ZHOU, Peng
Associate Professor of Linguistics, PhD Supervisor, Director of the Child Cognition Lab
Education
08/2007 – 04/2011: Ph.D. in Cognitive Science (with an emphasis on child language and cognitive
development), Macquarie University
09/2004 – 06/2007: M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (with an emphasis on sentence
processing), Beijing Language and Culture University
09/2000 – 07/2004: B.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language and Culture
University
Work Experience
08/2016 – present: Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua
University
07/2015 – 07/2016: Researcher/Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, ARC Centre of Excellence in
Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
02/2012 – 06/2015: Macquarie University Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive Science, ARC
Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
10/2010 – 01/2012: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie
University
Research Interests
Child language development, Developmental language disorders, Language and cognitive development in autism, Child sentence processing, Experimental linguistics
Courses Taught
Undergraduate courses：Language as Evidence, Language Development and Disorders
Graduate courses：Language Acquisition, Schools of Linguistics, Semantics and Semantic Development
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles:
1. Zhou, P., Shi, J., & Zhan, L. (in press). Real-time comprehension of garden-path constructions by preschoolers:A Mandarin perspective. Applied Psycholinguistics.
2. Zhou, P., Ma, W., &Zhan, L. (2020). A deficit in using prosodic cues to understand communicative intentions by children with autism spectrum disorders: An eye-tracking study. First Language, 40, 41-63.
3. Ma, W.Ψ*, Zhou, P.Ψ*, &Golinkoff, R. M. (2020). Young Mandarin learners use function words to distinguish between nouns and verbs. Developmental Science, 23, e12927. (Ψjoint first author,* joint corresponding author)
4. Li, J., &Zhou, P.*(2020). Children’s interpretation of ambiguous wh-Adjuncts in Mandarin Chinese. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1781. (*corresponding author)
5. Huang, H., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2020). Negation and free choice inference in child Mandarin. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 591728.
6. Zhou, P., Zhan, L., & Ma, H. (2019). Understanding others’ minds: Social inference in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49, 4523–4534.
7.Ma, W. Ψ*, &Zhou, P. Ψ*. (2019).Three-year-old tone language learners are tolerant of tone mispronunciations spoken with familiar and novel tones. Cogent Psychology, 6, 1690816.(Ψ joint first author, * joint corresponding author)
8. Ma, W. Ψ, Zhou, P. Ψ, Golinkoff, R. M., Lee, J., &Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2019). Syntactic cues to the noun and verb distinction in Mandarin child-directed speech.First Language, 39, 433-461.(Ψ joint first author)
9. Hu, S., Zhou, P.,Foppolo, F., Vender, M., &Delfitto, D. (2019). Scalar implicatures in Chinese children with reading difficulties.First Language, 39, 479-507.
10. 施嘉伟, *周鹏, Iain Giblin, Stephen Crain, 2019, 儿童语言中的递归领属结构,《外语教学与研究》(51)：321-331。(*corresponding author)
11. Zhou, P., Zhan, L., & Ma, H. (2019). Predictive language processing in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 48, 431-452.
12. Zhou, P.,& Ma, W. (2018). Children's use of morphological cues in real-time event representation. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 241–260.
13. Zhou, P., Ma, W., Zhan, L., & Ma, H. (2018). Using the visual world paradigm to study sentence comprehension in Mandarin-speaking children with autism. Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), 140, e58452.
14. Zhan, L.Ψ, Zhou, P.Ψ, & Crain, S. (2018). Using the visual-world paradigm to explore the meaning of conditionals in natural language. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33, 1049-1062.(Ψ joint first author)
15. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Yip, M.C.W. (2018). Introduction to "Experimental approaches to the study of child language: A cross-linguistic perspective". Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 1189-1191.
16. Shi. J., &Zhou, P.* (2018). How possessive relations are mapped onto child language: A view from Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 1321-1341.(*corresponding author)
17. Huang, H., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2018). Wh-questions, universal statements and free choice inferences in child Mandarin.Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 1391-1409.
18. Gao, N., Thornton, R., Zhou, P.,& Crain, S. (2018). Differences in scope assignments for child and adult speakers of Mandarin.Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 1219-1241.
19. Zhou, P., Crain, S., Gao, L., &Jia, M. (2017). The use of linguistic cues in sentence comprehension by Mandarin-speaking children with high-functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47, 17-32.
20. Ma, W.Ψ, Zhou, P.Ψ, Singh. L., &Gao, L. (2017). Spoken word recognition in young tone language learners: Age-dependent effects of segmental and suprasegmental variation. Cognition, 159, 139-155.(Ψ joint first author)
21. Moscati, V., Zhan, L., &Zhou, P. (2017). Children’s on-line processing of epistemic modals.Journal of Child Language, 44, 1025-1040.
22. Notley, A., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2016). Children’s interpretation of conjunction in the scope of negation in English and Mandarin: New evidence for the Semantic Subset Maxim. Applied Psycholinguistics, 37, 867-900.
23. Tieu, L., Romoli, J., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2016). Children's knowledge of free choice inferences and scalar implicatures.Journal of Semantics, 33, 269-298.
24. Zhou, P., Crain, S., Gao, L., Tang, Y., &Jia, M. (2015). The use of grammatical morphemes by Mandarin-speaking children with high-functioning autism.Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45, 1428–1436.
25. Zhou, P. (2015). Children's knowledge of wh-quantification in Mandarin Chinese.Applied Psycholinguistics, 36, 411-435.
26. Zhan, L., Crain, S., &Zhou, P. (2015). The online processing of only if- and even if- conditional statements: implications for mental models. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27, 367-379.
27. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Thornton, R. (2014). Children’s knowledge of double negative structures in Mandarin Chinese.Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 23, 333-359.
28. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Zhan, L. (2014). Grammatical aspect and event recognition in children's online sentence comprehension.Cognition, 133, 262-276.
29. Zhou, P. (2014). Children's knowledge of ellipsis constructions in Mandarin Chinese.Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 43, 421-445.
30. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Zhan, L. (2012). Sometimes children are as good as adults: the pragmatic use of prosody in children's on-line sentence processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 67, 149-164.
31. Zhou, P., Su, Y., Crain, S., Gao, L., & Zhan, L. (2012). Children’s use of phonological information in ambiguity resolution: a view from Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Child Language, 39, 687-730.
32. Su, Y., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2012). Downward entailment in child Mandarin.Journal of Child Language, 39, 957-990.
33. Notley, A., Zhou, P., Jensen, B. & Crain, S. (2012). Children’s interpretation of disjunction in the scope of ‘before’: a comparison of English and Mandarin. Journal of Child Language, 39, 482-522.
34. Zhou, P. (2011). Interface conditions in child language: a view from Mandarin Chinese. Language Acquisition, 18, 202-204.
35. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2011). Children’s knowledge of the quantifier dou in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 40, 155-176.
36. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2010). Focus identification in child Mandarin. Journal of Child Language, 37, 965-1005.
37. Notley, A., Zhou, P., Crain, S. & Thornton, R. (2009). Children’s interpretation of focus expressions in English and Mandarin. Language Acquisition, 16, 240-282.
38. Zhou, P., &Gao, L. Q. (2009). Scope processing in Chinese.Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 38, 11-24.
39. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2009). Scope assignment in child language: evidence from the acquisition of Chinese. Lingua, 119, 973-988.
Refereed Book Chapters:
40. Crain, S., &Zhou, P. (2018). The meaning of question words in statements in child Mandarin. In Syrett, S., &Arunachalam, S. (Eds.), Trends in Acquisition (TiLAR): Semantics in Acquisition(pp. 250-274). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
41. Zhou, P. (2017). Free choice and wh-indefinites in child Mandarin. In Nakayama, M., Su, Y.-C., & Huang, A. (Eds.), Studies in Chinese and Japanese Language Acquisition: In Honor of Stephen Crain (pp. 223-235). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
42. Crain, S., &Zhou, P. (2017). Acquisition of logical connectives and focus, L1. In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T. J. Huang, & J. Myers (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics (pp. 34-40). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
43. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Thornton, R. (2014). Lexical aspect and the use of negation by Mandarin-speaking children. In Chu, C.-Y. et al. (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (pp. 150-156). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
44. Zhou, P., Goro, T., &Notley, A. (2013). The logic of focus in child language. In Stavrakaki, S., Lalioti, M., &Konstantinopoulou, P. (Eds.), Advances in Language Acquisition (pp. 260-270). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
45. Crain, S., Goro, T., Notley, A., &Zhou, P. (2013). A parametric account of scope in child language. In Stavrakaki, S., Lalioti, M., &Konstantinopoulou, P. (Eds.), Advances in Language Acquisition (pp. 63-71). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
46. Zhou, P., &Gao, L. (2010). A review of the studies on doubly quantified sentences. In Cui, X.L. (Ed.), Chinese learning and cognition (pp.181-202). Beijing: Peking University Press.
47. Zhou, P., &Gao, L. (2010). Quantified sentences in Chinese. In Cui, X.L. (Ed.), Chinese learning and cognition (pp. 203-233). Beijing: Peking University Press.
Refereed Conference Proceedings:
48. Ma., W. Gao., L., &Zhou, P. (2017). A reduced sensitivity to tones in young tone learners’ word recognition. In M. LaMendola, & J. Scott (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 436-442). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
49. Zhou, P., Romoli, J., & Crain, S. (2013). Children’s knowledge of free choice inferences.Proceedings of the 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT 23) (pp. 632-651). Santa Cruz, USA: Cornell University.
50. Zhou, P., Thornton, R., & Crain, S. (2013). The logic of double negation in child language.Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 37 (pp. 495-507). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
51. Zhan, L., Crain, S., &Zhou, P. (2013). The anticipatory effects of focus operators: a visual-world paradigm eye-tracking study of “only if” and “even if” conditionals. On-line proceedings of GLOW in Asia IX 2012.
52. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2012). Focus and scope in child language.Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Chinese Language and Linguistics (pp. 434-455). Taipei: National Taiwan Normal University.
53. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2010). Dou-quantification in child Mandarin.Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2009 (pp.505-518). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
54. Zhou, P. (2010). Children’s understanding of dou in Chinese. Proceedings of GLOW in ASIA VII 2009 (pp. 87-96). Hyderabad: EFL University Press.
55. Notley, A., Zhou, P., Jensen, B. & Crain, S. (2010). Children’s interpretation of ‘before’ and ‘or’ in English and Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of GLOW in ASIA VII 2009 (pp.97-116). Hyderabad: EFL University Press.
56. Zhou, P.,& Crain, S. (2009). Focus in child language: evidence from the acquisition of Chinese. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (pp. 336-346). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
57. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2008). Scope assignment in Chinese: why children and adults differ. Proceedings of the Ninth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (pp. 341-366). Tokyo: HituziSyobo Publishing.
Academic Services
Editorial Boards
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of English Linguistics
Editorial board member, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Editorial board member, Scientific Reports
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Psychology (language sciences)
Manuscript Reviewer
Applied Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Cogent Psychology
Collabra: Psychology
Early Child Development and Care
First Language
Frontiers in Psychology
Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics
Infancy
International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
International Journal of English Linguistics
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Journal of Child Language
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
Journal of Memory and Language
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Journal of Second and Multiple Language Acquisition
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
Language
Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
Language Learning and Development
Language and Linguistics
Lingua
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
PLOS ONE
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Second Language Research
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
《中华物理医学与康复杂志》
《心理学报》
《外语教学与研究》
《当代语言学》
《北京第二外国语学院学报》
Proposal Reviewer
Australian Research Council (ARC)
Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (RGC)
US National Science Foundation (NSF)
Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Springer (Springer Science + Business Media)
Oxford University Press(OUP)
Research Grants
2016 – 2019 Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program “How children conceptualize
the world: A psycholinguistic perspective” (清华大学自主科研项目)
2016 – 2019 National Social Science Foundation of China “Using eye movements to gauge language
development in preschool children” (国家社科基金一般项目)
2015 – 2016 ARC CCD Cross Program Support Scheme “Using eye-tracking to measure the effects
of language training on reading comprehension: A feasibility study”
2012 – 2015 Macquarie University Research Fellowship “Linguistic knowledge in children with
Specific Language Impairment”
2013 – 2014 Australia-China Science and Research Fund “Hearing impairment and language
acquisition: Workshops to develop joint research and clinical projects to be undertaken
in partnership with the International Centre for Child Language Health (ICCLH)”
2012 – 2013 Australia-China Science and Research Fund “Developing strategic links between
Macquarie University, Beijing Language and Culture University and project partners on
language acquisition and childhood language disorders”
2012 – 2013 Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant “Upgrade of child
magnetoencephalography (MEG) system”
2012 – 2013 Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant “Tobii eye-tracker for testing
infants and young children”
Honors & Awards
1. Gao, L., Ma, W., & Zhou, P. (2016). A reduced sensitivity to tones in young learners' word recognition. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD41), Boston, USA.
2. Gao, N., Zhou, P., Thornton, R., & Crain, S. (2016). The interpretation of disjunction in verb phrase ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 7th Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition North America Conference (GALANA-7), University of Illinois, USA.
3. Gao, N., Zhou, P., Thornton, R., & Crain, S. (2016). The interpretation of disjunction in verb phrase ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Annual Workshop, The Fairmont Resort, Leura.
4. Huang, H., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2016). Children's knowledge of disjunction. Poster presented at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Annual Workshop, The Fairmont Resort, Leura.
5. Gao, N., Zhou, P., Thornton, R., & Crain, S. (2016). The interpretation of disjunction involving negative linguistic contexts in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the Workshop "Disjunction days: Theoretical and experimental perspectives on the semantics and pragmatics of disjunction", Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany.
6. Zhou, P., Ma, W., Crain, S., & Zhan, L. (2015). Three-year-olds make rapid use of morphosyntactic cues in sentence comprehension. Poster presented at the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD40), Boston, USA.
7. Ma, W., Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Gao, L. (2015). Vowel and tone processing in young tonal learners: A functional reorganization of tones. Poster presented at the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD40), Boston, USA.
8. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2015). The use of linguistic cues in thematic role assignment by high-functioning children with autism. Paper presented at the 12th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 12), Nantes, France.
9. Gao, N., Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2015). The interpretation of the interplay between 'or' and 'every' in Mandarin. Poster presented at the 12th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 12), Nantes, France.
10. Ma, W., Zhou, P., Gao, L., & Crain, S. (2015). Influences of vowel and tone change on young Mandarin-speakers’ learning of novel words. Paper presented at the 11th Biennial Meeting for the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC XI), Victoria, Canada.
11. Ma, W., Zhou, P., Gao, L., & Crain, S. (2015). Tone and vowel processing in young tonal learners. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC), Sydney.
12. Ma, W., Zhou, P., Gao, L., & Crain, S. (2015). Is that the tone I heard? Mandarin-speaking three-year-olds’ representation of lexical tones in novel words. Poster presented at the 2015 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, USA.
13. Ma, W., Zhou, P., Gao, L., & Crain, S. (2015). Mandarin-speaking three-year-olds’ representation of lexical tones in familiar words. Poster presented at the 2015 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, USA.
14. Zhou, P., Ma, W., Gao, L., & Crain, S. (2015). Tone and segmental processing in Mandarin-speaking three-year-olds. Poster presented at the 2015 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, USA.
15. Zhou, P., Ma, W., Gao, L., & Crain, S. (2015). Influences of vowel and tone change on three-year-old Mandarin-speakers’ learning of novel words. Poster presented at the 2015 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, USA.
16. Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2015). Free choice inferences are not conjunctive entailments in child language. Poster presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, United States.
17. Crain, S., An, S., Zhou, P. & Thornton, R. (2015). Dou and disjunction in child Mandarin. Paper presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, United States.
18. Zhou, P., Crain, S., Gao, L., & Tang, Y. (2014). Aspectual marking in Mandarin-speaking children with high-functioning autism. Paper presented at the 39th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, United States.
19. Zhou, P., Crain, S., Gao, L., & Tang, Y. (2014). The use of grammatical morphemes by Mandarin-speaking children with high-functioning autism. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Formal Linguistics in conjunction with the International Conference on Language Acquisition, Language Disorder and Language Assessment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
20. An, S., Thornton, R., Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2014). Mandarin-speaking children’s interpretation of disjunction in Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE) structures. Paper presented at the 10th Conference on Generative Linguistics in the Old World, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
21. An, S., Thornton, R., Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2014). Mandarin-speaking children’s knowledge of the quantifier dou. Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the IACL & the 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, University of Maryland, United States.
22. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Zhan, L. (2013). Anticipatory eye movements in children’s processing of grammatical aspect. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, United States.
23. Moscati., V., Zhan, L., & Zhou, P. (2013). Reasoning on possibilities – an eye tracking study on modal knowledge. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, United States.
24. Zhan, L., Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2013). Going beyond the information that is perceived: the hypothetical property of “if”-conditionals in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Psycholinguistics in China, Fuzhou, China.
25. Gao, N., Gao, L., & Zhou, P. (2013). Children’s innate knowledge of logic – evidence from Mandarin-speaking children’s understanding of double negative structures. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Psycholinguistics in China, Fuzhou, China.
26. Tieu, L., Romoli, J., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2013). Children can compute ‘any’ free choice inference. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Acquisition of Quantification, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States.
27. An, S., Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2013). Parsing strategies and locality constraints in child Mandarin. Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2013, University of Oldenburg, Germany.
28. Zhou, P., Romoli, J., & Crain, S. (2013). Children’s knowledge of alternatives. Paper presented at the 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference, University of California at Santa Cruz, United States.
29. Zhan, L., Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2013). The hypothetical property of “if”-statements: a visual-world paradigm eye-tracking study. Paper presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of South Carolina, United States.
30. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Thornton, R. (2012). The logic of double negation in child language. Paper presented at the 37th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, United States.
31. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Thornton, R. (2012). Lexical aspect and the use of negation by Mandarin-speaking children. Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition- North America 5, United States.
32. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Thornton, R. (2012). When two negatives make a positive in child Mandarin. Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America 5, United States.
33. Zhan, L., Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2012). The anticipatory effects of focus operators: a visual-world eye-tracking experiment. Paper presented at the 9th Conference of Generative Linguistics in the Old World Asia, Japan.
34. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Zhan, L. (2012). Children’s pragmatic use of prosody in sentence processing. Paper presented at the GLOW workshop on “Production and perception of prosodically-encoded information structure”, University of Potsdam, Germany.
35. Thornton, R., Crain, S., Zhou, P., Notley, A., & Goro, T. (2012). The latest scoop on scope in child language. Paper presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, United States.
36. Crain, S., Goro, T., Zhou, P., & Notley, A. (2012). Polarity meets focus in child language. Paper presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, United States.
37. Zhou, P., Goro, T., & Notley, A. (2011). The logic of focus in child language. Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2011, Thessaloniki, Greece.
38. Crain, S., Goro, T., Notley, A., & Zhou, P. (2011). A parametric account of scope in child language. Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2011, Thessaloniki, Greece.
39. Zhou, P., Su, Y., & Crain, S. (2010). The role of prosody in children’s ambiguity resolution: a view from Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 13th China International Conference on Contemporary Linguistics, Shanghai, China.
40. Zhou, P., Crain, S., Gao, L., & Zhan, L. (2010). The role of prosody in children’s focus identification. Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America 4, Toronto, Canada.
41. Zhou, P., Su, Y., Crain, S., Gao, L., & Zhan, L. (2010). Children’s use of prosodic information in ambiguity resolution. Paper presented at the 8th Conference of Generative Linguistics in the Old World Asia, Beijing, China.
42. Zhou, P., Su, Y., Crain, S., Gao, L., & Zhan, L. (2010). The role of prosody in children’s ambiguity resolution: a view from Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Chinese Acquisition and Cognition, Beijing, China.
43. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2009). Dou-quantification in child Mandarin. Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 2009, Lisbon, Portugal.
44. Notley, A., Zhou, P., Jensen, B., & Crain, S. (2009). Children’s interpretation of ‘before’ and ‘or’ in English and Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, Beijing, China.
45. Zhou, P. (2009).Children’s understanding of DOU in Chinese. Paper presented at the 7th Conference on Generative Linguistics in the Old World, Hyderabad, India.
46. Notley, A., Zhou, P., Jensen, B., & Crain, S. (2009). Children’s interpretation of ‘before’ and ‘or’ in English and Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at the 7th Conference on Generative Linguistics in the Old World, Hyderabad, India.
47. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2009). Focus identification in child Mandarin. Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, California, United States.
48. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2008). Focus in child language: evidence from the acquisition of Chinese. Paper presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America 3, University of Connecticut, United States.
49. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2008). Scope assignment in Chinese: why children and adults differ. Paper presented at the 9th Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, Tokyo, Japan.
50. Zhou, P., & Gao, L. (2007). L1 processing of relative scope in Chinese. Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on the Processing of East Asia Related Languages, Tainan, Taiwan.
Invited Talks
51. Zhou, P. (2016). Designing a child experiment using the Truth Value Judgement Task. Invited talk presented at the Workshop on Experimental Approaches to East Asian Linguistics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States.
52. Zhou, P. (2016). The use of morphosyntactic cues in online sentence comprehension by young Mandarin-speaking children. Invited talk presented at the Workshop on Experimental Approaches to East Asian Linguistics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States.
53. Zhou, P. (2015). Children’s acquisition of Mandarin Chinese. Invited talk presented at the Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
54. Zhou, P. (2015). The use of morphosyntactic cues in online sentence comprehension by young Mandarin-speaking children. Invited talk presented at the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
55. Zhou, P. (2015). The acquisition of logical connectives: A cross-linguistic perspective. Invited talk presented at the MILANGUAGE Spring School of Language, Milan, Italy.
56. Zhou, P. (2015). The use of morphosyntactic cues in online sentence comprehension by young children. Invited talk presented at the MILANGUAGE Spring School of Language, Milan, Italy.
57. Zhou, P. (2015). The acquisition of Mandarin Chinese: Is it that difficult to learn? Invited talk presented at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
58. Zhou, P. (2015). Free choice and wh-words in child Mandarin. Invited talk presented at the East Asian Language Acquisition Workshop, Suzhou, China.
59. Zhou, P. (2014). Children’s understanding of the pragmatic function of prosody in sentence comprehension. Invited talk presented at the Symposium “The role of prosody in the development of communicative intentions” at the 13th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
60. Zhou, P. (2013). Child language development. Invited talk at the Training Workshop for Special Education School Teachers in Beijing, Beijing, China.
61. Zhou, P. (2013). Children’s knowledge of grammatical aspect in Mandarin Chinese. Invited talk at the Australia-China Science Research Fund Hearing Impairment and Language Acquisition Workshop, Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), Beijing, China.
62. Zhou, P. (2013). Methodologies in the study of child language development. Invited talk at the China Speech Therapy Week, Changsha, China.
63. Zhou, P. (2013). What does eye-tracking reveal about children’s linguistic knowledge? Invited talk at the 19th International Congress of Linguists, Geneva, Switzerland.
64. Zhou, P. (2012). Lexical aspect and the use of negation by Mandarin-speaking children. Invited talk at BLCU, Beijing, China.
65. Zhou, P. (2012). Focus interpretation at the interface. Invited talk at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
66. Zhou, P. (2011). Parsing ambiguities: children’s pragmatic use of prosody in sentence processing. Invited talk at the Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.
67. Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2011). Principles and parameters of scope in child language. Invited talk at the Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.
68. Zhou, P. (2011). An introduction to child language development. Invited talk at BLCU, Beijing, China.
69. Zhou, P. (2010). Another look at “the observation of isomorphism”. Invited talk at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
70. Zhou, P. (2010). Interface conditions in child Mandarin. Invited talk at BLCU, Beijing, China.
71. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2009). Children’s interpretation of wh-words in downward entailing contexts vs. non-downward entailing contexts. Invited talk at BLCU, Beijing, China.
72. Zhou, P. (2008). How do Mandarin-speaking children understand zhiyou ‘only’? Invited talk at BLCU, Beijing, China.
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