Research
My research has focused on several distinct but related areas: phonological typology; testing phonological theories using experimental methods; second language acquisition; and collecting and analyzing data from endangered Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.
Here are some current research projects:
Formosan Phonetics
(Collaborator: Kristine Yu)
Taiwan Mandarin syllable-final nasal merger
(Collaborators: Chenhao Chiu, Shao-Jie Jin, Kuei-hong Lin, Yining Wong)
Mandarin tonotactic accidental gaps
(Collaborator: Shao-Jie Jin, Sheng-Fu Wang, Tzu-Hsuan Yang)
Tone deafness
(Collaborator: Carlos Gussenhoven, Sang-Im Lee-Kim)
The effect of linguistic experience on perceived vowel duration
(Collaborator: Sang-Im Lee-Kim)
- Fall 2018 NCTU Sound Workshop slides
Diverse repairs in loanword adaptation
(Collaborator: Yangyu Chen)
- ILAS Workshop on Phonetics & Phonology presentation slides
- Variation in loanword adaptation: A case from Mandarin Chinese
Testing the effect of dialectal variation in speech perception
- Slides
- The effect of dialectal variation on word recognition: A case from Taiwan Southern Min
The effect of allophonic relationships in speech perception
(Collaborator: Jiwon Hwang)
- Abstract
Perceptual learning of nonnative contrasts
(Collaborators: Loting Shen and Daiying Lin)
Tonal alignment in second language acquisition
(Collaborator: Miran Kim)
Phoneme substitution and positional asymmetry in second language learning
(Collaborator: Jiwon Hwang)
- Abstract
- LabPhon2014 presentation slides
- Full paper (Capturing Phonological Shades, Hsiao & Wee eds.)
The Role of Alternation in Phonological relationship
Phonological relationships: Contrast and allophony
(Collaborators: Kathleen Hall and Molly Babel)
The relationship between the production and the perception of foreign language sequences
(Collaborators: Ellen Broselow, Marie Huffman, Nancy Squires, Jiwon Hwang)