Arunachalam, S., & Huang, Y. (2024). Investigating language acquisition in communication sciences and disorders: A case for language diversity. To appear in Language Acquisition.
Domanski, S., Rudinger, R., Carpuat, M., Shafto, P., & Huang, Y. (2024). Assessing common ground via language-based cultural consensus in humans and large language models. To appear in the Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Huang, Y., Byrd, A., Asmah, R., & Domanski, S. (2023). Evaluating "meaningful differences" in learning and communication across SES backgrounds. Annual Review of Linguistics, 9.
Byrd, A., Huang, Y., & Edwards, J. (2023). The impact of dialect differences on spoken language comprehension. Applied Psycholinguistics, 44, 610-633.
Oppenheimer, K., Lee, J., Huang, Y., & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2023). Decontextualized utterances contain more typical and stuttering-like disfluencies in preschoolers who do and do not stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66, 2656-2669.
Arunachalam, S., Deen, K.U., Huang, Y.T., Lidz, J., Miller, K., Ota, M., & Szendroi, K. (2022). Some concrete steps for journal editorial boards: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022). First Language, 01427237221096083.
Martin, I.A., Goupell, M.J., & Huang, Y.T. (2022). Children’s syntactic parsing and sentence comprehension with a degraded auditory signal. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151(2), 699-711.
Ovans, Z., & Huang, Y. (2021). Who “it” is influences what “it” does: Discourse effects on children's syntactic parsing. Cognitive Science, 46, e13076.
Blomquist, C., Newman, R.S., Huang, Y.T., & Edwards, J. (2021). Children With Cochlear Implants Use Semantic Prediction to Facilitate Spoken Word Recognition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64, 1636-1649.
Hartshorne, J.K., Huang, Y.T., Paredes, P.M.L., Oppenheimer, K., Robbins, P.T., & Velasco, M.D. (2021). Screen time as an index of family distress. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 2, 100023.
Ovans, Z., Huang, Y., & Feldman, N. (2020). The (Un)Surprising Kindergarten Path. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, Canada.
Huang, Y., Bounds, M., & Suzuki, Y. (2019). Learning the causative alternation in English and Japanese speakers: Statistical and non-statistical effects. Language Learning and Development, 4, 338-349.
Huang, Y. & Hollister, E. (2019). Developmental parsing and linguistic knowledge: Reexamining the role of cognitive control in the kindergarten path effect. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 184, 210-219.
Huang, Y. & Arnold, J. E. (2018). Talking about SOME and ALL: What determines the usage of quantity-denoting expressions?. Discourse Processes, 55, 686-703.
Huang, Y. (2018). Real-time coordination of visual and linguistic processes in novice readers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 173, 388-396.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (2018). Some inferences still take time: Prosody, predictability, and the speed of scalar implicatures. Cognitive Psychology, 102, 105-126.
Kowalski, A. & Huang, Y. (2017). Predicting and priming thematic roles: Flexible use of verbal and structural cues during relative clause comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43, 1341-1351.
Huang, Y., Catalano, A., Newman, R., & Goupell, M. (2017). Using prosody to infer discourse prominence in cochlear-implant users and normal-hearing listeners. Cognition, 166, 184-200.
Huang, Y., Leech, K. & Rowe, M. R. (2017). Exploring socioeconomic differences in syntactic development through the lens of real-time processing. Cognition, 159, 61-75.
Leech, K., Rowe, M., & Huang, Y. (2016). Variations in the recruitment of syntactic knowledge contribute to SES differences in syntactic development. Journal of Child Language, 44, 995-1009.
Huang, Y. & Arnold, A. (2016). Word learning in linguistic context: Processing and memory effects. Cognition, 157, 71-87.
Zuhurudeen, F. & Huang, Y. (2016). Effects of statistical learning on the acquisition of grammatical categories through Qur'anic memorization: A natural experiment. Cognition, 148, 79-84. [Featured on Mental Floss]
Snedeker, J. & Huang, Y. (2015). Sentence processing. The Handbook of Child Language. Editors, L. Naigles, E. L. Bavin. Second edition. (pp. 409-437). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Huang, Y., Hopfinger, J., & Gordon, P. (2014). Distinguishing word- versus discourse-level processing using event-related potentials. Memory and Cognition, 42, 275-291.
Huang, Y., Zheng, X., Meng, X., & Snedeker, J. (2013). Assignment of grammatical roles in the online processing of Mandarin passive sentences. Journal of Memory and Language, 69, 589-606.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (2013). The use of referential context in children’s on-line interpretation of scalar adjectives. Developmental Psychology, 49, 1090-1102.
Huang, Y., Spelke, E., & Snedeker, J. (2013). What exactly do number words mean? Language Learning and Development, 9, 105-12. [Winner of the 2013 Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award]
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (2011). ‘Logic & Conversation’ revisited: Evidence for a division between semantic and pragmatic content in real time language comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26, 1161-1172.
Huang, Y. & Gordon, P. (2011). Distinguishing the time-course of lexical and discourse processes through context, coreference, and quantified expressions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 966-978.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (2011). Cascading activation across levels of representation in children’s lexical processing. Journal of Child Language, 38, 644-661.
Huang, Y. & Pinker, S. (2010). Lexical semantics and irregular inflection. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 1411-1461.
Huang, Y., Spelke, E., & Snedeker, J. (2010). When is ‘four’ far more than ‘three’? Children’s generalization of newly acquired number words. Psychological Science, 21, 600-606.
Panizza D., Chierchia, G., Huang, Y., & Snedeker, J. (2009). Relevance of polarity for the online interpretation of scalar terms. Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 19, 360-378.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (2009). Semantic meaning and pragmatic interpretation in five-year-olds: Evidence from real time spoken language comprehension. Developmental Psychology, 45, 1723-1739.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (2009). On-line interpretation of scalar quantifiers: Insight into the semantics-pragmatics interface. Cognitive Psychology, 58, 376-415.
Booth, A., Waxman, S., & Huang, Y. (2005). Conceptual knowledge permeates word learning in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 41, 491-505.
McAdams, D., Anyidoho, N., Brown, C., Huang, Y., Kaplan, B., & Machado, M. (2004). Traits and stories: Links between dispositional and narrative features of personality. Journal of Personality, 72, 761-784.
Erskine, M. E., Huang, Y., & Edwards, J. E. (September, 2023). Dialect variation impacts spoken language processing in a variety of linguistic and social contexts. Boston University Symposium on Structural Racism and Equity in Child Development. Boston, MA.
Erskine, M. E., Huang, Y., & Edwards, J. E. (June, 2023). Children's comprehension of unfamiliar dialects is contingent on the speaker's dialect use and race. Symposium of Research on Child Language Development. Madison, WI.
Phillips, C., Bolger, D., Fagan, D. S., Gentile, D., Huang, Y., Kirwan, B., & McGinnis, S. (April, 2023). What everyone wants: Aligning state, federal, and university interests in language. Advancing National Priorities in Language, Culture, and Technology: A University-Government Forum.
Ovans, Z., Novick, J., & Huang, Y. (November, 2020). Engaging cognitive control helps children ignore unreliable sentence processing cues. Paper presented at the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Blomquist, C., Newman, R., Huang, Y., & Edwards, J. (November, 2020). Children with cochlear implants use semantic prediction to facilitate spoken word recognition. Paper presented at the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Blomquist, C., Newman, R., Huang, Y., & Edwards, J. (August, 2020). Semantic prediction in sentence processing by children with cochlear implants. Paper presented at the Perspectives on Language in Children with Hearing Loss Workshop. Macquarie University. Sydney, Australia.
Ovans, Z., Oppenheimer, K., & Huang, Y. (March, 2019). Online parsing strategies are influenced by verb-specific and language-general biases. Paper presented at the 32nd annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boulder, CO.
Frederick, K. & Huang, Y. (March, 2019). Sentence-planning strategies in adults who stutter: An eye-tracking study. Paper presented at the 32nd annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boulder, CO.
Huang, Y., Bounds, M., & Suzuki, Y. (March, 2018). Verb learning in English and Japanese: Statistical and non-statistical effects. Paper presented at the 31st annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, CA.
Adler, R., Novick, J., & Huang, Y. (March, 2018). Context, conflict, and the time course of interpreting irony. Paper presented at the 31st annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, CA.
Hollister, E. & Huang, Y. (November, 2016). Understanding the "word gap": Cognitive control and processing effects. Paper presented at the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Huang, Y., Hsu, N., Gerard, J., Kowalski, A., & Novick, J. (November, 2016). Cognitive-control effects on the kindergarten path: Separating correlation from causation. Paper presented at the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Huang, Y., Abadie, L., Arnold, A., & Hollister, E. (March, 2016). Novelty of discourse referents promotes heuristics in children's syntactic processing. Paper presented at the 29th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Gainesville, FL.
Adler, R., Novick, J., & Huang, Y. (January, 2016). The time course of verbal irony comprehension and context integration. Paper presented at the Trends in Experimental Pragmatics Workshop. Berlin, Germany.
Huang, Y., Catalano, A., Newman, R., & Goupell, M. (March, 2015). Using prosody to infer discourse status in normal-hearing and cochlear-implant listeners. Paper presented at the 28th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, CA.
Zuhurudeen, M., & Huang, Y. (November, 2013). Effects of statistical learning on the acquisition of grammatical categories through Qur'anic memorization: A natural experiment. Paper presented at the 38th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Huang, Y., & Kowalski, A. (April, 2013). Processing and prediction in pragmatic inferencing. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Seattle, WA.
Huang, Y., Zheng, X., Meng, X., & Snedeker, J. (March, 2011). Eat or be eaten: Incremental assignment of grammatical roles in Mandarin passive sentences. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Montreal, Canada.
Huang, Y., Khan, M., Wang, S., Geojo, A., & Snedeker, J. (March, 2011). From sounds to concepts and back again: Cascaded processing during word and object recognition. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Montreal, Canada.
Huang, Y., Zheng, X., Meng, X., & Snedeker, J. (March, 2010). Assignment of grammatical roles in the online processing of Mandarin passive sentences. Paper presented at the 23rd annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY.
Huang, Y., Zheng, X., Meng, X., & Snedeker, J. (November, 2009). Assignment of grammatical roles in the online processing of Mandarin passive sentences. Paper presented at the 33rd Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (April, 2009). Some questions are still unresolved: Prosody, predictability, and speed of scalar implicatures. Paper presented at the 2009 Experimental Pragmatics Conference. Lyon, France.
Panizza, D., Chierchia, G., Huang, Y., & Snedeker, J. (April, 2009). Relevance of polarity for the on line interpretation of numerals and determiners. Paper presented at the 19th annual Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) conference. Columbus, OH.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (November, 2008). The use of referential contrast in children’s on-line interpretation of scalar adjectives. Paper presented at the 32nd Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (August, 2008). Mastering the intricacies of adjective meaning: Children acquire more than a word-to-property mapping. Paper presented at the 11th meeting of the International Congress for the Study of Child Language. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (November, 2007). Cascading activation across levels of representation in children’s lexical processing. Paper presented at the 31st Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (April, 2007). ‘Some’ interpretations are easier: Exploring semantic and pragmatic meanings through online processing and development. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (November, 2006). Children’s understanding of ‘some’: Exploring comprehension of semantic and pragmatic interpretation. Paper presented at the 30th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (July, 2006). On-line interpretation of scalar quantifiers: Insight into the semantics-pragmatics interface. Paper presented at the 28th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, Canada.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (March, 2006). On-line interpretation of scalar quantifiers: Insight into the semanticspragmatics interface. Paper presented at the 19th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY.
Huang, Y., Snedeker, J., & Spelke, E. (August, 2005). Two dogs and two barks: How abstract are children’s number word? Paper presented at the 10th meeting of the International Congress for the Study of Child Language. Berlin, Germany.
Huang, Y. & Pinker, S. (July, 2005). Semantic, phonological, and lexical influences on regular and irregular inflection. Paper presented at the 27th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Stresa, Italy.
Snedeker, J., Huang, Y., & Spelke, E. (April, 2005). Learning the meaning of ‘two’: Disentangling semantics and pragmatics. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Atlanta, GA.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (April, 2005). What exactly do numbers mean? Paper presented at the 2005 Experimental Pragmatics Conference. Cambridge, UK.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (January, 2005). What exactly do numbers mean? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Oakland, CA.
Booth, A., Waxman, S., Huang, Y. & Hackenberg, J. (April, 2003). Evidence for the influence of conceptual knowledge on early word learning. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Tampa, FL.
Domanski, S., & Huang, Y. (July, 2024). Using spatial context to facilitate inference for word learning. Poster presented at the 2024 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdamm, Netherlands.
Erskine, M., Edwards, J., & Huang, Y. (July, 2024). Using scalar implicatures to investigate pragmatic language comprehension among AAE and GAE-speaking children. Poster presented at the 16th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language. Prague, Czech Republic.
Domanski, S., Rudinger, R., Carpuat, M., Shafto, P., & Huang, Y. (May, 2024). Assessing common ground via language-based cultural consensus in humans and LLMs. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Ann Arbor, MI.
Hall, S., Byrd, A., & Huang, Y. (April, 2024). Children's perspectives on African-American English (AAE): The roles of their parents. Poster presented at the annual conference of the National Black Association of Speech-Language and Hearing (NBASLH). Raleigh, NC.
Erskine, M. E., Edwards, J., & Huang, Y. (March, 2024). Using scalar implicatures to investigate pragmatic language comprehension among AAE and GAE-speaking children. Poster presented at 2024 Cognitive Development Society. Pasadena, CA.
Ortiz, J., Nolasco, J., & Huang, Y. (November, 2023). Translanguaging in language sample analysis for bilingual Spanish-English speakers. Poster presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention. Boston, MA.
Ovans, Z., Ayala, A., Asmah, R., Hu, A., Montoute, M., Owen Van Horne, A., Qi, Z., Morini, G., & Huang, Y. (March, 2023). The feasibility of online (virtual-world) eye-tracking with young children. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Huamn Sentence Processing. Pittsburgh, PA.
Oppenheimer, K., Weatherford, S., Huang, Y., & Owen Van Horne, A. (March, 2023). Online sentence comprehension is related to language knowledge in children with DLD. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Pittsburg, PA.
Byrd, A., Huang, Y., & Edwards, J. (November, 2022). Examining how African American English- and Mainstream American English-speaking children process subject-verb agreement in sentences. Poster presented at the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Oppenheimer, K., Edwards, J., & Huang, Y. (November, 2022). Individual differences in linguistic knowledge affect comprehension strategies in 5-year-olds. Poster presented at the 47th Boston University Conference of Language Development. Boston, MA.
Asmah, R., Domanski, S., Oppenheimer, K., & Huang, Y. (November, 2022). Verb-specific biases are shaped by developmental experience with verb-general tendencies. Poster presented at the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Byrd, A., Huang, Y., & Edwards, J. (June, 2022). Dialect effects on spoken language comprehension in children who speak African American English. Poster presented at Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders. Madison, WI.
Ovans, Z., Huang, Y., & Novick, J. (March, 2022). Virtual-World eye-tracking: Replicating sentence processing effects remotely. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Santa Cruz, CA.
Byrd, A., Maher, Z., Huang, Y., & Edwards, J. (January, 2022). Development and evaluation of a dialect experience questionnaire. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Washington, D.C.
Lee, J., Huang, Y., Garbarino, J.*, Bernstein Ratner, N., & Oppenheimer, K.* (November, 2021). The role of decontextualized language in predicting disfluency in children who stutter. Poster presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention. Washington, D.C. (winner of ASHA’s PROGENY award)
Blomquist, C., Newman, R., Huang, Y., & Edwards, J. (July, 2021). Children with cochlear implants use semantic prediction to facilitate spoken word recognition. Poster presented at Conference on Implantable Auditory Prosthesis. Lake Tahoe, NV.
Lee, J., Huang, Y., Garbarino, J.*, Bernstein Ratner, N., & Oppenheimer, K.* (July, 2021). The role of decontextualized language in predicting disfluency in children who stutter. Poster presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Schools Connect (Virtual).
Blomquist, C., Newman, R., Huang, Y., & Edwards, J. (June, 2021). Children with cochlear implants use semantic prediction less than children with normal hearing, even when matched for vocabulary. Poster presented at Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders. Madison, WI.
Ovans, Z., Novick, J., & Huang, Y. (March, 2021). Virtual-world eye-tracking: The efficacy of replicating word processing effects remotely. Poster presented at the 34th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Philadelphia, PA.
Ovans, Z., Huang, Y., & Novick, J. (November, 2020). Cognitive-control engagement helps listeners use reliable cues to sentence interpretation. Poster presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Austin, TX.
Oppenheimer, K., Morini, G., Strother-Garcia, K., Huang, Y., & Owen Van Horne, A. (November, 2020). Online comprehension of passives by children with Developmental Language Disorder and typically developing age-matched peers. Poster presented at the 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Oppenheimer, K., Rowe, M., & Huang, Y. (November, 2020). SES differences in verb usage mediate form-function relations in parental speech. Poster presented at the 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Ovans, Z., Novick, J., & Huang, Y. (March, 2020). Engaging cognitive control may help children ignore unreliable cues during sentence processing. Paper presented at the 33rd annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Amherst, MA. [Virtual presentation]
Huang, Y., Oppenheimer, K., & Ovans, Z. (March, 2019). Developmental parsing across SES: Trade-offs between cue reliability and input quantity. Poster presented at the 32nd annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boulder, CO.
Ehrenhofer, L., Yatsushiro, K., Fritzsche, T., Höhle, B., Lidz, J., Phillips, C., & Huang, Y. (November, 2018). Verbs, not subjects, drive subject-as-agent misinterpretation in children’s comprehension of passives. Poster presented at the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Ovans, Z., Novick, J., & Huang, Y. (November, 2018). Better to be reliable than early: Cognitive-control effects on developmental parsing. Poster presented at the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Ovans, Z., Novick, J., & Huang, Y. (November, 2018). Rely on what’s reliable: Effects of cognitive-control engagement on children’s sentence comprehension. Poster presented at the 2018 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
Ehrenhofer, L., Yatsushiro, K., Fritzsche, T., Höhle, B., Lidz, J., Phillips, C., & Huang, Y. (March, 2018). Verbs, not subjects, drive subject-as-agent misinterpretation in children’s comprehension of passives. Poster presented at the 31st annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, CA.
Ovans, Z., Novick, J., & Huang, Y. (March, 2018). Better to be reliable than early: Cognitive-control effects on developmental parsing. Poster presented at the 31st annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, CA.
Martin, I., Goupell, M. & Huang, Y. (November, 2017). Syntactic processing and word learning with a degraded auditory signal. Poster presented at the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Adler, R., Novick, J., & Huang, Y. (March, 2016). Understanding contextual effects during the real-time comprehension of verbal irony. Poster presented at the 29th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Gainesville, FL.
Huang, Y., Bounds, M., & Suzuki, Y. (November, 2017). L1 transfer effects in L2 acquisition of the causative alternation: Asymmetric learning potential in a novel-verb paradigm. Poster presented at the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA
Kowalski, A. & Huang, Y. (June, 2017). Listeners encode multiple meanings when generating scalar inferences. Poster presented at the 2017 Experimental Pragmatics Conference. Cologne, Germany.
Ehrenhofer, L., Huang, Y., Lidz, J., & Phillips, C. (March, 2017). Word order does not influence German five-year-olds’ interpretation of passives. Poster presented at the 30th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boston, MA.
Adler, R., Novick, J., & Huang, Y. (February, 2017). Understanding the time course of context integration in verbal irony. Poster presented at the Center for the Study of Language and Information Workshop: Bridging Computational and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning. Stanford, CA.
Huang, Y., Hsu, N., Leonard, E., Gerard, J., Kowalski, A., & Novick, J. (March, 2017). Syntactic parsing with limited control: Effects on the kindergarten path. Poster presented at the 30th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Boston, MA.
Huang, Y., Gerard, J., Hsu, N., Kowalski, A., & Novick, J. (March, 2016). Cognitive-control effects on the kindergarten path: Separating correlation from causation. Poster presented at the 29th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Gainesville, FL.
Huang, Y. & Arnold, A. (March, 2016). Word learning in linguistic context: Processing and memory effects. Poster presented at the 29th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Gainesville, FL.
Huang, Y., Abadie, L., Arnold, A., & Hollister, E. (November, 2015). Novelty of discourse referents promotes heuristics in children's syntactic processing. Poster presented at the 40th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Arnold, A. & Huang, Y. (November, 2015). Word learning in linguistic context: Processing and memory effects. Poster presented at the 40th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Kowalski, A. & Huang, Y. (March, 2015). The influence of discourse information on syntactic cues to grammatical role assignment. Poster presented at the 28th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Los Angeles, CA.
Catalano, A., Huang, Y., Goupell, M., & Newman, R. (November, 2014). The use of prosody to infer discourse status in degraded speech. Poster presented at the 2014 ASHA Convention. Orlando, FL. [Winner of the top 10 posters award at ASHA]
Suzuki, Y., Huang, Y., & DeKeyser, R. (November, 2014). Comparisons of implicit knowledge in second language acquisition: An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the 39th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Huang, Y., Leech, M., & Rowe, M. (November, 2014). Understanding difficulties in children's interpretation of passives: A SES comparison. Poster presented at 39th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Borten, A. & Huang, Y. (November, 2014). Coordination of linguistic and cognitive processes during reading development. Poster presented at the 39th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Kowalski, A. & Huang, Y. (September, 2014). Working memory, inhibition, and grammatical role assignment. Poster presented at the 20th annual Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference. Edinburgh, UK.
Huang, Y. (March, 2014). Pragmatic inferencing across scales: Linguistic and extra-linguistic effects. Poster presented at the 27th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, OH.
Huang, Y., Leech, K., & Rowe, M. (March, 2014). Exploring socioeconomic differences in syntactic development through processing. Poster presented at the 27th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, OH.
Huang, Y., & Kowalski, A. (November, 2013). Baseball bats & butterflies: Context effects of on pragmatic inferencing in children. Poster presented at the 38th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Leech, K., Rowe, M., & Huang, Y. (October, 2013). Understanding SES differences in preschool children’s syntactic development: The role of vocabulary and processing efficiency. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Development Society. Memphis, TN.
Leech, K., Rowe, M., & Huang, Y. (April, 2013). From year-to-year and moment-to-moment: Examining syntactic development across two time scales. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Seattle, WA.
Huang, Y., Meng, X., & Leech, K. (March, 2013). Who did what to whom? An investigation of syntactic reanalysis in English and Mandarin. Poster presented at the 26th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbia, SC.
Huang, Y., & Kowalski, A. (March, 2013). Baseball bats & butterflies: Context effects of on pragmatic inferencing in adults and children. Poster presented at the 26th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbia, SC.
Huang, Y., Hopfinger, J., & Gordon, P. (November, 2011). Does the N400 reflect lexical access, integration, or both? Poster presented at the 2011 Neurobiology of Language Conference. Annapolis, MD.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (November, 2011). Processing and prediction in pragmatic inferencing: Understanding taskdependent effects in the generation of scalar implicatures. Poster presented at the 36th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
Huang, Y., & Arnold, J. (March, 2011). When does [HOUSE, HOUSE, HOUSE] make “all of the houses”? Poster presented at the 24th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Palo Alto, CA.
Huang, Y., Hopfinger, J., & Gordon, P. (March, 2011). Distinguishing lexical versus discourse processes using eventrelated potentials. Poster presented at the 24th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Palo Alto, CA.
Huang, Y., Hahn, N., & Snedeker, J. (March, 2010). Some inferences still take time: Prosody, predictability, and the speed of scalar implicatures. Poster presented at the 23rd annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY.
Huang, Y. & Gordon, P. (April, 2009). Distinguishing the time-course of scalar interpretation through coreference and lexical repetition. Poster presented at the 2009 Experimental Pragmatics Conference. Lyon, France.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (April, 2009). Top-down and bottom-up effects of referential context on the interpretation of adjectives. Poster presented at the 2009 Experimental Pragmatics Conference. Lyon, France.
Panizza, D., Huang, Y., Snedeker, J., & Chierchia, G. (April, 2009). Two...or more..no, two: Three stages in the online interpretation of numbers. Poster presented at the 2009 Experimental Pragmatics Conference. Lyon, France.
Huang, Y. & Gordon, P. (March, 2009). Distinguishing the time-course of scalar interpretation through coreference and lexical repetition. Poster presented at the 22nd annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, CA.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (March, 2009). Top-down and bottom-up effects of referential context on the interpretation of adjectives. Poster presented at the 22nd annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, CA.
Panizza, D., Huang, Y., Snedeker, J., & Chierchia, G. (March, 2009). Parallels and divergence in the online interpretation of numbers and quantifiers: A challenge for theories of scalar implicature. Poster presented at the 22nd annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Davis, CA.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (July, 2008). Use of referential context in children’s language processing. Poster presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, D.C.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (March, 2008). Big coins versus big plates: The use of referential contrast in children’s on-line interpretation of scalar adjectives. Poster presented at the 21st annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. Chapel Hill, NC.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (March, 2006). Bilingual spoken language comprehension: Understanding linguistic architecture within real-time processing. Poster presented at the 19th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, NY.
Huang, Y. & Snedeker, J. (March, 2006). Children’s understanding of ‘some’: Exploring real-time processing of semantic and pragmatic interpretation. Poster presented at the workshop on Online Methods in Children’s Language Processing. New York, NY.
Huang, Y., Snedeker, J., & Spelke, E. (July, 2004). What exactly do numbers mean? Poster presented at the 26th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Chicago, IL.