Tsung-Ying Chen, Ph.D

Phone: +886-3-5715131 ext. 62025
E-mail: chen -dot- ty -at- mx -dot- nthu -dot- edu -dot- tw

Office: B506, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Office Hours: 1-3pm every Wednesday (Spring 2020), or by appointment

• Aug 2017 - Present
  Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
  National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
• Feb 2015 - Jul 2017
  Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute of Linguistics
  National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan
• Jan 2014 - Jan 2015
  Full-time Research Assistant, Department of Chinese as a Second Language
  National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

• Ph.D., Department of Linguistics
  University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  Degree received in Nov 2014
• M.A., Institute of Linguistics
  National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan
  Degree received in Aug 2007

• Theoreical and Experimental Linguistics (mostly phonology, phonetics, language processing, and language acquisition)

• A Comprehensive Examination of Evidence and Methodology in Artificial Grammar Learning
  Principle Investigator, Funded by The Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  Aug 2019 - Jul 2022
• The Attrition and Divergent Attainment of Heritage Languages in Taiwan
  Co-Principle Investigator, Funded by The Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  PI: Dr. Chou, Chao-Ting
  Aug 2019 - Jul 2021
• Acquisition of Chinese Contour Tone Sandhi in Artificial Grammar Learning
  Principle Investigator, Funded by The Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  Feb 2018 - Oct 2019

• Chou, C.-T. & Chen, T.-Y. (to appear)
  Acquisition of null objects in Mandarin Chinese by heritage speakers: Syntax-pragmatics interface knowledge without inflectional morphology. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics.
• Chen, T.-Y., & J. Myers. (in press)
  Worldlikeness: A Web crowdsourcing platform for typological psycholinguistics. Linguistic Vanguard. https://worldlikeness.org
• Chen, T.-Y. (2020)
  An inductive learning bias toward phonetically driven tonal phonotactics. Language Acquisition 27(3), 331-361. [data]
• Chu, W.-H., Chen, T.-Y., & Lin, D.-Y. (2015)
  The relationship between working memory and Chinese language comprehension skills. Journal of Chinese Language Teaching 12(3), 53-92.
• Chu, W.-H., Lin, D.-Y., Chen, T.-Y., Tsai, P.-S., & Wang, C.-H. (2015)
  The relationships between ambiguity tolerance, learning strategies, and learning Chinese as a second language. System 49, 1-16.
• Chen, T.-Y., & Tucker, B. V. Tucker. (2013)
  Sonorant onset pitch as a perceptual cue of lexical tones in Mandarin. Phonetica 70(3), 207-239.
• Kirchner, R., Moore, R. K., & Chen, T.-Y. (2010)
  Computing Phonological Generalization over Real Speech Exemplars. Journal of Phonetics 38(4), 540-547.
• Chen, T.-Y. (2010)
  Some Remarks on Contour Tone Units. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 19(2), 103-135.
• Chen, T.-Y. (2007)
  Problems in Analyzing Consonant-Tone Interaction: A reply to Ruangjaroon. Taiwan Journal of Linguistics 5(2), 65-84.

• Chen, T.-Y. (2019)
  From the learnability of tonal dissimilation to the representation of contour tones. Poster presented at The International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology 2019, Dec 13-15, 2019, NINJAP, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan.
• Chou, C.-T. & Chen, T.-Y. (2019)
  Acquisition of Null Objects in Mandarin Chinese by Heritage Speakers. Paper presented at The 27th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics, May 10-12, Kobe, Japan.
• Myers, J. & Chen, T.-Y. (2019)
  Variation in syllable decomposition across Sinitic language. Paper presented at The 27th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics, May 10-12, Kobe, Japan.
• Chen, T.-Y. & Sie, Y.-S. (2019)
  A Reassessment of the effects of neighborhood density and phonotactic probability on L2 English word learning. Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Mental Lexicon 1, e032.
• Chen, T.-Y. (2019)
  On the Analytic Bias toward Phonetically Driven Tonal Phonotactics. Paper presented at The 16th Old World Conference on Phonology, Jan 16-18, Verona, Italy.
• Myers, J. & Chen, T.-Y. (2018)
  Productive knowledge of formal regularities in Chinese characters. Paper presented at ICPEAL17-CLDC 9 Joint Conference, Oct 19-21, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Myers, J. & Chen, T.-Y. (2017)
  Linguistic typology and cross-linguistic psycholinguistics. Paper presented at The 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE-50), Sep 10-13, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Chen, T.-Y. & Myers, J. (2017)
  Cross-linguistic variation in phonemic decomposition. Paper presented at The 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE-50), Sep 10-13, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Chen, T.-Y. & Myers, J. (2017)
  Worldlikeness: A web-based tool for typological psycholinguistic research. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 23(1), Article 4.
• Myers, J. & Chen, T.-Y. (2016)
  The time course of sociolinguistic influences on wordlikeness judgments. Proceedings of ExLing 2016, 119-122.
• Chen, T.-Y. (2015)
  Probablistic Selection of Input in diachronic Mandarin Tone 3. Poster presented at The International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology 2015, Sep 25–27, Keio University, Mita Campus, Tokyo, Japan.
• Chen, T.-Y. (2015)
  Slope-based Tonal Phonology: A case study of Hakha Lai. Proceedings of the 49th Chicago Linguistic Society, 69-84.
• Chen, T.-Y. (2013)
  Toward a Featureless Tonal Phonology. Poster presented at The CUNY Conference on the Feature in Phonology and Phonetics, Jan 16–18, City University of New York, New York, United States.
• Chen, T.-Y. (2011)
  Changzhi Suffix Tonal Reduplication. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 17(1), 51-60.
• Chou, C.-T. & Chen, T.-Y. (2010)
  Multiple Spell-out and Xiamen Tone Sandhi. Paper presented at The Georgetown Linguistic Society 2010, Feb 12–14, Georgetown University, Washington D.C, Maryland, United States.
• Chen, T.-Y. (2008)
  Revisiting Yantai Tone Sandhi. Toronto Working Paper in Linguistics 28: Proceedings of the ICEAL, 1-14.

• Applied Linguistics (Undergraduate)
  10:10 - 13:00 Mon
• English II (Undergraduate)
  10:10 - 13:00 Wed
• Phonology (Undergraduate)
  10:10 - 13:00 Thu

• Basic Web Linguistic Application Development (Undergraduate)
  Fall 2018, Fall 2017
• English I (Undergraduate)
  Fall 2019, Fall 2018
• English II (Undergraduate)
  Spring 2019
• Phonology (Undergraduate)
  Spring 2019, Spring 2018
• Reading and Writing I (Undergraduate)
  Spring 2018
• L2 Phonological Acquisition: Theory, Methods, and Pedagogy (Graduate)
  Fall 2017
• Tool-assisted Phonetic Analysis in Foreign Language Teaching (Graduate)
  Spring 2019, Spring 2018
• Implicit and Explicit Language Learning (Graduate)
  Fall 2019

• Ting-Chun Chen (陳廷軍), Mario Torrez Orozco (陶墨黎), Yi-Sin Sie (謝依芯)

• Yi-Shan Lin (林意珊), Tzu-Hsuan Tseng (曾子軒)

• Han-Chun Lin (林翰君)
• Jui-Chen Ku (谷睿蓁)