Ms Jiaxuan, a PhD candidate at the LISN lab, is studying bilingualism, with a focus on structural processing and perspective-taking in Mandarin, a topic-prominent language, and in English, a subject-prominent language. Her research examines how the omission of sentence subjects and the nuanced use of passives in Mandarin influence structural processing and perspectives in mental representations. Her thesis aims to shed new light into the complex relationship between language structure, mental perspectives, and how these elements are expressed differently in topic-prominent versus subject-prominent languages.