Yunchuan Chen, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Director of Undergraduate 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 (Spring 2026):

• AMES 353S.01, EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AS L2S Synopsis

  Perkins 070, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

  (also cross-listed as LINGUIST 353S.01)

• JPN 407S.01, ISSUES IN JAPANESE LANG/SOC I Synopsis

  Languages 208, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

• ARABIC 782.02, ARABIC FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS Synopsis

  Online ON, F 04:40 PM-05:55 PM; Class Bldg 106, MWF 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

• KOREAN 782.02, KOREAN FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS Synopsis

  Online ON, F 04:40 PM-05:55 PM; Perkins 059, MWF 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• ARABIC 782.03, ARABIC FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS Synopsis

  Online ON, F 04:40 PM-05:55 PM; Class Bldg 241, MWF 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• ARABIC 782.04, ARABIC FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS Synopsis

  Online ON, F 04:40 PM-05:55 PM; Class Bldg 241, MWF 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

Education:

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

Keywords:

Muser Mentor

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Chen, Y, Input-induced inter-speaker variation: evidence from Thai, Chinese and Japanese quantifier-negation sentences, Lingua, vol. 329 (January, 2026), pp. 104071-104071, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]
2. Chen, Y, Decoding case markers: L1 Chinese L2 Japanese learners’ comprehension of Japanese OSV sentences, Linguistics, vol. 63 no. 5 (September, 2025), pp. 1383-1406, Walter de Gruyter GmbH [doi]  [abs]
3. 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]
4. 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]
5. 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]