, Y. (2019). 中日言語転換—脳の可能性の探検 (Mandarin-Japanese code-switching: Exploring potentials of the brain). Seminar on Sino-Japanese Interlingual Translation, Tsinghua University.
Posters
Ying. Y. (2024). Complex tone sandhi types in the Chinese Wu dialect of Huangyan. Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP), Rutgers.
Ying, Y., Hacquard, V., Williams, A., & Lidz, J. (2023). Do children overuse "the" phrases? 2023 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Ying, Y., Yang, X., & Shi, R. (2020). Structures of function morphemes guide Mandarin-learning 19-month-olds in backward syntactic categorization. 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD45), Boston/Online.