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Chun-Chieh Hsu

  • Job Title: Associate Professor
  • Office Hour: On leave
  • Phone: (03)5715131 ext. 62027
  • E-Mail: cchsu [at] mx.nthu.edu.tw
  • Office: HSS Building A531
  • Education:Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Delaware, USA
  • Teaching:Research Method, Topics in Language Acquisition, Syntax, Child Language Acquisition, Sentence Processing Experiments
  • Research Expertise:Psycholinguistics, Sentence Processing, Language Acquisition

Journal Articles

  • HSU, C. (2023). Pseudo-relatives and restrictive-relatives in child Mandarin. Journal of Child Language, 50(4), 860-894. doi:10.1017/S0305000922000137[SSCI]
  • Han-Chung Wang, Hung-Tzu Huang, Chun-Chieh Hsu, (2015) ‘The Impact of Choice on EFL Students’ Motivation and Engagement of L2 Vocabulary Learning’, Taiwan Journal of TESOL, Vol. 12-2, 1-40
  • Hung-Tzu Huang*, Chun-Chieh Hsu, Shun-wen Chen, (2015) ‘Identification with Social Role Obligations, Possible Selves, and L2 Motivation in Foreign Language Learning”, System, 51, 28-38 [SSCI]
  • Hsu, C.C. (2014), ‘The role of age in Mandarin-speaking children’s performance of relative clauses’, Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, Vol.40.2, 29-54. [THCI-core] (Supported by NSC 99-2410-H-007-061)
  • Hsu, C.-C.*, Tsai, S.-H. R.,Yang, C.-L., and Chen, J.-Y. (2014), ‘Processing classifier-noun agreement in a long-distance: An ERP study on Mandarin Chinese’, Brain and Language,137, 14-28 [SSCI, Impact factor: 3.309]
  • Hsu, C.-C.* & Shelley C.-Y. Hsieh (2013), “The effects of syntactic knowledge and extra-grammatical factors on sentence acceptability judgment: An empirical study on Chinese topic constructions”, Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 11.1, 91-124 [THCI-core]
  • Hsieh, C.-Y. Shelley, & Hsu, C.-C. N. (2010), ‘Idiom comprehension in Chinese children’, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 39, 505-522 [SSCI]
  • Hsu, C.-C. N.*, Hermon, G., & Zukowski, A. (2009) ‘Young Children’s Production of Head-final Relative Clauses: Elicited Production Data from Chinese Children’, Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 18: 4, 323-360 [SSCI]
  • Hsu, C.-C. N. (2008), ‘Revisit relative clause islands in Chinese’, Language and Linguistics, Vol. 9, 1, 23-48 [SSCI]
  • Hsu, C.-C. N. (2005), ‘Chinese adjunct relativization.’ Proceedings of North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, 16, 139-156, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Book Chapters

  • Hsu, C.-C. (2017), “L1 Acquisition of Syntax: Relative Clauses” In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T.J. Huang, & J. Myers (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics Vol.1 (pp. 57-63), Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
  • Hsu, C.-C.* & J.-Y. Chen (2013), “How linear distance and structural distance affect the processing of gap-filler dependencies in head-final relative clauses - An Eye-tracking Study on Mandarin Chinese”, in Jing-Schmidt, Z. (ed.) “Increased Empiricism: Recent Advances in Chinese Linguistics” (pp.247-270), USA: John Benjamins (Supported by NSC 99-2410-H-007-002)

Conference Papers

  • Chen, Yu-Chieh, Hsu, Huei-Tsuen, & Hsu, Chun-Chieh, (2021) ‘The interpretation of double negative phrase Chādiǎn-Méi in Mandarin Chinese’, poster presented at the Third International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-3), National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, November 2021.
  • Shiue, Sheng-An, Wong, Tzu-Yun, & Hsu, Chun-Chieh, (2021) ‘The processing and the interpretation of wh-words in Chinese bare conditionals’, poster presented at the Third International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-3), National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, November 2021.
  • Cheng, Yi-Ting, Wei-Hsin Lo, Yung-Han Tseng, Chen-Yun Yan, and Chun-Chieh Hsu (2020), ‘The function of HUI in relation to wh-words in Chinese’, poster presented at the 13th Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics (FOSS-13), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2020.
  • Chen, Szu-En, Hsu, Chun-Chieh, (2019), ‘Processing poly-morphemic reflexive ta-zjij in Mandarin: An eye-tracking study’, poster presented at the Second International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-2), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, March 2019.
  • Hsu, Chun-Chieh, Fang-Yu Chang, Ching-Yi Chen, Pei-Yun Chen, Yi-Chien Lin, Yi-Ting Liu, (2019), ‘The asymmetry between ziji and ta-ziji in Mandarin: An empirical investigation’, poster presented at the Second International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-2), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, March 2019.
  • Hsu, Chun-Chieh, Mario Torrez Orozco (2018). ‘Revisit the effect of referential contexts on nonnative RC-attachment ambiguity resolution?’, paper presented at the 35th International Conference on English Teaching and Learning, Hsinchu, Taiwan, May 18-19.
  • Hsu, Chun-Chieh, Chen, Szu-En; Hsieh, Yi-Wen; Han, Tsai-Ni; Chen, Tzu-Yu (2017). ‘Context effects on L2 learners’ processing of reduced relative clauses’, paper presented at Second Research Forum, Ohio State University, USA, October.
  • Chen, Szu-En, Hsu, Chun-Chieh, (2017). ‘Processing reflexives with or without context in L2 English’, paper presented at Second Research Forum, Ohio State University, USA, October.
  • Hsu, Chun-Chieh (2017). “Is Classifier-noun mismatch an Effective Cue for Relative Clause Prediction in Mandarin?”, paper presented in the first International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics, Hong Kong, March 10-12.
  • Hsu, C.C. and Ko, Yu-Han. (2015). "A Self-System Perspective on Early Adolescents' English Learning Motivation: Differences in Urban and Rural Areas", paper presented in the 32nd International Conference on English Teaching and Learning (ROCTEFL), Taipei, Taiwan, May 23-24.
  • Hsu, C.-C. (2014). "Focus effect in children and caregivers' use of relative clauses: Evidence from Taiwan corpus of child Mandarin." Paper to be presented at the Sixth International Conference on Formal Linguistics in conjunction with the International Conference on Language Acquisition, Language Disorder and Language Assessment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, November 8-9.(Supported by MOST 102-2410-H-007-029)
  • Hsu, Chun-Chieh, Hung-Tzu Huang, Shun-Wen Chen (2013), “Beliefs of Social Role Obligation in EFL College Students’ L2 Motivation”, poster presented at the 10th Biennial Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP 2013), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, August 21-24.
  • Hung-Tzu Huang, Chun-Chieh Hsu, Shun-Wen Chen, (2013), “Motivation and Selves in Learning a Third Language: The Case of Foreign Language Learning in Taiwan”, paper presented at American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL-2013), Dallas, March 16~19
  • Tuyuan Cheng, Hintat Cheung, and Chun-Chieh Hsu, (2012), “The use of relative clauses in Mandarin adult-child discourse: An information flow account”, paper presented at The 6th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 2012), National Taiwan University, May 4~6, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Hsu, C.-C. (2011), “Young children’s performance of relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese”, Paper presented at The 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Beijing Foreign Studies University, August 23-28, 2011
  • Hsu, C.-C., & Hsieh, C.-Y. Shelley. (2011), “The nature of grammaticality judgment: Implications from violation sentences in Chinese”, Paper presented at the 23rd North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, June 17~19
  • Hsu, C.-C. (2011), “Revisiting effects of linear distance & structure distance in processing Chinese relative clauses”, Paper presented at the 23rd North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, June 17~19
  • Hsu, C.-C. N., & Hsieh, C.-Y. Shelley. (2010), “The effect of Context on the Grammaticality Judgment of Sentences with Island Violations in Chinese”, Paper to be presented at the 7th Workshop on Formal Syntax and Semantics (FOSS-7), Academia Sinica, April

Research Projects

  • 2020/08 - 2022/01
    An investigation on Mandarin-speaking learners’knowledge of the count-mass distinction in L2 English
    Principle Investigator, Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  • 2016/08 - 2018/12
    An investigation on how Mandarin-speaking learners process English relative clauses in real time
    Principle Investigator, Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  • 2013/08 - 2014/12
    The development of relative clauses in Mandarin children: The prototypes and their cross-linguistic comparisons
    Principle Investigator, Research Project, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
  • 2012/01 - 2013/12
    Motivations, identities, and socio-cultural factors of English learning in Taiwan
    Co-Principle Investigator, Research Project (together with Dr. Hung-Tzu Huang and Dr. Shun-Wen Chen, as a sub-project of “The culture- and mind- basis for learning process", founded by Toward World-Class Universities Project - Boost Program, National Tsing Hua University)
  • 2010/08 - 2011/12
    Explaining young children's production of relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese
    Principle Investigator, Research Project, National Science Council, Taiwan
  • 2010/01 - 2011/06
    Working memory and the effect of linear distance and structural distance on the processing of relative clauses in Chinese
    Principle Investigator, Research Project, National Science Council, Taiwan

Professional Experience

  • 2015/08 - Present
    Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
    National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  • 2009/08 - 2015/07
    Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
    National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  • 2009/02 - 2010/07
    Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute of Linguistics
    National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
  • 2007/08 - 2009/07
    Post-doctoral Researcher, Institute of Cognitive Science
    National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
  • 2006/09 - 2007/08
    Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
    National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan