XIAO HE
I'm a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Southern California. My main interest is psycholinguistics. More specifically, I am interested in reference resolution in general and the processing of non-syntactically constrained referential forms in particular. My secondary research interests include Chinese syntax and second language acquisition. My advisors are Elsi Kaiser and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta.
Due to the experimental nature of my research, I use statistics extensively. I have taken a variety of statistics courses in Psychology and Biostatistics and have TA'd both undergraduate and graduate statistics courses in Psychology. I also have extensive experience using the statistical programing language R to develop functions and routines for myself and colleagues to process, visualize, and analyze data and teaching students how to program in R. Some of the functions I wrote can be found via this link.
[EDUCATION]
2013 - University of Southern California, PhD in Linguistics (anticipated)
2009 - University of Southern California, MA in Linguistics
2005 - University of California - Berkeley, BA in Psychology
[CONFERENCES/PUBLICATIONS]
He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2013). Effects of verb biases on syntactic constraints during reflexive processing: Evidence from Chinese. Talk to be presented at Linguistic Evidence 2013, Berlin, Germany.
He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2013). Self or Other: Interplay of verb biases and syntactic constraints during reflexive processing. Poster to be presented at the 2013 CUNY Psycholinguistic Conference, Columbia, SC.
Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa, Xiao He & Natalie Jonckheere (In press). An L2 study on the production of stress patterns in English compounds. Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams, eds. Becker, Misha, John Grinstead & Jason Rothman, pp.185-204, John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2011). What "I" Can Tell You about the Chinese Reflexive Ziji. Poster presented at the 2011 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2011). What "I" Can Tell You about the Chinese Reflexive Ziji. Poster presented at the 2011 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2011). What "You" and "I" Can Say about the Real-Time Resolution of the Chinese Reflexive Ziji. Proceedings of the 35th Penn Linguistic Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA.
He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2011). The Role of Perspective-Taking in Person-Feature Blocking with the Chinese Reflexive Ziji. Poster presented at CUNY Psycholinguistic Conference, Stanford, CA.
He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2011). Do ‘You’ and ‘I’ Differ? Investigating Person-Feature Based Blocking on the Chinese Reflexive Ziji. Talk presented at the 4th Quantitative Investigation of Theoretic Linguistics, Berlin, Germany.
He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2010). Person-Feature Based Blocking and the Chinese Reflexive Ziji. 40th Michigan Linguistic Society Conference University of Michigan, Flint.
He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2009). Investigating the consequences of variable accessibility for the real-time interpretation of Chinese complex reflexives. Poster presented at Architecture and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference.
He, Xiao & Elsi Kaiser (2009). Consequences of Variable Accessibility for Anaphor Resolution in Chinese. In S.L. Devi, A. Branco and R. Mitkov (eds). Proceedings of the 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2009), pp.48-55. AU-KBK Research Centre, Anna University.
[TEACHING]
Teaching assistant: Aug/10 – Dec/12
Courses:
PSYC 274 – Statistics 1 (undergraduate)
PSYC 501 – Statistics in Psychological Research (graduate)
PSYC 502 – Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design (graduate).
Assistant lecturer (instructor of record): Aug/08 – Dec/10
Course:
WRIT 140 – Critical reading and writing
[SKILLS]
> Languages:
Mandarin Chinese (native), English (near native)
> Office:
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and FrontPage
> Statistical programs:
R, SPSS, SAS, Rjags, WinBUGS
> Special statistical skills:
Multilevel modeling, Bayesian statistics, robust methods, statistical programming,
Monte Carlo simulation, data visualization
> Other:
Adobe Creative Suite 5, Experiment Builder, Eyelink eyetrackers, Linger, C++,
Python, photography
[AWARDS]
2007–2012
University of Southern California College Doctoral Fellowship
2012-2013
University of Southern California Excellence in Teaching Award
2012-2013
University of Southern California University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
