Faculty and alumni at the 2025 Conference on the Mosaic of East Asian Language Processing

The 2025 Conference on the Mosaic of East Asian Language Processing: Exploring Taiwan’s Diversity and Beyond included multiple presentations by faculty and alumni from the Department of Linguistics in November 2025. Amy Schafer gave a keynote address: “Psycholinguistics everywhere: Enriching language research with the intersection of psycholinguistic experiments and investigations of under-studied languages”. Kamil Deen gave the talk “Language acquisition and endangered languages: Assessing language vitality in minority language contexts”, Apay Ai-yu Tang (PhD, 2011) gave the talks “Psycholinguistics, language assessment and language learning: The case of Truku Seediq” and “Conducting field linguistic research on indigenous languages as an insider in Taiwan”, and Manami Sato (PhD, 2010) gave the talk “Field-based experimental results and methodologies for under-studied languages”. 

The three-day conference aimed to facilitate exchange and dialogue between linguists, psycholinguists, and neurolinguists working on a range of topics on signed and spoken languages in East and Southeast Asia, with emphasis on expanding research on understudied languages.