Research output
Journal articles
Shang, M., Sun, X., & Mai, Z. (under review). Development of counterfactual reasoning in Mandarin-speaking preschoolers: cognitive and linguistic factors.
Shang, M., Mai, Z., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (published online July 2026). Noun-modifying clause construction in Mandarin-speaking children. Journal of Child Language. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000926100750.
Shang, M., Zhao, L., Yip, V., & Mai, Z. (2025, published online March 2024). Protracted development in the heritage lexicon: resultative verb compounds in school-age heritage Chinese children and their input. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 15 (3), 342-369. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.23001.sha.
Conference proceedings
Shang, M., Zhang, J., Cao, Y., & Mai, Z. (Accepted). A network analysis of maternal input through preschooler-oriented storytelling. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 62, USA.
Corpus
Mai, Z., Shang, M., Liu, J., & Yip, V., CHILDES Mandarin-English HKMECC Corpus, https://talkbank.org/childes/access/Biling/HKMECC.html.
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