I’m a researcher exploring how language, cognition, and learning intersect. I recently earned my PhD in Chinese Linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington.

My research examines how people comprehend, process, and learn language, with particular interests in sentence & word processing and language learning. To investigate these questions, I use methods from behavioral and experimental psycholinguistics (reaction times and eye tracking), electrophysiology (ERPs), and computational modeling. I work with Dr. Chien-Jer Charles Lin and Dr. Bonnie Nozari at Indiana University, as well as Dr. Taomei Guo at Beijing Normal University.

My work centers on three main areas:

1. Sentence processing and comprehension – examining how people integrate different sources of linguistic information, such as syntax and prosody, to interpret language in real time;
   
2. Word recognition and lexical processing – investigating how Chinese children process, represent, and learn written words;
   
3. Language and computational models – using advances in Large Language Models and other computational approaches to investigate and model aspects of human language processing.

Contact: liuzepinglg@gmail.com or zepliu@iu.edu