Sheng Yanan
YananSheng
Institute of Linguistics,Shanghai International Studies University
550 DalianRoad (W), Shanghai 200083, P. R. China
Email: yanansheng1@163.com
ResearchInterests
My primary interests are sentence comprehensionand production, specifically, how comprehenders rapidly analyze the grammaticalstructure of sentences, and how speakers make grammatical decisions. I have beeninvestigating these questions using a variety of methods and paradigms,combining controlled psycholinguistic experiments with naturalistic corporainvestigation. I am also interested in computational modeling.
Education
2012-- Shanghai International Studies University Ph.D.in Linguistics
2012 Shanghai International Studies University M.A.in Linguistics
2009 Hebei Normal University B.A.in English Education
Publications
Wu, F. & Sheng, Y. (2014). Pre-RCdeterminer phrase bias and production preference for object relatives:Perspectives from L2-Chinese learners. Journal of Foreign LanguageTeaching and Research (外语教学与研究) 3: 401-411.
Wu, F. & Sheng, Y. (2014).Audience design affects classifier positioning in Chinese relative clauses. Journalof Foreign Languages (外国语) 3: 14-24.
Sheng, Y. & Wu, F.(2013). Audience design affects classifiers positioning in Chinese relativeclauses: Evidence from spoken corpus and sentence-production data. Proceedingsof GLOW in Asia IX 2012, 271-282. Mie, Japan.
Sheng, Y. & Wu, F.(2013). Demonstrative-classifier positioning in Chinese relative clauses andits underlying reasons: based on a spoken corpus study. Journal ofModern Foreign Languages (现代外语) 2: 150-157.
Conferencesand Workshops
Lyu, J., Sheng, Y., & Wu, F. (2015). SuppressingL1 negative transfer in positioning demonstrative-classifier phrases:Contrasting English and Korean L2-Chinese learners in producing relatives.Poster presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human SentenceProcessing. March 19-21. Los Angeles, CA.
Wu, F., Sheng, Y., & Zhou, X. (2014). Animacymodulates cueing strength of mismatching classifiers in marking clausalboundary: ERP evidence from Chinese relatives. Paper presented at the 20thAnnual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP).September 4-6. University of Edinburgh, UK.
Wu, F. & Sheng, Y. (2014). Mandarinsubject relatives are easier to process than object relatives even in discoursecontexts. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Conference onArchitectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP).September 4-6. University of Edinburgh, UK.
Sheng, Y. & Wu, F. (2012).Audience design affects classifiers positioning in Chinese relative clauses:Evidence from spoken corpus and sentence-production data. Paper presented atthe 9thInternational Conference of Generative Linguistics in the OldWorld (GLOW in Asia IX). Mie, Japan.
Sheng, Y. & Wu, F. (2012).Audience design affects classifiers positioning in Chinese relative clauses:Evidence from spoken corpus and sentence-production data. Poster presented atthe 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. NewYork, NY.
Fellowships and Awards
2014-2015 FulbrightPh.D. Dissertation Research Program,
HostUniversity: University of California, at San Diego
HostAdvisor: Roger Levy
2014 ShanghaiExcellent Thesis Awards for Master Theses
Title:Classifier Positioning in Chinese Relative Clauses and its
UnderlyingReasons: Evidence from Spoken Corpus and
Sentence-ProductionStudies
Advisor:Fuyun Wu & Yulong Xu
2013 NationalFellowship for Doctoral Students
2012 TravelGrant to attend 9th InternationalConference of Generative
Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW in Asia IX),
from Mie University, Japan.
2010 SISU Excellent Graduate Student Awards
