1. Language Acquisition (undergraduate and postgraduate course)

2. Introduction to Cognitive Science (undergraduate course)

3. Developmental Psychology (undergraduate course)

Liu, S., Li ,X., & Xia, S. (in press). Cracking the Syntactic Code: 3-Year-Old Mandarin Learners Use Syntactic Bootstrapping to Identify Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs. Journal of child language.

Liu, S., Li, X., & Wang, Y. (2026). Grasping the Logic Behind: Three-and Four-year-olds’ Understanding of Major Types of Chinese Connectives. Journal of psycholinguistic research, 55(3), 43.

Liu, S., & Li, X. (2025). The influence of masks on children's ability to produce new words. Language learning and development, 21(3), 235-254.

Liu, S., Li ,X., & Sun, R. (2024). The effect of masks on infants’ ability to fast-map and generalize new words. Journal of child language, 51(3):637-655.

Liu, S., & Li, N. (2021). Going virtual in the early years: 30-month-old toddlers recognize commonly used emojis. Infant behavior and development, 63, 101541.

Liu, S., & R, Sun. (2019). Appreciating Language Conventions: Thirteen-Month-Old Chinese Infants Understand That Word Generalization is Shared Practice. Journal of child language,25:1-12.

Liu, S., & R, Sun. (2018). Do Great Minds Prefer Alike? Thirteen-Month-Old Infants Generalize Personal Preferences Across Objects of Like Kind but Not Across People. Front. Psychol. 9:2636.

Horváth, K., Liu, S., & Plunkett, K. (2016). A daytime nap facilitates generalization of word meanings in young toddlers. Sleep, 39(1), 203.      

Grants (as Principal Investigator)

· Youth Fund Project of the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences, China

· China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

1. Language Acquisition (undergraduate and postgraduate course)

2. Introduction to Cognitive Science (undergraduate course)

3. Developmental Psychology (undergraduate course)