Zhong Chen

College of Art and Design College of Engineering Technology College of Health Sciences and Technology College of Liberal Arts College of Science Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences International Campuses Kate Gleason College of Engineering National Technical Institute for the Deaf School of Individualized Study

Zhong Chen

Associate Professor
College of Liberal Arts
Department of Modern Languages and Cultures

2023 Submissions

Journal Paper

Berent, Gerald P, et al. "Academic verb knowledge of DHH college students and their hearing peers." The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. (2023): enad053. Web. «

2021 Submissions

Journal Paper

Chen, Zhong and John Hale. "Quantifying structural and non-structural expectations in relative clause processing." Cognitive Science 45. 1 (2021): e12927. Web. «

Published Conference Proceedings

Chen, Zhong. "Bridging the gap between everyday Chinese and the communication in the STEM fields: an example of teaching “directions and locations”." Proceedings of the Penn Chinese for Professional Use Symposium. Ed. Chiang, Mien-hwa. Philadelphia, PA: n.p., 2021. Web. £

Invited Keynote/Presentation

Chen, Zhong. "Modeling sentence processing difficulties with grammars and information theory - a tutorial of CCPC." The Second Annual Workshop on Methods of East Asian Linguistics. Indiana University Bloomington. Bloomington, IN. 23 Feb. 2021. Lecture.

Chen, Zhong. "Acceptability judgments and their reliability in the syntactic literature." The Second Annual Workshop on Methods of East Asian Linguistics. Indiana University Bloomington. Bloomington, IN. 25 Feb. 2021. Lecture.

Chen, Zhong. "Processing Chinese language - An Overview." Department of East Asian Languages and Literature. The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. 26 Mar. 2021. Guest Lecture.

Chen, Zhong. "Quantifying structural and non-structural expectations in relative clause processing." Language Processing Lab. University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. 19 Oct. 2021. Guest Lecture.

2020 Submissions

Journal Paper

Chen, Zhong, Yuhang Xu, and Zhiguo Xie. "Assessing introspective linguistic judgments quantitatively: the case of The Syntax of Chinese." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 29. 3 (2020): 311-336. Print. «

Published Conference Proceedings

Chen, Zhong, Yuhang Xu, and Zhiguo Xie. "Assessing the reliability of informal judgment data in The Syntax of Chinese." Proceedings of the 32nd North American Conference in Chinese Linguistics. Ed. University of Connecticut. Storrs, CT: n.p., 2020. Web. «

National/International Competition Award Winner

Chen, Zhong. Bridging the gap between everyday Chinese and the communication in the STEM fields: An example of teaching “directions and locations”. The Penn Chinese for Professional Use Symposium. Innovation Award. Philadelphia, PA, 2020. £

Peer Reviewed/Juried Poster Presentation or Conference Paper

Chen, Zhong, Yuhang Xu, and Zhiguo Xie. "Assessing the reliability of informal acceptability judgments in Chinese syntax." Proceedings of the 33rd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Ed. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Amherst, MA: n.p.. «

Invited Keynote/Presentation

Chen, Zhong. "Acceptability judgments in the syntactic literature: How reliable are they?" Language Lab, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA. 29 Sep. 2020. Guest Lecture.

2018 Submissions

Book Chapter

Chen, Zhong and John Hale. "Parsing Chinese relative clauses with syntactic and non-syntactic cues." Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics. Ed. Edith Aldridge and Kunio Nishiyama. Amsterdam, Netherland: John Benjamins, 2018. 253-283. Print. *

Peer Reviewed/Juried Poster Presentation or Conference Paper

Chen, Zhong. "Determinants of Inhibitory Interference in Processing Reflexive-antecedent Dependencies." Proceedings of the 40th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Ed. . Madison, WI: n.p.. «

Chen, Zhong. "Interference type and distractor prominence in processing reflexive- antecedent dependencies." Proceedings of the 31st CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Ed. . Davis, CA: n.p.. «

2015 Submissions

Journal Paper

Jager, Lena, et al. "The subject-relative advantage in Chinese: Evidence for expectation-based processing." Journal of Memory and Language. 79-80 (2015): 97-120. Print. «

Yun, Jiwon, et al. "Uncertainty in processing relative clauses across East Asian languages." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 24. 2 (2015): 113-148. Print. «