The Phonetics Lab is located in YUN Building 103. The Phonetics Lab came about in January 2018 to serve the research needs of faculty and graduate students working on acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonetics, and psycholinguistics. The current projects are funded by National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan.
Li-Hsin Ning (Lab Director)
James Zeng (Lab Assistant; PhD student)
James received the 2025 NSTC Humanities and Social Sciences Dissertation‑Writing Grant.
His work has been published Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Zeng, Y.-Z. (2025). Phonetic characteristics of Mandarin-English code-switching in second language (L2) English learners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 157(6), 4513–4525. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0036905.
Gigi Li (Lab Assistant; MA student)
Joyce Chen (Lab Assistant; Advisee)
Linda Lin (Lab Assistant; Advisee)
Mike Wu (Lab Assistant; Advisee)
Mike received the 1st place of the best thesis award of LST (Linguistic Society of Taiwan) in 2022.
"Acoustic and EGG Profiles of Deception in Mandarin"
His work has been published in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Wu, H.-Y. (2024). Uncovering Gender-Specific and Cross-Gender Features in Mandarin Deception: An Acoustic and Electroglottographic Approach. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67, 2021-2037. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00288
Rebecca Lin (Advisee)
Tiffany Lin (Lab Assistant; Advisee)
Laura Chang (Advisee)
Jessica Lin (Lab Assistant; Advisee)
Joy Liu (Lab Assistant; Advisee)
Grace Liu (Advisee)
Vicky Chen (Advisee)
Felix Yu (Advisee)
Felix received the MOST research grant for undergraduate students.
"Multisensory Integration of Speech Perception for Foreign Language on Native Mandarin Speakers"
His work has been published in Concentric: Studies in Linguistics.
Yu, F. C.-W. (2020). Hearing faces and seeing accents? The factors behind the multisensory speech perception of native Mandarin speakers. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, 46(1), 1- 20.
Kelvin Kuo (Lab Assistant; Advisee)
Jian Leat Siah (Lab Assistant)