Lastest Update: 4th Aug 2025

Journal Articles

• Fuchs, Z., Kealey, E., Eldem, E., Mermelstein, L., Pham, L., Runova, A., Chen, Y., Oguz, M., Hong, S., Pan, C., Subramony, J., (2025). Measuring Adult Heritage Language Lexical Proficiency for Studies on Facilitative Processing of Gender. In O. Ivanova & Ó. Loureda (Eds.), Language Processing in Spanish Heritage Speakers [Special issue]. Languages, 10(8), 189. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10080189
• Mai, Z., Wong, P. C., Matthews, S., Yip, V., Liao, H., Nie, J., Chen, Y. (2025). Zhuang-Mandarin bilingual children in rural China and the role of grandparental input in early bilingualism. PloS one, 20(6), e0326671.

Conference Presentations and Posters

• Chen, Y. (2025, November). From ‘Um’ to Words: The Role of Disfluency Interactions in Shaping Early Language Development. [Poster] (top student submission) 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, MA.
• Chen, Y., Mai, Z., Shang, M., (2025, July). Cross-Linguistic Influence and Developmental Patterns in Reflexive Pronoun Use Among Monolingual, Bilingual, and Trilingual Children. [Poster] CogSci 2025, San Francisco, CA.
• Fuchs, Z., Kealey, E., Eldem, E., Mermelstein, L., Pham, L., Runova, A., Hong, S., Oguz, M., Chen, Y., Pan, C., Subramony, J., (2025, June). Predicting facilitative processing of gender in Heritage Spanish using measures of lexical proficiency. [Poster] 16th Heritage Language Research Institute (HLRI), Madison, WI.
• Chen, Y., Mai, Z., Chen, Y., (2024, November). Employing Machine Learning and Language Models to Differentiate Language Patterns in Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. [Poster] California Meeting on Psycholinguistics 7 (CAMP7), San Diego, CA.
• Chen, Y., Su, Y., (2024, November). Exploring Reflexive Pronoun Development and Usage in Mandarin-Learning Toddlers: A Comparative Study of ASD and TD Groups. [Poster] California Meeting on Psycholinguistics 7 (CAMP7), San Diego, CA.
• Chen, Y., Mai, Z., Hu, X., Shang, M., (2024, July). Reflexive pronouns in Chinese-learning monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual toddlers, and their parental input. [Poster] Child Language Symposium 2024, Newcastle, UK.
• Chen, Y. (2024, May). Unveiling the Parallel Function Hypothesis on Personal Pronouns: A Corpus Analysis Utilizing Eye-Tracking Data. [Poster] The 11th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition, Taipei, Taiwan. 
• Chen, Y. (2023, February). Acquisition of English Reflexive Pronouns: Evidence from Naturalistic Observation. [Poster], 22nd Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society, Austin, TX.

Undergraduate Publication

• Chen, Y., Neer, E., Zhang, E., Sandhofer, C.M., (2024). Acquisition of English Reflexive Pronouns: Evidence from Naturalistic Observation. UCLA Undergraduate Psychology Journal, 11(1), 6-16.
  

Manuscripts

• Parental Input of the Chinese Bare Reflexive Pronoun ‘ziji’ and Its Impact on Children’s Reflexive Understanding: An Analysis of Prosodic Bootstrapping in Language Acquisition
  
• Classifiers as Semantic Cues: Analyzing BERT’s Word Prediction in Chinese