Yang Wenchun is Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University. She received a Fritz Thyssen fellowship for postdoctoral research at Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, from 2020-2022. Prior to that, she completed her PhD in Linguistics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and obtained her MA in Chinese Linguistics and Language Acquisition from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in children's acquisition of Mandarin and ethnic minority languages in China in monolingual and bilingual contexts. She has published in international journals including Cognition, Applied Psycholinguistics, Journal of Child Language, etc. She has adapted a narrative assessment tool, the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives for two minority languages in China, Kam and Tibetan, and built a corpus of Kam-speaking children’s narratives which is published on the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Archive.