Wu Fuyun
WU FUYUN
Address: Institute of Linguistics (Letterbox 338), Shanghai International Studies University, 550 Dalian Road (W), Shanghai 200083, China
Phone: (+86-21) 35372393 (o)
Fax: (86-21) 35372364
Email:fywu@shisu.edu.cn
Website:http://www.iol.shisu.edu.cn/_t119/1312/main.htm (Chinese)
http://www.iol.shisu.edu.cn/_s27/fc/1f/c4261a64543/page.psp (English)
Language Processing Lab: http://www.iol.shisu.edu.cn/_t40/main.htm
Employment
12/2011 to present | Associate Professor, Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University |
8/2009-11/2011 | Associate Professor (University-Appointed), Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University |
9/1996-7/2000 | Program Coordinator and Interpreter, Office of International Programs, Fudan University |
Education
2009 | University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Ph.D. in Linguistics, May 2009 Advisors: Elaine Andersen and Elsi Kaiser |
2004 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois M.A. in Linguistics, May 2004 |
2002 | University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona M.A. in English Language/Linguistics (TESOL), May 2002 |
1996 | Fudan University, Shanghai, China B.A. in British and American English Language & Literature, July 1996 (Including 1-year military training [compulsory for students enrolled into Peking University and Fudan University during 1989-1992] at Dalian Military Academy, Dalian) |
Grants
Nationally or Ministry/Provincially-funded
2013-2016 | National Social Science Foundation of China, Effects of disambiguation and structural expectancy from determiner phrases in relative clause processing (13BYY152) Role: Principal Investigator |
2012-2015 | New Century Excellent Talents in University, Ministry of Education (NCET-12-0907) Role: Principal Investigator |
2010-2012 | Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Education, Processing Chinese relative clauses and its underlying neurobiological mechanisms Role: Principal Investigator |
2010-2013 | Shanghai Social Sciences and Philosophy Foundation, Chinese sentence processing: Its psychological processes and neurological substrates (2010BYY003) Role: Principal Investigator |
2010-2012 | Shanghai Pujiang Talent Foundation, Processing filler-gap dependency: A cross-linguistic Study (10PJC066) Role: Principal Investigator |
Other grant support
2013-2018 | SISU Key Research Project, Sentence- and discourse-processing from a cross-linguistic perspective (KX161053) Role: Principal Investigator |
2013-2015 | SISU Seed Funds for Young Researchers, Probing linguistic issues with experimental methods (QJTD13WFY01) Role: Principal Investigator |
2012-2015 | SISU Research Fund, Producing determiner phrases in Mandarin relative clauses: A comparative study on L1 speakers and L2 learners (2012114025) Role: Principal Investigator |
2009-2012 | SISU Research Fund, The role of prenominal determiners in Chinese syntactic construction and semantic integration: Implications to sentence processing models (2009114021) Role: Principal Investigator |
Other awards
2005-2009 | Travel Grants from USC Department of Linguistics |
2006-2009 | Travel Grants from USC Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) |
2007 | Travel Supplementary Grant to attend the International conference on Processing Head-final Structures from Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. |
2006 | Travel Grant to attend The 8th International Forum on Language, Brain and Cognition from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan |
Fellowships
2009 | Final Summer Dissertation Fellowship, USC Graduate School |
2007-2008 | Mellon Merit Fellowship, USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
2005 | USC Departmental Fellowship for LSA Summer Institute (MIT, Cambridge) |
2004-2005 | Mellon Merit Fellowship, USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
2002- 2004 | Departmental Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
2002 | Teaching Load Reduction Award, University of Arizona |
2000-2001 | Graduate College Fellowship, University of Arizona |
Refereed Journal papers or Book chapters
Wu, F., Kaiser, E., & Vasishth, S. Resubmitted. Effects of early cues on the processing of Chinese relative clauses: Evidence for experience-based theories. Cognitive Science.
Yang, Y., Wu, F. & Zhou, X. (2015). Semantic processing persists despite anomalous syntactic category: ERP evidence from Chinese passive sentences. PLoS ONE, 10(6): e0131936. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.013 1936
Wu, F., Luo, Y. & Zhou, X. (2014). Building Chinese relative clause structures with lexical and syntactic cues: Evidence from visual-world eyetracking and reading times. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (formerly Language and Cognitive Processes), 29(10), 1205-1226.
Wu, F., Kaiser, E. & Andersen, E. (2012). Animacy effects in Chinese relative clause processing. Language and Cognitive Processes,27(10), 1489-1524.
Wu, F. (2011). Frequency issues of classifier configurations for processing Mandarin object-extracted relative clauses: A corpus study. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 7(2), 203-227.
Wu, F., Kaiser, E. & Andersen, E. (2011). Subject preference, head animacy, and lexical cues: A corpus study of relative clauses in Chinese. In Yamashita, H., Hirose, Y. & Packard J. (Eds). Processing and Producing Head-final Structures, 173-194. The Netherlands: Springer.
Wu, F. (2010). The influence of Chinese focused cleft Wh-constructions on Chinese speakers’ L2 knowledge of English wh-movement: Evidence from two experimental studies. In Roberts, L, Howard, M., O Laoire, M. & Singleton, D. (Eds.) EUROSLA Yearbook 10, 142-168. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Refereed Chinese Journal papers
Sheng, Y. & Wu, F. (In press). Animacy modulates demonstrative-classifier positioning in Chinese relative clauses. Waiyu Xuekan (Foreign Language Journal).
Wang, F., & Wu, F. (2016). Non-canonical postnominal relative clauses in Chinese: A study on spoken corpus. Yuyan Kexue (Linguistic Sciences) 15(6), 526-539.
Wu, F. & Lyu, J. (2016). Ordering of Chinese relative clauses and determiner phrase: A second language perspective. Hanyu Xuexi (Chinese Learning) 4, 89-94.
Qian, J. & Wu, F. (2016). Immediate effects of Binding Principle A on complex reflexive processing in Chinese. Xiandai Waiyu (Contemporary Foreign Languages) 39(4), 495-506.
Wu, F. & Sheng, Y. (2016). On the necessity of determiner phrases in contexts: Subject relative preference revisited. Wai Guo Yu (Foreign Languages)39(2), 11-20.
Wu, F. & Li, L. (2015). Processing scope relations in Chinese: An online study on universal quantifiers and negation. Dangdai Yuyanxue (Contemporary Linguistics) 17(4), 400-413.
Wu, F. & Sheng, Y. (2014). Pre-RC determiner phrase bias and production preference for object relatives: Perspectives from second language learners. Waiyu Jiaoxue Yu Yanjiu (Foreign Language Teaching and Research) 46(3), 401-411.
Wu, F. & Sheng, Y. (2014). Demonstrative-classifier positioning in Chinese relative clauses and its implication to language production models. Wai Guo Yu (Foreign Languages) 37(3), 49-58.
Wu, F. (2013). Will more heads increase processing difficulties? Evidence from Chinese. Wai Guo Yu (Foreign Languages) 36(3), 60-67.
Sheng, Y. & Wu, F. (2013). Asymmetric distribution of demonstrative-classifier structures in Chinese relative clauses and its reasons: A spoken corpus study. Xiandai Waiyu (Modern Foreign Languages) 33(2), 150-157.
Li, J. & Wu, F. (2013). Typological generalizations and Chinese relative clauses produced by second language learners. Waiyu Jiaoxue Yu Yanjiu (Foreign Language Teaching and Research) 45(1), 80-92.
Wu, F. (2012). Issues on Resources-based Dependency Locality Theory – Challenges from Mandarin Relative Clause. Dangdai Yuyanxue (Contemporary Linguistics) 14(4), 365-379.
Wu, F. (2012). Book Review: Processing and Producing Head-final Structures. Waiyu Jiaoxue Yu Yanjiu (Foreign Language Teaching and Research) 44(1),137-141.
Wu, F. (2011). Experience-based or working-memory-based? Evidence from animacy configurations in relative clauses in Chinese news corpus. Yuyan Kexue (Linguistic Sciences) 10(4), 396-408.
Wu, F. (2011). Classifier-Noun mismatch configuration in corpus: Its rarity of occurrence and underlying reasons. Xiandai Waiyu (Modern Foreign Languages) 34, 135-142.
Wu, F. (2011). Hawkins’s Minimize Domain Theory applied to Chinese relative clauses processing: Its significance and potential problems. Wai Guo Yu (Foreign Languages) 34, 19-27.
Conference Proceedings
Sheng, Y. & Wu, F. (2013). Audience design affects classifiers positioning in Chinese relative clauses: Evidence from spoken corpus and sentence-production data. In Goto, N., Otaki, K., Sato, A. & Takita, K. (Eds) Proceedings of GLOW in Asia IX 2012: The Main Session, 271-282. Mie: Mie University.
Wu, F. (2012). Adding syntactic heads to the left edge of relative clauses does not necessarily mean processing difficulty – Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. In Gao, M. (Ed.) Universals and Variation. Proceedings of GLOW in Asia VIII 2010, 344-346. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press.
Wu, F., Kaiser, E. & Andersen, E. (2009) The effects of classifiers in predicting Chinese relative clauses. In Grosvald, M. & Soares, D. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), 318-329. Davis, University of California. (http://wecol.ucdavis.edu/)
Wu, F., Kaiser, E. & Andersen, E. (2009) Animacy preference effects in Chinese relative clause processing. In Grosvald, M. & Soares, D. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), 320-239. Davis, University of California. (http://wecol.ucdavis.edu/)
Wu, F. (2007) Resumptive Pronoun Strategy in Processing English Subjacency Sentences: L1 Transfer from Chinese Focused Cleft Wh Construction. In Slabakova, R., Rothman, J., Kempchinsky, P., & Gavruseva, E. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 9th Generative Approach to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 9), 262-271. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Wu, F. (2006) Mismatching classifier as a cue in processing Chinese relative clause. In Xing, J. Z. (Ed). Proceedings of the 18th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, 570-589. GSIL: University of Southern California.
Working Papers
Wu, F. (2007) Subjacency versus grammatical extraction in Chinese focused cleft wh-questions: L1 understanding and L2 performance. In Shepherd, M & Nava, E. (Eds.) USC Working Papers in Linguistics 3, 1-21.
Conference Paper Presentations
Sheng, Y. & Wu, F. (2016). Asymmetric Processing of Chinese Relative clauses by Determiner Phrase Positioning. Paper to be presented at the 16th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages (ICPEAL). December 8-10, 2016. Guangzhou, China.
Wang, F. & Wu, F. (2015). Distribution and discourse functions of non-canonical postnominal relative clauses in Chinese: A preliminary study. Paper presented at the Workshop on varieties of adjectival modification. October 17-18, 2015. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.
Wu, F., Sheng, Y., & Zhou, X. (2014). Animacy modulates cueing strength of mismatching classifiers in marking clausal boundary: ERP evidence from Chinese relatives. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). September 4-6, 2014. 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 at the 9th International Conference of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW in Asia IX). September 3-5, 2012. Mie University, Japan.
Wu, F. (August 2010). Corpus investigation of classifier mismatching-matching configuration in Mandarin object-extracted relative clauses and its implications for processing. Paper presented at the Sixth International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-6). August 15-16, 2010. Beijing, China.
Wu, F., Kaiser, E. & Andersen, E. (2009). The effects of classifiers in predicting Chinese relative clauses. Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society America. January 8-11, 2009. San Francisco, CA.
Wu, F., Kaiser, E. & Andersen, E. (2008). The effects of classifiers in predicting Chinese relative clauses. Paper presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL). November 21-23, 2008. Davis, CA.
Wu, F. & Kaiser, E. (2008).Animacy preference effects in Chinese relative clause processing. Paper presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL). November 21-23, 2008. Davis, CA.
Wu, F. (2007). Why do Chinese ESL learners accept subjacencies, while reject grammatical controls in English sentences? Paper presented at the 17th European Second Language Association Conference (EUROSLA 17). September 11-14, 2007. Newcastle University, UK.
Wu, F., Kaiser, E., Haskell, T. & Andersen, E. (2007). Factors in the use of relative clauses in Mandarin: behavioral and corpus evidence. Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Relative Clauses. September 13-15, 2007. Cambridge, UK.
Wu, F. & Kaiser, E. (2007). Subject preference, semantic distance hierarchy, and syntactic/lexical cues: Relative clauses in Chinese corpus. Paper presented at the International conference on Processing Head-final Structures. September 21-22, 2007. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.
Wu, F. (2007) Subjacency versus Grammatical Extraction in Chinese Focused Cleft Wh-questions: L1 Understanding and L2 Performance. Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL 2007) Annual Conference. April 2007. Costa Mesa, California.
Wu, F. (2006). Mismatching classifiers as a subtle cue for Chinese relative clause processing. Paper presentation. Paper presented at the 18th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 18). June 23-25, 2006. Bellum, Washington.
Wu, F. (2005). Chinese Resultative Construction: Challenges to Small Clause Account? Paper presentation. Paper presented at the 17th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 17). June 24-26, 2005. Monterey, CA.
Conference Poster Presentations
Chen, Y. & Wu, F. The Influence of Topic and Focus on Pronoun Resolution in Chinese: A Visual-World Eyetracking Study. Poster to be presented at the 16th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages (ICPEAL). December 8-10, 2016. Guangzhou, China.
Lyu, J. & Wu, F. L1 transfer modulates positioning bias of demonstrative-classifiers in Chinese relatives: A contrastive study on Japanese- and Korean-speaking L2-Chinese learners. Poster presented at the 3rd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium (EAPC3). August 31, 2015. Potsdam, Germany.
Li, J., Wu, F., & Hsiao, Y.-L. Processing topic structures by native and non-native Chinese speakers. Poster presented at the 3rd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium (EAPC3). August 31, 2015. Potsdam, Germany.
Lyu, J., Sheng, Y., & Wu, F. Suppressing L1 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 Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, CA. March 19-21, 2015.
Qian, J. & Wu, F. Early interference effects of non-structural gender: Behavioral evidence from Chinese pronouns and complex reflexives. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). University of Edinburgh, UK. September 4-6, 2014.
Wu, F. & Sheng, Y. Mandarin subject relatives are easier to process than object relatives even in discourse contexts. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). University of Edinburgh, UK. September 4-6, 2014.
Yang, Y., Wu, F., & Zhou, X. Semantic processing persists despite syntactic anomaly in L1-German L2-Chinese learners — ERP evidence. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Bilingualism and Cognitive Control. Krakow, Poland. May 15-17, 2013.
Li, L. & Wu, F. Can subset principles guide L2-Chinese learners to unlearn the inverse scope? Evidence from self-paced reading. Poster presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbia, SC. March 21-23, 2013.
Sheng, Y. & Wu, F. Audience design affects classifiers positioning in Chinese relative clauses: Evidence from spoken corpus and sentence-production data. Poster presented at the 25th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY. March 14-16, 2012.
Wu, F. Adding syntactic heads to the left edge of relative clauses does not necessarily mean processing difficulty--Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the 8th International Conference of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW in Asia VIII). August 12-14, 2010. Beijing, China.
Wu, F. & Kaiser, E. Animacy effects in Chinese relative clauses processing. The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society America. San Francisco, CA. January 8-11, 2009.
Wu, F. & Kaiser, E. Animacy effects in Chinese relative clauses processing. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLap). Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. September 4-6, 2008.
Wu, F. Zubizarreta, M-L., & Kaiser, E. Resumptive Pronoun Strategy in Processing English Subjacency Sentences: L1 Transfer from Chinese Focused Cleft Wh Construction. The 9th Generative Approach to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 9). Iowa City, Iowa. May 18-20, 2007.
Wu, F., Haskell, T., & Andersen, E. The interaction of lexical, syntactic, and discourse factors in on-line Chinese parsing: Evidence from eye-tracking. The 19th Annual Meeting of the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY. March 13-15, 2006.
Wu, F., Haskell, T., & Andersen, E. Cues for relative clause processing in Chinese: Evidence from eye-tracking. Poster presented at the Workshop on the Typology, Acquisition, & Processing of Relative Clauses, Leipzig, Germany. June 10-11, 2005.
Invited Talks
Wu, F. Producing asymmetric patterns of determiner phrases in Chinese Relative Clauses by Second Language learner：A cross-linguistic perspective. Invited talk at the 3rd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium. Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany. August 31, 2015.
Wu, F. Parsing relative clauses in Mandarin. Lecture series of the Halliday Center for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong. April 16, 2013.
Wu, F. Producing Chinese relative clauses with determiner phrases by Chinese speakers and L2 learners. Lecture series of the Halliday Center for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong. April 18, 2013.
Andersen, E., Wu, F. Do Classifiers Facilitate the Recognition of Relative Clause Structures in Chinese? The 8th International Forum on Language, Brain and Cognition. Sendai, Japan. October 13-14, 2006.
Student Workshop
Wu, F. Animacy preference effects in processing head-final Chinese relative clauses. Paper presented at the GSIL Student Workshop. Los Angeles, University of Southern California. May 6, 2008.
Wu, F. The Interaction of Lexical, Syntactic, and Discourse Factors in On-line Chinese parsing: Evidence from Eye-Tracking. Paper presented at the GSIL Student Workshop. Los Angeles, University of Southern California. May 2, 2006.
Other Publication
Wu, F. (1999) Berlin and Anhmatowa (Translation). Shijie Bolan (World Vision), 11, 48-51.
Memberships and Professional Service
Invited Reviewer, National Science Foundation. 08/2008.
Reviewer (Journal of Memory and Language, Language, Applied Psycholinguistics, Lingua Sinica, SLRF 2014-2015, CUNY 2014-2015, etc.). 2009 to present.
External Examiner of doctoral dissertation, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, 05/2014
Member, Linguistics Society of America (LSA). 2005 to present.
Council Member, Chinese Association of Psycholinguistics (CAP), 12/2011-10/2014.
Standing Council Member, Chinese Association of Psycholinguistics (CAP), 11/2014 to present.
Research Interests
Psycholinguistics, especially adult sentence processing
Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurolinguistics
Syntax and Chinese Linguistics
Language Development
Second Language Acquisition
Corpus-based approach to Linguistics
Applied Linguistics, especially Teaching English as a Second Language
Teaching
Fall 2009-present | Organizer of biweekly meetings for the SISU Language Processing Lab group, Institute of Linguistics, SISU |
Fall 2013-present | Director of the SISU Language Processing Lab |
Courses Taught:
Graduate-level courses
Instructor, “Research Methods in Linguistics”, Institute of Linguistics, SISU, Spring 2016-
Instructor, “Experimental Psycholinguistics”, Institute of Linguistics, SISU, Spring 2010-
Instructor, “Syntax”, Institute of Linguistics, SISU, Fall 2012-
Instructor, “Research Methods and Academic Writing in Linguistics”, Institute of Linguistics, SISU, Spring 2010
Instructor, “Academic Writing”, Psychology Department, School of Education, Shanghai Normal University, Fall 2010
Undergraduate-level courses
Instructor, “Introduction to Linguistics”, Institute of Linguistics, SISU, Spring 2016-
Instructor, “Language and Mind”, SISU, Spring 2010
Teaching Assistant, Linguistics 275 (University of Southern California), “Language and Mind”, Fall 2008 (Barry Schein & Toby Mintz); Spring 2009 and Fall 2006 (Rachel Walker & Elaine Andersen); Spring 2007 (Dani Byrd & Toby Mintz).
Teaching Assistant, Linguistics 110 (University of Southern California), “In a Word”, Spring 2006 (Hagit Borer).
Instructor, Chinese 199 (University of Illinois), “Contemporary Chinese Culture” designed for Beijing ’04 Summer Program, Spring 2004
Instructor, English 107 (University of Arizona), “Literary Analysis” offered to students learning English as a Second Language, Spring 2002
Instructor, English 102 (University of Arizona), “Literary Analysis”, Spring 2001 and Fall 2001.
Instructor, English 101 (University of Arizona), “Rhetorical Analysis”, Fall 2000
Instructor, College English II (Fudan University), “Intensive English”, 1997
Ph.D. Students co-supervised with Professor XU Yulong
Yanan Sheng (2016)
Jingjing Qian (2015)
M.A. Students Supervised
Yanan Sheng (2012)
Huajuan Yang (2012)
Yang Yang (2013)
Liyuan Li (2013)
Jun Lyu (2016)
Yao Chen (2016)
Keshu Xiang (expected: 2017)
Xuyang Guo (expected: 2018)
Yiyuan Chen (expected: 2019)
Xiaoling Ma (expected: 2019)
