Bilingual sentence processing
We study how Vietnamese-English bilinguals build syntactic and semantic interpretations in real time, and how second-language experience shapes comprehension.
International University – VNU-HCM
HCMIU Linguistics Lab
Nghiên cứu quá trình xử lý và tiếp thu ngôn ngữ ở người sử dụng tiếng Việt và tiếng Anh.
We investigate how Vietnamese-English bilinguals understand, learn, and use language through experimental psycholinguistics, web-based language tasks, and measures of individual differences. The lab is led by Dr. Nguyễn Thị Quyên at International University, VNU-HCM.
Research focus
Our research →
Syntactic dependencies and locality
Our work examines long-distance dependencies, syntactic islands, relative clauses, resumptive pronouns, and related constraints on sentence comprehension and acceptability.
Working memory and individual differences
We investigate whether differences in working-memory capacity, proficiency, and language experience explain variation in bilingual language processing.
Selected publication
All publications →2026
Resolution of English Pronouns by Vietnamese EFL Learners
Nghi Vo Gia Le, Quyen Thi Nguyen · Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1–21