Chien-Jer Charles Lin « Faculty
Assistant Professor, EALC
chiclin 
indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 245
855-8763
Education
- PhD, University of Arizona, 2006
Research Interests
- Chinese linguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Sentence processing
- Linguistic anthropology
Courses Recently Taught
- EALC C301, Third Year Chinese, Fall 2009
- EALC E600, East Asian Psycholinguistics, Fall 2009
Awards and Distinctions
- International Young Scholar Award, PACLIC-19, 2005
- Dissertation Scholarship, Ministry of Education, TAIWAN, 2005-2006
- Fulbright Scholarship, 2001-2003
- Chao Yuan-Ren Foundation Scholarship, 2001
Publication Highlights
- Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (2008). The processing foundation of head-final relative clauses. Language and Linguistics 9, 813-38.
- Lin, Chien-Jer Charles, & Ahrens, Kathleen. (in press). Ambiguity advantage revisited: Two meanings are better than one when accessing Chinese nouns. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. (online access available)
- Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (in process). “Processing (in)alienable possessions at the syntax-semantics interface.” In Raffaella Folli, & Christiane Ulbrich (eds.) Researching Interfaces in Linguistics. Oxford University Press.
- Lin, Chien-Jer Charles. (in process). “Distinguishing Linguistic and Processing Explanations of Grammar.” In James Myers (ed.) In Search of Grammar: Empirical Methods in the Study of Linguistic Knowledge. John Benjamins.
- Lin, Chien-Jer Charles & Bever, Thomas G. (in process). “Garden Path in the Processing of Head-Final Relative Clauses.” In Hiroko Hashimoto, Jerry Packard, & Yuki Hirose (eds.) Processing and Producing Head-Final Structures. Springer.
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I am a psycholinguist. I got my Ph.D. from the Joint Program in Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Arizona. In 2006, I returned to Taipei (my hometown) to work in the Linguistics Branch of the Department of English at National Taiwan Normal University. Since then, I've set up the Language and Cognition Laboratory at NTNU and taught graduate seminars on sentence comprehension, and the relationship between grammar and cognition. I also regularly taught undergraduate courses on psycholinguistics. My lab is currently investigating topics such as factors in the processing of head-final relative clauses (esp. in Mandarin Chinese) both within and out of contexts, grammatical and processing accounts of resumptive pronouns, possessive relations in terms of alienability at the syntax/semantics interface, processing issues in syntactic theorization, mass/count distinctions in a classifier language (e.g., Chinese), the representation and processing of lexical ambiguity, and the perception of Chinese vowels and tones. We are actively engaged in using the eye-tracking methodology (Eyelink 2k) in language processing research.
