Xiaoyu was invited to present a talk at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University (PKU). In his presentation, he shared behavioral and neurophysiological evidence regarding how speakers learn and process sound correspondence during dialect contact, concluding with discussion on the mental lexicon of bidialectals.
PKU’s Chinese linguists have a long-standing tradition of studying the sound correspondences among Chinese varieties and between Chinese languages and neighboring languages. Their work has made significant contributions to fields such as historical-comparative linguistics, language variation and change, and dialectology. Xiaoyu’s talk approaches sound correspondences from alternative perspectives, sharing new findings derived from artificial language learning and neurolinguistic methods.
