Wang Luming

Research Profile  

My research focuses on the way in which language is processed by the human brain. Specifically, I work on the interface between different prominence information during sentence/discourse processing by using electroencepahlography (EEG) techniques. I try to interpret the EEG data of Chinese from a cross-linguistic perspective, that is, comparing with other languages such as Japanese, German, Estonian and English, how findings from Chinese contribute to our current understanding of neurocognitive models of sentence/discourse processing. In cooperation with my colleagues at home and abroad, I also start to work on how findings from native language processing shed lights on second language learning. People who are interested in EEG experiments of  language processing and language learning at ZJUT, please also visit the Cross-linguistic Studies and Brain Science Lab (CSBS) website.

Education Background

2006-2009      PhD in linguistics, Leipzig University, Germany

                         Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Bornkessel-Schlesewsky Ina, Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel

2004-2006      MA in lnternational Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, Japan

                         Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kaoru Horie

1999-2003      BA in Japanese, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Working Experience

2024-now     Professor at School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang University of Technology &

                       Visiting professor at Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Estonia 

2014-2023    Associate professor at School of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang University of Technology

2012-2013    Post-doc at Department of Germanic Linguistics, University of Marburg, Germany

2009-2012    Post-doc at Department of English and General Linguistics, University of Mainz, Germany

2006-2009    Junior researcher in Max Plank Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Welcome to Yuling Building 608 Cross-linguistic Studies and Brain Science Lab! 

We periodically have experiments on Chinese sentence processing. 

Please feel free to email us if you are interested in participation. 

Projects (PI: Luming Wang)

2023-2027  Characteristics in Processing Information Structure of Spoken Chinese. Funded by National Social Science Foundation of China. ¥200,000. in progress.

2019-2021  Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Cue Effect and Transfer Effect in Second Language Learning：A cross-linguistic and longitudinal Study. Funded by Ministry of Education, China. ¥80,000. Completed.

2019-2020 Language Science and Technology Toward Asian Community. Funded by Eurasia Foundation, Japan. $35,000.Completed.

2017-2019  A Neurotypology Study of Foreign Language Learning. Funded by “Qianjiang Talents Program”, Zhejiang Province, China. ¥30,000. Completed.

2016-2017 Animacy Effects on Second Language Learning and Implications for Foreign Language Teaching: A Behavioral and Neurocognitive Study. Funded by  Philosophy and Social Science Program, Zhejiang Province, China. ¥20,000. Completed.

Projects participated 

2024–2028 Native language experience and the brain’s perception and learning of a foreign language, Funded by Estonian Research Council, €117,000/year. In Progress.

2020–2022 Singapore Mandarin Grammar. Funded by Chinese Academic Translation Project, ¥190,000. Completed. 

Selected Publications

Books

王路明（2023）论元显著性与句子加工 -- 有关语序、格标记、有生性的神经类型学发现 ，浙江大学出版社。

Argument Prominence and Sentence Processing -- Neurotypological Findings on Word Order, Case Marker and Animacy

Luming Wang (2011) The Influence of Animacy and Context on Word OrderProcessing: Neurophysiological Evidence from Mandarin Chinese.Max-Planck-Institute for Cognitive and Brain Science 129. Sächsisches Druck-and Verlagshaus Direct World, Dresden.

Articles

Siqi Lyu, Nele Poldver, Liis Kask, Luming Wang, Kairi Kreegipuu (2024) Effect of musical expertise on the perception of duration and pitch in language: A cross-linguistic study. Acta Psychologica, 244: 104195.

Siqi Lyu, Luming Wang (2022) Implicit causality and pronoun resolution in intersubjective discourse relations. Frontiers in Psychology.doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.866 103.

王路明、徐田燃 (2022) 母语形态重要吗？汉语者和德语者学习人工语言格标记规则的行为和ERP研究《外语教学与研究》54(2):  252-264.

王路明、贾磊、彭国珍 (2019) 施受非对称性和汉语迁移效应 --人造语言学习的ERP实验发现 《语言科学》18 (4): 372-383.

王路明 (2017) 主语优先等同于施事者优先或话题优先吗？来自汉语简单句加工的脑电实验发现《外国语》40(3) : 43-51.

王路明(2015)优势语序还是优势解读？利用ERP考察汉语双论元歧义句的解歧过程《心理学报》47(7)：869-877.

Luming  Wang, & Petra Burkhardt Schumacher. (2013). New is not always costly: Evidence from online processing of topic and         contrast in Japanese. Frontiers in Psychology 4: 363. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00363.

Ina  Bornkessel-Schlesewsky,  Franziska Kretzschmar, Sara Tune, Luming Wang, Safiya Genç, Markus Philipp, Dietmar Roehm,  & Matthias Schlesewsky. (2011). Think globally: Cross-linguistic variation in electrophysiological activity during sentence comprehension. Brain and Language,117,133-152.

Luming  Wang,  Matthias Schlesewsky, Balthasar Bickel, & Ina  Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. (2009). Exploring the nature of the  ‘subject’-preference: Evidence from the online comprehension of simple sentences in Mandarin Chinese. Language and  Cognitive Processes, 24,  1180-1226.

Luming Wang, Kaoru Horie, & Parashant Pardeshi. (2009).  Toward a functional typology of noun modifying constructions in  Japanese and Chinese: A corpus-based account. In S. Inagaki et al.  (eds.) Studies in Language Sciences, 8,  213-228. (Its Japanese version appears in language. Brain. Cognitive Science and Second language acquisition, 41-52).

Review and Association

Reviewer of Brain and Language, Brain and Behavior, NeuroImage, PLos One

Member of Society for the Neurobiology Language

Council Member of the Chinese Association of Psycholinguistics

Council Member of the Chinese Modernization Society, Neurolinguistic Research, China

Council Member of the Association for Camparative Studies of Chinese and Foreign Languages and Cultures,

                                   Committee of Second Langugage Processing, China

Supervisor of BA/MA students 

01.2019–now               Training BA/MA students as research assistants in the CSBS Lab at ZJUT.

Tutor of college students

09.2022–now               Tutoring one class of BA students over the whole course of college life.

09.2017–now               Tutoring the first-year college students.