Papers

 Journal Articles

  1. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Julia Starling, Lyn Tieu, Rebecca Sutherland & Melanie Keep. (2025). “Digital dialogues: A pilot study to evaluate a structured interview that explores the social media experiences of adolescents with communication disability.” Conditionally accepted in Child Language Teaching and Therapy. 
  2. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu & Andreea Nicolae. (2025). “Disjunction across polarities: Scope vs. strengthening in children’s interpretations of negative disjunctive sentences.” To appear in Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics. 
  3. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Anton Benz, Alexandre Cremers, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Rudmila Rodica Ivan & Andreea Nicolae. (2025). “Children interpret some disjunctions conjunctively: Evidence from child Romanian.” Journal of Semantics.  doi:10.1093/jos/ffaf011 
  4. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Julia Starling, Lyn Tieu & Melanie Keep. (2025). “Assessment of the social interaction abilities of adolescents with communication disability: A scoping review.” Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools.  doi:10.1044/2025_LSHSS-24-00081
  5. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Alexandre Cremers, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “Does hearing ‘and’ help children understand ‘or’? Insights into scales and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian.” Journal of Child Language.  doi:10.1017/S0305000925100068
  6. Tieu, Lyn, Cory Bill & Jacopo Romoli. (2024). “An experimental investigation of implicature and homogeneity approaches to free choice.” Natural Language Semantics 32, 431-471.  doi:10.1007/s11050-024-09223-6  preprint
  7. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Slăvuţeanu, Anton Benz & Andreea Nicolae. (2024). “Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian.” Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10(1).  doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.384
  8. Tieu, Lyn, Jimmy L. Qiu, Vaishnavy Puvipalan & Robert Pasternak. (2024). “Experimental evidence for a semantic typology of emoji: Inferences of co-, pro-, and post-text emoji.” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 78(4). doi:10.1177/17470218241255786
  9. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Julia Starling, Lyn Tieu & Melanie Keep. (2024). “Social media use by young people with language disorders: A scoping review.” Disability and Rehabilitation 46(26). doi:10.1080/09638288.2024.2325039
  10. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Melanie Keep, Julia Starling & Lyn Tieu. (2022). “Do Speech-Language Therapists support young people with communication disability to use social media? A mixed methods study of professional practices.” International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 58(3), 848-863. doi:10.1111/1460-6984.12826
  11. Pasternak, Robert & Lyn Tieu. (2022). “Co-linguistic content inferences: From gestures to sound effects and emoji.” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 75(10), 1828-1843.  preprint  doi:10.1177/17470218221080645
  12. Bill, Cory, Elena Pagliarini, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu & Stephen Crain. (2021). “Children’s interpretation of sentences containing multiple scalar terms.” Journal of Semantics 38(4), 601-637. doi:10.1093/jos/ffab016
  13. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Melanie Keep, Julia Starling & Lyn Tieu. (2021). “Clinical practices of speech-language pathologists working with 12-16 year olds in Australia.” International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 23(4), 394-404. doi:10.1080/17549507.2020.1820576  preprint
  14. Tieu, Lyn, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli & Stephen Crain. (2020). “Testing theories of plural meanings.” Cognition vol. 205. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104307  preprint
  15. Renans, Agata, George Tsoulas, Raffaella Folli, Nihan Ketrez, Lyn Tieu, Hanna de Vries & Jacopo Romoli. (2020). “Plurality and cross-linguistic variation: An experimental investigation of the Turkish plural.” Natural Language Semantics 28, 307-342. doi:10.1007/s11050-020-09165-9
  16. Tieu, Lyn. (2019). “A developmental asymmetry between the singular and plural.” Snippets 37: 103-105. doi:10.7358/snip-2019-037-tieu
  17. Tieu, Lyn, Manuel Križ & Emmanuel Chemla. (2019). “Children’s acquisition of homogeneity in plural definite descriptions.” Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 10. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02329
  18. Tieu, Lyn, Philippe Schlenker & Emmanuel Chemla. (2019). “Linguistic inferences without words.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 116(20), 9796-9801. doi:10.1073/pnas.1821018116
  19. Cremers, Alexandre, Frances Kane, Lyn Tieu, Lynda Kennedy, Yasutada Sudo, Raffaella Folli & Jacopo Romoli. (2018). “Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language.” Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 3(1), 139. doi:10.5334/gjgl.604 
  20. Tieu, Lyn, Robert Pasternak, Philippe Schlenker & Emmanuel Chemla. (2018). “Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from inferential judgments.” Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 3(1), 109. doi:10.5334/gjgl.580
  21. Renans, Agata, Jacopo Romoli, Maria-Margarita Makri, Lyn Tieu, Hanna de Vries, Raffaella Folli & George Tsoulas. (2018). “The abundance inference of pluralised mass nouns is an implicature: Evidence from Greek.” Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 3(1), 103. doi:10.5334/gjgl.531 
  22. Kennedy, Lynda, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu, Vincenzo Moscati & Raffaella Folli. (2018). “Beyond the scope of acquisition: A novel perspective on the isomorphism effect from Broca’s aphasia.” Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics 26(2), 144-152. doi:10.1080/10489223.2018.1502772  pdf
  23. Pagliarini, Elena, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu & Stephen Crain. (2018). “On children’s variable success with scalar inferences: Insights from disjunction in the scope of a universal quantifier.” Cognition 178, 178-192. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.04.020  pdf
  24. Denic, Milica, Emmanuel Chemla & Lyn Tieu. (2018). “Intervention effects in NPI licensing: A quantitative assessment of the scalar implicature explanation.” Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 3(1), 49. doi:10.5334/gjgl.388
  25. Tieu, Lyn, Jacopo Romoli, Eva Poortman, Yoad Winter & Stephen Crain. (2018). “Children’s comprehension of plural predicate conjunction.” Journal of Child Language 45(1), 242-259.  doi:10.1017/S0305000917000137  pdf  preprint
  26. Tieu, Lyn, Robert Pasternak, Philippe Schlenker & Emmanuel Chemla. (2017). “Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from truth-value judgment and picture selection tasks.” Glossa: A journal of general linguistics 2(1), 102. doi:10.5334/gjgl.334
  27. Cremers, Alexandre*, Lyn Tieu* & Emmanuel Chemla. (2017). “Children’s exhaustive readings of questions.” Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics 24(4), 343-360. [*joint first authorship]  doi:10.1080/10489223.2017.1366207  pdf
  28. Tieu, Lyn, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Alexandre Cremers, Jacopo Romoli, Uli Sauerland & Emmanuel Chemla. (2017). “On the role of alternatives in the acquisition of simple and complex disjunctions in French and Japanese.” Journal of Semantics 34(1), 127-152. doi:10.1093/jos/ffw010
  29. Tieu, Lyn & Jeffrey Lidz. (2016). “NPI licensing and beyond: Children’s knowledge of the semantics of any.” Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics 23(4), 311-332. doi:10.1080/10489223.2016.1176172  pdf  unpublished appendix
  30. de Carvalho, Alex, Jeffrey Lidz, Lyn Tieu, Tonia Bleam & Anne Christophe. (2016). “English-speaking preschoolers can use phrasal prosody for syntactic parsing.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters 139(6), 216-222.  doi:10.1121/1.4954385
  31. Tieu, Lyn, Jacopo Romoli, Peng Zhou & Stephen Crain. (2016). “Children’s knowledge of free choice inferences and scalar implicatures.” Journal of Semantics 33(2), 269–298.  doi:10.1093/jos/ffv001  pdf
  32. Tieu, Lyn. (2015). “Isomorphism for all (but not both): Floating as a means to investigate scope.” Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics 22(3), 310-325.  doi:10.1080/10489223.2015.1020062  pdf

Manuscripts

  1. Cremers, Alexandre & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “Children’s acquisition of the meaning of disjunction.” (currently under review)
  2. Xu, Ting, Lyn Tieu & Stella Christie. (2025). “Two experimental studies of children’s comprehension of presuppositional you ‘again’ in Mandarin.” (currently under revision)  link
  3. Tieu, Lyn, Philippe Schlenker, Jon Lamberton & Emmanuel Chemla. (2025). “Grammar across perceptual dimensions.” (currently under revision)  link
  4. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Mara Panaitescu, Alexandre Cremers, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bîlbîie & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “On the sources of strong interpretations in children: Insights from plain and modal disjunctive statements.” (currently under revision) 
  5. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “Agreement with singular disjuncts in child and adult Romanian.” (currently under revision)
  6. Tieu, Lyn. (2023). “Comparing children’s comprehension and production of scalar implicatures.” (currently under revision)
  7. Tieu, Lyn & Zheng Shen. (2021). “Climbing the highest mountain: Children’s knowledge of absolute and relative readings of superlatives.”  link
  8. Kennedy, Lynda, Cory Bill, Lyn Tieu, Jacopo Romoli & Florian Schwarz. (2017). “Success beyond syntax: Implicatures and Broca’s aphasia.”  pdf

Book Chapters

  1. Tieu, Lyn & Jacopo Romoli. (2019). “Plurality.” Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, Chapter 13, eds. Chris Cummins & Napoleon Katsos, Oxford University Press, 208-227. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198791768.013.22  pdf
  2. Tieu, Lyn, Cory Bill, Jérémy Zehr, Jacopo Romoli, & Florian Schwarz. (2018). “Developmental insights into gappy phenomena: Comparing presupposition, implicature, homogeneity, and vagueness.” Semantics in Acquisition, Trends in Language Acquisition Research (TiLAR) 24, eds. Kristen Syrett & Sudha Arunachalam, John Benjamins, 302-324.  doi:10.1075/tilar.24.13tie  preprint
  3. Tieu, Lyn. (2015). “Input vs. output in the acquisition of negative polarity: The curious case of any.” In Language, Cognition, and Mind, Volume 1, Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives, eds. Pierre Larrivée and Chungmin Lee, Springer, 327-343. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17464-8  preprint

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Andreea Nicolae, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “The role of incompatible disjuncts in the acquisition of disjunction.” To appear in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29.  
  2. Xu, Ting, Lyn Tieu & Stella Christie. (2025). “Highlighting the presupposition trigger helps: Evidence from Mandarin-acquiring children’s interpretation of presuppositional you ‘again’.” In Aditya Yedetore, Rebecca Dufie Bonney & Yuanyuan Zhang, eds., Proceedings of the 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.  link
  3. Eliatamby, André & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “The role of definiteness in ad hoc implicatures.” In Tyler Knowlton, Florian Schwarz & Anna Papafragou, eds., Proceedings of the 3rd Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 144-151.  https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.3.5839
  4. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction.” In Tyler Knowlton, Florian Schwarz & Anna Papafragou, eds., Proceedings of the 3rd Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 53-64.  https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.3.5824
  5. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “Coloring disjunction in child Romanian.” In Tyler Knowlton, Florian Schwarz & Anna Papafragou, eds., Proceedings of the 3rd Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 65-74.  https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.3.5822
  6. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “Does relevance without explicit alternatives boost exclusivity implicatures of disjunction?” In Shweta Akolkar, Amber Galvano, Akil Ismael, Kang Franco Liu & Line Mikkelsen, eds., Proceedings of the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 56-65.  link
  7. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Mara Panaitescu, Alexandre Cremers, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bîlbîie & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “More than one way to free choice: A view from child Romanian.” In Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium, 36-43.  link
  8. Chen, Crystal, Lyn Tieu & Ana Pérez-Leroux. (2024). “The role of gaze and the semantics of demonstratives in referent selection.” In Benjamin Adams, Amy Griffin, Simon Scheider & Grant McKenzie, eds., Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, article no. 20, pp. 20:1-20:8.  https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2024.20
  9. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Mara Panaitescu, Rodica Ivan & Andreea Cristina Nicolae. (2024). “On the conjunctive interpretation of the disjunction fie…fie in child Romanian.” In Geraldine Baumann, Daniel Gutzmann, Jonas Koopman, Kristina Liefke, Agata Renans, and Tatjana Scheffler, eds., Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28, 190-199. Bochum: Ruhr-University Bochum. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2024.v28.1116 
  10. Xu, Ting, Lyn Tieu & Stella Christie. (2024). “Mandarin-acquiring children’s interpretation of presuppositional you ‘again’.” In Hayat Abdullah Ali AlThagafi and Jupitara Raya, eds., Proceedings of the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 662-672. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.  link
  11. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Alexandre Cremers, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Monica Casa & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “On the role of alternatives and QUD in implicatures with disjunction in child Romanian.” In Hayat Abdullah Ali Al Thagafi and Jupitara Raya, eds., Proceedings of the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 87-100. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.  link
  12. Bleotu, Andreea, Rodica Ivan, Andreea Cristina Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Mara Panaitescu & Lyn Tieu. (2023). Not all complex disjunctions are alike: On inclusive and conjunctive interpretations in child Romanian. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45.  link 
  13. Tieu, Lyn & Zheng Shen. (2022). “Children’s interpretation of superlatives in full and fragment answers.” In Ying Gong & Felix Kpogo, eds., Proceedings of the 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 812-822. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.  lingbuzz  pdf
  14. Tieu, Lyn, Cory Bill & Jacopo Romoli. (2019). “Homogeneity or implicature: An experimental investigation of free choice.” In Katherine Blake & Forrest Davis, eds., Proceedings of the 29th Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference, 706-726. https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v29i0.4631
  15. Renans, Agata, George Tsoulas, Raffaella Folli, Nihan Ketrez, Lyn Tieu, Hanna de Vries & Jacopo Romoli. (2017). “Turkish plural nouns are number-neutral: Experimental data.” In Alexandre Cremers, Thom van Gessel & Floris Roelofsen, eds., Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium, 365-374.  pdf
  16. Tieu, Lyn & Manuel Križ. (2017). “Connecting the exhaustivity of clefts and the homogeneity of plural definite descriptions in acquisition.” In Maria LaMendola & Jennifer Scott, eds., Proceedings of the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development, 651-664. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.  pdf  preprint (color)
  17. Di Bacco, Federica, Lyn Tieu, Vincenzo Moscati, Raffaella Folli, Christina Sevdali, & Jacopo Romoli. (2017). “Testing the QUD approach: Children’s comprehension of scopally ambiguous questions.” In Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Miranda K. McCarvel, & Edward J. Rubin, eds., Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 177–186. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.  pdf
  18. Zehr, Jérémy, Cory Bill, Lyn Tieu, Jacopo Romoli, & Florian Schwarz. (2016). “Presupposition projection from the scope of None: Universal, existential, or both?” In Proceedings of the 26th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, eds. Mary Moroney, Carol-Rose Little, Jacob Collard, and Dan Burgdorf, 754-774.  pdf
  19. Gökgöz, Kadir, Ksenia Bogomolets, Lyn Tieu, Jeffrey Palmer, & Diane Lillo-Martin. (2016). “Contrastive focus in children acquiring English and ASL: Cues of prominence.” In Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition in North America, eds. Laurel Perkins, Rachel Dudley, Juliana Gerard, and Kasia Hitczenko, 13-23. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.  pdf  online
  20. Tieu, Lyn & Zheng Shen. (2016). “The littlest linguists and their superlatives: A first experiment.” In Ross Burkholder, Carlos Cisneros, Emily R. Coppess, Julian Grove, Emily A. Hanink, Hilary McMahan, Cherry Meyer, Natalia Pavlou, Özge Sarigül, Adam Roth Singerman & Anqi Zhang, eds., Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2014), 453-467.  preprint
  21. Zehr, Jérémy, Cory Bill, Lyn Tieu, Jacopo Romoli, & Florian Schwarz. (2015). “Existential presupposition projection from none. An experimental investigation.” In Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, eds. Thomas Brochhagen, Floris Roelofsen, and Nadine Theiler, 448-457.  preprint
  22. Tieu, Lyn & Zheng Shen. (2015). “Searching for absolute and relative readings of superlatives: A second experiment.” In Proceedings of the 39th Boston University Conference on Language Development, eds. Elizabeth Grillo and Kyle Jepson, 424-436.  preprint
  23. Tieu, Lyn, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, & Stephen Crain. (2014). “Plurality inferences are scalar implicatures: Evidence from acquisition.” In Proceedings of the 24th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, eds. Todd Snider, Sarah D’Antonio & Mia Wiegand (LSA and CLC Publications), 122-136.  pdf
  24. Tieu, Lyn & Jungmin Kang. (2014). “On two kinds of negative concord items in Korean.” In Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. Robert E. Santana-LaBarge, 466-473.  pdf
  25. Shimamura, Koji & Lyn Tieu. (2013). “When you can and can’t see double: Revisiting focus doubling in ASL.”  In Proceedings of the 36th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 19(1), Article 22, ed. Kobey Shwayder, 189-196.  pdf
  26. Tieu, Lyn. (2010). “On the tri-ambiguous status of any: The view from child language.” In Proceedings of the 20th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, eds. David Lutz and Nan Li, 19-37.  pdf
  27. Tieu, Lyn. (2010). “The acquisition of NPI any in English: A case study.” In Online Supplement to the Proceedings of the 34th Boston University Conference on Language Development, eds. Katie Franich, Lauren Keil, Kate Iserman, and Jane Chandlee.  pdf
  28. Tieu, Lyn. (2010). “Re-examining cross-linguistic influence in the bilingual acquisition of wh-questions.” In Proceedings of the 2010 Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Conference, ed. Melinda Heijl.  pdf
  29. Tieu, Lyn. (2009). “Transfer effects in the production of non-referential verb phrases by heritage speakers of Chinese.” In Proceedings of the 3rd Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition in North America, eds. Jean Crawford, Koichi Otaki, and Masahiko Takahashi, 270-281.  pdf
  30. Tieu, Lyn. (2009). “Standard vs. sideward movement in verb copying.” In Proceedings of the 21st North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Volume 2, ed. Yun Xiao, 584-600.  pdf
  31. Tieu, Lyn. (2008). “Non-referential verb use in Chinese: A unified verb copying analysis.” In Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Volume 2, ed. Marjorie K. Chan, 843-860.  pdf
  32. Tieu, Lyn. (2008). “Complements in non-referential contexts: Comparing English and Chinese.” In Proceedings of the 2008 Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Conference, ed. Susie Jones.  pdf
  33. Tieu, Lyn. (2007). “Transitivity requirements in Chinese: Putting the generic object in context.” In Proceedings of the 2007 Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Conference, ed. Milica Radisic.  pdf
  34. Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa, Mihaela Pirvulescu, Yves Roberge, Danielle Thomas, & Lyn Tieu. (2006). “Variable input and object drop in child language.” In Proceedings of the 2006 Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Conference, eds. Claire Gurski and Milica Radisic.  pdf
 

Dissertation

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2013). Logic and Grammar in Child Language: How Children Acquire the Semantics of Polarity Sensitivity. Doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut. link

Extended Abstracts

  1. Zaroukian, Erin & Lyn Tieu. (2015). “Hedging arguments.” In LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2015.  pdf
  2. Kang, Jungmin & Lyn Tieu. (2013). “Distinguishing negative polarity from concord in Korean.” In LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2013.  pdf
  3. Tieu, Lyn & Jungmin Kang. (2012). “Reconciling neg-raising and NPIs in Korean.” In LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2012.  pdf
  4. Sharvit, Yael & Lyn Tieu. (2011). “Cross-linguistic variation in before-clauses.” In LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2011.  pdf

Book Reviews

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2014). Review of The Acquisition of Scope Interpretation in Dative Constructions, by Marie-Elise van der Ziel, 2012. LINGUIST List 25.340 (Jan 20 2014).  link
  2. Tieu, Lyn. (2011). Review of Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research, eds. Elma Blom and Sharon Unsworth, 2010. LINGUIST List 22.2867 (Jul 12 2011).  link

Non Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Tieu, Lyn and Jacopo Romoli. (2020). “Children can’t always read between the lines. Sometimes it’s better to be explicit.” The Conversation, Oct 14 2020.  link