Lian Wang

lianw (at) sas (dot) upenn (dot) edu

I'm a first-year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where I'm advised by Charles Yang. Prior to Penn, I got my BA in Linguistics and MS in Statistics from Stanford University, where I was advised by Boris Harizanov and Marc Feldman. I'm interested in language learning and change.

Papers

2025. Lian Wang. Covert Wh-verb Movement in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of WCCFL 42. [paper]
2024. Jiayi Lu*, Jonathan Merchan*, Lian Wang*, and Judith Degen. Can Syntactic Log-Odds Ratio Predict Acceptability and Satiation?. Proceedings of SCiL 2024. [paper]

Presentations

2024. Jiayi Lu*, Jonathan Merchan*, Lian Wang*, and Judith Degen. Can Syntactic Log-Odds Ratio Predict Acceptability and Satiation?. Poster at SCiL 2024. UC Irvine.
2024. Lian Wang. Covert Wh-head Movement in Mandarin Chinese. Talk at WCCFL 42. UC Berkeley.
2024. Lian Wang. Covert Wh-head Movement in Mandarin Chinese. Syntax and Morphology Circle. Stanford University.
2023. Jonathan Merchan*, Lian Wang*, Jiayi Lu, and Judith Degen. Can Language Model Surprisal Predict Acceptability and Satiation?. Poster at CAMP 6. Stanford University.

*: equal contribution