Publication

Research line 1: Sociophonetics in L2 context

Cao, W. L., Cheung, H., & Mok, P. K. (submitted). General Adaptation to Visual Cues Improves Intelligibility of Accented Cantonese. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Cao, W. L. (2024). Phonetic Dissimilarity and L2 Category Formation in L2 Accommodation. Language and Speech. 67 (2), 301 - 345. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00238309231182967

Cao, W. L. (2019). Phonetic convergence of Hong Kong English: sound salience and the exemplar-based account. Proceedings of 19th International Congress of Phonetic Science (ICPhS). Melbourne, 5-9 August. https://assta.org/proceedings/ICPhS2019/papers/ICPhS_2383.pdf 

Cao, W. L. (2015). Phonetic convergence of Mandarin L2 speakers towards Australian English. Proceedings of 18th International Congress of Phonetic Science (ICPhS). Glasgow, 10-14 August.https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS1002.pdf

Li, B., Cao, W. L. & Yan, X. (2015). Prosodic cues and degree of perceived foreign accents in learner English. Proceedings of 18th International Congress of Phonetic Science (ICPhS), Glasgow, 10-14 August. https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0048.pdf

Research line 2: Forensic phonetics

Cao, W. L. & Mok. P. K. (in preparation). Acoustic analysis of filled pauses in Cantonese-Mandarin-English trilingual speech and its implications on forensic phonetics. Journal of Phonetics. 

Cao, W. L., Hughes, V., Wang, X. & Mok, P. K. (submitted). Cross-language speaker identification of filled pauses using MVKD method and Automatic Speaker Recognition System.The 14th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing. Beijing. 

Cao, W. L. & Mok, P. K. (2023). Cross-language features of filled pauses for trilingual speakers in Hong Kong. Proceedings of 20th International Congress of Phonetic Science (ICPhS). Prague, 7-11 August. https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/686.pdf 

Mok, P. K., Fung, S. H., Cao, W. L. & Leung, C, W. (2023). How similar are the formants in the speech of bilingual speakers? Journal of Speech, Language and the Law. 30 (1), 52-86. https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.22946 

Research line 3: Hong Kong English, language attitudes and identity

Cao, W. L. (in press). One city, which language? A matched-guise study on language attitudes towards Cantonese, Mandarin and English in Hong Kong. In Jean-Francois, D (Eds). The Politics of Language in Hong Kong. Routledge. [book chapter]