About Me
Mingzhen Bao
Assistant Professor of Chinese Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Ph.D., University of Florida.
Office: 969 Patterson Office Tower
Phone: 859-257-6814
Email: mingzhenbao@uky.edu
I'm an assistant professor of Chinese linguistics and second language acquisition at the University of Kentucky. I am currently teaching Advanced Chinese I & II, Introduction to Linguistics, and Phonetics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and the Linguistics Program. I set up the phonetics lab at UK in Spring 2009, running L1 and L2 speakers' production and perception experiments on tonal distinctions and linguistics prominence in tonal languages. I completed my Ph. D. in 2008 with a specialization in phonetics at the University of Florida. My dissertation was on phonetic realization and perception of prominence among lexical tones in Mandarin Chinese. Prior to doing graduate work at UF, I lived in Beijing, China for one year as a visiting student in Speech Group, Microsoft Research Asia and finished my M.A. thesis on accent assignment among different reading styles in Mandarin. I received both B.A. in English and M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Zhejiang University, China.