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Refereed journal publications

• 2025. Treebanks and World Englishes: a Singapore English perspective. (With Li Lin, Kunmei Han, Jiawen Hing, Luwen Cao, Vincent Ooi, and Zhiming Bao.) English World-Wide 46(1):93-121. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.23069.hua {manuscript}.
• 2025. A nearly exhaustive experimental investigation of bridge effects in English. (With Diogo Almeida and Jon Sprouse.) Language 101(1): 72-108. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2025.a954229 {manuscript + supplementary material, data}
• 2024. Finiteness in a language without finite morphology: an experimental study of Mandarin Chinese. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 42(2): 533-556. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09591-4 {Lingbuzz, materials}
• 2024. Reversal of the concreteness effect can be detected in the natural speech of older adults with amnestic, but not non-amnestic, mild cognitive impairment. (With Luwen Cao et al.) Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring 16(2): e12588. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/dad2.12588. {PDF: see journal link (open-access)}
• 2023. Tagging Singapore English. (With Li Lin, Kunmei Han, Jiawen Hing, Luwen Cao, Vincent Ooi, and Zhiming Bao. NH and ZB: corresponding authors) World Englishes 42(4): 624-641. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12597
• 2022. How subjects and possessors can obviate phasehood. Linguistic Inquiry 53(3): 427–458. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00414 {PDF, Lingbuzz, materials}
• 2022. Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax. (With Aaron Steven White, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz.) Language Acquisition 29(1): 27-53. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2021.1934686 {PDF, Lingbuzz, scripts}
• 2021. When missing NPs make double center-embedding sentences acceptable. (with Colin Phillips.) Glossa 6(1): 37. 1–28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1292 {PDF: see journal link (open-access), manuscript, materials}
• 2018. Control complements in Mandarin Chinese: implications for restructuring and the Chinese finiteness debate. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 27, 347-376. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-018-9185-1 {PDF}
• 2017. The logic of syntactic priming and acceptability judgments (commentary article, with Phoebe Gaston and Colin Phillips). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17000371. {PDF}

Conference proceedings

• 2024. Learning factivity via syntax and pragmatics: a corpus study. (With Serene Siow) Proceedings of the 48th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, ed. by Hayat Abdullah Ali AlThagafi and Jupitara Ray. 522-535. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press.
• 2024. The role of main verbs in subextraction of wh-phrases from NPs. (With Zheng Shen) Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XIV, ed. Xiangyu Li et al. 107-118. The Chinese University of Hong Kong. {PDF}
• 2022. Learning the subcategorization properties of attitude verbs in wh-in situ languages. (With Yu’an Yang (co-first author), Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz) Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, ed. Ying Gong and Felix Kpogo. 338-350. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press. {PDF}
• 2020. “Wanting” the future: The case of future yao. (With Annemarie van Dooren and Gesoel Mendes.) Proceedings of the 32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, ed. Kaidi Chen. 189-205. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut. {Lingbuzz}
• 2019. On pronominalization and ellipsis in clausal idioms. (With Gesoel Mendes.) Proceedings of the 49th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, ed. Maggie Baird and Jonathan Pesetsky, vol. 2, 123-130. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA. {Lingbuzz}
• 2018. The bound possessor effect: a new argument for the phasehood of definite DPs. Proceedings of the 48th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, ed. Sherry Hucklebridge and Max Nelson, vol. 2, 39-52. Amherst, Mass.: GLSA. {Lingbuzz} (Superseded by “How subjects and possessors can obviate phasehood”.)
• 2018. Learning attitude verb meanings in a morphosyntactically-poor language via syntactic bootstrapping. (With Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard, and Jeffrey Lidz.) Proceedings of the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development, ed. Anne B. Bertolini and Maxwell J. Kaplan, 359-373. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press. {PDF} (Superseded by “Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax”.)
• 2015. On syntactic tense in Mandarin Chinese. In Proceedings of the 27th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, ed. Hongyin Tao et al., volume 2, 406–423. Los Angeles: UCLA. {PDF}

Book chapters

• 2021. Theories all the way down. (With Colin Phillips, Phoebe Gaston, and Hanna Muller.) Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax, ed. Grant Goodall, 587-616. Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108569620.023 {PDF, manuscript}

Others

• 2019. Variation and learnability in constraints on A-bar movement. PhD dissertation, University of Maryland.