Yunchuan Chen, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

My research interests are experimental approaches to grammars, L2 acquisition and heritage languages. My research projects so far include Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Tibetan, Thai and Nuosu Yi. I am also interested in how to teach/learn foreign languages effectively with meaning-based approaches.  

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Rm 225 2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://sites.google.com/view/yunchuan-chen/home

Teaching (Fall 2025):

• JPN 305.01, ADVANCED JAPANESE Synopsis

  Languages 208, MWF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Hawaii, Manoa	2019
M.A.	University of Hawaii, Manoa	2012

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Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Chen, Y, Decoding case markers: L1 Chinese L2 Japanese learners’ comprehension of Japanese OSV sentences, Linguistics (April, 2025), Walter de Gruyter GmbH [doi]  [abs]
2. Chen, Y; Huan, T, Scope assignment in Quantifier-Negation sentences in Tibetan as a heritage language in China, Second Language Research, vol. 40 no. 3 (July, 2024), pp. 785-799 [doi]  [abs]
3. List, A; Chen, Y, An experimental investigation of the Deep Double-o Constraint in Japanese causative constructions, Journal of Japanese Linguistics, vol. 40 no. 1 (May, 2024), pp. 87-108, Walter de Gruyter GmbH [doi]  [abs]
4. Chen, Y; Hester, M, Scope assignment in quantifier-negation sentences in early Korean-Chinese bilinguals’ grammars, Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, vol. 9 no. 1 (May, 2024), pp. 5655-5655, Linguistic Society of America [doi]  [abs]
5. Chen, Y, An experimental approach to the reconstruction of the head quantifier phrase in Chinese relative clauses, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 69 no. 1 (March, 2024), pp. 118-128 [doi]  [abs]