Yu-Fu Chien

Yu-Fu Chien

Institute: Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International StudiesUniversity

Address: Room 606, Building 5, 550 West Dalian Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai

E-mail: jeffreyycchien@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2012-2016 (Graduation with Honors)

Ph.D., Linguistics,University of Kansas, USA

Observing the contributionof both surface and underlying representations: Evidence from priming andevent-related potentials, advised by Prof. Joan Sereno & Prof. Jie Zhang

2008-2011

M.A., Linguistics, NationalChengchi University, Taiwan

Spoken word recognition inTaiwan Mandarin: Evidence from isolated disyllabic words, advised by Prof. I-PingWan

2004-2008

B.A., Chinese Literature, NationalTaiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Minor in English

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2016 –

Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute ofLinguistics, Shanghai International Studies University, China

PUBLICATION

Chien,Y.-F.,Sereno, J., & Zhang, J. (2016). Priming the representation of Mandarin tone 3 sandhi. Language,Cognition and Neuroscience, 31, 179-189.

Qin, Z., Chien, Y.-F., & Tremblay, A.(in press). Processing of word-level stress by Mandarin-speaking secondlanguage learners of English. AppliedPsycholinguistics.

Chien,Y.-F.,Sereno, J., & Zhang, J. (2016). Priming the representation of Taiwanesetone sandhi words. Proceedings of the 5th Meeting of Tonal Aspects ofLanguage (TAL). Buffalo, NY.

Chien,Y.-F.,Sereno, J., & Zhang, J. (under revision). What’s in a word: Observing thecontribution of both underlying and surface representations. Language andSpeech.

Chien,Y.-F.,& Jongman, A. (under review). Tonal neutralization of Taiwanese checkedsyllables: An acoustic study. Ampersand.

Chien,Y.-F.,Fiorentino, R., Xiao, Y., & Sereno, J. (in preparation). The role of thesurface and underlying representations during spoken word recognition: Amismatch negativity study.

Chien,Y.-F.(2012). Production and perception of voiceless retroflex and dental sibilantsin Taiwan Mandarin. In Marije, V. H., Morris, J. & Hoffman, D.(eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Postgraduate Conference,Salford Working Papers in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics 2.

Chien,Y.-F.(2011). Postnuclear glides and coda nasals in Taiwan Mandarin. In Bailey, D.,Teliga, V. (eds.), Proceedings of the 39^thWestern Conference onLinguistics, 20. 20-33.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

Chien, Y.-F., Sereno, J. & Zhang, J. (2016). Priming the representation ofTaiwanese tone sandhi words. 5th Meeting of Tonal Aspects of Languages(TAL), Buffalo, NY.

Sereno, J., & Chien, Y.-F. (2016). Observingunderlying linguistic representations and surface phonetic forms in tonesandhi. Workshop on (Morpho)-phonological Processing, Ettington Park.Organized by the University of Oxford, Language and Brain Laboratory, Facultyof Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics.

Chien, Y.-F., & Sereno, J. (2014). The representation of tone3 sandhi words in Mandarin: a psycholinguistic study. 168th Meeting ofAcoustical Society of America (ASA). Indianapolis, IN.

Chien, Y.-F. (2010). Postnuclear glides and coda nasals in TaiwanMandarin. Western Conference on Linguistics 2010 (WECOL 2010), California StateUniversity, Fresno, CA.

Chien, Y.-F. (2010). The representation of tones in TaiwanMandarin: Evidence from experimental elicitation of speech errors. The 43rdInternational Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL),Lund University, Sweden.

Chien, Y.-F. (2010). Production and perception of voicelessretroflex and dental sibilants in Taiwan Mandarin. The 19th International PostgraduateLinguistics Conference, University of Manchester and University of Salford,Manchester, UK.

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2016, Graduate Student Travel Funds, 5^thInternational Symposium on Tonal Aspects ofLanguages, Buffalo, NY

2016, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Department ofLinguistics, University of Kansas

2016, DissertationFellowship, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas

2014, Graduate StudentTravel Funds, University of Kansas

2013-2015, GTAship,University of Kansas

2012-2013, First-YearFellowship, University of Kansas

2010, Graduate StudentTravel Funds, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

2010, Travel funds,National Science Council, Taiwan

CURRENT PROJECTS

2016-

Amismatch negativity study on the representation of Mandarin tone 3

Cooperatingwith Prof. Joan Sereno and Prof. Robert Fiorentino, University of Kansas

Cooperatingwith Prof. Mingde Mei, Shanghai International Studies University, China

2016-

Apsycholinguistic investigation on the representation of Shanghai and Wuxi tonesandhi words

Cooperatingwith Prof. Joan Sereno and Prof. Jie Zhang, University of Kansas

Cooperatingwith Dr. Hanbo Yan, Shanghai International Studies University, China

2016-

Investigatingthe relationship between children’s theory of mind development and theirlanguage acquisition

Cooperatingwith Dr. Chia-ying Chu, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

UNIVERSITY TEACHING

February2016

Neurolinguistics II (Guest Lecturer), Neurolinguistics &Language Processing Laboratory, University of Kansas

Introducing the lab, EEG machine, and procedures of conducting an EEGexperiment (obtaining human subject consent, installing an EEG cap, running ashort experiment, and cleaning the EEG cap)

Fall2015

Phonetics 1 (Teaching Assistant),supervised by Prof. Allard Jongman, University of Kansas

Independent discussionsection leader, in charge of developing discussion section materials, classactivities, grading. Contents included articulatory phonetics, phonetictranscriptions (IPA symbols), sounds of the world’s languages, airstreammechanisms in speech production, and acoustic phonetics

Spring 2015

Language and Mind(Teaching Assistant), supervised by Prof. Robert Fiorentino, University ofKansas

Independent discussionsection leader, in charge of developing discussion section materials, classactivities, grading. Contents included historical linguistics, animalcommunication, psycholinguistics, speech perception, morphological and sentenceprocessing, aphasia, neurolinguistics (N400, P600), first and second languageacquisition, and sociolinguistics

Fall2014

Phonetics 1 (Teaching Assistant),supervised by Prof. Allard Jongman, University of Kansas

Spring 2014

Language and Mind(Teaching Assistant), supervised by Prof. Robert Fiorentino, University ofKansas

Independent discussionsection leader, in charge of developing discussion section materials, classactivities, grading. Contents included historical linguistics, animal communication,psycholinguistics, speech perception, morphological and sentence processing,aphasia, neurolinguistics (N400, P600), first and second language acquisition,and sociolinguistics

Fall2013

Phonetics 1 (Teaching Assistant),supervised by Prof. Allard Jongman, University of Kansas

Summer 2011

Psycholinguistics (ResearchAssistant), supervised by Dr. Chien-Jer Charles Lin, National Taiwan Normal University

Designing experimentalstimuli, running participants, E-Prime teaching, answering students’ questions

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2015

Reviewer for KansasWorking Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas

2014-2015

Graduate studentrepresentatives, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas

Attending facultymeetings, conducting polls on some departmental affairs among graduatestudents, communicating between faculty and graduate students

2009

ArrangingMao Kong Forum - the First International Graduate Student Conference on ModernPhonology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

2008

Workingat Theoretical Phonological Laboratory, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

SKILLS

Praat

Multispeech

E-Prime

Paradigm

Excel

SPSS

MATLAB

Neuroscan Synamps2

LANGUAGES

Mandarin (native)

English (advanced)

Taiwanese (intermediate)

Japanese (beginner)

Hebrew (beginner)