Office hours
M/W 1:00-2:30 and by appointment
Research interests
Speech Production and Perception, Lexical Tone Processing and Acquisition, Language Learning
Teaching interests
Language Courses: Beginning Chinese, Intermediate Chinese, Advanced Chinese
Linguistics Courses: Introduction to Linguistics, Sounds of Human Language (Sounds of East Asian Languages), Structure of Human Language (Structure of East Asian Languages), Second Language Acquisition, Research Methods, Experimental Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
Recent Publications
- (2008) Effects of native language and training on speaker normalization on lexical tone perception: A behavioral and ERP study. Proceedings of 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference.
- (2008) Thai lexical tone perception in native speakers of Thai, English and Mandarin Chinese: An event-related potentials training study. BioMed Central Neuroscience 9:53.
- (2007) The influence of reading styles on accent assignment in Mandarin. Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 91-106.
- (2007) Effects of native language and training on lexical tone perception: An event-related potential study. Brain Research Vol. 1148, pp. 113-122.
Recent conference presentations
- (2009) Phonetic realization of glottal stop in Shugni. The 158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Antonio, Texas, 26-30 October, 2009.
- (2009) Perception of falling and rising pitch contours: Effects of L1 background. The Florida Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. October 8, 2009.
- (2009) Acoustic analyses of focus realization in Mandarin Chinese. Guest talk. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, June 16, 2009.
- (2008) Phonetic realization of prominence among lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese. The 156th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami, Florida, November 10-14, 2008.
- (2008). Thai lexical tone perception in native speakers of Thai, English and Mandarin Chinese: An ERP training study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2008 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 12-15, 2008.
- (2007). Effects of native language and training on speaker normalization in lexical tone perception. 154th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, November27 ¨CDecember 1, 2007.
- (2007). Phonetic realization of prominence among lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese. 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. October 26-28, 2007.
- (2007). Effects of native language and training on speaker normalization on lexical tone perception: A behavioral and ERP study. 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. October 26-28, 2007.
- (2007). Classroom study on noticing, uptake and recasts features. Sunshine State TESOL 30th Annual Convention 2007. West Palm Beach, Florida. June 9-12, 2007.
- (2007). Prosody of focus among information structures in Pulaar. 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics-ACAL 2007. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. May 22-25, 2007.
- (2006). Tough construction and movement in Chinese. The 18th North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington. June 23-25, 2006.
- (2006). A comparative study of sentential stress distribution in Mandarin multi-style speeches. 3rd International Conference on Speech Prosody 2006. Dresden, Germany. May 2-5, 2006.
- (2006). Effects of native language and training on lexical tone perception: an ERP study. 2006 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting. San Francisco, California. April 8-11, 2006.
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