Research Profile

Yanyu Guo

Biography

Dr Yanyu Guo is Lecturer (tenured) in Chinese Linguistics and Applied Linguistics and Director of the MA -Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages programme (MA-TCSOL) at University College Cork. She works on second and third language acquisition, Chinese linguistics, formal linguistics and Chinese language teaching. She serves as a board member on the Committee on Linguistics Theories and Language Education Research of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching. Dr. Guo is engaged in multiple multilingualism projects, exploring the mental grammars of trilinguals in combinations such as English-Irish-Chinese, English-Korean-Chinese, and Spanish-Catalan-Chinese.

Dr Guo was trained in theoretical Chinese linguistics at Renmin University of China (B.A.) and Peking University (M.A.). She obtained her doctorate in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge, supported by a Trinity College external studentship (2013-2016). Her dissertation investigated the L2 acquisition of Chinese aspect markers by English native speakers. She then held a post-doctoral fellowship at Cambridge (2016-2020), working on the major research project funded by the AHRC: Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS) and the Cambridge-Chinese University of Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for Bilingualism. Her post-doc projects examined the potential roles of age, typological differences, and linguistic experience in the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese by L2, L3 and heritage language learners. Before Dr Guo joined the Department of Asian Studies at UCC, she taught linguistics and Chinese language courses at Tsinghua University and the University of Cambridge.

Dr Guo has successfully supervised two PhD projects to completion at UCC. She is happy to work with PhD students who wish to work in generative approaches to second/third language acquisition and Chinese linguistics.

Research Interests

  • Bilingualism and multilingualism
  • Chinese linguistics
  • Formal linguistics
  • Language processing
  • Chinese language teaching

Research Grants

 ProjectFunding
Body
Start DateEnd DateAward
Diversity and Unity among Multilinguals: Acquiring East Asian Languages in EuropeEnterprise Ireland11-JAN-2311-JAN-24€15,898.00
Diversity and Unity among Multilinguals: Acquiring East Asian Languages in EuropeUniversity College Cork10-MAR-2310-JAN-24€2,000.00

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

 YearPublication
(2024)'How does a structurally similar background language influence L3 grammars? A study on the syntax of L2/L3 Mandarin'
Yanyu Guo & Boping Yuan (2024) 'How does a structurally similar background language influence L3 grammars? A study on the syntax of L2/L3 Mandarin'. International Journal of Multilingualism, [DOI] [Details]
(2024)'Disentangling cues of different domains in transfer and development in L3 acquisition: an investigation of L2/L3 Mandarin yes-no questions'
Yanyu Guo & Boping Yuan (2024) 'Disentangling cues of different domains in transfer and development in L3 acquisition: an investigation of L2/L3 Mandarin yes-no questions'. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, [DOI] [Details]
(2023)'Cutting-edge theories in third language (L3) acquisition and research on L3 Chinese grammars'
Yanyu Guo & Boping Yuan (2023) 'Cutting-edge theories in third language (L3) acquisition and research on L3 Chinese grammars'. Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 55 (6):902-913 [DOI] [Details]
(2022)'From a simple to a complex aspectual system: Feature reassembly in L2 acquisition of Chinese imperfective markers by English speakers'
Yanyu Guo (2022) 'From a simple to a complex aspectual system: Feature reassembly in L2 acquisition of Chinese imperfective markers by English speakers'. Second Language Research, [DOI] [Details]
(2021)'Asymmetric transfer and development of temporal-aspectual sentence-final particles in English-Cantonese bilinguals’ L3 Mandarin grammars'
Yanyu Guo & Boping Yuan (2021) 'Asymmetric transfer and development of temporal-aspectual sentence-final particles in English-Cantonese bilinguals’ L3 Mandarin grammars'. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism,   [DOI] [Details]
(2021)'Facilitative Transfer Only? L3 Acquisition of Mandarin Sentence-Final Particle Clusters by English-Cantonese Bilinguals'
Yanyu Guo & Boping Yuan (2021) 'Facilitative Transfer Only? L3 Acquisition of Mandarin Sentence-Final Particle Clusters by English-Cantonese Bilinguals'. Journal of Second Language Studies, 3 (2):262-291   [DOI] [Details]
(2019)'Transfer at L3 initial stages: comparing Mandarin temporal-aspectual sentence final particles in L2 and L3 grammars'
Yanyu Guo & Boping Yuan (2019) 'Transfer at L3 initial stages: comparing Mandarin temporal-aspectual sentence final particles in L2 and L3 grammars'. International Journal of Chinese Language Education,   [Details]

Edited Books

 YearPublication
(2020)Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Boping Yuan and Yanyu Guo (Ed.). (2020) Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company.   [Details]

Book Chapters

 YearPublication
(2017)'Syntactic and semantic features of the Mandarin aspect marker -zhe and its equivalent markers in the Guiyang dialect'
Yanyu Guo (2017) 'Syntactic and semantic features of the Mandarin aspect marker -zhe and its equivalent markers in the Guiyang dialect' In: Proceedings of the Linguistics Association of Beijing. Beijing: Chinese Book Company. [Details]
(2016)'Imperatives'
Yanyu Guo & Yang Shen (2016) 'Imperatives' In: Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Netherland: Brill Academic Publisher.   [Details]
(2012)'The Period, the Comma, the Question Mark and the Exclamation Mark'
Yanyu Guo (2012) 'The Period, the Comma, the Question Mark and the Exclamation Mark' In: Interpretations of the Guide to Chinese Punctuation. Beijing, China: Yuwen Press. [Details]

Teaching Activities

Teaching Interests

  • Second/Third Language Acquisition
  • Chinese Linguistics
  • Syntax of Chinese
  • Classical Chinese

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