Yaling Hsiao
B.A., M.Ed, M.Sc, Ph.D.
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow; Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College
- Postdoctoral researcher
psycholinguistics, language processing, reading research
I am interested in how children learn to read and how humans comprehend and produce language. Broadly speaking, my research focuses on answering the question of "what makes some words and grammatical structures easier to learn and process than others?" We experience words and grammar in our daily language use and exposure to text and speech. Words and sentences appear at different frequency and in different contexts and genres. I study how experience gained through reading and speech shapes how we learn and process words and grammar. I use a combination of corpus analysis, behavioural methods and computational modelling to answer this question.
I am currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Experimental Psychology and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College in University of Oxford. I completed my Ph.D. in Psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Recent publications
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‘Book language’ and its implications for children’s language, literacy, and development
Journal article
NATION K. et al, (2022), Current Directions in Psychological Science
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Context availability and sentence availability ratings for 3,000 English words and their association with lexical processing
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Taylor E. et al, (2022), Journal of Cognition
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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
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HSIAO Y. et al, (2022), Journal of Child Language
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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
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HSIAO Y. et al, (2022), Journal of Child Language
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Lexical connectivity effects in immediate serial recall of words
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NATION K. et al, (2021), Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
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Journal article
Mak MHC. et al, (2021), Journal of Memory and Language, 118, 104203 - 104203