Yijing Lu

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May 2026, I gave a talk titled “Seeing Inside Stuttering: Articulation in Stuttered Speech Revealed by Real-Time MRI” at the Speech Science Forum at University College London.
Sept 2025, I presented "What happens during stuttering blocks? An articulatory study using real-time MRI" at the 14th Oxford Stuttering and Cluttering Research Conference.
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 Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Read the research summary on Kudos.

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

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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