Victoria Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3851569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2653-8031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Serum Vitamin D Levels at Birth Are Not Associated With the Formation of Interglobular Dentin in Deciduous Teeth of Modern New Zealand Children
Interglobular dentin (IGD) has been used as a biomarker for vitamin D deficiency (VDD) in past populations. However, an evidence‐based threshold for the levels of serum vitamin D associated with IGD occurrence has not been established. Here, we explore the association between perinatal serum vitamin D levels, presence of IGD, and biological sex in the deciduous teeth of modern children from Otago, New Zealand. Ground sections were created from th…
First and second language speaker understanding of implausible English passives in discourse contexts
We examined how first (L1) and second language (L2) English speakers interpret thematic roles when semantic cues conflict with syntactic cues in discourse contexts. We tested three groups: monolingual English speakers, Taiwanese Mandarin-speaking and Japanese-speaking L2 learners of English. Participants read written vignettes containing target sentences with by -phrases (e.g., Jerry was robbed by the thief). In these sentences, the embedded by -…
When “passives” involve no A-movement
A passive-like construction in Javanese (Austronesian) highlights how an object topicalization construction can be formally indistinguishable from a passive in languages lacking morphological case. While the so-called passive construction in East Javanese is morphologically identical to the true passive in Indonesian, it involves neither agent demotion nor promotion of the theme to subject position, but instead features A'-movement of an accusati…
Portfolio diet and LDL-C in a young, multiethnic cohort
Among young adults, the PDS was inversely associated with LDL-C and several other established cardiovascular risk factors. Early adherence to the Portfolio Diet may limit lifetime exposure to LDL-C and could delay the age at which cardiovascular events begin
The syntax of Philippine-type alignment
Despite the apparent hallmarks of syntactic ergativity found in Philippine-type Austronesian languages, a closer look at the distribution of three basic case markers reveals that their ergative characteristics are only illusory. Support for an accusative view firstly comes from the presence of the putative oblique case on ECM subjects, derived objects, and objects inside restructuring infinitives—a distribution that undermines the antipassive vie…
The colonisation of the colour pink
All languages exhibit basic colour terms that manifest how distinct linguistic systems categorise colour. Māori, the language of the indigenous people of New Zealand, demonstrates an instructive case where drastic innovations in colour terminology took place in response to environmental and cultural influences. We demonstrate how and when Māori accrued new colour terms to replace existing ones in its immediate ancestor, Proto-Eastern-Polynesian, …
Coexistence of value construction and value destruction
Given that media practitioners extensively use emotional news to attract user attention on social media, this study examines the economic value of social media news engagement and emotional news and further investigates how social media news engagement mediates the relationship between emotional news on social media and paying intent. An analysis of survey data from Taiwan reveals that the exchange value of digital news depends on content-interac…
The pitfalls of negative evidence
Beginning with publications in the early 1980s there have been attempts to use syntactic data to determine the highest-order subgroups of Austronesian. These efforts fall into two categories: those which claim that the voice affixes of Philippine-type languages originally had exclusively nominalizing functions, and those which claim that the affixes themselves were innovated after the separation of Rukai from the ancestor of all other Austronesia…
An exploration of instructors' and students' perspectives on remote delivery of courses during the Covid‐19 pandemic
The world‐wide pivot to remote learning due to the exogenous shocks of COVID‐19 across educational institutions has presented unique challenges and opportunities. This study documents the lived experiences of instructors and students and recommends emerging pathways for teaching and learning strategies post‐pandemic. Seventy‐one instructors and 122 students completed online surveys containing closed and open‐ended questions. Quantitative and qual…
When Philippine-type voice meets Indo-European-type voice
Is Malayo-Polynesian a primary branch of Austronesian
An understudied morphosyntactic innovation, reanalysis of the Proto-Austronesian (PAn) stative intransitive prefix *ma- as a transitive affix, offers new insights into Austronesian higher-order subgrouping. Malayo-Polynesian is currently considered a primary branch of Austronesian, with no identifiably closer relationship with any linguistic subgroup in the homeland ( Blust 1999 , 2009/2013 ; Ross 2005 ). However, the fact that it displays the sa…
Forward and backward transfer of sentence processing cues in English and Mandarin Chinese
The Competition Model has served as a functional explanation of cross-linguistic influence and transfer for more than 30 years. A large number of studies have used the Competition Model to frame investigations of sentence processing strategies in different types of bilingual and multilingual speakers. Among the different bilingual speakers investigated, Mandarin Chinese and English bilinguals represent a clear testing ground for the claims of the…
Climate and Carnism
Examining News Engagement on Facebook
This study investigates to what extent news content and the mediating effect of social networks influence news engagement on Facebook. The study identifies three key factors of news consumption on social media—news content attributes, social networks, and news engagement—to illustrate how much each variable explains perceived news engagement on Facebook. The relationships among the three factors are estimated with a mediation model. Results sugge…
Exploring how online political quizzes boost interest in politics, political news, and political engagement
This study sought to understand whether people’s exposure to online quiz questions about politics could pique people’s interest in political news and politics. An online experiment (N = 585) showed support for a mediation model that demonstrated the psychological process by which taking an online political quiz could boost interest in political news and politics. Results showed that exposure to the quiz indirectly increased interest in politics a…
Western Austronesian Voice
Over the past four decades, the nature of western Austronesian voice—typically subcategorized as Philippine-type and Indonesian-type—has triggered considerable debate in the typological and syntactic literature. Central questions in these debates have been concerned with how voice alternations in western Austronesian languages interact with grammatical relations, transitivity, and syntactic alignment. In this review, we reassess the syntactic pro…
This Reporter is so Ugly, How can She Appear on TV
In Taiwan, 25 professional female journalists were interviewed, to understand how they negotiate gender and professional identities online and offline through the lens of Shoemaker and Reese’s media routines and the socialization theory as articulated by Rodgers and Thorson. The findings suggest that while Taiwanese women journalists found that gender in some aspects of reporting is an asset, gendered harassment online and incivility in the digit…
You really have to have a thick skin
In-depth interviews with 75 female journalists who work or have worked in Germany, India, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America reveal that they face rampant online gendered harassment that influences how they do their jobs. Many of the women report that if they aim to engage with their audience online – which is a job requirement for many of them – they frequently face sexist comments that criticize, attack, marginalize, s…
News sources and the same sex marriage issue
Using agenda-setting theory, this study explores the effects of news sources on public opinion on the issue of the same-sex marriage over 10 years. It examines immediate substantive salience, immediate affective salience, cumulative substantive salience and cumulative affective salience of the news sources cited in news articles from The New York Times from 2003 to 2013 and compares the coverage to public opinion polls. Four findings merit notice…
Mien Tze at the Chinese dinner table
(1990). Mien Tze at the Chinese dinner table: A study of the interactional accomplishment of face. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 24, No. 1-4, pp. 109-140
You really have to have a thick skin
In-depth interviews with 75 female journalists who work or have worked in Germany, India, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America reveal that they face rampant online gendered harassment that influences how they do their jobs. Many of the women report that if they aim to engage with their audience online – which is a job requirement for many of them – they frequently face sexist comments that criticize, attack, marginalize, s…
This Reporter is so Ugly, How can She Appear on TV
In Taiwan, 25 professional female journalists were interviewed, to understand how they negotiate gender and professional identities online and offline through the lens of Shoemaker and Reese’s media routines and the socialization theory as articulated by Rodgers and Thorson. The findings suggest that while Taiwanese women journalists found that gender in some aspects of reporting is an asset, gendered harassment online and incivility in the digit…
Mien Tze at the Chinese dinner table
(1990). Mien Tze at the Chinese dinner table: A study of the interactional accomplishment of face. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 24, No. 1-4, pp. 109-140
Western Austronesian Voice
Over the past four decades, the nature of western Austronesian voice—typically subcategorized as Philippine-type and Indonesian-type—has triggered considerable debate in the typological and syntactic literature. Central questions in these debates have been concerned with how voice alternations in western Austronesian languages interact with grammatical relations, transitivity, and syntactic alignment. In this review, we reassess the syntactic pro…
Examining News Engagement on Facebook
This study investigates to what extent news content and the mediating effect of social networks influence news engagement on Facebook. The study identifies three key factors of news consumption on social media—news content attributes, social networks, and news engagement—to illustrate how much each variable explains perceived news engagement on Facebook. The relationships among the three factors are estimated with a mediation model. Results sugge…
Coexistence of value construction and value destruction
Given that media practitioners extensively use emotional news to attract user attention on social media, this study examines the economic value of social media news engagement and emotional news and further investigates how social media news engagement mediates the relationship between emotional news on social media and paying intent. An analysis of survey data from Taiwan reveals that the exchange value of digital news depends on content-interac…
Exploring how online political quizzes boost interest in politics, political news, and political engagement
This study sought to understand whether people’s exposure to online quiz questions about politics could pique people’s interest in political news and politics. An online experiment (N = 585) showed support for a mediation model that demonstrated the psychological process by which taking an online political quiz could boost interest in political news and politics. Results showed that exposure to the quiz indirectly increased interest in politics a…
Mien Tze at the Chinese dinner table
(1990). Mien Tze at the Chinese dinner table: A study of the interactional accomplishment of face. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 24, No. 1-4, pp. 109-140
News sources and the same sex marriage issue
Using agenda-setting theory, this study explores the effects of news sources on public opinion on the issue of the same-sex marriage over 10 years. It examines immediate substantive salience, immediate affective salience, cumulative substantive salience and cumulative affective salience of the news sources cited in news articles from The New York Times from 2003 to 2013 and compares the coverage to public opinion polls. Four findings merit notice…
Western Austronesian Voice
Over the past four decades, the nature of western Austronesian voice—typically subcategorized as Philippine-type and Indonesian-type—has triggered considerable debate in the typological and syntactic literature. Central questions in these debates have been concerned with how voice alternations in western Austronesian languages interact with grammatical relations, transitivity, and syntactic alignment. In this review, we reassess the syntactic pro…
This Reporter is so Ugly, How can She Appear on TV
In Taiwan, 25 professional female journalists were interviewed, to understand how they negotiate gender and professional identities online and offline through the lens of Shoemaker and Reese’s media routines and the socialization theory as articulated by Rodgers and Thorson. The findings suggest that while Taiwanese women journalists found that gender in some aspects of reporting is an asset, gendered harassment online and incivility in the digit…
You really have to have a thick skin
In-depth interviews with 75 female journalists who work or have worked in Germany, India, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America reveal that they face rampant online gendered harassment that influences how they do their jobs. Many of the women report that if they aim to engage with their audience online – which is a job requirement for many of them – they frequently face sexist comments that criticize, attack, marginalize, s…
Exploring how online political quizzes boost interest in politics, political news, and political engagement
This study sought to understand whether people’s exposure to online quiz questions about politics could pique people’s interest in political news and politics. An online experiment (N = 585) showed support for a mediation model that demonstrated the psychological process by which taking an online political quiz could boost interest in political news and politics. Results showed that exposure to the quiz indirectly increased interest in politics a…
Examining News Engagement on Facebook
This study investigates to what extent news content and the mediating effect of social networks influence news engagement on Facebook. The study identifies three key factors of news consumption on social media—news content attributes, social networks, and news engagement—to illustrate how much each variable explains perceived news engagement on Facebook. The relationships among the three factors are estimated with a mediation model. Results sugge…
The pitfalls of negative evidence
Beginning with publications in the early 1980s there have been attempts to use syntactic data to determine the highest-order subgroups of Austronesian. These efforts fall into two categories: those which claim that the voice affixes of Philippine-type languages originally had exclusively nominalizing functions, and those which claim that the affixes themselves were innovated after the separation of Rukai from the ancestor of all other Austronesia…
An exploration of instructors' and students' perspectives on remote delivery of courses during the Covid‐19 pandemic
The world‐wide pivot to remote learning due to the exogenous shocks of COVID‐19 across educational institutions has presented unique challenges and opportunities. This study documents the lived experiences of instructors and students and recommends emerging pathways for teaching and learning strategies post‐pandemic. Seventy‐one instructors and 122 students completed online surveys containing closed and open‐ended questions. Quantitative and qual…
When Philippine-type voice meets Indo-European-type voice
Is Malayo-Polynesian a primary branch of Austronesian
An understudied morphosyntactic innovation, reanalysis of the Proto-Austronesian (PAn) stative intransitive prefix *ma- as a transitive affix, offers new insights into Austronesian higher-order subgrouping. Malayo-Polynesian is currently considered a primary branch of Austronesian, with no identifiably closer relationship with any linguistic subgroup in the homeland ( Blust 1999 , 2009/2013 ; Ross 2005 ). However, the fact that it displays the sa…
Forward and backward transfer of sentence processing cues in English and Mandarin Chinese
The Competition Model has served as a functional explanation of cross-linguistic influence and transfer for more than 30 years. A large number of studies have used the Competition Model to frame investigations of sentence processing strategies in different types of bilingual and multilingual speakers. Among the different bilingual speakers investigated, Mandarin Chinese and English bilinguals represent a clear testing ground for the claims of the…
Climate and Carnism
Coexistence of value construction and value destruction
Given that media practitioners extensively use emotional news to attract user attention on social media, this study examines the economic value of social media news engagement and emotional news and further investigates how social media news engagement mediates the relationship between emotional news on social media and paying intent. An analysis of survey data from Taiwan reveals that the exchange value of digital news depends on content-interac…
Portfolio diet and LDL-C in a young, multiethnic cohort
Among young adults, the PDS was inversely associated with LDL-C and several other established cardiovascular risk factors. Early adherence to the Portfolio Diet may limit lifetime exposure to LDL-C and could delay the age at which cardiovascular events begin
The syntax of Philippine-type alignment
Despite the apparent hallmarks of syntactic ergativity found in Philippine-type Austronesian languages, a closer look at the distribution of three basic case markers reveals that their ergative characteristics are only illusory. Support for an accusative view firstly comes from the presence of the putative oblique case on ECM subjects, derived objects, and objects inside restructuring infinitives—a distribution that undermines the antipassive vie…
The colonisation of the colour pink
All languages exhibit basic colour terms that manifest how distinct linguistic systems categorise colour. Māori, the language of the indigenous people of New Zealand, demonstrates an instructive case where drastic innovations in colour terminology took place in response to environmental and cultural influences. We demonstrate how and when Māori accrued new colour terms to replace existing ones in its immediate ancestor, Proto-Eastern-Polynesian, …
Serum Vitamin D Levels at Birth Are Not Associated With the Formation of Interglobular Dentin in Deciduous Teeth of Modern New Zealand Children
Interglobular dentin (IGD) has been used as a biomarker for vitamin D deficiency (VDD) in past populations. However, an evidence‐based threshold for the levels of serum vitamin D associated with IGD occurrence has not been established. Here, we explore the association between perinatal serum vitamin D levels, presence of IGD, and biological sex in the deciduous teeth of modern children from Otago, New Zealand. Ground sections were created from th…
First and second language speaker understanding of implausible English passives in discourse contexts
We examined how first (L1) and second language (L2) English speakers interpret thematic roles when semantic cues conflict with syntactic cues in discourse contexts. We tested three groups: monolingual English speakers, Taiwanese Mandarin-speaking and Japanese-speaking L2 learners of English. Participants read written vignettes containing target sentences with by -phrases (e.g., Jerry was robbed by the thief). In these sentences, the embedded by -…
When “passives” involve no A-movement
A passive-like construction in Javanese (Austronesian) highlights how an object topicalization construction can be formally indistinguishable from a passive in languages lacking morphological case. While the so-called passive construction in East Javanese is morphologically identical to the true passive in Indonesian, it involves neither agent demotion nor promotion of the theme to subject position, but instead features A'-movement of an accusati…
Psychology (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works)