Presentations

(Invited talks & refereed conference presentations)

2026

  1. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Melanie Keep, Julia Starling, Lyn Tieu & Rebecca Sutherland. (2026). “The Digital Dialogues Interview: An exploration of the social media experiences of adolescents with communication disability.” Paper to be presented at the Speech Pathology Australia 2026 Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 25-27 June.
  2. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Melanie Keep, Julia Starling, Lyn Tieu & Rebecca Sutherland. (2026). “Amplifying youth voices: Piloting a structured interview tool to explore social media use in adolescents with communication disability.” Paper to be presented at the Australian Association for Adolescent Health Youth Conference, Sydney, Australia, 22-24 April.
  3. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Anton Benz, Deborah Foucault, Lyn Tieu & Tom Roeper. (2026). “The challenges of conditional disjunction: Evidence from child Romanian.” Paper to be presented at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 8-11 January.

2025

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2025). “Children’s reasoning about disjunctive possibilities.” Invited talk, Workshop on Possibility Reasoning: Logic, Language and Cognition, Université Paris Cité, Paris, 21 November.
  2. Chen, Crystal, Lyn Tieu & Ana T. Perez-Leroux. (2025). “Joint attention, distance and contrast in demonstrative interpretation in English-speaking children and adults.” Paper presented at the 9th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition, 15 November.
  3. Tieu, Lyn. (2025). “La disjonction chez les enfants francophones.” Invited talk, Réseau des cours de français, Conférence académique / French Course Union, Academic conference. University of Toronto, 14 Nov 2025.
  4. Tieu, Lyn and Petra Schulz. (2025). “Understanding sentences with focus particles using visual alternatives: Children do not ignore ‘only’.” Poster presented at the 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 8 November.  pdf  video
  5. Eliatamby, André & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “Children compute more ad-hoc implicatures from ‘a’ than ‘the’: On the interaction of definiteness and ad-hoc implicatures.” Poster presented at the 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 8 November.  pdf  video
  6. Astapova, Maria & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “On children’s acquisition of disjunction in French: A corpus study.” Poster presented at the 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 8 November.  pdf  video
  7. Adina Camelia Bleotu, Anton Benz, Deborah Foucault, Lyn Tieu & Tom Roeper. (2025). “Acquiring conditional disjunction: Romanian five-year-olds’ struggle with implicit ‘if not’.” Poster presented at the 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 8 November.  pdf  video
  8. Vorobey, Alyssa & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “Information packaging in child language: Comparing asserted to presupposed and implicated information.” Poster presented at the 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 7 November.  pdf  video
  9. Tieu, Lyn. (2025). “What we can infer from emojis: Experimental evidence for presuppositions, implicatures, and supplements.” Invited talk, Multimodal Semantics Seminar, Institut Jean Nicod (online), 21 October.
  10. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Andreea Nicolae. (2025). “Comparing disjunction across polarities: The source of strong interpretations of negative disjunctive sentences in child language is scope, not strengthening.” Paper presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 30, Goethe University Frankfurt, 25 September.
  11. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “Conjunction as a basic meaning of disjunction: Evidence from Romanian 3-year-olds.” Paper presented at the 11th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, University of Cambridge, 18 September.
  12. Chen, Crystal H.Y., Lyn Tieu & Ana T. Perez-Leroux. (2025). “How cooperativity and proximity biases affect demonstrative referent selection in English-speaking children and adults.” Paper presented at the 11th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, University of Cambridge, 17 September.
  13. Eliatamby, André & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “Ad hoc implicatures in definites and indefinites: Evidence for a local implicature account.” Poster presented at the 11th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, University of Cambridge, 17 September.  pdf
  14. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Deborah Foucault, Thomas Roeper, Lyn Tieu & Anton Benz. (2025). “Insights into the acquisition of conditional disjunction.” Poster (alternate oral presentation) to be presented at the 11th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, University of Cambridge, 17 September.
  15. Eliatamby, André & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “Investigating the interaction of definiteness and ad hoc implicatures in child language.” Paper to be presented at the 17th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference, Tours, 12 September.
  16. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Andreea Nicolae. (2025). “Disjunction across polarities: Scope vs. strengthening in children’s interpretations of negative disjunctive sentences.” Paper to be presented at XPRAG Fest (‘Experiments on the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface’), ZAS, Berlin, 19 July.
  17. Tieu, Lyn, Nadia Faehndrich, Anita Sritharan & Philippe Schlenker. (2025). “Emoji symbols trigger direct but not indirect scalar implicatures.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, McGill University, 4 June.
  18. Astapova, Maria & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “L’acquisition de la disjonction en français : Une étude de corpus.” Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, McGill University, 4 June.
  19. Tieu, Lyn. (2025). “Linguistic inferences beyond words.” Invited talk, UConn Linguistics Colloquium Series, 11 April.
  20. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2025). “Agreement with singular disjunction in adult and child language: A grammatical lacuna or a meaning-driven process?” Paper presented at the GLOW 47 Workshop on Universal Paradigmatic Gaps, Göttingen, 24 March.
  21. Tieu, Lyn. (2025). “Linguistic inferences in gestures, sound effects, and emoji.” Invited talk, McMaster University Cognitive Science of Language Lecture Series, 20 March.
  22. Tieu, Lyn. (2025). “Linguistic inferences beyond words.” Invited talk, University of Calgary Linguistics Colloquium Series, 14 March.

2024

  1. 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.” Paper presented at the 2024 Amsterdam Colloquium, 18 December.
  2. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “Agreement with disjunction: Evidence for semantic-pragmatic and syntactic strategies.” Paper presented at Going Romance 38, Universidade do Minho, 4 December.
  3. Sritharan, Anita, Janice Shum & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “Extending presupposition projection to co-speech gestures: The view from child language.” Poster presented at the 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 9 November.
  4. Vorobey, Alyssa, Nadia Faehndrich & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “Children project the presuppositional inferences of co-speech sound effects.” Poster (alternate for talk) presented at the 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 8 November.
  5. Xu, Ting, Lyn Tieu & Stella Christie. (2024). “Highlighting the presupposition trigger helps: Evidence from Mandarin-acquiring children’s interpretation of presuppositional you ‘again’.” Paper presented at the 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 8 November.
  6. Tieu, Lyn. (2024). “Linguistic inferences without words: Evidence from gestures and emoji.” Invited talk, University of Ottawa, Department of Linguistics, 30 October.
  7. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “Incompatible disjuncts boost the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian.” Poster presented at the 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it), Venice, 27 September.
  8. Panaitescu, Mara, Lyn Tieu, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz & Adina Camelia Bleotu. (2024). “Free choice inferences and exclusivity in adults: Insights from simple and complex disjunctions in Romanian.” Poster presented at the 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it), Venice, 26 September.
  9. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Cristina Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “The role of incompatible disjuncts in the acquisition of disjunction: Insights from studies involving actual and missing logical words in child Romanian”. Paper presented at the 29th Sinn und Bedeutung, Noto, 18 September.
  10. Chen, Crystal, Lyn Tieu & Ana Pérez-Leroux. (2024). “The role of gaze and the semantics of demonstratives in referent selection.” Paper presented at the 16th Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Québec City, 17 September.
  11. Xu, Ting, Lyn Tieu & Stella Christie. (2024). “Children are sensitive to the presupposition of you ‘again’ in Mandarin: Evidence from two alternative methods.” Poster presented at the 16th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, 14 September.
  12. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “Incompatible disjuncts make children less conjunctive: Evidence from a covered box task.” Poster presented at the 30th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Edinburgh, Scotland, 5 September.
  13. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Melanie Keep, Julia Starling & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “What do we know about how young people with language disorders use social media?” Paper presented at the Speech Pathology Research Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 27 June.
  14. Alyssa Vorobey, Nadia Faehndrich & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “Inferences of co-speech sound effects project: Further experimental evidence.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Carleton University, 19 June.
  15. Godo, Yawovi, Lydia Mei, Andreea Nicolae & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “Étude expérimentale des propriétés d’exhaustivité de la disjonction en français : L’interaction de l’exclusivité, du libre choix, et des implicatures ad hoc.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Carleton University, 18 June.
  16. Chen, Crystal, Lyn Tieu & Ana Pérez-Leroux. (2024). “Investigating the role of gaze and the semantics of demonstratives in referent identification.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Carleton University, 18 June.
  17. Tieu, Lyn, Yawovi Godo, Lydia Mei & Andreea Nicolae. (2024). “Experimentally investigating the strengthening properties of disjunction in French: When exclusivity meets free choice and ad hoc implicatures.” Poster presented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM3), University of Pennsylvania, 14 June.
  18. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction.” Poster presented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM3), University of Pennsylvania, 14 June.
  19. Eliatamby, André & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “The role of definiteness in ad hoc implicatures.” Poster presented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM3), University of Pennsylvania, 13 June.
  20. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “Coloring disjunction in child Romanian.” Poster presented at Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM3), University of Pennsylvania, 13 June.
  21. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz & Andreea Nicolae. (2024). “Negative disjunctive sentences in child and adult Romanian: A preference for strong interpretations.” Poster presented at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Michigan, 17 May.
  22. Tieu, Lyn. (2024). “Replicating the typology of linguistic inferences using non-words: From gestures to sound effects to emoji.” Invited talk, Princeton University Speaker Series, Princeton University, 17 April.
  23. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Alexandre Cremers, Gabriela Bilbiie, Mara Panaitescu & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “Does merely hearing and boost implicatures with disjunction or is relevance also needed?” Paper presented at the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, UC Berkeley, 14 April.
  24. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bilbiie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2024). “Is there a conjunctive default in the interpretation of disjunction? A nonce word approach.” Poster presented at Linguistic Evidence 2024, University of Potsdam, 22 February.
  25. Tieu, Lyn. (2024). “Theories of linguistic inferences: What experiments can tell us.” Invited talk, 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, MIT, 27 January.  slides

2023

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2023). “Disjunction and conjunction in child language: Stay strong, children!” Invited talk, Workshop on Logical Operators: Theory and Acquisition, 8th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition, 18 November.
  2. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae & Lyn Tieu. (2023). “Coloring disjunction in child Romanian.” Paper presented at the Workshop on Logical Operators: Theory and Acquisition, 8th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition, 18 November.
  3. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Monica Casa & Lyn Tieu. (2023). “On the role of alternatives and QUD in implicatures with disjunction in child Romanian.” Poster presented at the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 3 November.
  4. Xu, Ting, Lyn Tieu & Stella Christie. (2023). “Mandarin-acquiring children’s interpretation of presuppositional you ‘again’.” Poster presented at the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 4 November.
  5. Tieu, Lyn, Vaishnavy Puvipalan, Jimmy Qiu & Robert Pasternak. (2023). “From gesture to emoji: Experimental evidence for a semantic typology.” Paper presented at the 10th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG), Université Paris Cité, 20 September.
  6. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu & Andreea Nicolae. (2023). “The conjunctive interpretation of disjunction is not just an experimental artifact: Insights from marked and unmarked disjunctions in child Romanian.” Poster presented at the 10th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics (XPRAG), Université Paris Cité, 20 September.
  7. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu & Andreea Nicolae. (2023). “Multiple disjunctions in child Romanian: On the possible sources of conjunctive readings.” Paper presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 28, Ruhr University Bochum, 6 September.
  8. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu & Andreea Nicolae. (2023). “Evidence from child Romanian for the conjunctive interpretation of disjunction.” Poster presented at the 29th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, San Sebastian, Spain, 31 August.
  9. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2023). “Investigating the effect of prosodic markedness on the interpretation of simple disjunction in Romanian.” Poster presented at the 29th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, San Sebastian, Spain, 31 August.
  10. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Mara Panaitescu & Lyn Tieu. (2023). “Not all complex disjunctions are alike: On inclusive and conjunctive interpretations in child Romanian.” Poster presented at CogSci 2023, Sydney, Australia, 27 July.
  11. Tieu, Lyn, Cory Bill & Jacopo Romoli. (2023). “An experimental investigation of implicature and homogeneity approaches to free choice.” Paper presented at HNM2 (Gaps and imprecision in natural language semantics: homogeneity effects and beyond), University of Vienna, 20 July.
  12. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Mara Panaitescu & Lyn Tieu. (2023). “Insights into the acquisition of simple and complex disjunction markers in Romanian.” Paper to be presented at the 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 53), INALCO, Paris, 27 June.
  13. Tieu, Lyn. (2023). “Experimental semantics and pragmatics.” Invited lecture (crash course), Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Toronto, 3 June 2023.
  14. Qiu, Jimmy, Vaishnavy Puvipalan, Robert Pasternak & Lyn Tieu. (2023). “An experimental study of the semantic contribution of pro-text emoji.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, York University, 31 May.
  15. Qiu, Jimmy, Vaishnavy Puvipalan, Robert Pasternak & Lyn Tieu. (2023). “Experimental evidence for a semantic typology of emoji.” Paper presented at the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop (TOM 15), Université du Québec à Montréal, 27 April.
  16. Qiu, Jimmy, Vaishnavy Puvipalan & Lyn Tieu. (2023). “An experimental investigation of the inferences of emoji.”  Invited talk, MIT Experimental/Computational group, 14 April.
  17. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2023). “Experimental insights into markedness and the interpretation of disjunction in Romanian.” Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing,  University of Pittsburgh, 11 March.
  18. Tieu, Lyn. (2023). “Linguistic inferences beyond language.” Invited talk, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, 28 February.

2022

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2022). “On the acquisition of linguistic inferences.” Invited talk, Goethe University Frankfurt, Language Acquisition Lab, 13 December.
  2. Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Rodica Ivan, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Monica Casa, Mara Panaitescu, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. (2022). “Simple and complex disjunction in Romanian: An experimental approach.” Paper presented at the Advances in Generative Grammar workshop, Annual International Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Bucharest, 25 November.
  3. Tieu, Lyn & Stephen Crain. (2022). “Investigating children’s understanding of gapping with negation and disjunction.” Paper presented at the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD47), 6 November.
  4. Tieu, Lyn & Stephen Crain. (2022). “Children’s understanding of gapped sentences with negation and disjunction.” Poster presented at the 28th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), University of York, 8 September.
  5. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Melanie Keep, Julie Starling & Lyn Tieu. (2022). “Teens, social media and SLPs: clinical practices of Australian speech-language pathologists working with 12- to 16-year-olds.” Paper presented at the 2022 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Melbourne, 24 May.
  6. Tieu, Lyn, Cory Bill & Jacopo Romoli. (2022). “Accounting for free choice: Revisiting the challenge for the implicature approach.” Paper presented at the 2nd Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM2), University of Pennsylvania, 18 May.
  7. Tieu, Lyn. (2022). “L’étude expérimentale des inférences linguistiques.” Invited talk, Université de Québec à Montréal, 23 March.
  8. Tieu, Lyn. (2022). “Experimentally investigating the morphology of comparison.” Invited talk, Cambridge Processing and Acquisition of Language Lab, 7 March.
  9. Tieu, Lyn. (2022). “Using nonce words to investigate the morphology of comparison.” Invited talk, Jabberwocky Words in Linguistics workshop, University of Bucharest/University of Massachusetts Amherst, 12 February.

2021

  1. Xu, Ting & Lyn Tieu. (2021). “‘Who sneezed again?’ Investigating presuppositional ‘you’/’again’ in Mandarin and English.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne (virtual), 9 December.
  2. Tieu, Lyn. (2021). “Experimental studies of linguistic inferences.” Invited talk, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 12 November.
  3. Tieu, Lyn & Zheng Shen. (2021). “Children’s interpretation of superlatives in full and fragment answers.” Poster presented at the 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-45), 4 November.
  4. Xu, Ting & Lyn Tieu. (2021). “Children’s comprehension of presuppositional you ‘again’ in Mandarin Chinese.” Short talk presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Université de Paris (virtual), 3 September.
  5. Tieu, Lyn. (2021). “Linguistic inferences without words.” Invited talk, symposium on “Gestures, signs and meaning”, 28th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP), University of Leipzig (virtual), 31 August.
  6. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Melanie Keep, Julia Starling & Lyn Tieu. (2021). “Skill capacity or skill performance: How do Australian speech pathologists working with 12-16 year olds assess pragmatics?” Paper presented at the 15th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Philadelphia (virtual), 13-17 July.
  7. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Melanie Keep, Julia Starling & Lyn Tieu. (2021). “Assessment of pragmatics by Australian SLPs working with 12- to 16-year-olds.” Paper presented at the Communication Sciences and Disorders Research Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 13 July.
  8. Tieu, Lyn. (2021). “Scalar implicatures in French: Children’s production mirrors their comprehension.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association (virtual), 5 June.
  9. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Melanie Keep, Julia Starling & Lyn Tieu. (2021). “Clinical practices of Australian SLPs working with 12- to 16-year-olds: Results of a national survey.” Poster presented at the 2021 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference (virtual), 30 May-2 June.
  10. Bill, Cory, Elena Pagliarini, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu & Stephen Crain. (2021). “Children’s interpretations of Every…some sentences.” Poster presented at the 9th conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA-9), University of Iceland, Reykjavík (virtual), 7-9 May.
  11. Tieu, Lyn. (2021). “Investigating morphosyntactic universals: Experimental evidence from the suppletion of novel comparatives and superlatives.” Invited talk, York University, Toronto, 20 April.
  12. Tieu, Lyn. (2021). “How children acquire linguistic meaning.” Invited talk, University of Toronto Mississauga, 26 March.
  13. Tieu, Lyn. (2021). “L’étude psycholinguistique des inférences linguistiques.” Invited talk, University of Toronto, Department of French, 11 March.
  14. Tieu, Lyn & Nichola Shelton. (2021). “Investigating suppletion with novel adjectives.” Parallel session talk presented at the 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Pennsylvania (virtual), 4-6 March.

2020

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2020). “Investigating suppletion using novel comparatives and superlatives: Experimental data from children and adults.” Invited talk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 07 Dec.
  2. Tieu, Lyn and Nichola Shelton. (2020). “The Comparative-Superlative Generalization in child language.” Paper presented at the 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-45), 5-8 November.
  3. Bill, Cory, Elena Pagliarini, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu & Stephen Crain. (2020). “Children’s interpretations of Every…some sentences.” Poster presented at the 45th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-45), 5-8 November.
  4. Tieu, Lyn & Robert Pasternak. (2022). “Sound effects and emoji project like gestures.” Paper to be presented at the 5th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA-5). [cancelled due to COVID]
  5. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Melanie Keep, Julia Starling & Lyn Tieu. (2020). “Clinical practices of Australian speech pathologists working with young people aged 12-16 years: Results of a national survey.” Paper accepted to the 2020 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Darwin, NT, 24-27 May. [Cancelled due to COVID)
  6. Tieu, Lyn. (2020). “Psycholinguistic investigations of linguistic inferences.” Invited talk, University of Toronto Scarborough, 15 May.
  7. Pasternak, Robert & Lyn Tieu. (2020). “Co-speech sound effects behave like gestures.” Poster presented at Linguistic Evidence 2020: Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data, Universität Tübingen, 13-15 February.
  8. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Melanie Keep, Julia Starling & Lyn Tieu. (2020). “A national survey of the clinical practices of Australian speech pathologists (SLPs) working with 12-16 year olds.” Paper presented at the Communication Sciences and Disorders Research Symposium, Sydney, Australia, 4 February.

2019

  1. Tieu, Lyn & Robert Pasternak. (2019). “From gesture to sound: Experimental evidence for the projection of co-speech sound effects.” Poster presented at the Australian Linguistic Society, Macquarie University, 11-13 December.
  2. Tieu, Lyn. (2019). “Semantic theory and acquisition: how one can inform the other.” Invited talk, ZAS, Berlin, 4 October.
  3. Tieu, Lyn. (2019). “Suppletion in children’s novel comparatives and superlatives.” Invited talk, National University of Singapore, 22 August.
  4. Tieu, Lyn, Anna Fiveash, Iain Giblin, Lydia Barnes, Stephen Crain & William Thompson. (2019). “Music primes language comprehension.” Poster presented at the International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS) and Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS), Melbourne, 19 July.
  5. Tieu, Lyn & Nichola Shelton. (2019). “Children’s knowledge of the Comparative-Superlative Generalization.” Paper presented at the Child Language Symposium, University of Sheffield, 12 July.
  6. Shelton, Nichola, Natalie Munro, Melanie Keep, Julia Starling & Lyn Tieu. (2019). “Adolescents with Language Disorder in Australia: Are they being served?” Poster to be presented at the Child Language Symposium, University of Sheffield, 11 July.
  7. Tieu, Lyn, Cory Bill & Jacopo Romoli. (2019). “Homogeneity vs. implicature theories of free choice: An experimental study.” Paper presented at XPRAG, University of Edinburgh, 21 June.
  8. Tieu, Lyn, Cory Bill & Jacopo Romoli. (2019). “Homogeneity or implicature: An experimental study of free choice.” Paper presented at the 29th Semantics & Linguistic Theory conference, UCLA, 18 May.
  9. Tieu, Lyn, Nichola Shelton & Alexandre Cremers. (2019). “Revisiting young children’s understanding of modified numerals.” Paper presented at the workshop The meaning of numerals: cognitive, experimental, and semantic perspectives, ZAS, Berlin, 28 March.
  10. Tieu, Lyn, Philippe Schlenker & Emmanuel Chemla. (2019). “Linguistic inferences without words: From gestures to visual animations.” Paper presented at the workshop Linguistic investigations beyond language: gestures, body movement and primate linguistics, ZAS, Berlin, 12 March.

2018

  1. Tieu, Lyn, Nichola Shelton & Alexandre Cremers. (2018). “Asymmetries in children’s understanding of modified numeral quantifiers.” Poster presented at the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Macquarie University, 5 Dec.
  2. Tieu, Lyn. (2018). “An experimental investigation of suppletion in novel comparative and superlative formation.” Invited talk, CCD Language Acquisition Workshop, Macquarie University, 10 August.
  3. Tieu, Lyn, Nichola Shelton & Alexandre Cremers. (2018). “Young children’s understanding of modified numerals.” Paper presented at the 2nd Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference (XPRAG.it), University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, 30 May.
  4. Tieu, Lyn & Zheng Shen. (2018). “Interpretive restrictions on superlatives in full vs. fragment answers.” Poster presented at the 41st GLOW, Budapest, 12 April.
  5. Tieu, Lyn. (2018). “Semantic theory and meaning acquisition.” Invited talk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2 March.
  6. Tieu, Lyn & Zheng Shen. (2018). “Relative readings of superlatives in full vs. fragment answers: An experimental investigation.” Poster presented at Linguistic Evidence, University of Tübingen, 16 February.
  7. Renans, Agata, George Tsoulas, Raffaella Folli, Nihan Ketrez, Lyn Tieu, Hanna de Vries & Jacopo Romoli. (2018). “Turkish plural nouns are number-neutral: experimental data.” Paper presented at Linguistic Evidence, University of Tübingen, 15 February.

2017

  1. Renans, Agata, George Tsoulas, Raffaella Folli, Nihan Ketrez, Lyn Tieu, Hanna de Vries & Jacopo Romoli. (2017). “Turkish plural nouns are number-neutral: experimental data.” Paper presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, 20 December.
  2. Yuan, Xiaohe & Lyn Tieu. (2017). “Plural mass nouns: An elicited production study.” Poster  presented at the Australian Linguistic Society 2017, University of Sydney, 6 December.
  3. Tieu, Lyn & Zheng Shen. (2017). “Children can access absolute and relative readings of superlatives.” Poster presented at the Australian Linguistic Society 2017, University of Sydney, 6 December.
  4. Tieu, Lyn. (2017). “Experimental investigations of the meanings of co-speech gestures.” Invited talk, Annual Workshop of the Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), Hunter Valley, 16 November.
  5. Renans, Agata, Jacopo Romoli, Maria-Margarita Makri, Lyn Tieu, Hanna de Vries, Raffaella Folli & George Tsoulas. (2017). “The plural inferences of count and mass nouns are implicatures: Evidence from Greek.” Poster presented at the 48th North East Linguistic Society (NELS-48), University of Iceland, 29 October.
  6. Tieu, Lyn and Zheng Shen. (2017). “Aiming high: children’s knowledge of absolute and relative readings of superlatives.” Paper presented at the 13th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA-13), Palma de Mallorca, 7 September.
  7. Renans, Agata, Jacopo Romoli, Maria-Margarita Makri, Lyn Tieu, Hanna de Vries, Raffaella Folli & George Tsoulas. (2017). “Abundance inferences are scalar implicatures: Evidence from child and adult Greek.” Paper presented at the 22nd Sinn und Bedeutung, University of Potsdam, 8 September.
  8. Kane, Frances, Alexandre Cremers, Lyn Tieu, Lynda Kennedy, Yasutada Sudo, Raffaella Folli & Jacopo Romoli. (2017). “Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language.” Poster presented at the 22nd Sinn und Bedeutung, University of Potsdam, 7 September.
  9. Renans, Agata, Jacopo Romoli, Maria-Margarita Makri, Lyn Tieu, Hanna de Vries, Raffaella Folli & George Tsoulas. (2017). “Testing the abundance inference of pluralised mass nouns in Greek.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB), University of Kent, 5 September.
  10. Kane, Frances, Alexandre Cremers, Lyn Tieu, Yasutada Sudo, Lynda Kennedy, Raffaella Folli & Jacopo Romoli. (2017). “Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB), University of Kent, 5 September.
  11. Tieu, Lyn. (2017). “Children’s scalar implicatures: comparing comprehension and production.” Poster presented at the 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, 19 July.
  12. Tieu, Lyn. (2017). “Children’s development of enriched meanings.” University of Maryland, 15 May.
  13. Tieu, Lyn, Robert Pasternak, Philippe Schlenker, & Emmanuel Chemla. (2017). “Co-speech gestures: Experimental evidence for projection and local accommodation.” Poster and lightning talk presented at the 27th Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT-27), University of Maryland, 12 May.
  14. Tieu, Lyn. (2017). “Introduction to Linguistics and Language Acquisition.” Invited lecture, Macquarie CCD Outreach’s High School Work Experience Program, 02 May.
  15. Tieu, Lyn. (2017). “The role of lexical alternatives in children’s development of meaning and inference.” Invited talk, The Developing Lexicon: Representations and Processing (Developing Mind Series), Macquarie University, 26 April.
  16. Tieu, Lyn, Robert Pasternak, Philippe Schlenker, & Emmanuel Chemla. (2017). “Experimental evidence for a cosuppositional analysis of gestural inferences.” Paper presented at the Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Presuppositions, Genoa, 4 March.

2016

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2016). “Language Acquisition.” Invited lecture for Macquarie CCD Outreach’s High School Work Experience Program, 22 November.
  2. Tieu, Lyn & Manuel Križ. (2016). “Connecting the exhaustivity of clefts and the homogeneity of plural definites in acquisition.” Poster presented at the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-41), 4 November.
  3. Di Bacco, Federica, Lyn Tieu, Vincenzo Moscati, Raffaella Folli, Christina Sevdali, and Jacopo Romoli. (2016). “Testing the QUD approach: Children’s comprehension of scopally ambiguous questions.” Paper presented at the 37th TABU Dag, University of Groningen, 3 June.
  4. Zehr, Jérémy, Cory Bill, Lyn Tieu, Jacopo Romoli, and Florian Schwarz. (2016). “Presupposition projection from the scope of ‘none’: universal, existential, or both?” Paper presented at the 26th Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT-26), University of Texas, Austin, 12 May.
  5. Tieu, Lyn. (2016). “Exhaustivity and homogeneity in children: comparing implicatures, clefts, and plural definite descriptions.” Invited talk, University College London, 10 May.
  6. Di Bacco, Federica, Lyn Tieu, Vincenzo Moscati, Raffaella Folli, Christina Sevdali, and Jacopo Romoli. (2016). “Testing the QUD approach: Children’s comprehension of scopally ambiguous questions.” Paper presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL-34), University of Utah, 29 April.
  7. Bill, Cory, Jérémy Zehr, Lyn Tieu, Jacopo Romoli, Stephen Crain, and Florian Schwarz. (2016). “On the acquisition of presupposition projection.” Paper presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society, Workshop on Presuppositions in Language Acquisition, Konstanz, 24 February.

2015

  1. Bill, Cory, Jérémy Zehr, Lyn Tieu, Jacopo Romoli, and Florian Schwarz. (2015). “Experimental evidence for existential presupposition projection from none.” Paper presented at the Amsterdam Colloquium, 18 December.
  2. Tieu, Lyn, Manuel Križ, and Emmanuel Chemla. (2015). “On the acquisition of homogeneity in plural definites.” Poster presented at the 40th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 13 November.
  3. Pagliarini, Elena, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu, and Stephen Crain. (2015). “Distributive inferences in child language.” Paper presented at the Workshop on the Linguistic & Cognitive Aspects of Quantification, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 16 October.
  4. Kennedy, Lynda, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu, and Raffaella Folli. (2015). “Scope ambiguity in Broca’s aphasia: A comparative approach.” Paper presented at the Workshop on the Linguistic & Cognitive Aspects of Quantification, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 17 October.
  5. Bill, Cory, Lyn Tieu, Jacopo Romoli, and Stephen Crain. (2015). “Neg-raising in child language.” Paper presented at the Göttingen Workshop on Negation, University of Göttingen, 18 September.
  6. Kennedy, Lynda, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu, and Raffaelli Folli. (2015). “Scope ambiguity and Broca’s aphasia: Evidence for a grammar-specific impairment.” Paper presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB), University College London, 18 September.
  7. Bill, Cory, Elena Pagliarini, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu, and Stephen Crain. (2015). “Children’s interpretation of sentences with multiple scalar terms.” Poster presented at Sinn und Bedeutung 20, University of Tübingen, 09 September.
  8. Tieu, Lyn, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Alexandre Cremers, Jacopo Romoli, Uli Sauerland, and Emmanuel Chemla. (2015). “Disjunction in child language: Inclusive, exclusive, or conjunctive?” Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Leiden, Netherlands, 03 September.
  9. Tieu, Lyn, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, and Stephen Crain. (2015). “Comparing plurality inferences and scalar implicatures in acquisition.” Paper presented at Experimental Approaches to Semantics, ESSLLI, Barcelona, 07 August.
  10. Cremers, Alexandre, Lyn Tieu, and Emmanuel Chemla. (2015). “Children’s exhaustive readings of embedded questions.” Paper presented at Experimental Pragmatics 2015 (XPrag), University of Chicago, 17 July.
  11. Tieu, Lyn and Erin Zaroukian. (2015). “Sorta hedging objects, verbs, and whole sentences.” Poster presented at Experimental Pragmatics 2015 (XPrag), University of Chicago, 16 July.
  12. Bill, Cory, Elena Pagliarini, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu, and Stephen Crain. (2015). “Children’s interpretation of sentences with multiple scalar terms.” Paper presented at Experimental and Crosslinguistic Evidence for the Distinction between Implicatures and Presuppositions (ImPres), ZAS, Berlin, 03 July.
  13. Tieu, Lyn, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, and Stephen Crain. (2015). “Plurality inferences are scalar implicatures: Further evidence from acquisition.” Paper presented at Experimental and Crosslinguistic Evidence for the Distinction between Implicatures and Presuppositions (ImPres), ZAS, Berlin, 02 July.
  14. Tieu, Lyn, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Alexandre Cremers, Jacopo Romoli, Uli Sauerland, and Emmanuel Chemla. (2015). “On the acquisition of simple and complex disjunctions in French and Japanese.” Paper presented at SALT-25, Stanford University, 16 May.
  15. Kennedy, Lynda, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu, and Raffaella Folli. (2015). “Scope ambiguity in Broca’s aphasia: Evidence for a grammar-specific impairment.” Poster presented at GLOW-38, Paris, 16 April.
  16. Tieu, Lyn. (2015). “Disjunctions in child language.” Invited talk, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, 11 March.
  17. Tieu, Lyn, Alexandre Cremers, and Emmanuel Chemla. (2015). “Children’s sensitivity to the ambiguity of embedded questions.” Paper presented at the 6th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition in North America (GALANA-6), University of Maryland, 20 February.
  18. Gokgoz, Kadir, Ksenia Bogomolets, Lyn Tieu, Jeffrey Palmer, and Diane Lillo-Martin. (2015). “Contrastive focus in children acquiring English and ASL: Cues of prominence.” Paper presented at the 6th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition in North America (GALANA-6), University of Maryland, 19 February.
  19. Zaroukian, Erin and Lyn Tieu. (2015). “Hedging arguments.” Poster presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Portland, 09 January.

2014

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2014). “Simple and complex disjunctions in child language.” Invited talk, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, 11 December.
  2. Tieu, Lyn and Zheng Shen. (2014). “Beyond production: Searching for absolute and relative interpretations of superlatives.” Paper presented at the 39th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), 07 November.
  3. Tieu, Lyn. (2014). “Exhaustification in child language: Free choice and embedded questions.” Invited talk, Polinsky Lab, Harvard University, 05 November.
  4. Tieu, Lyn. (2014). “Comparing children’s acquisition of scalar inferences: A look at free choice and embedded questions.” Invited talk, University of Ulster, 17 October.
  5. Tieu, Lyn, Jacopo Romoli, Eva Poortman, Yoad Winter & Stephen Crain. (2014). “Boolean and non-Boolean conjunction in acquisition.” Paper presented at Rencontres d’Automne de Linguistique formelle: Langage, Langues et Cognition (RALFe), Université Paris VIII (Vincennes—St-Denis), 10 October.
  6. Kennedy, Lynda, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu, Cory Bill, Christina Sevdali, Stephen Crain & Raffaella Folli. (2014). “Broca’s aphasia and plurality inferences.” Paper presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB), University of Oxford, 05 September.
  7. Tieu, Lyn. (2014). “Isomorphism for all (but not both): Floating as a means to investigate scope.” Paper presented at the Workshop on ‘Quantifier Scope: Syntactic, Semantic, and Experimental Approaches’, IKER, Bayonne, 12 June.
  8. Tieu, Lyn, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, and Stephen Crain. (2014). “Plurality inferences are scalar implicatures: Evidence from acquisition.” Poster presented at the 24th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT), New York University, 30 May.
  9. Tieu, Lyn and Zheng Shen. (2014). “Investigating superlatives in the littlest linguists.” Paper presented at GLOW in Asia X, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, 24 May.
  10. Tieu, Lyn and Zheng Shen. (2014). “The littlest linguists and their superlatives.” Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS), University of Chicago, 11 April.

2013

  1. Tieu, Lyn, Jacopo Romoli, Peng Zhou, and Stephen Crain. (2013). “Children can compute any free choice inference.” Paper presented at the Workshop on the Acquisition of Quantification, UMass Amherst, 04 October.
  2. Tieu, Lyn and Troy Messick. (2013). “Children are ‘all’ like adults: Floating as a means to investigating scope.” Paper presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA), University of Oldenburg, 07 September.
  3. Tieu, Lyn and Jeffrey Lidz. (2013). “Testing for domain widening: Experimental evidence for obligatory exhaustification.” Poster presented at the 5th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag), Utrecht University, 04 September.
  4. Tieu, Lyn. (2013). “Negative polarity and domain widening: A learnability perspective.” Paper presented at the Workshop on Negation and Polarity: Interfaces and Cognition, International Congress of Linguists (ICL), Geneva, Switzerland, 22 July.
  5. Tieu, Lyn. (2013). “Do children know anything about anything? From licensing to domain widening.” Invited talk, Reed College, 01 May.
  6. Tieu, Lyn. (2013). “Learning your A-B-ANYs: On the acquisition of domain widening.” University of Connecticut, 12 February.
  7. Tieu, Lyn and Jungmin Kang. (2013). “On two kinds of negative concord items in Korean.” Paper presented at the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), Arizona State University, 09 February.
  8. Kang, Jungmin and Lyn Tieu. (2013). “Distinguishing negative polarity from concord in Korean.” Poster presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Boston, 05 January.

2012

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2012). “Going wide: 4-year-olds’ knowledge of any.” Invited talk at UConn-Nanzan Joint Workshop on Language Acquisition and Related Issues, Nanzan University, 09 September.
  2. Shimamura, Koji and Lyn Tieu. (2012). “When you can and can’t see double: Revisiting focus doubling in ASL.” Paper presented at the 36th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC), Univ. of Pennsylvania, 24 March.
  3. Tieu, Lyn and Jungmin Kang. (2012). “Reconciling neg-raising and NPIs in Korean.” Paper presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Portland, 07 January.
  4. Tieu, Lyn. (2012). “Semantic-pragmatic conditions on wh-in-situ in English.” Poster presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Portland, 06 January.

2011

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2011). “Cross-linguistic influence at the level of syntactic features: The case of wh-questions.” Paper presented at the symposium on Wh-questions in bilingual acquisition, at the 12th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Université du Québec à Montréal, 20 July.
  2. Tieu, Lyn. (2011). “On either in questions.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA), University of New Brunswick, 30 May.
  3. Sharvit, Yael and Lyn Tieu. (2011). “Cross-linguistic variation in before-clauses.” Poster presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Pittsburgh, 08 January.

2010

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2010). “On the tri-ambiguous status of any: The view from child language.” Paper presented at the 4th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition in North America (GALANA), University of Toronto, 01 September.
  2. Tieu, Lyn. (2010). “Do children know anything about anything?” Invited talk at the Workshop on Syntax and Acquisition, Univ. of Toronto, 20 July.
  3. Tieu, Lyn. (2010). “Transfer vs. code-switching in bilingual children’s acquisition of wh-questions.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA), Concordia University, Montreal, 31 May.
  4. Tieu, Lyn. (2010). “On the acquisition of a disjunctive licensing condition in semantics.” Poster presented at the 20th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT), University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 30 April.

2009

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2009). “On children’s acquisition of the NPI licensing condition in English.” Poster presented at the 34th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston University, 07 November.
  2. Tieu, Lyn. (2009). “Verb copying in Chinese: Standard vs. sideward movement.” Paper presented at the 21st North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), Bryant University, 06 June.

2008

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2008). “Transfer effects in the production of non-referential verb phrases by heritage speakers of Chinese.” Poster presented at the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA), University of Connecticut, 06 September.
  2. Tieu, Lyn. (2008). “Transitivity and non-referential verb use in Chinese: Verb copying at the PF interface.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA), University of British Columbia, 02 June.
  3. Tieu, Lyn. (2008). “PF constraints on the syntax of non-referential objects in Chinese.” Paper presented at the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL), Ohio State University, 26 April.
  4. Tieu, Lyn. (2008). “Language dominance effects in Chinese-English bilingual acquisition.” Paper presented at the Second Language Acquisition Graduate Symposium, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 11 April.

2007

  1. Tieu, Lyn. (2007). “Examining language dominance effects in the bilingual acquisition of transitivity alternations in Chinese.” Poster presented at the 12th International Conference on the Processing of East Asia Related Languages (PEARL), National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 29 December.
  2. Tieu, Lyn. (2007). “Transitivity requirements in Chinese: Putting the generic object in context.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 28 May.
  3. Tieu, Lyn. (2007). “Towards an alternative analysis of the generic object construction.” Paper presented at the 1st McGill Conference for Canadian Linguistic Undergraduates, McGill University, Montreal, 24 March.
  4. Tieu, Lyn. (2007). “Transitivity requirements in Chinese: An alternative analysis of the generic object construction.” Paper presented at the 6th Meeting of the Niagara Linguistic Society, University of Toronto, 17 March.

2006

  1. Pérez-Leroux, Ana, Mihaela Pirvulescu, Yves Roberge, Danielle Thomas, and Lyn Tieu. (2006). “Variable input and object drop in child language.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA), York University, Toronto, 29 May.