Her studies of language, gesture, cognition and brain rest upon a corpus of spoken records with gesture analysis. For decades, she has been collecting data from Mandarin conversational interactions for the establishment of the NCCU Corpus of Spoken Mandarin. With the data, she investigates the representation of meaning in language and gesture, and the neurocognitive basis of the expression of meaning across modalities. Recently, she, together with the Russian linguist Prof. Yeh Hsiang-lin and the psychologist Prof. Tsai Jie-li, have engaged in an international academic collaboration with a team of linguists in Russia for the investigation of linguistic specificity, linguistic cognition and foreign language learning. In general, the academic environment of the university, where humanities and science naturally and progressively merge, facilitates her cross-disciplinary studies.