Lastest Update: 19th March 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., (under review). Predicting facilitative processing of gender in Heritage Spanish using measures of lexical proficiency. In O. Ivanova & Ó. Loureda (Eds.), Language Processing in Spanish Heritage Speakers [Special issue]. Languages.
• Mai, Z., Wong, P.C.M., Matthews, S., Yip, V., Liao, H., Nie, J., Chen, Y. (Under Review). Zhuang-Mandarin bilingual children in rural China and the role of grandparental input in early bilingualism. Pre Print
• 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.
  

Conference Proceedings

• Chen, Y., Mai, Z., Shang, M., (forthcoming). Cross-Linguistic Influence and Developmental Patterns in Reflexive Pronoun Use Among Monolingual, Bilingual, and Trilingual Children. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 47).

Conference Presentations and Posters

• 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. 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.

Manuscripts

• Predictive Modeling of Diagnostic Outcomes for Mandarin-Learning Toddlers With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
  
• Parental Input of the Chinese Bare Reflexive Pronoun ‘ziji’ and Its Impact on Children’s Reflexive Understanding: An Analysis of Prosody Focus in Language Acquisition
  
• Exploring the Role of Child and Parental Disfluencies in Early Vocabulary Development: A Corpus-Based Analysis