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 languages.

What's New

Zhang Y., Kumar P., Tian Y., Zhao Z., Shi X., Huang K., Lee K., Hsu H., Narayanan S., Nayak K., Goldstein L. (2025). Co-registration of real-time MRI and respiration for speech research. Proceedings of Interspeech 2025. 2175-2179. [pdf]

Shi X., Zhang Y., Lu Y., Ma M., Feng T., Toutios A., Hsu H., Goldstein L., Narayanan S. (2025). 75-Speaker Annot-16: A benchmark dataset for speech articulatory rt-MRI annotation with articulator contours and phonetic alignment. Proceedings of Interspeech 2025 . 983-987. [pdf]

Yoruba & Setswana speakers needed

Let us know if you are a speaker in Los Angeles!

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