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Fang Jackson-Yang is a psycholinguist and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh's Psychology Department within the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. She holds teaching roles across undergraduate and postgraduate programs including Data Analysis in R, Psychological Research Skills, and Second Language Teaching Curriculum. Her research focuses on prominence in language, language-mediated attention, and Mandarin syntax, employing experimental methods and corpus studies. She has presented at leading conferences like AMLaP and IACL, and her work appears in journals such as Discourse Processes and Royal Society Open Science.
Education includes MSc/PhD studies at Beijing Language and Culture University, University of Sheffield, University of Manchester, and University of Edinburgh. Her teaching spans quantitative research skills, language acquisition, and multilingual education. She supervises MSc dissertations and has organized academic events including the 2024 AMLaP conference in Edinburgh.
Research explores how speakers encode conceptual prominence in transitive sentences and hearers decode attentional cues through eye-tracking experiments. Past work includes Mandarin left-periphery corpus studies and second language acquisition of topic-comment structures. Active in academic service, she reviews for Discourse Processes and Linguistic Inquiry.
