Wenchun Yang

Biographic Data

ID3844905
NAMEWenchun Yang
GIVEN NAMESWenchun
FAMILY NAMEYang
SIGNATUREYANG W
AFFILIATIONSHong Kong Polytechnic University
ORCID0000-0002-8180-8575
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Narrative Production Abilities in Mandarin-Speaking Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Open AccessRuijie Zhao, Wenchun YangARTICLEFirst Language2026

    Narrative skills are important for communication and everyday interaction. This study examined how Mandarin-speaking children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) produce oral narratives. Thirty-six Mandarin-speaking monolingual children at the preschool educational stage participated, including 18 children with ASD (mean age = 6;4, SD = 0;11) and 18 typically developing (TD) children (mean age = 6;1, SD = 0;4) who were matched on chro…

  • Adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (Main) to Tibetan

    Open AccessSha Wang, Wenchun YangARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2023

    This paper introduces the Tibetan version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). We describe the main typological properties of the Tibetan language, including word order, case markers, and evidentiality. Finally, the motivation for adaptation, the process of adaptation, and the challenges encountered are discussed

  • Four-year-old Mandarin-speaking children’s online comprehension of relative clauses

    Open AccessWenchun Yang, Angel Chan et al.ARTICLECognition2020

  • The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (Main)

    Open AccessWenchun Yang, Angel Chan et al.ARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2020

    This paper introduces the Kam version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN). Kam is a minority language in southern China which belongs to the Kam-Tai language family and is spoken by the Kam ethnic minority people. Adding Kam to MAIN not only enriches the typological diversity of MAIN but also allows researchers to study children’s narrative development in a sociocultural context vastly distinctly different from …

  • The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (Main)

    Open AccessJin Luo, Wenchun Yang et al.ARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2020

    This paper introduces the Mandarin version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN) and describes the adaptation process. The Mandarin MAIN not only extends the empirical coverage of MAIN by including one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, but also offers an important tool to assess the narrative abilities of monolingual and bi-/ multi- lingual children acquiring Mandarin as a first, heritage, second, …

  • Information Structure and Word Order Preference in Child and Adult Speech of Mandarin Chinese

    Open AccessJidong Chen, Bhuvana Narasimhan et al.ARTICLELanguages2020References: 17

    The acquisition of appropriate linguistic markers of information structure (IS), e.g., word order and specific lexical and syntactic constructions, is a rather late development. This study revisits the debate on language-general preferred word order in IS and examines the use of language-specific means to encode IS in Mandarin Chinese. An elicited production study of conjunct noun phrases (NPs) of new and old referents was conducted with native M…

  • Four-year-old Cantonese-speaking children's online processing of relative clauses

    Open AccessAngel Chan, Wenchun Yang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2018

    We report on an eye-tracking study that investigated four-year-old Cantonese-speaking children's online processing of subject and object relative clauses (RCs). Children's eye-movements were recorded as they listened to RC structures identifying a unique referent (e.g. “Can you pick up the horse that pushed the pig ?”). Two RC types, classifier (CL) and ge3 RCs, were tested in a between-participants design. The two RC types differ in their syntac…