Dr Lilong Xu

  • Lecturer in Chinese (School of Modern Languages & Cultures)

email: Lilong.Xu@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Hetherington Building, room 214, Bute Gardens, University of Glasgow , G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9937-4293

Biography

Lilong Xu received her PhD in Chinese Linguistics and Language Acquisition from the University of Cambridge, and her BA in English and Mathematics and MA in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Before joining the University of Glasgow as Lecturer in Chinese in 2025, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, working on bilingualism, bidialectalism, and language-related wellbeing.

She is currently engaged in collaborative research on L3 Chinese acquisition by Spanish–Catalan bilinguals.

Research interests

Fields of interest: 

  • bilingualism and multilingualism
  • linguistic approaches to non-native Chinese grammars
  • second/third language acquisition theory
  • formal linguistics
  • syntax
  • bilingualism/bidialectalism and aphasia.

Her research examines how learners acquire Chinese grammar across different developmental stages, considering factors such as language transfer, linguistic proximity, input, and positive evidence. She is also interested in the cognitive and psycholinguistic mechanisms underlying bilingualism, bidialectalism, multilingualism, and language-related wellbeing.

Publications

Prior publications

Article

Ma, S., Chang, H., Yuan, B., Xu, L., Wang, H. (2025) Production of the adjective and possessive markers de in Chinese post-stroke aphasia Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 02699206 14645076 (doi: 10.1080/02699206.2024.2447531)

Xu, L., Yuan, B. (2024) Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model Second Language Research Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 02676583 14770326 (doi: 10.1177/02676583221135189)

Xu, L., Yuan, B. (2024) What looks native-like may not necessarily be native-like Evidence from L2 Chinese covert objects Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 18799264 (doi: 10.1075/lab.22090.xu)

Chang, H., Xu, L. (2022) Transfer and unlearning of topic prominence by Chinese learners of English Iral International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 0019042X 16134141 (doi: 10.1515/iral-2018-0205)

Liu, C., Xu, C., Wang, Y., Xu, L., Zhang, H., Yang, X. (2021) Aging effect on mandarin chinese vowel and tone identification in six-talker babble American Journal of Audiology Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 10590889 15589137 (doi: 10.1044/2021_AJA-20-00139)

Wang, Y., Yang, X., Zhang, H., Xu, L., Xu, C., Liu, C. (2017) Aging effect on categorical perception of mandarin tones 2 and 3 and thresholds of pitch contour discrimination American Journal of Audiology Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 10590889 (doi: 10.1044/2016_AJA-16-0020)

Yang, X., Wang, Y., Xu, L., Zhang, H., Xu, C., Liu, C. (2015) Aging effect on Mandarin Chinese vowel and tone identification Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 00014966 (doi: 10.1121/1.4933234)

Other

Liu, Y. et al. (2024) ZhoBLiMP: a Systematic Assessment of Language Models with Linguistic Minimal Pairs in Chinese Arxiv Scopus - Elsevier. ISSN 23318422 (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2411.06096)