Angela Xiaoxue He Position: Address: E-mail: updated Mar. 2015 Graduate Student, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park 1401 Marie Mount Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 [email protected] Research Interest Language acquisition, verb learning, argument structure, syntax-semantics interface, early conceptual development, language-concept interface, pragmatics, sentence processing, computational modeling of learning, executive functions, bilingualism, language production Education Aug. 2009 ~ Present Graduate student, Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Maryland, College Park PhD expected: Apr. 2015 (oral defense passed, Jan. 2015) Dissertation: Verb Learning Under Guidance: Syntax-to-Semantics Inferences Dissertation advisor: Jeffrey Lidz 2006 ~ 2009 Bachelor of Arts, Dept. of Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Advisors: Thomas Hun Tak Lee & Virginia Choi Yin Yip 2008 Summer Summer course on language and mind at University of California, Berkeley Instructor: Sam Tilsen Professional Membership 2014 ~ Present 2014 ~ Present 2014 ~ Present 2014 ~ Present 2012 ~ Present 2013 ~ Present Society for Language Development (SLD) International Congress for the Study of the Child Language (IASCL) International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) International Society on Infant Studies (ISIS) Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Cognitive Science Society (CSS) Fellowship, Scholarship & Award 2014 Society for Language Development Student Award 2014 Graduate Teaching-Assistantship, Linguistics, Univ. of Maryland 2014 Graduate Travel Award, College of Arts and Humanities, Univ. of Maryland 1 2014 Jacob K Goldhaber Travel Award, Graduate School, Univ. of Maryland 2014 International Conference Student Support Award, Univ. of Maryland 2009 ~ 2014 Graduate Fellowship, Linguistics, Univ. of Maryland, $20,000 each year 2011 ~ 2013 Language Science Fellowship, Univ. of Maryland, $5,000 each year 2004 ~ 2008 Scholarship, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, $10,000 each year 2007 Dean’s List, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong Conference Presentations He, A. X. & J. Lidz (Nov 2014). Development of the verb-event link between 14 and 18 months. Paper presentation accepted for the 39th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston University, Boston, MA. He, A. X., X. Meng, A. Williams & J. Lidz (July 2014). Thematic interpretations and cross-linguistic variations: evidence from English- and Mandarin-learning children. Poster presented at the XIX Biennial International Conference for Infant Studies (ICIS), Berlin, Germany. He, A. X., A. Wellwood, J. Lidz & A. Williams (July 2014). Verb learning and the perception of three-participant events in infants and adults. Poster presented at the XIX Biennial International Conference for Infant Studies (ICIS), Berlin, Germany. He, A. X., X. Meng, A. Williams & J. Lidz (July 2014). Thematic role assignment in resultative constructions in English- and Mandarin-learning children. Poster presented at the 13th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He, A. X., A. Wellwood, J. Lidz & A. Williams (July 2014). When participant structure and argument structure do not match: participant structure construction in adults and prelinguistic infants. Symposium paper presented at the 13th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He, A. X., X. Meng, A. Williams & J. Lidz (May 2014). Thematic interpretation and cross-linguistic variations: evidence from English- and Mandarin-learning children. Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL) & the 26th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), College Park, MD. Wellwood, A., A. X. He, J. Lidz & A. Williams (March 2014). Participant structure in event perception: towards the acquisition of implicitly 3-place predicates. Paper presented at the 38th annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC), University of Pennsylvania. He, A. X., A. Wellwood, J. Lidz & A. Williams (January 2014). Assessing event perception in adults and prelinguistic children: a prelude to syntactic bootstrapping. 2 Poster presented at the 88th annual meeting of Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Minneapolis, MN. He, A. X., A. Wellwood, J. Lidz & A. Williams. (November 2013). Assessing event perception in adults and prelinguistic children: a prelude to syntactic bootstrapping. Poster presented at the 38th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston University, Boston, MA. He, A. X. & J. Lidz. (November 2011). Mapping intransitive verbs onto self-propelled actions. Poster presented at the 36th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston University, Boston, MA. Publications Wellwood, A., A. X. He, J. Lidz, & A. Williams (to appear). Participant structure in event perception: towards the acquisition of implicitly 3-place predicates. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC), 21(1). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania. He, A. X. & J. Lidz (submitted). Development of the verb-event link in 14- and 18month-old English-learning infants. He, A. X., A. Wellwood, J. Lidz, & A. Williams (manuscript in prep). When participant structure and argument structure do not match: event representation in adults and prelinguistic infants. He, A. X. & J. Lidz (manuscript in prep). When one cue is better than two: the role of processing in novel verb learning and verb meaning extension. He, A. X., X. Meng, A. Williams & J. Lidz (manuscript in prep). Thematic interpretations and cross-linguistic variations: evidence from English- and Mandarinlearning children. He, A. X. (April 2015). Verb Learning Under Guidance: Syntax-to-Semantics Inferences. Doctoral dissertation in Linguistics. He, A. X. (June 2013). Acquisition of Resultative Construction English- and Mandarinlearning children: a test case for participant-argument-matching. Qualifying paper for PhD candidacy in Linguistics. Research Experience 2009 ~ Present Univ. of Maryland Project on Children’s Language Learning Advisor: Jeffrey Lidz 3 Research areas: acquisition of resultatives in Mandarin- and English-learning children acquisition of the verb-event link prelinguistic infants’ event representations 2012 ~ Present Univ. of Maryland Language and Music Cognition Lab Advisor: Robert Slevc Research area: inhibitory control in bilingual lexical access 2009 Summer Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong Childhood Bilingualism Research Center Advisor: Virginia Yip & Angel Chan Research areas: developing a receptive vocabulary test for Hong Kong children’s Mandarin lexical and syntactic development in Cantonese-Mandarin bilingual children 2009 Spring Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong Language Acquisition Lab Advisor: Thomas Hun Tak Lee Research area: early lexical acquisition - the noun-verb asymmetry Teaching Experience Teaching Assistant At University of Maryland Spring 2015 Fall 2014 Spring 2013 Fall 2012 Spring 2012 Fall 2011 Spring 2011 Fall 2010 LING240: Language and Mind, Dr. M. Antonisse LING444: Child Language Acquisition, Prof. J. Lidz LING240: Language and Mind, Dr. M. Antonisse LING200: Introduction to Linguistics, Dr. M. Antonisse LING240: Language and Mind, Dr. M. Antonisse LING444: Child Language, Prof. J. Lidz LING200: Introduction to Linguistics, Dr. T. Bleam LING200: Introduction to Linguistics, Dr. M. Antonisse Undergraduate Mentoring At the Project on Children’s Language Learning, Univ. of Maryland On acquisition of resultatives in Mandarin- and English-learning children: Stacey Maresco Spring 2011 Katrina Connell Spring 2011 ~ Fall 2011 Ilanna Newman Spring 2012 ~ Spring 2013 On establishing the link between verb and event: 4 Tori Peck (supervised honor thesis) Spring 2011 ~ Spring 2012 Tania Delgado Spring 2011 ~ Fall 2011, Fall 2012 ~ Spring 2013 Radhika Lakhani Spring 2012 ~ Fall 2012 Ann Rodriguez Fall 2013 ~ present On prelinguistic infants’ event representation: Sandy Wan Fall 2012 ~ Spring 2013 Professional Service Symposium Organizer At the 13th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Amsterdam, the Netherlands (July, 2014): The role of grammar and extralinguistic cognition in verb learning. Invited discussant: Letitia Naigles, University of Connecticut Invited talks: Geraghty, K., B. Ferguson, X. Fu & S. Waxman. When less is more: evidence from Mandarin-acquiring infants acquisition of novel transitive verbs. Trueswell, J., L. Pozzan, J. Köhne & L. R. Gleitman. Learner’s sentence processing limitations shape word and grammar acquisition. Ambridge, B. Explaining children’s difficulties with reversible passives: The role of verb and construction meanings. He, A. X., A. Wellwood, J. Lidz & A. Williams. When participant structure and argument structure do not match: participant structure construction in adults and prelinguistic infants. Academic Event Organizer At Univ. of Maryland 2012 Leader, IGERT Language Science Day Committee Committees & Associations At Univ. of Maryland 2012 ~ 2013 Member, IGERT Student Executive Committee 2012 ~ 2013 Member, Philosophy and Linguistics Group (PHLING) 2011 ~ 2012 Representative, Linguistics Grad Student Association 2011 Member, IGERT Lunch Talk Series & Social Events Committee Volunteering 2011 Maryland Day Infant and Child Studies Tent 2010 Language Science High School Outreach 5
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