Hi! I am a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Southern California. I work on articulatory phonology, phonetics, speech prosody, intonation, tone and register, with a current focus on Western/Southern African and Sino-Tibetan languages. I also work on psycholinguistics, especially about cognitive mechanisms in speech production and perception. My research methods combine behavioral experiments, computational modeling and linguistic fieldwork. My current dissertation research is on a dynamical gestural approach to the tonal, respiratory, and supraglottal aspects of sentence intonation production in African tonal languages.

What's New

Zhang, Y. (2024). Central Tibetan (Lhasa). Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-23. [doi, pdf]

Zhang, Y. (2024). Phonetic categorization in phonological lexical neighborhoods: Facilitatory and inhibitory effects. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84, 1-17. [doi, pdf]

Zhang, Y., Lu, Y., Rialland, A., Harper, S., Goldstein, L. (2024). Intensity downtrends in Embosi intonation. Proceedings of 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP 2024). 987-991. [pdf]

Yoruba & Setswana speakers needed

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Links
USC Linguistics
USC Phonetics and Phonology Group
Dynamic Imaging Science Center (DISC)
Speech Production and Articulation kNowledge Group (SPAN)
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