projects

Participated in an eye movement experimental project exploring how verbal and visual working memory influence visual attention, under the framework of Baddeley's working memory model.

• Gained expertise in operating eye-tracking equipment (Eyelink 1000 Plus).
• Contributed to experiment design, subject recruitment, and data collection; managed over 90 datasets and analyzed behavioral and eye-movement data.

Led a corpus-based study of Sino-Japanese loanwords to compare natural language contact with text-mediated borrowing through shared Kanji.

• Analyzed more than 3,000 loanwords and quantified high-frequency usage patterns that support text-based influence.
• Presented the project at the 2024 undergraduate research defense and received top evaluation.

Conducted lexical analysis on word formation and pragmatic usage in Tong-Tai Mandarin during an intensive fieldwork program.

• Compiled homophone charts and tone-sandhi analyses from field recordings to document contact-induced patterns between Jianghuai Mandarin and Wu.
• Synthesized phonetic, phonological, lexical, and grammatical observations into analysis-ready field notes.

Helped build an annotated corpus for ancient Chinese language studies with a consistent linguistic schema.

• Annotated more than 2,500 entries with lexical and semantic attributes for downstream historical grammar and lexicography work.
• Produced CSV datasets and citation-linked research notes that fed later semantic and lexical analysis.

Authored a paper on conceptual categorization of disease-related vocabulary in ancient Chinese.

• Constructed a vocabulary system by identifing and categorizing 220 terms based on disease body, origin, pathology, and symptoms.
• Employed frame and semantic feature analysis to classify two primary types.

Contributed to an eye-tracking experiment on how verbal and visual working memory shape visual attention under the Baddeley framework.

• Operated EyeLink 1000 Plus equipment and supported experiment design, participant recruitment, and data collection.
• Managed more than 90 datasets and analyzed behavioral and eye-movement measures for downstream reporting.

Authored a research paper on the collective memory of a rural Hebei community, integrating oral history interviews with local archival evidence to analyze social change in the 1960s.

• Conducted primary source research at the Chicheng County Archives, analyzing 18 volumes of documents (e.g., official correspondence, meeting minutes) to reconstruct local administrative practices and daily life.
• Interviewed 10 individuals of local residents to document their personal and family histories from the period.

Recorded the pronunciations of common words from native speakers of the Xinan dialect in Zhangping, Fujian.

• Documented phonetic details including initials, finals, isolated tones, and tone sandhi, and organized the phonological and tonal systems of the Zhangping dialect.
• Developed a comparative table of “Mandarin - Zhangping Dialect - Middle Chinese” phonetic correspondences, enhancing field research skills.

Built a social-media corpus across Douban, Weibo, and related media narratives to study identity construction and stigma formation.

• Combined Python text analysis, SnowNLP sentiment modeling, and semi-structured interviews for triangulated qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Identified recurring patterns of boundary-making, social comparison, and platform-driven anxiety in exam-centered discourse.

Led and first-authored a corpus study on Cantonese-English bilingual acquisition of English "have V-ed" constructions using CHILDES data.

• Showed delayed mastery of auxiliary-like “have” due to interference from Cantonese aspect markers, supporting cross-linguistic influence claims.
• Presented the work at the 5th International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics.