Ruihua Mao

Doctorant

Statut : PhD Student

Adresse :

LLF, CNRS – UMR 7110
Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7
Case 7031 – 5, rue Thomas Mann,
75205 Paris cedex 13

Téléphone : 0762509201

E-mail : ehvuhn.znb@rgh.h-cnevf.se

Site Web : https://rhmao.github.io/

Axes de recherche :
  Linguistique expérimentale

Enseignement

Advanced Experimental Syntax (Master Level, Co-teaching with Dr. Anne Abeillé; 2024 Spring). Slides1  Slides2
Advanced Experimental Syntax (Master level; Teaching assistant for Dr. Anne Abeillé; 2025 Spring)

Thèse

Titre : Meaning based approach to locality constraints: a comparative study

Directeur :
  Anne Abeillé
  Barbara Hemforth

Inscription : 2021 à University of Paris

Jury :

Rui Chaves, University at Buffalo – Reviewer

Ming Xiang, University of Chicago – Reviewer

Fuyun Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University – Examiner

Philip Miller, Paris Cité University – Examiner

Edward Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – External Supervisor and Invited Member for Defense

 

Bibliographie

Journal Papers

  • Ruihua Mao, Sihan Chen, Edward Gibson (2024). Decoding the Implausible: Mandarin Sentence Interpretation through the Noisy Channel Model . Memory and Cognition (In press). 
  • Ruihua Mao , Anne Abeillé, Edward Gibson, Barbara Hemforth (2025). How Strong are “Strong” Islands? Discourse constraints best explain long-distance extraction from English adjunct clauses . Cognition (Under Revision). 
  • Ruihua Mao , Anne Abeillé, Edward Gibson, Barbara Hemforth (2025). Extraction from subjects and objects in Chinese (In preparation).

Conference Presentations

  • Anne Abeillé, Barbara Hemforth,  Ruihua Mao , Edward Gibson (2022). Acceptability of extraction out of English adjunct clauses: the role of topicalization.  the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing , UC Santa Cruz, US. [Poster Presentation].

  • Ruihua Mao , Edward Gibson, Barbara Hemforth, Anne Abeillé (2022). Extraction out of Mandarin and English if-adjunct clauses: the role of topicalization.  the 28th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) , University of York, UK. [Poster Presentation].

  • Ruihua Mao  (2022). Testing extraction (out) of subjects and objects in Mandarin Relative Clauses.  Linguistic Evidence 2022 , Paris Cité University, France. [Oral Talk].

  • Ruihua Mao , Edward Gibson, Barbara Hemforth, Anne Abeillé (2022). Topicalization out of English and Mandarin if-clauses and that-clauses.  ExLing 2022 Paris conference , Université Paris Cité, France. [Poster Presentation]

  • Ruihua Mao , Barbara Hemforth, Anne Abeillé (2023). An empirical investigation of Mandarin subject island.  the 29th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) , Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain. [Post].

  • Ruihua Mao , Barbara Hemforth, Anne Abeillé (2023). Extraction out of Mandarin Clauses: Topic vs. Focus.  AMLaP Asia , Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.[Poster].

  • Ruihua Mao , Sihan Chen, Edward Gibson (2023). How do Mandarin Natives interpret implausible sentences.  AMLaP Asia , Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.[Poster].

  • Ruihua Mao , Sihan Chen, Edward Gibson (2023). How do Mandarin Natives interpret implausible sentences.  XL Workshop , Laboratoire de Linguistique Formal, Université Paris Cité.[Internal Presentation].

  • Ruihua Mao , Barbara Hemforth, Anne Abeillé (2024). The Discourse Function Explains “Islands”.  Proceedings of the 30th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP)  [Poster].