PhD Candidate of Linguistics
Cognitive Science Graduate Certificate
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
France, 2023
France, 2023
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Tzu-Yun is a PhD Candidate in linguistics at the University of Michigan. Her main interests lie in sentence processing, cognitive neuroscience, computational modeling and language acquisition. Her recent work tries to understand language processing mechanisms and sources of processing difficulty by establishing the neural and behavioral correlates of online sentence parsing, and simulating the process with large language models (LLM) as well as computational cognitive models. She also investigated the acquisition of phonology, syntax, and reading development in L1 and L2 speakers. To this end, she employed behavioral tasks, EEG experiments, computational modeling and corpus analysis.
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Tzu-Yun works at the Computational Neurolinguistics Lab.
More bio in the news: U-M Graduate Student Profile
Sweden, 2019
[Latest project]
Tung, T.-Y., & Brennan, J. R. (2023). Expectations modulate retrieval interference during ellipsis resolution. Neuropsychologia, 108680. (paper)
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Tung, T.-Y., & Brennan, J. R. (2023). Modeling memory retrieval during naturalistic comprehension. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL2023), France, October 2023. (abstract)
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Education
2017-
Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics,
University of Michigan
Thesis: Asymmetric processing of Mandarin relative clauses
Supervisor: Dr. Jonathan R. Brennan
Committee: Dr. Lisa Levinson, Dr. Richard L. Lewis, Dr. Acrisio Pires
Michigan, 2019
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Publications
Articles
Tung, T.-Y., & Brennan, J. R. (2023). Expectations modulate retrieval interference during
ellipsis resolution. Neuropsychologia, 108680. (paper)
Lo, C.-W., Tung, T.-Y., Ke, A., & Brennan, J. R. (2022). Hierarchy, not lexical regularity,
modulates low-frequency neural synchrony during language
comprehension. Neurobiology of Language, 1-41. (paper)
Tung, T.-Y.,Chen, H-J., & Yang, H. (2015). The Error Analysis of “Le” Based on “Chinese
Learner Written Corpus”. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and
Chinese Language Processing, 20(1), 79-96. (paper)
Tung, T.-Y.(2013). Role of Radical and Phonetic Awareness in Chinese Character
Acquisition and Reading Development. Proceedings of the 25thNorth American
Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL).
Tung, T.-Y.(2013). Constraints in Chinese Child Phonology: Insights from Vowel
Deviation. Proceedings of the 14thNational Conference on Linguistics in 2013
(NCL).
Conference Presentations
Tung, T.-Y., & Brennan, J. R. (2023). Modeling memory retrieval during naturalistic
comprehension. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Neurobiology of Language (SNL2023), France, October 2023. (abstract)
Tung, T.-Y., & Brennan, J. R. (2023). Modeling retrieval interference during naturalistic
comprehension. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2023), Pittsburgh, March 2023.
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Tung, T.-Y., & Brennan, J. R. (2022). Transformer language models partly predict retrieval interference effects. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL2022), Philadelphia, October 2022. (abstract)
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Tung, T.-Y., & Brennan, J. R. (2022). Transformer language models capture some, but not all, retrieval interference effects. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP2022), Virtual, September 2022.
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Tung, T.-Y., & Brennan, J. R. (2022). Expectations modulate retrieval interference. Poster
presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP2022), Virtual, March 2022. (poster)
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Tung, T.-Y., & Brennan, J. R. (2020). Symmetric retrieval in processing Mandarin relative clauses. Poster presented at the 12th Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL2020), Virtual, October 2020.
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Tung, T.-Y.,& Brennan, J. R. (2020). Asymmetric processing of Mandarin relative
clauses. Poster presented at the 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, Amherst, March 2020. (poster & video)
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Lo, C.-W.,Tung, T.-Y.,Ke, A., Brennan, J. R. (2019). Cortical tracking of Mandarin
structures. Poster presented at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, August 2019.
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Tung, T.-Y.,Chou, C-J., Lee, C-Y. (2017). The Role of Prediction and Working Memory
Constraint in the Processing of Chinese Relative Clauses: An ERP Study. Poster
presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of Taiwan Society of Cognitive
Neuroscience, Taoyuan, Taiwan, January 2017.
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Tung, T.-Y., Chen, H-J., Pan, I. (2012). The Error Analysis and Teaching of “Le”. Talk
presented at the 2ndInternational Conference on Chinese as a Second Language
Research (CASLAR), Taipei, Taiwan, August 2012.
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Teaching
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Awards & Fellowships
Finland, 2019