Hu Shenai
Academic Degree: | PhD | |
Academic Rank: | Associate Professor | |
Gender: | Female | |
Email: | shenai.hu@xmu.edu.cn | |
Courses Taught: | College English, Positive psychology, Psycholinguistics | |
Research Interests: | Language acquisition, bilingualism, language impairment, developmental dyslexia | |
Professional Experience: | 12/2016~present College of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Xiamen University 01/2016-12/2016 Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca 12/2014-11/2015 Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Verona | |
Educational Background: | 09/2014 PhD Autonomous University of Barcelona & University of Milano-Bicocca 03/2006 MA Zhejiang University 06/2003 BA Zhejiang University | |
Publications: | Selected Papers: Hu, S., Cecchetto, C., & Guasti, M. T. (2018). Movement chains are computed hierarchically, not linearly: New data from Wenzhounese relative clauses. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 27(3), 247–273. Hu, S., Guasti, M. T., & Gavarró, A. (2018). Chinese children’s knowledge of topicalization: Experimental evidence from a comprehension study. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47(6), 1279–1300. Hu, S., Vender, M., Fiorin, G., & Delfitto, D. (2018). Difficulties in comprehending affirmative and negative sentences: Evidence from Chinese with reading difficulties. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 51(2), 181–193. Hu, S., & Guasti, M. T. (2017). Complexity in the acquisition of relative clauses: Evidence from school-age sequential Mandarin–Italian bilingual children. Journal of International Chinese Education, 2, 119–154. Hu, S., Gavarró, A., & Guasti, M. T. (2016). Children’s production of head-final relative clauses: The case of Mandarin. Applied Psycholinguistics, 37, 323–346. Hu, S., Gavarró, A., Vernice, M., & Guasti, M. T. (2016). The acquisition of Chinese relative clauses: Contrasting two theoretical approaches. Journal of Child Language, 43, 1–21. | |
Research Projects: | 1. 2018-2021 Relative clauses acquisition in Chinese children with specific language impairment and children with reading disorder, funded by National Social Science Fund of China, no. 18BYY080 (PI: Shenai Hu) 2. 2017-2020 A Cross-linguistic Study on the Processing of Negation, funded by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, no. 20720171054 (PI: Shenai Hu) | |
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