Yi Ting Huang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4009816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yi Ting Huang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yi Ting |
| FAMILY NAME | Huang |
| SIGNATURE | HUANG Y T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9528-3346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Feasibility of Remote Visual-World Eye-Tracking With Young Children
Visual-world eye-tracking has long been a useful tool for measuring young children’s real-time interpretation of words and sentences. Recently, researchers have extended this method to virtual platforms to reduce equipment costs and recruit more diverse participants. However, there is currently limited guidance on best practices, which require individual researchers to invent their own methodologies and may prevent broader adoption. Here, we pres…
Investigating language acquisition in communication sciences and disorders
Language acquisition research has a long tradition of including individuals with disabilities as research subjects. Numerous early works had the goal of using what was “missing” in their developmen
Evaluating “Meaningful Differences” in Learning and Communication Across SES Backgrounds
Socioeconomic status (SES) differences in language development are ubiquitous, but existing research has yet to wrestle with how language gaps reflect ( a) differences in relevant concepts for communication, ( b) comprehension strategies to access meanings, and ( c) production practices that express social identity. In child-directed input, parents use verbs to describe similar concepts across SES, and the largest gaps emerge when frequent meanin…
Doctoral writing for publication
'Publish or perish' has become the endemic struggle for survival within global academia, including New Zealand, affecting established academics, as well as new entrants, such as doctoral students. This article takes a neo-Bourdieusian approach, which, on the one hand, explains how writing visibility and measurability dominates the writing experience of seven international Chinese PhD students at a research-intensive university in New Zealand; on …
Talking About Some and ALL
Reference production is often studied through single dimensions of contrast (e.g., " tall glass " when there are one or two glasses of varying height). Yet real-world communication is rarely so simple, raising questions about the factors guiding more complex referents. The current study examines decisions to mention set relations (e.g., using quantity-denoting expressions like " some of the houses " to refer to 2-out-of-5 houses) versus object ca…
Variations in the recruitment of syntactic knowledge contribute to SES differences in syntactic development
Average differences in children's language abilities by socioeconomic status (SES) emerge early in development and predict academic achievement. Previous research has focused on coarse-grained outcome measures such as vocabulary size, but less is known about the extent to which SES differences exist in children's strategies for comprehension and learning. We measured children's ( N = 98) comprehension of passive sentences to investigate whether S…
Children’s assignment of grammatical roles in the online processing of Mandarin passive sentences
The use of lexical and referential cues in children's online interpretation of adjectives
Recent research on moment-to-moment language comprehension has revealed striking differences between adults and preschool children. Adults rapidly use the referential principle to resolve syntactic ambiguity, assuming that modification is more likely when there are 2 possible referents for a definite noun phrase. Young children do not. We examine the scope of this phenomenon by exploring whether children use the referential principle to resolve a…
Cascading activation across levels of representation in children's lexical processing
Recent work in adult psycholinguistics has demonstrated that activation of semantic representations begins long before phonological processing is complete. This incremental propagation of information across multiple levels of analysis is a hallmark of adult language processing but how does this ability develop? In two experiments, we elicit measures of incremental activation of semantic representations during word recognition in children. Five-ye…
Online interpretation of scalar quantifiers
Semantic meaning and pragmatic interpretation in 5-year-olds
Recent research on children's inferencing has found that while adults typically adopt the pragmatic interpretation of some (implying not all), five-to nine-year-olds often prefer the semantic interpretation of the quantifier (meaning possibly all).Do these failures reflect a breakdown of pragmatic competence or the metalinguistic demands of prior tasks?In three experiments, we used the visual-world eye-tracking paradigm to elicit an implicit meas…
Conceptual Information Permeates Word Learning in Infancy
Three experiments document that conceptual knowledge influences lexical acquisition in infancy. A novel target object was initially labeled with a novel word. In both yes-no (Experiment 1) and forced-choice (Experiment 2) tasks, 2-year-olds' subsequent extensions were mediated by the conceptual description of the targets. When targets were described as artifacts, infants extended on the basis of shape. When targets were described as animates, inf…
Traits and Stories
Dispositional traits and life narratives represent two different levels of personality that have not previously been empirically linked. The current study tested five hypotheses connecting Big‐Five traits to life‐narrative indices of emotional tone, theme, and structure. Students (Study 1) and adults (Study 2) completed a self‐report measure of the Big‐Five traits and provided extended written accounts of either ten (students) or eight (adults) k…
Semantic meaning and pragmatic interpretation in 5-year-olds
Recent research on children's inferencing has found that while adults typically adopt the pragmatic interpretation of some (implying not all), five-to nine-year-olds often prefer the semantic interpretation of the quantifier (meaning possibly all).Do these failures reflect a breakdown of pragmatic competence or the metalinguistic demands of prior tasks?In three experiments, we used the visual-world eye-tracking paradigm to elicit an implicit meas…
Conceptual Information Permeates Word Learning in Infancy
Three experiments document that conceptual knowledge influences lexical acquisition in infancy. A novel target object was initially labeled with a novel word. In both yes-no (Experiment 1) and forced-choice (Experiment 2) tasks, 2-year-olds' subsequent extensions were mediated by the conceptual description of the targets. When targets were described as artifacts, infants extended on the basis of shape. When targets were described as animates, inf…
The use of lexical and referential cues in children's online interpretation of adjectives
Recent research on moment-to-moment language comprehension has revealed striking differences between adults and preschool children. Adults rapidly use the referential principle to resolve syntactic ambiguity, assuming that modification is more likely when there are 2 possible referents for a definite noun phrase. Young children do not. We examine the scope of this phenomenon by exploring whether children use the referential principle to resolve a…
Traits and Stories
Dispositional traits and life narratives represent two different levels of personality that have not previously been empirically linked. The current study tested five hypotheses connecting Big‐Five traits to life‐narrative indices of emotional tone, theme, and structure. Students (Study 1) and adults (Study 2) completed a self‐report measure of the Big‐Five traits and provided extended written accounts of either ten (students) or eight (adults) k…
Conceptual Information Permeates Word Learning in Infancy
Three experiments document that conceptual knowledge influences lexical acquisition in infancy. A novel target object was initially labeled with a novel word. In both yes-no (Experiment 1) and forced-choice (Experiment 2) tasks, 2-year-olds' subsequent extensions were mediated by the conceptual description of the targets. When targets were described as artifacts, infants extended on the basis of shape. When targets were described as animates, inf…
Online interpretation of scalar quantifiers
Semantic meaning and pragmatic interpretation in 5-year-olds
Recent research on children's inferencing has found that while adults typically adopt the pragmatic interpretation of some (implying not all), five-to nine-year-olds often prefer the semantic interpretation of the quantifier (meaning possibly all).Do these failures reflect a breakdown of pragmatic competence or the metalinguistic demands of prior tasks?In three experiments, we used the visual-world eye-tracking paradigm to elicit an implicit meas…
Cascading activation across levels of representation in children's lexical processing
Recent work in adult psycholinguistics has demonstrated that activation of semantic representations begins long before phonological processing is complete. This incremental propagation of information across multiple levels of analysis is a hallmark of adult language processing but how does this ability develop? In two experiments, we elicit measures of incremental activation of semantic representations during word recognition in children. Five-ye…
Children’s assignment of grammatical roles in the online processing of Mandarin passive sentences
The use of lexical and referential cues in children's online interpretation of adjectives
Recent research on moment-to-moment language comprehension has revealed striking differences between adults and preschool children. Adults rapidly use the referential principle to resolve syntactic ambiguity, assuming that modification is more likely when there are 2 possible referents for a definite noun phrase. Young children do not. We examine the scope of this phenomenon by exploring whether children use the referential principle to resolve a…
Variations in the recruitment of syntactic knowledge contribute to SES differences in syntactic development
Average differences in children's language abilities by socioeconomic status (SES) emerge early in development and predict academic achievement. Previous research has focused on coarse-grained outcome measures such as vocabulary size, but less is known about the extent to which SES differences exist in children's strategies for comprehension and learning. We measured children's ( N = 98) comprehension of passive sentences to investigate whether S…
Talking About Some and ALL
Reference production is often studied through single dimensions of contrast (e.g., " tall glass " when there are one or two glasses of varying height). Yet real-world communication is rarely so simple, raising questions about the factors guiding more complex referents. The current study examines decisions to mention set relations (e.g., using quantity-denoting expressions like " some of the houses " to refer to 2-out-of-5 houses) versus object ca…
Doctoral writing for publication
'Publish or perish' has become the endemic struggle for survival within global academia, including New Zealand, affecting established academics, as well as new entrants, such as doctoral students. This article takes a neo-Bourdieusian approach, which, on the one hand, explains how writing visibility and measurability dominates the writing experience of seven international Chinese PhD students at a research-intensive university in New Zealand; on …
Evaluating “Meaningful Differences” in Learning and Communication Across SES Backgrounds
Socioeconomic status (SES) differences in language development are ubiquitous, but existing research has yet to wrestle with how language gaps reflect ( a) differences in relevant concepts for communication, ( b) comprehension strategies to access meanings, and ( c) production practices that express social identity. In child-directed input, parents use verbs to describe similar concepts across SES, and the largest gaps emerge when frequent meanin…
Investigating language acquisition in communication sciences and disorders
Language acquisition research has a long tradition of including individuals with disabilities as research subjects. Numerous early works had the goal of using what was “missing” in their developmen
The Feasibility of Remote Visual-World Eye-Tracking With Young Children
Visual-world eye-tracking has long been a useful tool for measuring young children’s real-time interpretation of words and sentences. Recently, researchers have extended this method to virtual platforms to reduce equipment costs and recruit more diverse participants. However, there is currently limited guidance on best practices, which require individual researchers to invent their own methodologies and may prevent broader adoption. Here, we pres…
Psychology (11 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Language Development and Disorders (8 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (8 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Comprehension (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Language acquisition (4 works)