Journal Papers

  • Su, Hung-Kwan, and Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen*. 2019. Conceptualization of CONTAINMENT in Chinese: A Corpus-Based Study of the Chinese Space Particles lǐ, nèi, and zhōng. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics 45(2): 211-245. (THCI, Scopus)
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien*, and Shu-Chuan Tseng. 2019. Prosodic encoding in Mandarin spontaneous speech: Evidence for clause-based advanced planning in language production. Journal of Phonetics 76:1-22. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2019.100912 (SSCI).
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2019. Assessing phraseological development in word sequences of variable lengths in second language texts using directional association measures. Language Learning 69(2): 440-477. doi:10.1111/lang.12340 (SSCI).
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2016. A critical evaluation of text difficulty development in ELT textbook series: A corpus-based approach using variability neighbor clustering. System 58:64-81. doi:10.1016/j.system.2016.03.011. (SSCI).
  • Dluhošová, Tana and Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen，2016，〈 台灣戰後初期文學場域重建：數位人文方法的應用與實例分析〉(Reconstruction of Taiwanese Early Post-war Literary Field: A Case Study with the Use of Digital Humanities Method)， 《台灣文學學報》(Bulletin of Taiwanese Literature) 27期，頁153-190。 （THCI）
  • Prevot, Laurent, Shu-Chuan Tseng, K. Peshkov, and Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen. 2015. Processing units in conversation: A comparative study of French and Mandarin data. Language and Linguistics 16(1):69-92. (SSCI, AHCI)
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2014. A quantitative corpus-based approach to English spatial particles: Conceptual symmetry and its pedagogical implications. Taiwan Journal of TESOL 11(1): 75-104. (THCI)
  • Lin, You-Jing, Jackson T-S Sun, Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen. 2011. Non-consonantal velarization in Puxi Horpa (蒲西霍爾語軟顎化的語音對立). Essays in Linguistics (語言學論叢) 45: 187-195.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2010. A conceptual understanding of bodily orientation in Mandarin: A quantitative corpus perspective. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 6(1). 1-28. (SSCI, AHCI)
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2009. Corpus, lexicon and construction: A quantitative corpus approach to Mandarin possessive construction. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing 14(3):305-340. (THCI-core)

Book Chapters

  • Dluhošová, Tana and Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen. 2016. Digital humanities methods for reconstruction of the literary fields in the early post-war period of Taiwan. In Hisang Jie (ed), Digital Humanities: Between Past, Present, and Future (The 6th Book of Series on Digital Humanities), p127-167. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press.

Non-refereed Works

  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien and Shu-Chuan Tseng. 2014. Newsletter of the Association of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (中華民國計算語言學會通訊). 25(2):6-21.

Conference Presentations

  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2020. Recurrent Multiword Combinations in Spontaneous Speech Production: Prosodic Evidence for their Processing Advantages. To be presented at the International Associations of Applied Linguistics (AILA2020), Groningen, the Netherlands. 9-14 August.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien* and Hung-Kwan Su. 2019. A usage-based constructionist approach to grammar: Semantic network analyses of words, constructions, and alternations. Presented at the 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Nishinomiya, Japan. August 6-11.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2019. Constituency, sequentiality, and prosody: A corpus-based analysis of phraseological sequences in Mandarin spontaneous speech production. Presented at the 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Nishinomiya, Japan. August 6-11.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2019. Phraseology and Prosody: Corpus-based acoustic evidence from spontaneous speech production. Presented at the 10th International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL 2019), Cardiff, UK. July 22-26. [PPT]
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien* and Tana Dluhošová. 2019. Mapping Conceptual Development and Ideological Camps in the Early Post-war Taiwan: Combining Semantic Network Analysis and Social Network Analysis Perspectives. Presented at the 11th International Convention of Asian Scholars, Leiden, Netherland. July 15-19.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2018. Beyond two-word sequences: Assessing phraseological development in L2 texts using forward transitional probabilities. Presented at The 13th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TaLC-13), Cambridge, UK. July 18-21.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien and Tana Dluhošová. 2017. Taiwan Biographical Ontology (TBIO): A Working Annotation Scheme for Biographical Information Extraction and its Application to Sociology of Literature. To be presented at The 8th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (DADH-2017), Taipei, Taiwan. Nov 19 - Dec 01. [PPT]
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2017. Assessing Text Difficulty Development in ELT Textbooks Series Using N-gram Language Models based on BNC. Presented at The 9th International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL2017), Birmingham, UK. July 24-28.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2016. A quantitative corpus-based study on English prepositions: Conceptual contiguity and its pedagogical implications. Presented at The 12th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TaLC-12), Giessen, Germany. July 20-23.
  • Dluhošová, Tana and Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen. 2015. Digital Humanities Methods for Reconstruction of the Literary Landscape in the Early Post-war Period of Taiwan. Presented at 2015 International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities, Taipei, Taiwan. November 30-December 2.
  • Huang, Da-Han and Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen. 2015. Profiling the sentence patterns in senior high school textbooks: A corpus-based assessment for authenticity. Presented at 2015 APLX International Conference on Applied Linguistics, Taipei, Taiwan. November 18-19.
  • Chen, Hsiang-Hsien and Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen. 2015. Pedagogical Fallacy in the Use of Near-synonyms in ELT: A Case Study on Ask, Demand, Request, and Require. Presented at 2015 APLX International Conference on Applied Linguistics, Taipei, Taiwan. November 18-19.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien and Tseng Shu-Chuan. 2015. Empirical Evidence for Grammatical Constituency: Pitch Variation in Online Spontaneous Speech Production. Presented at Interactional Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2015, Newcastle, UK. July 20-26.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien 2015. Applying Variability Neighbor Clustering to Textbooks Evaluation: A Corpus-based Approach Utilizing BNC Word Lists and Readability Formulas. Presented at ROCTEFL 2015, Taipei, Taiwan. May 23-24. [PPT]
  • Dluhoshava, Tana and Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen. 2015. Re-constructing the Literary Field in Early Post-war Taiwan Literature: A Quantitative Study on the Publication Patterns of the Contributors. Presented at The 12th Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. April 8-10.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2014. Measuring Vocabulary Levels of Taiwan Senior High School English Textbooks and Entrance Exams: A Corpus-based Approach Utilizing a BNC Word List. Presented at AsiaCALL 2014, Changhua, Taiwan. November 22-24.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2014. Geometry and conceptual symmetry: A cross-linguistic corpus-based perspective. Presented at Workshop in Digital Sinology and Taiwan Studies, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2014. Geometry and conceptual symmetry: A cross-linguistic corpus-based study on spatial particles in Mandarin and English. Presented in The 8th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG8), Osnabrück, Germany. Septempber 3-6.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2013. Spatial particles in English: A quantitative corpus-based approach to the conceptualization of symmetry in bodily orientation. Presented in The 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC27), Taipei, Taiwan. November 22-24.
  • Prévot, Laurent, Shu-Chuan Tseng, Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen, Klim Peshkov. 2013. A quantitative comparative study of prosodic and discourse units: the case of French and Taiwan Mandarin. Presented in The 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation (PACLIC27), Taipei, Taiwan. November 22-24.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien & Shu-Chuan Tseng. 2012. Conceptual planning in conversational Mandarin: Pitch variation in prosodic phrasing. The 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Volume II, 547-550. Shanghai, China. May 22-25.
  • Liu, Yifen, Shu-Chuan Tseng, J.-S. Roger Jang, Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen. 2010. Coping imbalanced prosodic unit boundary detection with linguistically motivated prosodic features. INTERSPEECH 2010, 1417-1420, Makuhari.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2008. Covarying collexemes and constructional meaning: Mandarin possessive construction. Paper presented at the International Conference on Language, Communication and Cognition, Brighton, UK.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2006. Transitivity in Mandarin: A realistic account of argument structure. Paper presented at 14th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics & 10th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics Joint Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan. May 25-28.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2005. Lexicalization or grammaticalization? The development of napa in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at 9th International Cognitive Linguistic Conference, Seoul, Korea, July 17-22.
  • Chiu, Shin-Hsien & Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen. 2005. Etymological reflection of grammaticalization: Conditional constructions in Mandarin Chinese. Paper presented at 9th International Cognitive Linguistic Conference, Seoul, Korea, July 17-22.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2004a. Conceptual metaphors: A cognitive linguistic view of English preposition teaching. Paper presented at Thirteenth International Symposium and Book Fair on English Teaching, Taipei, Taiwan, November 12-14.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2004b. From rhetorical to concessive-conditional: What’s wrong with unidirectionality? Paper presented at International Language and Cognition Conference, Coffs Harbor, Australia, September 10-12.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien. 2004c. Interrogatives in interaction: A case study of nali in Mandarin. Paper presented at 2004 National Conference on Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.
  • Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien & Wen-yu Chiang. 2004. Form, function and optimality theory: The role of pragmatics in the formation of Hakka tone sandhi domain. Paper presented at 9th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

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