Yanyu Long

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Education

To be received (08/2015) M.A in Linguistics, Purdue University
07/2013 LSA Summer Institute, University of Michigan
07/2012 B.A in English Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

Teaching experience

08/2013-12/2013 Teaching Assistant for Fundamentals of Phonology and Morphology, Purdue University
01/2014-05/2014 Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Linguistics, Purdue University

Conferences, talks

Conferences

  1. “The syntactic status of jinxing ‘do’ in Mandarin: light verb or heavy verb.” Presented at Arizona Linguistics Circle 7, October 11-13, 2013
  2. “Does ‘Spanish stage’ exist? A study of developmental patterns of Chinese L2-acquisition of English bare plural generics.” Presented at 2013 Purdue University Graduate Student Symposium on SLS/ESL, March 30, 2013
  3. “The acquisition of singular generics in L2 English by L1 Chinese speakers.” Presented at the 8th Annual Purdue Linguistics Association Student Symposium, March 29-30, 2013
  4. “The acquisition of the English article system by L1 Chinese”. Presented at the 1st Beijing Undergraduate Academic Conference, September 17-18, 2011

Accepted conference papers

  1. “The acquisition of singular generics in L2 English by L1 Chinese speakers.” Accepted by Third Asian Conference on Language Learning 2013 held in Japan. (was unable to attend due to limited funding)
  2. “The acquisition of singular generics in L2 English by L1 Chinese speakers.” Accepted by the 2013 MEESO International Conference held in Korean. (was unable to attend due to limited funding)

Other presentation experience

  1. “The obligatory object shifting in Mandarin Light Verb Construction”. Presented at Michigan State University Linguistics Student Organization Brownbag, October 10, 2013
  2. “Does ‘Spanish stage’ exist? A study of developmental patterns of Chinese L2-acquisition of English bare plural generics.” Presented at Next Generation Scholars Research Fair (an Outreach project sponsored by Purdue Graduate Student Government), November 30, 2012.