Liying Yang

Read about research being undertaken by Liying Yang, a PhD student in Applied Linguistics

Thesis title

Phonological Representations in Lexical Processing of L1 Chinese and L2 English An Eye-tracking Study.

Supervisors

Dr Irina Elgort and Dr Sasha Calhoun

Biography

Liying Yang is currently a PhD student in psycholinguistics at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research focuses on phonological activation of L1 and L2 during reading. She also has an MA in Linguistics at University of Bergen, Norway and Newcastle University, UK.

Conference Presentations

Yang, Liying. 2021. Can reading Chinese characters be independent of phonological encoding? A cross-linguistic priming lexical decision study on Chinese multilinguals. 2nd International School on Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics and Clinical Linguistics. University of Novi Sad

Yang, Liying; Johansson, Christer. 2019. Is Lexical Access in Chinese Reading possible without phonological encoding? Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium