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 28^th 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 3^rd 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