Shuyan Wang
I am a Postdoctoral Associate in Linguistics at University of Connecticut, working on bimodal bilingualism with Dr. Diane Lillo-Martin. Before this, I was a postdoctoral associate in Linguistics at Rutgers University. I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Connecticut in 2022.
I am mainly interested in language acquisition, especially the acquisition and processing of pragmatics, semantics, and syntax. I focus on how factors like grammar, cognitive capacities, maternal input, and context can influence language development in (non)-native environments. I am also interested in bimodal (sign-speech) bilingualism, syntax, and sign language studies. |
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Recent and Upcoming Presentations:
Mar 2026 Some and or in second language acquisition: Exploring linguistic and cognitive factors.
Talk at the Annual Meeting of American Association for Applied Linguistics. Chicago, USA. (co-author: Shaohua Fang)
Nov 2025 Development of Syntax in spoken English by bimodal Bilingual deaf children with cochlear implants: Comparison with hearing bilinguals and
monolinguals. Talk at BUCLD 2025. (co-authors: Margaret Chui Yi Lee, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Deborah Chen Pichler)
2025 Children's online processing of scalar implicatures. Poster at Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL).
University of Zurich, Switzerland. (co-author: Diane Lillo-Martin)
2025 Cross-linguistic and Extra-linguistic influence in L2 Acquisition: Evidence from non-isomorphic scope. Poster at Cognitive Neuroscience of
Individual Differences in Adult Language Learning: Future Directions. (first author: Shaohua Fang)
2025 Quantifier scope interpretation in L2: Contributions of language proficiency, working memory, and executive control.
Poster at the 38th Human Sentence Processing, University of Maryland, USA. March 2025. (first author: Shaohua Fang)
Recent Publications:
Upcoming Wang, Shuyan, Lee, Chui Yi Margaret, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Pichler, Deborah. Development of syntax in spoken English by bimodal
bilingual deaf children: Comparison with hearing bilinguals and monolinguals.
Proceedings of the 50th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD).
2026 Wang, Shuyan & Shaohua Fang. Some and or in second language acquisition: Exploring linguistic and cognitive factors. Journal of Pragmatics
2025 Fang, Shaohua & Shuyan Wang*. L2 interpretation of quantifier scope: Influence of individual difference factors.
Language and Cognition.
2025 Wang, Shuyan* & Ting Xu*. Acquisition of English double-object constructions: Revisiting the parametric approach. Languages.
https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10/8/201
2024 Wang, Shuyan. Specifier-to-head reanalysis: Evidence from Mandarin and Cantonese. The Linguistic Review.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2024-2023
2023 Wang, Shuyan. Effects of processing limits on computing scalar implicatures: Evidence from child English and child Mandarin.
Language Learning and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2022.2086131
2022 Wang, Shuyan, Kido, Yasuhito & William Snyder. Acquisition of English adjectival resultatives: Support for the Compounding Parameter.
Language Acquisition. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2021.2009835
Teaching:
2025 Fall LING5110 (Grad) Language Acquisition, Department of Linguistics, UConn
2025 Spring LING3610W Language and Culture, Department of Linguistics, UConn
2023 Fall Semantics, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University
2023 Spring Introduction to Linguistic Theory, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University
Mar 2026 Some and or in second language acquisition: Exploring linguistic and cognitive factors.
Talk at the Annual Meeting of American Association for Applied Linguistics. Chicago, USA. (co-author: Shaohua Fang)
Nov 2025 Development of Syntax in spoken English by bimodal Bilingual deaf children with cochlear implants: Comparison with hearing bilinguals and
monolinguals. Talk at BUCLD 2025. (co-authors: Margaret Chui Yi Lee, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Deborah Chen Pichler)
2025 Children's online processing of scalar implicatures. Poster at Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL).
University of Zurich, Switzerland. (co-author: Diane Lillo-Martin)
2025 Cross-linguistic and Extra-linguistic influence in L2 Acquisition: Evidence from non-isomorphic scope. Poster at Cognitive Neuroscience of
Individual Differences in Adult Language Learning: Future Directions. (first author: Shaohua Fang)
2025 Quantifier scope interpretation in L2: Contributions of language proficiency, working memory, and executive control.
Poster at the 38th Human Sentence Processing, University of Maryland, USA. March 2025. (first author: Shaohua Fang)
Recent Publications:
Upcoming Wang, Shuyan, Lee, Chui Yi Margaret, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Pichler, Deborah. Development of syntax in spoken English by bimodal
bilingual deaf children: Comparison with hearing bilinguals and monolinguals.
Proceedings of the 50th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD).
2026 Wang, Shuyan & Shaohua Fang. Some and or in second language acquisition: Exploring linguistic and cognitive factors. Journal of Pragmatics
2025 Fang, Shaohua & Shuyan Wang*. L2 interpretation of quantifier scope: Influence of individual difference factors.
Language and Cognition.
2025 Wang, Shuyan* & Ting Xu*. Acquisition of English double-object constructions: Revisiting the parametric approach. Languages.
https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10/8/201
2024 Wang, Shuyan. Specifier-to-head reanalysis: Evidence from Mandarin and Cantonese. The Linguistic Review.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2024-2023
2023 Wang, Shuyan. Effects of processing limits on computing scalar implicatures: Evidence from child English and child Mandarin.
Language Learning and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2022.2086131
2022 Wang, Shuyan, Kido, Yasuhito & William Snyder. Acquisition of English adjectival resultatives: Support for the Compounding Parameter.
Language Acquisition. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2021.2009835
Teaching:
2025 Fall LING5110 (Grad) Language Acquisition, Department of Linguistics, UConn
2025 Spring LING3610W Language and Culture, Department of Linguistics, UConn
2023 Fall Semantics, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University
2023 Spring Introduction to Linguistic Theory, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University
