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Publications

Papers

  1. Nguyen, A., & Legendre, G. (2022). The acquisition of wh-questions: Beyond structural economy and input frequency. Language Acquisition, Vol. 29(1), 79-104. Best Original Research Article of 2022 by an Untenured Scientist
  2. Nguyen, A, & Wilson, C. (2022). Modeling the acquisition of question variants in English. In Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol. 2, 563-573.
  3. Nguyen, A., & Wilson, C. (2021). Learning the surface structure of wh-questions in English and French with a non-parametric Bayesian model. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, Vol. 4, Article 47.
  4. Nguyen, A., & Legendre, G. (2020). Covert movement in English probing wh-questions.. In Proceedings of Linguistic Society of America 2020 Annual Meeting. 5(1). 180-186.
  5. Bernard, JA, Nguyen, A, Hausman, HK, et al. (2020). Shaky scaffolding: Age differences in cerebellar activation revealed through activation likelihood estimation meta‐analysis . Human Brain Mapping. 1– 27.

Talks

  1. Zhu, Z., & Nguyen, A. (2022). The interaction between structure, discourse, and prosody in wh-questions in English. Talk at the Chicago Linguistic Society 58, Chicago, IL.
  2. Nguyen, A., & Wilson, C. (2022). Modeling the acquisition of question variants in English. Talk at the Linguistic Society of America 2022 Annual Meeting, Washington DC. Acceptance rate: 34%.
  3. Nguyen, A. (2021). The acquisition of wh-question variants. Invited talk at the University of Maryland, Linguistics department.
  4. Nguyen, A., & Legendre, G. (2021). The acquisition of English wh-in-situ. Talk at the Linguistic Society of America 2021 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Acceptance rate: 35.2%.
  5. Nguyen, A., & Legendre, G. (2020). Testing syntactic simplicity: wh-in-situ vs. fronted wh-questions in L1 acquisition. Talk at Many Paths to Language, Max Planck Institute Conference, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Acceptance rate: 23.5%
  6. Nguyen, A., Howe, W., & Legendre, G. (2020). Prosody as the main cue to differentiate wh-in-situ questions in acquisition. Talk at the 18th Old World Conference on Phonology, Eivissa, Spain.
  7. Nguyen, A. (2020). The acquisition of English wh-in-situ. Brown Bag talk at the Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
  8. Nguyen, A., & Kozloff, V. (2017). Statistical learning and language. Talk at the Experimental Group Meeting at the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Conference Posters

  1. Nguyen, A., Howe, W., & Legendre, G. (2020). English-speaking children’s acquisition of wh-in-situ. Poster at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 6. Reykjavík, Iceland.
  2. Weng Y-L., Nguyen A, Ryskin R., & Qi Z. (2020) Neural representation of syntactic prediction: a simultaneous eye-tracking and EEG study. Poster at Society for Neurobiology of Language.
  3. Weng, Y.L, Nguyen, A., Ryskin,R., & Qi, Z. (2020). Prediction and sentence ambiguity resolution: A simultaneous eye-tracking and EEG study. Poster at 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, Amherst, MA.
  4. Schneider J., Arnon I., Nguyen A., Medez K., & Qi Z. (2019). Does prior language experience hinder statistical learning? Poster presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
  5. Schneider J., Weng Y., Kozloff V., Nguyen A., & Qi Z. (2019). Neural sensitivity to speech distribution information underlise statistical learning. Poster presented at Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.
  6. Qi Z., Nguyen A., Ozernov-Palchik O., Beach S., May S., Arciuli J., & Gabrieli J.D.E. (2018). Statistical learning in reading development and reading impairment. Poster presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
  7. Nguyen A., Sanchez Araujo Y., Georgan W., Arciuli J., & Qi Z. (2018). Re-examine the reliability of statistical learning tasks across domains and modalities. Poster presented at Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
  8. Kozloff V., Nguyen A., Arciuli J., & Qi Z. (2018). Statistical learning in a noisy environment is associated with vocabulary. Poster presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
  9. Mendez K., Nguyen A., Kozloff V., & Qi Z. (2018). The role of native language in statistical learning success. Poster presented at University of Delaware’s ninth annual Undergraduate Research and Service Scholar Celebratory Symposium, Newark, DE.

Under review

Nguyen, A. & Legendre, G. The syntax-information structure interface: a case of English wh-questions.

Schneider, J., Arnon, I., Nguyen, A., Mendez, K., & Qi, Z. The relationship between statistical learning and prior language experience.