Chen Yao

Chen Yao

Address: Letterbox 338, Shanghai International Studies University, 550 Dalian Road (W.), Hongkou District, Shanghai, China

Email: emmachenlingo@yahoo.com

I am a third-year graduate student at the Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU). My research interests are General Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, with a focus on Psycholinguistics. I am currently working on my M.A. thesis project titledThe Influence of Information Structure on Pronoun Resolution in Chinese.

Education

09/2013 - present   Institute of Linguistics, SISU

                                 M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (expected: July 2016)

09/2009-06/2013   Wenzhou University

                               B.A. in English Literature 

Research Experience

2014-2015                 Research Assistant at Language Processing Laboratory

                                  Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University

Language

Wenzhou dialect (native), Mandarin Chinese (native), English (fluent)

Current Research Project

The Influence of Information Structure on Pronoun Resolution in Chinese