Current projects

1. Tone analysis of Chinese interlanguage by learners of different language backgrounds

a. Investigating in depth how L1 prosody of Romance languages influences the acquisition of Mandarin tones 

b. Exploring how the prosodic systems of English and Japanese influence the acquisition of Mandarin tones

2. Construction of an interlanguage corpus with automatic tone recognition capacity

3. Establishment of an online automated pronunciation assessment system for learners