I’m a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. I’m interested in the structure of language and how it relates to meaning and sound. I love cats. I’m a Hong Konger.
What's new?
- Our NLLT paper “Hyperraising, evidentiality, and phase deactivation” just got published! [with Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee]
- Our NELS paper “Agreement in imperative clauses: Evidence from object resumptive pronouns in Mandarin Chinese” is now on lingbuzz! [with Xuetong Yuan]
- Our Phex paper “Right dislocation, defocus, and variations in syntax-prosody mapping” is now on lingbuzz! [with Xuetong Yuan]
- Our joint paper “Some prosodic consequences of varied discourse functions in a Cantonese sentence-final particle” just came out in Proc. Speech Prosody 2024! [with Jonathan Lee, Mark Liberman, and Jianjing Kuang]
Upcoming talks
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Recent talks
2024, Jun 27-29. Teasing apart the prosodic effects of focus and of defocus: syntax-prosody mismatches in right dislocation. Poster at LabPhon-19, HYU, Korea. [with Xuetong Yuan] [poster]
2024, Jun 27-29. Variation of sibilant palatalization in homeland and heritage Cantonese. Poster at LabPhon-19, HYU, Korea. [with Yanting Li, Xiao Dong & Gareth Junjie Yang]
2024, Jun 15-17. A tale of two types of exclusive doubling in Vietnamese. SEALS-33, NTHU, Taiwan. [handout]
2024, May 28-30. Only ‘only’ only: a distributed meaning approach to exclusive doubling. SALT-34, Rochester. [slides]
2024, May 2-4. Exclusive focus particles in Yorùbá. ACAL-55, McGill. [with Olabode Adedeji] [handout]
2024, May 2-4. Two types of subject resumption in Akan. ACAL-55, McGill. [with Comfort Ahenkorah] [handout]
2024, Apr 10. Defocus Rephrasing: right dislocation and syntax-prosody mapping. SBU Linguistics Brown Bag. Stony Brook. [with Xuetong Yuan] [slides]
2024, Mar 23-24. Defending a biclausal approach to right dislocation. NACCL-36, Pomona. [slides] [handout]
2024, Mar 23-24. Linguistic and social aspects of sibilant palatalization in homeland and heritage Cantonese. NACCL-36, Pomona. [with Yanting Li, Xiao Dong & Gareth Junjie Yang]
2024, Mar 1. Biclausal multidominant syntax of right dislocation in Chinese. NYU Syntax Brown Bag. [handout]