CEAS Faculty Ming Xiang Receives Named Service Professorship

Thirty-one members of the University of Chicago faculty have recently received named and distinguished service professorships in 2025 including the Department of Linguistics and the College's Ming Xiang. Professor Ming Xiang is a member of the Center for East Asian Studies Committee on Chinese Studies.

Professor Ming Xiang has been named the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the College.  Her research aims to better understand the cognitive and neural mechanisms that support the rapid, real-time construction of complex linguistic representations. As the director of the Language Processing Lab at UChicago, she uses behavioral and neurophysiological methods to investigate how structural representations are formed during language comprehension and production across different languages. Her research also examines how context influences semantic and pragmatic interpretations. Recently, her lab has started exploring how language processing contributes to language change in multilingual communities.

Professor Ming Xiang has received several awards from the National Science Foundation to study sentence processing mechanisms across languages. She collaborates with linguists, psychologists, and neuroscientists at UChicago and other universities worldwide, contributing to numerous journal articles and conference presentations on a wide range of topics in her field.

To learn more about Professor Ming Xiang and her work, please visit her departmental page.