I graduated from Middlebury College with a neuroscience major and a linguistics minor. My current interests are centered on speech science— primarily acoustics, articulations, phonetics, and psycholinguistics. In particular, I am interested in emotional prosody and to what extent it is universal cross-linguistically and language/culture-specific.  I am also very interested in topics such as speech adaptation in interaction and social contexts, and the production effect (my BA thesis).

I hope to further understand the mechanism of phonetic/prosodic processing and make those psycho/neurolinguistic research achievements accessible to the general public. I believe research in this field can help people with many different aspects -- such as language learning, child care, education, acting, speech pathology, and the development of human-like AI speech-- and I am always reflecting on how to apply my expertise in neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics for meaningful real-life contributions.

Besides these, I am interested in Taiwan Mandarin and Southern Min (= Taiwanese) and pragmatic particle acquisition (e.g., sentence-final particles in Mandarin, Japanese, and many other Asian languages).

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