Publications

Mandarin-Speaking Children's Verbal Packaging of Agent–Patient Relationship within Change-of-State Events

Song, Z. T., & Haryu, E.

Under review Journal

In Mandarin, state-change events are expressed with resultative verb compounds, while no-state-change events take monomorphemic action verbs. In a comprehension experiment (96 children, M = 5.32 yrs) and a production experiment (100 children, M = 5.11 yrs), we asked whether differences in endstate salience contribute to children's challenges in packaging action and result into verbs.

The Reliance of Morphological Cues in Understanding the Lexical Concepts of Japanese Verbs: The Case of Adult Japanese Native Speakers

Song, Z. T., & Wang, C. (2021)

Hirosaki Daigaku KokugoKubungaku [Journal of Hirosaki University Japanese Language and Literature], 42, 1–24 Journal

Native Japanese speakers interpreted novel verbs based on their morphological form: verbs with the past-tense suffix -ta were mapped onto the subevent preserving the result, while verbs with -teiru applied to both subevents — evidence for morphological bootstrapping, with implications for L2 learners.

Acquiring the Formal Rule of Causativity Expression Precedes Mastery of Its Meaning in Mandarin-Speaking 3- to 6-Year-Olds

Song, Z. T., & Haryu, E.

51st Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 51), Boston, USA · Nov 2026 Poster Upcoming

The End Matters: Endstate Salience in Change-of-State Events Affects Mandarin-Speaking Children's Acceptance of Verbal Packaging Patterns of Action and Result

Song, Z. T., & Haryu, E.

22nd European Conference on Developmental Psychology (ECDP 2025), Vilnius, Lithuania · Aug 2025 Poster Peer-reviewed

Mandarin-Speaking Children Can Correctly Produce Change-of-State Verbs: Limited Influence of Salience of Event State Structure

Song, Z. T., & Haryu, E.

2024 APS Global Psychological Science Summit, virtual meeting · Oct 2024 Poster Peer-reviewed

The Role of Suffixes on Mapping Novel Verbs to Motion Events: Morphological Bootstrapping in the Context of L2 Japanese Learners

Song, Z. T., & Wang, C.

Linguistics Conference at University of Georgia (LCUGA 2025), University of Georgia, USA · Mar 2025 Talk Peer-reviewed

The Intersectional Oppression of Sexual Minority Chinese-National Expatriates in Japan: Toward a Hypothesis on Possible Patterns

Toda, R., & Song, Z. T.

Diversifying Scholarship Research Conference 2025 (DSRC 2025), virtual meeting, University of Virginia, USA · Apr 2025 Talk Peer-reviewed

Navigate Verb Learning from Engaging in Manipulative Activities: Implication for Literacy Enhancement Based on Evidence from Child Language Acquisition

Song, Z. T.

Academic Dialogues with German Researchers, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo · Nov 2025 Poster

How We Describe the World: The Role of Extra-Linguistic Knowledge in Word Learning

Song, Z. T.

Faculty of Psychology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand · May 2025 Talk

Package Our Views: Different Event Types Influence Mandarin-Speaking Children's Verbal Packaging Pattern

Song, Z. T.

National Taiwan University & National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan · Dec 2024 Talk (Mandarin)

I May Not Know but I Can Talk: A Discrepancy in Chinese-Speaking Children's Learning of Change-of-State Related Verbs and the Possible Influence of Event Property

Song, Z. T.

Study Meeting on "Childcare" and "Language Development", Center for Development, Education and Policy Research (CEDEP), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo · Jul 2024 Talk