Yao, Yao, Xie, Zhiguo, Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Huang, Chu-Ren. (under review). Acceptability or grammaticality: Judging Chinese sentences for language studies. In Chu-Ren Huang, Yen-Hwei Lin, & I-Hsuan Chen (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). The psycholinguistics of Chinese discourse processing. In Chris Shei (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis. Routledge/Francis & Taylor.

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Hu, Hai. (in press). Linking comprehension and production: Frequency distribution of Chinese relative clauses in the Sinica Treebank. In Chu-Ren Huang, Shukai Hsieh, & Peng Jin (eds.) Text, Speech, and Language Technology Series. Springer.

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). Chinese psycholinguistics: A typological overview. In Chu-Ren Huang, Barbara Meisterernst, & Zhuo Jing-Schmidt (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics. Routledge/Francis & Taylor.

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2016). Sentence processing: Relative clauses. In C.-T. James Huang, James Myers, & Rint Sybesma (eds.) Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Brill.  

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2013). Thematic templates and the comprehension of relative clauses. In Montserrat Sanz, Itziar Laka, & Michael K. Tanenhaus (eds.) Language Down the Garden Path: The Cognitive and Biological Basis of Linguistic Structures (pp. 141-148). Oxford Studies in Biolinguistics.Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). Distinguishing grammatical and processing explanations of syntactic acceptability. In James Myers (ed.) In Search of Grammar: Experimental and Corpus-Based Studies (pp.119-137).Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 48. Academia Sinica, Taipei.  

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2011). Processing (in)alienable possessions at the syntax-semantics interface. In Raffaella Folli, & Christiane Ulbrich (eds.) Interfaces in Linguistics: New Research Perspectives (pp.351-367).New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Bever, Thomas G. (2011). Garden path in the processing of head-final relative clauses. In Hiroko Hashimoto, Jerry Packard, & Yuki Hirose (eds.) Processing and Producing Head-final Structures (pp. 277-297). New York, NY: Springer.

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Ahrens, Kathleen. (2005). How Many Meanings Does a Word Have? Meaning Estimation in Chinese and English. In James W. Minett & William S-Y. Wang (eds.) Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence: Essays in Evolutionary Linguistics (pp. 437-464). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.

Hsu, Yuyin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (in preparation). Verb Types, Contexts and Quantifier Scope Interpretation in Mandarin. Proceedings of the 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-26) and the 22nd International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-22). University of Maryland, College Park.

 

Lin, Yu-Jung, Yang, Chung-Lin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2013). The effect of phonetic orthography on the perception of Mandarin syllables. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(5): 4072. DOI:10.1121/1.4830870. (published abstract)

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2011). Chinese and English relative clauses: Processing constraints and typological consequences. Proceedings of the 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-23).

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2010). Comprehending Chinese relative clauses in context: Thematic patterns and grammatical functions. In L. E. Clements and C.-M. L. Liu (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22) and the 18th International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-18): Volume 1 (pp. 413-428). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.  (recipient of the competitive Young Scholar Award on Interdisciplinary Research on Chinese Linguistics) [The most updated version of this study has been published in Lin (2014) Lingua.]

 

Lin, Hsin-Ni Vicky, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2010). Perceiving vowels and tones in Mandarin: The effect of literary phonetic systems on phonological Awareness. In L. E. Clements and C.-M. L. Liu (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22) and the 18th International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-18): Volume 1 (pp. 429-437). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

 

Chen, Yi-Rung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2010). The effect of sense relatedness on lexical ambiguity resolution: Evidence from Chinese verbs. Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-12) (pp. 347-366). Taipei: Academia Sinica.

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Bever, Thomas G. (2006). Subject Preference in the Processing of Relative Clauses in Chinese. In Donald Baumer, David Montero, and Michael Scanlon (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 254-260). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [ISBN 1-57473-415-6]

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Fong, Sandiway, & Bever, Thomas G. (2005). “Constructing Filler-Gap Dependencies in Chinese Possessor Relative Clauses.” Proceedings of the 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation. Taipei: Academia Sinica. (recipient of the competitive Young Scholar Award).

 

Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2004). “Aspect is Result: Mandarin Resultative Constructions and Aspect Incorporation.” In Benjamin V. Tucker (ed.), Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 2003 (pp. 437-464). Fresno: California State University Press.

Conference Presentations (refereed)

1. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Gao, Feier, & Lyu, Siqi. (2019). Processing phonological alternations at the morphosyntactic interface. Poster presented at the International Brain and Syntax Think Tank, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL., October 11-12, 2019.
2. Hsu, Yuyin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). Lexical effects on processing Chinese doubly quantified sentences. Psycholinguistics in Iceland – Parsing and Prediction (PIPP). June 19-21, 2019.
3. Lin, Yu-Jung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). Orthographic influences on syllable structure perception.Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Midwest Cognitive Science Conference, Ohio State University, May 24-26, 2019.
4. Gao, Feier, Lyu, Siqi, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). Tonal processing in Mandarin reduplication: Morphological and lexical effects. Poster presented at Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2019 (HISPhonCog 2019), Hanyang University, Seoul, May 24-25, 2019.
5. Lyu, Siqi, Tu, Jung-Yueh, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). Topicalization modulates the processing of a new topic in Chinese concession: An eye-tracking study. The 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 29-31, 2019.
6. Lyu, Siqi, Tu, Jung-Yueh, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2019). Plausibility in Chinese concession and causality: Evidence from self-paced reading and eye-tracking. The 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 29-31, 2019.

7. Lin, Yu-Jung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2018). Representing Chinese syllables. Poster presented at Phonfest 2018, Indiana University Bloomington, June 2, 2018.

8. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Hu, Hai. (2018). Syntactic complexity as a measure of linguistic authenticity in Modern Chinese. Paper presented at the Joint meeting of the 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-26) & the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20), University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 4-6, 2018.

9. Lin, Yu-Jung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2018). The effect of phonetic orthography on vowel detection in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the Joint meeting of the 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-26) & the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20), University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 4-6, 2018.

10. Lyu, Siqi, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2018). Plausibility and topichood in processing Chinese Concessives. Paper presented at the Joint meeting of the 26th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-26) & the 20th International Conference on Chinese Language and Culture (ICCLC-20), University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 4-6, 2018.

11. Zhang, Yiwen, Hu, Hai, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2018). Nouns and verbs behave differently as fillers: Expectation and interference in constructing long-distance dependencies. The 31st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of California, Davis CA, March 15-17, 2018.

12. Zhang, Yiwen, Hu, Hai, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2018). Expectations in reading Chinese verbs with ambiguous complement structures. Paper to be presented at the 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-30), Ohio State University, Columbus OH, March 9-11, 2018.

13. Zhang, Yiwen, Hu, Hai, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2017). Processing verbs with ambiguous complement structures. Poster to be presented at the Workshop on East Asian Psycholinguistics: Recent developments, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, October 15, 2017.

14. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2017). Head-modifier relations in Europeanized Chinese: Linguistic authenticity and sentence processing. Paper presented at the 29th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-29), Rutgers University, June 16-18, 2017.

15. Lyu, Siqi, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2017). Concession or contrast: A corpus-based study of suiran 虽然 (‘although’) in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 29th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-29), Rutgers University, June 16-18, 2017.

16. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2016). Demystifying westernized Chinese: Nominalization and its cognitive and pragmatic consequences. Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, November 4-6, 2016.

17. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2016). Typological and processing origins of aesthetic prescriptivism in language. Talk presented at the 8th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL-8), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, August 8-10, 2016. [invited talk]

18. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2016). Restrictiveness in Chinese relative clauses: A comparison of corpus and experimental data. Poster presented at the Corpus Linguistics Fest 2016, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, June 6-10, 2016.

19. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2016). Knowing what you hear: The influence of phonetic orthography on perceiving Standard Chinese syllables. Paper presented at the Midwest Speech and Language Days (MSLD) and the Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium (MCLC), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, May 13-14, 2016.

20. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2015). Focusing on contrast sets: Motivating Mandarin Chinese restrictive relative clauses in comprehension and production. Paper presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, March 19-21, 2015. [abstract] [talk slides]
21. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2015). Working memory and syntactic priming in the comprehension of head-final structures. Poster presented at the 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, March 19-21, 2015. [abstract] [poster]
22. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2014). Pinyin, Zhuyin, and the perception of Mandarin vowels. Paper presented at the First Chinese Language Teacher Association (CLTA) International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching and Learning, Indiana University Bloomington. October 24-26, 2014.
23. Lin, Yu-Jung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2014). The effect of phonetic orthography on vowel detection in Mandarin. Poster presented at the IU College of Arts & Sciences Department of Linguistics 4th Annual Alumni Weekend, Indiana University Bloomington. October 10-11, 2014. [non-refereed project report]
24. Hsu, Yuyin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2014). Verb types, contexts and quantifier scope interpretation in Mandarin. Paper presented at the Joint 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-26) & the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-22), University of Maryland, May 2-4, 2014.
25. Chang, Paul, Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Ahrens, Kathleen. (2014). When frequent senses are not activated: Processing of metaphorical polysemy using a cross-modal lexical priming task. Paper presented at the 7th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 2014), National Taiwan University, May 3-4, 2014.
26. Harding, Jessica, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2014). Attuning to cohesion: English count-syntax, the Mandarin general classifier ge, and wholeness. Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, March 13-15, 2014.
27. Ning, Li-Hsin, Christiansen, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2014). Processing resumptives in Mandarin relative clauses: An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, March 13-15, 2014.
28. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Jaeger, Lena. (2014). Reading resultative verb compounds in Chinese sentences: An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the 2nd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium (EAPC2). University of Chicago. March 8, 2014.
29. Ning, Li-Hsin, Christianson, Kiel, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2014). Eye-tracking evidence for the role of linear distance and structural distance in processing resumptives in Mandarin relative clauses. Poster presented at the 2nd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium (EAPC2). University of Chicago. March 8, 2014.
30. Jaeger, Lena, Chen, Zhong, Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Li, Qiang, & Vasishth, Shravan. (2014). The subject-relative advantage in Chinese: Evidence for expectation-based processing. Poster presented at the 2nd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium (EAPC2). University of Chicago. March 8, 2014.
31. Lin, Yu-Jung, Yang, Chung-Lin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2013). Syllable perception and the effect of phonetic orthography in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the 25th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-25), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 21-23, 2013.
32. Lin, Yu-Jung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2013). Perception of Mandarin tones and vowels in Zhuyin users. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 21) at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, June 7-9, 2013.
33. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2013). Effects of syntactic complexity and animacy on the initiation times for head-final relative clauses. Poster presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC, March 21-23, 2013.
34. Jaeger, Lena, Vasishth, Shravan, Chen, Zhong, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2013). Eyetracking evidence for the subject relative advantage in Mandarin. Poster presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC, March 21-23, 2013.
35. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). Asymmetries in the comprehension and production of Chinese relative clauses. Invited talk given at East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium at Ohio State University, Columbus OH, October 13, 2012. (invited talk)
36. Dabney, Nicole, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). Perception of discourse particle use and speaker identity in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium at Ohio State University, Columbus OH, October 13, 2012.
37. Harding, Jessica, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). The effect of cohesion violations on syntactic individuation. Poster presented at East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium at Ohio State University, Columbus OH, October 13, 2012.
38. Lin, Yu-Jung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). The effect of Mandarin transcription system on phonological awareness. Poster presented at East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium at Ohio State University, Columbus OH, October 13, 2012.
39. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). Restrictiveness and information status of Chinese relative clauses: Evidence from discourse comprehension. Paper presented at Pragmatics Festival at Indiana University, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 19-21, 2012.
40. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2012). Typological perspectives on relative clause processing: Thematic mapping, case markedness, filler-gap integrations, and their relative timing. Poster presented at the Workshop on the Timing of Grammar: Experimental and Theoretical Considerations in Generative Linguistics in the Old World (Glow 35). University of Potsdam, March 27-31, 2012.
41. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2011). Chinese and English relative clauses: Processing constraints and typological consequences. Paper presented at the 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-23), University of Oregon, Eugene, June 17-19, 2011.
42. Lai, Yu-Da, Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Chen, Chun-Yin Doris. (2011). The timing of syntactic commitment during L2 processing: Evidence from eye movement in reading English relative clauses. Poster presented at the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford University, March 24-26, 2011.
43. Lai, Yu-Da, Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Chen, Chun-Yin Doris. (2010). The roles of animacy and probability in l2 processing: Implications for l2 parsing models. Paper presented at The VI International Conference on Language Acquisition, University of Barcelona, A.E.A.L. (Asociación para el Estudio de la Adquisición del Lenguaje), Spain, September 8-10, 2010.
44. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2010). Down the head-final garden path: Understanding the processing asymmetries of head-final relative clauses. Talk given at Understanding Language: Forty Years Down the Garden Path, Summer Course at the the University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian-Donostia, Basque Country, Spain, June 28-July 1, 2010. (invited lecture)
45. Chen, Yi-Rung, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2010). The effect of sense relatedness on lexical ambiguity resolution: Evidence from Chinese verbs. The 12th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL-12), Academia Sinica, Taipei, June 19-21, 2010.
46. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2010). Comprehending Chinese relative clauses in context: Thematic patterns and grammatical functions. Paper presented at the Joint 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22) & the 18th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-18), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 20-22, 2010. [awarded the best paper for interdisciplinary studies on Chinese Linguistics from IACL]
47. Lin, Hsin-Ni Vicky, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2010). Perceiving vowels and tones in Mandarin: The effect of literary phonetic systems on phonological Awareness. Paper presented at the Joint 22th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22) & the 18th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-18), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 20-22, 2010.
48. Chang, Paul, Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Ahrens, Kathleen. (2009). Between corpus and cognition: Can frequent metaphorical senses be salient? Paper presented at the Third Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition (CLDC-3), National Taiwan University, Taipei, May 2-3, 2009.
49. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2009). Chinese relative clauses in corpus: Processing considerations. Paper presented at the 2009 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (ALLT), National Taiwan University of Science & Technology (NTUST), Taipei, April 16-18, 2009.
50. Li, Larry, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2009). Mass-count cognition in a classifier language: Evidence from sentence reading and quantity judgments. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UC Davis, March 26–28, 2009.
51. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2009). The nature of dependency and argument-adjunct distinctions in processing. Paper presented at the 6th Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, January 10-11, 2009. (invited talk)
52. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2008). The syntax of possessive arguments in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the Workshop on Argument Realization of the 18th International Congress of Linguistics (ICL18), Korea University, Seoul, Korea, July 21-26, 2008.
53. Ning, Li-Hsin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2008). Resumptives in Mandarin: Syntactic versus processing accounts. Paper presented at the Syntax Session of the 18th International Congress of Linguistics (ICL18), Korea University, Seoul, Korea, July 21-26, 2008.
54. Li, Larry, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2008). Do Chinese nouns count? Syntax, semantics, and classifier cognition. Paper presented at the 11th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics (IsCLL11), Hsin-Chu, National Chiao-Tung University, May 23-25, 2008.
55. Ning, Li-Hsin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2007). Grammatical and processing motivations for resumptives in Mandarin relative clauses. Poster presented at the 12th International Conference on the Processing of East Asia Related Languages (PEARL2007), National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, December 28-29, 2007.
56. Lai, Yu-Da, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2007). Examining the role of interlexical spacing in Chinese sentence processing. Poster presented at the 12th International Conference on the Processing of East Asia Related Languages (PEARL2007), National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, December 28-29, 2007.
57. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2007). The psychological reality of head-final relative clauses. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Relative Clauses, Academia Sinica, Taipei, November 2-3, 2007. (invited talk)
58. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Bever, Thomas G. (2007). Processing head-final relative clauses without garden paths. Paper presented at the International Conference on Processing Head-Final Structures, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, September 21-22, 2007.
59. Ning, Li-Hsin, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2007). What are resumptives good for? Poster presented at the International Conference on Processing Head-Final Structures, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, September 21-22, 2007.
60. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Bever, Thomas G. (2007). Processing doubly-embedded head-final relative clauses. Poster presented at Interdisciplinary Approaches to Relative Clauses (REL07), Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, September 13-15, 2007.
61. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2007). Processing (in)alienable possessions at the syntax-semantics interface. Paper presented at the Workshop On Linguistic Interfaces (OnLI), University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, June 1-3, 2007.
62. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Bever, Thomas G. (2007). Syntactic anomaly beyond semantic rescue. Paper presented at the First Conference on Language, Discourse and Cognition (CLDC-1), National Taiwan University, Taipei, May 18-19, 2007.
63. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2007). Grammaticality and parsability in sentence processing. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Grammar and Evidence, National Chung-Cheng University, Chiayi, April 13-15, 2007. (invited talk)
64. Fong, Sandiway, Hirose, Yuki, & Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2006). On preferring displacement: Evidence from possessive relative clauses. Paper presented at the Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics, Moscow State University, Russia, May 22–24, 2006.
65. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Bever, Thomas G. (2006). A universal account of relative-clause processing in typologically diverse languages. Paper presented at the Joint IACL14 and the 10th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics Conference (IsCLL10), (in the special session on Language Diversity), Taipei: Academia Sinica, May 25–29, 2006.
66. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2006). Processing thematic relations between nouns. Paper presented at the 7th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, Hsin-Chu: National Chiao Tung University, May 22–23, 2006.
67. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Bever, Thomas G. (2006). Subject preference in the processing of relative clauses in Chinese. Paper presented at the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 25), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, April 28–30, 2006.
68. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, and Bever, Thomas G. (2006). Chinese is no exception: Universal subject preference of relative clause processing. Paper presented at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York City, NY, March 23–25, 2006.
69. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Fong, Sandiway, and Bever, Thomas G. (2006). Efficiency of processing nonlocal dependencies in Chinese possessor relative clauses. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Albuquerque NM, January 5–8, 2006.
70. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Fong, Sandiway, and Bever, Thomas G. (2005). Local dependencies aren’t necessarily easier: Processing possessor relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Processing Chinese and Other East Asian Languages (PCOEAL 2005), Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 9–11, 2005.
71. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Fong, Sandiway, and Bever, Thomas G. (2005). Constructing filler-gap dependencies in Chinese possessor relative clauses. Paper presented at the 19th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC19), Academia Sinica, Taipei, December 1–3, 2005. (Recipient of the International Young Scholar Award)
72. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Fong, Sandiway, and Bever, Thomas G. (2005). Left-edge advantage of gap searching in Chinese possessor relativization. Paper presented at the 2005 Niagara Linguistic Society Conference (NLS-2005), University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, September 30–October 2, 2005.
73. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, Fong, Sandiway, and Bever, Thomas G. (2005). Left-edge advantage of gap searching in Chinese possessor relativization. Poster presented at the 2005 Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP-2005), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, September 5–7, 2005.
74. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, and Fong, Sandiway. (2005). Explaining filler-gap facts in Chinese possessor relativization. Poster presented at the Third Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-3), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July 22–23, 2005.
75. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2004). Beyond output correspondence: Tone sandhi in Southern Min reduplication. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2004 Annual Meeting, Boston, January 8–11, 2004.
76. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2003). Aspect and result: Chinese resultative constructions and aspect incorporation. Paper presented at the West Coast Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), The University of Arizona, Tucson, September 26–28, 2003.
77. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2003). Event integration in Mandarin compound verbs. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 2003 Annual Meeting, Atlanta GA, January 2–5, 2003.
78. Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2002). Nasal endings of Taiwan Mandarin: A production/perception perspective on language change. Paper presented at the 35th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, November 7–9, 2002.

 Invited Talks