Yunchuan Chen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3844916 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yunchuan Chen |
| PRENOMES | Yunchuan |
| SOBRENOME | Chen |
| ASSINATURA | CHEN Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7671-6350 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The interpretation of English bare plurals by native Japanese speakers
This study investigates whether L1 Japanese L2 English learners can acquire the knowledge that English bare plurals prohibit specific readings, despite the absence of explicit evidence for this constraint in the input. In Japanese, bare plurals permit both generic and specific readings, whereas in English they allow only generic readings. This cross-linguistic difference creates a potential poverty-of-the-stimulus issue for Japanese-speaking lear…
A Mixed-Effects Analysis of Addressee Honorifics in Japanese Voice Actor Livestreams
This study examines the distribution of addressee honorific (AH) and plain forms in Japanese voice actor livestreams to determine whether honorific usage can be predicted by contextual factors. Using mixed-effects modeling combined with an analysis of within-section progression, we demonstrate that AH usage is neither random nor uniform, but systematically conditioned by section type, speaker role, and the unfolding interactional structure of dis…
Beyond politeness
This study investigates the strategic use of Japanese addressee honorific (AH) and plain forms in written self-introductions on a gay dating application in Japan. While earlier approaches posited a one-to-one relationship between AH and politeness, treating AH as governed by socially prescribed norms, more recent indexical approaches argue that speakers strategically deploy these forms to construct interactional meanings. To examine whether such …
Decoding case markers
It is widely acknowledged that L2 learners whose native language lacks case markers often encounter difficulties when trying to acquire the usage of case markers in a second language. This article investigates whether L2 Japanese learners whose native language lacks case markers are able to use case marking information to comprehend Japanese OSV sentences in real time. A picture-sentence matching truth value judgment experiment was created in bot…
Scope assignment in quantifier-negation sentences in early Korean-Chinese bilinguals’ grammars
Quantifier-negation sentences allow an inverse scope reading in many languages, but this phenomenon is not observed in Chinese. Building on the work of Chen and Huan (2023), this study investigates whether early Korean-Chinese bilinguals can make a distinction between Korean and Chinese in terms of the inverse scope. Employing the sentence-picture matching truth value judgment experiment from Chen and Huan (2023), we recruited a group of 23 early…
An experimental investigation of the Deep Double- o Constraint in Japanese causative constructions
The Double- o Constraint (D o C) was proposed to explain the ungrammaticality of having two or more noun phrases (NPs) marked by the accusative case marker - o in a single Japanese clause. It has been argued that there are two types of D o Cs: the Surface Double- o Constraint (SD o C) and the Deep Double- o Constraint (DD o C). The DD o C prohibits two accusative arguments in a single argument structure and is not affected by the number of accusa…
An experimental approach to the reconstruction of the head quantifier phrase in Chinese relative clauses
Aoun and Li (2003) argued that whether the head of Chinese relative clauses can reconstruct at Logical Form is determined by its phrasal category. When the head is a noun phrase, it can reconstruct; but when it is a quantifier phrase, it cannot. This paper uses a sentence-picture matching experiment to investigate this claim. The results showed that a quantifier phrase can reconstruct. Thus, we do not need to stipulate a noun phrase/quantifier ph…
An Experimental Investigation into the Scope Assignment of Japanese and Chinese Quantifier-Negation Sentences
Quantifier-Negation sentences such as all teachers did not use Sandy's car are known to allow an inverse scope interpretation in English. However, there is a lack of experimental evidence to determine whether this interpretation is allowed in equivalent sentences in Japanese and Chinese. To address this issue, this study conducted a sentence-picture matching truth value judgment experiment in both Japanese and Chinese. The data suggested that Jap…
Optionality in semantic-pragmatic interface of bilingualism? Bare numeral constructions in Tibetan and Chinese bilinguals’ grammar
Bare numeral constructions (BNCs) can be anaphoric in Chinese but not Tibetan. Since the interpretation of BNCs requires a specific context, we consider it to involve a semantic-pragmatic interface, which has been argued to be vulnerable to crosslinguistic transfer for bilinguals (e.g., Sorace 2005, 2011). This study conducted a controlled sentence-picture matching truth value judgment task to examine whether Tibetan-Chinese bilinguals show cross…
Scope assignment in Quantifier-Negation sentences in Tibetan as a heritage language in China
Quantifier-Negation sentences allow an inverse scope reading in Tibetan but not in Chinese. This difference can be attributed to the underlying syntactic difference: the negation word can be raised at Logical Form in Tibetan but not in Chinese. This study investigated whether Chinese-dominant Tibetan heritage speakers know such difference. We conducted a sentence–picture matching truth value judgment task with 28 Chinese-dominant Tibetan heritage…
An experimental investigation of the deep double- o constraint in Japanese causative constructions
The double-o constraint (DoC) (Harada, 1973) was proposed to explain the ungrammaticality of having two or more noun phrases (NPs) marked by the accusative case marker -o in a single Japanese clause. Poser (2002) argued for two types of DoCs: the surface double-o constraint (SDoC) and the deep double-o constraint (DDoC). The DDoC prohibits two accusative arguments in a single argument structure and is not affected by the number of accusative case…
Style shifts in Japanese video game commentary monologues
Honorific markers play an integral role in many languages, but their purpose and meaning are still widely debated. Ide (1989) claims a one-to-one relationship between social rank difference and linguistic form, but Cook (1997, 2011) proposes that honorifics are used to display a ‘disciplined self,’ which further indexes a variety of social meanings. This study examined style shifts between the honorific and plain form in Japanese video game comme…
Simplified grammar in both languages? On scope assignment in Q-Neg sentences in English-dominant heritage Chinese speakers
Quantifier-negation (Q-Neg) sentences are sentences like ‘All teachers did not use Donald’s car,’ where a negation word and universal quantifier occur in the subject position. There are both surface scope (all>not) and inverse scope (not>all) readings in English, but only the surface scope (all>not) reading is allowed in Chinese. This study conducted a picture-matching truth value judgment experiment to examine whether English-dominant heritage C…
Bilingual processing of verbal and constructional information in English dative constructions
This study investigated the role of cross-linguistic influence in L2 learners’ integration of a verb and a construction during online English sentence processing. In a self-paced reading task, L1-English speakers and Chinese-L1 learners of English read the English double-object and prepositional dative constructions with verbs whose Chinese translation equivalents are either compatible or incompatible with each dative form. When including only a …
Anaphor reconstruction in Japanese relative clauses
This study conducted two experiments to examine the derivation of the head noun phrase in Japanese relative clauses, with a focus on whether the anaphors jibun ‘self’ and jibun-jishin ‘self-self’ within the head noun phrase can be co-referential with the relative clause subject. It aims to settle a long-standing debate among the previous studies concerning the interpretation of the anaphors inside the head noun phrase: while several studies claim…
Acquisition of Japanese relative clauses by L1 Chinese learners
This article investigates whether first-language (L1) Chinese-speaking learners of Japanese as a second language (L2) can acquire the knowledge that the reflexive pronoun jibun ‘self’ within the head noun phrase of Japanese relative clauses cannot refer to the relative clause subject. Successful acquisition would suggest that learners are able to acquire the underlying syntactic knowledge that the head noun phrase of Japanese relative clauses is …
An Experimental Investigation into the Scope Assignment of Japanese and Chinese Quantifier-Negation Sentences
Quantifier-Negation sentences such as all teachers did not use Sandy's car are known to allow an inverse scope interpretation in English. However, there is a lack of experimental evidence to determine whether this interpretation is allowed in equivalent sentences in Japanese and Chinese. To address this issue, this study conducted a sentence-picture matching truth value judgment experiment in both Japanese and Chinese. The data suggested that Jap…
Scope assignment in Quantifier-Negation sentences in Tibetan as a heritage language in China
Quantifier-Negation sentences allow an inverse scope reading in Tibetan but not in Chinese. This difference can be attributed to the underlying syntactic difference: the negation word can be raised at Logical Form in Tibetan but not in Chinese. This study investigated whether Chinese-dominant Tibetan heritage speakers know such difference. We conducted a sentence–picture matching truth value judgment task with 28 Chinese-dominant Tibetan heritage…
Bilingual processing of verbal and constructional information in English dative constructions
This study investigated the role of cross-linguistic influence in L2 learners’ integration of a verb and a construction during online English sentence processing. In a self-paced reading task, L1-English speakers and Chinese-L1 learners of English read the English double-object and prepositional dative constructions with verbs whose Chinese translation equivalents are either compatible or incompatible with each dative form. When including only a …
Acquisition of Japanese relative clauses by L1 Chinese learners
This article investigates whether first-language (L1) Chinese-speaking learners of Japanese as a second language (L2) can acquire the knowledge that the reflexive pronoun jibun ‘self’ within the head noun phrase of Japanese relative clauses cannot refer to the relative clause subject. Successful acquisition would suggest that learners are able to acquire the underlying syntactic knowledge that the head noun phrase of Japanese relative clauses is …
Anaphor reconstruction in Japanese relative clauses
This study conducted two experiments to examine the derivation of the head noun phrase in Japanese relative clauses, with a focus on whether the anaphors jibun ‘self’ and jibun-jishin ‘self-self’ within the head noun phrase can be co-referential with the relative clause subject. It aims to settle a long-standing debate among the previous studies concerning the interpretation of the anaphors inside the head noun phrase: while several studies claim…
An experimental investigation of the deep double- o constraint in Japanese causative constructions
The double-o constraint (DoC) (Harada, 1973) was proposed to explain the ungrammaticality of having two or more noun phrases (NPs) marked by the accusative case marker -o in a single Japanese clause. Poser (2002) argued for two types of DoCs: the surface double-o constraint (SDoC) and the deep double-o constraint (DDoC). The DDoC prohibits two accusative arguments in a single argument structure and is not affected by the number of accusative case…
Style shifts in Japanese video game commentary monologues
Honorific markers play an integral role in many languages, but their purpose and meaning are still widely debated. Ide (1989) claims a one-to-one relationship between social rank difference and linguistic form, but Cook (1997, 2011) proposes that honorifics are used to display a ‘disciplined self,’ which further indexes a variety of social meanings. This study examined style shifts between the honorific and plain form in Japanese video game comme…
Simplified grammar in both languages? On scope assignment in Q-Neg sentences in English-dominant heritage Chinese speakers
Quantifier-negation (Q-Neg) sentences are sentences like ‘All teachers did not use Donald’s car,’ where a negation word and universal quantifier occur in the subject position. There are both surface scope (all>not) and inverse scope (not>all) readings in English, but only the surface scope (all>not) reading is allowed in Chinese. This study conducted a picture-matching truth value judgment experiment to examine whether English-dominant heritage C…
Bilingual processing of verbal and constructional information in English dative constructions
This study investigated the role of cross-linguistic influence in L2 learners’ integration of a verb and a construction during online English sentence processing. In a self-paced reading task, L1-English speakers and Chinese-L1 learners of English read the English double-object and prepositional dative constructions with verbs whose Chinese translation equivalents are either compatible or incompatible with each dative form. When including only a …
Optionality in semantic-pragmatic interface of bilingualism? Bare numeral constructions in Tibetan and Chinese bilinguals’ grammar
Bare numeral constructions (BNCs) can be anaphoric in Chinese but not Tibetan. Since the interpretation of BNCs requires a specific context, we consider it to involve a semantic-pragmatic interface, which has been argued to be vulnerable to crosslinguistic transfer for bilinguals (e.g., Sorace 2005, 2011). This study conducted a controlled sentence-picture matching truth value judgment task to examine whether Tibetan-Chinese bilinguals show cross…
Scope assignment in Quantifier-Negation sentences in Tibetan as a heritage language in China
Quantifier-Negation sentences allow an inverse scope reading in Tibetan but not in Chinese. This difference can be attributed to the underlying syntactic difference: the negation word can be raised at Logical Form in Tibetan but not in Chinese. This study investigated whether Chinese-dominant Tibetan heritage speakers know such difference. We conducted a sentence–picture matching truth value judgment task with 28 Chinese-dominant Tibetan heritage…
Scope assignment in quantifier-negation sentences in early Korean-Chinese bilinguals’ grammars
Quantifier-negation sentences allow an inverse scope reading in many languages, but this phenomenon is not observed in Chinese. Building on the work of Chen and Huan (2023), this study investigates whether early Korean-Chinese bilinguals can make a distinction between Korean and Chinese in terms of the inverse scope. Employing the sentence-picture matching truth value judgment experiment from Chen and Huan (2023), we recruited a group of 23 early…
An experimental investigation of the Deep Double- o Constraint in Japanese causative constructions
The Double- o Constraint (D o C) was proposed to explain the ungrammaticality of having two or more noun phrases (NPs) marked by the accusative case marker - o in a single Japanese clause. It has been argued that there are two types of D o Cs: the Surface Double- o Constraint (SD o C) and the Deep Double- o Constraint (DD o C). The DD o C prohibits two accusative arguments in a single argument structure and is not affected by the number of accusa…
An experimental approach to the reconstruction of the head quantifier phrase in Chinese relative clauses
Aoun and Li (2003) argued that whether the head of Chinese relative clauses can reconstruct at Logical Form is determined by its phrasal category. When the head is a noun phrase, it can reconstruct; but when it is a quantifier phrase, it cannot. This paper uses a sentence-picture matching experiment to investigate this claim. The results showed that a quantifier phrase can reconstruct. Thus, we do not need to stipulate a noun phrase/quantifier ph…
An Experimental Investigation into the Scope Assignment of Japanese and Chinese Quantifier-Negation Sentences
Quantifier-Negation sentences such as all teachers did not use Sandy's car are known to allow an inverse scope interpretation in English. However, there is a lack of experimental evidence to determine whether this interpretation is allowed in equivalent sentences in Japanese and Chinese. To address this issue, this study conducted a sentence-picture matching truth value judgment experiment in both Japanese and Chinese. The data suggested that Jap…
Decoding case markers
It is widely acknowledged that L2 learners whose native language lacks case markers often encounter difficulties when trying to acquire the usage of case markers in a second language. This article investigates whether L2 Japanese learners whose native language lacks case markers are able to use case marking information to comprehend Japanese OSV sentences in real time. A picture-sentence matching truth value judgment experiment was created in bot…
The interpretation of English bare plurals by native Japanese speakers
This study investigates whether L1 Japanese L2 English learners can acquire the knowledge that English bare plurals prohibit specific readings, despite the absence of explicit evidence for this constraint in the input. In Japanese, bare plurals permit both generic and specific readings, whereas in English they allow only generic readings. This cross-linguistic difference creates a potential poverty-of-the-stimulus issue for Japanese-speaking lear…
A Mixed-Effects Analysis of Addressee Honorifics in Japanese Voice Actor Livestreams
This study examines the distribution of addressee honorific (AH) and plain forms in Japanese voice actor livestreams to determine whether honorific usage can be predicted by contextual factors. Using mixed-effects modeling combined with an analysis of within-section progression, we demonstrate that AH usage is neither random nor uniform, but systematically conditioned by section type, speaker role, and the unfolding interactional structure of dis…
Beyond politeness
This study investigates the strategic use of Japanese addressee honorific (AH) and plain forms in written self-introductions on a gay dating application in Japan. While earlier approaches posited a one-to-one relationship between AH and politeness, treating AH as governed by socially prescribed norms, more recent indexical approaches argue that speakers strategically deploy these forms to construct interactional meanings. To examine whether such …
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