Doctor Lyn Tieu

Adjunct Fellow,
MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development

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Biography

Dr Lyn Tieu was previously the Research Theme Fellow in Education & Work: Access, Equity and Pathways at Western Sydney University.

Dr Tieu is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, and holds an Adjunct Fellow appointment with the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development, as well as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow appointment in Linguistics at Macquarie University.

Dr Tieu conducts research in the areas of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, with a particular focus on linguistic meaning. She uses psycholinguistic and experimental methods to investigate the nature of linguistic meaning and how it is acquired by young children, as well as the interaction of grammar with other modalities including gesture and music. Her research has appeared in journals such as PNAS, Cognition, and the Journal of Child Language.

Dr Tieu completed her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Connecticut in 2013, followed by postdoctoral fellowships in the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (LINGUAE group) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Centre for Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders at Macquarie University.

She is currently an Associate Editor at Glossa: a journal of general linguistics.

Please see https://lyntieu.com/ for more details.

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Qualifications

PhD University of Connecticut

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MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development

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Email:	L.Tieu@westernsydney.edu.au
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Publications

Chapters in Books

Tieu, L. and Romoli, J. (2019), 'Plurality', The Oxford Book of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, Oxford University Press 9780198791768.
Tieu, L., Bill, C., Zehr, J., Romoli, J. and Schwarz, F. (2018), 'Developmental insights into gappy phenomena : comparing presupposition, implicature, homogeneity, and vagueness', Trends in Language Acquisition Research 24: Semantics in Language Acquisition, John Benjamins Publishing 9789027201379.
Tieu, L. (2016), 'Input versus output in the acquisition of negative polarity : the curious case of any', Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives, Springer 9783319174631.

Journal Articles

Shelton, N., Munro, N., Starling, J., Tieu, L. and Keep, M. (2024), '[In Press] Social media use by young people with language disorders : a scoping review', Disability and Rehabilitation, .
Shelton, N., Munro, N., Keep, M., Starling, J. and Tieu, L. (2023), 'Do speech-language therapists support young people with communication disability to use social media? : a mixed methods study of professional practices', International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, vol 58, no 3 , pp 848 - 863.
Pasternak, R. and Tieu, L. (2022), 'Co-linguistic content inferences : from gestures to sound effects and emoji', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol 75, no 10 , pp 1828 - 1843.
Shelton, N., Munro, N., Keep, M., Starling, J. and Tieu, L. (2021), 'Clinical practices of speech-language pathologists working with 12- to 16-year olds in Australia', International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, vol 23, no 4 , pp 394 - 404.
Tieu, L., Bill, C., Romoli, J. and Crain, S. (2020), 'Testing theories of plural meanings', Cognition, vol 205 .
Renans, A., Sag, Y., Ketrez, N., Tieu, L., Tsoulas, G., Folli, R., Vries, H. and Romoli, J. (2020), 'Plurality and crosslinguistic variation : an experimental investigation of the Turkish plural', Natural Language Semantics, vol 28 , pp 307 - 342.
Kennedy, L., Romoli, J., Tieu, L., Moscati, V. and Folli, R. (2019), 'Beyond the scope of acquisition : a novel perspective on the isomorphism effect from Broca's aphasia', Language Acquisition, vol 26, no 2 , pp 144 - 152.
Tieu, L., Schlenker, P. and Chemla, E. (2019), 'Linguistic inferences without words', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 116, no 20 , pp 9796 - 9801.
Tieu, L., Kriz, M. and Chemla, E. (2019), 'Children's acquisition of homogeneity in plural definite descriptions', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 10 .
Tieu, L. (2019), 'A developmental asymmetry between the singular and plural', Snippets, vol 37, no S1 , pp 103 - 105.
Tieu, L., Romoli, J., Poortman, E., Winter, Y. and Crain, S. (2018), 'Children's comprehension of plural predicate conjunction', Journal of Child Language, vol 45, no 1 , pp 242 - 259.
Pagliarini, E., Bill, C., Romoli, J., Tieu, L. and Crain, S. (2018), 'On children's variable success with scalar inferences : insights from disjunction in the scope of a universal quantifier', Cognition, vol 178 , pp 178 - 192.
Denic, M., Chemla, E. and Tieu, L. (2018), 'Intervention effects in NPI licensing : a quantitative assessment of the scalar implicature explanation', Glossa, vol 3, no 1 , pp 1 - 27.
Cremers, A., Kane, F., Tieu, L., Kennedy, L., Sudo, Y., Folli, R. and Romoli, J. (2018), 'Testing theories of temporal inferences : evidence from child language', Glossa, vol 3, no 1 .
Renans, A., Romoli, J., Makri, M., Tieu, L., de Vries, H., Folli, R. and Tsoulas, G. (2018), 'The abundance inference of pluralised mass nouns is an implicature : evidence from Greek', Glossa, vol 3, no 1 .
Tieu, L., Pasternak, R., Schlenker, P. and Chemla, E. (2018), 'Co-speech gesture projection : evidence from inferential judgments', Glossa, vol 3, no 1 .
Tieu, L., Pasternak, R., Schlenker, P. and Chemla, E. (2017), 'Co-speech gesture projection : evidence from truth-value judgment and picture selection tasks', Glossa, vol 2, no 1 .
Tieu, L., Yatsushiro, K., Cremers, A., Romoli, J., Sauerland, U. and Chemla, E. (2017), 'On the role of alternatives in the acquisition of simple and complex disjunctions in French and Japanese', Journal of Semantics, vol 34, no 1 , pp 127 - 152.
Cremers, A., Tieu, L. and Chemla, E. (2017), 'Children's exhaustive readings of questions', Language Acquisition, vol 24, no 4 , pp 343 - 360.
Tieu, L. and Lidz, J. (2016), 'NPI licensing and beyond : children's knowledge of the semantics of any', Language Acquisition, vol 23, no 4 , pp 311 - 332.
De Carvalho, A., Lidz, J., Tieu, L., Bleam, T. and Christophe, A. (2016), 'English-speaking preschoolers can use phrasal prosody for syntactic parsing', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 139, no 6 , pp 216 - 222.
Tieu, L., Romoli, J., Zhou, P. and Crain, S. (2016), 'Children's knowledge of free choice inferences and scalar implicatures', Journal of Semantics, vol 33, no 2 , pp 269 - 298.
Tieu, L. (2015), 'Isomorphism for all (but not both) : floating as a means to investigate scope', Language Acquisition, vol 22, no 3 , pp 310 - 325.

Conference Papers

Tieu, L., Bill, C. and Romoli, J. (2019), 'Homogeneity or implicature : an experimental investigation of free choice', Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, Los Angeles, Calif..
Di Bacco, F., Tieu, L., Moscati, V., Folli, R., Sevdali, C. and Romoli, J. (2017), 'Testing the QUD approach : children's comprehension of scopally ambiguous questions', West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Tieu, L. and Kriz, M. (2017), 'Connecting the exhaustivity of clefts and the homogeneity of plural definite descriptions in acquisition', Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University.
Renans, A., Tsoulas, G., Folli, R., Ketrez, N., Tieu, L., de Vries, H. and Romoli, J. (2017), 'Turkish plural nouns are number-neutral : experimental data', Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam.
Gokgoz, K., Bogomolets, K., Tieu, L., Palmer, J. and Lillo-Martin, D. (2016), 'Contrastive focus in children acquiring English and ASL : cues of prominence', Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America, University of Maryland.
Zehr, J., Tieu, L., Bill, C., Romoli, J. and Schwarz, F. (2016), 'Presupposition projection from the scope of none : universal, existential, or both?', Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, Austin, Tex..
Zehr, J., Bill, C., Tieu, L., Romoli, J. and Schwarz, F. (2015), 'Existential presupposition projection from none? : an experimental investigation', Amsterdam Colloquium, University of Amsterdam.
Tieu, L. and Shen, Z. (2015), 'Searching for absolute and relative readings of superlatives : a second experiment', Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University.
Tieu, L. and Shen, Z. (2014), 'The littlest linguists and their superlatives : a first experiment', Chicago Linguistic Society. Meeting, University of Chicago.
Tieu, L., Bill, C., Romoli, J. and Crain, S. (2014), 'Plurality inferences are scalar implicatures : evidence from acquisition', Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, New York, N.Y..
Tieu, L. and Kang, J. (2014), 'On two kinds of negative concord items in Korean', West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Tempe, Ariz..
Shimamura, K. and Tieu, L. (2012), 'When you can and can't see double : revisiting focus doubling in ASL', Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia, Pa..
Tieu, L. (2010), 'On the tri-ambiguous status of any : the view from child language', Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory, Vancouver, B.C..
Tieu, L. (2010), 'Re-examining cross-linguistic influence in the bilingual acquisition of wh-questions', Canadian Linguistic Association. Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Tieu, L. (2009), 'The acquisition of NPI any in English : a case study', Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, Mass..
Tieu, L. (2009), 'Transfer effects in the production of non-referential verb phrases by heritage speakers of Chinese', Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America, University of Connecticut in Storrs.
Tieu, L. (2009), 'Standard vs. sideward movement in verb copying', North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Bryant University.
Tieu, L. (2008), 'Non-referential verb use in Chinese : a unified verb copying analysis', North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics, The Ohio State University.
Tieu, L. (2008), 'Complements in non-referential contexts : comparing English and Chinese', Canadian Linguistic Association. Annual Conference, University of British Columbia.
Tieu, L. (2007), 'Transitivity requirements in Chinese : putting the generic object in context', Canadian Linguistic Association. Annual Conference, Canada.
Perez-Leroux, A., Pirvulescu, M., Roberge, Y., Thomas, D. and Tieu, L. (2006), 'Variable input and object drop in child language', Canadian Linguistic Association. Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada.