Dr. YANG Yang

Address: Room 103, Building 8. Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, No. 2 Baiyun Avenue North, Baiyun District, Guangzhou.

Emai:  yangyanggw@gdufs.edu.cn

Research interest

Language disorder  Autism  Psycholinguistics, especially sentence processing

Neurolinguistics  Syntax-prosody interface  Prosody  Second language acquisition

Education

2013/09-2018/05   PhD   Leiden University Center for Linguistics (LUCL)

                                Supervisors: Professors Lisa Cheng and Niels Schiller

2012/02-2012/11  Visiting at Psychology department of Peking University/Center for Brain & Cognitive Science

2010/09-2013/03  M.A.  Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University

Supervisors: Professors Fuyun Wu and Yulong Xu

Working experience

2018/07-             Yunshan Young Scholar  GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES National Key Research Center for Linguistics & Applied Linguistics     

2017/12-2018/03  Assistant researcher  Leiden University  NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) project “Understanding wh-questions”

Grants/Honors

2013/05                   Grants for PhD program in Leiden, the Netherlands

China Scholarship Council  Ministry of Education of China

2012/12           National Scholarship for Postgraduate students (top 0.2%)

Ministry of Education of China

2007/11           National Scholarship for Undergraduate students (top 0.2%)

Ministry of Education of China

Publications

Monographs

Yang, Y. (2018). The two sides of wh-indeterminates in Mandarin—a prosodic and processing account. LOT Publication: the Netherlands.

Journal articles

• Yang, Y., Wu, F., & Zhou, X. (2015). Semantic processing persists despite anomalous syntactic category: ERP evidence from Chinese passive sentences. PLoS ONE, 10(6): e0131936. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131936.

  Peer review conference abstract (Oral report)

• Cheng, L. L.S., Yang, Y. & Gryllia, S. (2017). Prosodic clause typing in Mandarin. The 4^th International Conference on Chinese Prosodic Grammar (ICCPG), June 3-5, Kaifeng.

• Tsai, D. W.T & Yang, Y.(2017). 念力转移的韵律语法及实验研究. The 4^th International Conference on Chinese Prosodic Grammar (ICCPG), June 3-5, Kaifeng.

• Gryllia, S., Yang, Y., Doetjes, J. & Cheng, L. L.S.(2016). Prosody encodes clause type anticipation: evidence from Mandarin. Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE), September 1-3, 2016, Kent.

• Yang, Y., Gryllia, S., Doetjes, J. & Cheng, L. L.S.(2015). On the prosody of wh-indeterminates in Mandarin. The 2^th International Conference on Chinese Prosodic Grammar (ICCPG), November 7-8, Hong Kong.

• Pablos, L., Yang, Y., Doetjes, J. & Cheng, L. L.S.(2015). Processing of in-situ wh-questions in French and Mandarin. The 12th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, July 1-4, 2015, Valencia.

  Peer review conference abstract (Poster report)

• Yang, Y., Pablos, L., Gryllia, S., Schiller, N.O.,& Cheng, L. L.S.(2017).The role of prosody on clausal typing –evidence from ERP studies. Society of Neurobiology of Language (SNL), November 8-10, 2017, Baltimore.

• Yang, Y., Gryllia, S., Doetjes, J.,&Cheng, L. L.S.(2016). The role prosody plays in disambiguation-earlier than you thought. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), September 1-3, 2016, Bilbao.

• Yang, Y., Gryllia, S., Doetjes, J.,&Cheng, L. L.S.(2016).The role prosody plays in disambiguation-a study on Mandarin. Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE), September 1-3, 2016, Kent.

• Gryllia, S., Yang, Y., Doetjes, J. & Cheng, L. L.S.(2016). Prosody as a means to identify clause type: a view from Mandarin. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), September 1-3, 2016, Bilbao.

• Pablos, L., Yang, Y., Doetjes, J.,& Cheng, L. L.S.(2016). Reading wh-in-situ questions in Mandarin and French-a cross-linguistic study. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), September 1-3, 2016, Bilbao.

• Pablos, L., Yang, Y., Doetjes, J.,& Cheng, L. L.S.(2015). A cross-linguistic study of the reading of wh-in-situ questions: Data from Mandarin and French. Presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing AMLaP, September 3-5, 2015, Malta.

• Yang, Y., Pablos, L., Schiller, N.O.,& Cheng, L. L.S.(2015). Processing of Discourse-linked (D-linked) and non-D-linked wh-questions by Mandarin speakers. The 12th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, July 1-4, 2015, Valencia; Also at the 3rd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium (EAPC3), Aug. 31, 2015, Potsdam.

• Yang, Y., Wu, F.,& Zhou, X. (2013). Semantic processing persists despite syntactic

  anomaly in L1-German L2-Chinese learners —ERP evidence. International Workshop on Bilingualism and Cognitive Control(双语和认知控制国际研讨会). May 15-17, 2013. Krakow.

  Invited talks

• Yang, Y., Gryllia, S., Doetjes, J.,&Cheng, L. L.S. (2016). On the syntax-prosody interface of Mandarin wh-indeterminates. Talks given at Experimental Linguistics Talks Utrecht (ELiTU), June 7, 2016, Utrecht.

• Yang, Y., Gryllia, S., Doetjes, J. & Cheng, L. L.S. (2016). On Mandarin wh-indeterminates. Chinese Linguistics in Leiden (CHILL), March 2, 2016, Leiden.