PUBLICATIONS
PhD Dissertation
Gu,Yan (2018). Chinese hands of time: The effects of language and culture on temporal gestures and spatio-temporal reasoning. LOT Publisher: Utrecht [open accessed]. PDF
Articles
Callizo-Romero, C., Tutnjević, S., Pandza, M., Ouellet, M., Kranjec, A., Ilić, S., Gu, Y., Göksun,
T., Chahboun, S., Casasanto, D. & Santiago, J. (2020). Temporal Focus and time
spatialization across cultures. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. Link
Shi, J.Y., Gu., Y., Grzyb, B., & Vigliocco, G. (2020) Child-directed speech: the impact of
variations in speaking rate on word learning. In S. Denison., M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B.C.
Armstrong (Eds.), Proceeding of 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
(pp. 1043-1049). Cognitive Science Society PDF
Gu, Y., Zheng, Y., & Swerts, M. (2019). Which is in front of Chinese people: Past or
future? The effect of language and culture on temporal gestures and spatial conceptions of time. Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12804. PDF
Gu, Y., Zheng, Y., & Swerts, M. (2019). Having a different pointing of view about the future: The effect of signs on temporal gestures in Mandarin-CSL bimodal bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22 (4), 836-847. PDF
Gu, Y., Mol, L., Hoetjes, M. & Swerts, M (2017). Conceptual and lexical effects on
gestures: the case of vertical spatial metaphors for time in Chinese. Language,
Cognition and Neuroscience, 32 (8),1-16. PDF
Gu, Y., Zheng Y., Swerts, M. (2017). Does Mandarin spatial metaphor for time influence
Chinese deaf signers' spatio-temporal reasoning? In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes,
T. Tenbrink, E. J. Davelaar (Eds). Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society (pp.445-450). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science
Society. PDF
Gu, Y., Zheng, Y., & Swerts, M. (2016). Which is in front of Chinese people: Past or
future? A study on Chinese people’s space-time mapping. In Papafragou, A.,
Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 38th Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2603-2608). Austin, TX:
Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Gu Y. & Chen, A. (2014). Information status and L2 prosody: A study of reference
maintenance in Chinese learners of Dutch. In: Caspers, Johanneke, Yiya Chen,
Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten (eds.),
Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics
(pp. 120–130). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. PDF
Gu, Y., Mol, L., Hoetjes, M., Swerts, M. (2014). Does language shape the production
and perception of gestures? A study on late Chinese-English Bilinguals’
conceptions about time. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati
(Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society (pp. 547-552). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Swerts, M., Boerrigter, T. & Y. Gu (2014). Head gestures as congruent or incongruent
signs of children’s attitudes. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati
(Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society (pp. 2961-2966). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Chen, H., Gu, Y. & H., Zuo (2013) Theories on the relationship between gesture and
speech-Also on implications for cognitive linguistics, Journal of Foreign
Languages, 36 (外国语)(5): 50-58.
Gu, Y., Mol, E.M.M., Hoetjes, M.W., & Swerts, M. (2013). What can Chinese speakers'
temporal gestures reveal about their conception of time? Proceedings of TiGeR 2013:
The combined meeting of the10th international Gesture Workshop (GW) and the 3rd
Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN) conference. Tilburg, Netherlands. PDF
Mol, E.M.M., Gu, Y., & Postma-Nilsenova, M. (2013). Structural adaptation in gesture
and speech. Proceedings of TiGeR 2013:The combined meeting of the 10th
international Gesture Workshop (GW) and the 3rd Gesture and Speech in
Interaction (GESPIN) conference. Tilburg, NL.
Halteren, H., Martell, C., Du, C., Gu, Y., Kobben, J., Panjaitan, L., Schubotz, L.,
Vasilenko, K., & Vladimirova Y. (2011). Im chattin :-) u wanna NLP it: Analyzing
reduction in chat. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, (1), 95-
108. PDF
Gu, Y., & Ivanchenko, I. (2011). Non-verbal behaviours during stuttered speech –
preliminary results from a case study of a bilingual who stutters. Proceeding of
GESPIN 2011: Gesture and Speech in Interaction, Bielefeld, Germany.
Gu, Y. (2010). A study on VOT values of English plosives based on L2 English read
speech corpus. Second language Phonetics Research in China (pp.352-371), In Chen
Hua & Yang Jun (Eds). Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Other Publications 2005-2009 (during Bachelor)
Gu, Y., Fan, Y. N., & Zhu. S. S. (2009). An investigation report of students’ extra-
curriculum study in Jiangsu Province (江苏省小学生课外学习现状调研及对策), Journal of
Schooling Studies,1: 55-57. (CSSCI)
Zhai J.W., & Gu, Y. (2008). Reform and innovation of Chinese Fairy-tales based on
Andersen’s Tales (安徒生童话背景下的中国童话的变革与创新). Journal of Changzhou
institute of Technology,3: 46-51.
Lu, Y., Gu, Y. & Zhu, S. S. (2008). An analysis and solution of the current situation of
migrant workers’ children in Nantong (南通民工子女生存现状分析与对策). Journal of
Siit, 3: 63-65.
Gu Y. (2007). Analysis of the causes of listening difficulty for L2 English learners (英语听力困扰
学习者之原因分析). Journal of Siit,1: 50-53.