Journal Papers
Lee, Jonathan Him Nok, Lai, Regine Yee King, Matthews, Stephen & Yip, Virginia (2024) Prosodic interaction in Cantonese-English bilingual children’s speech production. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 14(5), 668-707. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.21049.lee
Lee, Jonathan Him Nok, Chong, Eddie S.K., Chui, Harold, Lee, Tan, Luk, Sarah, Tao, Dehua, & Lee, Nicolette Wing Tung. (2023) A curvilinear association between therapists’ use of discourse particles and therapist empathy in psychotherapy. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 70(5), 562-570. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000696
Lee, Jonathan Him Nok, Chui, Harold, Lee, Tan, Luk, Sarah, Tao, Dehua & Lee, Nicolette Wing Tung (2022) Formality in psychotherapy: How are therapists’ and clients’ use of discourse particles related to therapist empathy? Frontiers in Psychiatry 13:1018170. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1018170
May Pik Yu Chan and Youngah Do (2021). Vowel Modification (Aggiustamento) in Soprano Voices. Music and Science.
Rhee, Nari, Aoju Chen, Jianjing Kuang (2020). The Development and Maturation of Mandarin Tonal Contrasts. Journal of Child Language.
Mark Liberman (2019). Corpus Phonetics, Annual Review of Linguistics.
Mark Liberman, Lila Gleitman, Cynthia McLemore, and Barbara Partee (2019). “The impossibility of language acquisition (and how they do it)“, Annual Review of Linguistics
Kuang, Jianjing & Mark Liberman (2018). Integrating voice quality cues in the pitch perception of speech and non-speech utterances, Frontiers in Psychology, 9:2147.
Kuang, Jianjing & Aletheia Cui (2018). Relative cue weighting in production and perception of an ongoing sound change in Southern Yi, Journal of Phonetics, 71, 194-214.
Kuang, Jianjing (2018). The influence of tonal categories and prosodic boundaries on the creakiness in Mandarin, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(6), EL509-515.
Jiahong Yuan, Wei Lai, and Chris Cieri, Mark Liberman (2018) Using Forced Alignment for Phonetics Research, in Huang, Jin, & Hsieh, Eds., Chinese Language Resources and Processing: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Springer.
Naomi Never, Sharon Ash, David Irwin, Mark Liberman, Murray Grossman (2018) Validated Automatic Speech Biomarkers in Primary Progressive Aphasia, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
Mark Liberman (2018) “Towards Progress in Theories of Language Sound Structure“, In Diane Brentari and Jackson Lee, Eds., Shaping Phonology, University of Chicago Press.
Kuang, Jianjing (2017). Covariation between voice quality and pitch: revisiting the case of Mandarin creaky voice, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(3), 1693-1706.
Naomi Nevler, Sharon Ash, Charles Jester, David Irwin, Mark Liberman and Murry Grossman (2017) “Automatic Measurement of Prosody in Behavioral Variant FTD“, Neurology.
Julia Paris-Morris, Christopher Cieri, John Herrington, Benjamin Yerys, Leila Batman, Joseph Donaher, Emily Ferguson, Juhi Pandey, Mark Liberman, and Robert Schultz, (2017) “Linguistic camouflage in girls with autism spectrum disorder“, Molecular Autism.
Garellek, Marc, Amanda Ritchart & Jianjing Kuang (2016). Breathy voice during nasality: A cross-linguistic study, Journal of Phonetics, 59, 110-121.
Wieling, M., Grieve, J., Bouma, G., Fruehwald, J., Coleman, J., & Liberman, M. (2016). Variation and change in the use of hesitation markers in Germanic languages“. Language Dynamics and Change.
Liberman, M. (2016). Morris Halle: An Appreciation. Annual Review of Linguistics, 2, 1-9.
Lee, Y. C., Wang, T., & Liberman, M. (2016). Production and Perception of Tone 3 Focus in Mandarin Chinese, Frontiers in Psychology, 7.
Purse, Ruaridh and Euan McGill (2016). An intraspeaker variation study of Scottish English /r/ pharyngealisation. Lifespans and Styles, Volume 2.
Cardoso, Amanda, Lauren Hall-Lew, Yova Kemetchenjhieva and Ruaridh Purse. (in press). Between California and the Pacific Northwest: The Front Lax Vowels in San Francisco English. In Valerie Fridland, Tyler Kendall, Betsy Evans and Alicia Wassink, eds. Speech in the Western States, Volume 1: Pacific Coast. Publication of the American Dialect Society. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Kuang, Jianjing & Patricia Keating (2014). Glottal articulations in tense vs. lax phonation contrasts, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136(5), 2784-2797.
Kuang, Jianjing (2013). The tonal space of contrastive five level tones, Phonetica (Special issue: Function and Form in Prosodic Analysis of Tonal and Non-Tonal Languages), 70(1-2), 1-23.
Conference proceedings
Rhee, Nari, Aoju Chen & Jianjing Kuang. (2021). The effect of musicality on Mandarin L1 tonal development. In 15th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language.
Cui, Ping & Jianjing Kuang. (2020). The effect of focus and prosodic boundary on the two T3 sandhi in Northeastern Mandarin. Proceedings of Speech Prosody.
Tian, Jia & Jianjing Kuang. (2020). The phonetic realization of contrastive focus in Shanghainese. Proceedings of Speech Prosody.
Lai, Wei, Mark Liberman, and Qianxin He. (2019) “Compensation for F0 variation with vocal effort and vowel height in Cantonese tone perception.” in Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1972-1976.
Rhee, Nari, Aoju Chen & Jianjing Kuang. (2019). Integration of spectral cues in the development of Mandarin tone production. In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 3135-3139.
Rhee, Nari. (2018). The retroflex allophone of the liquid phoneme in Korean. In 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology.
Kuang, Jianjing & Jia Tian & Yipei Zhou (2018) The common word prosody in Northern Wu. Proceeding of 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages 2018, 7-11.
Elika Bergelson, Kenneth Church, Alejandrina Cristia, Jun Du, Sriram Ganapathy, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Diana Kowalski, Mahesh Krishnamoorthy, Rajat Kulshreshta, Yu-Ding Lu, Matthew Maciejewski, Florian Metze, Jan Profant, Neville Ryant, Lei Sun, Yu Tsao, and Zhou Yu, Mark Liberman (2018) “Enhancement and analysis of conversational speech: JSALT 2017“, ICASSP 2018.
Christopher Cieri, Stephanie Strassel, Denise DiPersio, Jonathan Wright and Andrea Mazzucchi, Mark Liberman (2018) “From ‘Solved Problems’ to New Challenges: A Report on LDC Activities“, LREC 2018.
Christopher Cieri, James Fiumara, Chris Callison-Burch and Jonathan Wright, Mark Liberman (2018) “Introducing NIEUW: Novel Incentives and Workflows for Eliciting Linguistic Data“, LREC 2018.
Nattanun Chanchaochai, Christopher Cieri, Japhet Debrah, Hongwei Ding, Yue Jiang, Sishi Liao, Jonathan Wright, Jiahong Yuan, Juhong Zhan, Yuqing Zhan, Mark Liberman (2018) “GlobalTIMIT: Acoustic-Phonetic Datasets for the World’s Languages“, Interspeech 2018.
Lai, Wei (2018). Voice gender effect on tone categorization and pitch perception. 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (pp. 103-107).
Zhang, Hong (2018). Analyzing Thai Tone Distribution through Functional Data Analysis. Interspeech 2018, 2137-2141.
Rhee, Nari. (2017). The distribution of the retroflex lateral allophone of the liquid phoneme in Korean. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 142, 2582.
Lai, Wei (2017). Auditory-visual integration of talker gender in Cantonese tone perception. Interspeech 2017, 664-668.
Kuang, Jianjing. (2017). Creaky voice as a function of tonal categories and prosodic boundaries. Interspeech 2017, 1350-1354.
Minyanou, L. Bateman, C. Cieri, N. Ryant, J. Brown, E. Kim Z. Dravis, E. Ferguson, K. Bartley, A. Pomykacz, J. Pandey, A. de Marchena, R. Schultz, and J. Parish-Morris and Mark Liberman (2017) “Introducing a Novel Community-Based Assessment Tool: The Computerized Social Affective Language Task (C-SALT)“, IMFAR 2017 [poster]
Jiahong Yuan, Hongwei Ding, Sishi Liao, and Yuqing Zhan and Mark Liberman (2017) “Chinese TIMIT: A TIMIT-like corpus of standard Chinese“, OCOCOSDA 2017.
Tian, J., Kuang, J. (2016) Revisiting the Register Contrast in Shanghai Chinese. Tonal Aspects of Languages 2016, 147-151.
Zhang, Hong (2016). Boundary effects on allophonic creaky voice: A case study of Mandarin lexical tones. Tonal Aspects of Languages 2016, 94-98.
Kuang, J., Guo, Y., & Liberman, M (2016). Voice quality as a pitch-range indicator. Proceedings of Speech prosody 2016, 1061-1065
Kuang, J., & Liberman, M. (2016). The effect of vocal fry on pitch perception. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 5260 – 5264
Kuang, J., & Liberman, M. (2016). Pitch-range perception: the dynamic interaction between voice quality and fundamental frequency, Interspeech 2016, 1350-1354.
Lai, W., & Kuang, J. (2016) Prosodic grouping in Chinese trisyllabic structures by multiple cues–tone coarticulation, tone sandhi and consonant lenition., The Fifth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language,157-161.
Yuan, J., Xu, X., Lai, W., & Liberman, M (2016). Pauses and Pause Fillers in Mandarin Monologue Speech: The Effects of Sex and Proficiency. ICASSP 2016.
Parish-Morris, J., Cieri, C., Liberman, M., Bateman, L., Ferguson, E., & Schultz, R. T. (2016). Building Language Resources for Exploring Autism Spectrum Disorders. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2016.
Parish-Morris, Julia, Mark Liberman, Neville Ryant, Christopher Cieri, Leila Bateman, Emily Ferguson, and Robert T. Schultz. (2016). Exploring Autism Spectrum Disorders Using HLT, In CLPsych Workshop (NAACL-HLT 2016).
Ryant, N., & Liberman, M. (2016). Automatic Analysis of Phonetic Speech Style Dimensions, Interspeech 2016, 77-81.
Lai, W., Yuan, J., Li, Y., Xu, X., & Liberman, M. (2016). The rhythmic constraint on prosodic boundaries in Mandarin Chinese based on corpora of silent reading and speech perception, Interspeech 2016, 87-91.
Yuan, J., & Liberman, M. (2016). Phoneme, Phone Boundary, and Tone in Automatic Scoring of Mandarin Proficiency, Interspeech 2016, 2145-2149.
Lai, W., & Dilley, L. (2016). Cross-linguistic generalization of the distal rate effect: Speech rate in context affects whether listeners hear a function word in Chinese Mandarin. The 8th conference of Speech Prosody.
Lai, W, Liberman, M., Yuan, J., & Xu, X. (2016). Prosodic Strength Intrinsic to Lexical Items: A Corpus Study on Tone Reduction in Tone4+Tone4 Words in Mandarin. The 10th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing
Purse, Ruaridh and Alice Turk (2016). ‘/t,d/ Deletion’: Articulatory Gradience in Variable Phonology. Conference on Laboratory Phonology
Hall-Lew, Lauren and Amanda Cardoso, Yova Kemenchedjieva, Kieran Wilson, Ruaridh Purse, and Julie Saigusa (2015). San Francisco English and the California Vowel Shift. The 18th International Conference of the Phonetic Sciences (XVIII).
Rhee, Nari and Rosario Signorello (2016). The acoustics of charismatic voices in Korean political speech: A cross-gender study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 139, 2123.
Rosario Signorello and Nari Rhee (2016). The voice acoustics of the 2016 United States presidential election candidates: A cross-gender study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 139, 2123.
Kuang, Jianjing & Mark Liberman (2015). The effect of spectral cues on pitch perception, Proceedings of InterSpeech 2015, 354-358.
Kuang, Jianjing & Mark Liberman (2015). Influence of spectral cues on the perception of pitch height, The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Paper number 0435.1-5.
Wang, Ting, Hongwei Ding, Jianjing Kuang & Qiuwu Ma (2014). Mapping emotions into acoustic space: the role of voice quality, Proceedings of Interspeech 2014, 1978-1982.
Presentations
May Pik Yu Chan and Jianjing Kuang, 2022. Gradient vowel harmony in Sakha. Paper presented at the 96th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2022), Washington, DC, USA. (Hybrid Conference)
May Pik Yu Chan and Jianjing Kuang, 2021. Spectral cue integration in pitch perception by Cantonese listeners. Poster presented at the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), Sonderborg, Denmark. (Hybrid Conference)
May Pik Yu Chan and Mark Liberman, 2021. Acoustic analysis of vocal effort and speaking style. Poster presented at the 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Seattle, Washington, USA.
May Pik Yu Chan and Mark Liberman, 2021. Acoustic analysis of vocal effort in public speakers. Paper presented at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting (LAGB). (Virtual Conference)
Kuang, Jianjing &Jia Tian & Yipei Zhou, 2018, The common word prosody in Northern Wu. Oral presentation at TAL2018, The Sixth International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages, Berlin, Germany.
Kwon, Soohyun & Jianjing Kuang, 2018, Gradient reduction or categorical deletion? Insight from /w/-deletion. Poster presented at The 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Lisbon, Portugal.
Kuang, Jianjing & Aletheia Cui, 2018, Perceptual equivalence between co-articulated cues during a sound change in progress. Poster presented at The 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Lisbon, Portugal.
Kwon, Soohyun & Jianjing Kuang, 2018, The role of gradiency and categoricity in /w/-deletion in Seoul Korean. Poster presented at The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT.
Kwon, Soohyun & Jianjing Kuang, 2018, Changes at the articulatory level: a case study of /w/-deletion in Seoul Korean. Poster presented at The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT.
Lai, Wei, 2018. Gender stereotypes affect the perception of tone and pitch. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47, New York City, NY.
Lai, Wei, 2018, Voice gender effect on tone categorization and pitch perception. 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages. Berlin, Germany.
Lai, Wei, 2018. Auditory-visual integration of talker gender in Cantonese tone perception. 92th Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT.
Lai, Wei and Mark Liberman, 2018. A rhythmic constraint on prosodic boundaries in Mandarin Chinese based on corpora of silent reading and speech perception. 92th Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT.
Tamminga, Meredith, Lacey Wade and Wei Lai, 2018. Stability and variability in phonetic flexibility. 92th Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT.
Kuang, Jianjing, 2017, Creaky voice as a function of tonal categories and prosodic boundaries. Poster presented at Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kuang, Jianjing, 2017, The effect of musicality on cue selection in pitch perception. Poster presented at 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the 8th Forum Acusticum,Boston, MA.
Cui, Aletheia & Jianjing Kuang, 2017, Perceptual equivalence between co-articulated cues during a sound change in progress. Oral presentation. The 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Austin, TX.
Kuang, Jianjing, 2016, Modeling the cross-linguistic variations of tonal systems. Poster presented at 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan in Honolulu, HI.
Kuang, Jianjing & Mark Liberman, 2016, Pitch-range perception: the dynamic interaction between voice quality and fundamental frequency. Poster presented at Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, CA.
Kuang, Jianjing & Aletheia Cui, 2016, Relative cue weighting in production and perception in a sound change in progress. Oral presentation. Labphon 15, Ithaca, NY.
Kuang, Jianjing, Yixuan Guo & Mark Liberman, 2016, Voice quality as a pitch-range indicator. Oral presentation. Speech prosody 2016, Boston, MA.
Kuang, Jianjing, Yixuan Guo & Mark Liberman, 2016, Voice quality as a pitch-range indicator. Oral presentation. TAL 2016, Buffalo, NY.
Lai, Wei, Mark Liberman, Jiahong Yuan and Xiaoying Xu, 2016. Prosodic strength intrinsic to lexical items: A corpus study on tone reduction in Tone4+Tone4 words in Mandarin Chinese. 10th Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP). Tianjin, China.
Lai, Wei & Jianjing Kuang, 2016, Prosodic grouping in Chinese trisyllabic structures by multiple cues – tonal coarticulation, tone sandhi and segment duration. Poster presented TAL 2016, Buffalo, NY.
Lai, Wei and Laura Dilley, 2016. Cross-linguistic generalization of the distal rate effect: Speech rate in context affects whether listeners hear a function word in Chinese Mandarin. 8th Speech Prosody. Boston, MA.
Lai, Wei and Jianjing Kuang, 2016. Prosodic grouping in Chinese trisyllabic structures by multiple cues – coarticulation, tone sandhi and consonant lenition. Tonal Aspects of Languages 2016. Buffalo, NY.
Tian, Jia & Jianjing Kuang, 2016, Revisiting tonal registers of Shanghainese. Poster presented at TAL 2016, Buffalo, NY.
Kuang, Jianjing & Mark Liberman, 2016, The effect of vocal fry on pitch perception. Oral presentation. ICASSP 2016, Shanghai, China.
Kuang, Jianjing & Aletheia Cui, 2016, Relative cue weighting in register contrasts of Southern Yi. Oral presentation. The 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington D.C.
Ritchart, Amanda, Marc Garellek & Jianjing Kuang, 2016, Breathy voice as enhancement of nasality: a cross-linguistic articulatory study. Oral presentation. The 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington D.C.
Jiang, Bing’er & Jianjing Kuang, 2016, Consonant effects on the register contrast in Jiashan Wu. Oral presentation. The 90th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington D.C.
Rosario Signorello, Nari Rhee, Bruce Gerratt, and Jody Kreiman. (2016). Toward a Psychoacoustic Model of Spectral Noise in the Voice Source. ICVPB. Oral Presentation.
Kuang, Jianjing, 2015, The covariation between pitch and phonation: creaky voice in Mandarin tones. The 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR
Kuang, Jianjing & Patricia Keating, 2013, Glottal articulations in tense vs. lax phonation contrasts, Oral presentation, 166th ASA meeting, San Francisco, CA
Kuang, Jianjing, 2013, Phonation effects on tonal contrasts, Poster presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA