Publications & Presentations

Publications

• Accepted and Submitted

  • Liu, Y., Sorace, A., & Smith, K. (Accepted). Mandarin bilingual speakers undergoing attrition produce more explicit referring expressions. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Check out here

  • Liu, Y., Sorace, A., & Smith, K. (2025). Beyond Crosslinguistic influence: Mandarin Speakers with Exposure to Null-subject Languages Nonetheless Use Fewer Null Pronouns in Mandarin. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society [Oral presentation], 878-884. Check out here

  • Liu, Y., Sorace, A., & Smith, K. (Preprint). Do bilinguals avoid ambiguity? An experimental study of lexical ambiguity in spoken Mandarin. Check out here

• Under Review

  • Liu, Y., Sorace, A., & Smith, K. (Under Review). Do bilinguals avoid ambiguity or minimise processing effort? Insights from an online eye-tracking study in spoken Mandarin. Check out here

• Unpublished Report

  • Zhang, H., Liu, Y., Mroczkowski, M., Przybycien, K., Sorace, A. (Report). Learning and Teaching Mandarin in Scotland. Check out here

Presentations

• Selected Talks and Posters

  • Liu, Y., Sorace, A., & Smith, K. Beyond Crosslinguistic influence: Mandarin Speakers with Exposure to Null-subject Languages Nonetheless Use Fewer Null Pronouns in Mandarin. Talk presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, US, August 2025.

  • Liu, Y., Sorace, A., & Smith, K. A desire to avoid ambiguity or ease processing? Insights from an experimental study of lexical ambiguity in spoken Mandarin using online eye-tracking. Poster presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, US, August 2025. CogSci Poster

  • Liu, Y., Sorace, A., & Smith, K. Mandarin bilingual speakers undergoing attrition produce more explicit referring expressions.(MORE DATA). Poster presented at the 30th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, September 2024. AMLaP Poster

  • Liu, Y., Sorace, A, & Smith, K. Mandarin bilingual speakers undergoing attrition produce more explicit referring expressions.Poster presented at the 37th Human Sentence Processing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US, May 2024. HSP Poster

  • Liu, Y., Luo, Q., Sorace, A, & Smith, K. Exploring the role of communicative interaction in L1 attrition: Evidence from null and overt subjects in an artificial language. Poster presented at Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium, Edinburgh, UK, October 2022. BMRS Poster