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
Presentations
Upcoming
Lian Wang. The origin of do-support in English: a learning-based account.
Talk at DiGS 27. [abstract]
2024
Jiayi Lu*, Jonathan Merchan*, Lian Wang*, and Judith Degen.
Can syntactic log-odds ratio predict acceptability and satiation?.
Poster at SCiL 2024.
2024
Lian Wang. Covert wh-head movement in Mandarin Chinese.
Talk at WCCFL 42.
2023
Jonathan Merchan*, Lian Wang*, Jiayi Lu, and Judith Degen.
Can language model surprisal predict acceptability and satiation?.
Poster at CAMP 6.
*: equal contribution