Conference Presentations

2026
  • Sentence processing is surprisingly robust to verbatim repetition.
    Erxiao Wang, Ekaterina S. Ivshina, Yuhan Zhang & Cory Shain.
    The 39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 26-28, 2026. Talk.
  • Human-like self-embedding difficulty without human-like memory constraints.
    Yuhan Zhang, Advay Aravind, Cyn Fang, Edward Gibson & Cory Shain.
    The 39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 26-28, 2026. Poster.
2025
  • Graded strength of comparative illusions is explained by Bayesian inference.
    Yuhan Zhang, Erxiao Wang & Cory Shain.
    The 8th California Meeting on Psycholinguistics, University of California, Davis, November 14-16, 2025. Talk.
  • Processing deep recursive structures in humans and LLMs.
    Yuhan Zhang, Advay Aravind, Cyn Fang, Edward Gibson & Cory Shain.
    The 8th California Meeting on Psycholinguistics, University of California, Davis, November 14-16, 2025. Poster.
  • Distance to plausible alternatives predicts acceptability ratings in comparative illusion.
    Yuhan Zhang, Erxiao Wang & Cory Shain.
    The 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, Maryland, March 26-28, 2025. Poster.
2024
  • A memory-based account of robust negative polarity illusion effects.
    Yuhan Zhang & Edward Gibson.
    The 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 16-18, 2024. Plenary talk.
2023
  • Can language models be tricked by language illusions? Easier with syntax, harder with semantics.
    Yuhan Zhang, Edward Gibson & Forrest Davis.
    The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Singapore, December 6-7, 2023. Talk.
  • A noisy-channel explanation of comparative illusion.
    Yuhan Zhang, Carina Kauf & Edward Gibson.
    Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, San Sebastian, Spain, September 2-4, 2023. Plenary talk.
  • Crosslinguistic consistency in the interpretation of logical connectives: The case of English, Hungarian, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese.
    Masoud Jasbi, Natalia Bermudez, Yuhan Zhang, Reka Siro & Kathryn Davidson.
    Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia, July 26-29, 2023. Poster.
  • Crosslinguistic interpretation of logical connectives: Negation, conjunction, and disjunction in English, Hungarian, and Mandarin Chinese.
    Masoud Jasbi, Natalia Bermudez, Yuhan Zhang, Reka Siro & Kathryn Davidson.
    The 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 9-11, 2023. Poster.
  • Pronoun use reflects gender bias against different occupations.
    Yuhan Zhang, Jiarui Li & Lin Bian.
    The 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 9-11, 2023. Poster.
2022
  • Competing de dicto terms reduce de re acceptability.
    Yuhan Zhang & Kathryn Davidson.
    The 3rd Joint Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Milan, Italy, July 19-22, 2022. Plenary talk.
  • Affect encoding in word embeddings.
    Yuhan Zhang, Wenqi Chen, Ruihan Zhang & Xiajie Zhang.
    Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 2, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 18-20, 2022. Short talk.
  • Competing de dicto terms reduce de re acceptability.
    Yuhan Zhang & Kathryn Davidson.
    Chicago Linguistic Society 58, University of Chicago, Illinois, April 21-24, 2022. Plenary talk.
2021
  • A noisy-channel explanation for depth-charge illusions.
    Yuhan Zhang, Rachel Ryskin & Edward Gibson.
    Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Universite de Paris, France, September 2-4, 2021. Online plenary talk.
  • How many response options in a TVJT? It depends.
    Yuhan Zhang, Giuseppe Ricciardi & Kathryn Davidson.
    The 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 4-6, 2021. Short talk.
2020
  • Partial dependency of vowel reduction on stress shift: Evidence from English -tion nominalization.
    Yuhan Zhang.
    The 2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology, UC Santa Cruz, California, 2020. Poster.
  • De re interpretation in belief report: An experimental investigation.
    Yuhan Zhang & Kathryn Davidson.
    Experiments in Linguistic Meaning Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2020. Poster.
  • Stress shift is proportional and vowel reduction is not deterministic: a corpus case study of English -tion nominalization.
    Yuhan Zhang.
    Linguistic Society of America 2020 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2020. Poster.
2019
  • Prediction or processing burden: Online processing of classifier and noun-noun compound in Mandarin.
    Yuhan Zhang & Peng Zhou.
    The 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boulder, Colorado, 2019. Poster.
  • Prediction or processing burden: Online processing of classifier and noun-noun compound in Mandarin.
    Yuhan Zhang & Peng Zhou.
    The 2nd International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics, Beijing, China, 2019. Poster.