Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication Sciences and Special Education My current research focuses on (i) form-function mapping in the narratives of monolingual and bilingual speakers, (ii) the development of visual speech perception, and (iii) general effects of bilingualism and effects of crosslinguistic differences and transfer on language development and use. Representative Publications: Chen, L., Lei, J., and Gong, H. (2018). The effect of hearing status on speechreading performance of Chinese adolescents. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2018.1510986 Jiang, X. and Chen, L. (2018). The preferred argument structure in the narratives of Chinese-English bilinguals and their monolingual peers. International Journal of Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006917728397 Chen, L., and Lei, J. (2017). The development of visual speech perception in Chinese-speaking children. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 31, 514-525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2016.1277391 Chen, L. and Yan, R. (2011). Development and use of evaluative expressions in the English narratives of Chinese-English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition,14(4): 570-578. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728910000362 Chen, L. & Guo, J. (2009). Motion events in Chinese novels: Evidence for an equipollently-framed language. Journal of Pragmatics, 41(9), 1749-1766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2008.10.015 Visit my google scholar homepage (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pZO4_C8AAAAJ&hl=en) for updated information of my research! Education Education: BA in English Education: Hunan Normal University MA in Linguistics: Guangdong University of Foreign Studies MA in Theoretical Linguistics: University of Connecticut PhD in Applied Language and Speech Sciences: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Research Areas of Interest: Language Acquisition Specific Research Areas: Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Clinical Linguistics, Chinese Linguistics Courses Taught Courses Taught: CMSD(LING) 3120 CMSD(LING) 8050
