Publications

Journal Articles

Lai, C.-H. and Chiu, C. (submitted). Effects of individual’s aptitude on ultrasound biofeedback in non-native vowel production. Journal of Phonetics.

Chiu, C., Weng, Y., and Chen, B.-W. (2022). Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences. Tongue postures and tongue centers: A study of acoustic-articulatory correspondences across different head angles, 12, 768754. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.768754 

Chiu, C. and Gick, B. (2021). Auditory startle disrupts speech production. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, 47(2), 167-183. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/consl.00026.chi 

Chiu, C. and Lu, Y.-A. (2021). Articulatory evidence for the syllable-final nasal merging in Taiwan Mandarin. Language and Speech. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830920948084 

Scott, M. and Chiu, C. (2021). Temporal binding and agency under startle. Experimental Brain Research, 239 (1), 289-300. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-020-05972-y 

Gick, B., Mayer, C., Chiu, C., Widing. E., Roewer-Despres, F., Fels, S., and Stavness, I. (2020) Quantal biomechanical effects in speech postures of the lips. Journal of Neurophysiology, 124, 833-843. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00676.2019.

Chiu, C. (2020). The role of duration in speech plans uncovered by startling auditory stimulus. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, 46(2).

Chiu, C. and Sun, J. T.-S. (2020). On pharyngealized vowels in Northern Horpa: An acoustic and ultrasound study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147 (4), 2928-2946. doi.org/10.1121/10.0001005

Chiu, C., Wei, G., Noguchi, M., and Yamane, N. (2020) Sibilant fricative merging in Taiwan Mandarin: An investigation of tongue postures using ultrasound imaging. Language and Speech, 64(4), 877-897. doi.org/10.1177/0023830919896386

Sun, J. T.-S., Tian, C. Z., and Chiu, C.. (2017). Contrastive phonation in Upper Donggu Horpa. Journal of Chinese Linguistics. 45(1), 1 – 19.

Evans, J. P., Sun, J. T.-S., Chiu, C., and Liou, M. (2016). Uvularization approximation as an articulatory vowel feature. Journal of International Phonetic Association, 46(1), 1 – 31. 

Chiu, C. and Gick, B. (2014). Pitch planning in English and Taiwanese Mandarin: Evidence from startle-elicited responses. Journal of Acoustical Society of America-Express Letters, 136(4): EL322 – 328.

Chiu, C. and Gick, B. (2014). Startling speech: Eliciting prepared speech using startling auditory stimulus. Frontiers in Psychology – Cognitive Science, 5: 1082, DOI: 10.3389/fp- syg.2014.01082

Stevenson, A. J., Chiu, C., Chua, R., Gick, B., Blouin, J.-S., and Franks, I. M. (2014). Cortical Involvement in the StartReact effect. Neuroscience, 269: 21 – 34. 

Gick, B., Anderson, P., Chen, H., Chiu, C., Kwon, H. B., Stavness, I., Tsou, L., and Fels, S. (2014). Speech function of the oropharyngeal isthmus: A modeling study. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging and Visualization, 2(4), 217 – 222. DOI: 10.1080/21681163.2013.851627 

Book chapters

Chiu, C. (2024). Ultrasound research in linguistics. In Myers, J. and Tai, H.-Y. (Eds.) Looking at Languages from All Sides, pp. 239 ∼256. Crane Publishing.

Chiu, C. and Lu, Y.-A. (2021). 聲韻學：聲音組成的結構與規律 In Huang, S.- F. (Ed.) 「語言學：結構、認知與文化的探索」, pp. 143 ~ 172. National Taiwan University Press 臺大出版中心. 

Proceeding papers and abstracts

Chiu, C., Huang, J.-Z., and Huang, P.-H. (2023). Perceptual identification of high vowels in Taiwan Mandarin. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154, A35.

Huang, P.-H., and Chiu, C. (2023). Perception of coarticulated tones in Taiwan Mandarin and Taiwan Southern Min. Proceedings of the 2023 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 446 – 450.

Huang, J.-H., and Chiu, C. (2023). The role of feedback in lip-tube perturbation of Taiwan Mandarin rounded vowels. Proceedings of the 2023 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1037 – 1041.

Chiu, C., and Huang, P.-H. (2023). Lip postures of high vowels in Taiwan Mandarin. Proceedings of the 2023 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1052 – 1056.

Wang, C.-W., Chen, B.-W., Huang, P.-H., Lai, C.-H., and Chiu, C. (2023). Evaluating forced alignment for under-resourced languages: A test on Squliq Atayal data. Proceedings of the 2023 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 3356 – 3360.

Lai, C.-H., and Chiu, C. (2021). Dorsal harmony in Atayal Squliq: An acoustic and ul- trasound study. Proceeding of the 2021 Annual Meeting on Phonology. DOI: https:// doi.org/10.3765/amp.v9i0.5177

Mayer, C., Chiu, C., Gick, B. (2021). Biomechanical simulation of lip compression and spreading. Canadian Acoustics, 49(3), 38 -- 39.

Chiu, C., Chen, B.-W., and Weng, Y.-N. (2021). Vowel acoustics and tongue postures across different head angles. In The Proceedings of the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production 2020, 158 – 161.

Chiu, C., Chen, B.-W., Chen, P.-J., Hou, Y-.S, and Weng, Y.-N. (2019). The accommodation of the tongue postures across different head angles. In The Proceedings of Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences 2019, 100 – 101.

Chang, Y.-C. and Chiu, C. (2019). Effects of corrective feedback on receptive skills in non- native contrasts: A training study in Taiwan Southern Min. In The Proceedings of Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences 2019, 139 – 140.

Chang, Y.-C. and Chiu, C. (2019). Voicing contrast training using EGG as visual biofeed- back. In The Proceedings of Seoul International Conference on Speech Sciences 2019, 146 – 147.

Chiu, C., Lu, Y., Weng, Y., Jin, S.-J., Weng, W.-C., and Yang, T.-Z. (2019) Uncovering syllable-final nasal merging in Taiwan Mandarin: An ultrasonographic investigation of tongue postures and degrees of nasalization. In In press: International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences 2019, 398 – 402.

Gick, B., Chiu, C., Widing, E., Roewer-Despres, F., Mayer, C., Fels, F., and Stavness, I. (2019) Quantal biomechanical effects in speech postures of the lips. In In press: International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences 2019, 1749 – 1753.

Chiu, C. (2018) Coordinated systems in Taiwan Mandarin tone production: An investigation of laryngeal and tongue movements. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144, 1837.

Chiu, C., Lu, Y.-A., and Weng, Y.-N. (2018) Acoustic and articulatory evidence on incomplete syllable-final nasal mergers in Taiwan Mandarin. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144, 1837.

Chiu, C. (2018). The association between electroglottograph amplitude and pitch contour in Taiwan Mandarin tone production. The Proceedings of 1st Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language, 1, 108 – 109.

Chiu, C. (2017). Absolute pitch height as part of speech plans: Evidence from response to auditory startle. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141, 3818. 

Gick, B., Chiu, C., Roewer-Despres, F., Schellenberg, M., and Stavness, I. (2016). Articulatory setting as global coarticulation: Simulation, acoustics, and perception. In The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(4), 3221 – 3222. 

Chiu, C. and Gick, B. (2015). Startle-induced evidence for multi-dimensional information in speech plans. In Canadian Acoustics, 43(3), 110 – 111. 

Noguchi, M., Chiu, C., Wei, P.- C., and Yamane, N. (2015). Contrastive tongue shapes of the three sibilant fricatives in Taiwan Mandarin read speech. In Canadian Acoustics, 43(3), 112 – 113.

Chiu, C. and Gick, B. (2015). Decoupling functional units in speech production using auditory startle. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).

Chiu, C. and Gick, B. (2013). Producing whole speech events: Anticipatory lip compression in bilabial stops. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19, pp. 060252 (abstract also appears in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(5): 3604).

Gick, B., Stavness, I. and Chiu, C. (2013). Coarticulation in a whole event model of speech production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19, pp. 060207 (abstract also appears in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(5): 3569).

Gick, B., Chiu, C., Flynn, C., Stavness, I., Francis, N. and Fels, S. (2012). Producing whole speech events: Differential facial stiffness across the labial stops. In Proceedings of Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics (HKIOA). Paper 2pSC1, 6pp. 2012.

Gick, B., Stavness, I, Chiu, C. and Fels, S. (2011). Categorical variation in lip posture is determined by quantal biomechanical-articulatory relations. Canadian Acoustics, 39(3): 178 – 179.

Chiu, C. and Babel, M. (2010). Effects of syllable positions on Taiwanese Mandarin sibilant perception. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2010). (p.60 – 64).

Chiu, C. (2010). Attentional weighting of Polish and Taiwanese Mandarin sibilant percep- tion. In Proceedings of the 2010 Canadian Linguistics Association Annual Conference. Available at homes.chass.utoronto.ca/∼cla-acl/actes2010/CLA2010 Chiu.pdf

Chiu, C. (2009). Acoustic and auditory comparisons of Polish and Taiwanese Mandarin sibilants. Canadian Acoustics, 37(3): 142 –143.

Chiu, C. (2006). Phonological words in language production in Mandarin. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 31st). (p. 61 – 72).

Tseng, M. and Chiu, C. (2004). Simultaneous compounds in Taiwan sign language. In Proceedings of 8th Annual Language, Linguistics, and Language Graduate Student Conference. (p. 123 – 138).