Ning, Li-Hsin

Li-Hsin Ning received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She formerly worked at Google as a Speech Data Evaluator. She has her expertise in phonetics, psycholinguistics, statistics, and programming. Her research falls into two major categories: (1) acoustic phonetics and (2) articulatory phonetics.  For acoustic phonetics, she investigates the internal models for tone in native speakers of Mandarin and second language learners of Mandarin. She used the pitch-shift paradigm to examine the reflex-like pitch-shift responses represented by point estimation and F0 contours. For articulatory phonetics, her research focuses on tongue movement (using structural magnetic resonance imaging), vocal fold vibration (using Electroglottograph), and aerodynamics (using Aeroview). She is additionally interested in speech technology (such as speech recognition) and sentence processing (both in the behavioural level and the neurophysiological level).

Li-Hsin Ning has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Linguistic Society of Taiwan (LST) MA Thesis Award (2008), Fulbright Fellowship for Pursuing a Doctoral Degree in the US (2009-2011), Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence Award (2012, offered by Beckman Institute at UIUC), and Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2013, offered by School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at UIUC).

Educational Background 

PhD in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 

伊利諾大學厄巴納香檳分校語言學博士

Dissertation Title

Effects of auditory feedback and real-time visual feedback on second language tone learning 

Research Expertise

Phonetics (語音學)

Programming (程式語言設計)

Psycholinguistics (心理語言學)

Statistics (統計學)