Conference presentations
Li, F., Chen, J., Liu, W., & Wang, C. (2023). Categorical speech perception in Chinese children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Talk presented at The XVI International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, May 31st - June 2nd, 2023.
Yang, S., & Chen, J. (2023). A longitudinal study of verb argument realization in child Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at The XVI International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, May 31st - June 2nd, 2023.
Chen, J., & Wang, C. (2021). A developmental study of elicited speech of Mandarin children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Talk presented at The Asia-Pacific Babylab Constellation’21 Conference: Language and cognition in typical and atypical development (online), Hong Kong, China, December 2-4, 2021.
Yang, S., & Chen, J. (2021). Preferred argument structure in spontaneous child and adult speech of Mandarin Chinese. Talk presented at The Asia-Pacific Babylab Constellation’21 Conference: Language and cognition in typical and atypical development (online), Hong Kong, China, December 2-4, 2021.
Yang, S., & Chen, J. (2021). The acquisition of argument realization in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at The 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (online), Boston, MA, November 4–7, 2021.
Chen, J., Fu, G., Yang, S., & Narasimhan, B. (2020). Processing factors and syntactic choice in Mandarin child-caregiver speech. Poster presented at The 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (online), Boston, MA, November 3–5, 2020.
Chen, J., Fu, G., Yang, S., & Narasimhan, B. (2020). Syntactic variation due to processing factors in Mandarin child-caregiver speech. Poster presented at The Many Paths to Language (MPal 2020) workshop (online), Nijmegen, the Netherlands, October 22 – 23, 2020.
Chen, J., Fu, G., Yang, S., & Narasimhan, B. (2020). A longitudinal study of syntactic choice in Mandarin child and caregiver speech. Paper presented at The 7th Summer Neurolinguistics School (online), Moscow, Russia, June 22 – 24, 2020.
Chen, J. & Wang, X. (2019). A longitudinal study of the emergence of polysemous verbs in Mandarin child speech. Paper presented at The International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2019, Crete, Greece, August 27-30, 2019.
Wang, X., & Chen, J. (2019). Perception and production of Mandarin consonants by English learners of Chinese. Paper presented at The International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2019, Crete, Greece, August 27-30, 2019.
Wang, X., & Chen, J. (2019). English speakers' perception of mandarin consonants: the effect of phonetic distances and L2 experience. Paper to be presented at The International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, Melbourne, Australia, August 5-9, 2019.
Chen, J. (2019). The acquisition of polysemous verbs in child Mandarin: A case study of dǎ. Paper to be presented at The 27th Conference of the International Association for Chinese Linguistics, Kobe, Japan, May 9-12, 2019.
Chen, J., Chan, W. S., Narasimhan, B., Dimroth, C., Yang, W., & Semsem, M. (2019). Information structure and word order in conjoined noun phrases in Mandarin Chinese: A cross-linguistic perspective. Poster to be presented at The 16th International Pragmatics Conference, Hong Kong, June 9-14, 2019.
Chen, J., Chan, W. S., Narasimhan, B., Yang, W., & Yang, S. (2019). Information structure and different preferences for word order in conjoined noun phrases in child and adult speech of Mandarin Chinese. Poster to be presented at The 31st APS Annual Convention, Washington, DC, May 23-26, 2019.
Semsem, M., & Chen, J. (2018). Word order marks information structure in child and adult speakers of Arabic. Paper presented at The 2018 Western Conference on Linguistics, Fresno, California, November 30-December 2, 2018.
Chen, J., & Qian, Z. (2018). The acquisition of the lexical semantics of Mandarin monomorphemic state-change verbs by American learners. Paper presented at The Annual Conference of the Chinese Language Teachers’ Association, Herndon, VA, April 6-8, 2018.
Chen, J., & Qian, Z. (2018). “He killed the chicken, but it didn’t die?”: The acquisition of the lexical semantics of Mandarin monomorphemic state-change verbs by second language learners. Paper presented at The 2018 Annual Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Chicago, March 24-27, 2018.
L. de Ruiter, B. Narasimhan, J. Chen, & Jonah Lack. (2018). Children’s use of prosody and word order to indicate information status in English phrasal conjuncts. Paper to be presented at The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT, January 4 – 7, 2018.
Chen, J., & Narasimhan, B. (2017). Information structure and ordering preferences in child and adult speech in English. Poster presented at The 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 3–5, 2017.
Chen, J., Narasimhan, B., & Brown, P. (2017). ‘Cutting’, ‘tearing’, and ‘breaking’ in Mandarin, Tzeltal, and Tamil child language. Paper presented at The Meaning in Flux 2017, Yale University, October 12- 14, 2017.
Chen, J., Narasimhan, B., & Brown, P. (2017). A crosslinguistic study of semantic development in ‘cutting’, ‘breaking’ and ‘tearing’ categories. Poster presented at The Workshop on Many Paths to Language, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, October 6-8, 2017.
Speed, L., Chen, J., Huettig, F., & Majid, A. (2016). Do classifier categories affect or reflect object concepts? Paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science, Philadelphia, August 10 – 13, 2016.
Ceja Del Toro, P., Chen, J., & Narasimhan, B. (2016). Information structure in bilingual Spanish-English child speech. Poster presented at the 2016 International Workshop on Language Production, San Diego, July 25-27, 2016.
Chen, J. (2016). “He killed the chicken, but it didn’t die”: An empirical study of the lexicalization of state change in Mandarin monomorphemic verbs. Paper presented at the 6th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Bangor University, Welsh, July 19-22, 2016.
Chen, J. (2016). An empirical study of the lexicalization of state change in Mandarin monomorphemic verbs. Paper presented at the 28th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Brigham Young University, May 6-7, 2016.
Chen, J. (2015). The emergence of verb argument structure in child Mandarin. Paper presented at the 27th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, UCLA, April 3, 2015.
Chen, J. (2015). Teaching Chinese orthography to undergraduates in North America. Invited talk on the Symposium of Teaching Chinese Linguistics at the 27th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, UCLA, April 4, 2015.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2014). The acquisition of head-final relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Children’s Acquisition and Processing of Head-Final Languages (CAPHL 2014), Department of Psychology, Harvard University, November 5, 2014.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2014). The acquisition of head-final relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Children’s Acquisition and Processing of Head-Final Languages (CAPHL 2014), Department of Psychology, Harvard University, November 5, 2014.
Brown, A., & Chen, J. (2013). Cross-linguistic and cross-modal expression of manner of motion. Paper presented at the Empirical Approaches to Multi-Modality and to Language Variation (AFLiCo 5), University of Lille 3, Lille, France, May 15-17, 2013.
Bailey, D., & Chen, J. (2013). Learning the phonology of American Sign Language by hearing adult second language learners. Poster presented at The 3rd International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, Chinese University of Hong Kong, January 30 – February 2, 2013.
Brown, A., & Chen, J. (2012). Monolingual versus Bilingual L1: Manner in Speech and Gesture in Mandarin, Japanese, and English. Paper presented at The 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 2–4, 2012.
Brown, A., & Chen, J. (2012). Motion event construal in satellite-framed, verb-framed, and equipollently-framed languages: Manner in speech and gesture. Paper presented at The 5th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Lund, Sweden, July 24–27, 2012.
Brown, A., Gullberg, M. & Chen, J. (2012). L2 influence on L1 crossmodally. Paper presented at The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2012 Conference, Boston, MI, March 24–27, 2012.
Brown, A., & Chen, J. (2011). L2 influence on L1: Backgrounding of information through gesture. Paper presented at The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2011 Conference, Chicago, IL, March 26–29, 2011.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2010). The development of relative clauses in spontaneous child speech in Mandarin. Paper presented at The 35th Boston University Annual Conference on Child Language Development, Boston University, Boston, MA, November 5–7, 2010.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2010). Relative clauses in early child Mandarin. Paper presented at The 1st International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, October 29–30, 2010.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2010). The acquisition of relative clauses in child Mandarin. Poster presented at The 22nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, May 27–30, 2010.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2010). The acquisition of relative clauses in child Mandarin. Paper presented at The 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Boston, May 20–22, 2010.
Chen, J. (2010). Putting and taking events in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at The Berkeley Linguistics Society 36th Annual Meeting, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, February 6–7, 2010.
Chen, J. (2009). Encoding motion and state change in L2 Mandarin. Paper presented at The 21st North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Bryant University, Smithfield, RI, June 6–8, 2009.
Chen, J. (2009). Encoding motion and state change in L2 Mandarin. Paper presented at The 2009 Spring Conference of the Chinese Language Teacher Association of California, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 7, 2009.
Chen, J. (2009). Semantic development in encoding and categorizing state-change events in child Mandarin. Poster presented at The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, San Francisco, CA, January 8–11, 2009.
Chen, J. (2008). Early sensitivity to the state-change implicature and entailment in verbs in child Mandarin. Paper presented at The 2nd International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, November 7–9, 2008.
Huettig, F., Chen, J., Bowerman, M., & Majid, A. (2008). Linguistic relativity: Evidence from Mandarin speakers’ eye-movements. Paper presented at The 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge, UK, September 4–6, 2008.
Ai, R., & Chen, J. (2008). A puzzle in Chinese dative shift. Paper presented at The 16th Annual International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Beijing University, Beijing, P.R. China, May 29 – June 2, 2008.
Ai, R., & Chen, J. (2008). A puzzle in Chinese dative shift. Paper presented at The 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April 25–27, 2008.
Chen, J. (2007). “One home-fellow told me that…”: Beyond recognition? Non-recognitional person references in Mandarin conversations. Paper presented at The 2007 Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, May 17–19, 2007.
Chen, J. (2006). “She from bookshelf take-descend-come the box”: Encoding placement events in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at The 8th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language: Language in Action, University of San Diego, CA, November 3–5, 2006.
Chen, J (2006). “He cut-break the rope”: A semantic and syntactic analysis of the resultative verb constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at The 4th International Conference on Construction Grammar, University of Tokyo, Japan, September 1–3, 2006.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2006). The acquisition of aspectual marking in Mandarin. Poster presented at The Child Language Seminar, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, July 19–21, 2006.
Chen, J. (2005). Learning the lexical semantics of state-change predicates in Mandarin: A cross-linguistic perspective. Paper presented at The 11th International Conference on Processing Chinese and Other East Asian Languages (PCOEAL 2005), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China, December 9–11, 2005.
Chen, J. (2005). Learning to encode and categorize “cutting and breaking” events in Mandarin. Poster presented at The Xth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany, July 25–29, 2005.
Chen, J. (2005). Learning how to encode “cutting and breaking” events in Mandarin. Paper presented at The 17th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Monterey, CA, June 24–26, 2005.
Chen, J. (2005). Learning to interpret state-change: A case study of Mandarin. Paper presented at The 13th Annual Meeting of the Association of Chinese Linguistics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, June 9–11, 2005.
Chen, J. (2005). “Sister cry-run brother”, who cries and who runs?: Learning the argument structure of Mandarin resultative verb compounds. Paper presented at The 3rd Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research. Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, March 18, 2005.
Chen, J. (2004). Interpreting state change: Learning the meaning of verbs and verb compounds in Mandarin. Poster presented at The 33rd Boston University Annual Conference on Language Development, Boston University, Boston, MA, November 5–7, 2004.
Chen, J. (2004). The acquisition of verb compounding by Mandarin-speaking children. Paper presented at The 32nd Child Language Research Forum, Stanford University, CA, April 16–17, 2004.
Bowerman, M., Majid, A., Erkelen. M., Narasimhan, B., & Chen, J. (2004). Learning how to encode events of “cutting and breaking”: A cross-linguistic study of semantic development. Poster presented at The 32nd Child Language Research Forum. Stanford University, CA, April 16–17, 2004.
Yang, S., & Chen, J. (2023). A longitudinal study of verb argument realization in child Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at The XVI International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, May 31st - June 2nd, 2023.
Chen, J., & Wang, C. (2021). A developmental study of elicited speech of Mandarin children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Talk presented at The Asia-Pacific Babylab Constellation’21 Conference: Language and cognition in typical and atypical development (online), Hong Kong, China, December 2-4, 2021.
Yang, S., & Chen, J. (2021). Preferred argument structure in spontaneous child and adult speech of Mandarin Chinese. Talk presented at The Asia-Pacific Babylab Constellation’21 Conference: Language and cognition in typical and atypical development (online), Hong Kong, China, December 2-4, 2021.
Yang, S., & Chen, J. (2021). The acquisition of argument realization in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at The 46th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (online), Boston, MA, November 4–7, 2021.
Chen, J., Fu, G., Yang, S., & Narasimhan, B. (2020). Processing factors and syntactic choice in Mandarin child-caregiver speech. Poster presented at The 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (online), Boston, MA, November 3–5, 2020.
Chen, J., Fu, G., Yang, S., & Narasimhan, B. (2020). Syntactic variation due to processing factors in Mandarin child-caregiver speech. Poster presented at The Many Paths to Language (MPal 2020) workshop (online), Nijmegen, the Netherlands, October 22 – 23, 2020.
Chen, J., Fu, G., Yang, S., & Narasimhan, B. (2020). A longitudinal study of syntactic choice in Mandarin child and caregiver speech. Paper presented at The 7th Summer Neurolinguistics School (online), Moscow, Russia, June 22 – 24, 2020.
Chen, J. & Wang, X. (2019). A longitudinal study of the emergence of polysemous verbs in Mandarin child speech. Paper presented at The International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2019, Crete, Greece, August 27-30, 2019.
Wang, X., & Chen, J. (2019). Perception and production of Mandarin consonants by English learners of Chinese. Paper presented at The International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2019, Crete, Greece, August 27-30, 2019.
Wang, X., & Chen, J. (2019). English speakers' perception of mandarin consonants: the effect of phonetic distances and L2 experience. Paper to be presented at The International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019, Melbourne, Australia, August 5-9, 2019.
Chen, J. (2019). The acquisition of polysemous verbs in child Mandarin: A case study of dǎ. Paper to be presented at The 27th Conference of the International Association for Chinese Linguistics, Kobe, Japan, May 9-12, 2019.
Chen, J., Chan, W. S., Narasimhan, B., Dimroth, C., Yang, W., & Semsem, M. (2019). Information structure and word order in conjoined noun phrases in Mandarin Chinese: A cross-linguistic perspective. Poster to be presented at The 16th International Pragmatics Conference, Hong Kong, June 9-14, 2019.
Chen, J., Chan, W. S., Narasimhan, B., Yang, W., & Yang, S. (2019). Information structure and different preferences for word order in conjoined noun phrases in child and adult speech of Mandarin Chinese. Poster to be presented at The 31st APS Annual Convention, Washington, DC, May 23-26, 2019.
Semsem, M., & Chen, J. (2018). Word order marks information structure in child and adult speakers of Arabic. Paper presented at The 2018 Western Conference on Linguistics, Fresno, California, November 30-December 2, 2018.
Chen, J., & Qian, Z. (2018). The acquisition of the lexical semantics of Mandarin monomorphemic state-change verbs by American learners. Paper presented at The Annual Conference of the Chinese Language Teachers’ Association, Herndon, VA, April 6-8, 2018.
Chen, J., & Qian, Z. (2018). “He killed the chicken, but it didn’t die?”: The acquisition of the lexical semantics of Mandarin monomorphemic state-change verbs by second language learners. Paper presented at The 2018 Annual Conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Chicago, March 24-27, 2018.
L. de Ruiter, B. Narasimhan, J. Chen, & Jonah Lack. (2018). Children’s use of prosody and word order to indicate information status in English phrasal conjuncts. Paper to be presented at The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT, January 4 – 7, 2018.
Chen, J., & Narasimhan, B. (2017). Information structure and ordering preferences in child and adult speech in English. Poster presented at The 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 3–5, 2017.
Chen, J., Narasimhan, B., & Brown, P. (2017). ‘Cutting’, ‘tearing’, and ‘breaking’ in Mandarin, Tzeltal, and Tamil child language. Paper presented at The Meaning in Flux 2017, Yale University, October 12- 14, 2017.
Chen, J., Narasimhan, B., & Brown, P. (2017). A crosslinguistic study of semantic development in ‘cutting’, ‘breaking’ and ‘tearing’ categories. Poster presented at The Workshop on Many Paths to Language, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, October 6-8, 2017.
Speed, L., Chen, J., Huettig, F., & Majid, A. (2016). Do classifier categories affect or reflect object concepts? Paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science, Philadelphia, August 10 – 13, 2016.
Ceja Del Toro, P., Chen, J., & Narasimhan, B. (2016). Information structure in bilingual Spanish-English child speech. Poster presented at the 2016 International Workshop on Language Production, San Diego, July 25-27, 2016.
Chen, J. (2016). “He killed the chicken, but it didn’t die”: An empirical study of the lexicalization of state change in Mandarin monomorphemic verbs. Paper presented at the 6th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Bangor University, Welsh, July 19-22, 2016.
Chen, J. (2016). An empirical study of the lexicalization of state change in Mandarin monomorphemic verbs. Paper presented at the 28th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Brigham Young University, May 6-7, 2016.
Chen, J. (2015). The emergence of verb argument structure in child Mandarin. Paper presented at the 27th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, UCLA, April 3, 2015.
Chen, J. (2015). Teaching Chinese orthography to undergraduates in North America. Invited talk on the Symposium of Teaching Chinese Linguistics at the 27th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, UCLA, April 4, 2015.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2014). The acquisition of head-final relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Children’s Acquisition and Processing of Head-Final Languages (CAPHL 2014), Department of Psychology, Harvard University, November 5, 2014.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2014). The acquisition of head-final relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Children’s Acquisition and Processing of Head-Final Languages (CAPHL 2014), Department of Psychology, Harvard University, November 5, 2014.
Brown, A., & Chen, J. (2013). Cross-linguistic and cross-modal expression of manner of motion. Paper presented at the Empirical Approaches to Multi-Modality and to Language Variation (AFLiCo 5), University of Lille 3, Lille, France, May 15-17, 2013.
Bailey, D., & Chen, J. (2013). Learning the phonology of American Sign Language by hearing adult second language learners. Poster presented at The 3rd International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, Chinese University of Hong Kong, January 30 – February 2, 2013.
Brown, A., & Chen, J. (2012). Monolingual versus Bilingual L1: Manner in Speech and Gesture in Mandarin, Japanese, and English. Paper presented at The 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 2–4, 2012.
Brown, A., & Chen, J. (2012). Motion event construal in satellite-framed, verb-framed, and equipollently-framed languages: Manner in speech and gesture. Paper presented at The 5th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Lund, Sweden, July 24–27, 2012.
Brown, A., Gullberg, M. & Chen, J. (2012). L2 influence on L1 crossmodally. Paper presented at The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2012 Conference, Boston, MI, March 24–27, 2012.
Brown, A., & Chen, J. (2011). L2 influence on L1: Backgrounding of information through gesture. Paper presented at The American Association for Applied Linguistics 2011 Conference, Chicago, IL, March 26–29, 2011.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2010). The development of relative clauses in spontaneous child speech in Mandarin. Paper presented at The 35th Boston University Annual Conference on Child Language Development, Boston University, Boston, MA, November 5–7, 2010.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2010). Relative clauses in early child Mandarin. Paper presented at The 1st International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, October 29–30, 2010.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2010). The acquisition of relative clauses in child Mandarin. Poster presented at The 22nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, May 27–30, 2010.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2010). The acquisition of relative clauses in child Mandarin. Paper presented at The 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics, Boston, May 20–22, 2010.
Chen, J. (2010). Putting and taking events in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at The Berkeley Linguistics Society 36th Annual Meeting, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, February 6–7, 2010.
Chen, J. (2009). Encoding motion and state change in L2 Mandarin. Paper presented at The 21st North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Bryant University, Smithfield, RI, June 6–8, 2009.
Chen, J. (2009). Encoding motion and state change in L2 Mandarin. Paper presented at The 2009 Spring Conference of the Chinese Language Teacher Association of California, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 7, 2009.
Chen, J. (2009). Semantic development in encoding and categorizing state-change events in child Mandarin. Poster presented at The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, San Francisco, CA, January 8–11, 2009.
Chen, J. (2008). Early sensitivity to the state-change implicature and entailment in verbs in child Mandarin. Paper presented at The 2nd International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, November 7–9, 2008.
Huettig, F., Chen, J., Bowerman, M., & Majid, A. (2008). Linguistic relativity: Evidence from Mandarin speakers’ eye-movements. Paper presented at The 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Cambridge, UK, September 4–6, 2008.
Ai, R., & Chen, J. (2008). A puzzle in Chinese dative shift. Paper presented at The 16th Annual International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Beijing University, Beijing, P.R. China, May 29 – June 2, 2008.
Ai, R., & Chen, J. (2008). A puzzle in Chinese dative shift. Paper presented at The 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April 25–27, 2008.
Chen, J. (2007). “One home-fellow told me that…”: Beyond recognition? Non-recognitional person references in Mandarin conversations. Paper presented at The 2007 Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, May 17–19, 2007.
Chen, J. (2006). “She from bookshelf take-descend-come the box”: Encoding placement events in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at The 8th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language: Language in Action, University of San Diego, CA, November 3–5, 2006.
Chen, J (2006). “He cut-break the rope”: A semantic and syntactic analysis of the resultative verb constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at The 4th International Conference on Construction Grammar, University of Tokyo, Japan, September 1–3, 2006.
Chen, J., & Shirai, Y. (2006). The acquisition of aspectual marking in Mandarin. Poster presented at The Child Language Seminar, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK, July 19–21, 2006.
Chen, J. (2005). Learning the lexical semantics of state-change predicates in Mandarin: A cross-linguistic perspective. Paper presented at The 11th International Conference on Processing Chinese and Other East Asian Languages (PCOEAL 2005), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China, December 9–11, 2005.
Chen, J. (2005). Learning to encode and categorize “cutting and breaking” events in Mandarin. Poster presented at The Xth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany, July 25–29, 2005.
Chen, J. (2005). Learning how to encode “cutting and breaking” events in Mandarin. Paper presented at The 17th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Monterey, CA, June 24–26, 2005.
Chen, J. (2005). Learning to interpret state-change: A case study of Mandarin. Paper presented at The 13th Annual Meeting of the Association of Chinese Linguistics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, June 9–11, 2005.
Chen, J. (2005). “Sister cry-run brother”, who cries and who runs?: Learning the argument structure of Mandarin resultative verb compounds. Paper presented at The 3rd Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research. Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, March 18, 2005.
Chen, J. (2004). Interpreting state change: Learning the meaning of verbs and verb compounds in Mandarin. Poster presented at The 33rd Boston University Annual Conference on Language Development, Boston University, Boston, MA, November 5–7, 2004.
Chen, J. (2004). The acquisition of verb compounding by Mandarin-speaking children. Paper presented at The 32nd Child Language Research Forum, Stanford University, CA, April 16–17, 2004.
Bowerman, M., Majid, A., Erkelen. M., Narasimhan, B., & Chen, J. (2004). Learning how to encode events of “cutting and breaking”: A cross-linguistic study of semantic development. Poster presented at The 32nd Child Language Research Forum. Stanford University, CA, April 16–17, 2004.