Mengzhu Yan

Find out about Mengzhu Yan, one of our many successful PhD graduates.

Mengzhu Yan currently works at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan. She recently completed her PhD in Linguistics at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

Mengzhu’s research focuses on the role of prosody in first and second language acquisition, and the interaction between prosody and syntax (clefting).

She co-authored articles on findings in this area in Frontiers in Psychology and Laboratory Phonology. Mengzhu was one of the recipients of the 2019 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad for her performance in her PhD studies.