Research

Publications

Janse E., Shen C., & de Kerf E. (2023). Diadochokinesis Performance and its Link to Cognitive Control: Alternating vs. Non-alternating DDK. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Shen, C., Cooke, M., & Janse, E. (2023). Speaking in the Presence of Noise: Consistency of Acoustic Properties in Clear-Lombard Speech Over Time. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(4), 2165-2177.

Shen C. (2022). Individual Differences in Speech Production and Maximum Speech Performance. PhD Thesis, Radboud University, Nijmegen. https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/250399.

Shen C., Janse E. (2020) Maximum Speech Performance and Executive Control in Young Adult Speakers.  Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(11), 3611-3627.

Shen C., Cooke M., & Janse E. (2019) Individual Articulatory Control in Speech Enrichment. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, Aachen, Germany 2019, 5761-5765.

Shen C., Janse E. (2019) Articulatory Control in Speech Production. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019, 2533-2537.

Shen C., Xu Y. (2016) Prosodic Focus with Post-focus Compression in Lan-Yin Mandarin. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 8, Boston, United States 2016, 340-344.

Shen C., Watt D. (2015) Accent Categorisation by Lay Listeners: Which Type of 'Native Ear' Works Better? York Papers In Linguistics (YPL2), vol 14, 106-131.

Presentations

 Janse E., Shen C., & Cooke M. (2024) Listening effort ratings for habitual and clear-Lombard speech in noise as predicted by a glimpse (release from energetic masking) measure. Speech in Noise 2024, Postdam, Germany.

Shen C., Bezcioğlu I., & Sullivan F. (2023) From lecturers to coaches: TEFL in an international business setting. LLRC Conference on Curriculum and Course Design for Language Teaching, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Janse E., Shen C., & de Kerf E. (2022) Diadochokinesis performance and its link to cognitive control: alternating vs. non-alternating DDK. 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Shen C., Janse E. (2020) Decomposing age effects on speech motor planning. Poster presented at 2nd Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan, London, United Kingdom (virtual).

Shen C., Janse E. (2020) Consistency of speech clarification. Speech in Noise 2020, Toulouse, France.

Shen C., Cooke M., & Janse E. (2019) Individual articulatory control in speech enrichment. 23rd International Congress of Acoustics, Aachen, Germany. [Link to Poster]

Shen C., Janse E. (2019) Articulatory control in speech production. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2019, Melbourne, Australia. [Link to Poster]

Shen C., Janse E. (2018) Articulatory control and executive control in speech production. International Workshop on Language Production 2018, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Shen C., Janse E. (2017) Individual differences in speech enrichment – The role of speech motor control and executive functions. Dag van de Fonetiek 2017, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Shen C., Fitzmaurice S. (2017) You have Sheffield vowels: Dialect acquisition in second language – A preliminary study. Methods in Dialectology XVI, Tokyo, Japan.

Shen C. (2016) Vowel, prosody and the individual: The complexity of speaker profiling using non-native speech. 25th annual conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA 25), York, UK.

Shen C., Xu Y. (2016) Prosodic focus with post-focus compression in Lan-Yin Mandarin. Talk presented at Speech Prosody 8, Boston, USA. [Link to Presentation]

Shen C. (2016) They have more vowels: A preliminary investigation of Zimbabwean English. Sheffield Linguistic Postgraduate Conference, Sheffield, UK. 

Shen C. (2015) Accent categorisation by lay listeners: Which type of ‘native ear’ works better? 24th annual conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA 24), Leiden, the Netherlands.

Shen C. (2015) How accents interact with ethnicity and identity, geography, and mobility. University of Sheffield Public Engagement and Impact Event - The Mobile University, Sheffield, UK.

Crichton-Turley C.E., Shen C., & Knox, R. (2015) Is that feasible? Transforming research methods in the Humanities. Interdisciplinary Network Showcase Event, Sheffield, UK.

Valorisation activities

Interactive demonstration: “Twisting Your Tongue”, as part of ENRICH Public Understanding Event at Royal Institution, London, United Kingdom. 3rd March 2020

Lab session: “Speech in A Noisy Environment at DRONGO Language Festival, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 9th November 2018