Yaling Hsiao

Yaling Hsiao

psycholinguistics, natural language processing, corpus analysis, language development, literacy

Publications

  • Calzi, G. L., Hsiao, Y., Griffiths, S., Lucas, L., & Norbury, C. (submitted). When I’m 25, I will… the effects of language disorder on children’s future-oriented narratives.
  • Dong, Y., Hsiao, Y., Dawson, N., Banerji, N., & Nation, K. (2024). The Emotional Content of Children’s Writing: A Data‐Driven Approach. Cognitive Science, 48 (3):e13423. [link]
  • Hsiao, Y., Dawson, N., Banerji, N., & Nation, K. (2024). A corpus-based developmental investigation of linguistic complexity in children’s written stories. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 4(1), 100084. [link]
  • Dawson, N., Hsiao, Y., Tan, A.W.M., Banerji, N., & Nation, K. (2023) Effects of Target Age and Genre on Morphological Complexity in Children’s Reading Material, Scientific Studies of Reading, 27:6, 529-556. [link]
  • Nation, K., Dawson, N. J., & Hsiao, Y. (2022). Book Language and Its Implications for Children’s Language, Literacy, and Development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31(4), 375–380. [link]
  • Taylor, E., Nation, K., & Hsiao, Y. (2022). Context Availability and Sentence Availability Ratings for 3,000 English Words and their Association with Lexical Processing. Journal of cognition, 5(1), 20. [link]
  • Hsiao, Y., Dawson, N., Banerji, N., & Nation, K. (2022). The nature and frequency of relative clauses in the language children hear and the language children read: a developmental cross-corpus analysis of English complex grammar. Journal of Child Language. 50(3):555-580. [link]
  • Mak, M. H. C., Hsiao, Y., & Nation, K. (2021). Lexical connectivity effects in immediate serial recall of words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. [link]
  • Hsiao, Y., Banerji, N., & Nation, K. (2021). Boys write about boys: gender bias in children’s writing reflects gender bias in their reading experience. Child Development. 92: 2194-2204. [link]
  • Dawson, N., Hsiao, Y., Tan, A., Banerji, N., & Nation, K. (2021). Features of lexical richness in children’s books: Comparisons with child-directed speech, Language Development Research. [link]
  • Mak, M. H. C., Hsiao, Y., & Nation, K. (2021). Anchoring and contextual variation in the early stages of incidental word learning during reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 118, 104203. [link]
  • Pagan, A., Bird, M., Hsiao, Y., & Nation, K. (2020) Both semantic diversity and frequency influence children’s sentence reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 24:4, 356-364. [link]
  • Hsiao, Y., Bird, M., Pagan, A., Norris, H., & Nation, K. (2019). The influence of item-level contextual history on lexical and semantic judgements by children and adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 46(12), 2367–2383. [link]
  • Hsiao, Y., Mak, M. H. C., & Nation, K. (2019). The effect of semantic diversity on serial recall of words. Proceeding of Cognitive Science Society 2019.
  • Hsiao, Y. & Nation, K. (2018). Semantic diversity, frequency and the development of lexical quality in children’s word reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 103, 114-126. [link]
  • MacDonald, M. C. & Hsiao, Y. (2018). Sentence Comprehension. In S-A, Rueschemeyer & M. G. Gaskell (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp.171-196). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. [link]
  • Hsiao, Y. & Nation, K. (2017). Semantic diversity, frequency and learning to read: A mini-mega study with children. Proceeding of Cognitive Science Society 2017.
  • Hsiao, Y. & MacDonald, M. C. (2016). Production predicts comprehension: Animacy effects in Mandarin relative clause processing, Journal of Memory and Language, 89, 87-109. [link]
  • Hsiao, Y., Gao, Y. & MacDonald, M. C. (2014). Agent-patient similarity affects sentence structure in language production: evidence from subject omissions in Mandarin. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1015. [link]
  • Hsiao, Y. & MacDonald, M.C. (2013), Competition and generalization in Mandarin Chinese relative clause processing: A simple recurrent network, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Technical Report, 113(147), 105-110.
  • Hsiao, Y. & MacDonald, M. C. (2013). Experience and generalization in a connectionist model of Mandarin Chinese relative clause processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:767. [link]
  • Thompson, W., Hsiao, Y., & Kosslyn, S. (2011). Dissociation between visual attention and visual mental imagery. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23(2), 256-263. [link]
  • Li, P., Hsiao, Y., & Huang, B. (2010). Learning that classifiers count: Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of sortal and mensural classifiers. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 19(3), 207-230. [link]