My CVAbout me
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).
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
Research Interests
- Language Acquisition
- Language Processing
- Heritage Language
- Semantics
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.