Publications

Articles

• Huo, Y. & Chow, W.Y. (in review) Listeners may not use Mandarin Chinese tone sandhi to predict upcoming words: a visual world eye-tracking study. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.

PhD thesis

• Huo, Y. (2025) Phonology in language prediction: the role of lexical tones and tone sandhi in Mandarin Chinese. PhD thesis, University College London. View

Translations

• Joly, L. & Bottemanne, H. (in press) 女性抑郁：揭秘、理解与治愈 [La depression au féminin: Démystifier, comprendre, guérir / Female Depression: Demystify, Understand, Heal] (Y. Huo, Trans.) The People's Health Press Co., Ltd, Beijing, China. (Original work published 2024).
• Heimburger, F., Maury, M., & Mazurie, J-C. (2026) 我的糖尿病生活 [Ma vie en diabète / My Diabetes Life] (Y. Huo, Trans.) The People's Health Press Co., Ltd, Beijing, China. (Original work published 2024).

Talks

• Huo, Y. (2023) Limited involvement of Mandarin Chinese tone sandhi in prediction during language comprehension. Talk at the Symposium: Tone and prediction in language. 17 Nov. 2023, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Slides
• Huo, Y. (2023) The (perhaps) limited role of phonology in prediction during language comprehension. Talk at the 1st Chandler House symposium. 18 Apr. 2023, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK. Slides

Posters

• Huo, Y., Lu, E., Ning, Y., & Chow, W.Y. (2025) Listeners do not use Mandarin tone sandhi to make lexical predictions: evidence from printed-word visual world paradigm. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2025), the University of Maryland, College Park, MA. Abstract Poster
• Huo, Y., Lu, E., Ning, Y., & Chow, W.Y. (2025) Mandarin Chinese tone sandhi modulates sentence completions (to a limited extent). Poster presented at the 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 2025), the University of Maryland, College Park, MA. Abstract Poster
• Huo, Y., Lan, X., Yuan, X., & Chow, W.Y. (2024) Prediction during language comprehension may be under strategic control: evidence from eye movements. Poster presented at AMLaP 2024 - Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing 2024, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. Poster
• Huo, Y., & Chow, W.Y. (2024) Gap between comprehenders’ linguistic knowledge and their ability to make predictions: evidence from Mandarin Chinese tone sandhi. Poster presented at LingO 2024: Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, Jesus College, Oxford, UK. Poster
• Huo, Y., Hsu, Y.C., & Chow, W.Y. (2024) Limited impact of phonological information on listeners’ expectations: sentence completion evidence from Mandarin Chinese tone sandhi. Poster presented at HSP 2024: 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. OSF
• Chen, K., Huo, Y., Xu, J., Wang, Z., Xia, F., & Chow, W.Y. (2024) Co-registration of mouse cursor and eye movements reveals comparable sensitivity of mouse and eye-tracking to prediction during language comprehension. Poster presented at HSP 2024: 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. OSF
• Huo, Y., Wang, S., & Chow, W.Y. (2023) Task modulates predictive behaviour in constraining context: Eye-tracking evidence from a prediction error study. Poster presented at LingCologne2023: Prediction in Language, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Abstract Poster
• Huo, Y., Wang, S., & Chow, W.Y. (2023) Do listeners detect prediction errors in lexical tone? An investigation with tone sandhi in Mandarin Chinese shows unexpected prediction inhibition. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Abstract Poster
• Huo, Y. & Chow, W.Y. (2022) An investigation into listeners’ selective failure to use phonological knowledge in language prediction. Poster presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) 2022, University of York, York, UK. Abstract Poster
• Huo, Y. & Chow, W.Y. (2022) An investigation into listener’s selective failure to use phonological knowledge in language prediction. Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Abstract Poster
• Chow, W.Y., & Huo, Y. (2020) Listeners can use tone information to predict: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Poster presented at the 33rd annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA. OSF