博士，硕士生导师，语言学研究中心秘书。研究兴趣为成人与儿童的一语和二语习得、言语产出与感知、韵律、心理语言学等。主持国家社科项目1项，参与教育部人文社科项目、校级项目多项。 学习经历 (Qualifications) 2016.11 - 2020.7 新西兰惠灵顿维多利亚大学 语言学博士 2014.8 - 2016.9 丹麦奥胡斯大学 语言学硕士 工作经历 (Employment) 2020.8-至今 华中科技大学外国语学院 教师 讲授课程 (Courses taught) 《精读》《英语日常会话》《英语中级写作》 主要项目 (Grants) 1. 主持2021年度国家社会科学基金青年项目“汉英儿童韵律焦点的发展轨迹比较及二语习得能力研究”; 2. 主持2020年华中科技大学自主创新项目“焦点的二语习得研究”。 3. 另参与教育部人文社科、校级等多个科研教学项目。 主要奖项 (Scholarships & awards) 1. 2019年度国家优秀留学生奖学金 (国家留学基金管理委员会) 2. 2019.11 Doctoral Submission Scholarship (Victoria University of Wellington) 3. 2016.11-2019.11 博士全额奖学金 (The Royal Society of New Zealand – Victoria University of Wellington) 4. 2019.4 Best Student Paper Award (International Phonetic Association) 5. 2014.8-2016.8 硕士全额奖学金（Danish Government-Aarhus University）

实验语音学、言语感知、二语习得、心理语言学

担任本学科SSCI期刊Laboratory Phonology跨语言韵律处理特刊客座编辑、Language and Speech、Journal of Psycholinguistic Research、Language Acquisition、Chinese as a Second Language Research等期刊匿名审稿人

Yan, M., Calhoun, S., Tan, Q. 2024. The role of prosody in pragmatic interpretation in Mandarin. Proc. Speech Prosody 2024. (EI) Wang, Xingtong and Yan, Mengzhu. 2024. The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Speaking. Phonetica, vol. 81, no. 5, 2024. (SSCI) Calhoun, S., Yan, M., & White, H. 2024. Examining focus and alternative priming: Effects of grammatical role and breadth of the alternative set. Journal of Memory and Language, 140, 104580. (SSCI) Yan, Mengzhu, Xue Wu. 2024. Prosody in linguistic journals: a bibliometric analysis. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11, 1-15. (SSCI) Yan, Mengzhu, Sasha Calhoun, Paul Warren. 2023. The role of prominence in activating focused words and their alternatives in Mandarin: Evidence from lexical priming and recognition memory. Language and Speech, 66(3), 678-705. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309221126108 (SSCI) Yan, Mengzhu, Paul Warren, Sasha Calhoun. 2022. Focus interpretation in L1 and L2: The role of prosodic prominence and clefting. Applied Psycholinguistics, 43(6), 1275-1303. doi:10.1017/S0142716422000376 (SSCI) Sasha Calhoun, Mengzhu Yan, Honiara Salanoa, & Emma Kruse Va’ai. 2022. Focus effects on immediate and delayed recognition of referents in Samoan. Language and Speech, 66(1), 175-201. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309221101396 (SSCI) Sasha Calhoun, Paul Warren, Mengzhu Yan. 2022. Cross-language influences in the processing of L2 prosody. In Irina Elgort, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, & Marc Brysbaert (eds). Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition (pp. 47-73). John Benjamins. (peer-reviewed book chapter) Mengzhu Yan, Sasha Calhoun. 2022. Prosodic prominence and clefting in L2 focus interpretation. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal 2022 (pp. 901-905). International Speech Communication Association (EI) Mengzhu Yan. 2022. Review of The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure. Lingua (SSCI/A&HCI) Mengzhu Yan. 2021. Review of Intonation and Prosodic Structure. Phonetica, 78 (2). 169-174. (SSCI/SCI) Yan, Mengzhu, Sasha Calhoun. 2020. Rejecting false alternatives in Chinese and English: The interaction of prosody, clefting, and default focus position. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 11(1), 17. doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.255. (SSCI) Yan, Mengzhu, Sasha Calhoun, Paul Warren. 2020. Prosody or syntax? Investigating the perception of focus by Mandarin speakers. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020, Tokyo, Japan 2020 (pp. 347-351). International Speech Communication Association (EI) Yan, Mengzhu, Sasha Calhoun. 2019. Priming effects of focus in Mandarin Chinese. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01985 (SSCI)