Publications and Presentations

Publications

• Han, M., Chien, Y.-F., Zhang, Z., Wei, Z., & Li, W*. (2024). Music training affects listeners’ processing of different types of accentuation information: Evidence from ERPs. Brain and Cognition, 174, 106-120. doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2023.106120 (SCIE, SSCI)

• Yu, W., Chien, Y.-F., Wang, B., Zhao, J., & Li, W*. (2024). The effects of word and beat priming on Mandarin lexical stress recognition: an event-related potential study. Language and Cognition. Published online 2024:1-23. doi:10.1017/langcog.2023.75 (SSCI, A&HCI)

• Zheng, Z., Chien, Y.-F., Wang, W., Zhang, Z., & Li, W*. (2022). The cognitive processing of tone sandhi in different information structural status during dialogue comprehension. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2022.2030482. (SCIE, SSCI) 

• Tu, R.-Y., & Chien, Y.-F.* (2022). The role of categorical perception and acoustic details in the processing of Mandarin tonal alternations in contexts: An eye-tracking study. Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 756921. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.756921. (SSCI)

• Yan, H., Chien, Y.-F.*, & Zhang, J. (2021). The representation of variable tone sandhi patterns in Shanghai Wu. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 12(1): 15, 1-24. doi: 10.5334/labphon.264. (SSCI)

• Chien, Y.-F., Yan, H., & Sereno, J. A. (2021). Investigating the lexical representation of Mandarin Tone 3 phonological alternations. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50(4), 777-796). doi: 10.1007/s10936-020-09745-0. (SSCI)

• Chien, Y.-F., Yang, X., Fiorentino, R., & Sereno, J. A. (2020). The role of surface and underlying forms when processing tonal alternations in Mandarin Chinese: A mismatch negativity study. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00646. (SSCI)

• Tu, J.-Y., & Chien, Y.-F. (2020). The processing of Mandarin Chinese tonal alternations in contexts: An eye-tracking study. Proceedings of 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9053830. (Ei Compendex). 

• Yan, H., Chien, Y.-F., & Zhang, J. (2019). Priming the representation of left-dominant sandhi words: A Shanghai dialect case study. Language and Speech, 63(2), 362-380. (SCIE/SSCI) 

• Yan, H., Chien, Y.-F., & Zhang, J. (2019). The representation of variable tone sandhi in Shanghai Chinese. In Cho, T., Kim, S., Kim, J. J., & Kim, S. Y. (eds.), Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Science of Language, Vol.2, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.

• Chien, Y.-F., & Jongman, A. (2019). Tonal neutralization of Taiwanese checked and smooth syllables: An acoustic study. Language and Speech, 62(3), 452-474. doi.org/10.1177/00238309187856633. (SCIE/SSCI)

• Chien, Y.-F., Sereno, J., & Zhang, J. (2017). What’s in a word: Observing the contribution of both underlying and surface representations. Language and Speech, 60, 643-657. SCEI/SSCI

• Chien, Y.-F., Sereno, J., & Zhang, J. (2016). Priming the representation of Mandarin tone 3 sandhi. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31, 179-189. SCI/SSCI

• Qin, Z., Chien, Y.-F., & Tremblay, A. (2016). Processing of word-level stress by Mandarin-speaking second language learners of English. Applied Psycholinguistics, 38(3), 541-570. SCIE/SSCI

• Chien, Y.-F., Sereno, J., & Zhang, J. (2016). Priming the representation of Taiwanese tone sandhi words. Proceedings of the 5th Meeting of Tonal Aspects of Language (TAL). Buffalo, NY.

• Chien, Y.-F. (2012). Production and perception of voiceless retroflex and dental sibilants in Taiwan Mandarin. In Marije, V. H., Morris, J. & Hoffman, D. (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Postgraduate Conference, Salford Working Papers in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics 2.

• Chien, Y.-F. (2011). Postnuclear glides and coda nasals in Taiwan Mandarin. In Bailey, D., Teliga, V. (eds.), Proceedings of the thirty-ninth Western Conference on Linguistics, 20. 20-33. 

Conference presentations and invited talks

• Gao, F., & Chien, Y.-F. (2024). Morphemes, phones and phonological alternation: Retrieving lexical semantics and tonal representation of opaque words in Mandarin Chinese. The 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19), Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.

• Chien, Y.-F. (2023). 汉语普通话上声在双音节单词中和在不同焦点位置中的心理及神经加工机制，方言音韵沙龙，复旦大学中文系，上海。

• Chien, Y.-F., & Wang, I.-P. (2023). Production of Mandarin tones by Thai preschool children. 14th Annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (PSLLT 2023), Purdue University, IN, USA.

• Yu, W., Chien, Y.-F., Wang, B., & Li, W. (2023). The effects of word and beat priming on Mandarin lexical stress recognition: An event-related potential study. The 6th Annual Conference on Psychology, held by Chinese Psychological Society and South China Normal University, Guangzhou.

• Chien, Y.-F. (2022). The processing and representation of tone sandhi words: from behavioral, eye-tracking and ERP methods. Academia Sinica, Taipei. 

• Yan, H., & Chien, Y.-F. (2022). An acoustic study on the voice of emotion in Beijing Chinese adults. 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Denver, CO, USA.

• Chien, Y.-F. (2022). The eye-tracking technique and its implementation in tone processing research. Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai. 

• Yan, H., Chien, Y.-F., & Zhang, J. (2022). The representation of variable tone sandhi patterns in Shanghai Wu. The 28thAnnual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-28), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• Yan, H., & Chien, Y.-F. (2021). The processing and representation of Shanghai spreading and reduction tone sandhi words. Chinese Tone Workshop, Changshu, Jiangsu. 

• Chien, Y.-F. (2021). The combination of modern pop music and Chinese classical poetry in Chinese teaching. PhD/MA Program in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, National Chengchi University, Taipei.

• Tu, J.-Y., & Chien, Y.-F. (2020). The processing of Mandarin Chinese tonal alternations in contexts: An eye-tracking study. 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona.

• Chien, Y.-F. (2019). Processing tone sandhi words during spoken word recognition: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese, Taiwan Southern Min, and Shanghai Wu. Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University, Taipei.

• Chien, Y.-F., & Tu, J.-Y. (2019). An eye-tracking investigation on the role of categorical perception and acoustic details in the processing of tonal alternations in contexts. 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Louisville, KY.

• Yan, H., Chien, Y.-F., Zhang, J. (2019). Hanyang International Symposium oh Phonetics and Cognitive Science of Language, Seoul.

• Yan, H., Chien, Y.-F., Zhang, J. (2018). Priming the representation of left-dominant sandhi words: A Shanghai dialect case study. 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Victoria, BC.

• Chien, Y.-F., Yan, H., & Sereno, J. A. (2018). Investigating the representation of tonal alternations in context. 176thMeeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Victoria, BC.

• Yan, H., Chien, Y.-F., Zhang, J. (2018). Priming the representation of left-dominant sandhi words A Shanghai dialect case study. The First International Conference on Language, Music and Brain, Guangzhou.

• Chien, Y.-F. (2017). The influence of sensitive period, language aptitude, and working memory on second language acquisition. College of Foreign Language and Literature, Fudan University, Shanghai.

• Chien, Y.-F., & Jongman, A. (2017). Neutralization of Taiwanese tone sandhi: An acoustic study. 174th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA.

• Chien, Y.-F., Jongman, A. (2017). Lexical access mechanisms during the production of Taiwanese tone sandhi words. 2ndWorkshop on Experimental Phonetics in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, Shanghai.

• Chien, Y.-F., Fiorentino, R., Yang, X., Sereno, J. (2016). Surface phonetic or underlying phonological representations: A mismatch negativity study of Mandarin tone assimilation. 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI.

• Chien, Y.-F., Sereno, J. & Zhang, J. (2016). Priming the representation of Taiwanese tone sandhi words. 5th Meeting of Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL), Buffalo, NY.

• Sereno, J., & Chien, Y.-F. (2016). Observing underlying linguistic representations and surface phonetic forms in tone sandhi. Workshop on (Morpho)-phonological Processing, Ettington Park. Organized by the University of Oxford, Language and Brain Laboratory, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics. 

• Chien, Y.-F., & Sereno, J. (2014). The representation of tone 3 sandhi words in Mandarin: a psycholinguistic study. 168thMeeting of Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Indianapolis, IN. 

• Chien, Y.-F. (2010). Postnuclear glides and coda nasals in Taiwan Mandarin. Western Conference on Linguistics 2010 (WECOL 2010), California State University, Fresno, CA.

• Chien, Y.-F. (2010). The representation of tones in Taiwan Mandarin: Evidence from experimental elicitation of speech errors. The 43rd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (43rd ICSTLL), Lund University.

• Chien, Y.-F. (2010). Production and perception of voiceless retroflex and dental sibilants in Taiwan Mandarin. 19thInternational Postgraduate Linguistics Conference, University of Manchester and University of Salford, Manchester.