Jekyll2026-06-02T15:04:20-04:00https://leiliu1.github.io/feed.xmlLei LiuAssistant Professor, English Department, College of Staten Island CUNYLei LiuNew article in Journal of Language Modelling2026-05-08T00:00:00-04:002026-05-08T00:00:00-04:00https://leiliu1.github.io/psycholinguistic25I published the article Psycholinguistic plausibility of left-corner parsing with Minimalist Grammars in Journal of Language Modelling. The article proposes a left-corner minimalist parsing model of sentence processing that mimics how humans process sentences. The modeling results suggest that the memory resources required to build sentences structures account for processing difficulties.

]]>Lei LiuTwo presentations @ SCiL 252025-07-20T00:00:00-04:002025-07-20T00:00:00-04:00https://leiliu1.github.io/scil25At SCiL 2025, I presented the poster Formalizing Feature Inheritance, reporting joint work with Greg Kobele.

I also presented the paper Left-corner Minimalist parsing of mixed word order preferences.

]]>Lei LiuPsycholinguistic Adequacy of Left-corner Parsing for Minimalist Grammars @ SCiL 242024-06-27T00:00:00-04:002024-06-27T00:00:00-04:00https://leiliu1.github.io/scil24I had a poster presentation about Psycholinguistic Adequacy of Left-corner Parsing for Minimalist Grammars at SCiL24.

Extended abstract

Poster

]]>Lei LiuProcessing Advantages of End-weight @ SCiL 232023-06-15T00:00:00-04:002023-06-15T00:00:00-04:00https://leiliu1.github.io/scil23I talked about Processing Advantages of End-weight at SCiL23.

Paper

Slides

]]>Lei LiuPersonal website building - three years later2021-04-05T00:00:00-04:002021-04-05T00:00:00-04:00https://leiliu1.github.io/Skillz-Hour-2Outline
  1. Previously in building a personal website
  2. Building a personal website with wordpress
  3. Building a personal website with squarespace
  4. Conclusion

1. Previously in building a personal website

  • Personal website building for dummies
    • What to include in a personal webstie
    • What to include in a personal website
    • How to build a website with a fork (github page)
    • How to build a website with SB You
  • Things to consider when choosing a platform for personal website
    • Easy to read
      • about
      • research
      • teaching
    • Easy to maintain
      • updating materials
      • adding/removing entries
    • Easy to customize
    • (?) Easy to transfer

2. Building a personal website with wordpress

  • What
  • Why
    • what you see is what you get
    • free (almost)
    • templates
  • How
    • register
    • basic layout
    • menu
    • page

See an example here

2.1 Building a personal website with wordpress.com

Step 1 - register

Step 2 - pick a domain

Step 3 - basic setup

  • design, fonts, features, which can be changed later

Step 4 - play!

  • theme to play with: Penscratch 2
  • wordpress component: page
  • wordpress component: menu
  • wordpress component: post

2.2 Building a personal website with SB You

  • Very similar to wordpress
  • More professional-looking domain
  • See an example here

3. Building a personal website with Squarespace

  • What
    • Everything you need to grow online. (Squarespace 2021)
  • Why
    • more artistic-looking pages
    • slightly better user interface and experience
  • How
    • similar to wordpress

See an example here (password: lei)

4. Conclusion

  • Pros & Cons
    • Wordpress
      • Pros: easy to use; easy to import/export
      • Cons: domain name; ad
    • SB You
      • Pros: all of the pros in Wordpress; professional domain name
      • Cons: takes time to customize
    • Square space
      • Pros: slightly better UI and UX
      • Cons: no free option
  • Things to consider when choosing a platform for personal website
    • easy to read
    • easy to maintain
    • easy to customize
    • (?) easy to transfer
    • Conclusion: Wordpress = SB You = Squarespace
  • Pricing (annual)
    • Wordpress
      • free when using YourName.wordpress.com
      • $4/month with one year free domain
    • SB You
      • free
    • Squarespace
]]>Lei LiuUnderstanding phrasal weight effect on Mandarin word order variation from a MG parsing perspective @ ISOCTAL 20192019-12-14T00:00:00-05:002019-12-14T00:00:00-05:00https://leiliu1.github.io/isoctal2019-talkI am giving a talk entitled Understanding phrasal weight effect on Mandarin word order variation from a Minimalist parsing perspective at ISOCTAL 2019.

slides

]]>Lei LiuNativeness Rating for LIN532 Second Language Acquisition2019-02-17T00:00:00-05:002019-02-17T00:00:00-05:00https://leiliu1.github.io/Nativeness-Rating
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  • recording 2
  • recording 3
  • recording 4
    • ]]>    Lei Liu    Minimalist parsing of heavy NP shift @ Paclic 322018-12-01T00:00:00-05:002018-12-01T00:00:00-05:00https://leiliu1.github.io/paclic32-posterI am presenting a poster on Minimalist parsing of heavy NP shift at PACLIC32.

    ]]>    Lei Liu    Syntax and Prosody Interface of Wh-Scope in Mandarin @ Speech Prosody 20182018-06-16T00:00:00-04:002018-06-16T00:00:00-04:00https://leiliu1.github.io/SP9-posterI am presenting a poster on Syntax and Prosody Interface of Wh-Scope in Mandarin.

    ]]>    Lei Liu    Personal website building for dummies2018-03-20T00:00:00-04:002018-03-20T00:00:00-04:00https://leiliu1.github.io/Skillz-HourSkillz Hour - Mar.20 2018 - Personal website building for dummies (read: PhDs)

    Outline

    1. What to include in a personal website
    2. How to build a website with a fork (github page)
    3. How to build a website with SB You
    4. Concluding remarks

    1. What to include in a personal webstie

    chong Chong Zhang

    rob Robert Pasternak

    thomas Thomas Graf

    A common list of components

    • About/Home
      • Self-intro
      • Reseach interests
      • Contact info
    • Research
      • Publications
      • Presentations
      • Invited talks
      • etc
    • Teaching
      • Past experience
      • Website for current course
    • (maybe) CV
    • (maybe) News
    • (maybe) other fun stuff

    2. How to build a website with a fork (github page)

    This is a static site genterater modified from Jekyll-now for skillz hour demostration.

    a. Steps

    • register github account (if you do not have one already)
    • fork here
    • play!

    b. A quick to-do list to get you started

    • read readme (always a good place to start :)
    • change site info in _config.yml
    • change page-name in page-name.md
    • add news in /_posts/

    c. Notes

    • to change pages, go to name-of-the-page.md
    • to change homepage layout, go to index.html
    • to change which pages to show, go to /_layouts/default.html
    • this markdown cheatsheet might be helpful

    2. How to build a website with SB You

    a. Steps

    • Log in
    • Play!

    b. notes

    • to add pages, go to pages - add new
    • to change homepage to about, go to appearance - customize - static front page - front page

    3. Concluding remarks

    a. github vs. SB You

      Github SB You
    pros fully customizable WYSIWYG
    cons somewhat steep learning curve not as geeky

    b. other (free) alternatives

    c. domain names

    • check out here and here
    • domains using one’s name is (I think) a common practice, but see here :)
    • try to avoid stuff like bigsyntax.guru
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