Minqi Liu - Department of Linguistics

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Minqi Liu

Graduate Student

E-mail: liuminqi@ucla.edu

Pronouns: she, her, hers

Please see my CV and my personal website for more information.

Research Interests: first language acquisition, syntax

Recent News:

Jan 2023	I gave a talk on Featural Relativized Minimality in Child Mandarin Passives at the LSA 2023 Annual Meeting with Victoria Mateu and Nina Hyams.
Nov 2022	I gave a talk on Intervention effects in Mandarin-speaking children’s comprehension of passives at the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 47) with Victoria Mateu and Nina Hyams. I received a Paula Menyuk Travel Award ($350) for this trip. Here are our slides and a pre-print version of our conference paper.
Jul 2022	A paper co-authered by me, Nina Hyams, and Victoria Mateu was published in the inaugural issue of Tsinghua Linguistics, entitled The syntax and acquisition of Mandarin sluice-like constructions. (pre-print version)
Jul 2022	I received a Dissertation Year Fellowship ($20,000) by UCLA.
Mar 2022	I received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($15,001) by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for my dissertation project Intervention Effects in the Acquisition of Passives (with faculty PI Prof. Nina Hyams).

Jan 2023

I gave a talk on Featural Relativized Minimality in Child Mandarin Passives at the LSA 2023 Annual Meeting with Victoria Mateu and Nina Hyams.

Nov 2022

I gave a talk on Intervention effects in Mandarin-speaking children’s comprehension of passives at the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 47) with Victoria Mateu and Nina Hyams. I received a Paula Menyuk Travel Award ($350) for this trip. Here are our slides and a pre-print version of our conference paper.

Jul 2022

A paper co-authered by me, Nina Hyams, and Victoria Mateu was published in the inaugural issue of Tsinghua Linguistics, entitled The syntax and acquisition of Mandarin sluice-like constructions. (pre-print version)

Jul 2022

I received a Dissertation Year Fellowship ($20,000) by UCLA.

Mar 2022

I received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($15,001) by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for my dissertation project Intervention Effects in the Acquisition of Passives (with faculty PI Prof. Nina Hyams).