Publications

Refereed Journal Articles:

1. Zhou, P., Ma, H.*, Zou, B., Zhang, X., Zhao, S., Lin, Y., Wang, Y., Feng, L., & Wang, G. (2023). A conceptual framework of cognitive-affective theory of mind: towards a precision identification of mental disorders. npj Mental Health Research, 2, 12.

2. Ma, W. Ψ, Zhou, P. Ψ, Liang, X., & Thompson, W.F. (2023). Children across cultures respond emotionally to the acoustic environment. Cognition and Emotion,37, 1144-1152.(Ψ joint first author)

3. Zhan, L., & Zhou, P. (2023). The online processing of hypothetical events: A visual world eye-tracking study on conditionals and causal statements. Experimental Psychology, 70, 108-117.

4. Xie, Y., & Zhou, P.* (in press). Development of discourse-relevant bridging abilities in preschool Chinese children. Foreign Language Teaching and Research (in Chinese). (*corresponding author)

5. Ma, W. Ψ, Zhou, P. Ψ, & Golinkoff, R.M. (2023). The role classifiers play in selecting the referent of a word. Languages, 8, 84. (Ψ joint first author)

6. Yang, L., Lu, S., Yang, Z., Yao, J., Zhou, P.*, & Zhao, M.* (2023). Generation of an induced pluripotent stem cell line (IPCASi001-A) from an autism spectrum disorder individual without intellectual disability. Stem Cell Research, 66, 102994. (*joint corresponding author)

7. Zhou, P., & Xie, Y. (2023). A multi-comparative approach to the study of child language development in China. Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning, 8, 13-24 (in Chinese).

8. Zhang, X., & Zhou, P.* (2022). Linguistic cues facilitate children’s understanding of belief-reporting sentences. First Language, 42, 51-80. (*corresponding author)

9. Ma, W.Ψ, Zhou, P.Ψ, & Thompson, W. F. (2022). Children’s decoding of emotional prosody in four languages. Emotion, 22, 198–212. (Ψ joint first author)

10. Zhou, P., Shi, J., & Zhan, L. (2021). Real-time comprehension of garden-path constructions by preschoolers: A Mandarin perspective. Applied Psycholinguistics, 42, 181–205.

11.  Li, Y., Zhou, P.*, & Liu, M. (2021). Donkey pronouns in child Mandarin: Insights into the existential/universal dichotomy. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 6, 1-32. (*corresponding author)

12. Zhou, P. (in press). The generative approach to child language acquisition: An overview and outlook. Linguistic Research (in Chinese). 

13. Gao, N., Zhou, P., Thornton, R., & Crain, S. (2021). The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis: The case of Mandarin Chinese. First Language, 41, 737-759.

14. Hao, Y., Bedore, L., Sheng, L., Zhou, P., & Zheng, L. (2021). Exploring influential factors of shape classifier comprehension and production in Mandarin-speaking children. First Language, 41, 573-604.

15. Zhou, P. (2021). A cross-disciplinary exploration of the mechanisms underlying child language acquisition: Progress, challenges and outlook.Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning, 6, 48-59 (in Chinese).

16. Zhao, S., Ren, J., Frank, M. C., & Zhou, P.* (2021). The development of quantity implicatures in Mandarin-speaking children. Language Learning and Development, 17, 343-365. (*corresponding author)

17. Li, J., & Zhou, P.* (2020). Children’s interpretation of ambiguous wh-Adjuncts in Mandarin Chinese. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1781. (*corresponding author)

18. Huang, H., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2020). Negation and free choice inference in child Mandarin. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 591728. 

19. An, S., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2020). The interpretation of disjunction in the scope of dou in child Mandarin. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 609492.

20. Zhou, P.,Zhan, L., & Ma, H. (2019). Understanding others’ minds: Social inference in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49, 4523–4534.

21. Zhou, P.,Ma, W., & Zhan, L. (2020). A deficit in using prosodic cues to understand communicative intentions by children with autism spectrum disorders: An eye-tracking study. First Language, 40, 41-63.

22. Ma, W. Ψ*, Zhou, P. Ψ*, & Golinkoff, R. M. (in press). Young Mandarin learners use function words to distinguish between nouns and verbs. Developmental Science. (Ψ joint first author, * joint corresponding author)

23. Ma, W. Ψ*, Zhou, P. Ψ*, Golinkoff, R. M., Lee, J., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2019). Syntactic cues to the noun and verb distinction in Mandarin child-directed speech. First Language, 39, 433-461.(Ψ joint first author, * joint corresponding author)

24. Ma, W. Ψ*, & Zhou, P. Ψ*. (2019).Three-year-old tone language learners are tolerant of tone mispronunciations spoken with familiar and novel tones. Cogent Psychology, 6,1690816. (Ψ joint first author, * joint corresponding author)

25. Hu, S., Zhou, P.,Foppolo, F., Vender, M., &Delfitto, D. (2019). Scalar implicatures in Chinese children with reading difficulties. First Language, 39, 479-507.

26. Shi, J., Zhou, P. *,Iain Giblin, & Crain, S. (2019). Recursive possessive constructions in child language. Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 51, 323-333 (in Chinese). (*corresponding author)

27. Zhou, P.,Zhan, L., & Ma, H. (2019). Predictive language processing in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 48, 431-452.

28. Zhou, P.,& Ma, W. (2018). Children’s use of morphological cues in real-time event representation. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 241–260.

29. Zhou, P.,Ma, W., Zhan, L., & Ma, H. (2018). Using the visual world paradigm to study sentence comprehension in Mandarin-speaking children with autism. Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), 140, e58452.

30. Zhan, L.Ψ, Zhou, P.Ψ, & Crain, S. (2018). Using the visual-world paradigm to explore the meaning of conditionals in natural language. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33, 1049-1062. (Ψ joint first author)

31. Zhou, P.,Crain, S., & Yip, M.C.W. (2018). Introduction to “Experimental approaches to the study of child language: A cross-linguistic perspective”. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 1189-1191.

32. Shi. J., & Zhou, P.*(2018). How possessive relations are mapped onto child language: A view from Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 1321-1341. (*corresponding author)

33. Huang, H., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2018). Wh-questions, universal statements and free choice inferences in child Mandarin. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47,1391-1409.

34. Gao, N., Thornton, R., Zhou, P.,& Crain, S. (2018). Differences in scope assignments for child and adult speakers of Mandarin. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47, 1219-1241.

35. Zhou, P., Crain, S., Gao, L., & Jia, M. (2017). The use of linguistic cues in sentencecomprehension by Mandarin-speaking children with high-functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47, 17-32.

36. Ma, W.Ψ, Zhou, P.Ψ, Singh. L., & Gao, L. (2017). Spoken word recognition in young tone language learners: Age-dependent effects of segmental and suprasegmental variation. Cognition, 159, 139-155. (Ψ joint first author)

37. Moscati, V., Zhan, L., & Zhou, P.(2017). Children’s on-line processing of epistemic modals. Journal of Child Language, 44, 1025-1040.

38. Notley, A., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2016). Children’s interpretation of conjunction in the scope of negation in English and Mandarin: New evidence for the Semantic Subset Maxim. Applied Psycholinguistics, 37, 867-900.

39. Tieu, L., Romoli, J., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2016). Children’s knowledge of free choice inferences and scalar implicatures. Journal of Semantics, 33, 269-298.

40. Zhou, P., Crain, S., Gao, L., Tang, Y., & Jia, M. (2015). The use of grammatical morphemes by Mandarin-speaking children with high-functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45, 1428–1436.

41. Zhou, P.(2015). Children’s knowledge of wh-quantification in Mandarin Chinese. Applied Psycholinguistics, 36, 411-435.

42. Zhan, L., Crain, S., & Zhou, P.(2015). The online processing of only if- and even if- conditional statements: implications for mental models. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27, 367-379.

43. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Thornton, R. (2014). Children’s knowledge of double negative structures in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 23, 333-359.

44. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Zhan, L. (2014). Grammatical aspect and event recognition in children’s online sentence comprehension. Cognition, 133, 262-276.

45. Zhou, P.(2014). Children’s knowledge of ellipsis constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 43, 421-445.

46. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Zhan, L. (2012). Sometimes children are as good as adults: the pragmatic use of prosody in children’s on-line sentence processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 67, 149-164.

47. Zhou, P., Su, Y., Crain, S., Gao, L., & Zhan, L. (2012). Children’s use of phonological information in ambiguity resolution: a view from Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Child Language, 39, 687-730.

48. Su, Y., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2012). Downward entailment in child Mandarin. Journal of Child Language, 39, 957-990.

49. Notley, A., Zhou, P., Jensen, B. & Crain, S. (2012). Children’s interpretation of disjunction in the scope of ‘before’: a comparison of English and Mandarin. Journal of Child Language, 39, 482-522.

50. Zhou, P. (2011). Interface conditions in child language: a view from Mandarin Chinese. Language Acquisition, 18, 202-204.

51. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2011). Children’s knowledge of the quantifier dou in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 40, 155-176.

52. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2010). Focus identification in child Mandarin. Journal of Child Language, 37, 965-1005.

53. Notley, A., Zhou, P., Crain, S. & Thornton, R. (2009). Children’s interpretation of focusexpressions in English and Mandarin. Language Acquisition, 16, 240-282.

54. Zhou, P., & Gao, L. Q. (2009). Scope processing in Chinese. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 38, 11-24.

55. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2009). Scope assignment in child language: evidence from the acquisition of Chinese. Lingua, 119, 973-988.

Refereed Book Chapters:

56. Gao, N., Thornton, R., Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2019). The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese. In Ionin, T., & Rispoli, M. (Eds.), Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research. Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (pp. 107-124). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

57. Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2018). The meaning of question words in statements in child Mandarin. In Syrett, S., & Arunachalam, S. (Eds.), Trends in Acquisition (TiLAR): Semantics in Acquisition (pp. 250-274). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

58. Zhou, P. (2017). Free choice and wh-indefinites in child Mandarin. In Nakayama, M., Su, Y.-C., & Huang, A. (Eds.), Studies in Chinese and Japanese Language Acquisition: In Honor of Stephen Crain (pp. 223-235). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

59. Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2017). Acquisition of logical connectives and focus, L1. In R. Sybesma, W. Behr, Y. Gu, Z. Handel, C.-T. J. Huang, & J. Myers (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics (pp. 34-40). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 

60. Zhou, P., Crain, S., & Thornton, R. (2014). Lexical aspect and the use of negation by Mandarin-speaking children. In Chu, C.-Y. et al. (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (pp. 150-156). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 

61. Zhou, P., Goro, T., & Notley, A. (2013). The logic of focus in child language. In Stavrakaki, S., Lalioti, M., & Konstantinopoulou, P. (Eds.), Advances in Language Acquisition (pp. 260-270). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

62. Crain, S., Goro, T., Notley, A., & Zhou, P. (2013). A parametric account of scope in child language. In Stavrakaki, S., Lalioti, M., & Konstantinopoulou, P. (Eds.), Advances in Language Acquisition (pp. 63-71). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

63. Zhou, P., & Gao, L. (2010). A review of the studies on doubly quantified sentences. In Cui, X.L. (Ed.), Chinese learning and cognition (pp.181-202). Beijing: Peking University Press.

64. Zhou, P., & Gao, L. (2010). Quantified sentences in Chinese. In Cui, X.L. (Ed.), Chinese learning and cognition (pp. 203-233). Beijing: Peking University Press. 

Refereed Conference Proceedings:

65. Giblin, I., Zhou, P., Bill, C., Shi, J., & Crain, S. (2019). The spontaneous eMERGEnce of recursion in child language. In, M. M. Brown & B. Dailey (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 270-285). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

66. Ma, W., & Zhou, P. (2019). Deciding the referent of a new word: The acquisition of classifier. In, M. M. Brown & B. Dailey (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 387-390). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

67. Ma., W. Gao., L., & Zhou, P. (2017). A reduced sensitivity to tones in young tone learners’ word recognition. In M. LaMendola, & J. Scott (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 436-442). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 

68. Zhou, P., Romoli, J., & Crain, S. (2013). Children’s knowledge of free choice inferences. Proceedings of the 23rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference (SALT 23) (pp. 632-651). Santa Cruz, USA: Cornell University.  

69. Zhou, P., Thornton, R., & Crain, S. (2013). The logic of double negation in child language. Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development 37 (pp. 495-507). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

70. Zhan, L., Crain, S., & Zhou, P. (2013). The anticipatory effects of focus operators: a visual-world paradigm eye-tracking study of “only if” and “even if” conditionals. On-line proceedings of GLOW in Asia IX 2012.     

71. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2012). Focus and scope in child language. Proceedings of the 13^th International Symposium on Chinese Language and Linguistics (pp. 434-455). Taipei: National Taiwan Normal University.

72. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2010). Dou-quantification in child Mandarin. Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2009(pp.505-518). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

73. Zhou, P. (2010). Children’s understanding of dou in Chinese. Proceedings of GLOW in ASIA VII 2009 (pp. 87-96). Hyderabad: EFL University Press.

74. Notley, A., Zhou, P., Jensen, B. & Crain, S. (2010). Children’s interpretation of ‘before’ and ‘or’ in English and Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of GLOW in ASIA VII 2009 (pp.97-116). Hyderabad: EFL University Press. 

75. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2009). Focus in child language: evidence from the acquisition of Chinese. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (pp. 336-346). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

76. Zhou, P., & Crain, S. (2008). Scope assignment in Chinese: why children and adults differ. Proceedings of the Ninth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (pp. 341-366). Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo Publishing.