Educational Background & Work Experience

Work Experience

2020.7-Present Full time, Associate Professor, Department of English, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2013-2020Full time,Associate Professor,Department of English,SoochowUniversity,Suzhou, PRC

2018-2019 Visiting scholar, Utrecht University,the Netherlands

2008-2013 Part time, Research Assistant, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

2007-2008 Full time, Research Assistant, Language Acquisition Lab, Chinese University of Hong Kong

2003-2005 Full time, Research assistant, Institute of Cognitive Science, School of Foreign Languages,HunanUniversity,Changsha, PRC

Education Background

2009-2013 PhD in Cognitive Science (linguistics),MacquarieUniversity, Australia

2005-2009 MPhilinLinguistics,ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong

2000-2003 MA in Linguistics, HunanUniversity, PRC

1995-1998 BA in EnglishLiteratureand Linguistics,Changsha RailwayUniversity, PRC

Teaching and Research

Research Interests

First language Acquisition,Semantics,Pragmatics,Chinese linguistics, Second language acquisition

Publications

Refereedjournalarticles

Aijun Huang, Yunqi Hu (2025). Integrating the Syntactic and Semantic Acquisition of Chinese Classifiers in Mandarin-speaking Children: A Corpus Study. To be published inFirst Language.

黄爱军、孙盛、吴庄、刘明明 （ 已接受，待刊）汉语概数词“几”的等级含义：一项实证研究。Journal of Chinese Linguistics(A&HCI，SSCI).

Aijun Huang,Xiaomei Zhang, Stephen Crain (2024). The interpretation of animate nouns in child and adult Mandarin:from the Universal Grinder to syntactic structure.Linguistcs.

Aijun Huang,Jingjing Li, Luisa Meroni (2022). Grammatical and contextual factors in the interpretation and acquisitioni of superordinate collectives in Mandarin Chinese.Linguistics.60(4), 933-972.

Kazuko Yatsushiro, Chiara Dal Farra, Aurore Gonzalez, Johannes Hein, Silvia Silleresi, Alicia Avellana,Aijun Huang, Johnson F. Ilori, Gayathri G. Krishnan, Lilla Pintér, Maria Teresa Guasti, and Uli Sauerland (2022). Children‘s Wh-questions across Languages: Some Preliminary Results.BUCLD 46: Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

AijunHuang,Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Luisa Meroni (2021).Portioning-out and individuation in Mandarin non-interrogative wh-pronominal phrases: Experimental evidence from child Mandarin.Frontiers in Psychology, section Language Sciences (SSCI/A&HCI).

Ursini, Francesco-Alessio &Aijun Huang(2021).The anaphoric properties of spatial nouns and prepositions in Mandarin: A formal account.Lingua.(SSCI Corresponding Author)

Aijun, Huang(2019).Countability in Mandarin Chinese: Bridging theory and experiments.Language and Semiotic Studies, 5(3),78-110.

Huang, Aijun(2015).Linguistic form and function: expression of countability in Chinesewh-phrases.Language and Semiotic Studies, 1(4), 34-51.

Huang,Aijun& Stephen Crain (2014).Polarity sensitive items in child Mandarin.Language Acquisition21,156–181.

Huang,Aijun& Stephen Crain (2014).Acquisition of the numericalwh-pronounji‘how many’ in Mandarin Chinese.Lingua145,122-140.

Huang,Aijun& Stephen Crain (2014). Acquisition of polarity sensitive itemrenhe‘any’ in Mandarin Chinese.Journal of Child Language41,861-889.

Huang, Aijun(2014). Acquisition of polarity-sensitive items in Mandarin Chinese.Language Acquisition, 21:212-214.

Huang, Aijun(2013).Insignificance is significant: interpretation of thewh-pronounshenme‘what’ in Mandarin Chinese.Language and Linguistics. 14(1),1-45.

Books

Mineharu Nakayama, Yi-ching Su, and Aijun Huang(2017.)StudiesinChinese and JapaneseLanguage Acquisition: In Honor of Stephen Crain,John Benjamins Publishing Company (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders series)

Refereed book chapters

Huang, Aijun & Francesco-Alessio Ursini (2017). The acquisition of thewh-pronounduo-shaoin child Mandarin. In Mineharu Nakayama, Yi-ching Su, and Aijun Huang(eds.)StudiesinChinese and JapaneseLanguage Acquisition: In Honor of Stephen Crain,John Benjamins Publishing Company (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders series).170-198.

Ursini,Francesco-Alessio& AijunHuang(2019).Sense. In J. D'Amico & M.S. Ball. (eds.).Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. 2nd volume. Thousand Oak, CA: Sage Publications .

Ursini,Francesco-Alessio& AijunHuang(2019).Reference. In J. D'Amico & M.S. Ball. (eds.).Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. 2nd volume. Thousand Oak, CA: Sage Publications.

Ursini,Francesco-Alessio& AijunHuang(2019).Deixis. In J. D'Amico & M.S. Ball. (eds.).Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. 2nd volume. Thousand Oak, CA: Sage Publications.

Refereed conferenceproceedings

Huang, Aijun& Stephen Crain (2013). The numerical wh-pronounjiin child Mandarin.In Y. Otsu (ed.)The Proceedings of the Fourteenth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics,83-98.Tokyo:Hituzi Syobo.

Huang,Aijun& Thomas Hun-tak Lee(2009).Quantification and Individuation in the Acquisition of Chinese Classifiers.In Y. Otsu (ed.)The Proceedings of theTenth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics,117-141.Tokyo:Hituzi Syobo.

Research grants (as Principal Investigator)

2018 Semantic properties of Mandarin classifier in Child Mandarin.National Social Science Foundation.

2015Linguistic properties of Chinesewh-pronouns and child language research.Ministry of

Education Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Fund.

2015Theoretical construction of Chinesewh-pronoun system and childlanguageresearch.China

Science FoundationSpecial Research Fund

2014Investigation on the first language acquisition of the semantic and pragmatic properties of Chinesewh-pronouns.Department of Education Jiangsu Province Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund

2014The Chinese wh-pronoun system research from the perspective of child language development.China Science Foundation Research Fund.

Professional Service

Ad Hoc reviewer of journal papers

Lingua,Linguistics,Glossa,First Language,Frontiers in Psychology,Modern Linguistics(当代语言学)