Yijing Lu

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Sept 8–12, 2026 — I will present “Seeing Inside Stuttering: Articulation in Stuttered Speech Revealed by Real-Time MRI” at Forum Acusticum 2026 in Graz, Austria.
June 2026, our paper "Temporal patterns in articulation underlying repetitions, prolongations and blocks" is published in the Journal of Fluency Disorders.
May–June 2026, I gave invited talks at the UCL Speech Science Forum and Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie in Paris on “Seeing Inside Stuttering: Articulation in Stuttered Speech Revealed by Real-Time MRI.”
Aug 2025, I presented "Towards a dynamical model of transitions between fluent and stuttered speech" at Interspeech 2025. [Link to paper]
Aug 2025, our paper "Effective Elicitation of Stuttering in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Collection Using a Suite of Connected Speech Tasks" is published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Read the research summary on Kudos.

Hi, my name is Yijing Lu. [CV] [Google Scholar] [Linkedin] [ResearchGate][ORCID]

I am currently a postdoc in the department of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Potsdam, Germany, working with Adamantios Gafos. In 2024, I completed my PhD in Linguistics at the University of Southern California, USA, under the supervision of Louis Goldstein.

I am interested in speech production, in particular articulatory behaviors in atypical speech. Leveraging real-time vocal tract MRI and computational methods, my research aims to:

provide a quantitive characterization of the articulatory-behavioral patterns during atypical speech production, many of which cannot be inferred from perceptual or acoustic records alone
based on new articulatory data, test existing hypotheses regarding the causal processes of disordered speech
when previous hypotheses fail to explain the empirical findings, develope new theoretical accounts using the framework of Dynamical Systems Theory.

My dissertation "The Dynamical Foundation Of Articulation In Stuttered Speech" investigates these three aspects of persistent developmental stuttering (abstract).

I am a remember of the Phonology & Phonetics group at University of Potsdam. I am an alumna of the Phonetics Lab and the Speech Production and Articulation kNowledge (SPAN) group at University of Southern California. My research was supported by Dynamic Imaging Science Center at University of Southern California.

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