Publications

Maeng, J., Lee, H. K., Sze, S. S. L., Zhu, Z., & Song, Y.* (2026). When syntax needs semantics: A cross-linguistic time–frequency analysis of Cantonese and English. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 38(7), 1472–1483.
https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2590

Yu, X., Lee, H. K., Song, Y., & Do, Y. (2026). Processing second dialect cognates using sound correspondences: An event-related potential study. Laboratory Phonology. https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.25218

Lack, J., Lee, H. K., Maeng, J., & Song, Y. (2026). EEG temporal dynamics during morphological decomposition of derived words in L2. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728926101199

Maeng, J., Lee, H. K., Sze, S. S. L., Zhu, Z., & Song, Y.* (2026). When syntax needs semantics: A cross-linguistic time–frequency analysis of Cantonese and English. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 38(7), 1472–1483. https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2590

Lee, H. K., Maeng, J., Lack, J., & Song, Y. (2026). Temporal dynamics of morphological priming: A comparison with orthographic and semantic priming in event-related potential components. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 38(4), 779–805. https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2406

Song, Y., Li, Y., & Wong, P. C. M. (2025). Neural evidence for syntactic unification in second language sentence comprehension: A time-frequency analysis. Language Learning, 75(3), 735–770. http://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12676

Song, Y., & Lai, R. K. Y. (2022). Shared syntactic representations in bilinguals: Evidence from the constituent-structure-independent passive priming between Cantonese and English. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 12(5), 571–597. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.20046.son

Song, Y., & Lai, R. K. Y. (2021). Syntactic representations encode grammatical functions: Evidence from the priming of mapping between grammatical functions and thematic roles in Cantonese. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36(10), 1329–1342. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1942086

Song, Y., Do, Y., Thompson, A. L., Waegemaekers, E. R., & Lee, J. (2020). Second Language Users Exhibit Shallow Morphological Processing. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 42(5), 1121–1136. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263120000170

Song, Y., Do, Y., Lee, J., Thompson, A. L., & Waegemaekers, E. R. (2019). The reality of hierarchical morphological structure in multimorphemic words. Cognition, 183, 269–276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.10.015

Song, Y., & Do, Y. (2018). Cross-linguistic structural priming in bilinguals: Priming of the subject-to-object raising construction between English and Korean. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21(1), 47–62. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916001152

Song, Y. (2015). L2 Processing of Plural Inflection in English. Language Learning, 65(2), 233–267. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12100