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About Me
Hello! I'm Wenqi Zeng, a linguistics Ph.D. candidate at the University of Iowa.
My research focuses on the cognitive processes involved in speech production and perception of bilingual listeners, with a special concentration on bi-dialectal speakers (i.e., people who speak two dialectal varieties of the same language). In my studies, I try to answer questions such as how bilinguals/bidialectals perceive and discriminate similar sounds across languages when receiving an auditory input, how they distinguish languages and comprehend speech in a fast-paced manner, how their speech production varies as a function of linguistic experience, and how they switch between languages or varieties seamlessly in everyday conversation.
Born and raised in Chengdu, China, I grew up speaking two Mandarin dialects, which brought me a special interest in the bidialectal population. The central argument of my research is that dialectal varieties also represent distinct linguistic experience, and speakers of closely related dialects engage cognitive mechanisms typically associated with bilingual speakers.
My current research projects include:
cross-dialectal tone production and perception;
the role of tonal information in bidialectal spoken-word recognition;
the consistency of native speech category perception and its contribution to second language acquisition
Here is my complete CV.
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Linguistics Department, University of Iowa
314 Phillips Hall, Iowa City, Iowa, 52242
Email: wenqi-zeng@uiowa.edu
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