Mengru HAN

2019  Utrecht University，Ph.D. in Linguistics

2013  Utrecht University，M.A. in Linguistics

2011  Nanjing University，B.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

2010  National University of Singapore，Exchange student (Temasek Foundation – NUS Leadership Enrichment and Regional Networking Programme）

2024-Present Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University

2019-2023 Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University

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Publications

[1]      Liu, Y., Geng, L., Gu, Y., & Han, M. (accepted). Sentence-final particles in Mandarin child-directed speech: Frequency and impact on speech rate. Paper to be presented at Interspeech 2025. [EI]

[2]      Zhang, Y., Han, M., Swerts, M., & Gu, Y. (in press). The effect of gender on multimodal child-directed language: Evidence from analyses of broadcast programmes. To appear in the Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

[3]      Han, M. & Gu, Y. (2025). Does the name of a disease matter?: Chinese people’s public perception of the renaming of COVID-19. Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaf045 [SSCI]

[4]      Wu, J., Han, M., & Schiller, N. (2025). Neuro-cognitive correlates of lexical borrowing during sentence comprehension of bi-dialectal speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925000264 [SSCI]

[5]      Han, M., Nie, Y., & Gu, Y. (2024). Bridging word and world: Vocal iconicity in Chinese child-directed speech and child production. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3249-3256). [pdf]

[6]      Han, M., Yang, L., & Gu, Y. (2024). Faster and smoother: Fluency in Chinese child-directed speech. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024 (pp. 6-10). [pdf] [EI]

[7]      Han, M., Nie, Y., & Gu, Y. (2024). Sound effect, onomatopoeia, and iconic prosody in Chinese: Emerging vocal iconicity in child-directed speech and child production. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024 (pp. 205-209). [pdf] [EI]

[8]      Han, M., de Jong, N., & Kager, R. (2024). Relating the prosody of infant-directed speech to children's vocabulary size. Journal of Child Language, 51(1), 217–233.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000041 [SSCI]

[9]      Han, M., & Gu, Y. (2023). Che-che (‘car-car’) and chi-chi (‘eat-eat’): Reduplication in Mandarin Chinese child-directed speech. In M. Goldwater, F. K. Anggoro, B. K. Hayes, & D. C. Ong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

[10]   Van der Klis, A., Adriaans, F., Han, M., & Kager, R. (2023). Using Open-Source Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for the Annotation of Dutch Infant-Directed Speech. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 7(7), 68.

[11]   Han, M., de Jong, N., & Kager, R. (2022). Prosodic input and children’s word learning in infant- and adult-directed speech. Infant Behavior and Development, 68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101728 [SSCI]

[12]   Wu, J., Zheng, W., Han, M., & Schiller, N. O. (2021). Cross-dialectal novel word learning and borrowing. Frontiers in Psychology, 4162. [SSCI]

[13]   Han, M., de Jong, N., & Kager, R. (2021). Language specificity of infant-directed speech: Speaking rate and word position in word-learning contexts. Language Learning and Development, 17(3), 221–240, https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2020.1855182 [SSCI, A&HCI]

[14]   Han, M., de Jong, N., & Kager, R. (2020). Pitch properties of infant-directed speech specific to word-learning contexts: A cross-linguistic investigation of Mandarin Chinese and Dutch. Journal of Child Language. 47, 85–111. doi:10.1017/S0305000919000813 [SSCI]

[15]   Van der Klis, A., Adriaans, F., Han, M., & Kager, R. (2020). Automatic Recognition of Target Words in Infant-Directed Speech. In Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 522-522).

[16]   Han, M., de Jong, N. H., & Kager, R. (2018b). Infant-directed speech is not always slower: Cross-linguistic evidence from Dutch and Mandarin Chinese. In A. Bertolini and M. Kaplan (Ed.) Proceedings of the 42nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 331–344). Cascadilla Press.

[17]   Han, M., de Jong, N., & Kager, R. (2018a). Lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese infant-directed speech: Age-related changes in the second year of life. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 434. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00434 [SSCI]

[18]   Liu, L., Han, M., & Kager R. (2017). Keeping up with the monolinguals: An equal pace of vocabulary development between Dutch monolingual and bilingual infants in the first 18 months after birth. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics. 6(1). 41-64. https://doi.org/10.1075/dujal.6.1.03liu