Talks and presentations

Invited talks

Conference presentations

Shang, M., Zhang, J., Cao, Y., & Mai, Z. (April 17-19, 2026). A network analysis of maternal input through preschooler-oriented storytelling [Talk]. The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS62), Chicago, IL, United States.

Shang, M., Mai, Z., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (November 6-9, 2025). A developmental hierarchy of noun-modifying clause construction in Mandarin: First corpus and experimental evidence [Poster]. The 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD50), Boston, MA, United States.

Shang, M., Vermeer, E. Y., Mai, Z., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (June 9-13, 2025). English gapless relative clauses in Mandarin-English bilingual children [Poster]. The 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

Shang, M., Mai, Z., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (July 15-19, 2024). Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Mandarin-English bilingual children across contexts [Talk]. Paper presented at the Symposium “Developing Chinese as a first language in US, Hong Kong and Beijing” (Convenor: Ziyin Mai) at the XVIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL-2024), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Shang, M., Mai, Z., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (June 26-30, 2023). Mandarin noun-modifying clause constructions in Mandarin-English bilingual preschool children [Talk]. The 14th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Shang, M., Mai, Z., & Yip, V. (June 16-17, 2022). Resultative Verb Compounds in School-age Heritage Mandarin Children [Talk], Fourth International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages, Los Angeles, USA

Shang, M., Mai, Z., Matthews, S., & Yip, V. (July 10-14, 2021). Acquisition of noun-modifying clause constructions in monolingual and heritage Mandarin-speaking children [Talk]. The 13th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB-13), Warsaw, Poland.