I am Yixuan Yan [˥˩ji˥ɕɥæn ˧˥jæn], a 2nd-year PhD student in Linguistics at UConn. Broadly I am interested in semantics/pragmantics as well as L1 acquisition in Mandarin. Currently I am working on the acquisition of Mandarin alternative questions (under the supervision of William Snyder and Diane C. Lillo-Martin) and counterfactual reasoning in Mandarin (under the supervision of Magdalena Kaufmann and Stefan Kaufmann). See more about my projects on Research

My CV could be found here (updated to Mar 2024).


A-not-A Questions in Child Mandarin: The Role of Input. Poster at UConn Language Fest (LangFest) 2024, April 24th, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.

Do conditionals appear late? Counter-evidence from Mandarin. Poster at the XVIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL XVI), July 15th - 19th, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

How do children distribute? –Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Talk at the XVIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL XVI), July 15th - 19th, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.