Selected Publications & Presentation

NLP, Computational Linguistics

Probablistic Modelling of Ambiguity Resolution

Chen, S. Y. & van Tiel, B. (2021). Every ambiguity isn't syntactic in nature: Testing a Rational Speech Act model of scope ambiguity. Paper presented at the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL), Feb 15 - 19, 2021. [paper] [github]

Evaluating Neutral Language Models

Hu, J., Chen, S. Y., Levy, R. (2020). A closer look at the performance of neural language models on reflexive anaphor licensing. Paper presented at the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL). January 2-5, 2020. New Orleans, USA. [paper] [github]

Language Acquisition

Developmental Trajectory of Conjunction

Chen, S. Y., Kobayashi, F. H., Koring, L., Bill, C., Rosenstein, L. & Hackl, M. (2020). Comprehending "and": Developmental Path of English Conjunction in Child Language. Proceedings of the 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD44), pp.91-104

Chen, S. Y., Kobayashi, F. H., Koring, L., Bill, C., Rosenstein, L., & Hackl, M. (2020). Comprehension of Conjunction by English-speaking Adults and Children. Paper presented at the 33nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 19 – 21, 2020. Amherst, MA.

Non-uniformity in children's projection of presuppositions

[forthcoming]

Psycholinguistics and Language Processing

Memory Retrieval Processes in Comprehending Anaphoric Dependencies

Chen, S. Y. & Husband, E. M. (2020). Illusory Licensing from Inaccessible Antecedents in Presuppositional Dependency. Poster presented at the 33nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. March 19 – 21, 2020. Amherst, MA.

Chen, S. Y. (2019). Memory Retrieval in the Processing of Anaphoric Presupposition Dependencies. Invited talk given at the Psycholinguistics Colloquium. the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Chen, S. Y. & Husband, E. M. (2018). Comprehending anaphoric presuppositions involves memory retrieval “too”. Proceedings of the LSA Annual Meeting, 3(44), 1-11.

Chen, S. Y. & Husband, E. M. (2017). Memory in the processing of anaphoric presuppositions. Poster presented at the 23rd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP). September 7-9, 2017. Lancaster, UK.

Event representation

Chen, S. Y. & Husband, E. M. (2019). Decomposing event in real-time: Putting the pieces (back) together. In C. Cummins & N. Katsos (Eds), Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford University Press.

Processing Tensed and "Tenseless" Languages

Chen, S. Y. & Husband, E. M. (2018). Contradictory (Forward) Lifetime Effects and the Non-Future Tense in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the LSA Annual Meeting, 3(6), 1-14.

Chen, S. Y. & Husband, E. M. (2016) Processing Tenses for the Living and the Dead: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading. Poster presented at the 22nd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP). September 1-3 2016. Bilbao, Spain.

Invited/Public talks

Chen, S. Y. (2019). The linguistics of one, two, three. Invited talk at Language and Computation (CompLang). Feb 21, 2019, Jointly held by BCS, CSAIL & Linguistics Departments, MIT.

Chen, S. Y. (2017). As Time Goes by: Understanding Time in Language and Cognition. Talk given at Lincoln College Lord Florey Talk Series. March 17, 2017. Oxford, UK.