1. Publication
Zhang, M., Liu, Z., Liu, X., Lu, P., Liu, L., & Guo, T. (2025). Electrophysiological activity predicts children’s reading ability through orthographic awareness: Evidence from a cross-sectional and longitudinal study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101609. Link
Liu, Z., & Lin, C. J. C. (2025). Plausibility leads to better comprehension but not syntactic adaptation: Evidence from structural disambiguation in Chinese. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 0(0). Link
Liu, Z., Lin, C. J. C. (2025). Grammar in Syntactic Adaptations of Chinese: The State of the Art. In: Teng, SH., Chang, LP., Liu, TH. (eds) Handbook of Chinese Language Learning and Technology. Springer, Singapore. Link
Zhang, M.+, Liu, Z.+, Botezatu, M.R., Dang, Q., Yuan, Q., Han, J., Liu, L, & Guo, T. (2023). A large-scale database of Chinese characters and words collected from elementary school textbooks. Behavior Research Method, 1-26. (+ denotes equal contribution) Link
Zhang, Z., Yuan, Q., Liu, Z., Zhang, M., Wu, J., Lu, C., Ding, G., & Guo, T. (2021). The cortical organization of writing sequence: evidence from observing Chinese characters in motion. Brain Structure and Function, 1-13. Link
2. Conference Presentation
2025
Lin, C. J. C., Liu, Z. & Dong, X. (2025). Building structures left to right and bottom up: The production and perception of syntactic branching by L1 and L2 users of a tone Language. Oral presentation at the 31st Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP-2025), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. September 4-6.
Liu, Z., Lin, C. J. C. (2025). The sound of syntax: Prosodic disambiguation for syntactic branching in a tone language. Poster presentation at the 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. March 27-29.
Liu, Z., Lin, C. J. C., Nozari, N. (2025). Not lost in the garden path: Large Language Models navigate their way to syntactic knowledge. Poster presentation at the 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. March 27-29.
2024
Liu, Z., Lin, C. J. C., Nozari, N. (2024). Evaluating large language models surprisal on garden path ambiguity difficulty in English and Mandarin. Poster presentation at Psychonomic Society 65th Annual Meeting, New York City, NY. November 21-24.
Lin, C. J. C. & Liu, Z. (2024). Can semantics and prosody facilitate a syntactically unlikely parse? Talk presentation at FOSS-15: The 15th Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics, Taipei, Taiwan. October 12-13.
Liu, Z., Xin, C., & Lin, C. J. C. (2024). Usefulness of prosodic cues in parsing: Evidence from a novel cross-modal maze task. Poster presentation at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. May 16-18.
Ding, X., Dong, X., Liu, X., Liu, Z. (2024). Navigating project-based language learning (PBLL) challenges: A two-year journey of growth and reflections. Oral presentation at ACTFL Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, Philadelphia, PA. November 22-24.
2023
Liu, Z. & Lin, C. J. C. (2023). Greater prediction error does not lead to better syntactic adaptation: Evidence from Chinese ambiguity resolution. Poster presented at the 29th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP-2023), Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. August 31-September 2.
2022
Liu, Z. & Lin, C. J. C. (2022). Adaptation effects in sentence ambiguity resolution revisited. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. March 24-26. (Virtual)
Liu, Z. & Lin, C. J. C. (2022). Cumulative structural priming in Chinese ambiguity resolution. Oral presentation at Language and Computation: Cross-lingual Perspectives, Renmin University of China–Indiana University Joint Funding Program, Renmin University of China, China, January 22. (Virtual)