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Publications
Xiang, M., and Kuperberg, G. Reversing Expectations in Discourse Comprehension. (resubmitted)
Xiang, Ming; Dillon, Brian; Wagers, Matt; Liu, Fengqing and Guo, Taomei (accepted). Processing Covert Dependencies: An SAT Study on Mandarin Wh-in-situ Questions. Journal of East Asian Linguistics. (PDF)
SanPietro, S., Xiang, M. and Merchant, J. (to appear) Accounting for voice mismatch. Proceedings of the 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), Santa Cruz. (PDF)
Beltrama, A. and M. Xiang. Is good better than excellent? An experimental investigation on scalar implicatures and gradable adjectives. (2012) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 17. (PDF)
Wang, S.; Mo, D.; Xiang, M.; Xu, R. & Chen, H-C. 2012. The time course of semantic and syntactic processing in reading Chinese: evidence from ERPs. Language and Cognitive Processes.(PDF)
Polinsky, M; Clemens, LE; Morgan, AM; Xiang, M. & Heestand, D. (to appear). Resumption in English. in Sprouse, J. & Hornstein, N. (ed): Experimental syntax and Island effects. Cambridge University Press.
Heestand, Dustin, Ming Xiang, and Maria Polinsky. 2011. Resumption Still Does Not Rescue Islands. Linguistic Inquiry 42: 138-152. (PDF)
Xiang, Ming, Boris Harizanov, Maria Polinsky, and Ekaterina Kravtchenko . 2011. Processing morphological ambiguity: An experimental investigation of Russian numerical phrases. Lingua 121: 548-560. (PDF)
Xiang, M., Dillon, B. & Phillips, C. (2009) Illusory licensing effects across dependency types: ERP evidence. Brain and Language, 108, 1, 40-55 (PDF)
Xiang, M. 2008. Plurality, maximality and scalar inferences: a case study of Mandarin dou. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 17, 3, 227-245 (PDF)
Engelhardt, P. E., Xiang, M., & Ferreira, F. (2008). Anticipatory eye movements mediated by word order constraints. Proceedings of the 30th Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, D.C. (PDF)
Huang, J., Xiang, M. & Cao, Y. 2006, Reduction in V1 Activation Associated with Decreased Visibility of a Visual Target. NeuroImage, 31, 4, 1693-1699.
Presentations
Xiang, M.; Giannakidou, A. & Grove, J. 2012. Two stages of NPI licensing: an ERP study. Poster presented at the 25th annual meeting of the CUNY Conference of Human Sentence Processing, March, NYC.
Xiang, M.; Giannakidou, A. & Grove, J. 2012. Strength of negation and licensing negative polarity items: an ERP study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting. March, Chicago.
Beltrama, A. & Xiang, M. 2012. How beautiful is a pretty girl? Adjectives and implicatures. Talk presented at the 86th annual meeting of Linguistic Society of America. January, Portland.
Xiang, M. Merchant, J. & Grove, J. 2012. Silent structures in ellipsis: Priming and anti-priming effects. Poster presented at the 86th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. January, Portland.
Xiang, M.; Grove, J. & Giannakidou, A. 2011. Interference “licensing” of NPIs: Pragmatic reasoning and individual differences. Poster presented at the 24th annual meeting of the CUNY Conference of Human Sentence Processing, March, Stanford.
Xiang, Ming, Fengqin Liu, Peiyao Chen, and Taomei Guo. 2011. Cross-linguistic variations and similarities: an ERP study of Mandarin wh-constructions. Poster presented at the 24th CUNY conference, Stanford.
Xiang, Ming, Julian Grove, and Anastasia Giannakidou. 2011. Interference “licensing” of NPIs: Pragmatic reasoning and individual differences. Poster presented at the 24th CUNY conference, Stanford.