Orrico, R., Shao, B., & Giavazzi, M. (submitted). Spatiotemporal articulatory modulations under stress: evidence from Italian. Journal of Phonetics.
Shinohara, B., Shao, B., & Fujimoto, M. (accepted). Research notes on the opaque development of the velar shift in Ogami Miyako Ryukyuan. Radical: A Journal of Phonology
Shao, B., Shinohara, B., & Fujimoto, M. (accepted). An acoustic account of the fricative vowel in the Hirara dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan.
Orrico, R., Shao, B., Giavazzi, M. (under revision) Spillover effects of stress on post-tonic plosives. In Martocchi, A., Meli, G., Meluzzi, C., Naito, Y., Nese, N. & Scala, S. (Eds) From Fieldwork to the Lab: Experimental Phonetics and Language Documentation.
Shao, B., Hermes, A., Buech, P., & Giavazzi, M. (2025). Articulatory consequences of lexical stress on post-tonic velar plosives in Italian. Journal of Phonetics, 108, 101371. doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101371
Shao, B., & Ridouane, R. (2023). On the nature of apical vowel in Jixi-Hui Chinese: Acoustic and articulatory data. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 53(3), 977-1002. doi:10.1017/S0025100322000196
I made a Polar SSANOVA tutorial that can render the figures from this publication. Please find it here.
Shao, B., Shinohara, S., Fujimoto, M. (2026) Une étude acoustique de la « voyelle fricative » du dialecte hirara du Miyako ryukyuan. Proc. 36ème Journées d’Études sur la Parole, 555-564, doi: 10.21437/JEP.2026-53 [ISCA]
Sun, J., Shao, B., Adda-Decker, M. (2025). Apical vs. Regular Vowel Duration: A Corpus-based Analysis of Contextual Influences in Standard Mandarin. Interspeech2025. Rotterdam, Netherlands. [ISCA]
Shao, B., Hermes, A., Buech, P., Giavazzi, M. (2025). Lexical stress affects lenition: The case of Italian palato-alveolar affricates. Interspeech2025. Rotterdam, Netherlands. [ISCA]
Foley, S., Shao, B., & Faytak, M. (2024). Relating frication to articulation in Standard Mandarin apical vowels. 13th International Seminar on Speech Production. Autrans, France, 144-147. [ISCA]
Shao, B., Buech, P., Hermes, A., & Giavazzi, M. (2024). Positional Effect in the Articulation and Acoustics of Stressed Vowels in Italian. Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden, Netherlands. [ISCA]
Shao, B., Buech, P., Hermes, A., Giavazzi, M. (2023). Lexical stress and velar palatalization in Italian: A spatio-temporal interaction. Interspeech2023. Dublin, Ireland, 1833-1837. [ISCA]
Shao, B., Buech, P., Hermes, A., Giavazzi, M. (2023). Stress conditioned phonological process: a case study of Italian palatalization. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XX), Prague, Czech Republic, 2189-2193.
Faytak, M. Shao, B. Douanla Taffre, A. Tschonghongei, N. C. (2023). Frication and formant frequencies in the Mundabli high vowels. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XX), Prague, Czech Republic, 3438-3442.
Shinohara, S., Shao, B. (2023). An acoustic study of the fricative vowel in two endangered Ryukyuan languages. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XX), Prague, Czech Republic, 3317-3321.
Shao, B., Ridouane, R (2021). ‘Apical vowels’ are not vowels: acoustic and ultrasound evidence from Jixi-Hui Chinese. Proc. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, 110-113. (hal-03598741v1)
Shao, B., Ridouane, R (2020). La « voyelle apicale » n’est pas une voyelle : étude acoustique et articulatoire de la voyelle apicale en chinois de Jixi. Proc. XXXIIIe Journées d’Études sur la Parole, 579-587. (hal-02798589v3)
Shao, B., Ridouane, R. (2019) Apical vowels in Jixi-Hui Chinese: an articulatory study. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIIII), Melbourne, Australia. (halshs-03153054v1)
Shao, B., Ridouane, R. (2018). La « voyelle apicale » en chinois de Jixi : caractéristiques acoustiques et comportement phonologique. Proc. XXXIIe Journées d’Études sur la Parole, 685-693, DOI: 10.21437/JEP.2018-78. (hal-03598743v1)
Orrico, R., Shao, B., & Giavazzi, M. (2026). Stress-induced articulation effects on post-tonic consonants. LabPhon 20, Montreal.
Shao, B., Buech, P., Hermes, A. & Giavazzi, M. (2024). Positional Effect of Main Stress in Italian: an Articulatory and Acoustic Study. 13th International Seminar on Speech Production. Autrans, France.
Shao, B., Hermes, A., Buech, P., Giavazzi, M. (2023). Velar palatalization in Italian: Lexical stress induces resistance to sound change. HISPhonCog2023. Seoul, Korea.
Faytak, M. & Shao, B. (2022). Fricative vowels are noisier in crowded vowel spaces. LabPhon18. Online.
Shao, B. & Faytak, M. (2022). Degrees of frication in three Chinese varieties’ fricative vowels. Linguistic Society of America 2022 Annual Meeting. Washington DC, USA.
Shao, B. & Ridouane, R. (2018). On the nature of ‘apical vowel’ in Jixi-Hui Chinese. LabPhon16. Lisbon, Portugal.
Shao, B. (2024). 摩擦化元音研究新进展 [Recent developments in the study of fricative vowels]. 北京大学中文系学术前沿讲座 [Academic Frontier Lectures, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University]. 29 November. Online.
Shao, B. (2023). Spatiotemporal interaction between stress and consonants. LSCP plenary meeting, ENS, 4 April. Paris, France.
Shao, B. (2022). Degrees of frication in three Chinese varieties’ fricative vowels. LSCP language team meeting, ENS, 7 December. Paris, France.
Shao, B. & Faytak, M. (2022). Fricative vowels are noisier in crowded vowel spaces. Symposium 2022 du Labex EFL. Paris, France. (This talk is on Youtube!)
Faytak, M. & Shao, B. (2021). Fricative noise targets for vowels: a comparative acoustic study. UCLA, 17 May. Los Angles, USA.
Shao, B. (2020). Apical vowel in Jixi-Hui Chinese: Phonology and Phonetics. Queen Margaret University, 10 Dec. Edinburgh, UK.
Shao, B. (2019). ‘Apical vowel’ in Jixi-Hui Chinese: Phonological behaviour and phonetic characteristics. University of Glasgow, 30 May. Glasgow, UK.
Shao, B. (2019). ‘Apical vowel’ in Jixi-Hui Chinese: Phonological behaviour and phonetic characteristics. Queen Margaret University, 22 May. Edinburgh, UK.
Shao, B., Ridouane, R. (2019). La « voyelle apicale » en chinois de Jixi : comportement phonologique et caractéristiques phonétiques, First Friday Monthly Meeting (FFMM) du Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, 11 janvier. Paris, France.