Qili Wang

Qili Wang is a PhD candidate in psycholinguistics at the Institute of German as a Foreign Language Philology in University Heidelberg. Her main research interests lie in the cross-linguistic study of event conceptualization and language acquisition. Currently she is working on her dissertation which aims to understand how German-Chinese bilingual children learn to express motion events in both languages. By approach of eye-tracking experiment, she also intends to investigate the acquisition of event conceptualization pattern by early bilinguals and the role of language specificity in guiding spatial and time conceptualization.