About me

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Hi, I’m Yue Chen (陈玥 [ʈʂʰən35 ɥœ51]). I am a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Southern California (USC). I am affiliated with the Psycholinguistics of Mono- and Multilingualism Lab (PoMMLab) at USC led by Prof. Zuzanna Fuchs.

Before joining USC, I completed my Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics and Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and served as a Research Assistant at the Language and Cognition Development (LCD) Lab, Language Processing Lab and the UCLA Language Acquisition Lab. Following my graduation, I held a position as a Junior Research Assistant under the supervision of Prof. Maggie Ziyin Mai at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

My primary interests lie in language acquisition, language processing, and theoretical semantics. I utilize experimental, computational, and corpus methodologies to explore fundamental questions about how both children and adults process, acquire, and comprehend language meaningfully.

Academic Background

University of Southern California
- PhD in Linguistics, 2024 - Present
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- BA in Linguistics and Psychology, 2023
- Minor in Comparative Literature, 2023

Summer School

/L+/ International Summer / Winter School on Language Acquisition
- University of Potsdam, Online, 2023

Research Interests

Language Acquisition
Language Processing
Heritage Language
Semantics

Skills

Programming: C/C++, Python (NumPy, PyTorch, Transformers), MATLAB, R
Software and Tools: LaTeX, CLAN, ELAN, Praat, PCIbex, SPSS, Qualtrics, SynthWorks, Rezonator
Languages: Wu Chinese (native), English and Mandarin Chinese (fluent), Spanish and Cantonese (basic)