Recent publications
Article
Nation, K, Dawson, NJ & Hsiao, Y 2022, 'Book language and its implications for children’s language, literacy, and development', Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 375-380. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221103264
Taylor, E, Nation, K & Hsiao, Y 2022, 'Context availability and sentence availability ratings for 3,000 English words and their association with lexical processing', Journal of Cognition, vol. 5, no. 1, 20. https://doi.org/10.5334/JOC.211
Hsiao, Y, Dawson, NJ, Banerji, N & Nation, K 2022, 'The nature and frequency of relative clauses in the language children hear and the language children read: a developmental cross-corpus analysis of English complex grammar', Journal of Child Language. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000957
Mak, MHC, Hsiao, Y & Nation, K 2021, 'Anchoring and contextual variation in the early stages of incidental word learning during reading', Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 118, 104203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104203
Hsiao, Y, Banerji, N & Nation, K 2021, 'Boys write about boys: androcentrism in children’s reading experience and its emergence in children’s own writing', Child Development, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 2194-2204. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13623
Dawson, NJ, Hsiao, Y-L, Tan, AWM, Banerji, N & Nation, K 2021, 'Features of lexical richness in children's books: comparisons with child-directed speech', Language Development Research, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 9-53. https://doi.org/10.34842/5we1-yk94
Mak, MHC, Hsiao, Y & Nation, K 2021, 'Lexical connectivity effects in immediate serial recall of words', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 1971-1997. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001089
Pagán, A, Bird, M, Hsiao, Y & Nation, K 2020, 'Both Semantic Diversity and Frequency Influence Children’s Sentence Reading', Scientific Studies of Reading, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 356-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2019.1670664
Hsiao, Y, Bird, M, Norris, H, Pagán, A & Nation, K 2020, 'The influence of item-level contextual history on lexical and semantic judgments by children and adults.', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 2367-2383. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000795
Hsiao, Y & Nation, K 2018, 'Semantic diversity, frequency and the development of lexical quality in children's word reading', Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 103, pp. 114-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2018.08.005
Hsiao, Y & MacDonald, MC 2016, 'Production predicts comprehension: Animacy effects in Mandarin relative clause processing', Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 89, pp. 87-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2015.11.006
Hsiao, Y, Gao, Y & MacDonald, MC 2014, 'Agent-patient similarity affects sentence structure in language production: Evidence from subject omissions in mandarin', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 5, no. SEP, 1015. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01015
Thompson, WL, Hsiao, Y & Kosslyn, SM 2011, 'Dissociation between visual attention and visual mental imagery', Journal of Cognitive Psychology, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 256-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2011.477810
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Hsiao, Y-L & MacDonald, MC 2018, Sentence Comprehension. in S-A Rueschemeyer & MG Gaskell (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. 2 edn, The Oxford Handbook of, Oxford University Press, pp. 171-196. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198786825.013.8
Preprint
Hsiao, Y-L, Dawson, NJ, Banerji, N & Nation, K 2022 'A corpus-based developmental investigation of lexical richness and syntactic complexity in children's written stories' SSRN. <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4198377>