The PhD/MA Program in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

Journal Publications

• Yao-Ying Lai*;Huei-ling Lai, 2026.04, 'Real-time processing of various conceptual relations in copular sentences, ' Metaphor and Symbol, Vol.41, No.2, pp.149-174.(AHCI, SSCI)(*為通訊作者)
• Xiang-Ru Chen;Yao-Ying Lai*, 2026.02, 'Effects of Context and Individual Socio-cognitive Variability on Negator Use, ' Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, pp.1-22.(SSCI)(*為通訊作者)
• Yao-Ying Lai*, 2024.11, 'Contextual modulation of the neural network underlying the processing of compositional nontransparent meaning, ' Journal of Neurolinguistics, Vol.72, pp.101202.(SSCI, SCIE)(*為通訊作者)
• Maria M. Piñango*;Yao-Ying Lai;Ashwini Deo;Emily Foster-Hanson;Cheryl Lacadie;Todd Constable, 2024.07, 'Comprehension of English for-adverbials: the Nature of Lexical Meanings and the Neurocognitive Architecture of Language, ' Topics in Cognitive Science, pp.1-25.(SSCI)(*為通訊作者)
• Yao-Ying Lai*;Hiromu Sakai;Michiru Makuuchi, 2023.09, 'Neural underpinnings of processing combinatorial unstated meaning and the influence of individual cognitive style, ' Cerebral Cortex, Vol.33, No.18, pp.10013-10027.(SCI)(*為通訊作者)
• Yao-Ying Lai*;Huei-ling Lai, 2023.02, 'Impact of social cognitive propensity on the processing of nontransparent sentential meaning, ' Journal of Pragmatics, Vol.205, pp.33-62.(AHCI, SSCI)(*為通訊作者)
• Yao-Ying Lai*;David Braze;Maria Mercedes Piñango, 2023.02, 'The time-course of contextual modulation for underspecified meaning: an eye-movement study, ' Mental Lexicon, pp.1-53.(MLA, LLBA, SCOPUS, ESCI, IBR/IBZ)(*為通訊作者)
• 賴瑶鍈*, 2020.12, '語言處理與語言學習－心理／神經語言學觀點, ' 華文世界, No.126, pp.73-84.(*為通訊作者)
• Yao-Ying Lai*;Cheryl Lacadie;Ashwini Deo;Maria Mercedes Piñango, 2020.11, 'Subject animacy and underspecified meaning: The conceptual and cortical underpinnings, ' Journal of Neurolinguistics, No.56, pp.1-20.(SSCI, SCIE)(*為通訊作者)
• Yao-Ying Lai*;Maria Mercedes Piñango, 2019.11, 'Searching for specific sentence meaning in context: the conceptual relation between participants, ' Language and Cognition, Vol.11, No.4, pp.582-620.(AHCI, SSCI)(*為通訊作者)

Presentation/Proceedings

• Yao-Ying Lai*;Maria Piñango;Hiromu Sakai;Michiru Makuuchi, 2025.09, 'Task-dependent neural modulation during sentential meaning computation, ' Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), University of Charles.(*為通訊作者)
• Yao-Ying Lai*;Michiru Makuuchi, 2025.06, 'Meaning nontransparency and perspective engagement affect sentence comprehension, ' The 19th International Pragmatics Conference, International Pragmatics Association.(*為通訊作者)
• Yao-Ying Lai*;Michiru Makuuchi;Maria Mercedes Piñango;Hiromu Sakai, 2019.07, 'Comprehension of underspecified iterative meaning in Japanese, ' IEICE Technical Report, MAPLL-TCP-TL, pp.101-106.(*為通訊作者)
• Yao-Ying Lai*;David Braze;Maria Mercedes Piñango, 2017.07, 'Context and semantic composition of multiple dimension representations in real-time comprehension, ' Technical Report of Language and Thought, MAPLL-TCP, pp.7-11.(*為通訊作者)
• Yao-Ying Lai*;Maria Mercedes Piñango, 2017.07, 'Comprehending underspecified meaning: resolving ambiguity by contextual and conceptual search, ' Conference handbook of The 19th Annual International conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences, Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS), pp.134-137.(*為通訊作者)
• Yao-Ying Lai*;Cheryl Lacadie;Todd Constable;Ashwini Deo;Maria Mercedes Piñango, 2016.02, 'The structured individual hypothesis for processing aspectual verbs, ' Proceedings of Berkeley Linguistics Society 42, UC Berkeley, pp.135-152.(*為通訊作者)
• Yao-Ying Lai*;Cheryl Lacadie;Todd Constable;Ashwini Deo;Maria Mercedes Piñango, 2014.07, 'Complement coercion as the processing of aspectual verbs: evidence from self-paced reading and fMRI, ' Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Meeting 2014, Cognitive Science Society, pp.2525-30.(*為通訊作者)

Book Chapters

• Huei-ling Lai*;Yao-Ying Lai, 2022.12, 'Iterative meaning in Mandarin Chinese: Linguistic factors and its processing, ' Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford University Press, pp.1-42.(*為通訊作者)
• Yao-Ying Lai*;Cheryl Lacadie;Todd Constable;Ashwini Deo;Maria Mercedes Piñango, 2017.09, 'Complement Coercion as the Processing of Aspectual Verbs: Evidence from Self-paced Reading and fMRI, ' Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology. Language, Cognition, and Mind, vol 3., Springer, Cham, pp.191-222.(*為通訊作者)

Current Position

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• 副教授
• 語言學研究所
• 2025-02 ~

• Title
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• 助理教授
• 語言學研究所
• 2020-02 ~ 2025-02

Professional Experience

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• 2018-04 ~ 2020-01

• Institution/Organization/Association
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• Department/Division
• Key Responsibilities
• Duration

• 2018-01 ~ 2020-01