Research

Where I am going

Proceedings

2023. Hao, Hailin, & He, Muxuan. Can Large Language Model Surprisal Capture the Informativity Bias in Human Language Processing?. In International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (pp. 178-185). [ Proceeding. ]

Selected Conference Presentations

2024. Hao, Hailin, Muxuan He, & Zuzanna Fuchs. CAMP. Are Informativity-Based Linguistic Predictions Driven by Gender Stereotypes? Poster presented at CAMP 2024, Stanford. [ Abstract. ]

2023. He, Muxuan, & Elsi Kaiser. How informative do we need to be? Asymmetry effects of informativity in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences. Talk presented at AMLaP 2023, San Sebastián, Spain. [ Slides.]

2023. He, Muxuan, & Elsi Kaiser. Not Too Surprising, Not Too Boring? The Goldilocks Effects of Likelihood on Real-time Processing. Virtual poster presented at HSP 2023, University of Pittsburgh, USA. [ Slides.]

2022. He, Muxuan. -men or not -men: It does not seem to be a question. Talk presented at NWAV Asia-Pacific7, Chulalongkorn University. (-men is a plural morpheme in Mandarin CHinese)

Set aside unless you're interested. It all starts with you. Syntax Project [ Collected critical data as of March 25, 2022 here]


Where I have been (second language acquisition)

Papers

2024. He, Muxuan and Zheng, L., & Chang, H. 界面视角下韩国学习者对汉语否定辖域的习得研究. [L2 Chinese Acquisition of the Scope of Negation by Korean-speaking Learners].世界汉语教学. [Chinese Teaching in the World].(In Chinese)

Proceedings

2019. He, Muxuan, Zheng, L., & Chang, H. A review of L2 Chinese Acquisition and Processing of Negation. (In Chinese; Proceedings of Second Language Learning Research)

Conference Presentations

2021. He, Muxuan. The Syntax-semantics Interface in L2 acquisition: The Scope of Negation in Tagalog-Chinese Interlanguage Grammars. Poster presented at ICTEAP-3 (The International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistic), National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, China. [ Poster. ]

2020. He, Muxuan. A Variationist Study on the Plural Marker -men in Mandarin Chinese. Talk presented at 2021 GSAAL Conference, Northern Arizona University, Arizona, USA. [ Slides.]

2019. He, Muxuan. Acquiring the Scope of Negation in L2 Chinese: An Interface Approach. Talk presented at Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. [ Slides.]

2018. He, Muxuan. The Syntactic Distribution of bu and mei: A Syntax-semantics Interface Approach. Talk presented at the 8th International Conference on Formal Linguistics (ICFL 8), Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.

2018. He, Muxuan., & Chang, H. The Acquisition of the Scope of Negation in L2 Chinese: An Interface Approach. Talk presented at the 8th International Symposium on Second Language Acquisition Research in China, Qingdao, China.