Liang, Lijuan (Ph.D, Professor in Psycholinguistics)

Email: lianglj@gdufs.edu.cn

(For the CV in Chinese, please visit https://clal.gdufs.edu.cn/info/1666/5451.htm)

 

About me

My research centers on bilingual lexical-semantic processing and morpho-syntactic processing in children and adults. I mainly use the event-related potential (ERP) technique which has high temporal resolution to reveal the real-time brain responses during language processing. I gained my doctor degree in Psycholinguistics from the School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University. Then I conducted my post-doctoral studies in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences in the University of Edinburgh. I am now a professor in the Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

 

Recent Publications

First author

Liang, L., Rao, X., & Zhou, J. (2022). The effect of inhibitory control on Children's L2 English syntactic processing at different developmental stages. Modern Foreign Languages, 45 (6), 807-819. (CSSCI, published in Chinese)

Liang, L., & Chen, B. (2022). The non-native phonemic perception mechanism utilized by bilinguals with different L2 proficiency levels. International Journal of Bilingualism, 26 (3), 368-386. (SSCI, A&HCI)

Liang, L., Chondrogianni, V., & Chen, B. (2021). Online processing of grammatical aspect marker by L2 Chinese learners. Second Language Research, 38 (4), 765-786. (SSCI)

Liang, L., & Chen, B. (2020). The impact of language proficiency on the time course and neural basis of L2 semantic access in bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingualism, 24 (4), 840-860. (SSCI, A&HCI)

Liang, L., Wen, Y., & Dong, Y. (2018). Gender constraint in L1 and L2 reflexive pronoun resolution by Chinese-English bilinguals. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 45, 1-12. (SSCI)

Liang, L., Sharwood Smith, M., Chondrogianni, V., & Chen, B. (2017). The pre-attentive L2 orthographic perception mechanism utilized by bilinguals with different proficiency levels. Frontiers in Psychology (Language Sciences), 8, 1357. (SSCI)

Liang, L. & Chen, B. (2014). Processing morphologically complex words in second language learners: the effect of proficiency. Acta Psychologica, 150, 69-79. (SSCI)

Liang, L. & Chen, B. (2013). The influence of metalinguistic awareness in second language acquisition and its interaction with other factors. Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice, 2, 21-27. (CSSCI, published in Chinese)

 

Coauthor

Yang, X., Liang, L., & Chen, B. (2023). Word class effect on L2 ambiguous word acquisition: Evidence from ERPs. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 68, 101157. (SSCI)

Yang, X., Zhang, Y., Liang, L., & Chen, B. (2023). The impact of syntactic category on L2 ambiguous word acquisition: Evidence from English Pseudowords. Current Psychology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-04137-0. (SSCI)

Wang, J., Liang, L., & Chen, B. (2023). The age of acquisition effect in processing second language words and its relationship with the age of acquisition of the first language. Language and Cognition. DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2022.40. (SSCI)

Zhang, Y., Yang, X., Liang, L., & Chen, B. (2022). The impact of learning new meaning on the previously learned meaning of L2 ambiguous words: The role of semantic similarity. Psychophysiology, 59, e13992. (SSCI)

Hao, S., Liang, L., Wang, J., Liu, H., & Chen, B. (2021). The effects of emotional context and exposure frequency on L2 contextual word learning. International Journal of Bilingualism, 25 (5), 1280-1296. (SSCI, A&HCI)

Zhang, Y., Lu, J., Liang, L., & Chen, B. (2020). The effect of semantic similarity on learning ambiguous words in a second language: An event-related potential study. Frontiers in Psychology (Language Sciences), 11, 1633. (SSCI)

Lü, J., Liang, L., & Chen, B. (2019). The effect of executive control ability on the comprehension of second language metaphor. International Journal of Bilingualism, 23 (1), 87-101. (SSCI, A&HCI)

Jiao L., Liu, C., Liang, L., Plummer, P., Perfetti, C., & Chen, B. (2019). The contributions of language control to executive functions: from the perspective of bilingual comprehension. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72 (8), 1984-1997. (SSCI)

Liu, H., Dunlap, S., Liang, L., & Chen, B. (2018). The effect of inhibitory control and its training on L1 and a new learned language switching. International Journal of Bilingualism, 22 (6), 653-674. (SSCI, A&HCI)

Chen, B., Ma, T., Liang, L., & Liu, H. (2017). Rapid L2 word learning through high constraint sentence context: An event-related potential study. Frontiers in Psychology (Language Sciences), 8, 2285. (SSCI)

Liu, H., Liang, L., Zhang, L., Lu, Y., & Chen, B. (2017). Modulatory role of inhibition during language switching: Evidence from evoked and induced oscillatory activity. International Journal of Bilingualism, 21 (1), 57-80. (SSCI, A&HCI)

Zhang, Q., Liang, L., Yao, P., Hu, S., & Chen, B. (2017). Parallel morpho-orthographic and morpho-semantic activation in processing second language morphologically complex words: Evidence from Chinese-English bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingualism, 21 (3), 291-305. (SSCI, A&HCI)

Liu, H., Dunlap, S., Wu, M. S., Liang, L., Lu, Y., & Chen, B. (2017). Inhibitory control predicts quasi language switching performance: evidence from face-to-face dialogue. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32 (6), 695-708. (SSCI)

Liu, H., Liang, L., Dunlap, S., Fan, N., & Chen, B. (2016). The effect of domain-general inhibition-related training on language switching: An ERP study. Cognition, 146, 264-276. (SSCI)

Wei, X., Chen, B., Liang, L. & Dunlap, S. (2015). Native language influence on the distributive effect in producing L2 subject-verb agreement. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(12), 2370-2383. (SSCI)

Chen, B., Liang, L., Cui, P., & Dunlap, S. (2014). The priming effect of translation equivalents across languages for concrete and abstract words. Acta Psychologica, 153, 147-152. (SSCI)

Funding

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (32100860), "The cross-linguistic syntactic competition in L2 Chinese learners with Indo-European language background", 2022.1-2024.12. 

Reviewer (journals)

Language Learning, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Neuropsychologia, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, International Journal of Bilingualism, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Reading & Writing