LYU Jun
I’m a third-year graduate student currently pursuing aMA in Linguistics at the Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai InternationalStudies University (SISU). I take great interest in experimental linguistics (e.g.,experimental syntax) because I believe that linguistic theories should havepsychological reality. Broadly, I’m interested in (i) language processing andits relation with Universal Grammar, namely, whether innate grammaticalconstraint (UG) or the processing account alone is necessary in explaininglinguistic phenomena, (ii) how typological similarities are shaped byproduction ease and communicative efficiency, and (iii) in what ways are L2 andL1 processing different: Is the difference quantitative or qualitative?
Education
09/2013-present ShanghaiInternational Studies University, MA in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
07/2015-08/2015 ChinaInstitute of Linguistics, Summer School, Level II
07/2014-08/2014 ChinaInstitute of Linguistics, Summer School, Level I
09/2009-06/2013 ShanghaiInternational Studies University, BA in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
ResearchExperience
2014-2015 ResearchAssistant at Language Processing Laboratory
Instituteof Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University
Conference Presentations
Lyu, J., Sheng, Y., & Wu, F. (2015)Suppressing L1 negative transfer in positioning demonstrative-classifierphrases: Contrasting English and Korean L2-Chinese learners in producingrelatives. Poster presented at the 28th annual CUNY HumanSentence Processing Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 19-21.
Lyu. J. & Wu, F. (2015) L1transfer modulates positioning bias of demonstrative-classifiers in Chineserelatives: A contrastive study on Japanese- and Korean-speaking L2-Chineselearners. Poster presented at the 3rd East Asian PsycholinguisticsColloquium, Potsdam, Germany, August 31.
Research Interests
Psycholinguistics, second language acquisition,linguistic typology, formal syntax
Languages
Mandarin (native), Jinan dialect (native), Shanghaidialect (near native), English (fluent), French (intermediate), Latin (basic)
Lab Skills
Methodologies: language production,eye-tracking
Software: Praat, Language R, Paradigm
