Educational Background & Work Experience

Work Experience

2020.7-Present      Full time, Associate Professor, Department of English, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2013-2020          Full time, Associate Professor, Department of English, Soochow University, Suzhou, PRC

2018-2019          Visiting scholar, Utrecht University,the Netherlands

2008-2013        Part time, Research Assistant, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

2007-2008         Full time, Research Assistant, Language Acquisition Lab, Chinese University of Hong Kong

2003-2005          Full time, Research assistant, Institute of Cognitive Science, School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University, Changsha, PRC

Education Background

2009-2013          PhD in Cognitive Science (linguistics), Macquarie University, Australia 

2005-2009          MPhil in Linguistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong

2000-2003          MA in Linguistics, Hunan University, PRC

1995-1998          BA in English Literature and Linguistics, Changsha Railway University, PRC

Teaching and Research

Research Interests

First language Acquisition, Semantics, Pragmatics, Chinese linguistics , Second language acquisition

Publications

Refereed journal articles

Aijun Huang, Jingjing Li, Luisa Meroni (2022). Grammatical and contextual factors in the interpretation and acquisitioni of superordinate collectives in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics. 60(4), 933-972.

Aijun Huang, Xiaomei Zhang, Stephen Crain (accepted). The interpretation of animate nouns in chil and adult Mandarin:from the Universal Grinder to syntactic structure. Linguistcs.

Aijun Huang, Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Luisa Meroni (2021). Portioning-out and individuation in Mandarin non-interrogative wh-pronominal phrases: Experimental evidence from child Mandarin. Frontiers in Psychology, section Language Sciences (SSCI/A&HCI).

Ursini, Francesco-Alessio &   Aijun Huang   (2021). The anaphoric properties of spatial nouns and prepositions in Mandarin: A formal account. Lingua. (SSCI Corresponding Author)

Aijun, Huang (2019). Countability in Mandarin Chinese: Bridging theory and experiments. Language and Semiotic Studies, 5(3),78-110.

Huang, Aijun (2015). Linguistic form and function: expression of countability in Chinese wh-phrases. Language and Semiotic Studies, 1(4), 34-51.

Huang, Aijun & Stephen Crain (2014). Polarity sensitive items in child Mandarin. Language Acquisition 21,156–181.

Huang, Aijun & Stephen Crain (2014). Acquisition of the numerical wh-pronoun ji ‘how many’ in Mandarin Chinese. Lingua 145, 122-140. 

Huang, Aijun & Stephen Crain (2014). Acquisition of polarity sensitive item renhe ‘any’ in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Child Language 41, 861-889.

Huang, Aijun (2014). Acquisition of polarity-sensitive items in Mandarin Chinese. Language Acquisition, 21:212-214.

Huang, Aijun (2013). Insignificance is significant: interpretation of the wh-pronoun shenme ‘what’ in Mandarin Chinese. Language and Linguistics. 14(1), 1-45.

Books

Mineharu Nakayama, Yi-ching Su, and Aijun Huang (2017.) Studies in Chinese and Japanese Language Acquisition: In Honor of Stephen Crain, John Benjamins Publishing Company (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders series)

Refereed book chapters

Huang, Aijun & Francesco-Alessio Ursini (2017). The acquisition of the wh-pronoun duo-shao in child Mandarin. In Mineharu Nakayama, Yi-ching Su, and Aijun Huang (eds.) Studies in Chinese and Japanese Language Acquisition: In Honor of Stephen Crain, John Benjamins Publishing Company (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders series). 170-198.

Ursini, Francesco-Alessio & Aijun Huang (2019). Sense. In J. D'Amico & M.S. Ball. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. 2nd volume. Thousand Oak, CA: Sage Publications .

Ursini, Francesco-Alessio & Aijun Huang (2019). Reference. In J. D'Amico & M.S. Ball. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. 2nd volume. Thousand Oak, CA: Sage Publications.

Ursini, Francesco-Alessio & Aijun Huang (2019). Deixis. In J. D'Amico & M.S. Ball. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. 2nd volume. Thousand Oak, CA: Sage Publications.

Refereed conference proceedings

Huang, Aijun & Stephen Crain (2013). The numerical wh-pronoun ji in child Mandarin. In Y. Otsu (ed.) The Proceedings of the Fourteenth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, 83-98.  Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

Huang, Aijun & Thomas Hun-tak Lee (2009). Quantification and Individuation in the Acquisition of Chinese Classifiers.  In Y. Otsu (ed.) The Proceedings of the Tenth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, 117-141. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.

Research grants (as Principal Investigator)

2018    Semantic properties of Mandarin classifier in Child Mandarin. National Social Science Foundation.

2015     Linguistic properties of Chinese wh-pronouns and child language research. Ministry of

             Education Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Fund. 

2015     Theoretical construction of Chinese wh-pronoun system and child language research. China 

             Science Foundation Special Research Fund  

2014      Investigation on the first language acquisition of the semantic and pragmatic properties of Chinese wh-pronouns. Department of Education Jiangsu Province Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund

2014     The Chinese wh-pronoun system research from the perspective of child language development. China Science Foundation Research Fund.  

Professional Service

Ad Hoc reviewer of journal papers

Lingua, Linguistics, Glossa, First Language, Frontiers in Psychology, Modern Linguistics (当代语言学)